Sunday
Heavenly StemYang Metal
This day’s heavenly stem is 庚 – Yang Metal. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 庚戌 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchDog
This day’s earthly branch is 戌 – Dog. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 庚戌 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityHold Day
执 – Hold Day. The traditional name means: holding, perseverance.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Dog and the month is Snake; 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
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Ritual consecration开光
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Seeking medical care求医
- Treating illness治病
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Ritual release解除
- Trapping pests捕捉
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Encoffining入殓
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Burial安葬
Avoid
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Erecting scaffolding架马
