Monday
Heavenly StemYang Earth
This day’s heavenly stem is 戊 – Yang Earth. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 戊子 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 戊子 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 Rat and the month is Monkey; 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
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Marriage嫁娶
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Rites for departed spirits普渡
- Ritual consecration开光
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Laying foundations起基
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Building a temple造庙
- Building a bridge造桥
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Exhumation启钻
- Burial安葬
Avoid
- Opening a business开市
- Signing contracts立券
- Receiving wealth纳财
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
