The Orient Oracle

Thursday · Lunar 7/12

Is August 31, 2028 a good day?

August 31, 2028 is a highly auspicious day in the Chinese almanac. It suits wedding dates best.

大吉

Highly auspicious

By occasion

  • Wedding100Highly auspicious. The almanac lists wedding as favored today.
  • Engagement / Betrothal97Highly auspicious. The almanac lists engagement as favored today.
  • Business Opening20Avoid. The almanac explicitly warns against opening a business today.
  • Signing a Contract20Avoid. The almanac explicitly warns against signing contracts today.
  • Moving House100Highly auspicious. The almanac lists moving into a home as favored today.
  • Renovation / Groundbreaking100Highly 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
定 Stable
Day spirit
青龙 Azure DragonYellow Path 黄道
Day pillar
戊子 Rat day

宜 Favored: Betrothal gifts · Engagement · Wedding · Ancestral offerings · Praying for blessings · Consecrating · Setting up an altar · Moving the altar · Relocating · Moving into a home · Raising pillars · Renovation · Breaking ground · Raising the roof beam · Laying foundations · Roofing · Installing doors · Breaking burial ground · Burial

忌 Forbidden: Opening a business · Signing contracts · Receiving wealth · Building a stove

Feng shui for the day

Wealth direction 财神
North
Joy direction 喜神
Southeast
Fortune direction 福神
Northeast
Clash 冲煞
Horse · avoid South

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

吉神 Auspicious spirits: 天德合 · 时德 · 民日 · 三合 · 临日 · 时阴 · 福生 · 青龙. 凶煞 Inauspicious: 死气.

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 31, 2028 holds up for your family.

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