Thursday
Heavenly StemYang Metal
This day’s heavenly stem is 庚 – Yang Metal. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 庚子 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 庚子 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityClose Day
闭 – Close Day. The traditional name means: closing.
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 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
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Ritual bathing沐浴
- Exchanging birth details before betrothal问名
- Trading交易
- Receiving wealth纳财
- Encoffining入殓
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
- Repairing a grave修坟
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Building animal shelters造畜稠
- Training draught animals教牛马
Avoid
- Moving into a home入宅
- Buying property置产
- Marriage嫁娶
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Planting栽种
- Opening a business开市
- Ritual consecration开光
- Groundwork for burial破土
