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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.

Thursday
Today

Ding–Wei year · Goat

Ji–You month

Lunar month 8, day 23
Yi–Si dayLamp Fire

Good for

  • weddings
  • engagement arrangements
  • formal commitments
  • rituals and remembrance
  • prayer and reflection
  • family planning prayers
  • consecration
  • resolving outstanding matters
  • welcoming someone into the household
  • moving home
  • relocation
  • moving a sacred flame
  • setting up a bed
  • opening for business
  • transactions
  • signing agreements
  • installing a signboard

Avoid

  • burial rites
  • bringing in livestock
  • travel
  • funeral observances
  • cutting timber
  • planting
  • building a shrine
  • bridge construction

Clash and sha

Clashes with Pig (Ji–Hai) · Sha: East

Auspicious directions

Joy Northwest · Wealth Northeast · Fortune Southwest

Seasonal rhythm

Autumn Equinox · First pentad

Mansion and day officer

Dipper · Wood · Xiezhi · Complete Day Officer · Vermilion Bird

Caution day

Favorable periods

Chou hour · Chen hour · Wu hour · Wei hour · Xu hour · Hai hour · Zi hour

Zodiac outlook

Favorable: Monkey, Rooster, Ox · Clashing: Pig

Daily Nine Star

Nine Star 7 · Metal · Position: West

Supportive markers

6 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

Bing–Zi (Rat) · White Tiger · cautious path

Good for
pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · engagement arrangements · weddings · moving home · opening for business · burial rites · family planning prayers
Avoid
taking up a post · travel · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration
Late ZiAuspicious · Good

Wu–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
taking up a post · renovation · relocation · travel · legal disputes
Chou hour01:00–02:59
Auspicious · Good

Ding–Chou (Ox) · Jade Hall · auspicious path

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

Wu–Yin (Tiger) · Heavenly Prison · cautious path

Good for
engagement arrangements · weddings · setting up a bed · relocation · moving home · renovation · burial rites · taking up a post · meeting a senior or patron · travel · pursuing income
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks
Mao hour05:00–06:59
Cautious · Avoid

Ji–Mao (Rabbit) · Black Tortoise · cautious path

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · travel · pursuing income · weddings · burial rites · renovation · roofing a building · relocation · installing a stove · setting up a bed · moving home · opening for business
Chen hour07:00–08:59
Auspicious · Good

Geng–Chen (Dragon) · Director of Destiny · 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
Avoid
raising roof beams · roofing a building · coffining rites · taking up a post · legal disputes
Si hour09:00–10:59
Cautious · Avoid

Xin–Si (Snake) · Hook Array · cautious path

Good for
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · offerings of thanks · travel · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · engagement arrangements · weddings · taking up a post
Avoid
consecration · renovation · burial rites
Wu hour11:00–12:59
Auspicious · Good

Ren–Wu (Horse) · Azure Dragon · auspicious path

Good for
renovation · burial rites · engagement arrangements · weddings · opening for business
Avoid
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · traveling by boat
Wei hour13:00–14:59
Auspicious · Good

Gui–Wei (Goat) · 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 · rituals and remembrance
Avoid
taking up a post · travel
Shen hour15:00–16:59
Cautious · Avoid

Jia–Shen (Monkey) · Heavenly Punishment · cautious path

Good for
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

Yi–You (Rooster) · Vermilion Bird · cautious path

Avoid
major undertakings
Xu hour19:00–20:59
Auspicious · Good

Bing–Xu (Dog) · Golden Coffer · auspicious path

Good for
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 · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration
Hai hour21:00–22:59
Auspicious · Good

Ding–Hai (Pig) · Heavenly Virtue · auspicious path

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

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