Chinese almanac for Tuesday 8 August 2028
6th lunar month, day 18. A Wood Ox day (Yi Chou, 乙丑), in a Metal Monkey month (Geng Shen, 庚申) and an Earth Monkey year (Wu Shen, 戊申).
- Day officer
- Initiate day (Zhi, 执)
- Ruling spirit
- Bright Hall (Ming Tang, 明堂), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Goat years (羊: 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015). The sha (煞) lies east.
Good for
Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Burials (安葬), Moving a coffin (移柩), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Catching pests (捕捉), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服), Nothing else (馀事勿取)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Moving into a new home (入宅), Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易)
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 78 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:18–14:18. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:18–02:18 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:18–04:18 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:18–06:18 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:18–08:18 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:18–10:18 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:18–12:18 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:18–14:18 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:18–16:18 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:18–18:18 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:18–20:18 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:18–22:18 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:18–00:18 | 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 Yin Wood (Yi, 乙); this month, the Metal Monkey month (Geng Shen, 庚申), has Yang Metal (Geng, 庚). 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.
Yi days: do not plant, or a thousand seedlings will not grow. (乙不栽植千株不长)
Ox days: do not put on the cap of office, or you will not return home. (丑不冠带主不还乡)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): northeast. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
Choosing a date