What is special about today
Today's numerology numbers, the one everyone shares and your own from your birth date.
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StartWestern zodiac (Sun sign)
Find your Western zodiac sign from your birthday, with a short note for today.
Tử Vi: how the palaces connect
See on your Tử Vi chart how the areas of your life connect: what feeds what, and where you get stuck.
Numerology
Get your seven core numerology numbers from your name and birth date, each with a plain reading.
Couple compatibility: marriage & partnership
Compare two birth years on four counts (animal, stem, element, Kua group) for marriage or business.
House-building year check
Check a building year for Kim Lâu, Hoang Ốc and Tam Tai, and find a year clear of all three.
Should the Rằm of the Seventh Month Be Observed on the 14th or the 15th, and What Time Should the Cô Hồn Offering Be Made?
The main Vu Lan rite falls on lunar 7/15; cô hồn offerings run from the 10th until before noon on the Rằm, often on the 14th evening.
Hungry Ghost Festival on the 15th Day of the 7th Lunar Month: The Meaning of the 'Absolution of the Dead' Ritual in Folk Belief
The Hungry Ghost Festival on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month blends Buddhist and Taoist roots, with offerings for wandering spirits.
Worshipping the Wrongly Dead After War: How an Anthropologist Reads the Offering to Wandering Souls in Central Vietnam
Heonik Kwon's ethnography shows how offerings to wandering souls in Quang Nam and Quang Ngai help communities live with wartime memory.
Cúng Đất in Huế: Which Months, What the Three Offering Trays Hold and Why the Land Deity Is Thanked
Cúng đất in Huế is held in the second and eighth lunar months, with three offering trays to thank the land deity and remember the former Chăm owners.
Three Offering Trays on the 15th Day of the 7th Lunar Month: Offerings to Buddha, Ancestors, and Wandering Souls
The 15th day of the 7th lunar month has three offering trays: a vegetarian tray for Buddha, a full tray for ancestors, and one for wandering souls.
The Co Lao People: Where They Live, Their Language, Worship Customs, and Main Festivals
The Co Lao live mainly in Ha Giang and speak a Ka Dai language. They worship ancestors, the earth god, and rice spirits.
What is Cung Mọc?
Cung Mọc, or the Rising Sign, is the zodiac sign on the eastern horizon at birth. It shapes first impressions and outward persona.
What is Cung Mệnh?
Cung Mệnh (命宮, Mệnh Palace) is the primary palace in a Tử Vi chart, reflecting character, temperament, inner nature, and potential life direction.
What is Cung Phi?
Cung Phi is the Eight Trigrams (Ba Zhai) palace assigned to a person by birth year and gender, used to find East Four Life or West Four Life in feng shui.
What is Cung Thân?
Cung Thân is a special palace in Vietnamese Tử Vi astrology, placed by birth month and hour rather than fixed, reflecting inner tendencies and later life.
What is Cung Mặt Trăng?
The Moon sign is the zodiac sign the Moon occupied at a person's birth, reflecting their inner world, emotions, and subconscious.
What is Cung Hoàng Đạo?
Cung Hoàng Đạo is one of twelve equal divisions of the ecliptic, each tied to a constellation and used in Western astrology for personality, love and career.
Co People: Where They Live, Their Language, Worship Customs and Main Festivals
The Co live in northwestern Quang Ngai and southwestern Quang Nam, speak a Mon-Khmer language, and hold a buffalo sacrifice as their largest festival.
Traditional wedding customs of the Co Tu people
Co Tu weddings follow a strict process from the Ganoo proposal to the Zum ceremony, with buffalo dowries, lyrical chanting and communal dancing.
Ancestor Worship Ceremony with the Unique 'Ma Co' Dance of the Lo Lo People
The Lo Lo people in Ha Giang hold an ancestor worship ceremony, a national intangible heritage, with the Ma Co dance in grass costumes as its highlight.
Couple Age Matching: Can Chi, Nạp Âm or Cung Phi?
Couple age matching has three main methods: earthly branch, nạp âm and cung phi, which often disagree. With a worked example and what old books say.
The Co Ho People: Where They Live, Their Language, Worship Customs and Main Festivals
The Co Ho live mainly in Lam Dong, speak a Mon-Khmer language, follow a matrilineal system and worship Yang and Cha spirits.
The Co Tu People: Where They Live, Their Language, Worship Customs and Major Festivals
The Co Tu live in the Truong Son mountains of Quang Nam and Thua Thien Hue, speak a Mon-Khmer language, and hold buffalo sacrifice and reburial rites.
Co Loa Festival: Honoring An Duong Vuong and the Loa Thanh Heritage
The Co Loa Festival opens on the 6th day of the first lunar month at the Upper Temple in Dong Anh, Hanoi, honoring An Duong Vuong with rituals and folk games.
The Cúng Mụ Rite and the Belief in the 12 Midwife Goddesses
Explore the origin and role of the 12 Bà Mụ in Vietnamese folk belief, female deities believed to shape a newborn's body and bestow blessings.
Co Than - Qua Tu Stars in Zi Wei Dou Shu: Origins and Meanings
Co Than and Qua Tu stars in Zi Wei Dou Shu: their origins in yin-yang and five elements, and how loneliness is read through palace positions.
What Is Loc Ton, Why Does Every Chart Have It, and Why Is It Always Flanked by Kinh Duong and Da La?
Loc Ton is the Yin Earth wealth star heading the 12-star Loc Ton cycle, always flanked by Kinh Duong and Da La. Here is how it is placed by birth stem.
What is giáp cung in Tử Vi and how are the stars placed?
