Wednesday
Heavenly StemYin Water
This day’s heavenly stem is 癸 – Yin Water. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 癸未 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchGoat
This day’s earthly branch is 未 – Goat. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 癸未 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 Goat 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
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Engagement订盟
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Making bridal bed curtains合帐
- Installing machinery安机械
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Installing doors or gates安门
- 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
- Ritual consecration开光
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Starting studies入学
- Travel出行
- Laying foundations起基
- Setting column foundation stones定磉
- Filling a reservoir放水
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Signing contracts立券
- Weaving and setting up a loom经络
Avoid
- Felling trees伐木
- Preparing structural beams作梁
