Chinese Almanac for 2027-09-02 (Thursday)

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 2
• Pillars: 丁未 · 戊申 · 甲申
• Zodiac: Goat
• Day officer: Establish
• Attending spirit: Heavenly Prison · Black Path · Inauspicious
• Sha direction: South
• Lunar mansion: Legs · Inauspicious

Suitable

Marriage, Coming of age, Worship, Bathing, Universal salvation, Travel, Receive wealth, House cleaning, Acquire livestock, Take office

Unsuitable

Open business, Break ground, Break burial ground, Install bed, Open warehouse, Raise beam

Spirits of the day

• Auspicious spirits: King Day, Heavenly Granary, Bu Jiang, Removal Deity, Crow and Bark
• Inauspicious spirits: Month Builder, Minor Hour, Earth Office, Five Separations, Heavenly Prison

Directions

• Joy spirit: Northeast
• Wealth spirit: Northeast
• Fortune spirit: Due North

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.