Chinese almanac for Saturday 4 September 2027
8th lunar month, day 4. A Fire Dog day (Bing Xu, 丙戌), 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.
Good for
Making holy images (塑绘), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Weddings (嫁娶), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Taking in new household members (进人口), Setting up a loom (经络), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Planting (栽种), Buying livestock (纳畜), Raising livestock (牧养), Mending walls (补垣), Sealing holes (塞穴), Catching pests (捕捉)
Avoid
Praying for blessings (祈福), Opening a business (开市), Breaking ground (动土), Funerals (行丧), Burials (安葬)
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 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:12–04:12 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:12–06:12 | Lucky | 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 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:12–18:12 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:12–20:12 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:12–22:12 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:12–00:12 | 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 Fire (Bing, 丙); 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.
Bing days: do not repair the stove, or disaster follows. (丙不修灶必见灾殃)
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): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
Choosing a date