Today's Fortune

Today's flow, read by matching the day's energy against your own chart.

Today's Fortune contrasts the day's pillar — the stem and branch that change daily — with your own day master to read the day's flow. It shows the kind of energy arriving today (its Ten God), how today's branch relates to yours, and the lucky element that fills what you lack. The iljin is the stem and branch attached to a given day, and it is what people consulted when choosing a date to move house, marry, or open a business. Two people get different results on the same day because today’s pillar is set against your own day master. Past midnight the pillar becomes the next day’s, and the reading changes with it.

How it works

Enter your birth date and we match today's pillar — the heavenly stem and earthly branch of the day — against your own chart to read the day's energy. If you know your birth hour, it is used as well.

What you'll get

You get today's overall fortune and the flow of love, work, money, health, and relationships, an action tip from the Ten God leading the day, plus your lucky color, direction, number, and best hours. If you enter the hour you were born, one more section is added — the inner half of your day, read from the hour pillar.

When to look at the daily reading

Look once in the morning and take away the single line of practical advice; that is enough. Opening it several times in a day changes nothing, because the day pillar does not move, so the same result comes back. Worse, reopening it every time something goes wrong turns the reading into the frame you explain your day by. Reading it once in the morning and closing it is the best use of this tool.

What the incoming ten god is telling you

The ten gods name the position in which today energy meets your day stem. Whether it supports you, draws effort out of you, or presses on you and holds you in line changes the grain of the day. If the terms feel unfamiliar, skip the names and read only the passage below them. Knowing which way the weight falls today is all you actually need, and the passage is written so that it stands on its own without the terminology.

Do not pile everything into the good days

Cramming work into days that read well and doing nothing on days that read poorly leaves the rhythm of your days swinging along with the reading. Treat a good day as a fine day to take out one thing you postponed, and a cautionary day as a day to check once more. The daily grain moves more gently than people expect, and work forced into a good day slips just as often as work done on any other one.

How to use the favourable hours

The favourable hours that come with the day pillar are two-hour periods. It does not mean things only go well then; take it as a stretch of the day when the mind is more likely to open. Placing something that takes resolve, an important call or a favour you have been putting off, inside that window is where it earns its keep. There is no need to force your schedule around it, and nothing goes wrong for acting outside those hours.

What not to use the daily reading for

Do not postpone an important decision because the reading was poor, or rush one through because it was good. The day pillar is only a grain that falls differently on each person, and it does not settle what happens that day. When the body is unwell or the mind has been heavy for a while, treatment and rest come before any reading. And if checking daily starts to feel like a burden, nothing at all happens if you skip it.

Frequently Asked Questions

When does the reading change?

The day's pillar turns over at midnight, so a new reading appears once a day. Within the same day you get the same reading no matter how often you check.

Doesn't it say much the same thing every day?

No — the day's stem and branch are matched against your own chart, so the Ten God leading the day shifts, and the overall fortune and action tip shift with it.

Do I need to enter my birth hour?

You can. If you do enter it, though, the useful element is drawn from all eight characters, so the lucky color, direction and hours change, and one more reading — the inner half of your day, seen through the hour pillar — appears. Leave the time unknown and the calculation runs on six characters and that reading is left out.

What should I do on a day that reads poorly?

It only says which way the day's energy leans; it does not write the day off. Where it advises caution, read it as telling you what to watch for, and use the day's action note and favorable hours.

Can I enter a lunar birthday?

Yes. Choose lunar and it is converted to the solar date before the chart is built, leap months included. Today's date is always solar, so the calendar setting only moves your own chart. Pick the wrong one, though, and your day pillar changes — which shifts today's grade with it.