Chinese almanac for Tuesday 31 December 2030
12th lunar month, day 7. A Metal Rat day (Geng Zi, 庚子), in an Earth Rat month (Wu Zi, 戊子) and a Metal Dog year (Geng Xu, 庚戌).
- Day officer
- Establish day (Jian, 建)
- Ruling spirit
- Golden Casket (Jin Kui, 金匮), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Horse years (马: 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, 2026). The sha (煞) lies south.
Good for
Training cattle and horses (教牛马), Nothing else (馀事勿取)
Avoid
Moving into a new home (入宅), Breaking ground (动土), Breaking ground for a grave (破土)
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 77 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:17–14:17. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:17–02:17 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:17–04:17 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:17–06:17 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:17–08:17 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:17–10:17 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:17–12:17 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:17–14:17 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:17–16:17 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:17–18:17 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:17–20:17 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:17–22:17 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:17–00:17 | 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 Earth Rat month (Wu Zi, 戊子), 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.
Geng days: do not string a loom, or it stands idle. (庚不经络织机虚张)
Rat days: do not consult a diviner, or you bring trouble on yourself. (子不问卜自惹祸殃)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
Choosing a date