Chinese Almanac for 2027-09-01 (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 8, day 1
• Pillars: 丁未 · 戊申 · 癸未
• Zodiac: Goat
• Day officer: Close
• Attending spirit: Jade Hall · Yellow Path · Auspicious
• Sha direction: West
• Lunar mansion: Wall · Auspicious

Suitable

Marriage, Universal salvation, Worship, Pray for fortune, Repair walls, Seal holes, Exterminate ants, Build dike, Encoffining, End mourning, Don mourning, Burial

Unsuitable

Break ground, Break burial ground, Dig well, Consecration, Raise beam, Lawsuit

Spirits of the day

• Auspicious spirits: Heavenly Virtue, Heavenly Grace, Mother Granary, Four Ministers, Bu Jiang, Golden Hall, Jade Hall
• Inauspicious spirits: Month Sha, Month Void, Blood Branch, Heavenly Thief, Five Voids, Touch Water Dragon

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.