Monday
Heavenly StemYang Fire
This day’s heavenly stem is 丙 – Yang Fire. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 丙寅 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchTiger
This day’s earthly branch is 寅 – Tiger. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 丙寅 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 Tiger and the month is Dragon; 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
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Marriage嫁娶
- Opening a business开市
- Signing contracts立券
- Trading交易
- Hanging a signboard挂匾
- Ritual consecration开光
- Travel出行
- Ritual release解除
- Positioning a bed安床
- Planting栽种
- Buying property置产
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
Avoid
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Burial安葬
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Encoffining入殓
