Tuesday
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 癸未 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchGoat
This day’s earthly branch is 未 – Goat. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 癸未 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 Goat 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
- Rites for departed spirits普渡
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Repairing walls补垣
- Filling holes and cavities塞穴
- Removing ant infestations断蚁
- Building an embankment筑堤
- Encoffining入殓
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Burial安葬
Avoid
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Digging a well掘井
- Ritual consecration开光
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Conducting a lawsuit词讼
