Chinese almanac for Sunday 12 September 2027
8th lunar month, day 12. A Wood Horse day (Jia Wu, 甲午), in an Earth Rooster month (Ji You, 己酉) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Receive day (Shou, 收)
- Ruling spirit
- Golden Casket (Jin Kui, 金匮), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rat years (鼠: 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Weddings (嫁娶), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Haircuts (理发), Taking in new household members (进人口), Building a stove (作灶), Moving a coffin (移柩), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Visiting family and friends (会亲友)
Avoid
Opening the storehouse (开仓), Sending out goods (出货财), Felling trees (伐木), Buying livestock (纳畜), Opening a business (开市), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Roofing (盖屋), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Planting (栽种)
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 69 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:09–14:09. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:09–02:09 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:09–04:09 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:09–06:09 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:09–08:09 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:09–10:09 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:09–12:09 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:09–14:09 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:09–16:09 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:09–18:09 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:09–20:09 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:09–22:09 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:09–00:09 | 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 Rooster month (Ji You, 己酉), has Yin Earth (Ji, 己). 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)
Horse days: do not thatch a roof, or it must be done again. (午不苫盖屋主更张)
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