Saturday
Heavenly StemYang Water
This day’s heavenly stem is 壬 – Yang Water. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 壬子 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRat
This day’s earthly branch is 子 – Rat. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 壬子 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 Rat and the month is Dragon; 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
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Ritual consecration开光
- Ritual release解除
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Welcoming a new household member进人口
- Positioning a bed安床
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Building a temple造庙
- Digging a well掘井
- Digging a pond or pool开池
- Encoffining入殓
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
- Groundwork for burial破土
Avoid
- No listed entries无
