Chinese Almanac for 2027-08-29 (Sunday)

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 28
• Pillars: 丁未 · 戊申 · 庚辰
• Zodiac: Goat
• Day officer: Success
• Attending spirit: Golden Chest · Yellow Path · Auspicious
• Sha direction: South
• Lunar mansion: Emptiness · Inauspicious

Suitable

Marriage, Worship, Pray for fortune, Taoist ritual, Universal salvation, Relocation, Move in, Break ground, Treat illness, Open business, Trade, Sign contract, Consecration, Construction, Make vehicles, Install incense, Install bed, Hunting/trapping, Hunting, Make nets

Unsuitable

Betrothal gifts, Engagement, Meridian work, Funeral rites, Burial, Visit the sick

Spirits of the day

• Auspicious spirits: Heavenly Grace, Mother Granary, Triple Harmony, Heavenly Joy, Heavenly Doctor, Continue Lineage, Golden Chest
• Inauspicious spirits: Month Aversion, Earth Fire, Four Strikes, Great Sha, Blood Taboo, Repeat Day, Great Assembly

Directions

• Joy spirit: Northwest
• Wealth spirit: Due East
• 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.