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English: Diagram, divining the good and bad dates for beginning a journey. Quote from the website, "The first diagram comes under the heading “divining the good and bad dates for beginning a journey.” The first result is this: When the day falls in the “gate of the sky”, if you go on a long journey, it will be good and auspicious. If you look in the diagram, the “gate of the sky” (gnam gyi sgo) is one of the eight divisions of the diagram, under which is written “the 1st day, the 9th day, the 10th day, the 17th day and the 25th day.” So the sky is divided into eight parts. I guess it’s not so difficult to do this astrology after all – just check the day of the month against the diagram, and read the result. There are bad days too: When the day falls in the “junction of the sky”, wherever you go a great loss will occur – very bad. The word I translated as “loss” is god ka, which usually means a financial deficit, so I have the feeling that the main purpose for making this astrological calculation is to check on the possible success of a journey for the purpose of trade."