Chinese almanac for Thursday 21 December 2028
11th lunar month, day 6. A Metal Dragon day (Geng Chen, 庚辰), in a Wood Rat month (Jia Zi, 甲子) and an Earth Monkey year (Wu Shen, 戊申).
- Day officer
- Stable day (Ding, 定)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Prison (Tian Lao, 天牢), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Dog years (狗: 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018). The sha (煞) lies south.
- Solar term
- Winter Solstice (Dong Zhi, 冬至), at 16:19 Malaysia time
Good for
Weddings (嫁娶), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Carving (雕刻), Consecrating a statue (开光), Setting up the home altar (安香), Travel (出行), Starting school (入学), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Raising pillars (竖柱), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Roofing (盖屋), Laying foundations (起基), Hanging a door (安门), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Digging a well (掘井), Building animal pens (造畜稠), Burials (安葬), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服)
Avoid
Opening a business (开市), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Building a stove (作灶), Building a temple (造庙), Building a boat (造船), Setting up a loom (经络)
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 72 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:12–14:12. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:12–02:12 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:12–04:12 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:12–06:12 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:12–08:12 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:12–10:12 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:12–12:12 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:12–14:12 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:12–16:12 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:12–18:12 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:12–20:12 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:12–22:12 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:12–00:12 | 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 Yang Metal (Geng, 庚); this month, the Wood Rat month (Jia Zi, 甲子), has Yang Wood (Jia, 甲). 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.
Geng days: do not string a loom, or it stands idle. (庚不经络织机虚张)
Dragon days: do not weep, or another death follows. (辰不哭泣必主重丧)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
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