Monday
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 庚申 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityDanger Day
危 – Danger Day. The traditional name means: danger, caution.
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 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
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Starting studies入学
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- House cleaning扫舍
- Building a storehouse造仓
- Hanging a signboard挂匾
- Digging a well掘井
- Digging a pond or pool开池
- Making nets结网
- Planting栽种
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Repairing a grave修坟
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
- Burial安葬
- Encoffining入殓
Avoid
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Marriage嫁娶
- Building a temple造庙
- Positioning a bed安床
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
