Wednesday
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 庚午 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
- Marriage嫁娶
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
- Signing contracts立券
- Hanging a signboard挂匾
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual consecration开光
- Making vehicles造车器
- Travel出行
- Moving into a home入宅
- Relocation移徙
- Positioning a bed安床
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Planting栽种
- Burial安葬
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Exhumation启钻
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Encoffining入殓
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
Avoid
- Visiting someone who is ill探病
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Felling trees伐木
- Laying foundations起基
- Preparing structural beams作梁
- House construction and roofing盖屋
