Chinese Almanac for 2027-07-23 (Friday)

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 6, day 20
• Pillars: 丁未 · 丁未 · 癸卯
• Zodiac: Goat
• Day officer: Success
• Attending spirit: Heavenly Virtue · Yellow Path · Auspicious
• Sha direction: West
• Lunar mansion: Neck · Inauspicious

Suitable

Marriage, Engagement, Betrothal gifts, Worship, Pray for fortune, Taoist ritual, Consecration, Meet relatives, See a doctor, Treat illness, Roof a house, Lay foundation, Erect pillars, Raise beam, Install door, Install mill, Build dike, Dig pond, Break burial ground, Burial, End mourning, Don mourning

Unsuitable

Move in, Open business, Dig well, Lawsuit, Make coffin

Spirits of the day

• Auspicious spirits: Mother Granary, Triple Harmony, Approach Day, Heavenly Joy, Heavenly Doctor, Respectful Peace, Five Harmony, Precious Light, Crow-Bark Pair
• Inauspicious spirits: Great Sha

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.