Chinese Almanac for 2027-03-23 (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 2, day 16
• Pillars: 丁未 · 癸卯 · 辛丑
• Zodiac: Goat
• Day officer: Open
• Attending spirit: Gou Chen · Black Path · Inauspicious
• Sha direction: East
• Lunar mansion: Turtle Beak · Inauspicious

Suitable

Marriage, Engagement, Betrothal gifts, Worship, Pray for fortune, Travel, Construction, Break ground, Relocation, Move in, Break burial ground, Move stove fire, Install door, Install bed, Raise beam, Erect stele, Move coffin

Unsuitable

Open business, Trade, Make bed curtains, Burial

Spirits of the day

• Auspicious spirits: Hour Yang, Life Qi, Heavenly Granary, Respectful Peace
• Inauspicious spirits: Five Voids, Nine Voids, Nine Pits, Nine Scorches, 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.