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 甲申 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityStable Day
定 – Stable Day. The traditional name means: settling, stabilising.
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 Dragon; 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
- Making vehicles造车器
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
- Installing machinery安机械
- Carving and sculpture雕刻
- Ritual consecration开光
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Completing a roof ridge合脊
- Laying foundations起基
- Setting column foundation stones定磉
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Burial安葬
- Preparing a grave during one’s lifetime开生坟
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
Avoid
- Moving into a home入宅
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Releasing goods from storage开仓
- Selling and dispatching goods出货财
