Chinese almanac for Friday 3 December 2027
11th lunar month, day 6. A Fire Dragon day (Bing Chen, 丙辰), 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), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Making holy images (塑绘), Consecrating a statue (开光), Moving house (移徙), Setting up the bed (安床), Felling trees (伐木), Making beams (作梁), Catching pests (捕捉), Hunting (畋猎), Making nets (结网), Seeing a doctor (求医), Medical treatment (治病), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Burials (安葬), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服), Moving a coffin (移柩), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Setting up a tombstone (立碑), Thanking the earth after building (谢土)
Avoid
Opening a business (开市), Building a temple (造庙), Breaking ground (动土), Breaking ground for a grave (破土)
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 64 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:04–14:04. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:04–02:04 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:04–04:04 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:04–06:04 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:04–08:04 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:04–10:04 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:04–12:04 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:04–14:04 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:04–16:04 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:04–18:04 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:04–20:04 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:04–22:04 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:04–00:04 | 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 Fire (Bing, 丙); 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.
Bing days: do not repair the stove, or disaster follows. (丙不修灶必见灾殃)
Dragon days: do not weep, or another death follows. (辰不哭泣必主重丧)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
Choosing a date