Wednesday
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 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 Goat and the month is Horse; 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
- Marriage嫁娶
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Installing machinery安机械
- Making vehicles造车器
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Travel出行
- Receiving wealth纳财
- Moving into a home入宅
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Starting studies入学
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Ritual consecration开光
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Laying foundations起基
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Planting栽种
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Building a toilet开厕
Avoid
- Funeral rites行丧
- Felling trees伐木
- Preparing structural beams作梁
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
