The Geomantic Layout for Months and Hours

In the case of months and hours, the above chart style is use, in this case divided into sixteen division of directionality. Between the cardinal and the intermediate (45-degree) directions, are inserted subdivisions E.S.E.,N.N.E, N.N.W., W.N.W., W.S.W., S.S.W, S.S.E., AND E.S.E.)

Otherwise the procedure is the same: look in the tables for months and hours and place the earth lords that belong there in the appropriate houses.

In the case of the wheels for the months (hours follow the arrangement for years and days), there are no empty houses and thus no open passageway as we find in the years and days.

Instead, certain of the houses have special markers that say “Open Passageway (00) .“ These are the houses where safe passage is guaranteed. On the reverse side, certain houses are marked “Double Negative (--)” and these houses should be especially avoided as they are very dangerous.

Observing the Houses

In summary some of the houses are empty (or specially marked) and these are the ones recommended for use – safe directions for building or travel. The rest are not safe. In other words, avoid any direction where earth lords inhabit the house, an take and use any direction that is open or empty, what is called a "doorway of opportunity."

The earth lords move through the house wheels, some in clockwise motion and other in counter- clockwise motion and they each arise or appear at different points in time. For example, the most important earth lord, King The-Se, the one who controls the current year, arises at the summer solstice and proceeds to move in a counter-clockwise direction. The main group of monthly earth lords, 64 earth lords of inauspicious nature, all appear on the first day of each month, and so on. All of this gets quite complex, and I refer you to Gyurme Dorje’s excellent book on this subject.

The twelve or sixteen houses themselves, whether or not they contain an earth lord, also are considered in various aspects, and each direction has its own particular drawbacks in relation to a particular month of the year, just as the astrological houses here in the West have certain qualities.

With the earth lords of the days, those animal signs that are square or 90 degrees from one another are considered “black” days – inauspicious. For example, during the Dragon month, the days of the Sheep and Ox would be considered black days, and so forth for the rest of the signs. The same is true when it comes to hours. When it is a Dragon day, the hours of the Sheep and Ox would be black hours.

The Earth Lords Tibetan Astrology And Geomancy By Michael Erlewine.