Tuesday
Heavenly StemYin Water
This day’s heavenly stem is 癸 – Yin Water. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 癸未 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 癸未 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityHold Day
执 – Hold Day. The traditional name means: holding, perseverance.
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 Tiger; 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
- Starting studies入学
- Learning a craft or art习艺
- Travel出行
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Marriage嫁娶
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Welcoming a new household member进人口
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Trapping pests捕捉
- Encoffining入殓
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
- Exhumation启钻
Avoid
- Ritual consecration开光
- Opening a business开市
- Moving into a home入宅
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- House construction and roofing盖屋
