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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

Jia–Shen month

Lunar month 6, day 18
Ren–Zi dayMulberry Wood

Good for

  • rituals and remembrance
  • family planning prayers
  • consecration
  • travel
  • cutting timber
  • preparing roof beams
  • moving a sacred flame
  • resolving outstanding matters
  • dismantling
  • welcoming someone into the household
  • renovation
  • starting construction
  • laying foundations
  • setting up a bed
  • planting
  • bringing in livestock
  • coffining rites
  • burial ground work
  • burial rites
  • ending mourning observances
  • beginning mourning observances

Avoid

  • weddings
  • relocation

Clash and sha

Clashes with Horse (Bing–Wu) · Sha: South

Auspicious directions

Joy South · Wealth South · Fortune Southeast

Seasonal rhythm

Start of Autumn · First pentad

Mansion and day officer

Net · Moon · Crow · Settle Day Officer · Azure Dragon

Auspicious day

Favorable periods

Zi hour · Chou hour · Mao hour · Wu hour · Shen hour · You hour

Zodiac outlook

Favorable: Ox, Monkey, Dragon · Clashing: Horse

Daily Nine Star

Nine Star 6 · Metal · Position: Northwest

Supportive markers

12 traditional markers

Caution markers

1 traditional marker

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) · Golden Coffer · auspicious path

Good for
family planning prayers · weddings · relocation · moving home · opening for business · transactions · burial rites · prayer and reflection · engagement arrangements
Avoid
boat building · traveling by boat · renovation · starting construction
Late ZiCautious · Avoid

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

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

Xin–Chou (Ox) · Heavenly Virtue · 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
Yin hour03:00–04:59
Cautious · Avoid

Ren–Yin (Tiger) · White Tiger · cautious path

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

Gui–Mao (Rabbit) · Jade Hall · auspicious path

Good for
family planning prayers · pursuing income · weddings · burial rites · renovation · roofing a building · relocation · setting up a bed · moving home · opening for business · opening storage
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration · taking up a post · travel
Chen hour07:00–08:59
Cautious · Avoid

Jia–Chen (Dragon) · 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
Si hour09:00–10:59
Cautious · Avoid

Yi–Si (Snake) · Black Tortoise · cautious path

Good for
family planning prayers · pursuing income · weddings · burial rites
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks · taking up a post · travel · renovation · starting construction
Wu hour11:00–12:59
Auspicious · Good

Bing–Wu (Horse) · Director of Destiny · auspicious path

Avoid
major undertakings
Wei hour13:00–14:59
Cautious · Avoid

Ding–Wei (Goat) · Hook Array · cautious path

Good for
renovation · moving home · burial rites · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · weddings · welcoming someone into the household · relocation
Avoid
taking up a post · travel
Shen hour15:00–16:59
Auspicious · Good

Wu–Shen (Monkey) · Azure Dragon · auspicious path

Good for
engagement arrangements · weddings · travel · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed
Avoid
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers
You hour17:00–18:59
Auspicious · Good

Ji–You (Rooster) · Bright Hall · auspicious path

Good for
renovation · roofing a building · relocation · installing a stove · setting up a bed · moving home · opening for business · prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · taking up a post · travel · pursuing income
Xu hour19:00–20:59
Cautious · Avoid

Geng–Xu (Dog) · Heavenly Punishment · cautious path

Good for
meeting a senior or patron · pursuing income · travel · weddings · welcoming someone into the household · relocation · burial rites
Avoid
renovation · starting construction · taking up a post · legal disputes
Hai hour21:00–22:59
Cautious · Avoid

Xin–Hai (Pig) · Vermilion Bird · cautious path

Good for
taking up a post · travel · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · engagement arrangements · weddings · moving home · opening for business · burial rites
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
NATAL CHART · DAILY INSIGHT

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