Thursday
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 丁巳 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityFull Day
满 – Full Day. The traditional name means: fullness, filling.
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 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
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Ritual consecration开光
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Making bridal bed curtains合帐
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Installing machinery安机械
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Receiving wealth纳财
- Opening a business开市
- Signing contracts立券
- Trading交易
- Positioning a bed安床
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Making nets结网
- Planting栽种
- Ritual release解除
- Weaving and setting up a loom经络
Avoid
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Travel出行
- Moving into a home入宅
- Burial安葬
