Chinese almanac for Sunday 31 October 2027
10th lunar month, day 3. A Water Goat day (Gui Wei, 癸未), in a Metal Dog month (Geng Xu, 庚戌) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Receive day (Shou, 收)
- Ruling spirit
- Vermilion Bird (Zhu Que, 朱雀), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Ox years (牛: 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021). The sha (煞) lies west.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Building a stove (作灶), Receiving money (纳财), Catching pests (捕捉), Hunting (畋猎), Nothing else (馀事勿取)
Avoid
Breaking ground (动土), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Opening a business (开市), 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 57 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 11:57–13:57. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 23:57–01:57 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 01:57–03:57 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 03:57–05:57 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05:57–07:57 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 07:57–09:57 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 09:57–11:57 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 11:57–13:57 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 13:57–15:57 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 15:57–17:57 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 17:57–19:57 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 19:57–21:57 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 21:57–23:57 | 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 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.
Gui days: do not go to law, or your case is weak and your opponent strong. (癸不词讼理弱敌强)
Goat days: do not take medicine, or poison enters the gut. (未不服药毒气入肠)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): south. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northeast.
Choosing a date