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Affiliation: KARASU CHANNEL
Traditions studied: 12+ (Western astrology, Four Pillars of Destiny, Nine Star Ki, tarot, runes, palmistry & physiognomy, name numerology, numerology, feng shui, Vedic astrology / Zi Wei, Onmyodo, spiritual reading, and more)
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Read about Fortune Calendar
About this reading: The Fortune Calendar is a corner that shows one fortune message each for today, a hint for tomorrow, this week, this month, this year and a hint for next year, based on your birth date. It isn't the calculation of any particular divination system; it's this site's own just-for-fun reading.
It has no month-view calendar, and it doesn't use calendar notations such as the Rokuyou or Tensha-bi. Each message is chosen from your birth date and today's date on your device, so the content changes when the date changes. To look up the Rokuyou or lucky days, please use the Rokuyou and Lucky Day pages.
The Fortune Calendar shows several spans at once, from today out to next year, with the aim of letting you look a little further ahead instead of getting swept up in how any single day goes. Even if today's message is lackluster, a good reading for the week or month can help you regroup. As we see it here, the Fortune Calendar isn't for checking whether each day was a hit or a miss — it's a tool for stepping back and seeing where you currently stand across several timeframes at once.
Lore column: Why Were the "Black Days" at the Bottom of the Calendar Feared?
A short read on the legends and strange tales around this reading, with this site's own view.
Old Japanese almanacs crammed tiny notes on each day's fortune beneath the date. Because they appeared in the lowest row, they were called koyomi no gedan, "the lower section of the calendar." Alongside auspicious days such as Tensha-bi sat unlucky days whose names alone could chill the spine.
The worst of all was said to be Jushi-bi, the "day of receiving death." It was marked on the page with a black dot, and so was also called kurobi, the "black day." Next came Jusshi-bi, the "ten deaths day," along with Chiimi-bi, when anything involving blood was to be avoided, and Oumou-nichi, a day when one who set out might perish on the road. The names alone show how close death and disaster felt to people of the past.
These lower-section notes were dropped from the official calendar as superstition in the Meiji calendar reform, yet they survived in popular almanacs. Stories of people moving a house-raising date to avoid Sanrinbou are said to be a trace of them.
In this site's view, the black dot of a black day was a marker placed on days that could not be foreseen. This is speculation, but in an age without medicine or weather forecasts, people must have wanted to know in advance when misfortune might come, so they could brace themselves even a little. Our habit of checking each day's fortune may be an extension of the same wish: to light a small lamp in the darkness of tomorrow.
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