Monday
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 甲申 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchMonkey
This day’s earthly branch is 申 – Monkey. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 甲申 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityEstablish Day
建 – Establish Day. The traditional name means: establishing, beginning.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Monkey and the month is Monkey; 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
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Ritual bathing沐浴
- Rites for departed spirits普渡
- Travel出行
- Receiving wealth纳财
- House cleaning扫舍
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Taking up an official post赴任
Avoid
- Opening a business开市
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Positioning a bed安床
- Releasing goods from storage开仓
- Installing a roof beam上梁
