Chinese almanac for Tuesday 18 January 2028
12th lunar month, day 22. A Water Tiger day (Ren Yin, 壬寅), in a Water Ox month (Gui Chou, 癸丑) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Remove day (Chu, 除)
- Ruling spirit
- Golden Casket (Jin Kui, 金匮), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Monkey years (猴: 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Weddings (嫁娶), Consecrating a statue (开光), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Demolition (拆卸), Building and repairs (修造), Taking in new household members (进人口), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Setting up the bed (安床), Planting (栽种), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Repairing a grave (修坟), Breaking ground (动土), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服)
Avoid
Building a stove (作灶), Burials (安葬), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Opening a business (开市), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Buying livestock (纳畜), Thanking the earth after building (谢土), Travel (出行), Visiting the sick (探病)
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 84 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:24–14:24. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:24–02:24 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:24–04:24 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:24–06:24 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:24–08:24 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:24–10:24 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:24–12:24 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:24–14:24 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:24–16:24 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:24–18:24 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:24–20:24 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:24–22:24 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:24–00:24 | 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 Water (Ren, 壬); 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.
Ren days: do not release water, or it cannot be held back. (壬不泱水更难提防)
Tiger days: do not make offerings, or the spirits will not accept them. (寅不祭祀神鬼不尝)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): south. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.
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