Wednesday
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 丙子 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 Rat 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
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Ritual consecration开光
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Releasing goods from storage开仓
- Selling and dispatching goods出货财
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Laying foundations起基
- Setting column foundation stones定磉
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Important activities discouraged诸事不宜
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Encoffining入殓
- Exhumation启钻
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
Avoid
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Marriage嫁娶
- Opening a business开市
