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 戊子 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRat
This day’s earthly branch is 子 – Rat. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 戊子 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 Rat and the month is Tiger; 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
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Ritual bathing沐浴
- Ritual consecration开光
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Marriage嫁娶
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Exhumation启钻
- Travel出行
- Installing grain mills and pounders安碓磑
- Filling a reservoir放水
- Opening a business开市
- Signing contracts立券
- Trading交易
Avoid
- Burial安葬
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Moving into a home入宅
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
