Chinese almanac for Monday 23 August 2027
7th lunar month, day 22. A Wood Dog day (Jia Xu, 甲戌), in an Earth Monkey month (Wu Shen, 戊申) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Full day (Man, 满)
- Ruling spirit
- Keeper of Fate (Si Ming, 司命), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Dragon years (龙: 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012, 2024). The sha (煞) lies north.
- Solar term
- End of Heat (Chu Shu, 处暑), at 16:14 Malaysia time
Good for
Ritual bathing (沐浴), Haircuts (理发), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Making holy images (塑绘), Consecrating a statue (开光), Planting (栽种), Raising livestock (牧养), Weddings (嫁娶), Setting up a loom (经络), Mending walls (补垣), Sealing holes (塞穴)
Avoid
Opening a business (开市), Moving into a new home (入宅), Breaking ground (动土), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Burials (安葬), Building a stove (作灶), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Setting up the bed (安床), Opening the storehouse (开仓), Praying for blessings (祈福)
The good-for and avoid lists come from the open-source lunar calendar library (6tail), whose author built them from a popular Chinese calendar website’s data. Almanacs differ on these lists, and unlike the rest of this site they are not quoted from a classical text. How the rest is worked out
The hours, on the clock in Kuala Lumpur
Almanacs give the hours by the sun: the Horse hour is 11 to 1, when the sun is highest. In Kuala Lumpur today the sun runs 76 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:16–14:16. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:16–02:16 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:16–04:16 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:16–06:16 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:16–08:16 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:16–10:16 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:16–12:16 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:16–14:16 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:16–16:16 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:16–18:16 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:16–20:16 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:16–22:16 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:16–00:16 | Lucky | Snake (蛇) |
Lucky or unlucky by the spirit ruling the hour: six walk the yellow path and are lucky (Green Dragon, Bright Hall, Golden Casket, Heavenly Virtue, Jade Hall, Keeper of Fate); the other six walk the black path.
This day for each day master
BaZi reads a day by what its stem is to your day master, and a month by the month’s stem. This day’s stem is Yang Wood (Jia, 甲); this month, the Earth Monkey month (Wu Shen, 戊申), has Yang Earth (Wu, 戊). Each links to what the classics say about it. Don’t know your day master? Read each day against your whole chart
The Peng Zu taboos
A rhyme every almanac prints: one line for the day’s stem, one for its branch.
Jia days: do not open the storehouse, or goods and money drain away. (甲不开仓财物耗散)
Dog days: do not eat dog, or strange things climb into bed. (戌不吃犬作怪上床)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): northeast. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): north.
Choosing a date