Giáp cung in Tử Vi: why Kình Đà always flank Lộc Tồn, when Tả Hữu and Xương Khúc can flank Mệnh, and how Tử Vi Đẩu Số toàn thư ranks each case.
Thiên Cơ (Heavenly Mechanism Star) in Purple Star Astrology: Meaning and Interpretation
Explore Thiên Cơ in Purple Star Astrology: its origin, agile intellectual nature, dignity meanings, and readings for the Life, Career, and Marriage palaces.
Rain Praying Ceremony of the Co Ho Cil People by Lang Biang Mountain
The Nho Dong rain praying ceremony of the Co Ho Cil people near Lang Biang Mountain asks Yang for favorable weather and abundant harvests.
Offering at a death anniversary from far away: the Vietnamese customs of gửi giỗ and cúng vọng
Cúng giỗ vọng and gửi giỗ: per Toan Ánh, those far from home send offerings to the head of the family and also make an offering from afar.
Cự Môn and Thiên Cơ in the same palace at Mão or Dậu: what Tử Vi books say and where they differ
Tử Vi đẩu số tân biên and Trung Châu phái read the Cự Cơ Mão Dậu configuration differently: Mão or Dậu, which birth years fit, and what hostile stars bring.
What Is Tử Vi Chân Cơ and How Does It Differ from Other Methods?
Tử Vi Chân Cơ is the core-principle reading of Tử Vi, not a separate school. It differs from Bát Tự and Kinh Dịch in input data and basic units of judgment.
Year-End Offering in Three Regions: Dates, Offering Trays and Meaning
Cúng tất niên is the year-end offering that thanks the ancestors and sees off the old year: the day, the trays of three regions, the prayer and its meaning.
What Is Cửu Cung: The Nine Squares of Lạc Thư and How Divination Arts Use It
The nine palaces are the nine cells of the Luo Shu, a 3x3 square whose every line totals 15, and the grid used by Huyền Không and Kỳ Môn.
What is Số Linh Hồn?
Số Linh Hồn is a numerology index taken from the vowels in your full birth name, reflecting innermost desires, motivations and deepest longings.
When Did Auspicious and Inauspicious Day Divination Begin? Day Selection Books in Tombs Over Two Thousand Years Old
Day divination traces back to rishu day books excavated from Warring States, Qin and Han tombs, already systematized by the 3rd century BCE.
How Did Cải Lương Emerge from Đờn Ca Tài Tử and Dạ Cổ Hoài Lang?
Cải lương grew in southern Vietnam from đờn ca tài tử and ca ra bộ; Cao Văn Lầu's 1919 song Dạ cổ hoài lang later became vọng cổ.
Thai Nguyen, Thai Tuc and Menh Cung in Bat Tu: How to Calculate and How to Use Them
Thai Nguyen is derived from the month pillar, Thai Tuc from the day pillar, and Menh Cung from the month and hour branches.
Co Le Pagoda Festival (Ong Festival) in Ninh Binh: rituals, boat racing and the five clans
Co Le Pagoda Festival (Ong Festival) in Ninh Binh runs from the 13th to the 16th of the ninth lunar month, with processions and a boat race by five clans.
What Is the Co Nguyet Dong Luong Formation and Why Do the Books Call It 'Tac Lai Nhan'?
Cơ Nguyệt Đồng Lương in Vietnamese Tử Vi: its four stars, the verse tác lại nhân, and the occupations Tử Vi đẩu số tân biên lists for it.
Tra Dong Ancient Bronze Casting Village - A Thousand-Year Vietnamese Soul
Tra Dong bronze casting village in Thanh Hoa, over 1,000 years old, keeps hereditary secrets of clay mold making and alloy blending.
Western Astrology: The 12 Basic Zodiac Signs
The 12 zodiac signs began with Babylonian sky watching and Ptolemy's system. Precession means they no longer match the constellations.
Feng Shui / Birthstones by Zodiac Sign: A Basic Guide
Gemstones tied to each Western zodiac sign and the symbolic meanings behind them, based on Western astrological tradition blended with gemstone customs.
Traditional Ancestral Worship Trays by Region
Vietnamese ancestral worship trays reflect regional character: the North favors formality, the Central region is lavish, and the South is simple yet refined.
Soul Urge Number 5: A Detailed Meaning
Explore the detailed meaning of Soul Urge Number 5 in Numerology: the craving for freedom, curiosity, love for adventure, and life challenges.
Why We Avoid the Belongings of the Dead and Seek New Year's Luck: Contagious Magic in the Modern Mind
Contagious magic rests on two laws: contact transfers properties, and similarity means shared essence. Rozin's 1986 experiments show they still shape us.
What is Tứ Hóa?
Tứ Hóa are the four stars Hóa Lộc, Hóa Quyền, Hóa Khoa and Hóa Kỵ in Tử Vi astrology, standing for prosperity, power, reputation and adversity.
Hexagram Thủy Hỏa Ký Tế (No. 63, 既濟, ䷾): When the Work Is Done and Why 'Good at First, Chaos at the End'?
Thủy Hỏa Ký Tế (No. 63) is the only hexagram with all six lines in correct position and paired. It teaches small success and a good start but chaotic end.
Letter to number tables, Pythagorean and Chaldean
The numeric value of each letter in both numerology systems, with the convention for Vietnamese diacritics and the letter D with stroke.
Where the schools disagree
Each point where Vietnamese calendrical, feng shui and divination sources disagree, with the reading taken here, the competing reading still in circulation, and what changes when you compare two sources. Every reference table has to pick one; most pick and say nothing.
Start moments of the 24 solar terms, 1900 to 2100
The start moment of each solar term across 201 years in Vietnam time, with the solar longitude of the mark and a flag for moments falling close to midnight.
