Chinese almanac for Tuesday 28 December 2027
12th lunar month, day 1. A Metal Snake day (Xin Si, 辛巳), in a Water Rat month (Ren Zi, 壬子) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Initiate day (Zhi, 执)
- Ruling spirit
- Black Tortoise (Xuan Wu, 玄武), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Pig years (猪: 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019). The sha (煞) lies east.
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), Praying for children (求嗣), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Setting up the home altar (安香), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Building and repairs (修造), Laying foundations (起基), Roofing (盖屋), Closing the roof ridge (合脊), Hanging a door (安门), Installing a mill (安碓磑), Breaking ground (动土), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅)
Avoid
Travel (出行), Digging a well (掘井), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Funerals (行丧), 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 75 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:15–14:15. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:15–02:15 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:15–04:15 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:15–06:15 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:15–08:15 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:15–10:15 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:15–12:15 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:15–14:15 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:15–16:15 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:15–18:15 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:15–20:15 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:15–22:15 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:15–00:15 | 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 Metal (Xin, 辛); this month, the Water Rat month (Ren Zi, 壬子), has Yang Water (Ren, 壬). 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.
Xin days: do not make sauce, or the master will never taste it. (辛不合酱主人不尝)
Snake days: do not travel far, or your goods go missing. (巳不远行财物伏藏)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
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