Chinese almanac for Friday 16 June 2028
5th lunar month, day 24. A Water Monkey day (Ren Shen, 壬申), in an Earth Horse month (Wu Wu, 戊午) and an Earth Monkey year (Wu Shen, 戊申).
- Day officer
- Full day (Man, 满)
- Ruling spirit
- Green Dragon (Qing Long, 青龙), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Tiger years (虎: 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Installing machinery (安机械), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Opening a business (开市), Building and repairs (修造), Raising pillars (竖柱), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Cutting holes for pillars (开柱眼), Installing a mill (安碓磑), Retreating to the hills (归岫), Mending walls (补垣), Sealing holes (塞穴), Demolition (拆卸), Releasing water (放水), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Cleaning the house (扫舍), Preparing one’s own grave (开生坟), Making a coffin in advance (合寿木), Burials (安葬), Thanking the earth after building (谢土), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Setting up the bed (安床), Building a stove (作灶), Breaking ground (动土), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Building a boat (造船)
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 74 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:14–14:14. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:14–02:14 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:14–04:14 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:14–06:14 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:14–08:14 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:14–10:14 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:14–12:14 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:14–14:14 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:14–16:14 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:14–18:14 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:14–20:14 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:14–22:14 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:14–00:14 | 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 Earth Horse month (Wu Wu, 戊午), has Yang Earth (Wu, 戊). 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)
Monkey days: do not set up a bed, or spirits enter the room. (申不安床鬼祟入房)
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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