Friday
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 甲午 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchHorse
This day’s earthly branch is 午 – Horse. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 甲午 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityStable Day
定 – Stable Day. The traditional name means: settling, stabilising.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Horse 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
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Ritual consecration开光
- Thanking the deities酬神
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Making bridal bed curtains合帐
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Positioning a bed安床
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Building a temple造庙
- Hanging a signboard挂匾
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Welcoming a new household member进人口
- Travel出行
- Renovation修造
- Receiving wealth纳财
- Felling trees伐木
- Filling a reservoir放水
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Ritual bathing沐浴
- Installing doors or gates安门
Avoid
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Planting栽种
- Burial安葬
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
