Friday
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 己巳 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchSnake
This day’s earthly branch is 巳 – Snake. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 己巳 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 Snake and the month is Ox; 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
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Welcoming a new household member进人口
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Ritual consecration开光
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Marriage嫁娶
- Positioning a bed安床
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
Avoid
- Travel出行
- Treating illness治病
- Burial安葬
- Opening a business开市