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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.

Friday
Today

Bing–Wu year · Horse

Gui–Si month

Lunar month 3, day 22
Ren–Wu dayWillow Wood

Good for

  • opening for business
  • transactions
  • signing agreements
  • installing a signboard
  • consecration
  • travel
  • dismantling
  • welcoming someone into the household
  • moving home
  • moving a coffin
  • starting construction
  • installing doors
  • raising roof beams
  • planting
  • burial ground work
  • tomb maintenance
  • burial rites

Avoid

  • weddings
  • setting up a bed
  • visiting the sick
  • installing a stove

Clash and sha

Clashes with Rat (Bing–Zi) · Sha: North

Auspicious directions

Joy South · Wealth South · Fortune Southeast

Seasonal rhythm

Start of Summer · First pentad

Mansion and day officer

Ox · Metal · Ox · Remove Day Officer · Azure Dragon

Auspicious day

Favorable periods

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

Zodiac outlook

Favorable: Goat, Tiger, Dog · Clashing: Rat

Daily Nine Star

Nine Star 4 · Wood · Position: Southeast

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 ZiAuspicious · Good

Geng–Zi (Rat) · Golden Coffer · auspicious path

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed
Avoid
raising roof beams · roofing a building · coffining rites · taking up a post · renovation · relocation · travel · legal disputes
Late 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
Chou hour01:00–02:59
Auspicious · Good

Xin–Chou (Ox) · Heavenly Virtue · auspicious path

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

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

Good for
installing a stove · rituals and remembrance · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks · renovation · taking up a post · travel · meeting a senior or patron · pursuing income · weddings · moving home · relocation · burial rites
Avoid
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers
Mao hour05:00–06:59
Auspicious · Good

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

Good for
family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · renovation · moving home · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · burial rites · taking up a post · travel · meeting a senior or patron
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
Chen hour07:00–08:59
Cautious · Avoid

Jia–Chen (Dragon) · Heavenly Prison · cautious path

Good for
prayer and reflection · engagement arrangements · weddings · setting up a bed · relocation · moving home · burial rites · taking up a post · travel · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron
Avoid
bridge construction · traveling by boat · renovation · starting construction
Si hour09:00–10:59
Cautious · Avoid

Yi–Si (Snake) · Black Tortoise · cautious 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
Wu hour11:00–12:59
Auspicious · Good

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

Good for
travel · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · offerings of thanks
Avoid
taking up a post · legal disputes · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration
Wei hour13:00–14:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Good for
meeting a senior or patron · pursuing income · weddings · welcoming someone into the household · relocation · burial rites · offerings of thanks
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration · taking up a post · travel
Shen hour15:00–16:59
Auspicious · Good

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

Good for
taking up a post · travel · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · engagement arrangements · weddings · moving home · opening for business · prayer and reflection · family planning prayers
Avoid
consecration · renovation · burial rites
You hour17:00–18:59
Auspicious · Good

Ji–You (Rooster) · Bright 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
Xu hour19:00–20:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Avoid
major undertakings
Hai hour21:00–22:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Good for
renovation · moving home · burial rites · taking up a post · travel · meeting a senior or patron · pursuing income · engagement arrangements · weddings · welcoming someone into the household · relocation
NATAL CHART · DAILY INSIGHT

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