Friday
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 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 Dragon and the month is Rat; 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
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Prayers for offspring求嗣
- Carving and sculpture雕刻
- Ritual consecration开光
- Installing a household shrine安香
- Travel出行
- Starting studies入学
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Laying foundations起基
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Digging a well掘井
- Building animal shelters造畜稠
- Burial安葬
- Groundwork for burial破土
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
Avoid
- Opening a business开市
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Engagement订盟
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
- Building a temple造庙
- Shipbuilding造船
- Weaving and setting up a loom经络
