Sunday
Heavenly StemYang Earth
This day’s heavenly stem is 戊 – Yang Earth. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 戊辰 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchDragon
This day’s earthly branch is 辰 – Dragon. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 戊辰 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 Dragon and the month is Rat; 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
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual consecration开光
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Travel出行
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Installing machinery安机械
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Laying foundations起基
- Setting column foundation stones定磉
- Positioning a bed安床
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Relocation移徙
- Building a bridge造桥
- Shipbuilding造船
- Burial安葬
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Encoffining入殓
Avoid
- Opening a business开市
- Building a temple造庙
- Buying property置产
- Digging a well掘井
