Saturday
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 丁卯 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRabbit
This day’s earthly branch is 卯 – Rabbit. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 丁卯 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 Rabbit 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
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual consecration开光
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Thanking the deities酬神
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Positioning a bed安床
- Opening a business开市
- Signing contracts立券
- Encoffining入殓
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Exhumation启钻
- Burial安葬
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
- Taking up an official post赴任
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Travel出行
- Trading交易
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
Avoid
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Digging a well掘井
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Planting栽种
