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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

Yi–Si year · Snake

Xin–Si month

Lunar month 4, day 8
Jia–Xu dayMountaintop Fire

Good for

  • rituals and remembrance
  • consecration
  • travel
  • resolving outstanding matters
  • ritual sculpture and painting
  • cutting garments
  • coffining rites
  • moving a coffin
  • burial ground work
  • reinterment rites
  • burial rites
  • ending mourning observances
  • beginning mourning observances

Avoid

  • weddings
  • raising roof beams
  • renovation
  • dismantling
  • erecting scaffolding
  • moving home
  • cutting timber
  • starting construction
  • moving a sacred flame
  • preparing column joints

Clash and sha

Clashes with Dragon (Wu–Chen) · Sha: North

Auspicious directions

Joy Northeast · Wealth Northeast · Fortune North

Seasonal rhythm

Start of Summer · First pentad

Mansion and day officer

Heart · Moon · Fox · Hold Day Officer · Golden Coffer

Auspicious day

Favorable periods

Yin hour · Chen hour · Si hour · Shen hour · You hour · Hai hour

Zodiac outlook

Favorable: Rabbit, Tiger, Horse · Clashing: Dragon

Daily Nine Star

Nine Star 5 · Earth · Position: Centre Palace

Supportive markers

5 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

Jia–Zi (Rat) · Heavenly Prison · 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 · renovation · relocation · travel · legal disputes
Late ZiCautious · Avoid

Bing–Zi (Rat) · White Tiger · cautious path

Good for
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · offerings of thanks · travel · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · engagement arrangements · weddings · renovation · burial rites · taking up a post
Avoid
raising roof beams · roofing a building · coffining rites
Chou hour01:00–02:59
Cautious · Avoid

Yi–Chou (Ox) · Black Tortoise · cautious path

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

Bing–Yin (Tiger) · 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 · rituals and remembrance
Avoid
raising roof beams · roofing a building · coffining rites
Mao hour05:00–06:59
Cautious · Avoid

Ding–Mao (Rabbit) · 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 · moving home · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · travel · renovation
Chen hour07:00–08:59
Auspicious · Good

Wu–Chen (Dragon) · Azure Dragon · auspicious path

Avoid
major undertakings
Si hour09:00–10:59
Auspicious · Good

Ji–Si (Snake) · Bright Hall · auspicious path

Good for
roofing a building · relocation · installing a stove · setting up a bed · moving home · opening for business · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · travel · engagement arrangements · weddings
Avoid
consecration · renovation · burial rites
Wu hour11:00–12:59
Cautious · Avoid

Geng–Wu (Horse) · Heavenly Punishment · cautious path

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

Xin–Wei (Goat) · Vermilion Bird · cautious path

Good for
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · offerings of thanks · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · engagement arrangements · weddings · renovation · burial rites · moving home
Avoid
taking up a post · travel
Shen hour15:00–16:59
Auspicious · Good

Ren–Shen (Monkey) · Golden Coffer · auspicious path

Good for
engagement arrangements · weddings · opening for business · burial rites · taking up a post · travel · meeting a senior or patron · pursuing income
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
You hour17:00–18:59
Auspicious · Good

Gui–You (Rooster) · Heavenly Virtue · auspicious path

Good for
taking up a post · travel · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
Xu hour19:00–20:59
Cautious · Avoid

Jia–Xu (Dog) · White Tiger · cautious path

Good for
prayer and reflection · engagement arrangements · weddings · relocation · opening for business · renovation · moving home · burial rites
Avoid
boat building · traveling by boat
Hai hour21:00–22:59
Auspicious · Good

Yi–Hai (Pig) · Jade Hall · auspicious path

Good for
family planning prayers · weddings · relocation · moving home · opening for business · transactions · renovation · burial rites · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
NATAL CHART · DAILY INSIGHT

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