Chinese almanac for Monday 31 January 2028
1st lunar month, day 6. A Wood Rabbit day (Yi Mao, 乙卯), in a Water Ox month (Gui Chou, 癸丑) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Full day (Man, 满)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Virtue (Tian De, 天德), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rooster years (鸡: 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017). The sha (煞) lies west.
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), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Travel (出行), Starting school (入学), Receiving money (纳财), Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Learning a craft (习艺), Setting up a loom (经络), Setting up the bed (安床), Opening the storehouse (开仓), Sending out goods (出货财), Buying livestock (纳畜), Burials (安葬), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Repairing a grave (修坟), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓)
Avoid
Moving into a new home (入宅), Consecrating a statue (开光), Breaking ground (动土)
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 87 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:27–14:27. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:27–02:27 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:27–04:27 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:27–06:27 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:27–08:27 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:27–10:27 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:27–12:27 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:27–14:27 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:27–16:27 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:27–18:27 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:27–20:27 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:27–22:27 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:27–00:27 | 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 Yin Wood (Yi, 乙); 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.
Yi days: do not plant, or a thousand seedlings will not grow. (乙不栽植千株不长)
Rabbit days: do not dig a well, or the water will not be sweet. (卯不穿井水泉不香)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): northeast. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
Choosing a date