Chinese almanac for Sunday 10 October 2027
9th lunar month, day 11. A Water Dog day (Ren Xu, 壬戌), in a Metal Dog month (Geng Xu, 庚戌) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Establish day (Jian, 建)
- Ruling spirit
- White Tiger (Bai Hu, 白虎), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Dragon years (龙: 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012, 2024). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Consecrating a statue (开光), Travel (出行), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Setting up the bed (安床), Hanging a door (安门), Receiving money (纳财), Buying livestock (纳畜), Building animal pens (造畜稠)
Avoid
Felling trees (伐木), Funerals (行丧), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Weddings (嫁娶), Burials (安葬), 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 60 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:00–14:00. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:00–02:00 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:00–04:00 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:00–06:00 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:00–08:00 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:00–10:00 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:00–12:00 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:00–14:00 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:00–16:00 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:00–18:00 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:00–20:00 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:00–22:00 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:00–00:00 | 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 Water (Ren, 壬); this month, the Metal Dog month (Geng Xu, 庚戌), has Yang Metal (Geng, 庚). 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.
Ren days: do not release water, or it cannot be held back. (壬不泱水更难提防)
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): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): south. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.
Choosing a date