Friday
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 乙巳 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchSnake
This day’s earthly branch is 巳 – Snake. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 乙巳 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 Snake 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
- Marriage嫁娶
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Installing machinery安机械
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Positioning a bed安床
- Laying foundations起基
- Setting column foundation stones定磉
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Hanging a signboard挂匾
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Buying property置产
Avoid
- Opening a business开市
- Travel出行
- Burial安葬
- Funeral rites行丧
