Chinese Almanac for 2026-07-08 (Wednesday)

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 5, day 24
• Pillars: 丙午 · 乙未 · 癸未
• Zodiac: Horse
• Day officer: Establish
• Attending spirit: Black Tortoise · Black Path · Inauspicious
• Sha direction: West
• Lunar mansion: Wall · Auspicious

Suitable

Worship, Travel, Trade, Harvest honey, Build livestock pen

Unsuitable

Marriage, Build stove, Burial, Break ground, Lawsuit, Make beams, Logging, Dig well, Break burial ground, Relocation

Spirits of the day

• Auspicious spirits: Heavenly Grace, Guard Day, Bu Jiang, Sacred Heart
• Inauspicious spirits: Month Builder, Minor Hour, Earth Office, Touch Water Dragon, Black Tortoise

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.