What is contract signing date selection?
An auspicious date for signing a contract is chosen in the classical practice of 簽約擇日 (qiān yuē zé rì): the almanac favours the Settle (定 Dìng) and Hold (執 Zhí) officers for binding agreements, and the personal layer removes days that clash your BaZi (八字 bā zì) chart. Ranked dates cost 19 USD.
Key Takeaways
- The classical signing method favours the binding officers, Settle (定 Dìng) and Hold (執 Zhí), and excludes the Break officer (破 Pò) for agreements.
- A signing date is checked against your own chart: a day that clashes your zodiac branch or day pillar is removed before ranking.
- Each recommended date carries a favourable hour, with the day's Nobleman hours (貴人 guì rén) weighed in the pick.
- Every date prints its day pillar, Day Officer, and Mansion star, checkable against any published 通勝 (Tōng Shèng).
- Every selection carries a 7-day satisfaction refund.
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A generic year table cannot know that the day it recommends stands in direct clash with your own day pillar, and it never states the officer logic it used.
A day that clashes your day pillar can still be printed as favourable by a table that reads only a single year sign, leaving the deeper clash against your full chart unseen.
Computed from your own Four Pillars by the deterministic engine and emailed to you, with the 7-day satisfaction refund.
A generic dates list
A generic contract signing date selection list grades one calendar for everyone at once. It never saw your chart.
This selection
This selection computes ranked dates from your own Four Pillars (八字 bā zì), removes any day that clashes you, and prints the day pillar, Day Officer, and Mansion star so you can verify each one in any published 通勝 (Tōng Shèng).
The signature as a timed act
The classical almanac has always treated the moment of binding, the deed drawn, the seal pressed, the agreement fixed, as an event worth timing. The 通勝 (Tōng Shèng, the Chinese almanac) lists 立券 (lì quàn, drawing up deeds) and 訂盟 (dìng méng, sealing alliances) among its graded activities, and the Qing compendium 協紀辨方書 (Xié Jì Biàn Fāng Shū) codified which day patterns favour them. Modern contract signing (簽約 qiān yuē) inherits this category directly.
The logic is the same as for a wedding or an opening: a contract is a beginning that binds. The classical sources describe the binding officers, Settle (定 Dìng) and Hold (執 Zhí), as the days on which what is fixed tends to stay fixed. This is a pattern, not a verdict.
How the method grades a signing date
On the almanac layer, the Twelve Day Officers (建除十二神 jiàn chú shí èr shén) do the first sorting. Settle (定 Dìng) and Hold (執 Zhí) days are the classical signing days; the Break officer (破 Pò) and the Remove officer (除 Chú) are traditionally avoided for agreements. Structural exclusions, the Month Breaker (月破 yuè pò), Year Breaker (歲破 suì pò), and Ten Evils Great Defeat days, are removed before any scoring.
The personal layer checks the signer. Days that clash (沖 chōng) your zodiac branch or day pillar are excluded, and in Wu Xing terms the ranking favours days that reinforce your chart's needed element (用神 yòng shén). The favourable hour weighs the day's Nobleman hours (貴人 guì rén), the classical support hours of the day stem, which the sources associate with helpful counterparties.
Why generic signing-date tables run thin
The few sites that publish contract signing dates print bare year tables with almost no method and no personal layer at all. A generic table cannot know that the day it recommends stands in direct clash with your own day pillar, and it never states the officer logic it used, so nothing in it can be independently checked.
Our report does the opposite: it names the officer, prints the day pillar and Mansion star for every recommended date, states which favourable factors fired, and removes the days that clash your chart before you ever see them. Every fact is verifiable against any published 通勝.
Resolve that check against your own chart. Ranked contract signing date selection, verifiable in any almanac, 19 USD.
Get your ranked dates, $19What you receive
Your report ranks the strongest signing dates inside your window, each with a favourable hour and its reasons, plus matched crystal suggestions following the classical career intent and your chart's favourable element.
When the window holds no date that clears every check, the report says so, lists the least unfavourable dates clearly labelled, and recommends widening. Every selection carries a 7-day satisfaction refund.
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See the full calendarFrequently Asked Questions
What is an auspicious date for signing a contract?
An auspicious signing date in the Chinese tradition is a day the almanac grades favourable for binding agreements, classically the Settle (定 Dìng) and Hold (執 Zhí) officer days, that also avoids clashing the signer's own chart. The category descends from the almanac activities 立券 (drawing up deeds) and 訂盟 (sealing alliances).
How are my signing dates computed?
Your signing dates are computed from your BaZi (八字) Four Pillars chart and your chosen window. The engine grades each day's officer and stars, removes days that clash your chart, ranks the survivors, and attaches a favourable hour weighted by the day's Nobleman hours (貴人 guì rén). The computation is deterministic and each fact is checkable in a published almanac.
Does the timing of a signature change the deal's outcome?
No claim of outcome is made, and the classical sources make none either. Date selection describes favourable windows: days whose published pattern supports binding acts rather than pulling against them. The terms of the deal, the counterparty, and your judgment decide the outcome. This is a pattern, not a verdict.
What if the counterparty controls the signing date?
When the date is fixed by others, the selection can still serve you two ways: give a window of dates you can propose from, ranked and clash-checked, or check a window that contains the proposed date so you can see honestly how it grades for you and choose the hour within it.
How is the signing date reading delivered, and what does it cost?
The contract signing date selection costs 19 USD. After secure Stripe checkout, the selection is computed from your inputs and emailed to you with a 7-day satisfaction refund.
Not ready for a personalized selection? Check any day's public grade on the free Chinese almanac, see your Four Pillars with the free BaZi calculator, or return to the auspicious dates hub .
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Other date selections
Each life event is graded on its own classical activity in the 通勝 (Tōng Shèng) tradition, then checked against your chart. If you are timing more than one, these selections work the same way.
Business Opening Date Selection
開市擇日 kāi shì zé rì
Ranked first-day-of-trade dates in the Chinese almanac tradition, checked against the owner's chart.
New Job Start Date Selection
上任 shàng rèn
Ranked first-day dates on the taking-office officers, clash-checked against your chart, with a favourable Nobleman hour.
Car Delivery Date Selection
提車擇日 tí chē zé rì
Ranked collection days under the classical travel category, clash-checked against your full chart.
Understanding the method
Every date in this selection is graded by the same classical cycles. These guides explain how the almanac reads a day, in the 通勝 (Tōng Shèng) tradition, so you can see exactly what the ranking rests on.
The Tong Shu Almanac
通勝 Tōng Shèng
What the Chinese almanac holds and how a single day is read.
Huang Dao Ji Ri
黃道吉日 Huáng Dào Jí Rì
The yellow-path day guardians and how a day earns its grade.
The Twelve Day Officers
建除十二神 Jiàn Chú Shí Èr Shén
The rotating officers that grade every date, favours and avoids.
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