Chinese almanac for Friday 30 June 2028
Leap 5th lunar month, day 8. A Fire Dog day (Bing Xu, 丙戌), in an Earth Horse month (Wu Wu, 戊午) and an Earth Monkey year (Wu Shen, 戊申).
- Day officer
- Stable day (Ding, 定)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Punishment (Tian Xing, 天刑), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Dragon years (龙: 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012, 2024). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Installing machinery (安机械), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Travel (出行), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Setting up the home altar (安香), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Demolition (拆卸), Laying foundations (起基), Setting pillar bases (定磉), Roofing (盖屋), Setting up the bed (安床), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Burials (安葬), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Setting up a tombstone (立碑)
Avoid
Opening a business (开市), Felling trees (伐木), Making beams (作梁), Building a stove (作灶)
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 77 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:17–14:17. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:17–02:17 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:17–04:17 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:17–06:17 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:17–08:17 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:17–10:17 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:17–12:17 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:17–14:17 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:17–16:17 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:17–18:17 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:17–20:17 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:17–22:17 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:17–00:17 | 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 Fire (Bing, 丙); 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.
Bing days: do not repair the stove, or disaster follows. (丙不修灶必见灾殃)
Dog days: do not eat dog, or strange things climb into bed. (戌不吃犬作怪上床)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
Choosing a date