Cast a hexagram
Toss three coins six times for an I Ching hexagram and read it on the spot.
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StartBest day for a purpose
Rank the days in your chosen range for your task and your age, weighing the day officer, Tam Nương, Nguyệt Kỵ and your nạp âm element.
What is special about today
Today's numerology numbers, the one everyone shares and your own from your birth date.
Tarot reading
Draw from the full 78-card deck in one of five spreads and turn each card to read it.
Tử Vi chart
Cast your Tử Vi chart from your birth date and hour, with a five-line summary and a reading per palace.
Wedding date picker
Rank wedding dates in your chosen range by auspicious day, both partners' ages and avoided months.
Choosing Year-End Dates: Year-End Gathering, Altar Cleaning, Debt Repayment, and New Year Opening
Year-end dates for the gathering, altar cleaning, debt repayment and New Year opening: lunar calendar principles and flexible use without superstition.
Checking Today's Good and Bad Days by the Lunar Calendar: Principles, How to Look It Up, and the Limits of Date Selection
Xem ngày tốt xấu hôm nay theo lịch âm dựa trên can chi, trực, sao và giờ hoàng đạo. Bài giải thích nguyên lý, cách tra và giới hạn của việc chọn ngày.
Making Offerings One Day Early or on the Exact Day: The lễ tiên thường and the lễ chính kỵ
The custom of offering a day early is called lễ tiên thường, with the main chính kỵ the next day. Its origin, distinctions and meaning.
Which Buddha and Bodhisattva memorial days are there in the lunar calendar?
Lunar memorial days for Shakyamuni Buddha, Guanyin, Ksitigarbha, Manjushri, Samantabhadra and other Bodhisattvas, with origins and practice notes.
Where do auspicious and inauspicious day stars like Thiên Đức and Nguyệt Đức come from? The origin in the Hiệp kỷ biện phương thư
Origins of Thiên Đức, Nguyệt Đức and Thiên Cương in day-selection calendars, traced through the Hiệp kỷ biện phương thư.
Five Elements Application: Choosing a Car That Matches Your Destiny
Choose car color and direction by the Five Elements and your destiny, balancing energy through mutual generation and control to support luck while driving.
Five Elements Application: Choosing a Career That Matches Your Destiny
Discover how to apply the Five Elements theory (Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth) to choose a career that aligns with your destiny.
Five Elements Application: Choosing a Wedding Date Compatible with Your Destiny
Apply the Five Elements to pick a wedding date, weighing the couple's destiny elements against the day's element for a harmonious start.
Choosing a First-Foot Visitor by Age Compatibility: Folk Practice, Common Taboos, and the Limits of That Approach
Choosing a first-foot visitor by age compatibility: folk criteria, offerings, step-by-step practice, common taboos, and the limits to keep in mind.
Goddess Thien Y A Na and Po Nagar Tower: The Cham-Viet Faith Interweaving in Nha Trang
Explore the journey from the Cham goddess Po Inư Nagar to Thien Y A Na in Vietnamese belief, through the lens of the Po Nagar Tower festival in Nha Trang.
Choosing departure dates, blessing a new vehicle, hanging safety amulets: how do Vietnamese seek road safety through spirituality?
Vietnamese travellers use departure dates, vehicle blessings and safety amulets to manage risk on uncertain roads, an anthropologist finds.
Choosing Auspicious Times and Directions for the First Outing of the Year: The Lucky Customs of Tet's First Day
The first outing and calligraphy of the new year are Vietnamese luck-bringing customs. See how times and directions are chosen by lunar calendar and deities.
Five Elements Application: Choosing an Auspicious House Number
Apply the Five Elements and your Gua number to pick an auspicious house number, interpreting each digit to support harmony for the homeowner.
Choosing an Auspicious Year to Build a House: Kim Lau, Hoang Oc, Tam Tai, and the Vietnamese Custom of Borrowing Age
Kim Lau, Hoang Oc and Tam Tai restrictions shape the Vietnamese custom of borrowing age to pick a year for building a house.
Choosing an opening day for the Đinh Mùi 2027 Lunar New Year: where the custom comes from and what people weigh up
Where the custom of a Lunar New Year opening day comes from, and what people weigh up when picking a date and preparing offerings.
Five Elements in Practice: Choosing Lucky Colors for Your Destiny
Discover how to apply the Five Elements theory to choose interior colors and clothing that match your destiny, balancing energy and supporting life.
How to Read Auspicious Hours (Gio Hoang Dao) in a Day
A guide to the 12 two-hour blocks of a traditional Vietnamese day, how the 6 auspicious and 6 inauspicious hours are determined, and notes on timing.
Applying Five Elements: Choosing the Right House Direction for Your Destiny
Applying the Five Elements to house direction, paint colors and interior layout can support harmony and balanced energy in your living space.
What Is Nhật Nguyệt: Sino-Vietnamese Meaning, Sun and Moon Symbolism in East Asian Culture, and Different Usages
Nhật Nguyệt is the Sino-Vietnamese pair for sun and moon, symbolizing yin and yang, time, and the cosmos in East Asian culture.
Why Does Vietnamese Tet Sometimes Differ from Chinese New Year by a Day or Even a Whole Month?
Vietnamese and Chinese Tet differ because the new moon is calculated in different time zones and leap months follow different rules.
