Chinese Almanac for 2026-03-10 (Tuesday)

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 1, day 22
• Pillars: 丙午 · 辛卯 · 癸未
• Zodiac: Horse
• Day officer: Settle
• Attending spirit: Heavenly Virtue · Yellow Path · Auspicious
• Sha direction: West
• Lunar mansion: Tail · Auspicious

Suitable

Worship, Meet relatives, Engagement, Make clothes, Make bed curtains, Install machinery, Dismantle, Raise beam, Install door, Encoffining, End mourning, Don mourning, Move coffin, Open tomb, Burial, Erect stele, Consecration, Sculpture/painting, Start school, Travel, Lay foundation, Set foundation stones, Release water, Relocation, Move in, Erect pillars, Sign contract, Meridian work

Unsuitable

Logging, Make beams

Spirits of the day

• Auspicious spirits: Heavenly Grace, Yin Virtue, Triple Harmony, Hour Yin, Continue Lineage, Precious Light
• Inauspicious spirits: Death Qi, Blood Taboo, Touch Water Dragon

Directions

• Joy spirit: Southeast
• Wealth spirit: Due South
• Fortune spirit: Northeast

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.