Monday
Heavenly StemYin Water
This day’s heavenly stem is 癸 – Yin Water. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 癸丑 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchOx
This day’s earthly branch is 丑 – Ox. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 癸丑 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 Ox and the month is Snake; 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
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
- Signing contracts立券
- Installing machinery安机械
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Ritual consecration开光
- Seeking medical care求医
- Treating illness治病
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Laying foundations起基
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Setting column foundation stones定磉
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Filling a reservoir放水
- Building a toilet开厕
- Digging a pond or pool开池
- Planting栽种
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Building animal shelters造畜稠
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Burial安葬
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
Avoid
- Marriage嫁娶
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
