Thursday
Heavenly StemYang Wood
This day’s heavenly stem is 甲 – Yang Wood. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 甲辰 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchDragon
This day’s earthly branch is 辰 – Dragon. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 甲辰 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 Dragon 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
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Marriage嫁娶
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Travel出行
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Ritual consecration开光
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Ritual release解除
- Starting studies入学
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Laying foundations起基
- Planting栽种
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
Avoid
- Burial安葬
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Opening a business开市
- Releasing goods from storage开仓
- Selling and dispatching goods出货财
- Exhumation启钻
