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 庚辰 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchDragon
This day’s earthly branch is 辰 – Dragon. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 庚辰 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityHold Day
执 – Hold Day. The traditional name means: holding, perseverance.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Dragon and the month is Pig; 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
- Ritual consecration开光
- Ritual release解除
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Positioning a bed安床
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Burial安葬
- Exhumation启钻
- Encoffining入殓
Avoid
- Marriage嫁娶
- Opening a business开市
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Planting栽种
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Moving into a home入宅
- Relocation移徙
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Establishing a separate household分居
- Digging a well掘井
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
