Tuesday
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 丙辰 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityHold Day
执 – Hold Day. The traditional name means: holding, perseverance.
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 Pig; 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
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Ritual consecration开光
- Relocation移徙
- Positioning a bed安床
- Felling trees伐木
- Preparing structural beams作梁
- Trapping pests捕捉
- Hunting畋猎
- Making nets结网
- Seeking medical care求医
- Treating illness治病
- Ritual release解除
- Burial安葬
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Encoffining入殓
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
Avoid
- Opening a business开市
- Building a temple造庙
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Groundwork for burial破土
