Chinese almanac for Sunday 3 June 2029

4th lunar month, day 22. A Wood Rat day (Jia Zi, 甲子), in an Earth Snake month (Ji Si, 己巳) and an Earth Rooster year (Ji You, 己酉).

Day officer
Danger day (Wei, 危)
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

Weddings (嫁娶), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Travel (出行), Breaking ground (动土), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Burials (安葬)

Avoid

Taoist fasting rites (斋醮)

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 71 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:11–14:11. The table is already converted. Why

HourClock timeLuckClashes
Rat (子)00:11–02:11LuckyHorse (马)
Ox (丑)02:11–04:11LuckyGoat (羊)
Tiger (寅)04:11–06:11UnluckyMonkey (猴)
Rabbit (卯)06:11–08:11LuckyRooster (鸡)
Dragon (辰)08:11–10:11UnluckyDog (狗)
Snake (巳)10:11–12:11UnluckyPig (猪)
Horse (午)12:11–14:11LuckyRat (鼠)
Goat (未)14:11–16:11UnluckyOx (牛)
Monkey (申)16:11–18:11LuckyTiger (虎)
Rooster (酉)18:11–20:11LuckyRabbit (兔)
Dog (戌)20:11–22:11UnluckyDragon (龙)
Pig (亥)22:11–00:11UnluckySnake (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 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.

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.

Choosing a date