Monday
Heavenly StemYin Fire
This day’s heavenly stem is 丁 – Yin Fire. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 丁巳 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchSnake
This day’s earthly branch is 巳 – Snake. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 丁巳 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityReceive Day
收 – Receive Day. The traditional name means: gathering, receiving.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Snake and the month is Monkey; 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
- Ritual consecration开光
- Ritual release解除
- Welcoming a new household member进人口
- Trading交易
- Signing contracts立券
- Receiving wealth纳财
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
Avoid
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Marriage嫁娶
- Haircut理发
- Travel出行
- Moving into a home入宅
- Relocation移徙
- Establishing a separate household分居
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Relocating a household shrine出火
