Click here for the introduction to the Round and Square series "Calendars and Almanacs"
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3/1.................................................................................................................2/22
3/1.................................................................................................................2/22
As time goes on, I will link all of the sections to lengthy background essays. This will take a while. In the meantime, take a look, read the introduction, and think about all of the questions that emerge from even a quick look at the calendar.
(top to bottom; right to left
廿
四
二期星
Second Month, Twenty-Fourth Day
Astral Period Two
Tuesday, February 24
Tuesday, February 24
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Section Two
Beneficent Stars
Section Two
Beneficent Stars
(top to bottom, right to left)
合月麒
日德麟
日德麟
Unicorn
Lunar Virtue
Linked Days
Lunar Virtue
Linked Days
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Section Three
Auspicious Hours
(top to bottom, right to left)
申辰子
凶中中
酉己丑
凶吉凶
戌午寅
中吉吉
亥未卯
中中吉
中吉吉
亥未卯
中中吉
23:00-01:00 In-Between
01:00-03:00 Inauspicious
03:00-05:00 Auspicious
05:00-07:00 Auspicious
07:00-09:00 In-Between
9:00-11:00 Auspicious
11:00-13:00 Auspicious
13:00-15:00 In-Between
15:00-17:00 Inauspicious
17:00-19:00 Inauspicious
19:00-21:00 In-Between
21:00-23:00 In-Between
01:00-03:00 Inauspicious
03:00-05:00 Auspicious
05:00-07:00 Auspicious
07:00-09:00 In-Between
9:00-11:00 Auspicious
11:00-13:00 Auspicious
13:00-15:00 In-Between
15:00-17:00 Inauspicious
17:00-19:00 Inauspicious
19:00-21:00 In-Between
21:00-23:00 In-Between
The hours above are for Hong Kong. It is up to you if you want to recalibrate or to assume that the cyclicality of the calendar "covers" the rest of the world. This is a greater interpretive challenge than you might think.
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Section Four
Activities to Avoid
(top-to-bottom; right to left)
忌
田造合
獵酒醬
Mixing Sauces
Making Liquor
Field Venery
田造合
獵酒醬
Mixing Sauces
Making Liquor
Field Venery
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Section Five
Cosmological Information
Section Five
Cosmological Information
初
六
辛
未
土
六
辛
未
土
尾
執
執
Sixth Day (First Lunar Month)
Cyclical day: xinwei (8/60)
Phase (element): Earth
Constellation: Tail (6/28)
"Day Personality" Cycle: Grasp (6/12)
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Section Six
Appropriate Activities
and Miscellaneous Information
(top-to-bottom; right to left)
宜
動嫁祭
土娶祀
上納祈
樑采福
安移會
牀徙友
安修出
葬灶行
北雁侯
陽小大
將耗亡空
動嫁祭
土娶祀
上納祈
樑采福
安移會
牀徙友
安修出
葬灶行
北雁侯
陽小大
將耗亡空
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Appropriate Activities
Appropriate Activities
Venerating Ancestors
Inquiring-into Fortune
Meeting Friends
Inquiring-into Fortune
Meeting Friends
Going Out (and about)
Marriage Alliances
Grain Payments
Moving Households
Repairing and Building
Moving Soil
Putting-up Beams
Positioning Beds
Positioning Graves
Wild Geese Head North
(the fifth of seventy-two five-day solar micro-periods on the agricultural calendar)
Baleful Astral Influences
Baleful Astral Influences
Great Loss-Void
Small Squander
Yang General
Small Squander
Yang General
Section Seven
Inauspicious Stars
(right to left)
白 山
White, Mountain
(right to left)
白 山
White, Mountain
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Section Eight
Miscellaneous
廚
厠 灶
厠 灶
Kitchen
Toilet, Stove
Toilet, Stove
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