Monday
Heavenly StemYang Water
This day’s heavenly stem is 壬 – Yang Water. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 壬申 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchMonkey
This day’s earthly branch is 申 – Monkey. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 壬申 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 Monkey and the month is Rooster; 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
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Marriage嫁娶
- Installing machinery安机械
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Laying foundations起基
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Encoffining入殓
- Exhumation启钻
- Burial安葬
- Building a storehouse造仓
- Weaving and setting up a loom经络
Avoid
- Positioning a bed安床
- Ritual consecration开光
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
