Chinese almanac for Friday 12 May 2028
4th lunar month, day 18. A Fire Rooster day (Ding You, 丁酉), in a Fire Snake month (Ding Si, 丁巳) and an Earth Monkey year (Wu Shen, 戊申).
- Day officer
- Stable day (Ding, 定)
- Ruling spirit
- Vermilion Bird (Zhu Que, 朱雀), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rabbit years (兔: 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023). The sha (煞) lies east.
Good for
Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Hanging a signboard (挂匾), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Travel (出行), Roofing (盖屋), Laying foundations (起基), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Setting pillar bases (定磉), Setting up the bed (安床), Installing machinery (安机械), Burials (安葬), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服), Setting up a tombstone (立碑)
Avoid
Building a stove (作灶), Weddings (嫁娶), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Haircuts (理发)
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 70 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:10–14:10. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:10–02:10 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:10–04:10 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:10–06:10 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:10–08:10 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:10–10:10 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:10–12:10 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:10–14:10 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:10–16:10 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:10–18:10 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:10–20:10 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:10–22:10 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:10–00:10 | 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 Fire (Ding, 丁); this month, the Fire Snake month (Ding Si, 丁巳), has Yin Fire (Ding, 丁). 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.
Ding days: do not shave the head, or it breaks out in sores. (丁不剃头头必生疮)
Rooster days: do not receive guests, or they get drunk and wild. (酉不会客醉坐颠狂)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.
Choosing a date