Monday
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 丙寅 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchTiger
This day’s earthly branch is 寅 – Tiger. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 丙寅 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityClose Day
闭 – Close Day. The traditional name means: closing.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Tiger and the month is Rabbit; 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
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Positioning a bed安床
- Encoffining入殓
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Exhumation启钻
- Building a storehouse造仓
Avoid
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Ritual consecration开光
- Marriage嫁娶
- Opening a business开市
- Moving into a home入宅
