Chinese almanac for Sunday 5 November 2028
9th lunar month, day 19. A Wood Horse day (Jia Wu, 甲午), in a Water Dog month (Ren Xu, 壬戌) and an Earth Monkey year (Wu Shen, 戊申).
- Day officer
- Success day (Cheng, 成)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Punishment (Tian Xing, 天刑), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rat years (鼠: 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Making holy images (塑绘), Consecrating a statue (开光), Praying for blessings (祈福), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Travel (出行), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Weddings (嫁娶), Demolition (拆卸), Building and repairs (修造), Setting up the bed (安床), Moving into a new home (入宅), Setting up the home altar (安香), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Burials (安葬), Thanking the earth after building (谢土), Taking up a new post (赴任), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Taking in new household members (进人口), Moving house (移徙), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Setting up a loom (经络), Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Receiving money (纳财)
Avoid
Opening the storehouse (开仓), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Felling trees (伐木), Making beams (作梁)
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 57 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 11:57–13:57. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 23:57–01:57 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 01:57–03:57 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 03:57–05:57 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05:57–07:57 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 07:57–09:57 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 09:57–11:57 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 11:57–13:57 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 13:57–15:57 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 15:57–17:57 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 17:57–19:57 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 19:57–21:57 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 21:57–23:57 | 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 Wood (Jia, 甲); 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.
Jia days: do not open the storehouse, or goods and money drain away. (甲不开仓财物耗散)
Horse days: do not thatch a roof, or it must be done again. (午不苫盖屋主更张)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): northeast. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): north.
Choosing a date