Sunday
Heavenly StemYin Fire
This day’s heavenly stem is 丁 – Yin Fire. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 丁巳 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 丁巳 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityOpen Day
开 – Open Day. The traditional name means: opening.
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 Goat; 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
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Ritual consecration开光
- Seeking medical care求医
- Treating illness治病
- Marriage嫁娶
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Filling a reservoir放水
- Digging a well掘井
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Digging a canal开渠
- Installing grain mills and pounders安碓磑
Avoid
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Moving into a home入宅
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Starting studies入学
- Burial安葬
- Funeral rites行丧
