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.
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What Does Mercury Retrograde Mean and How Does It Affect Us
Discover the astronomical and astrological meaning of Mercury retrograde, its frequency, and its common effects on communication and daily life.
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.
Reading a Couple's Birth Years: Basis, Calculation, and What to Know Before Concluding
Reading a couple's birth years uses Can Chi, the five elements, and Bat Tu, a folk custom schools still disagree on. Treat it as cultural reference only.
The Self Line and the Response Line in Six-Line Divination: Who Is You, Who Is the Other, and Why Their Positions Shape the Whole Reading
The Self Line marks the querent, the Response Line marks the other party in Liu Yao. Their positions decide how the whole hexagram is assigned and read.
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.
Spring festivals and folk games at Tet: ném còn and stick pushing in Lai Chau, earth firecrackers in Hai Duong
Spring festivals after Tết: ném còn, đẩy gậy and swings among the peoples of Lai Châu, and the pháo đất game of Hải Dương, with rules and meaning.
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.
Why the Same Hexagram Cast This Month Differs Next Month: Month Leader, Day Spirit, and the Three States of Void in the Decade, Month Breaker, and Hidden Movement in Liu Yao
Month leader and day spirit set each line's strength in a Liu Yao hexagram, covering void in the decade, month breaker, and hidden movement.
New Year's Day in Vietnam: Origins and Why It Became an Official Public Holiday
New Year's Day in Vietnam comes from the Gregorian calendar, adopted in the French colonial period, and later became an official public holiday.
Erecting the Tet Neu Pole and Lowering It on the Seventh Day: Origins, Meaning, and Practice
The Neu pole is raised on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month and lowered on the 7th of the first month, closing Tet. Its origins, meaning.
What Is Huyền Vũ in Lục Hào and How Is It Placed by Day Stem?
Huyền Vũ, one of the six lục thú of Lục Hào: how it is placed by the day stem, and where Tăng san bốc dịch mentions it, written there as 元武.
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.
Banh Troi and Banh Chay: The Culinary Soul of Cold Foods Festival on the 3rd Day of the 3rd Lunar Month
Banh Troi and Banh Chay mark Vietnam's Cold Foods Festival on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month, a localized day of honoring ancestors with these cakes.
When Does the Trung Tuc Vuong Le Lai Temple Festival (Tep Temple) Take Place, and Why Is Le Lai's Death Anniversary One Day Before Le Loi's?
The Tep Temple festival for Trung Tuc Vuong Le Lai in Kien Tho commune, Thanh Hoa falls on the 21st of the 8th lunar month and the 8th of the 1st lunar month.
Duong Nhan in Bat Tu: How to Look It Up by Day Master, Its Relation to Loc, Phi Nhan, and the Points Schools Disagree On
Duong Nhan is the branch one position before Loc of a yang stem, the same as De Vuong. See how to look it up by day master and where schools disagree.
Đào Hoa (Hàm Trì) in Bát Tự: How to Find It by the Year or Day Branch Triad, and Đào Hoa Inside and Outside the Wall
Đào Hoa, or Hàm Trì, is found by the year or day branch triad and always falls on Tý Ngọ Mão Dậu. See inside and outside the wall.
Đằng Xà, Bạch Hổ, Huyền Vũ in Lục Hào: Their Nuances When Landing on a Line and How to Start the Six Beasts by Day Stem
Đằng Xà, Bạch Hổ and Huyền Vũ are three of the six beasts in Lục Hào, started by the day stem. Each spirit's nuance is analysed, and none decides fortune.
Cold Food Festival on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month: Why Vietnamese people offer bánh trôi, bánh chay despite not abstaining from fire like the original legend
The Cold Food Festival on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month became a Vietnamese day for offering bánh trôi and bánh chay to ancestors.
Tien Cong Festival on Ha Nam Island, Quang Ninh: The Rite of Carrying the Elderly, the Longevity Procession on the 7th Day of the First Lunar Month, and Who the Tien Cong Are
The Tien Cong Festival on Ha Nam Island, Quang Ninh runs to the 7th day of the first lunar month, with rites of carrying the elderly.
What Is the Year-Opening Bud-Picking Custom and Why Has It Shifted to Receiving Lộc?
Year-opening bud picking is the Vietnamese custom of taking a small green branch from a temple for luck. Today many ask for lộc or buy salt instead.
