Monday
Heavenly StemYang Fire
This day’s heavenly stem is 丙 – Yang Fire. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 丙子 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRat
This day’s earthly branch is 子 – Rat. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 丙子 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityFull Day
满 – Full Day. The traditional name means: fullness, filling.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Rat and the month is Dog; 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
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
- Signing contracts立券
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Exchanging birth details before betrothal问名
- Relocation移徙
- Ritual release解除
- Building a toilet开厕
- Starting studies入学
- Laying foundations起基
- Positioning a bed安床
- Releasing goods from storage开仓
- Selling and dispatching goods出货财
- Burial安葬
- Exhumation启钻
- Encoffining入殓
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
Avoid
- Moving into a home入宅
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
