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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.

Tuesday
Today

Gui–Mao year · Rabbit

Yi–Chou month

Lunar month 11, day 28
Ren–Shen daySword-edge Metal

Good for

  • ritual sculpture and painting
  • consecration
  • travel
  • formal commitments
  • engagement arrangements
  • ending mourning observances
  • beginning mourning observances
  • weddings
  • welcoming a son-in-law
  • coffining rites
  • moving a coffin
  • reinterment rites
  • burial rites
  • erecting a memorial

Avoid

  • moving home
  • setting up a bed

Clash and sha

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

Auspicious directions

Joy South · Wealth South · Fortune Southeast

Seasonal rhythm

Minor Cold · First pentad

Mansion and day officer

Wings · Fire · Snake · 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 9 · Fire · Position: South

Supportive markers

7 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 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
Late ZiAuspicious · Good

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

Good for
pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · engagement arrangements · weddings · moving home · opening for business · burial rites · family planning prayers · installing a stove
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration · taking up a post · travel
Chou hour01:00–02:59
Auspicious · Good

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

Good for
prayer and reflection · weddings · renovation · building a shrine · installing a stove · moving home · burial rites · taking up a post · meeting a senior or patron · pursuing income · travel
Yin hour03:00–04:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

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

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

Good for
offerings of thanks · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · engagement arrangements · weddings · renovation · burial rites
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration · taking up a post · travel
Chen hour07:00–08:59
Auspicious · Good

Jia–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 · rituals and remembrance · taking up a post · meeting a senior or patron
Si hour09:00–10:59
Auspicious · Good

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

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · travel · pursuing income · weddings · burial rites · rituals and remembrance
Wu hour11:00–12:59
Cautious · Avoid

Bing–Wu (Horse) · White Tiger · cautious 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
Wei hour13:00–14:59
Auspicious · Good

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

Good for
renovation · moving home · burial rites · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · Taoist observance · engagement arrangements · weddings · travel · taking up a post
Shen hour15:00–16:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Good for
weddings · moving home · opening for business · transactions · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · renovation · relocation · travel · legal disputes · prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · traveling by boat
You hour17:00–18:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

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

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

Good for
installing a stove · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
Avoid
taking up a post · travel · pursuing income · renovation · starting construction
Hai hour21:00–22:59
Cautious · Avoid

Xin–Hai (Pig) · Hook Array · 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 · travel · renovation
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