Saturday
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 qualityHold Day
执 – Hold Day. The traditional name means: holding, perseverance.
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 Rabbit; 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
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- Making bridal bed curtains合帐
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Laying foundations起基
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Ritual bathing沐浴
- House cleaning扫舍
- Cutting mortises in wooden columns开柱眼
- Felling trees伐木
- Relocating a household shrine出火
Avoid
- Positioning a bed安床
- Opening a business开市
- Signing contracts立券
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
