Monday
Heavenly StemYin Water
This day’s heavenly stem is 癸 – Yin Water. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 癸巳 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchSnake
This day’s earthly branch is 巳 – Snake. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 癸巳 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityOpen Day
开 – Open Day. The traditional name means: opening.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Snake and the month is Goat; 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
- Marriage嫁娶
- Engagement订盟
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Ritual consecration开光
- Positioning a bed安床
- Preparing structural beams作梁
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Laying foundations起基
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
Avoid
- Relocation移徙
- Planting栽种
- Travel出行
- Funeral rites行丧
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Burial安葬
- Conducting a lawsuit词讼
