Thursday
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 丙申 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 Monkey and the month is Ox; 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
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Ritual consecration开光
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Receiving wealth纳财
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
- Signing contracts立券
- Cutting and making garments裁衣
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Laying foundations起基
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Planting栽种
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Hunting畋猎
- Digging a well掘井
- Digging a pond or pool开池
- Burial安葬
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Encoffining入殓
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
Avoid
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Building a temple造庙
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Positioning a bed安床
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
