Chinese almanac for Sunday 21 November 2027
10th lunar month, day 24. A Wood Dragon day (Jia Chen, 甲辰), in a Metal Pig month (Xin Hai, 辛亥) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Initiate day (Zhi, 执)
- Ruling spirit
- Keeper of Fate (Si Ming, 司命), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Dog years (狗: 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Weddings (嫁娶), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Consecrating a statue (开光), Travel (出行), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Felling trees (伐木), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Demolition (拆卸), Building and repairs (修造), Planting (栽种), Burials (安葬), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓)
Avoid
Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Breaking ground (动土), Hanging a door (安门), Building a stove (作灶), Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易)
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 Wood (Jia, 甲); this month, the Metal Pig month (Xin Hai, 辛亥), has Yin Metal (Xin, 辛). 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)
Dragon days: do not weep, or another death follows. (辰不哭泣必主重丧)
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