Chinese almanac for Thursday 2 September 2027
8th lunar month, day 2. A Wood Monkey day (Jia Shen, 甲申), in an Earth Monkey month (Wu Shen, 戊申) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Establish day (Jian, 建)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Prison (Tian Lao, 天牢), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Tiger years (虎: 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Weddings (嫁娶), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Offerings for wandering spirits (普渡), Travel (出行), Receiving money (纳财), Cleaning the house (扫舍), Buying livestock (纳畜), Taking up a new post (赴任)
Avoid
Opening a business (开市), Breaking ground (动土), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Setting up the bed (安床), Opening the storehouse (开仓), Raising the roof beam (上梁)
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 72 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:12–14:12. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:12–02:12 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:12–04:12 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:12–06:12 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:12–08:12 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:12–10:12 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:12–12:12 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:12–14:12 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:12–16:12 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:12–18:12 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:12–20:12 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:12–22:12 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:12–00:12 | Unlucky | 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)
Monkey days: do not set up a bed, or spirits enter the room. (申不安床鬼祟入房)
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