Tuesday
Heavenly StemYin Wood
This day’s heavenly stem is 乙 – Yin Wood. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 乙卯 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 乙卯 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 Rabbit 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
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Positioning a bed安床
- Trading交易
- Signing contracts立券
- Digging a pond or pool开池
- Repairing walls补垣
- Filling holes and cavities塞穴
- Encoffining入殓
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Exhumation启钻
- Burial安葬
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
Avoid
- Marriage嫁娶
- Digging a well掘井
- Visiting someone who is ill探病
- Opening a business开市
- Ritual consecration开光
- Planting栽种
