Thursday
Heavenly StemYang Earth
This day’s heavenly stem is 戊 – Yang Earth. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 戊辰 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchDragon
This day’s earthly branch is 辰 – Dragon. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 戊辰 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 Dragon 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
- Installing machinery安机械
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Ritual consecration开光
- Rites for departed spirits普渡
- Travel出行
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Welcoming a new household member进人口
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
- Signing contracts立券
- Relocation移徙
- Positioning a bed安床
- Planting栽种
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
Avoid
- Moving into a home入宅
- Marriage嫁娶
- Digging a well掘井
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
