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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.

Friday
Today

Ding–Wei year · Goat

Ren–Zi month

Lunar month 12, day 4
Jia–Shen daySpring Water

Good for

  • engagement arrangements
  • formal commitments
  • relocation
  • moving home
  • travel
  • installing machinery
  • meeting friends and family
  • rituals and remembrance
  • prayer and reflection
  • Taoist observance
  • consecration
  • installing an altar
  • moving a sacred flame
  • resolving outstanding matters
  • seeking medical care
  • acupuncture
  • medical treatment
  • roofing a building
  • laying foundations
  • renovation
  • installing doors
  • boat building
  • bringing in livestock
  • animal care
  • moving a coffin
  • coffining rites
  • reinterment rites
  • earth thanksgiving rites
  • tomb maintenance
  • erecting a memorial

Avoid

  • weddings
  • starting construction
  • setting up a bed
  • bridge construction
  • digging a well

Clash and sha

Clashes with Tiger (Wu–Yin) · Sha: South

Auspicious directions

Joy Northeast · Wealth Northeast · Fortune North

Seasonal rhythm

Winter Solstice · Second pentad

Mansion and day officer

Ghost · Metal · Goat · Complete Day Officer · Azure Dragon

Auspicious day

Favorable periods

Zi hour · Chou hour · Chen hour · Si hour · Wei hour · Xu hour

Zodiac outlook

Favorable: Snake, Rat, Dragon · Clashing: Tiger

Daily Nine Star

Nine Star 3 · Wood · Position: East

Supportive markers

10 traditional markers

Caution markers

5 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) · Azure Dragon · auspicious path

Avoid
major undertakings
Late ZiAuspicious · Good

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

Good for
travel · 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 · legal disputes · rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration
Chou hour01:00–02:59
Auspicious · Good

Yi–Chou (Ox) · Bright Hall · auspicious path

Good for
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks · installing a stove
Avoid
renovation · starting construction
Yin hour03:00–04:59
Cautious · Avoid

Bing–Yin (Tiger) · Heavenly Punishment · cautious path

Good for
family planning prayers · engagement arrangements · weddings · travel · pursuing income · opening for business · transactions · setting up a bed
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks · consecration · renovation · burial rites
Mao hour05:00–06:59
Cautious · Avoid

Ding–Mao (Rabbit) · Vermilion Bird · cautious path

Good for
renovation · roofing a building · relocation · setting up a bed · moving home · opening for business · opening storage · offerings of thanks · pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron · engagement arrangements · weddings
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · consecration · taking up a post · travel
Chen hour07:00–08:59
Auspicious · Good

Wu–Chen (Dragon) · Golden Coffer · auspicious path

Good for
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · offerings of thanks · engagement arrangements · weddings · pursuing income · moving home · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · renovation · relocation · travel · legal disputes
Si hour09:00–10:59
Auspicious · Good

Ji–Si (Snake) · Heavenly Virtue · auspicious path

Good for
pursuing income · meeting a senior or patron
Avoid
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · Taoist observance · offerings of thanks · taking up a post · travel · renovation · starting construction
Wu hour11:00–12:59
Cautious · Avoid

Geng–Wu (Horse) · White Tiger · cautious path

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

Xin–Wei (Goat) · Jade Hall · auspicious path

Good for
rituals and remembrance · prayer and reflection · joining a roof ridge · weddings · burial rites
Avoid
taking up a post · travel · renovation
Shen hour15:00–16:59
Cautious · Avoid

Ren–Shen (Monkey) · Heavenly Prison · cautious path

Good for
engagement arrangements · weddings · setting up a bed · relocation · moving home · renovation · burial rites · taking up a post · travel · meeting a senior or patron · pursuing income
Avoid
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers
You hour17:00–18:59
Cautious · Avoid

Gui–You (Rooster) · Black Tortoise · 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 · pursuing income
Xu hour19:00–20:59
Auspicious · Good

Jia–Xu (Dog) · 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 · meeting a senior or patron
Avoid
taking up a post · legal disputes · renovation · starting construction
Hai hour21:00–22:59
Cautious · Avoid

Yi–Hai (Pig) · Hook Array · cautious path

Good for
prayer and reflection · family planning prayers · travel · pursuing income · weddings · burial rites · taking up a post · meeting a senior or patron
NATAL CHART · DAILY INSIGHT

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Your natal pattern and today’s stem-branch timing are read together to trace the day’s changing momentum, openings, and limits.

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