Tuesday
Heavenly StemYin Fire
This day’s heavenly stem is 丁 – Yin Fire. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 丁未 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchGoat
This day’s earthly branch is 未 – Goat. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 丁未 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 Goat and the month is Rooster; 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
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Ritual release解除
- Making nets结网
- Hunting畋猎
- Fishing取渔
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Starting studies入学
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Exhumation启钻
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
Avoid
- Opening a business开市
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Encoffining入殓
- Burial安葬
- Shipbuilding造船
