Tuesday
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 己酉 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRooster
This day’s earthly branch is 酉 – Rooster. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 己酉 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityStable Day
定 – Stable Day. The traditional name means: settling, stabilising.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Rooster 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
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Installing machinery安机械
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Ritual consecration开光
- Laying foundations起基
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Exhumation启钻
- Burial安葬
Avoid
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Marriage嫁娶