Chinese Almanac for 2026-02-06 (Friday)

What a day is suitable for follows from its stems and branches, its day officer and the spirits attending it, so no two days read alike. What is shown here is the traditional calculation, nothing more.

Lunar date and pillars

• Lunar date: Lunar month 12, day 19
• Pillars: 乙巳 · 庚寅 · 辛亥
• Zodiac: Snake
• Day officer: Harvest
• Attending spirit: Gou Chen · Black Path · Inauspicious
• Sha direction: West
• Lunar mansion: Neck · Inauspicious

Suitable

Relocation, Worship, Consecration, Pray for fortune, Travel, Removal of ills, Add household members, Hire workers, Install bed, Break ground, Lay foundation, Raise beam, Install door

Unsuitable

Marriage, Burial, Break burial ground, Make beams, Acquire livestock, Livestock, Funeral rites, Build stove

Spirits of the day

• Auspicious spirits: Monthly Virtue Combine, Heavenly Grace, Mother Granary, Six Harmony, Five Wealths, Bu Jiang, Sacred Heart
• Inauspicious spirits: River Chief, Robbery Sha, Double Day, Gou Chen

Directions

• Joy spirit: Southwest
• Wealth spirit: Due East
• Fortune spirit: Northwest

The twelve double hours

The almanac follows the date-selection system of the Xieji Bianfang Shu, in which the reading of a day is built up from its stems and branches, its day officer and the spirits attending it. Editions differ in what they include. This page presents the calculation, not advice.