Thursday
Heavenly StemYin Earth
This day’s heavenly stem is 己 – Yin Earth. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 己酉 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRooster
This day’s earthly branch is 酉 – Rooster. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 己酉 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityOpen Day
开 – Open Day. The traditional name means: opening.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Rooster and the month is Pig; 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
- Opening a business开市
- Receiving wealth纳财
- Travel出行
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Exchanging birth details before betrothal问名
- Starting studies入学
- Laying foundations起基
- Setting column foundation stones定磉
- Buying property置产
- Digging a canal开渠
- Digging a well掘井
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Planting栽种
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Exhumation启钻
Avoid
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Encoffining入殓
- Burial安葬