Saturday
Heavenly StemYin Water
This day’s heavenly stem is 癸 – Yin Water. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 癸亥 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchPig
This day’s earthly branch is 亥 – Pig. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 癸亥 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualitySuccess Day
成 – Success Day. The traditional name means: completion, accomplishment.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Pig 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
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Making bridal bed curtains合帐
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Laying foundations起基
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Moving into a home入宅
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Opening a business开市
- Signing contracts立券
- Receiving wealth纳财
- Ritual bathing沐浴
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing doors or gates安门
Avoid
- Building a temple造庙
- Marriage嫁娶
- Felling trees伐木
- Burial安葬
