Wednesday
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 甲辰 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
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Building a bridge造桥
- Installing machinery安机械
- Planting栽种
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Encoffining入殓
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Burial安葬
Avoid
- Opening a business开市
- Marriage嫁娶
