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Auspicious Business Opening Dates for January 2028開業 · January 2028

By Master Sean Chan · Updated

This month carries Xiao Han (小寒) — minor cold on January 6 (Singapore time): the BaZi calendar's sectional boundary for the month. Below is the universal Chinese metaphysics ranking of every day in January 2028 for opening a business (開市), derived from the classical Tong Shu (通書). Opening is treated as a 'beginning' — the rules favour 開 (Opening) and 建 (Establishing) officers and Yellow Dao days carrying 天德 / 月德 protection.

Top-ranked dates this month

31
days in January
26
pass hard requirements
5
rank as 上吉
5
top picks below
DateDay PillarOfficer 建除 Mansion 宿Clash 沖Class
12028-01-28乙卯滿 Filling酉 (Rooster)上吉
22028-01-18乙巳Stabilising亥 (Pig)上吉
32028-01-23庚戌Gathering辰 (Dragon)上吉
42028-01-12己亥Opening巳 (Snake)上吉
52028-01-24辛亥Opening巳 (Snake)上吉

All days in January 2028

DateDay PillarOfficerMansion ClashNotable factorsClass
2028-01-01戊子午 Horse黃道
2028-01-02己丑未 GoatFailed requirement: not_year_break大凶
2028-01-03庚寅滿申 Monkey建除 滿 · 宿 虛
2028-01-04辛卯酉 Rooster建除 平 · 宿 危 · 黃道
2028-01-05壬辰戌 Dog建除 平
2028-01-06癸巳亥 Pig黃道
2028-01-07甲午子 Rat建除 執
2028-01-08乙未丑 OxFailed requirement: not_month_break大凶
2028-01-09丙申寅 Tiger建除 危 · 黃道
2028-01-10丁酉卯 Rabbit建除 成
2028-01-11戊戌辰 Dragon黃道
2028-01-12己亥巳 Snake建除 開 · 黃道上吉
2028-01-13庚子午 Horse天德 · 月德 · 建除 閉
2028-01-14辛丑未 GoatFailed requirement: not_year_break大凶
2028-01-15壬寅申 Monkey黃道
2028-01-16癸卯滿酉 Rooster建除 滿 · 黃道
2028-01-17甲辰戌 Dog建除 平
2028-01-18乙巳亥 Pig天德合 · 月德合 · 宿 張上吉
2028-01-19丙午子 Rat建除 執
2028-01-20丁未丑 OxFailed requirement: not_month_break大凶
2028-01-21戊申寅 Tiger建除 危 · 黃道
2028-01-22己酉卯 Rabbit建除 成 · 宿 亢
2028-01-23庚戌辰 Dragon天德 · 月德 · 宿 氐上吉
2028-01-24辛亥巳 Snake建除 開 · 黃道上吉
2028-01-25壬子午 Horse建除 閉
2028-01-26癸丑未 GoatFailed requirement: not_year_break大凶
2028-01-27甲寅申 Monkey宿 箕 · 黃道
2028-01-28乙卯滿酉 Rooster天德合 · 月德合 · 建除 滿上吉
2028-01-29丙辰戌 Dog建除 平
2028-01-30丁巳亥 Pig黃道
2028-01-31戊午子 Rat建除 執 · 宿 虛
Personalised next step

BaZi-Aligned Date Report — January 2028

USD 388

A personalised PDF that re-ranks every business opening-suitable day in January 2028 against your BaZi (and, for weddings/ROM, your partner’s BaZi). It surfaces:

Order the report →

See the full glossary of classical date-selection terms in the BaZi Glossary & Auxiliary Stars.

Further reading from the blog

Selected posts from Master Sean Chan's blog covering this topic and closely related ones in practice:

Frequently asked

Why isn’t my day on the list of top 5?

The top list is the universal ranking before any personal adjustment. Many couples find their best date isn’t in the top 5. Once you account for your day pillars, the right day often shifts. That’s exactly the gap the BaZi-Aligned Date Report fills.

What does 大凶 mean and can it ever be overridden?

大凶 means the day fails a hard classical requirement: 月破 (month break), 歲破 (year break), or 四離/四絕 (a quarter-day boundary). These cannot be overridden by personal alignment; they are excluded categorically. Choose another day.

Why don’t you show times here?

Hour selection is personal. The right hour depends on your day pillar and the chosen day’s element relationship to it. Publishing universal “auspicious hours” misleads readers into thinking a generic hour is safe; it isn’t. Hours are included in the personalised report.

Where do these scores come from?

The classical Tong Shu (通書) tradition: 建除十二神 (Twelve Officers), 二十八宿 (Twenty-Eight Mansions), 月德 / 天德 (monthly and yearly virtue stars), 黃黑道 (Yellow/Black Dao), and the Dong Gong (董公) per-purpose rules. We compute these directly from astronomical solar terms — no app shortcuts.

Should I open the business on the same day as my company registration?

If you can — yes. Aligning the opening with the legal incorporation compounds the day’s influence on both events. If they have to be different, prioritise the opening (the customer-facing first day) over the registration date.

Methodology

Each day’s pillar is computed from the 60 Jiazi rotation anchored against the published Tong Shu, not from any single calendar app. The BaZi year flips at Li Chun (立春) and the BaZi month flips at every sectional solar term, both calculated from VSOP87 solar-longitude data so the boundaries land on the right minute. Twelve Officers and the 28 Mansions each rotate deterministically against well-known anchors.

The per-purpose weights are Dong Gong’s (董公擇日) — adjusted where modern almanacs disagree, in favour of the Hong Kong Observatory and Taiwan CWB lineage. Auspicious stars add to the score, taboo stars subtract, the day’s officer and mansion shift it further, and Yellow Dao adds a final small bonus. The final number gets capped at 100 and mapped to one of five tiers.