Chinese almanac for Thursday 30 November 2028
10th lunar month, day 15. An Earth Goat day (Ji Wei, 己未), in a Water Pig month (Gui Hai, 癸亥) and an Earth Monkey year (Wu Shen, 戊申).
- Day officer
- Success day (Cheng, 成)
- Ruling spirit
- Bright Hall (Ming Tang, 明堂), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Ox years (牛: 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021). The sha (煞) lies west.
Good for
Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Consecrating a statue (开光), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Starting school (入学), Receiving money (纳财), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Setting up a loom (经络), Laying foundations (起基), Breaking ground (动土), Setting pillar bases (定磉), Digging a pond (开池), Planting (栽种), Buying livestock (纳畜), Raising livestock (牧养), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Setting up a tombstone (立碑), Burials (安葬)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Opening a business (开市), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Moving house (移徙)
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 63 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:03–14:03. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:03–02:03 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:03–04:03 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:03–06:03 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:03–08:03 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:03–10:03 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:03–12:03 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:03–14:03 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:03–16:03 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:03–18:03 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:03–20:03 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:03–22:03 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:03–00:03 | 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 Pig month (Gui Hai, 癸亥), has Yin Water (Gui, 癸). 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)
Goat days: do not take medicine, or poison enters the gut. (未不服药毒气入肠)
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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