Thursday
Heavenly StemYin Earth
This day’s heavenly stem is 己 – Yin Earth. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 己丑 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchOx
This day’s earthly branch is 丑 – Ox. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 己丑 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualitySuccess Day
成 – Success Day. The traditional name means: completion, accomplishment.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Ox and the month is Snake; 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
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
- Signing contracts立券
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual consecration开光
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Positioning a bed安床
- Travel出行
- Planting栽种
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Ritual release解除
- Groundwork for burial破土
Avoid
- Marriage嫁娶
- Digging a well掘井
- Moving into a home入宅
- Relocation移徙
- Burial安葬
