Thursday
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 甲申 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchMonkey
This day’s earthly branch is 申 – Monkey. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 甲申 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualitySuccess Day
成 – Success Day. The traditional name means: completion, accomplishment.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Monkey 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
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Travel出行
- Installing machinery安机械
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Ritual consecration开光
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Ritual release解除
- Seeking medical care求医
- Acupuncture and moxibustion针灸
- Treating illness治病
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Laying foundations起基
- Renovation修造
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Shipbuilding造船
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Encoffining入殓
- Exhumation启钻
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Repairing a grave修坟
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
Avoid
- Marriage嫁娶
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Positioning a bed安床
- Building a bridge造桥
- Digging a well掘井
