Date Selection
Auspicious Date Selection
Say you are planning to launch a new business, or deciding on the opening day of a new shop and you are wanting to find an auspicious date but do not have the time to find an auspicious date specialist. You can do this to find a generic auspicious date. Using an auspicious date - meaning the cosmic constellation stars are aligned favourably will ensure that your venture or ideas will have better results. Right timing leads to right results.
To do this the chinese metaphysical way you will need a tong shu - a chinese solar calendar.
Lets say the date is in the month of April 2011 when you want to start a new business.
We know 2011 is a rabbit year and April is a dragon month. Using a pen on your calendar, you start by crossing out all the Year Breaker days. The year breaker is the sign that clashes with a given year. The Year Breaker for 2011 is Rooster (you) so you start by crossing out all the rooster - you days. Next you want to cross out all the Month Breaker days. For April 2011 the month is dragon (chen) so the month Breaker is Dog (xu) as Dog clashes with Dragon.
Next you want to cross out all your Personal Breaker days, say you were born in a Horse year.
Your personal breaker will be all the rat (zi) days in this month. Now you have to find a combination day to find that gem of a day to start, the auspicious combination for a horse person will be tiger days. You can combine this with the 12 Officers Method or dong gong to ensure more specific results. If however you are planning to sell your business right after opening it you may then want to consider a clash day for this particular result.
Clashes
Rat - Horse
Ox - Goat
Tiger - Monkey
Rabbit - Rooster
Dragon - Dog
Snake - Pig
Favourable Combinations
Monkey - rat - dragon
Pig - rabbit - goat
Tiger horse - dog
Snake - rooster - Ox
For those doing xuan kong da gua below is the reference table:-
Stem/Branch xkdg number and Period number
Jia Zi 1 1
Wu Zi 7 4
Geng Zi 2 9
Ren Zi 8 1
Yi Chou 3 6
Ding Chou 4 7
Ji Chou 9 2
Xin Chou 1 3
Gui Chou 6 8
Bing Yin 2 4
Wu Yin 8 6
Geng Yin 3 1
Ren Yin 9 7
Jia Yin 7 9
Ding Mao 6 9
Ji Mao 7 8
Xin Mao 2 3
Gui Mao 8 7
Yi Mao 1 4
Wu Chen 9 6
Geng Chen 1 9
Ren Chen 6 4
Jia Chen 3 2
Bing Chen 4 1
Ji Si 8 2
Xin Si 3 7
Gui Si 4 6
Yi Si 7 3
Ding Si 2 8
Geng Wu 8 9
Ren Wu 2 1
Jia Wu 9 1
Bing Wu 4 3
Wu Wu 3 4
Xin Wei 9 3
Gui Wei 4 8
Yi Wei 7 6
Ding Wei 6 7
Ji Wei 1 2
Ren Shen 1 7
Jia Shen 3 9
Bing Shen 8 4
Wu Shen 2 6
Geng Shen 7 1
Gui You 2 7
Yi You 9 4
Ding You 4 9
Ji You 3 8
Xin You 8 3
Jia Xu 7 2
Bing Xu 6 1
Wu Xu 1 6
Geng Xu 9 9
Ren Xu 4 4
Yi Hai 3 3
Ding Hai 8 8
Ji Hai 2 2
Xin Hai 7 7
Gui Hai 6 6