Sunday
Heavenly StemYang Fire
This day’s heavenly stem is 丙 – Yang Fire. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 丙戌 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 丙戌 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
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Ritual release解除
- Erecting scaffolding架马
- Cutting mortises in wooden columns开柱眼
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Laying foundations起基
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Seating a previously stored roof beam归岫
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Completing a roof ridge合脊
- Digging a well掘井
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Planting栽种
Avoid
- Relocation移徙
- Opening a business开市
- Moving into a home入宅
- Burial安葬
