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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

Ren–Yin year · Tiger

Jia–Chen month

Lunar month 3, day 8
Xin–Mao dayPine and Cypress Wood

Good for

  • rituals and remembrance
  • prayer and reflection
  • cutting garments
  • setting up a canopy
  • setting up a bed
  • coffining rites
  • ending mourning observances
  • beginning mourning observances
  • moving a coffin
  • burial ground work
  • reinterment rites
  • burial rites
  • earth thanksgiving rites
  • erecting a memorial
  • building animal pens

Avoid

  • digging a well
  • installing doors
  • weddings
  • engagement arrangements

Clash and sha

Clashes with Rooster (Yi–You) · Sha: West

Auspicious directions

Joy Southwest · Wealth East · Fortune Northwest

Seasonal rhythm

Clear and Bright · First pentad

Mansion and day officer

Neck · Metal · Dragon · Close Day Officer · Hook Array

Caution day

Favorable periods

Zi hour · Yin hour · Mao hour · Wu hour · Wei hour · You hour

Zodiac outlook

Favorable: Dog, Pig, Goat · Clashing: Rooster

Daily Nine Star

Nine Star 7 · Metal · Position: West

Supportive markers

4 traditional markers

Caution markers

5 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

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

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · travel · pursuing income · weddings · burial rites
Late ZiCautious · Avoid

Geng–Zi (Rat) · Heavenly Prison · cautious path

Good for
prayer and reflection · engagement arrangements · weddings · setting up a bed · relocation · moving home · renovation · burial rites · taking up a post · travel · pursuing income
Avoid
raising roof beams · roofing a building · coffining rites
Chou hour01:00–02:59
Cautious · Avoid

Ji–Chou (Ox) · Hook Array · cautious path

Good for
meeting a senior or patron · pursuing income · weddings · welcoming someone into the household · relocation · burial rites
Avoid
boat building · traveling by boat · taking up a post · travel
Yin hour03:00–04:59
Auspicious · Good

Geng–Yin (Tiger) · Azure Dragon · 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
raising roof beams · roofing a building · coffining rites
Mao hour05:00–06:59
Auspicious · Good

Xin–Mao (Rabbit) · Bright Hall · auspicious path

Good for
renovation · moving home · burial rites · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · travel · engagement arrangements · weddings · rituals and remembrance
Chen hour07:00–08:59
Cautious · Avoid

Ren–Chen (Dragon) · Heavenly Punishment · cautious path

Avoid
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers
Si hour09:00–10:59
Cautious · Avoid

Gui–Si (Snake) · Vermilion Bird · cautious path

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · travel · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed · roofing a building · relocation
Avoid
consecration · renovation · burial rites
Wu hour11:00–12:59
Auspicious · Good

Jia–Wu (Horse) · Golden Coffer · auspicious path

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · travel · pursuing income · weddings · burial rites · taking up a post
Avoid
renovation · starting construction
Wei hour13:00–14:59
Auspicious · Good

Yi–Wei (Goat) · Heavenly Virtue · auspicious path

Avoid
major undertakings
Shen hour15:00–16:59
Cautious · Avoid

Bing–Shen (Monkey) · White Tiger · cautious path

Good for
installing a stove · offerings of thanks · renovation · meeting a senior or patron · pursuing income · weddings · welcoming someone into the household · relocation · burial rites
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration · taking up a post · travel
You hour17:00–18:59
Auspicious · Good

Ding–You (Rooster) · Jade Hall · auspicious path

Good for
family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · travel · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
Xu hour19:00–20:59
Cautious · Avoid

Wu–Xu (Dog) · Heavenly Prison · cautious path

Good for
prayer and reflection · engagement arrangements · weddings · setting up a bed · relocation · moving home · renovation · burial rites · rituals and remembrance
Avoid
taking up a post · travel
Hai hour21:00–22:59
Cautious · Avoid

Ji–Hai (Pig) · Black Tortoise · cautious path

Good for
renovation · roofing a building · relocation · installing a stove · setting up a bed · moving home · opening for business · prayer and reflection · weddings · meeting a senior or patron · pursuing income
Avoid
taking up a post · travel
NATAL CHART · DAILY INSIGHT

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