Monday
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 辛亥 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchPig
This day’s earthly branch is 亥 – Pig. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 辛亥 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 Pig 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
- Engagement订盟
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Meeting family and friends会亲友
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Ritual fasting and ceremonies斋醮
- Ritual bathing沐浴
- Making sacred images and statues塑绘
- Relocating a household shrine出火
- Ritual consecration开光
- Erecting structural columns竖柱
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
- Signing contracts立券
- Preparing structural beams作梁
- Cutting mortises in wooden columns开柱眼
- Felling trees伐木
- Erecting scaffolding架马
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Positioning a bed安床
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Building animal shelters造畜稠
- Digging a well掘井
Avoid
- Building a temple造庙
- Marriage嫁娶
- Travel出行
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Burial安葬
- Funeral rites行丧
