Tuesday
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 甲午 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchHorse
This day’s earthly branch is 午 – Horse. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 甲午 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 Horse and the month is Dog; 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
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Ritual consecration开光
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Travel出行
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Marriage嫁娶
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Renovation修造
- Positioning a bed安床
- Moving into a home入宅
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Encoffining入殓
- Exhumation启钻
- Burial安葬
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Taking up an official post赴任
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Welcoming a new household member进人口
- Relocation移徙
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Weaving and setting up a loom经络
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
- Signing contracts立券
- Receiving wealth纳财
Avoid
- Releasing goods from storage开仓
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Felling trees伐木
- Preparing structural beams作梁
