Chinese Almanac for 2027-05-18 (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 4, day 13
• Pillars: 丁未 · 乙巳 · 丁酉
• Zodiac: Goat
• Day officer: Settle
• Attending spirit: Vermilion Bird · Black Path · Inauspicious
• Sha direction: East
• Lunar mansion: Turtle Beak · Inauspicious

Suitable

Open business, Trade, Sign contract, Hang plaque, Worship, Pray for fortune, Taoist ritual, Travel, Roof a house, Lay foundation, Construction, Break ground, Set foundation stones, Install bed, Install machinery, Burial, Break burial ground, Open tomb, End mourning, Don mourning, Erect stele

Unsuitable

Build stove, Marriage, Relocation, Move in, Haircut

Spirits of the day

• Auspicious spirits: People Day, Triple Harmony, Hour Yin, Bu Jiang, Essential Peace, Removal Deity, Crow and Bark
• Inauspicious spirits: Death Qi, Five Separations, Vermilion Bird

Directions

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

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.