Saturday
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 辛酉 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRooster
This day’s earthly branch is 酉 – Rooster. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 辛酉 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityReceive Day
收 – Receive Day. The traditional name means: gathering, receiving.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Rooster and the month is Rat; 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 consecration开光
- Haircut理发
- Trimming fingernails and toenails整手足甲
- Positioning a bed安床
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- House cleaning扫舍
- Training draught animals教牛马
Avoid
- Felling trees伐木
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Burial安葬
- Preparing a grave during one’s lifetime开生坟
- Marriage嫁娶
- Opening a business开市
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Trading交易
- Preparing structural beams作梁
