Chinese almanac for Monday 2 December 2030
11th lunar month, day 8. A Metal Goat day (Xin Wei, 辛未), in a Fire Pig month (Ding Hai, 丁亥) and a Metal Dog year (Geng Xu, 庚戌).
- Day officer
- Success day (Cheng, 成)
- Ruling spirit
- Bright Hall (Ming Tang, 明堂), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Ox years (牛: 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021). The sha (煞) lies west.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Praying for blessings (祈福), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Hanging the bridal curtains (合帐), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Installing machinery (安机械), Setting up the bed (安床), Building animal pens (造畜稠), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Moving a coffin (移柩), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Burials (安葬), Thanking the earth after building (谢土), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Raising pillars (竖柱), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Setting up a loom (经络), Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Receiving money (纳财), Buying livestock (纳畜), Building embankments (筑堤)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Moving into a new home (入宅), Medical treatment (治病), Taking up a new post (赴任)
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 64 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:04–14:04. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:04–02:04 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:04–04:04 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:04–06:04 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:04–08:04 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:04–10:04 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:04–12:04 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:04–14:04 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:04–16:04 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:04–18:04 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:04–20:04 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:04–22:04 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:04–00:04 | Lucky | 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 Metal (Xin, 辛); 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.
Xin days: do not make sauce, or the master will never taste it. (辛不合酱主人不尝)
Goat days: do not take medicine, or poison enters the gut. (未不服药毒气入肠)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
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