Sunday
Heavenly StemYin Water
This day’s heavenly stem is 癸 – Yin Water. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 癸丑 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 癸丑 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 Ox and the month is Rabbit; 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
- Travel出行
- Ritual release解除
- Felling trees伐木
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Laying foundations起基
- Renovation修造
- Erecting scaffolding架马
- Installing doors or gates安门
- Relocation移徙
- Moving into a home入宅
- Building a temple造庙
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Thanksgiving rite after construction谢土
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
Avoid
- Betrothal gifts纳采
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Opening a business开市
- Trading交易
