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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.

Wednesday
Today

Ding–Wei year · Goat

Bing–Wu month

Lunar month 5, day 5
Ji–Wei dayHeavenly Fire

Good for

  • engagement arrangements
  • formal commitments
  • weddings
  • rituals and remembrance
  • prayer and reflection
  • opening for business
  • receiving funds
  • signing agreements
  • relocation
  • travel
  • renovation
  • starting construction
  • laying foundations
  • setting foundation stones
  • raising columns
  • dismantling
  • cleaning the home
  • water works
  • installing an altar
  • setting up a bed
  • boat building
  • opening a pond
  • digging a well
  • building animal pens
  • planting

Avoid

  • funeral observances
  • burial rites
  • burial ground work
  • installing a stove
  • cutting timber
  • Taoist observance

Clash and sha

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

Auspicious directions

Joy Northeast · Wealth North · Fortune North

Seasonal rhythm

Grain in Ear · First pentad

Mansion and day officer

Traditional lunar mansion · Remove Day Officer · Hook Array

Caution 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 5 · Earth · Position: Centre Palace

Supportive markers

4 traditional markers

Caution markers

2 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

Jia–Zi (Rat) · Heavenly Punishment · cautious path

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · travel · pursuing income · weddings · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · legal disputes
Late ZiAuspicious · Good

Bing–Zi (Rat) · Azure Dragon · 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 · travel
Chou hour01:00–02:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

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

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

Good for
prayer and reflection · 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
Mao hour05:00–06:59
Auspicious · Good

Ding–Mao (Rabbit) · 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 · renovation · moving home · burial rites · rituals and remembrance
Chen hour07:00–08:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

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

Ji–Si (Snake) · Jade Hall · auspicious path

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

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

Good for
family planning prayers · travel · pursuing income · weddings · burial rites
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks · renovation · starting construction
Wei hour13:00–14:59
Cautious · Avoid

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

Good for
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · offerings of thanks · engagement arrangements · weddings · pursuing income · moving home · burial rites · meeting a senior or patron
Avoid
boat building · traveling by boat · taking up a post · travel · renovation · starting construction
Shen hour15:00–16:59
Auspicious · Good

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

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

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

Good for
family planning prayers · weddings · relocation · moving home · opening for business · transactions · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · travel · renovation · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
Xu hour19:00–20:59
Auspicious · Good

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

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

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

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed · renovation · roofing a building · relocation · installing a stove
Avoid
taking up a post · travel
NATAL CHART · DAILY INSIGHT

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