Feng Shui Haircut Calendar November 2026: Good and Bad Days in the Tenth Lunar Month

The best day to cut your hair in November 2026 is Sunday 22 November. It is the one date this month where the Chinese almanac and the lunar calendar, which usually disagree, arrive at the same answer.

That convergence is rarer than it sounds. The feng shui haircut calendar for November 2026 and the moon calendar measure different things, and in most months they send you to different appointments. This month is unusually tidy: no eclipses, no leap month, one clean overlap. Below is every favourable and unfavourable date, its lunar day and its day officer, calculated from the new moon of 9 November rather than copied from another calendar.

What the Feng Shui Haircut Calendar November 2026 Actually Measures

Most haircut calendars circulating online are downstream of the Tong Shu, the Chinese almanac that has assigned daily activities for centuries. The layer that governs grooming is the jian chu system, twelve day officers that rotate in fixed order: Establish, Remove, Full, Balance, Settle, Grasp, Break, Danger, Success, Receive, Open, Close.

The one that matters for hair is Remove: the almanac's day for taking things away, whether that is cutting, clearing or medical treatment. If you have wondered why a feng shui calendar picks two apparently random dates a month, this is why. Remove days recur every twelve days, anchored to the solar month rather than the lunar one. For the full architecture, what WOFS actually is takes the almanac apart layer by layer.

November carries a solar boundary worth knowing about. Start of Winter falls on 7 November at 09:51 UTC, moving the month branch from Dog to Pig and resetting the officer sequence. That is why 6 and 7 November both read as Open days. Not an error, simply what happens when a solar term lands mid month.

The Tenth Lunar Month Begins on 9 November

The ninth lunar month, which opened on 10 October, runs a full thirty days and closes on Sunday 8 November. The tenth lunar month begins Monday 9 November at 15:01 Bali time, 07:01 UTC, on the new moon in Scorpio, and carries through to 8 December.

So November splits in two. The first eight days are the emptying tail of the ninth month, lunar days 23 to 30. From the ninth onward you are in fresh territory, lunar day 1 through 22. The October feng shui haircut calendar covers the first half of that ninth month.

Best Days to Cut Your Hair in November 2026

Sunday 22 November. Remove day, lunar day 14, Rat day, moon waxing at roughly ninety three percent. The strongest date of the month by a wide margin. The almanac calls it a Remove day, and the moon is two days off full and rising. Both traditions point here. If you make one appointment in November 2026, make it this one.

Tuesday 10 November. Remove day, lunar day 2, Rat day, moon barely lit. The month's other Remove day, equally auspicious by the almanac. The moon disagrees, since the light has only just returned. Good for a maintenance trim or split ends, less so for a cut you want back quickly.

Thursday 19 November. Open day, lunar day 11, Rooster day, moon waxing. Open days rank below Remove days but stay in the favourable tier, and this one has a strong waxing moon behind it. The best fallback if the 22nd is unbookable.

Tuesday 17 November and Sunday 29 November. Success days. Favourable, but for completion rather than removal. Use them to finish growing something out, not to begin a change.

Days to Avoid in November 2026

Three officers are traditionally unfavourable for cutting hair.

Break days: 2, 15 and 27 November. The most inauspicious officer in the cycle for almost any deliberate act. Reschedule.

Danger days: 3, 16 and 28 November. Traditionally avoided for anything involving blades.

Close days: 8 and 20 November. Close days seal rather than open, and the almanac rates them poorly for grooming. That matters here, because 20 November is a day the moon calendar likes very much.

Skip 9 November too. It is an Establish day, which is for beginning things rather than removing them, and the moon is dark. Both systems agree on that one.

Where the Feng Shui and Lunar Calendars Disagree This Month

The lunar hair calendar for November 2026 names 20 and 21 November as the month's strongest growth days, because the moon is waxing hard through Aries. The almanac marks 20 November a Close day and avoids it entirely.

Neither is wrong. The moon calendar asks what the hair will do afterwards. The almanac asks whether the day itself supports the act of removal. When they conflict, take the day both systems tolerate, which sends you back to the 22nd.

The reverse case is 1 and 2 November. The moon calendar rates that waning Leo window highly for density at the root. The almanac calls the 2nd a Break day. Take the 1st, leave the 2nd alone.

Common Questions About the Feng Shui Haircut Calendar November 2026

What is the best day to cut your hair in November 2026? Sunday 22 November 2026. It is a Remove day in the Chinese almanac and falls on a waxing moon at around ninety three percent illumination, which makes it the only date in the month that both the feng shui and the lunar systems rate highly.

What are the WOFS haircut days for November 2026? The two Remove days, 10 and 22 November, are the classic almanac dates for cutting hair, with the Open days of 6, 7 and 19 November as the secondary tier. Note that published WOFS calendars layer additional systems on top of jian chu, so an edition you own may differ by a day. The underlying officer sequence given here is computed rather than copied.

When does the tenth lunar month start in 2026? The tenth lunar month begins on Monday 9 November 2026, at the new moon, and runs until 8 December 2026. There is no leap month in 2026, so the count runs straight from Chinese New Year on 17 February.

Is it bad to cut your hair on a Break day? Break days are the least favourable of the twelve officers for any intentional undertaking, cutting hair included. In November 2026 these are the 2nd, 15th and 27th. Nothing happens if you ignore this. The tradition simply holds that the day works against you rather than with you.

Why do the feng shui and lunar hair calendars never agree? Because they run on different clocks. The lunar hair calendar tracks the moon's phase and zodiac sign. The feng shui calendar tracks the day officer, which is anchored to the solar month and the sixty day sexagenary cycle. They overlap only by coincidence, which is what makes a date like 22 November worth marking.

If you would rather work the whole year than one month, the 2026 lunar hair calendar hub maps every cycle in both systems.

Used properly, the feng shui haircut calendar for November 2026 is not a rule. It is a way of slowing a decision down long enough to notice whether you actually wanted it.

With love from Bali,
Myrah.

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