Chinese almanac for Saturday 24 June 2028
Leap 5th lunar month, day 2. A Metal Dragon day (Geng Chen, 庚辰), in an Earth Horse month (Wu Wu, 戊午) and an Earth Monkey year (Wu Shen, 戊申).
- Day officer
- Open day (Kai, 开)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Prison (Tian Lao, 天牢), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Dog years (狗: 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Setting up the home altar (安香), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Seeing a doctor (求医), Medical treatment (治病), Breaking ground (动土), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Preparing one’s own grave (开生坟), Making a coffin in advance (合寿木)
Avoid
Hanging the bridal curtains (合帐), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Setting up a loom (经络), Burials (安葬), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓)
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 76 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:16–14:16. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:16–02:16 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:16–04:16 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:16–06:16 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:16–08:16 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:16–10:16 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:16–12:16 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:16–14:16 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:16–16:16 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:16–18:16 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:16–20:16 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:16–22:16 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:16–00:16 | Lucky | 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 Metal (Geng, 庚); 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.
Geng days: do not string a loom, or it stands idle. (庚不经络织机虚张)
Dragon days: do not weep, or another death follows. (辰不哭泣必主重丧)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
Choosing a date