Chinese almanac for Sunday 3 March 2030
1st lunar month, day 29. A Fire Rooster day (Ding You, 丁酉), in an Earth Tiger month (Wu Yin, 戊寅) and a Metal Dog year (Geng Xu, 庚戌).
- Day officer
- Danger day (Wei, 危)
- Ruling spirit
- Black Tortoise (Xuan Wu, 玄武), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rabbit years (兔: 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023). The sha (煞) lies east.
Good for
Praying for blessings (祈福), Praying for children (求嗣), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Making holy images (塑绘), Consecrating a statue (开光), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Weddings (嫁娶), Breaking ground (动土), Moving into a new home (入宅), Setting up the home altar (安香), Moving a coffin (移柩), Burials (安葬), Thanking the earth after building (谢土), Travel (出行), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Building and repairs (修造), Raising pillars (竖柱), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Receiving money (纳财), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Hanging a door (安门), Releasing water (放水)
Avoid
Building a stove (作灶), Setting up the bed (安床)
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 86 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:26–14:26. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:26–02:26 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:26–04:26 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:26–06:26 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:26–08:26 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:26–10:26 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:26–12:26 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:26–14:26 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:26–16:26 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:26–18:26 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:26–20:26 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:26–22:26 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:26–00:26 | 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 Yin Fire (Ding, 丁); this month, the Earth Tiger month (Wu Yin, 戊寅), has Yang Earth (Wu, 戊). 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.
Ding days: do not shave the head, or it breaks out in sores. (丁不剃头头必生疮)
Rooster days: do not receive guests, or they get drunk and wild. (酉不会客醉坐颠狂)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.
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