What Is Bát Trạch (Eight Mansions)? East and West Life Groups and Choosing Auspicious Directions
Bát Trạch feng shui uses your Kua number, from birth year and gender, to sort people into East or West Life Groups and find auspicious directions.
Does Marrying on a 'Lucky' Day Make a Marriage Last: Dutch Marriage Data and Low-Transaction Days in Singapore
Dutch research links weddings on special dates to an 18 to 36 percent higher divorce risk, mostly from couples' traits, not the date.
Born in a leap month or the hour of Tý: which month and day should a Tử Vi chart be cast by?
Born in a leap month or in the hour of Tý: which month and day does a Tử Vi chart use? What each book says, and the convention Nhật Nguyệt follows.
Universal Day Number and Personal Day Number: Two Different Layers of the Same Day, and Why They Should Not Be Read as a Forecast
The universal day number comes from the shared calendar date, while the personal day number adds your birth day and month.
Hidden Movement and Day Break in Zeng Shan Bu Yi: How Is a Static Line Struck by the Day Read?
Ám động is a strong static line clashed by the day; nhật phá is a weak one. How Tăng San Bốc Dịch tells the two apart when reading a hexagram.
What Is Am Trach and How Does Grave Feng Shui Differ from Duong Trach: Choosing the Huyen, Minh Duong, and Thuy Khau of a Grave, and How Far Vietnam's Cai Tang Custom Relates to Feng Shui
Am Trach is grave feng shui, judged by huyen, minh duong and thuy khau, unlike Duong Trach for the living. It covers Pham Dinh Ho's view and cai tang.
Casting a Mai Hoa hexagram from the lunar year, month, day, and hour: formulas, a full worked example, and the points where books still differ
Mai Hoa Dịch Số casts a hexagram from the lunar year, month, day, and hour: divide by 8 for the trigrams and by 6 for the moving line.
Which Day Is Best for the Rằm tháng 7 Offering and What Should You Note? A Full Guide Following Vietnamese Custom
Rằm tháng 7 is when families make offerings to the Buddha, deities, ancestors and wandering souls, with guidance on timing, the tray and what to avoid.
The God of Wealth in a Market Economy: Why the God of Wealth Day Keeps Drawing Bigger Crowds
Worship of Than Tai has Chinese roots but surged with Vietnam's market economy. Researchers show traders are the main group seeking gods of fortune.
Phu Day Festival: The Center of Mother Lieu Hanh Worship
The Phu Day Festival in Nam Dinh, held in the third lunar month, honors Saint Mother Lieu Hanh with Chau Van singing and Hau Dong mediumship.
What to Prepare for a Death Anniversary Ceremony? Offerings, Offering Tray, Prayer Text, and the Order of the Day
What does a giỗ require? Offerings, the offering tray, the prayer text and the order of the day, drawn from Vietnamese historical sources.
Offering for the Full Moon of the First Lunar Month on the 14th or 15th, and at What Hour? A Complete Understanding and Practice
The First Lunar Month full moon runs from the 14th night to the end of the 15th; families may offer on the 14th evening or 15th morning, sincerely.
How to Perform the Groundbreaking Ceremony for Building a House Properly
A guide to the Vietnamese groundbreaking ceremony: choosing an auspicious date, preparing offerings, and the ritual steps.
What to Bring to a Giỗ and How to Invite Guests Properly
What to bring to a giỗ and how to invite guests: gifts for the altar, who is invited, and how customs differ between families and regions of Vietnam.
How to Teach Yourself Tarot Reading: A Beginner's Guide
A step-by-step guide to teaching yourself Tarot from scratch: choosing a deck, learning the 78 cards, simple spreads, and building intuition as a beginner.
How Liu Yao Predicts Timing: Static Lines Await the Day of Rule or Clash, Moving Lines Await the Day of Combination or Rule, Excessive Vigor Awaits the Tomb or Clash, Void in the Cycle Awaits Leaving the Cycle or a Clash, and Month Breach Awaits the Next Month or a Combination
Liu Yao timing rules from Zeng Shan Buo Yi chapter 26D: how static lines, moving lines, excessive vigor and void in the cycle each find their day.
Folk taboos when opening a business: What you need to know
Vietnamese folk taboos for opening a business include choosing auspicious dates, avoiding the ghost month and holding opening rituals.
Tarot Cannot Replace Psychotherapy: The Boundary Between a Hobby and a Problem That Needs a Professional, Plus Signs You Should See a Doctor
Tarot is a self-reflection tool, not psychotherapy. This analysis covers the safe boundary, signs of misuse, and when to see a mental health professional.
How to Prepare the Full-Month and First-Birthday Offering Trays for Babies
A step-by-step guide to preparing offerings and arranging full-month and first-birthday trays for your baby, plus the prayer and regional notes.
Folk Beliefs About Taboos When a Household Has a Funeral
Folk belief holds that a funeral brings cold air affecting the living, so the sick stay away. Eastern medicine links this to yin-yang imbalance.
The Lunar Leap Month: Why It Exists, How It Is Calculated, and Why One Lunar Day in a Leap Year Corresponds to Two Solar Days
How a lunar leap month is determined, why leap years exist, and why one lunar day in a leap year corresponds to two solar days.
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