Tuesday
Heavenly StemYin Wood
This day’s heavenly stem is 乙 – Yin Wood. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 乙卯 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRabbit
This day’s earthly branch is 卯 – Rabbit. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 乙卯 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 Rabbit 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
- Marriage嫁娶
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Ritual release解除
- Travel出行
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Learning a craft or art习艺
- Acupuncture and moxibustion针灸
- Haircut理发
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Laying foundations起基
- Renovation修造
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Setting column foundation stones定磉
- Positioning a bed安床
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Filling a reservoir放水
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Repairing a grave修坟
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
Avoid
- Opening a business开市
- Moving into a home入宅
- Visiting someone who is ill探病
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- House construction and roofing盖屋
