Click here for the introduction to the Round and Square series "Calendars and Almanacs"
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7/15..................................................................................................................7/7
7/15..................................................................................................................7/7
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.
十
三
一期星
Seventh Month, Thirteenth Day
Astral Period Monday
Monday, July 13
Monday, July 13
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Section Two
Beneficent Stars
Section Two
Beneficent Stars
(top to bottom, right to left)
十金歲
靈櫃德
Generational Virtue
Golden Cupboard-Bare
Ten Spirits
靈櫃德
Generational Virtue
Golden Cupboard-Bare
Ten Spirits
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Section Three
Auspicious Hours
(top to bottom, right to left)
申辰子
凶吉凶
酉己丑
中中凶
戌午寅
凶中吉
亥未卯
中吉吉
凶中吉
亥未卯
中吉吉
23:00-01:00 Inauspicious
01:00-03:00 Inauspicious
03:00-05:00 Auspicious
05:00-07:00 Auspicious
07:00-09:00 Auspicious
9:00-11:00 In-Between
11:00-13:00 In-Between
13:00-15:00 Auspicious
15:00-17:00 Inauspicious
17:00-19:00 In-Between
19:00-21:00 Inauspicious
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 Auspicious
9:00-11:00 In-Between
11:00-13:00 In-Between
13:00-15:00 Auspicious
15:00-17:00 Inauspicious
17:00-19:00 In-Between
19:00-21:00 Inauspicious
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
祈祭結
福祀網
Binding Nets
Venerating Ancestors
Inquiring-into Fortune
祈祭結
福祀網
Binding Nets
Venerating Ancestors
Inquiring-into Fortune
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Section Five
Cosmological Information
Section Five
Cosmological Information
廿
八
庚
寅
木
心
危
八
庚
寅
木
心
危
Twenty-Eighth Day (Fifth Lunar Month)
Cyclical day: gengchen (27/60)
Phase (element): Wood
Constellation: Heart-Mind (5/28)
"Day Personality" Cycle: Danger (8/12)
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Section Six
Appropriate Activities
and Miscellaneous Information
(top-to-bottom; right to left)
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宜
安理會
牀髮友
納開出
畜市行
安交訂
葬易婚
地居蟀蟋
游火四
禍星祥不
牀髮友
納開出
畜市行
安交訂
葬易婚
地居蟀蟋
游火四
禍星祥不
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Prostrate Dragon
Appropriate Activities
Meeting Friends
Going Out (and about)
Marriage Alliances
Patterning Hair
Opening Markets
Trade and Markets
Positioning Beds
Livestock Payments
Positioning Graves
Crickets Come Into Walls
(the thirty-second of seventy-two five-day solar micro-periods on the agricultural calendar)
Prostrate Dragon
Appropriate Activities
Meeting Friends
Going Out (and about)
Marriage Alliances
Patterning Hair
Opening Markets
Trade and Markets
Positioning Beds
Livestock Payments
Positioning Graves
Crickets Come Into Walls
(the thirty-second of seventy-two five-day solar micro-periods on the agricultural calendar)
Baleful Astral Influences
Four Fortune-Nots
Fire Star
Natatorial Calamity
Fire Star
Natatorial Calamity
Section Seven
Inauspicious Stars
丫
Bifurcation
丫
Bifurcation
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Section Eight
爐 磨
Pestle
Furnace, Mortar
Furnace, Mortar
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