Sunday
Heavenly StemYang Fire
This day’s heavenly stem is 丙 – Yang Fire. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 丙子 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRat
This day’s earthly branch is 子 – Rat. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 丙子 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 Rat 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
- Marriage嫁娶
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Rites for departed spirits普渡
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Travel出行
- Installing machinery安机械
- Ritual consecration开光
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Laying foundations起基
- Setting column foundation stones定磉
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Burial安葬
- Groundwork for burial破土
Avoid
- Opening a business开市
- Signing contracts立券
- Buying property置产
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Building a bridge造桥