Monday
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 壬申 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchMonkey
This day’s earthly branch is 申 – Monkey. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 壬申 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 Monkey 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
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Ritual consecration开光
- Travel出行
- Marriage嫁娶
- Seeking medical care求医
- Treating illness治病
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Starting studies入学
- Laying foundations起基
- House cleaning扫舍
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Releasing goods from storage开仓
- Selling and dispatching goods出货财
- Buying property置产
- Planting栽种
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Preparing a grave during one’s lifetime开生坟
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
Avoid
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Positioning a bed安床
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Moving into a home入宅
- Burial安葬
