Chinese almanac for Sunday 1 December 2030
11th lunar month, day 7. A Metal Horse day (Geng Wu, 庚午), in a Fire Pig month (Ding Hai, 丁亥) and a Metal Dog year (Geng Xu, 庚戌).
- Day officer
- Danger day (Wei, 危)
- Ruling spirit
- Green Dragon (Qing Long, 青龙), 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), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Praying for blessings (祈福), Consecrating a statue (开光), Making holy images (塑绘), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), 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), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服), Moving a coffin (移柩), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Setting up the bed (安床), Taking up a new post (赴任), Travel (出行), Moving house (移徙), Raising pillars (竖柱), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Felling trees (伐木), Planting (栽种), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Burials (安葬), Buying livestock (纳畜)
Avoid
Roofing (盖屋), Medical treatment (治病)
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 63 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:03–14:03. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:03–02:03 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:03–04:03 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:03–06:03 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:03–08:03 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:03–10:03 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:03–12:03 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:03–14:03 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:03–16:03 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:03–18:03 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:03–20:03 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:03–22:03 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:03–00:03 | 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 Metal (Geng, 庚); this month, the Fire Pig month (Ding Hai, 丁亥), 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.
Geng days: do not string a loom, or it stands idle. (庚不经络织机虚张)
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): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
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