The Orient Oracle

Wednesday · Lunar 7/17

Is August 18, 2027 a good day?

August 18, 2027 is a highly auspicious day in the Chinese almanac. It suits wedding dates best.

大吉

Highly auspicious

By occasion

  • Wedding87Highly auspicious. The almanac lists wedding as favored today.
  • Engagement / Betrothal62Auspicious. Related activities are also favored: family gatherings, praying for blessings.
  • Business Opening62Auspicious. Related activities are also favored: trading, signing contracts.
  • Signing a Contract79Highly auspicious. The almanac lists signing contracts as favored today.
  • Moving House83Highly auspicious. The almanac lists relocating as favored today.
  • Renovation / Groundbreaking87Highly auspicious. The almanac lists breaking ground as favored today.
  • Travel / Journey20Avoid. The almanac explicitly warns against travel today.

What the almanac says

Day officer
收 Receive
Day spirit
天德 Heavenly VirtueYellow Path 黄道
Day pillar
己巳 Snake day

宜 Favored: Wedding · Ancestral offerings · Praying for blessings · Praying for children · Tailoring · Coming-of-age rites · Renovation · Welcoming new family · Placing the marital bed · Breaking ground · Raising pillars · Raising the roof beam · Relocating · Trading · Signing contracts · Planting · Family gatherings

忌 Forbidden: Burial · Travel · Acquiring animals · Felling trees

Feng shui for the day

Wealth direction 财神
North
Joy direction 喜神
Northeast
Fortune direction 福神
North
Clash 冲煞
Pig · avoid East

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

吉神 Auspicious spirits: 天愿 · 六合 · 五富 · 要安 · 宝光. 凶煞 Inauspicious: 河魁 · 劫煞 · 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 August 18, 2027 holds up for your family.

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