Sunday
Heavenly StemYang Metal
This day’s heavenly stem is 庚 – Yang Metal. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 庚辰 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchDragon
This day’s earthly branch is 辰 – Dragon. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 庚辰 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityOpen Day
开 – Open Day. The traditional name means: opening.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Dragon and the month is Horse; 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
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Ritual release解除
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Seeking medical care求医
- Treating illness治病
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Preparing a grave during one’s lifetime开生坟
- Preparing a coffin during one’s lifetime合寿木
Avoid
- Making bridal bed curtains合帐
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Weaving and setting up a loom经络
- Burial安葬
- Encoffining入殓
