Monday
Heavenly StemYang Metal
This day’s heavenly stem is 庚 – Yang Metal. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 庚午 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchHorse
This day’s earthly branch is 午 – Horse. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 庚午 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 Horse and the month is Ox; 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
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Travel出行
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Ritual bathing沐浴
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Marriage嫁娶
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Positioning a bed安床
- Encoffining入殓
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Taking up an official post赴任
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Felling trees伐木
- Trapping pests捕捉
- Planting栽种
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Installing doors or gates安门
Avoid
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Opening a business开市
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Moving into a home入宅