Friday
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 丁丑 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchOx
This day’s earthly branch is 丑 – Ox. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 丁丑 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 Ox 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
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Ritual bathing沐浴
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Laying foundations起基
- Moving into a home入宅
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Building a temple造庙
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Starting studies入学
- Learning a craft or art习艺
- Travel出行
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Digging a well掘井
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Ritual release解除
- Felling trees伐木
Avoid
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Burial安葬
- Opening a business开市
- House construction and roofing盖屋
