Chinese almanac for Friday 22 September 2028
8th lunar month, day 4. A Metal Dog day (Geng Xu, 庚戌), in a Metal Rooster month (Xin You, 辛酉) and an Earth Monkey year (Wu Shen, 戊申).
- Day officer
- Remove day (Chu, 除)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Prison (Tian Lao, 天牢), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Dragon years (龙: 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012, 2024). The sha (煞) lies north.
- Solar term
- Autumn Equinox (Qiu Fen, 秋分), at 19:45 Malaysia time
Good for
Weddings (嫁娶), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Travel (出行), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅)
Avoid
Acupuncture (针灸), Felling trees (伐木), Making beams (作梁), Building a temple (造庙), Funerals (行丧), Burials (安葬)
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 65 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:05–14:05. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:05–02:05 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:05–04:05 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:05–06:05 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:05–08:05 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:05–10:05 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:05–12:05 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:05–14:05 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:05–16:05 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:05–18:05 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:05–20:05 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:05–22:05 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:05–00:05 | 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 Rooster month (Xin You, 辛酉), has Yin Metal (Xin, 辛). 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)
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): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
Choosing a date