Chinese Almanac for 2026-10-07 (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 8, day 27
• Pillars: 丙午 · 丁酉 · 甲寅
• Zodiac: Horse
• Day officer: Hold
• Attending spirit: Azure Dragon · Yellow Path · Auspicious
• Sha direction: North
• Lunar mansion: Three Stars · Auspicious

Suitable

Bathing, Hunting/trapping, Encoffining, End mourning, Don mourning, Break burial ground, Open tomb, Burial

Unsuitable

Worship, Marriage, Install bed, Open business, Move in, Visit the sick, Raise beam

Spirits of the day

• Auspicious spirits: Monthly Void, Relief Deity, Five Harmony, Azure Dragon, Crow-Bark Pair
• Inauspicious spirits: Robbery Sha, Minor Loss, Four Wastes, Return Taboo, 八专

Directions

• Joy spirit: Northeast
• Wealth spirit: Northeast
• Fortune spirit: Due North

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.