Chinese almanac for Saturday 15 December 2029

11th lunar month, day 11. An Earth Rabbit day (Ji Mao, 己卯), in a Fire Rat month (Bing Zi, 丙子) and an Earth Rooster year (Ji You, 己酉).

Day officer
Balance day (Ping, 平)
Ruling spirit
Jade Hall (Yu Tang, 玉堂), a yellow-path, lucky day
Clashes
People born in Rooster years (鸡: 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017). The sha (煞) lies west.

Good for

Offerings and worship (祭祀), Levelling roads (平治道涂), Repairing a grave (修坟), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服), Nothing else (馀事勿取)

Avoid

Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Weddings (嫁娶), Digging a well (掘井), 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 69 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:09–14:09. The table is already converted. Why

HourClock timeLuckClashes
Rat (子)00:09–02:09LuckyHorse (马)
Ox (丑)02:09–04:09UnluckyGoat (羊)
Tiger (寅)04:09–06:09LuckyMonkey (猴)
Rabbit (卯)06:09–08:09LuckyRooster (鸡)
Dragon (辰)08:09–10:09UnluckyDog (狗)
Snake (巳)10:09–12:09UnluckyPig (猪)
Horse (午)12:09–14:09LuckyRat (鼠)
Goat (未)14:09–16:09LuckyOx (牛)
Monkey (申)16:09–18:09UnluckyTiger (虎)
Rooster (酉)18:09–20:09LuckyRabbit (兔)
Dog (戌)20:09–22:09UnluckyDragon (龙)
Pig (亥)22:09–00:09UnluckySnake (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 Yin Earth (Ji, 己); this month, the Fire Rat month (Bing Zi, 丙子), has Yang Fire (Bing, 丙). 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.

Ji days: do not break a contract, or both parties lose. (己不破券二比并亡)

Rabbit days: do not dig a well, or the water will not be sweet. (卯不穿井水泉不香)

God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): north. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): north.

Choosing a date