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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.

Saturday
Today

Bing–Wu year · Horse

Ji–Hai month

Lunar month 10, day 27
Gui–Chou dayMulberry Wood

Good for

  • ritual sculpture and painting
  • meeting friends and family
  • installing machinery
  • sealing openings
  • making fishing nets
  • cutting garments
  • textile preparation

Avoid

  • weddings
  • opening for business
  • prayer and reflection
  • Taoist observance
  • burial rites

Clash and sha

Clashes with Goat (Ding–Wei) · Sha: East

Auspicious directions

Joy Southeast · Wealth South · Fortune Northeast

Seasonal rhythm

Minor Snow · Third pentad

Mansion and day officer

Willow · Earth · Deer · Full Day Officer · Jade Hall

Auspicious day

Favorable periods

Yin hour · Mao hour · Si hour · Shen hour · Xu hour · Hai hour · Zi hour

Zodiac outlook

Favorable: Rat, Snake, Rooster · Clashing: Goat

Daily Nine Star

Nine Star 2 · Earth · Position: Southwest

Supportive markers

6 traditional markers

Caution markers

9 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
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
Late ZiAuspicious · Good

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

Good for
prayer and reflection · engagement arrangements · weddings · setting up a bed · relocation · moving home · renovation · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · travel · pursuing income
Chou hour01:00–02:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration · taking up a post · travel
Yin hour03:00–04:59
Auspicious · Good

Jia–Yin (Tiger) · Golden Coffer · auspicious path

Good for
engagement arrangements · weddings · opening for business · burial rites
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
Mao hour05:00–06:59
Auspicious · Good

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

Good for
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · offerings of thanks · engagement arrangements · weddings · travel · pursuing income · moving home · burial rites · family planning prayers
Chen hour07:00–08:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · travel · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed
Avoid
raising roof beams · roofing a building · coffining rites
Si hour09:00–10:59
Auspicious · Good

Ding–Si (Snake) · Jade Hall · 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 · roofing a building · relocation
Avoid
consecration · renovation · burial rites
Wu hour11:00–12:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Good for
pursuing income · weddings · opening for business · burial rites · engagement arrangements
Avoid
taking up a post · renovation · relocation · travel · legal disputes · prayer and reflection · family planning prayers
Wei hour13:00–14:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Avoid
major undertakings
Shen hour15:00–16:59
Auspicious · Good

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

Good for
installing a stove · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks · taking up a post · travel · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · weddings · welcoming someone into the household · relocation · burial rites
Avoid
renovation · starting construction
You hour17:00–18:59
Cautious · Avoid

Xin–You (Rooster) · Hook Array · cautious path

Good for
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · engagement arrangements · weddings · moving home · roofing a building · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · travel · renovation
Xu hour19:00–20:59
Auspicious · Good

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

Good for
engagement arrangements · weddings · setting up a bed · relocation · moving home · renovation · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · travel · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration
Hai hour21:00–22:59
Auspicious · Good

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

Good for
renovation · roofing a building · relocation · installing a stove · setting up a bed · moving home · opening for business · meeting a senior or patron · pursuing income · weddings
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration · taking up a post · travel
NATAL CHART · DAILY INSIGHT

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