Chinese almanac for Monday 18 October 2027
9th lunar month, day 19. A Metal Horse day (Geng Wu, 庚午), in a Metal Dog month (Geng Xu, 庚戌) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Success day (Cheng, 成)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Punishment (Tian Xing, 天刑), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rat years (鼠: 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Weddings (嫁娶), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Hanging a signboard (挂匾), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Consecrating a statue (开光), Making carts and tools (造车器), Travel (出行), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Setting up the bed (安床), Hanging a door (安门), Demolition (拆卸), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Planting (栽种), Burials (安葬), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Setting up a tombstone (立碑)
Avoid
Visiting the sick (探病), Buying livestock (纳畜), Felling trees (伐木), Laying foundations (起基), Making beams (作梁), Roofing (盖屋)
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 58 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 11:58–13:58. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 23:58–01:58 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 01:58–03:58 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 03:58–05:58 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05:58–07:58 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 07:58–09:58 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 09:58–11:58 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 11:58–13:58 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 13:58–15:58 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 15:58–17:58 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 17:58–19:58 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 19:58–21:58 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 21:58–23:58 | 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 Metal (Geng, 庚); 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.
Geng days: do not string a loom, or it stands idle. (庚不经络织机虚张)
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): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
Choosing a date