Friday
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 癸卯 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRabbit
This day’s earthly branch is 卯 – Rabbit. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 癸卯 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 Rabbit and the month is Dragon; 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
- Travel出行
- Making bridal bed curtains合帐
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Positioning a bed安床
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Trading交易
- Signing contracts立券
- Encoffining入殓
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Burial安葬
Avoid
- Conducting a lawsuit词讼
- Ritual consecration开光
- Opening a business开市
