Chinese almanac for Wednesday 23 August 2028
7th lunar month, day 4. A Metal Dragon day (Geng Chen, 庚辰), in a Metal Monkey month (Geng Shen, 庚申) and an Earth Monkey year (Wu Shen, 戊申).
- Day officer
- Success day (Cheng, 成)
- Ruling spirit
- Golden Casket (Jin Kui, 金匮), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Dog years (狗: 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Weddings (嫁娶), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Offerings for wandering spirits (普渡), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Breaking ground (动土), Medical treatment (治病), Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Consecrating a statue (开光), Building and repairs (修造), Making carts and tools (造车器), Setting up the home altar (安香), Setting up the bed (安床), Catching pests (捕捉), Hunting (畋猎), Making nets (结网)
Avoid
Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Setting up a loom (经络), Funerals (行丧), Burials (安葬), Visiting the sick (探病)
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 75 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:15–14:15. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:15–02:15 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:15–04:15 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:15–06:15 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:15–08:15 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:15–10:15 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:15–12:15 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:15–14:15 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:15–16:15 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:15–18:15 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:15–20:15 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:15–22:15 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:15–00:15 | 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 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.
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.
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