Chinese almanac for Thursday 13 September 2029
8th lunar month, day 6. A Fire Horse day (Bing Wu, 丙午), in a Water Rooster month (Gui You, 癸酉) and an Earth Rooster year (Ji You, 己酉).
- Day officer
- Receive day (Shou, 收)
- Ruling spirit
- Golden Casket (Jin Kui, 金匮), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rat years (鼠: 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Catching pests (捕捉), Nothing else (馀事勿取)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Opening a business (开市), Roofing (盖屋), Making beams (作梁), Making a coffin in advance (合寿木)
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 69 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:09–14:09. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:09–02:09 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:09–04:09 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:09–06:09 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:09–08:09 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:09–10:09 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:09–12:09 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:09–14:09 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:09–16:09 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:09–18:09 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:09–20:09 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:09–22:09 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:09–00:09 | 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 Fire (Bing, 丙); this month, the Water Rooster month (Gui You, 癸酉), 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.
Bing days: do not repair the stove, or disaster follows. (丙不修灶必见灾殃)
Horse days: do not thatch a roof, or it must be done again. (午不苫盖屋主更张)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
Choosing a date