Monday
Heavenly StemYang Earth
This day’s heavenly stem is 戊 – Yang Earth. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 戊午 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchHorse
This day’s earthly branch is 午 – Horse. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 戊午 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityHold Day
执 – Hold Day. The traditional name means: holding, perseverance.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Horse and the month is Ox; 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
- Marriage嫁娶
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Ritual bathing沐浴
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Travel出行
- Haircut理发
- Relocation移徙
- Trapping pests捕捉
- Hunting畋猎
- Filling a reservoir放水
- Moving into a home入宅
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Exhumation启钻
- Burial安葬
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Encoffining入殓
Avoid
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Opening a business开市
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Groundwork for burial破土
