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GUANYITANG · DAILY ALMANAC

The day's almanac

Read the day's auspicious and cautionary currents to know your bounds; trace each hour's generating and controlling forces to discern what lies ahead.

Friday
Today

Xin–Chou year · Ox

Xin–Chou month

Lunar month 12, day 5
Geng–Shen dayPomegranate Wood

Good for

  • engagement arrangements
  • formal commitments
  • rituals and remembrance
  • family planning prayers
  • moving a sacred flame
  • ritual sculpture and painting
  • cutting garments
  • meeting friends and family
  • starting study
  • dismantling
  • cleaning the home
  • building storage
  • installing a signboard
  • digging a well
  • opening a pond
  • making fishing nets
  • planting
  • bringing in livestock
  • burial ground work
  • tomb maintenance
  • erecting a memorial
  • burial rites
  • coffining rites

Avoid

  • prayer and reflection
  • weddings
  • building a shrine
  • setting up a bed
  • earth thanksgiving rites

Clash and sha

Clashes with Tiger (Jia–Yin) · Sha: South

Auspicious directions

Joy Northwest · Wealth East · Fortune Southwest

Seasonal rhythm

Minor Cold · First pentad

Mansion and day officer

Ghost · Metal · Goat · Caution Day Officer · Director of Destiny

Auspicious day

Favorable periods

Zi hour · Chou hour · Chen hour · Si hour · Wei hour · Xu hour

Zodiac outlook

Favorable: Snake, Rat, Dragon · Clashing: Tiger

Daily Nine Star

Nine Star 4 · Wood · Position: Southeast

Supportive markers

9 traditional markers

Caution markers

3 traditional markers

CHOOSING A TIME

Two-hour windows

Read each period's auspicious or cautious path, activities, and presiding deity.

Zi hour00:00–00:59 / 23:00–23:59
Early ZiAuspicious · Good

Bing–Zi (Rat) · Azure Dragon · auspicious path

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed
Avoid
raising roof beams · roofing a building · coffining rites · taking up a post · travel
Late ZiAuspicious · Good

Wu–Zi (Rat) · Director of Destiny · auspicious path

Good for
weddings · relocation · moving home · opening for business · transactions · renovation · burial rites · installing a stove · rituals and remembrance · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
Avoid
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · taking up a post · travel · pursuing income
Chou hour01:00–02:59
Auspicious · Good

Ding–Chou (Ox) · Bright Hall · auspicious path

Good for
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · offerings of thanks · meeting a senior or patron · engagement arrangements · weddings · renovation · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · travel · pursuing income
Yin hour03:00–04:59
Cautious · Avoid

Wu–Yin (Tiger) · Heavenly Punishment · cautious path

Avoid
major undertakings
Mao hour05:00–06:59
Cautious · Avoid

Ji–Mao (Rabbit) · Vermilion Bird · cautious path

Good for
family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · renovation · moving home · opening for business · transactions · burial rites
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
Chen hour07:00–08:59
Auspicious · Good

Geng–Chen (Dragon) · Golden Coffer · auspicious path

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · travel · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed · taking up a post
Avoid
renovation · starting construction
Si hour09:00–10:59
Auspicious · Good

Xin–Si (Snake) · Heavenly Virtue · auspicious path

Good for
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks · renovation · installing a stove · family planning prayers · weddings · relocation · moving home · opening for business · transactions
Avoid
taking up a post · travel
Wu hour11:00–12:59
Cautious · Avoid

Ren–Wu (Horse) · White Tiger · cautious path

Good for
pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · offerings of thanks
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration · taking up a post · travel
Wei hour13:00–14:59
Auspicious · Good

Gui–Wei (Goat) · Jade Hall · auspicious path

Good for
renovation · roofing a building · relocation · setting up a bed · moving home · opening for business · opening storage · travel · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · engagement arrangements · weddings
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
Shen hour15:00–16:59
Cautious · Avoid

Jia–Shen (Monkey) · Heavenly Prison · cautious path

Good for
pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · engagement arrangements · weddings · moving home · opening for business · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · renovation · relocation · travel · legal disputes · consecration
You hour17:00–18:59
Cautious · Avoid

Yi–You (Rooster) · Black Tortoise · cautious path

Good for
family planning prayers · weddings · relocation · moving home · opening for business · transactions · burial rites · prayer and reflection · rituals and remembrance
Avoid
taking up a post · travel · renovation · starting construction
Xu hour19:00–20:59
Auspicious · Good

Bing–Xu (Dog) · Director of Destiny · auspicious path

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed · installing a stove · rituals and remembrance
Avoid
raising roof beams · roofing a building · coffining rites · taking up a post · travel
Hai hour21:00–22:59
Cautious · Avoid

Ding–Hai (Pig) · Hook Array · cautious path

Good for
renovation · moving home · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · travel
NATAL CHART · DAILY INSIGHT

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