Friday
Heavenly StemYin Water
This day’s heavenly stem is 癸 – Yin Water. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 癸丑 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchOx
This day’s earthly branch is 丑 – Ox. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 癸丑 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 Ox and the month is Rat; 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
- Marriage嫁娶
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Travel出行
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
- Signing contracts立券
- Hanging a signboard挂匾
- Moving into a home入宅
- Relocation移徙
- Positioning a bed安床
- Planting栽种
Avoid
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Funeral rites行丧
- Conducting a lawsuit词讼
- Felling trees伐木
- Burial安葬
