Monday
Heavenly StemYang Wood
This day’s heavenly stem is 甲 – Yang Wood. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 甲戌 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchDog
This day’s earthly branch is 戌 – Dog. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 甲戌 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityDanger Day
危 – Danger Day. The traditional name means: danger, caution.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Dog 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
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Marriage嫁娶
- Installing machinery安机械
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Positioning a bed安床
- Moving into a home入宅
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Encoffining入殓
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Burial安葬
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Taking up an official post赴任
- Travel出行
- Relocation移徙
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Ritual release解除
- Building a storehouse造仓
- Welcoming a new household member进人口
Avoid
- Ritual consecration开光
- Selling and dispatching goods出货财
