Friday
Heavenly StemYang Water
This day’s heavenly stem is 壬 – Yang Water. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 壬辰 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 壬辰 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityStable Day
定 – Stable Day. The traditional name means: settling, stabilising.
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 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
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Ritual consecration开光
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Renovation修造
- Positioning a bed安床
- Moving into a home入宅
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Burial安葬
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Taking up an official post赴任
Avoid
- Digging a well掘井
- Felling trees伐木
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
