Saturday
Heavenly StemYang Wood
This day’s heavenly stem is 甲 – Yang Wood. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 甲戌 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchDog
This day’s earthly branch is 戌 – Dog. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 甲戌 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 Dog and the month is Rat; 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
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Ritual release解除
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Buying property置产
- Digging a pond or pool开池
- Digging a well掘井
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Positioning a bed安床
- Planting栽种
- Building animal shelters造畜稠
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
Avoid
- Marriage嫁娶
- Opening a business开市
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Welcoming a new household member进人口
- Encoffining入殓
- Taking up an official post赴任
- Moving into a home入宅
- Relocation移徙
- Travel出行
- Burial安葬