10 October 2010 - Good to get wed?

In today's Sunday Time, it was reported that more than 700 couples are planning to get married on this Perfect 10 day. Is 10.10.10 really a good date? What about the hour? Must it be at 10 am too?

What is so big deal about number 10. I only know that Sum of 10 in fengshui study is auspicious as it signifies a balance between the yin and yang. Xuan Kong Da Gua practitioners like myself would favour such formation because the pairing of hexagrams will result in good outcome.

However, the Perfect 10 combination here is merely based on the gregorian calendar. In terms of chinese astrological calculation based on the qi of that day, is it suitable for a couple to tie the knot? In my opinion, which is guided by the classical chinese system that deals with wedding affairs, this day is quite a good day. But you need to choose a good hour so that the positive energies of that day will not be neutralised by bad hour. And as a matter of fact, people with certain animal signs will not be able to benefit from this good day simply because the day energy clashes into them. Let me go into some technicalities here.

To begin, we plot the bazi of the day. This day is known as 阴阳不将日 - a very ideal day (only 12 such days in that month) for getting wed due to the balance in yin and yang energy. This term comes from the classic 嫁娶碎金赋. While the Tong Shu indicates that this is a "Danger Day" and nobody is to do anything too major in his/her life, I think it does not matter because the Chinese Almanac is too generalised.

Knowing that this is a good date, we will now come to the hour. I would recommend 辰 hour in the early morning as it contains positive stars like 天官贵人，司命 and the star that we all like to have for wedding which is 喜神. During this hour, go to the Registry of Marriage and sign on the wedding certificate. The positive stars up in the sky will give you all the blessings for a wonderful and blissful marriage life forever.

So, who are the people that have a conflict with 10.10.10? It will be those who are born in the year of Pig which has the strongest impact. Besides, groom who belongs to animal sign of rabbit or rooster, and bride who is born in year of dragon will not really benefit from the good energies.

On the other hand, those who will receive the blessings from this good day will be ladies who are born in tiger, horse and dog years.

This is just to give you a flavour of what entails in professional wedding date selection. The entire process is rigorous and more complex as the system will need to address issues like:

- compatibility of the date with the couple's bazi

- compatibility of the date with the in-laws (especially mother-in-laws :P)

- compatibility of the date with the couple's child star

- hour to be compatible to the day (make sure there are good stars around)

- day to be compatible to the month

- month to be compatible to the year

- the bazi of the selected day and hour must overall contain good energies as not all days are created equally

Make sure your consultant do his or her due diligence to select a good date for you and not just read from the Tong Shu - which is meant for lay person.

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