Chinese almanac for Friday 1 October 2027
9th lunar month, day 2. A Water Ox day (Gui Chou, 癸丑), in an Earth Rooster month (Ji You, 己酉) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Stable day (Ding, 定)
- Ruling spirit
- Hook Array (Gou Chen, 勾陈), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Goat years (羊: 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015). The sha (煞) lies east.
Good for
Weddings (嫁娶), Making carts and tools (造车器), Installing machinery (安机械), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Consecrating a statue (开光), Setting up the home altar (安香), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Travel (出行), Opening a business (开市), Signing contracts (立券), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Burials (安葬)
Avoid
Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Setting up trestles (架马), Lawsuits (词讼), Digging channels (开渠)
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 62 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:02–14:02. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:02–02:02 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:02–04:02 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:02–06:02 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:02–08:02 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:02–10:02 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:02–12:02 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:02–14:02 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:02–16:02 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:02–18:02 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:02–20:02 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:02–22:02 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:02–00:02 | 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 Yin Water (Gui, 癸); 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.
Gui days: do not go to law, or your case is weak and your opponent strong. (癸不词讼理弱敌强)
Ox days: do not put on the cap of office, or you will not return home. (丑不冠带主不还乡)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): south. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northeast.
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