Thursday
Heavenly StemYang Fire
This day’s heavenly stem is 丙 – Yang Fire. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 丙戌 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 丙戌 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 Dog and the month is Horse; 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
- Installing machinery安机械
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Travel出行
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Ritual release解除
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Laying foundations起基
- Setting column foundation stones定磉
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Positioning a bed安床
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Burial安葬
- Encoffining入殓
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
Avoid
- Opening a business开市
- Felling trees伐木
- Preparing structural beams作梁
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
