In September, I mentioned to a friend who is born in March (卯 month for the uninformed) that she should be careful of being cut or accidentally cutting herself or getting into some kind of a nasty injury. Appropriately enough, said friend managed to somehow slice her thigh open accidentally walking into a jagged broken pipe. This happened early in October and she squealed to me – but you said I had to be careful in September.
Ah, the transition date gets them again.
Another friend, who was having a really tough October (many 未 in his chart) sighed with relief as the 31st of October approached, until I pointed out that 己 亥 (Pig Month) only starts on the 7th of November – so he had another couple more days of stress to go.
Transition date agony yet again.
Remember, the month does not end when the Gregorian Calendar says it ends, but when the Solar Calendar says it ends.
As I’ve been busy doing my usual homework in preparation for 2012 (marking out dates on my calendar and of course, prepping my 2012 forecast – material involved – Joey Yap’s Tong Shu, Personal Date Selection and Dong Gong Date Selection texts), I’ve extracted the various transition dates for each of the months here for your reference.
January 辛 丑 transition point: 6 Jan 2012 (remember, this is considered to still be part of 辛 卯 year)
February 壬 寅 transition point: 4 Feb 2012 (official transit also into 壬 辰 year)
March 癸 卯 transition point: 5 March 2012
April 甲 辰 transition point: 4 April
May 乙 巳 transition point: 5 May 2012
June 丙 午 transition point: 5 June 2012
July 丁 未 transition point: 7 July 2012
August 戊 申 transition point: 7 August 2012
September 己 酉 transition point: 7 September 2012
October 庚 戌 transition point: 8 October 2012
November 辛 亥 transition point: 7 November 2012
December 壬 子 transition point: 7 December 2012 (this is not the end of 壬 辰 year – recall that the year only rolls over on 4th February 2013)
Prepping for 2012
For my own calendar, what I usually do is mark the transition date with a BLACK CIRCLE, and then usable dates are circled RED. Superior dates get an extra ** so that I remember to use them.
2012 Desktop Calendar
From experience, although Microsoft Outlook has a function to show solar calendar days, it isn’t very accurate when it comes to showing the transition dates from month to month. Sounds like have to invest in a Thousand year calendar or the JY desktop calendar annually.