Thai Lucky Colors by Day: How Thaksa Decides What Color to Wear Today

Thailand’s culture of “today’s lucky color”

Every New Year, Thai shopping sites, credit-card companies and broadcasters publish charts of “auspicious shirt colors for the year”. Each weekday lists a color for “things going well at work”, a color for “money luck”, a color for “love”, a “lucky color” and colors “best avoided”. For many of us it is closer to a small morning pleasure of deciding what to wear.

What is interesting is that these charts are not made up at random; they come from a rule. The rule is the thaksa we described earlier. This article looks at how the charts are made and how Horasat shows the same idea.

The rule is simple: lay out the thaksa of the day you wear it

The commonly described method is this. Take the weekday of the day you are dressing for and lay out the eight thaksa positions. That day’s star becomes the first position, and the others fill in the order Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, Rahu, Venus. Then you choose clothing colors by the color of the star holding each position.

The traditional star colors are given as: the Sun red, the Moon yellow, Mars pink, Mercury green, Jupiter orange, Venus light blue, Saturn purple and Rahu gray or black. These are the same colors as the weekday colors. The positions are named like this. The color of the influence (det) position is the “work color”, the foundation (mula) position the “money color”, the support (montri) position the “love and connection color”, the fortune (si) position the “lucky color”, and the “what to watch carefully” (kalakini) position the “color to avoid”.

We compared it with a real chart

We checked this rule against the chart of auspicious shirt colors by weekday for 2569 BE (2026 CE) published by KTC, a Thai card company. The result was striking. For all seven weekdays, the “lucky color” matched the star color of the fortune position and the “avoid” color matched the star color of the “what to watch carefully” position. “Work” matched influence, “money” matched foundation and “love” matched support.

Take Tuesday. Tuesday’s thaksa runs Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, Rahu, Venus, Sun, Moon. The chart’s Tuesday work colors are purple and dark gray; the influence position is Saturn, so purple family. The money colors are brown and gray; the foundation position is Rahu, so gray family. The love colors are red and pink; the support position is the Sun, so red. The lucky colors are orange and brown; the fortune position is Jupiter, so orange. The colors to avoid are white and yellow; the last position is the Moon, so yellow.

One more example: on Wednesday the color to avoid is pink, because the last position in Wednesday’s thaksa is Mars. On Sunday the colors to avoid are blue and navy, because the last position is Venus, light blue. The same rule repeats every weekday. Names such as brown, old rose and navy that are not among the stars’ basic colors are similar shades from the same family listed alongside.

Why charts differ between astrologers

Not every chart is the same. In Thailand too, charts of lucky colors differ by astrologer and by media outlet. They differ slightly in where they put the meaning of each thaksa position, which colors they group into one family, and whether they apply the weekday color to the day of birth or the day of wearing.

KTC’s chart itself states that these recommendations are traditional Thai belief rather than scientific fact, and that personal effort and good deeds matter as much as the choice of color. In other words, color is only a supporting device. So it is fine to be a little skeptical of any article that nails down “this color is the answer”.

How Horasat shows colors by position

Horasat lays out the eight thaksa positions for your birth weekday and shows the traditional color of the star in each position as is. For someone born on Monday, for instance, Mercury lands in the “influence” position, so green appears, and the Sun lands in “what to watch carefully”, so red appears. Position names such as fortune, foundation and support are our own easy renderings in plain language.

These colors are not “colors that bring good things if worn” but “colors that symbolize each position in your thaksa”. Treat them lightly when you organize the mood of your day. On the color page you can see today’s color by Bangkok weekday and the position colors from that day’s thaksa side by side.

Making your own color notebook

Go a step beyond reading charts and make your own color notebook. Write the color you wore in the morning and, at the end of the day, a line about how you felt. After just a few weeks you will see patterns of your own, such as “I felt calm on days I wore green” or “I talk more on days I wore orange”.

It is fun to compare those patterns with the thaksa colors, too. Check whether presentations felt easier on days you wore the influence color, or whether your mood was better on days you wore the fortune color. The point is not to judge whether astrology is right or wrong but to set your own experience beside the tradition. It is perfectly fine if the results do not match; it may even lead you to discover your own colors.

A small morning ritual of choosing clothes

The real charm of choosing a color is that it makes you pause and ask “what kind of day do I want to make this?” On a day with an important presentation you might add a touch of the influence color; on a day you are meeting someone close, you might think of the support color. Even if a color to avoid comes up, take it not as a prohibition but as a light suggestion to think once more about another color today.

In Thailand too, rather than putting all the color in one place, people suggest using shirts, scarves, bags or shoes as accents. It is an easy approach to try. A color cannot guarantee your day, but it can be a small ritual of your own for starting it.