Thursday
Heavenly StemYin Metal
This day’s heavenly stem is 辛 – Yin Metal. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 辛卯 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRabbit
This day’s earthly branch is 卯 – Rabbit. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 辛卯 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityRemove Day
除 – Remove Day. The traditional name means: removing the old, cleansing.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Rabbit and the month is Tiger; 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
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Making bridal bed curtains合帐
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Marriage嫁娶
- Moving into a home入宅
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Encoffining入殓
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Travel出行
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Filling a reservoir放水
Avoid
- Digging a well掘井
