First let me explain briefly what “Date Selection” is.  This is a time-honored practice in many different astrologically-based predictive arts, for choosing the ideal date for anything out of the ordinary, momentous and in need of support for the best outcome.  People seek out astrologers primarily for this service, such as choosing a wedding date, surgery date, many other auspicious activities, as well as the best time to move into a new home or for a Grand Opening of a new business.

Often, I refer clients to associates of mine who have practiced Chinese, Western, or Vedic astrology for decades.  I can’t compete with their level of expertise and I want to offer those options to clients first.  However, some people do not want to pay (perhaps more than $100 to several hundred dollars) for such a specialized service and that is where I offer my “low-budget” alternative.

In this article, I will explain what goes into my own protocols for helping someone choose a date for an important activity or decision. I also dip into some of the more generic date selection principles from Chinese astrology, but I would never pass myself off as an expert in either of the two forms of Chinese astrology: Ba Zi (Four Pillars of Destiny) or Zi Wei Dou Shu.

From a Feng Shui standpoint, I review my client’s home or business floor plan, whichever is most appropriate. I check the permanent, annual and monthly stars and also the daily stars for choosing the best date. For daily stars, which hardly anyone uses on a regular basis, I need to rely on a wonderful software program.  Daily stars are tricky because they switch their pattern from one solstice to the next and the solstices change slightly from year to year, vacillating by a day.  As an example: Let us say that someone needs a non-emergency surgery.  Part of my process is to review the days which are available for their own impact, but just as important is the monthly energy (star) in a bedroom.

I am going to assume that if someone needs to recover or convalesce after a surgery, that the feng shui stars in the bedroom should be supportive and not undermining.  I may also want to rule out a month for recovery if the home is in a Monthly People Lock.  Every house goes through this People Lock once or twice a year and it can undermine the health of the occupants. We’d rather not do the surgery during that month.

For the little bit of Chinese Astrology that I have picked up over the years, I would also advise a client against doing something important on the “Tai Sui” Day or “Sui Po” Day for that particular year.  For example, in the Year of the Snake, Snake days are the Tai Sui days and they can be unstable.  As well, what opposes the Snake is the Pig, so in a Snake year, Pig days may also be less favorable.  When it comes to monthly energy: the day before, day of, and day after a monthly cycle begins could also be undermining as the shift from one month to the next can be a wobbly time.

It should be noted that the beginning of each Feng Shui month is not in sync with the western calendar. We use a Feng Shui Solar calendar and it varies from 4 to 8 days after the first of each month on the western calendar.  For example, April does not start on April 1st. For the Feng Shui calendar April starts on April 5th. This means that April 4, 5, and 6th could be wobbly days to avoid.

I also refer to my client’s personal Lu Cun Lucky Money Days or Liu He Emotional Support Days as possible good days for certain activities.  If it’s about signing contracts or taking financial risk, then the Lu Cun Day could be ideal.  If you need to do something unpleasant,  then your Liu He Day is like having a friend with you.  And everyone has a “Chong” Opposition Day to avoid for highly risky activities as the day can be very draining. These are dates I routinely point out to my Feng Shui Annual Update clients when they get a new calendar each year to refer to.

At this point we have narrowed the search and then I dip into my Nine Star Ki knowledge to check out yearly, monthly and even daily cycles in order to avoid certain “configurations” in a chart which could undermine the year, month or day in question. I am also looking to avoid compounding situations.  For example, the year energy might not be great for a certain Date Selection, but perhaps the monthly and daily cycle can be compensating.

For this, there are several key points to reference which are too technical to explain in this article, but those concerns can be checked very quickly when one knows what they are looking for.

This combination of narrowing down the best date is just my personal go-to method, using the predictive techniques I am very familiar with for many years now.  That said, I still like to recommend a classically trained, full-time astrologer when I can.  They will not only take your full birth date into consideration, but also the time of your birth and the location. This is bound to give you a more nuanced and accurate result.

Some of my Feng Shui clients have asked me why I never buckled down to study Chinese astrology on a deep level. This is a fair question because I have feng shui peers who also learned Chinese astrology at a very competent level to advise professionally.  The honest answer is that I have been so busy doing Feng Shui (averaging 60 hours a week the first 15 years), that I literally just did not have time take on another discipline.  As my schedule slowed down a bit, it happened to coincide with learning about Nine Star Ki and devoting time to that since it is also so harmoniously compatible with Feng Shui.  And I have not ruled out studying Ba Zi or Zi Wei Dou Shu in the future. If God gives me the time and energy, it will happen!

Author: Kartar Diamond

Company: Feng Shui Solutions ®

From the Feng Shui Theory Blog Series