Sunday
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 qualityClose Day
闭 – Close Day. The traditional name means: closing.
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 Dog; 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
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Positioning a bed安床
- House cleaning扫舍
- Encoffining入殓
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Exhumation启钻
- Burial安葬
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Trimming fingernails and toenails整手足甲
- Repairing walls补垣
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
Avoid
- Ritual consecration开光
- Planting栽种
