Thursday
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 己未 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 Goat and the month is Rabbit; 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
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Ritual consecration开光
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Marriage嫁娶
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Positioning a bed安床
- Moving into a home入宅
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Repairing a grave修坟
- Burial安葬
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Planting栽种
- Ritual release解除
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Relocation移徙
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Filling a reservoir放水
- Exhumation启钻
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
Avoid
- Taking up an official post赴任