Folk Taboos for Groundbreaking, House Construction, and Housewarming
Vietnamese folk taboos for groundbreaking, construction and housewarming cover dates, directions and rituals, rooted in yin-yang and five elements.
What Are Advancing and Retreating Spirits in Liu Yao? How to Identify and Interpret Them According to Zeng Shan Buo Yi
Tiến thần and thoái thần in Lục Hào: how a moving line advances or retreats within one element, with the seven pairs and cases from Tăng san bốc dịch.
Practical Guide: How to Choose Auspicious Dates and Times for Weddings and Groundbreaking in Vietnamese Folk Belief
How to choose auspicious dates and times for weddings and groundbreaking in Vietnamese folk belief, with lunar calendar tips and simple rituals.
Traditional Tet Taboos and Customs for Good Luck
Explore traditional Vietnamese Tet taboos: avoiding sweeping, giving fire, breaking things... and the spiritual meanings behind these customs.
What is Giờ hoàng đạo?
Giờ hoàng đạo are six two-hour slots a day, based on the twelve Earthly Branches and seen in folk practice as favorable for starting important work.
The Ten Gods in Bát Tự: Meaning of the Ten Deity Stars in Four Pillars Astrology
A guide to the Ten Gods (Thập Thần) in Bát Tự astrology, what each of the ten deity stars represents and how they relate to personality and career.
Tai Sui in Tu Vi and Feng Shui: Meaning and Why "Offending Tai Sui" Matters Every Year
Tai Sui in Tu Vi and Feng Shui: its origins in Jupiter and Chinese mythology, how to find its yearly position, and what offending Tai Sui means.
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.
Checking ages for building a house in the 2027 Đinh Mùi year: which ages hit Kim Lâu, Hoang Ốc, Tam Tai, and why the three are not the same
Checking ages for building a house in 2027 Đinh Mùi: how Kim Lâu, Hoang Ốc and Tam Tai are calculated, and why an age can break one and not the others.
Where Does the New Year Pen-Opening Custom Come From and What Should You Write? Origin, Practice, and Today's Pen-Opening Ceremonies
Khai bút, the Vietnamese custom of writing the first words of the new year: its legend of teacher Chu Văn An, when people do it, and what to write.
How Do Lion, Unicorn and Dragon Dances Differ Between Tet and Grand Openings?
How lân dance at Tet differs from a grand opening: timing, the hanging prize and formation-breaking, plus Ông Địa and the old troupes of Chợ Lớn.
Is an Online Bát Tự Chart Accurate and Should You Use It? How to Check and the Limits You Need to Know
Online Bát Tự charts build fast, but accuracy hinges on birth hour data, time zone, and solar terms. Know when to trust them and when a reader must verify.
What Is the Six Clashes of Earthly Branches? The Six Pairs and the 'Clash Opens the Storehouse' of Thìn Tuất Sửu Mùi
The six clashes of the twelve earthly branches, from Tý Ngọ to Tỵ Hợi, and how Tăng san bốc dịch reads clash as dispersal or as opening a storehouse.
What is Strong Self (Thân Vượng) and Weak Self (Thân Nhược) in BaZi (Four Pillars)
Strong Self (Thân Vượng) and Weak Self (Thân Nhược) in BaZi measure the Day Master's strength through its links with other elements in the Four Pillars.
The Quan Quy line in Luc Hao: why one line is both Quan and Quy, and how to read it correctly
The Quan Quy line controls the palace element and carries two faces, Quan and Quy. Reading it depends on the question, strength, and Tu Ton.
Mid-Autumn Festival for Children in Vietnam's Three Regions: How Lantern Parades, Lion Dances, and Moon-Viewing Feasts Unfold
How children celebrate Mid-Autumn in northern, central and southern Vietnam: lantern parades, lion dances and the moon-viewing feast.
The Five Yellow Star in Xuan Kong Flying Stars: Auspicious and Inauspicious Meanings and How to Resolve It
The Five Yellow Star in Xuan Kong Flying Stars: its origins, flying star mechanics, meanings, effects on each palace, and remedies.
Personal Year Number 5 in Numerology: Energy Cycle and Meaning
Discover the meaning of Personal Year Number 5 in numerology: a cycle of change, freedom, adventure, and growth opportunities.
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