Click here for the introduction to the Round and Square series "Calendars and Almanacs"
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7/27................................................................................................................7/21
7/27................................................................................................................7/21
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.
廿
八
二期星
Seventh Month, Twenty-Eighth Day
Astral Period Two
Tuesday, July 28
Tuesday, July 28
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Section Two
Beneficent Stars
Section Two
Beneficent Stars
(top to bottom, right to left)
合歲
日德
Generational Virtue
Linked Days
日德
Generational Virtue
Linked Days
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Section Three
Auspicious Hours
(top to bottom, right to left)
申辰子
吉中吉
酉己丑
吉凶凶
戌午寅
吉中中
亥未卯
凶中中
吉中中
亥未卯
凶中中
23:00-01:00 Auspicious
01:00-03:00 Inauspicious
03:00-05:00 In-Between
05:00-07:00 In-Between
07:00-09:00 In-Between
9:00-11:00 Inauspicious
11:00-13:00 In-Between
13:00-15:00 In-Between
15:00-17:00 Auspicious
17:00-19:00 Auspicious
19:00-21:00 Auspicious
21:00-23:00 Inauspicious
01:00-03:00 Inauspicious
03:00-05:00 In-Between
05:00-07:00 In-Between
07:00-09:00 In-Between
9:00-11:00 Inauspicious
11:00-13:00 In-Between
13:00-15:00 In-Between
15:00-17:00 Auspicious
17:00-19:00 Auspicious
19:00-21:00 Auspicious
21:00-23:00 Inauspicious
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
遠栽
行種
Planting and Cultivating
Distant Journeys
遠栽
行種
Planting and Cultivating
Distant Journeys
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Section Five
Cosmological Information
Section Five
Cosmological Information
十
三
乙
巳
火
嘴
開
Thirteenth Day (Sixth Lunar Month)
三
乙
巳
火
嘴
開
Thirteenth Day (Sixth Lunar Month)
Cyclical day: yisi (42/60)
Phase (element): Fire
Constellation: Beak of the Turtle (20/28)
"Day Personality" Cycle: Open (11/12)
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Section Six
Appropriate Activities
and Miscellaneous Information
(top-to-bottom; right to left)
理入
髮學
安會
門友
作納
灶采
土
潤
溽
暑
地重
火日
髮學
安會
門友
作納
灶采
土
潤
溽
暑
地重
火日
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Appropriate Activities
Entering Study
Meeting Friends
Grain Payments
Patterning Hair
Positioning Doors
Stove Work
Earth Is Steaming Wet
(the thirty-fifth of seventy-two five-day solar micro-periods on the agricultural calendar)
Baleful Astral Influences
Appropriate Activities
Entering Study
Meeting Friends
Grain Payments
Patterning Hair
Positioning Doors
Stove Work
Earth Is Steaming Wet
(the thirty-fifth of seventy-two five-day solar micro-periods on the agricultural calendar)
Baleful Astral Influences
Doubled Days
Earth Fire
Earth Fire
Section Seven
Inauspicious Stars
白 林
White, Copse
白 林
White, Copse
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Section Eight
Miscellaneous
碓
牀 磨
Pestle
Bed, Mortar
Bed, Mortar
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