Chinese Almanac for 2026-10-27 (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 9, day 18
• Pillars: 丙午 · 戊戌 · 甲戌
• Zodiac: Horse
• Day officer: Establish
• Attending spirit: White Tiger · Black Path · Inauspicious
• Sha direction: North
• Lunar mansion: Encampment · Auspicious

Suitable

Worship, Make vehicles, Travel, Construction, Raise beam, Roof a house, Install door, Install bed, Build livestock pen, Train cattle/horses

Unsuitable

Ship goods, Open warehouse, Break ground, Break burial ground, Burial, Funeral rites, Logging, Dig canal, Planting

Spirits of the day

• Auspicious spirits: Mother Granary, Guard Day, Heavenly Horse
• Inauspicious spirits: Month Builder, Minor Hour, Earth Office, White Tiger, 阴位

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.