Sunday
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 癸卯 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRabbit
This day’s earthly branch is 卯 – Rabbit. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 癸卯 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualitySuccess Day
成 – Success Day. The traditional name means: completion, accomplishment.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Rabbit 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
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Ritual consecration开光
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Seeking medical care求医
- Treating illness治病
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Laying foundations起基
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Installing grain mills and pounders安碓磑
- Building an embankment筑堤
- Digging a pond or pool开池
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Burial安葬
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
Avoid
- Moving into a home入宅
- Opening a business开市
- Digging a well掘井
- Conducting a lawsuit词讼
- Preparing a coffin during one’s lifetime合寿木
