Months is Chinese or English Calendar

[myfs_82358]

Hi,

I have a general question to clarify with regards to the dates used in the personal reports.

When it says Jan (or Month 1), does this refer to the normal calendar OR is this refering to the Chinese Calendar? For example, if Jan is refering to the normal calendar, then the Jan '08 should be roughly referring to the month 12 of 2007 in the Chinese Calendar since normal calendar 7th Feb 2008 is the first day of new year, meaning it is the month 1 2008 of Chinese calendar.

Appreciate your clarification.

[Robert Lee]

Dear Anon,

Anonymous wrote:
When it says Jan (or Month 1), does this refer to the normal calendar OR is this refering to the Chinese Calendar? For example, if Jan is refering to the normal calendar, then the Jan '08 should be roughly referring to the month 12 of 2007 in the Chinese Calendar since normal calendar 7th Feb 2008 is the first day of new year, meaning it is the month 1 2008 of Chinese calendar.

I believe you are referring to our yearly ba zi forecast as in this link, am I correct?

URL: http://www.geomancy.net/products/po-bazi/bazidemo_yearlyforecast.htm

Our yearly forecast, will show the month as per the normal western calendar calendar month. For example in the above link,when it shows 2 Jan 2005 for example, it is actaully analysing the 22 day, 11 month and 2004 year in the lunar calendar.

As most people will use the western calendar, so we format the yearly forecast to show the normal western calendar format rather than the lunar calendar format. So when it says Month 1, 2005, it refers the Jan 2005 western month.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[myfs_82358]

Your understanding of my question is correct and thanks for your clarification.

Thus, I should ignore the pair of chinese characters on the left of the calendar in your sample link as it says that Jan 2005 is a 'tiger' month. Pls. correct me as I was told that the lunar (chinese) calendar first month is 'tiger' month. So, if the calendar is referring toWestern Calendar, why is the Jan 2005 also a 'tiger' month? Unless, in 2005, the lunar January month is the same as the western january month.

rgds

[Robert Lee]

Edited by Robert: Please be advised that I have just revised the yearly forecast to implement some of the newly ideas to make the forecast report clearer. You should be able to generate a new updated report that should clear the doubts you have.

Dear Anon,

Anonymous wrote:
Thus, I should ignore the pair of chinese characters on the left of the calendar in your sample link as it says that Jan 2005 is a 'tiger' month. Pls. correct me as I was told that the lunar (chinese) calendar first month is 'tiger' month. So, if the calendar is referring toWestern Calendar, why is the Jan 2005 also a 'tiger' month? Unless, in 2005, the lunar January month is the same as the western january month.

Technically, the right way is to view the calendar in the lunar calendar format, then there won't be any confusion. But to make it easy for users to view the days as per a full calendar year, that is why I choose to formatted the display list the dates as per a normal calendar 1 Jan to 31 Dec of that year. Because of that, it would be impossible to properly show the proper representation of the month. As some days within thewestern monthmay fall in different lunar months as it will span between two different calendar which makes it confusing.

PS: I have already revised a new yearly forecast layout topresent what I originally want to show in a clearer manner and it should solve the previous lunar/western month conflict.I now separate the year/month from the daily analysis. In addition, I now show the Lunar dates within the daily calendar. This way users will know what is the lunar date it represent while retaining the normalSun-Satwestern calendar formatting.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research