Tuesday
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 甲申 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchMonkey
This day’s earthly branch is 申 – Monkey. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 甲申 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityHold Day
执 – Hold Day. The traditional name means: holding, perseverance.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Monkey 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
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Ritual consecration开光
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Making bridal bed curtains合帐
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Marriage嫁娶
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Encoffining入殓
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Starting studies入学
- Haircut理发
- Felling trees伐木
- Erecting scaffolding架马
- Preparing structural beams作梁
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Renovation修造
- Laying foundations起基
- Setting column foundation stones定磉
- Filling a reservoir放水
- Taking up an official post赴任
Avoid
- Installing doors or gates安门
