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 丁酉 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRooster
This day’s earthly branch is 酉 – Rooster. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 丁酉 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityFull Day
满 – Full Day. The traditional name means: fullness, filling.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Rooster and the month is Goat; 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
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Making vehicles造车器
- Ritual consecration开光
- Travel出行
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Laying foundations起基
- Positioning a bed安床
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
- Signing contracts立券
- Planting栽种
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Encoffining入殓
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Exhumation启钻
Avoid
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Moving into a home入宅
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
