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 甲子 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRat
This day’s earthly branch is 子 – Rat. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 甲子 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityClose Day
闭 – Close Day. The traditional name means: closing.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Rat and the month is Ox; 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
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Ritual bathing沐浴
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Laying foundations起基
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Positioning a bed安床
- Encoffining入殓
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Exhumation启钻
- Hanging a signboard挂匾
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Travel出行
- Making bridal bed curtains合帐
- Building animal shelters造畜稠
Avoid
- Releasing goods from storage开仓
- Marriage嫁娶
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
