Date Selection · Auspicious Day Finder
擇黃道吉日,趨吉避凶 — Find Your Lucky Day
Selecting the right date is about more than just the calendar — it's about you. Your BaZi Five-Element profile determines which days amplify your energy and which days work against it.
選對日子不僅看日曆——更關乎你的八字五行。你的五行需求決定哪一天能助你,哪一天會阻你。
💒 For wedding dates: both partners' BaZi are analyzed for clash prevention and mutual benefit.
💒 婚嫁擇日:須合雙方的八字以避免沖煞並求互利。
An almanac prints a verdict for every day of the year. Practitioners do not stop at that verdict, because it is general. A date that suits the public is not automatically your date, and a date the almanac marks as inauspicious is not automatically wrong for every purpose. The reading is built in four layers.
Every day carries one of twelve officers: 建 除 滿 平 定 執 破 危 成 收 開 閉. The officer sets the day's temperament. 成 and 開 suit launching and finishing. 定 suits agreements and steady work. 破 and 閉 are days for clearing, closing and not beginning. Every almanac tradition warns against weddings and openings on a 破 day.
Days also carry a 黃道 or 黑道 marker. 青龍, 明堂, 金匱, 天德, 玉堂 and 司命 form the favourable six. 天刑, 白虎, 天牢, 玄武 and 勾陳 are the unfavourable ones. When the officer and the path disagree, the day is read as mixed rather than settled, and that is where a general almanac gives up.
This is the layer a printed almanac cannot do for you. Each day's branch clashes with the branch opposite it on the zodiac wheel, and each stem carries the 彭祖百忌 restrictions. If a day clashes your birth day branch, it works against you personally no matter how good it looks on paper. The engine removes those days before it ranks anything.
A date is only auspicious for something. A wedding, a move, a business opening, a long journey and a medical appointment are judged by separate rule sets, each combining the officer, the path, the day stem and the day branch. The engine holds those rule sets apart rather than reusing one score for every purpose.
The free calendar on this page shows the public reading for any day: officer, path, 宜忌, the animals in clash, and the lucky hours. The paid report goes personal. It filters the next twelve months against your own chart, ranks the best dates for the activity you chose, and explains what each date favours and what it does not.
Timing is one factor among several. The classical texts set it alongside the people involved and the state of the situation, and they describe a good day as one that removes friction rather than one that guarantees an outcome.