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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

Ji–Hai month

Lunar month 10, day 23
Ji–You dayPost-road Earth

Good for

  • opening for business
  • receiving funds
  • travel
  • rituals and remembrance
  • prayer and reflection
  • family planning prayers
  • Taoist observance
  • formal marriage inquiries
  • starting study
  • laying foundations
  • setting foundation stones
  • property acquisition
  • opening a water channel
  • digging a well
  • dismantling
  • planting
  • bringing in livestock
  • animal care
  • starting construction
  • burial ground work
  • reinterment rites

Avoid

  • relocation
  • moving home
  • moving a sacred flame
  • coffining rites
  • burial rites

Clash and sha

Clashes with Rabbit (Gui–Mao) · Sha: East

Auspicious directions

Joy Northeast · Wealth North · Fortune North

Seasonal rhythm

Minor Snow · Second pentad

Mansion and day officer

Turtle Beak · Fire · Monkey · Open Day Officer · Vermilion Bird

Caution day

Favorable periods

Zi hour · Yin hour · Mao hour · Wu hour · Wei hour · You hour

Zodiac outlook

Favorable: Dragon, Snake, Ox · Clashing: Rabbit

Daily Nine Star

Nine Star 6 · Metal · Position: Northwest

Supportive markers

8 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 ZiAuspicious · Good

Jia–Zi (Rat) · Director of Destiny · auspicious path

Avoid
taking up a post · legal disputes · renovation · starting construction
Late ZiCautious · Avoid

Bing–Zi (Rat) · Heavenly Prison · cautious path

Good for
engagement arrangements · weddings · setting up a bed · relocation · moving home · renovation · burial rites · meeting a senior or patron · pursuing income
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration · taking up a post · travel
Chou hour01:00–02:59
Cautious · Avoid

Yi–Chou (Ox) · Hook Array · cautious path

Avoid
major undertakings
Yin hour03:00–04:59
Auspicious · Good

Bing–Yin (Tiger) · Azure Dragon · auspicious path

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

Ding–Mao (Rabbit) · Bright Hall · auspicious path

Good for
family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration · taking up a post · travel
Chen hour07:00–08:59
Cautious · Avoid

Wu–Chen (Dragon) · Heavenly Punishment · cautious path

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · renovation · moving home · opening for business · transactions · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · travel
Si hour09:00–10:59
Cautious · Avoid

Ji–Si (Snake) · Vermilion Bird · cautious path

Good for
renovation · roofing a building · relocation · setting up a bed · moving home · opening for business · opening storage · family planning prayers · weddings · taking up a post · travel · meeting a senior or patron · pursuing income
Wu hour11:00–12:59
Auspicious · Good

Geng–Wu (Horse) · Golden Coffer · auspicious path

Good for
family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · travel · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed · taking up a post
Avoid
raising roof beams · roofing a building · coffining rites · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
Wei hour13:00–14:59
Auspicious · Good

Xin–Wei (Goat) · Heavenly Virtue · auspicious path

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

Ren–Shen (Monkey) · White Tiger · cautious path

Good for
taking up a post · meeting a senior or patron · travel · pursuing income · weddings · welcoming someone into the household · relocation · burial rites · engagement arrangements · installing a stove · rituals and remembrance
Avoid
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers
You hour17:00–18:59
Auspicious · Good

Gui–You (Rooster) · Jade Hall · auspicious 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 · family planning prayers
Xu hour19:00–20:59
Cautious · Avoid

Jia–Xu (Dog) · Heavenly Prison · cautious path

Good for
prayer and reflection · engagement arrangements · weddings · setting up a bed · relocation · moving home · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · travel · renovation · starting construction
Hai hour21:00–22:59
Cautious · Avoid

Yi–Hai (Pig) · Black Tortoise · cautious path

Good for
taking up a post · travel · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · offerings of thanks · renovation · roofing a building · relocation · installing a stove · setting up a bed · moving home · opening for business
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