Date Selection Knowledge System
Learn date selection: Twelve Officers, auspicious deities, malefic influences, and practical applications.
What is Date Selection?
Date selection (Ze Ri) picks a date for a specific undertaking — a wedding, a move, an opening, a signing — within the traditional calendar, weighing the Twelve Day Officers, the Twenty-Eight Mansions, the day's auspicious and inauspicious stars, and how the date clashes or harmonises with the principal's own chart.
What you need and what the topics cover
You need to state what is being undertaken, the workable date range, and the principal's birth date. This knowledge base covers the Twelve Day Officers, the commonly used deities and stars, and what matters when selecting dates for each kind of event.
Interpretive limits
Date selection offers timing advice at the level of traditional custom. Medical procedures (including caesarean delivery), legal matters and major financial arrangements should follow medical and professional guidance first; a chosen date is not a basis for those decisions.
Overview of Date Selection
Date selection is the traditional methodology for choosing an auspicious day and hour, weighing timing, place and people together to favour a good outcome.
The Twelve Day Officers
The Twelve Day Officers are the most widely used method: Establish, Remove, Full, Balance, Settle, Hold, Break, Danger, Complete, Collect, Open and Close each mark a day's quality.
Auspicious Stars
Auspicious stars such as Heavenly Virtue, Monthly Virtue and Heavenly Grace strengthen a day's favourable energy, and are a main basis for picking a date.
Inauspicious Stars
Inauspicious stars such as Heavenly Punishment, Five Ghosts and Three Killings bring adverse influence on the days they fall, and are avoided wherever possible.
Choosing a Wedding Date
Wedding dates get the most attention in date selection, weighing both parties' charts, the auspicious and inauspicious stars, and what each month favours or forbids.
Choosing a Moving Date
Moving into a home is a major event; the date weighs the building's orientation, the family's charts, and which days of the month are favourable.
Choosing an Opening Date
An opening date bears on whether a business thrives, so it is set on a day when the wealth star is present and the auspicious stars are strong.
Yellow Path Auspicious Days
The best-known idea in popular date selection, drawn from the Twelve Day Officers and the Twenty-Eight Mansions, marking a day on which all undertakings are favoured.