Tuesday
Heavenly StemYang Fire
This day’s heavenly stem is 丙 – Yang Fire. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 丙申 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchMonkey
This day’s earthly branch is 申 – Monkey. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 丙申 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityClose Day
闭 – Close Day. The traditional name means: closing.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Monkey 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
- Marriage嫁娶
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Installing machinery安机械
- Ritual release解除
- Acquiring domestic animals纳畜
- Animal husbandry and grazing牧养
- Ritual bathing沐浴
- Felling trees伐木
- Erecting scaffolding架马
- Preparing structural beams作梁
- Installing doors or gates安门
- House cleaning扫舍
- Preparing a coffin during one’s lifetime合寿木
- Burial安葬
- Exhumation启钻
- Erecting a memorial stone立碑
- Repairing a grave修坟
Avoid
- Prayers for blessings祈福
- Ritual consecration开光
- Opening a business开市
- Moving into a home入宅
- Breaking ground for construction动土
