Wednesday
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 乙巳 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchSnake
This day’s earthly branch is 巳 – Snake. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 乙巳 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 Snake and the month is Goat; 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
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Marriage嫁娶
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Ritual bathing沐浴
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Ritual consecration开光
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Treating illness治病
- Learning a craft or art习艺
- Felling trees伐木
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Positioning a bed安床
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Installing grain mills and pounders安碓磑
- Hanging a signboard挂匾
- Digging a well掘井
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
Avoid
- Travel出行
- Burial安葬
- Building a bridge造桥
