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 乙亥 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchPig
This day’s earthly branch is 亥 – Pig. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 乙亥 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 Pig 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
- Travel出行
- Ritual bathing沐浴
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Marriage嫁娶
- Installing machinery安机械
- Opening a business开市
- Signing contracts立券
- Installing grain mills and pounders安碓磑
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
Avoid
- Planting栽种
- Encoffining入殓
- Burial安葬
