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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.

Monday
Today

Ding–Wei year · Goat

Ren–Yin month

Lunar month 1, day 24
Ji–Mao dayCity-wall Earth

Good for

  • rituals and remembrance
  • prayer and reflection
  • Taoist observance
  • travel
  • opening for business
  • signing agreements
  • starting construction
  • relocation
  • moving home
  • burial ground work
  • burial rites

Avoid

  • consecration
  • weddings
  • installing a stove
  • digging a well
  • bringing in livestock

Clash and sha

Clashes with Rooster (Gui–You) · Sha: West

Auspicious directions

Joy Northeast · Wealth North · Fortune North

Seasonal rhythm

Rain Water · Third pentad

Mansion and day officer

Extended Net · Moon · Deer · Remove Day Officer · Vermilion Bird

Caution day

Favorable periods

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

Zodiac outlook

Favorable: Dog, Pig, Goat · Clashing: Rooster

Daily Nine Star

Nine Star 4 · Wood · Position: Southeast

Supportive markers

6 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

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 · installing a stove
Late ZiCautious · Avoid

Bing–Zi (Rat) · Heavenly Prison · 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 · renovation · relocation · travel · legal disputes · raising roof beams · roofing a building · coffining rites
Chou hour01:00–02:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Good for
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · Taoist observance · engagement arrangements · weddings · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · travel · renovation
Yin hour03:00–04:59
Auspicious · Good

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

Good for
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 · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
Mao hour05:00–06:59
Auspicious · Good

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

Good for
renovation · moving home · burial rites
Avoid
boat building · traveling by boat
Chen hour07:00–08:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Good for
rituals and remembrance · Taoist observance · engagement arrangements · weddings · travel · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · legal disputes · prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · traveling by boat
Si hour09:00–10:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Good for
taking up a post · travel · meeting a senior or patron · pursuing income · weddings · moving home · relocation · family planning prayers
Avoid
consecration · renovation · burial rites
Wu hour11:00–12:59
Auspicious · Good

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

Good for
prayer and reflection · engagement arrangements · weddings · opening for business · burial rites · taking up a post · travel · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron
Avoid
renovation · starting construction
Wei hour13:00–14:59
Auspicious · Good

Xin–Wei (Goat) · Heavenly Virtue · 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
Shen hour15:00–16:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Good for
family planning prayers · weddings · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · travel · pursuing income · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration
You hour17:00–18:59
Auspicious · Good

Gui–You (Rooster) · Jade Hall · auspicious path

Avoid
major undertakings
Xu hour19:00–20:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Good for
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · joining a roof ridge · weddings · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · renovation · relocation · travel · legal disputes
Hai hour21:00–22:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed · meeting a senior or patron
Avoid
taking up a post · travel
NATAL CHART · DAILY INSIGHT

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