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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.

Monday
Today

Gui–Mao year · Rabbit

Jia–Yin month

Lunar month 1, day 16
Yi–Wei dayMetal in Sand

Good for

  • rituals and remembrance
  • prayer and reflection
  • offerings of thanks
  • formal commitments
  • engagement arrangements
  • coming-of-age rites
  • cutting garments
  • setting up a canopy
  • weddings
  • setting up a bed
  • relocation
  • moving home
  • installing an altar
  • coffining rites
  • moving a coffin
  • reinterment rites
  • burial rites
  • resolving outstanding matters
  • fishing
  • pest control
  • cutting timber
  • installing doors
  • moving a sacred flame

Avoid

  • planting
  • starting construction
  • opening for business
  • installing a stove

Clash and sha

Clashes with Ox (Ji–Chou) · Sha: West

Auspicious directions

Joy Northwest · Wealth Northeast · Fortune Southwest

Seasonal rhythm

Start of Spring · First pentad

Mansion and day officer

Extended Net · Moon · Deer · Hold Day Officer · Jade Hall

Auspicious day

Favorable periods

Yin hour · Mao hour · Si hour · Shen hour · Xu hour · Hai hour · Zi hour

Zodiac outlook

Favorable: Horse, Pig, Rabbit · Clashing: Ox

Daily Nine Star

Nine Star 5 · Earth · Position: Centre Palace

Supportive markers

2 traditional markers

Caution markers

2 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 ZiCautious · Avoid

Bing–Zi (Rat) · Heavenly Punishment · cautious path

Good for
family planning prayers · pursuing income · weddings · burial rites
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration · taking up a post · travel
Late ZiAuspicious · Good

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

Avoid
major undertakings
Chou hour01:00–02:59
Cautious · Avoid

Ding–Chou (Ox) · Vermilion Bird · cautious path

Good for
renovation · roofing a building · relocation · setting up a bed · moving home · opening for business · opening storage · family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · pursuing income
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration · taking up a post · travel
Yin hour03:00–04:59
Auspicious · Good

Wu–Yin (Tiger) · Golden Coffer · auspicious path

Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks · taking up a post · travel
Mao hour05:00–06:59
Auspicious · Good

Ji–Mao (Rabbit) · Heavenly Virtue · auspicious path

Good for
family planning prayers · weddings · relocation · moving home · opening for business · transactions · renovation · burial rites · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · offerings of thanks · travel · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron
Chen hour07:00–08:59
Cautious · Avoid

Geng–Chen (Dragon) · White Tiger · cautious path

Good for
family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · travel · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed · installing a stove
Avoid
raising roof beams · roofing a building · coffining rites · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
Si hour09:00–10:59
Auspicious · Good

Xin–Si (Snake) · Jade Hall · auspicious path

Good for
moving home · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · offerings of thanks · travel · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · engagement arrangements · weddings · taking up a post
Avoid
consecration · renovation · burial rites
Wu hour11:00–12:59
Cautious · Avoid

Ren–Wu (Horse) · Heavenly Prison · cautious path

Good for
engagement arrangements · weddings · setting up a bed · relocation · moving home · renovation · burial rites
Avoid
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · traveling by boat
Wei hour13:00–14:59
Cautious · Avoid

Gui–Wei (Goat) · Black Tortoise · cautious path

Good for
renovation · roofing a building · relocation · installing a stove · setting up a bed · moving home · opening for business · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · Taoist observance · engagement arrangements · weddings · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · travel
Shen hour15:00–16:59
Auspicious · Good

Jia–Shen (Monkey) · Director of Destiny · 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
You hour17:00–18:59
Cautious · Avoid

Yi–You (Rooster) · Hook Array · cautious path

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed
Avoid
taking up a post · travel
Xu hour19:00–20:59
Auspicious · Good

Bing–Xu (Dog) · Azure Dragon · auspicious path

Good for
engagement arrangements · weddings · opening for business · burial rites
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration · taking up a post · travel
Hai hour21:00–22:59
Auspicious · Good

Ding–Hai (Pig) · Bright Hall · auspicious path

Avoid
major undertakings
NATAL CHART · DAILY INSIGHT

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