Wednesday
Heavenly StemYin Metal
This day’s heavenly stem is 辛 – Yin Metal. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 辛酉 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRooster
This day’s earthly branch is 酉 – Rooster. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 辛酉 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 Rooster 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
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Ritual bathing沐浴
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Travel出行
- Haircut理发
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Ritual release解除
- Laying foundations起基
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Setting column foundation stones定磉
- Installing grain mills and pounders安碓磑
- Digging a pond or pool开池
- Digging a well掘井
- House cleaning扫舍
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Exhumation启钻
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
Avoid
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Preparing structural beams作梁
- Burial安葬
