Saturday
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 甲寅 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchTiger
This day’s earthly branch is 寅 – Tiger. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 甲寅 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityRemove Day
除 – Remove Day. The traditional name means: removing the old, cleansing.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Tiger 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
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Relocation移徙
- Receiving wealth纳财
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
- Signing contracts立券
- Moving into a home入宅
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Ritual release解除
- Seeking medical care求医
- Treating illness治病
- Starting studies入学
- Positioning a bed安床
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- House cleaning扫舍
- Hanging a signboard挂匾
- Preparing a grave during one’s lifetime开生坟
- Preparing a coffin during one’s lifetime合寿木
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Repairing a grave修坟
- Exhumation启钻
- Encoffining入殓
Avoid
- Visiting someone who is ill探病
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Travel出行
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Burial安葬
