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 qualityFull Day
满 – Full Day. The traditional name means: fullness, filling.
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 Horse; 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
- Ritual consecration开光
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Travel出行
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Marriage嫁娶
- Felling trees伐木
- Erecting scaffolding架马
- Cutting mortises in wooden columns开柱眼
- Renovation修造
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
- Signing contracts立券
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Hanging a signboard挂匾
- Laying foundations起基
- Preparing a grave during one’s lifetime开生坟
- Preparing a coffin during one’s lifetime合寿木
- Encoffining入殓
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
Avoid
- Positioning a bed安床
- Selling and dispatching goods出货财
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Groundwork for burial破土
