Chinese almanac for Thursday 31 January 2030
12th lunar month, day 28. A Fire Tiger day (Bing Yin, 丙寅), in a Fire Ox month (Ding Chou, 丁丑) and an Earth Rooster year (Ji You, 己酉).
- 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
Ritual bathing (沐浴), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Demolition (拆卸), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服), Moving a coffin (移柩), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Burials (安葬), Cleaning the house (扫舍), Repairing a grave (修坟), Felling trees (伐木), Receiving money (纳财), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券)
Avoid
Building a stove (作灶), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Travel (出行)
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 87 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:27–14:27. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:27–02:27 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:27–04:27 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:27–06:27 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:27–08:27 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:27–10:27 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:27–12:27 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:27–14:27 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:27–16:27 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:27–18:27 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:27–20:27 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:27–22:27 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:27–00:27 | 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 Fire Ox month (Ding Chou, 丁丑), has Yin Fire (Ding, 丁). 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)
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): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
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