In short
- Daily lucky-colour tables count the Taksa wheel from the day you wear the colour: that day’s colour is Boriwan, then you count clockwise just as with a birth-day chart.
- The colour to avoid for each day matches in almost every table; what differs is which position each astrologer calls work, money or love.
- The colour in each position doesn’t depend on the year, so this table works for 2026 and the years after.
- To be thorough, pick from today’s row, then leave out the Kalakini colour of your own birth day.
Every new year, lucky shirt-colour tables from different astrologers flood social media, and side by side they disagree: one says green on Monday helps your work, another that it helps your love life. So we traced where these tables come from and why they differ, and put together one table whose every cell can be explained.
Where the tables come from
The widely shared daily tables come from the same Taksa wheel used for birth-day colours; only the starting point differs. A birth-day chart starts from your birth planet, while a daily table starts from the planet of the day you wear the colour. That day’s colour is Boriwan, and counting clockwise gives Ayu, Det, Sri, Mula, Utsaha, Montri and Kalakini. Kapook prints the table with all eight positions, and the astrologer Mor Kai notes on his 2025 table that it counts from the current day, not your birth day.
If the Taksa wheel and its positions are new to you, our Taksa article explains them; the tables below use the same wheel.
Why the websites disagree
We compared two 2026 Monday tables. Both give red as the colour to avoid, but the other categories are swapped around. Place the colours on the Taksa wheel and you can see both astrologers use the same positions; they just label them differently.
| Category | Mor Kai 2026 (Thairath) | Ajarn Khatha 2026 (Matichon) | Wheel position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work | Green | Brown / orange | Mor Kai: Det · Khatha: Mula |
| Money | Orange | Purple / black | Mor Kai: Mula · Khatha: Sri |
| Love | Light blue | Green | Mor Kai: Montri · Khatha: Det |
| Avoid | Red | Red | Kalakini, the same |
Across many sources, luck almost always uses Sri and patrons use Montri, but money is Mula for some and Sri for others, work is Det or Mula, and love is Montri, Det or Sri. The colour to avoid is the most consistent column of all. And some tables, such as monthly lists with no astrologer named, don’t follow the Taksa wheel at all.
The seven-day table
We use the same labels as our Lucky Charm Finder: work from Det, money from Mula, luck and charm from Sri, patrons from Montri, and health from Ayu. If you follow another astrologer’s table, go by the position rather than the label and the colours will match.
| Day (own colour) | Work · Det | Money · Mula | Luck · Sri | Patrons · Montri | Avoid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday (yellow / cream) | Green | Orange | Purple / black | Light blue / navy | Red |
| Tuesday (pink) | Purple / black | Grey / black | Orange | Red | Yellow / cream |
| Wednesday (green) | Orange | Light blue / navy | Grey / black | Yellow / cream | Pink |
| Thursday (orange) | Light blue / navy | Yellow / cream | Red | Green | Purple / black |
| Friday (light blue / navy) | Yellow / cream | Green | Pink | Orange | Grey / black |
| Saturday (purple / black) | Grey / black | Red | Light blue / navy | Pink | Green |
| Sunday (red) | Pink | Purple / black | Green | Grey / black | Light blue / navy |
Lucky colours for Monday
Monday’s own colour is yellow or cream · Work: green · Money: orange · Luck and charm: purple or black · Patrons: light blue or navy · Health: pink · Avoid: red.
Lucky colours for Tuesday
Tuesday’s own colour is pink · Work: purple or black · Money: grey or black · Luck and charm: orange · Patrons: red · Health: green · Avoid: yellow or cream.
Lucky colours for Wednesday
Wednesday’s own colour is green · Work: orange · Money: light blue or navy · Luck and charm: grey or black · Patrons: yellow or cream · Health: purple or black · Avoid: pink.
Lucky colours for Thursday
Thursday’s own colour is orange · Work: light blue or navy · Money: yellow or cream · Luck and charm: red · Patrons: green · Health: grey or black · Avoid: purple or black.
Lucky colours for Friday
Friday’s own colour is light blue or navy · Work: yellow or cream · Money: green · Luck and charm: pink · Patrons: orange · Health: red · Avoid: grey or black.
Lucky colours for Saturday
Saturday’s own colour is purple or black · Work: grey or black · Money: red · Luck and charm: light blue or navy · Patrons: pink · Health: orange · Avoid: green.
Lucky colours for Sunday
Sunday’s own colour is red · Work: pink · Money: purple or black · Luck and charm: green · Patrons: grey or black · Health: yellow or cream · Avoid: light blue or navy.
Wednesday uses the daytime wheel
Most daily tables have a single Wednesday row using Mercury’s wheel, so Wednesday’s colour to avoid is pink and its luck colour is Rahu’s grey or black. Splitting Wednesday into day and night belongs to birth-day charts, not to the day you wear a colour.
Check it against your birth day
Ajarn Khatha explains there are two ways to avoid Kalakini colours: by your birth day or by today. To be thorough, use both: choose from today’s row, then drop your own birth-day Kalakini colour. For example, the Kalakini colour for Sunday-born people is light blue or navy; on a Monday, when the table gives light blue or navy as the patrons colour, pick the work or luck colour instead.
Not sure of your birth-day Kalakini colour? Enter your birth date and time in the Lucky Charm Finder. It uses the same wheel and tells Wednesday day and night apart for you.
Where the custom comes from
Choosing colours by the day is an old habit. Sunthorn Phu’s Sawatdi Raksa, around 1822–1824, gives colours for battle dress by the day you fight, and day colours became a court convention under King Rama V, though the set kept shifting for some time after. The Taksa-from-the-day table itself appears on Kapook from around 2012; before that, the same page carried a different table. Since at least 2021, major Thai media have run named astrologers’ tables every year.
Plu Luang, a respected Thai astrologer, warned that being too strict about colours only costs you for nothing. Use lucky colours as a small boost on big days, not as a rule that limits your life.
Common questions
Should lucky colours follow my birth day or the day I wear them?
Both approaches exist. Daily lucky-colour tables count from the day you wear the colour; personal lucky colours count from your birth day. To be thorough, choose from today’s row and also avoid your birth-day Kalakini colour.
Will the lucky colours change in 2027?
Tables built on the Taksa wheel don’t depend on the year, so the colour in each position stays the same. What may change is how each astrologer labels the categories, and some add their own colours of the year.
Do I split Wednesday into day and night?
For daily colours, most tables use a single daytime Wednesday row. The day-night split applies to birth days, so someone born on a Wednesday after 6 p.m. takes the Wednesday-night colours as their birth-day colours.
Sources
- Royal Institute Dictionary: “ทักษา” (Thai)
- Kapook: lucky shirt colours by Taksa (Thai)
- Thairath: Mor Kai’s 2025 lucky colours (Thai)
- Thairath: Mor Kai’s 2026 lucky colours (Thai)
- Matichon: Ajarn Khatha’s 2026 lucky colours (Thai)
- Thairath: Ajarn Khatha on two ways to avoid Kalakini colours (Thai)
- Sanook: lucky shirt colours by day (Thai)
- Sarakadee magazine: lucky colours and Taksa (Thai)
- Silpa Wattanatham: Sawatdi Raksa and clothing colours by day (Thai)
- Silpa Wattanatham: day colours at court (Thai)
