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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

Yi–Si year · Snake

Yi–You month

Lunar month 7, day 20
Gui–Wei dayWillow Wood

Good for

  • rituals and remembrance
  • erecting a memorial
  • tomb maintenance
  • reinterment rites
  • ending mourning observances
  • beginning mourning observances
  • other nonessential plans

Avoid

    Clash and sha

    Clashes with Ox (Ding–Chou) · Sha: West

    Auspicious directions

    Joy Southeast · Wealth South · Fortune Northeast

    Seasonal rhythm

    White Dew · First pentad

    Mansion and day officer

    Well · Wood · Wild Dog · Open Day Officer · Heavenly Virtue

    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 2 · Earth · Position: Southwest

    Supportive markers

    10 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

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

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

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

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

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

    Good for
    prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · travel · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed · renovation · burial rites · taking up a post
    Yin hour03:00–04:59
    Auspicious · Good

    Jia–Yin (Tiger) · Golden Coffer · auspicious 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
    renovation · starting construction · taking up a post · travel
    Mao hour05:00–06:59
    Auspicious · Good

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

    Good for
    pursuing income · weddings · relocation · opening for business · burial rites
    Avoid
    taking up a post · travel · renovation · starting construction · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
    Chen hour07:00–08:59
    Cautious · Avoid

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

    Good for
    installing a stove · renovation
    Avoid
    rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
    Si hour09:00–10:59
    Auspicious · Good

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

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

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

    Good for
    prayer and reflection · engagement arrangements · weddings · setting up a bed · relocation · moving home · renovation · burial rites · rituals and remembrance · taking up a post · travel · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron
    Wei hour13:00–14:59
    Cautious · Avoid

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

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

    Geng–Shen (Monkey) · Director of Destiny · auspicious path

    Good for
    rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · joining a roof ridge · weddings · renovation · burial rites · family planning prayers
    Avoid
    raising roof beams · roofing a building · coffining rites
    You hour17:00–18:59
    Cautious · Avoid

    Xin–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

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

    Good for
    engagement arrangements · weddings · opening for business · burial rites
    Avoid
    prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · traveling by boat
    Hai hour21:00–22:59
    Auspicious · Good

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

    Avoid
    major undertakings
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