Chinese almanac for Wednesday 24 January 2029
12th lunar month, day 10. A Wood Tiger day (Jia Yin, 甲寅), in a Wood Ox month (Yi Chou, 乙丑) and an Earth Monkey year (Wu Shen, 戊申).
- Day officer
- Remove day (Chu, 除)
- Ruling spirit
- Golden Casket (Jin Kui, 金匮), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Monkey years (猴: 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Moving house (移徙), Receiving money (纳财), Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Moving into a new home (入宅), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Seeing a doctor (求医), Medical treatment (治病), Starting school (入学), Setting up the bed (安床), Hanging a door (安门), Setting up the home altar (安香), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Demolition (拆卸), Cleaning the house (扫舍), Hanging a signboard (挂匾), Preparing one’s own grave (开生坟), Making a coffin in advance (合寿木), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Repairing a grave (修坟), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓)
Avoid
Visiting the sick (探病), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Travel (出行), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Roofing (盖屋), Thanking the earth after building (谢土), 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 85 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:25–14:25. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:25–02:25 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:25–04:25 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:25–06:25 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:25–08:25 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:25–10:25 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:25–12:25 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:25–14:25 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:25–16:25 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:25–18:25 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:25–20:25 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:25–22:25 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:25–00:25 | 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 Wood Ox month (Yi Chou, 乙丑), has Yin Wood (Yi, 乙). 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)
Tiger days: do not make offerings, or the spirits will not accept them. (寅不祭祀神鬼不尝)
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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