Chinese almanac for Sunday 20 May 2029
4th lunar month, day 8. A Metal Dog day (Geng Xu, 庚戌), in an Earth Snake month (Ji Si, 己巳) and an Earth Rooster year (Ji You, 己酉).
- Day officer
- Initiate day (Zhi, 执)
- Ruling spirit
- Golden Casket (Jin Kui, 金匮), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Dragon years (龙: 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012, 2024). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Weddings (嫁娶), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Consecrating a statue (开光), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Seeing a doctor (求医), Medical treatment (治病), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Breaking ground (动土), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Catching pests (捕捉), Buying livestock (纳畜), Raising livestock (牧养), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Burials (安葬)
Avoid
Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Roofing (盖屋), Setting up trestles (架马)
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 70 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:10–14:10. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:10–02:10 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:10–04:10 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:10–06:10 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:10–08:10 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:10–10:10 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:10–12:10 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:10–14:10 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:10–16:10 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:10–18:10 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:10–20:10 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:10–22:10 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:10–00:10 | 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 Earth Snake month (Ji Si, 己巳), has Yin Earth (Ji, 己). 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)
Dog days: do not eat dog, or strange things climb into bed. (戌不吃犬作怪上床)
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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