Chinese almanac for Monday 10 January 2028
12th lunar month, day 14. A Wood Horse day (Jia Wu, 甲午), in a Water Ox month (Gui Chou, 癸丑) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Initiate day (Zhi, 执)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Prison (Tian Lao, 天牢), 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), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Setting up the bed (安床), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Consecrating a statue (开光), Travel (出行), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Demolition (拆卸), Breaking ground (动土), Buying livestock (纳畜), Thanking the earth after building (谢土), Burials (安葬), Breaking ground for a grave (破土)
Avoid
Felling trees (伐木), Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Building a stove (作灶), Hanging a door (安门), 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 81 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:21–14:21. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:21–02:21 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:21–04:21 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:21–06:21 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:21–08:21 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:21–10:21 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:21–12:21 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:21–14:21 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:21–16:21 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:21–18:21 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:21–20:21 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:21–22:21 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:21–00:21 | 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 Wood (Jia, 甲); this month, the Water Ox month (Gui Chou, 癸丑), has Yin Water (Gui, 癸). 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)
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): northeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): northeast. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): north.
Choosing a date