Sunday
Heavenly StemYang Wood
This day’s heavenly stem is 甲 – Yang Wood. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 甲戌 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchDog
This day’s earthly branch is 戌 – Dog. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 甲戌 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityStable Day
定 – Stable Day. The traditional name means: settling, stabilising.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Dog and the month is Horse; 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
- Marriage嫁娶
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Travel出行
- Signing contracts立券
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Burial安葬
Avoid
- Ritual consecration开光
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Erecting scaffolding架马
- Releasing goods from storage开仓
