Chinese almanac for Tuesday 5 December 2028
10th lunar month, day 20. A Wood Rat day (Jia Zi, 甲子), in a Water Pig month (Gui Hai, 癸亥) and an Earth Monkey year (Wu Shen, 戊申).
- Day officer
- Remove day (Chu, 除)
- Ruling spirit
- White Tiger (Bai Hu, 白虎), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Horse years (马: 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, 2026). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Weddings (嫁娶), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Praying for blessings (祈福), Consecrating a statue (开光), Making holy images (塑绘), Travel (出行), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服), Moving a coffin (移柩), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Taking up a new post (赴任), Raising pillars (竖柱), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Receiving money (纳财), Cleaning the house (扫舍), Planting (栽种), Buying livestock (纳畜), Felling trees (伐木)
Avoid
Moving into a new home (入宅), Building a stove (作灶), Setting up the bed (安床), Opening the storehouse (开仓)
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 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:05–04:05 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:05–06:05 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:05–08:05 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:05–10:05 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:05–12:05 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:05–14:05 | Lucky | 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 | 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 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.
Jia days: do not open the storehouse, or goods and money drain away. (甲不开仓财物耗散)
Rat days: do not consult a diviner, or you bring trouble on yourself. (子不问卜自惹祸殃)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): northeast. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): north.
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