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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.

Thursday
Today

Gui–Mao year · Rabbit

Gui–Hai month

Lunar month 9, day 26
Xin–Wei dayRoadside Earth

Good for

  • rituals and remembrance
  • prayer and reflection
  • formal commitments
  • engagement arrangements
  • cutting garments
  • setting up a canopy
  • coming-of-age rites
  • installing machinery
  • setting up a bed
  • building animal pens
  • coffining rites
  • moving a coffin
  • reinterment rites
  • burial rites
  • earth thanksgiving rites
  • ending mourning observances
  • beginning mourning observances
  • meeting friends and family
  • raising columns
  • raising roof beams
  • textile preparation
  • opening for business
  • transactions
  • signing agreements
  • receiving funds
  • bringing in livestock
  • building embankments

Avoid

  • weddings
  • moving home
  • medical treatment
  • taking up a post

Clash and sha

Clashes with Ox (Yi–Chou) · Sha: West

Auspicious directions

Joy Southwest · Wealth East · Fortune Northwest

Seasonal rhythm

Start of Winter · First pentad

Mansion and day officer

Well · Wood · Wild Dog · Complete Day Officer · Bright 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 8 · Earth · Position: Northeast

Supportive markers

7 traditional markers

Caution markers

4 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

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

Good for
weddings · relocation · moving home · opening for business · transactions · renovation · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · legal disputes · prayer and reflection · family planning prayers
Late ZiAuspicious · Good

Geng–Zi (Rat) · 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
Avoid
renovation · starting construction
Chou hour01:00–02:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Avoid
major undertakings
Yin hour03:00–04:59
Auspicious · Good

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

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · travel · pursuing income · weddings · burial rites
Avoid
renovation · starting construction
Mao hour05:00–06:59
Auspicious · Good

Xin–Mao (Rabbit) · Heavenly Virtue · 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
Chen hour07:00–08:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Good for
moving home · renovation · burial rites · meeting a senior or patron · pursuing income · weddings · welcoming someone into the household · relocation
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration · taking up a post · travel
Si hour09:00–10:59
Auspicious · Good

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

Good for
renovation · roofing a building · relocation · setting up a bed · moving home · opening for business · opening storage · offerings of thanks · engagement arrangements · weddings · pursuing income
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration · taking up a post · travel
Wu hour11:00–12:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed · rituals and remembrance
Avoid
taking up a post · renovation · relocation · travel · legal disputes
Wei hour13:00–14:59
Cautious · Avoid

Yi–Wei (Goat) · Black Tortoise · 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 · renovation · starting construction
Shen hour15:00–16:59
Auspicious · Good

Bing–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 · installing a stove · rituals and remembrance · taking up a post · meeting a senior or patron
Avoid
raising roof beams · roofing a building · coffining rites
You hour17:00–18:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Good for
moving home · burial rites · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · engagement arrangements · weddings
Avoid
taking up a post · travel · renovation
Xu hour19:00–20:59
Auspicious · Good

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

Good for
engagement arrangements · weddings · setting up a bed · relocation · moving home · renovation · burial rites · rituals and remembrance
Avoid
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · traveling by boat
Hai hour21:00–22:59
Auspicious · Good

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

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed · roofing a building · relocation · installing a stove
Avoid
taking up a post · travel · pursuing income · consecration · renovation · burial rites
NATAL CHART · DAILY INSIGHT

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