Sixty-Year Birth Star Calendar 六十甲子本命元辰历
Paul PengSixty-Year Birth Star Calendar
Author unknown.
It appears to have been compiled in the Sui and Tang dynasties. It is one volume, included in the Zhengyi Section of The Daozang.
This text is an astrological calendar for calculating official fortune and life destiny. According to diviners, each day in heaven is governed by a rotating divine spirit. The spirit presiding over one’s birth day (one’s Original Destiny Day) is one’s Life Ruler God, which determines one’s lifelong fate.
Sixty-Year Birth Star Calendar
This book arranges a 60-year calendar by combining Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, listing the name of the presiding deity, the constellation it belongs to, and the number of attending officials for each day. In divination, one’s fate is calculated by checking the calendar against one’s Original Destiny (birth date).
This type of divination already existed in the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasties periods and flourished after the Sui and Tang dynasties. The Book of Sui · Bibliography records “Original Destiny Calendar, one volume” in the Five Elements category, which may be related to this text.
