Friday
Heavenly StemYang Water
This day’s heavenly stem is 壬 – Yang Water. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 壬午 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchHorse
This day’s earthly branch is 午 – Horse. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 壬午 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 Horse and the month is Monkey; 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
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Rites for departed spirits普渡
- Ritual release解除
- Travel出行
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Opening a business开市
- Receiving wealth纳财
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Ritual consecration开光
- Releasing goods from storage开仓
- Selling and dispatching goods出货财
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Digging a pond or pool开池
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Exhumation启钻
Avoid
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Moving into a home入宅
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Burial安葬
