Thursday
Heavenly StemYin Metal
This day’s heavenly stem is 辛 – Yin Metal. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 辛丑 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchOx
This day’s earthly branch is 丑 – Ox. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 辛丑 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityStable Day
定 – Stable Day. The traditional name means: settling, stabilising.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Ox and the month is Rooster; 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
- Ritual consecration开光
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Receiving wealth纳财
- Building a storehouse造仓
- Building a toilet开厕
- Planting栽种
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
Avoid
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Welcoming a new household member进人口
- Digging a canal开渠
- Moving into a home入宅
- Relocation移徙
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
