Thursday
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 壬寅 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchTiger
This day’s earthly branch is 寅 – Tiger. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 壬寅 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityRemove Day
除 – Remove Day. The traditional name means: removing the old, cleansing.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Tiger and the month is Ox; 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
- Ritual consecration开光
- Ritual release解除
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Renovation修造
- Welcoming a new household member进人口
- Moving into a home入宅
- Relocation移徙
- Positioning a bed安床
- Planting栽种
- Encoffining入殓
- Repairing a grave修坟
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
Avoid
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Burial安葬
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Opening a business开市
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Travel出行
- Visiting someone who is ill探病
