Chinese almanac for Sunday 8 October 2028
8th lunar month, day 20. A Fire Tiger day (Bing Yin, 丙寅), in a Water Dog month (Ren Xu, 壬戌) and an Earth Monkey year (Wu Shen, 戊申).
- Day officer
- Stable day (Ding, 定)
- Ruling spirit
- Keeper of Fate (Si Ming, 司命), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Monkey years (猴: 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016). The sha (煞) lies north.
- Solar term
- Cold Dew (Han Lu, 寒露), at 02:08 Malaysia time
Good for
Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Burials (安葬), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服), Nothing else (馀事勿取)
Avoid
Opening a business (开市), Moving into a new home (入宅), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Buying property (置产), Mending walls (补垣), Sealing holes (塞穴)
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 60 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:00–14:00. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:00–02:00 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:00–04:00 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:00–06:00 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:00–08:00 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:00–10:00 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:00–12:00 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:00–14:00 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:00–16:00 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:00–18:00 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:00–20:00 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:00–22:00 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:00–00:00 | 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 Fire (Bing, 丙); this month, the Water Dog month (Ren Xu, 壬戌), has Yang Water (Ren, 壬). 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)
Tiger days: do not make offerings, or the spirits will not accept them. (寅不祭祀神鬼不尝)
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