Thursday
Heavenly StemYang Earth
This day’s heavenly stem is 戊 – Yang Earth. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 戊辰 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchDragon
This day’s earthly branch is 辰 – Dragon. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 戊辰 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 Dragon 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
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Ritual consecration开光
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Marriage嫁娶
- Positioning a bed安床
- Welcoming a new household member进人口
- Encoffining入殓
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Exhumation启钻
- Burial安葬
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
Avoid
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
