Wednesday
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 癸巳 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchSnake
This day’s earthly branch is 巳 – Snake. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 癸巳 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 Snake and the month is Monkey; 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 sacred images and statues塑绘
- Ritual consecration开光
- Ritual release解除
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Marriage嫁娶
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Laying foundations起基
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Establishing a separate household分居
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
- Signing contracts立券
- Receiving wealth纳财
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
Avoid
- No listed entries无


