Chinese Almanac for 2027-08-04 (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 7, day 3
• Pillars: 丁未 · 丁未 · 乙卯
• Zodiac: Goat
• Day officer: Success
• Attending spirit: Heavenly Virtue · Yellow Path · Auspicious
• Sha direction: West
• Lunar mansion: Wall · Auspicious

Suitable

Worship, Pray for fortune, Taoist ritual, Travel, Betrothal gifts, Engagement, Install machinery, Move stove fire, Dismantle, Construction, Break ground, Lay foundation, Relocation, Move in, Build temple, Encoffining, End mourning, Don mourning, Move coffin, Break burial ground, Burial, Earth thanksgiving

Unsuitable

Marriage, Open business, Planting, 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: Four Losses, Great Sha

Directions

• Joy spirit: Northwest
• Wealth spirit: Northeast
• Fortune spirit: Southwest

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.