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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

Bing–Wu year · Horse

Xin–Mao month

Lunar month 1, day 22
Gui–Wei dayWillow Wood

Good for

  • rituals and remembrance
  • meeting friends and family
  • formal commitments
  • cutting garments
  • setting up a canopy
  • installing machinery
  • dismantling
  • raising roof beams
  • installing doors
  • coffining rites
  • ending mourning observances
  • beginning mourning observances
  • moving a coffin
  • reinterment rites
  • burial rites
  • erecting a memorial
  • consecration
  • ritual sculpture and painting
  • starting study
  • travel
  • laying foundations
  • setting foundation stones
  • water works
  • relocation
  • moving home
  • raising columns
  • signing agreements
  • textile preparation

Avoid

  • cutting timber
  • preparing roof beams

Clash and sha

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

Auspicious directions

Joy Southeast · Wealth South · Fortune Northeast

Seasonal rhythm

Awakening of Insects · Second pentad

Mansion and day officer

Tail · Fire · Tiger · Settle 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 8 · Earth · Position: Northeast

Supportive markers

6 traditional markers

Caution markers

3 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
NATAL CHART · DAILY INSIGHT

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