The traditional fortune category brings together readings rooted in Korean seasonal customs and saju tradition: a new year fortune inspired by the Tojeong Bigyeol, a "no-harm day" calendar consulted for moving and wedding dates, and a samjae calculator based on zodiac trines.
The no-harm day calendar uses our own lunar calendar conversion data for accurate dates, and the samjae calculator shows your three-year caution period from just your birth year. The guides below explore where each custom came from and how it works.
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Samjae — Korea's Three-Year Cycle of Caution Explained
What samjae means, its Buddhist origins in the calamities of water, fire, and wind, how zodiac trines determine your three-year period, the three phases, talisman customs, and a modern perspective.
Son Eomneun Nal — Korea's "No-Harm Days" for Moving and Weddings
Why Koreans book movers months ahead for certain lunar dates: the meaning and origins of son eomneun nal, how to find these days, the spirit's direction by date, and how to use the custom wisely.
Tojeong Bigyeol — Joseon Korea's New Year Fortune Book
Every Lunar New Year, Koreans consult Tojeong Bigyeol. Did the scholar Yi Ji-ham really write it? Explore the 144-hexagram system calculated from birth dates, its poetic verses, why it swept late Joseon Korea, and how it lives on as today's online new year fortune.
Korean New Year Fortune Customs — From Seollal to the First Full Moon
A tour of Korea's new year fortune traditions: Tojeong Bigyeol readings, lucky rice strainers, the shoe-stealing ghost, nut cracking and heat selling on the first full moon, spring couplets, and how they live on today.