Thursday
Heavenly StemYin Wood
This day’s heavenly stem is 乙 – Yin Wood. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 乙未 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchGoat
This day’s earthly branch is 未 – Goat. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 乙未 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 Goat and the month is Tiger; 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
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Thanking the deities酬神
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Making bridal bed curtains合帐
- Marriage嫁娶
- Positioning a bed安床
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Encoffining入殓
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Exhumation启钻
- Burial安葬
- Ritual release解除
- Fishing取渔
- Trapping pests捕捉
- Felling trees伐木
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Relocating a household shrine出火
Avoid
- Planting栽种
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Opening a business开市
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
