Chinese almanac for Wednesday 11 October 2028
8th lunar month, day 23. An Earth Snake day (Ji Si, 己巳), in a Water Dog month (Ren Xu, 壬戌) and an Earth Monkey year (Wu Shen, 戊申).
- Day officer
- Danger day (Wei, 危)
- Ruling spirit
- Bright Hall (Ming Tang, 明堂), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Pig years (猪: 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019). The sha (煞) lies east.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for children (求嗣), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Taking in new household members (进人口), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Hanging a door (安门), Setting up the bed (安床), Setting up a loom (经络), Receiving money (纳财), Raising livestock (牧养), Hunting (畋猎), Releasing water (放水), Harvesting honey (割蜜)
Avoid
Praying for blessings (祈福), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Weddings (嫁娶), Moving into a new home (入宅), 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 59 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 11:59–13:59. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 23:59–01:59 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 01:59–03:59 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 03:59–05:59 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05:59–07:59 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 07:59–09:59 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 09:59–11:59 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 11:59–13:59 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 13:59–15:59 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 15:59–17:59 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 17:59–19:59 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 19:59–21:59 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 21:59–23:59 | 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 Earth (Ji, 己); 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.
Ji days: do not break a contract, or both parties lose. (己不破券二比并亡)
Snake days: do not travel far, or your goods go missing. (巳不远行财物伏藏)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): north. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): north.
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