Thursday
Heavenly StemYang Wood
This day’s heavenly stem is 甲 – Yang Wood. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 甲子 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRat
This day’s earthly branch is 子 – Rat. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 甲子 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityRemove Day
除 – Remove Day. The traditional name means: removing the old, cleansing.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Rat and the month is Pig; 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
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Marriage嫁娶
- Ritual bathing沐浴
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual consecration开光
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Travel出行
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Encoffining入殓
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Exhumation启钻
- Taking up an official post赴任
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Receiving wealth纳财
- House cleaning扫舍
- Planting栽种
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Felling trees伐木
Avoid
- Moving into a home入宅
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Positioning a bed安床
- Releasing goods from storage开仓
