Chinese almanac for Monday 28 October 2030
10th lunar month, day 2. A Fire Monkey day (Bing Shen, 丙申), in a Fire Dog month (Bing Xu, 丙戌) and a Metal Dog year (Geng Xu, 庚戌).
- Day officer
- Open day (Kai, 开)
- Ruling spirit
- Golden Casket (Jin Kui, 金匮), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Tiger years (虎: 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Raising pillars (竖柱), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Weddings (嫁娶), Demolition (拆卸), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving a coffin (移柩), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Thanking the earth after building (谢土), Taking up a new post (赴任), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Buying livestock (纳畜)
Avoid
Building a stove (作灶), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Burials (安葬), 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 57 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 11:57–13:57. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 23:57–01:57 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 01:57–03:57 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 03:57–05:57 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 05:57–07:57 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 07:57–09:57 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 09:57–11:57 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 11:57–13:57 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 13:57–15:57 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 15:57–17:57 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 17:57–19:57 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 19:57–21:57 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 21:57–23:57 | 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 Dog month (Bing Xu, 丙戌), 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.
Bing days: do not repair the stove, or disaster follows. (丙不修灶必见灾殃)
Monkey days: do not set up a bed, or spirits enter the room. (申不安床鬼祟入房)
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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