Saturday
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 甲寅 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchTiger
This day’s earthly branch is 寅 – Tiger. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 甲寅 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityOpen Day
开 – Open Day. The traditional name means: opening.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Tiger and the month is Dragon; 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
- Marriage嫁娶
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Ritual consecration开光
- Travel出行
- Ritual release解除
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Opening a business开市
- Signing contracts立券
- Trading交易
- Moving into a home入宅
- Relocation移徙
- Positioning a bed安床
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
Avoid
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Encoffining入殓
- Burial安葬
- Visiting someone who is ill探病
