Saturday
Heavenly StemYang Fire
This day’s heavenly stem is 丙 – Yang Fire. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 丙子 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRat
This day’s earthly branch is 子 – Rat. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 丙子 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityRemove Day
除 – Remove Day. The traditional name means: removing the old, cleansing.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Rat and the month is Pig; their relationship produces this officer.
This is a general traditional quality. Read the Suggested and Avoid lists for individual activities; the name does not promise success.
Traditional recommendations
Translations of the traditional entries. Enable Chinese originals to compare.
Suitable For
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Ritual consecration开光
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Marriage嫁娶
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Moving into a home入宅
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Encoffining入殓
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Haircut理发
- Burial安葬
- Repairing a grave修坟
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Taking up an official post赴任
- Relocation移徙
- Ritual bathing沐浴
- Treating illness治病
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Exhumation启钻
- Trimming fingernails and toenails整手足甲
- Starting studies入学
- Preparing structural beams作梁
Avoid
- Opening a business开市
