Chinese almanac for Thursday 3 August 2028
6th lunar month, day 13. A Metal Monkey day (Geng Shen, 庚申), in an Earth Goat month (Ji Wei, 己未) and an Earth Monkey year (Wu Shen, 戊申).
- Day officer
- Remove day (Chu, 除)
- Ruling spirit
- Keeper of Fate (Si Ming, 司命), 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
Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Medical treatment (治病), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Setting up the home altar (安香), Weddings (嫁娶), Roofing (盖屋), Laying foundations (起基)
Avoid
Opening a business (开市), Setting up the bed (安床), Travel (出行), Setting up a loom (经络)
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 79 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:19–14:19. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:19–02:19 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:19–04:19 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:19–06:19 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:19–08:19 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:19–10:19 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:19–12:19 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:19–14:19 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:19–16:19 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:19–18:19 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:19–20:19 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:19–22:19 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:19–00:19 | 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 Metal (Geng, 庚); this month, the Earth Goat month (Ji Wei, 己未), has Yin Earth (Ji, 己). 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)
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): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
Choosing a date