The Orient Oracle

Friday · Lunar 12/1

Is January 8, 2027 a good day?

January 8, 2027 is a highly auspicious day in the Chinese almanac. It suits business opening dates best.

大吉

Highly auspicious

By occasion

  • Wedding20Avoid. The almanac explicitly warns against wedding today.
  • Engagement / Betrothal72Auspicious. Related activities are also favored: praying for blessings.
  • Business Opening100Highly auspicious. The almanac lists opening a business as favored today.
  • Signing a Contract100Highly auspicious. The almanac lists signing contracts as favored today.
  • Moving House100Highly auspicious. The almanac lists moving into a home as favored today.
  • Renovation / Groundbreaking93Highly auspicious. The almanac lists breaking ground as favored today.
  • Travel / Journey76Highly auspicious. Related activities are also favored: relocating, praying for blessings.

What the almanac says

Day officer
开 Open
Day spirit
明堂 Bright HallYellow Path 黄道
Day pillar
丁亥 Pig day

宜 Favored: Opening a business · Trading · Signing contracts · Receiving wealth · Acquiring animals · Moving into a home · Relocating · Placing the marital bed · Consecrating · Praying for blessings · Praying for children · Breaking ground

忌 Forbidden: Wedding · Planting · Burial · Haircut · Building a stove · Encoffining

Feng shui for the day

Wealth direction 财神
Southwest
Joy direction 喜神
South
Fortune direction 福神
Southeast
Clash 冲煞
Snake · avoid West

Face the wealth direction when opening a shop or signing, and the joy direction at a ceremony. People born ina Snake year are traditionally careful on this day, and the west is the direction of its sha (煞) energy. The day falls under the lunar mansion 亢 (Neck), which the almanac rates inauspicious.

吉神 Auspicious spirits: 阴德 · 王日 · 驿马 · 天后 · 时阴 · 生气 · 益后 · 明堂. 凶煞 Inauspicious: 月厌 · 地火 · 重日.

Check it against your signs

This is the general reading. A day can be fine for the almanac and still clash with the zodiac sign of someone involved, so enter the birth years to see if January 8, 2027 holds up for your family.

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