Wednesday
Heavenly StemYin Wood
This day’s heavenly stem is 乙 – Yin Wood. The ten stems represent yin and yang pairs of the five elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
The day is 乙酉 in the sixty-part stem–branch cycle. Its first character is the stem; this alone does not make a day favourable or unfavourable.
Earthly BranchRooster
This day’s earthly branch is 酉 – Rooster. Each of the twelve branches has an animal; the cycle marks days as well as birth years.
The second character of 乙酉 gives the day’s animal. It comes from the calendar cycle, not the visitor’s birth details.
Traditional day qualityDanger Day
危 – Danger Day. The traditional name means: danger, caution.
The twelve day officers follow the relationship between the day branch and the solar-month branch. Here the day is Rooster and the month is Tiger; 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
- Honouring ancestors and deities祭祀
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Marriage嫁娶
- Dismantling building structures拆卸
- Renovation修造
- Breaking ground for construction动土
- Laying foundations起基
- Installing a roof beam上梁
- House construction and roofing盖屋
- Moving into a home入宅
- Opening a business开市
- Digging a pond or pool开池
- Filling holes and cavities塞穴
- Encoffining入殓
- Ending mourning除服
- Beginning mourning observance成服
- Moving a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
- Groundwork for burial破土
Avoid
- Positioning a bed安床
- Planting栽种
- Treating illness治病
- Installing or repairing a stove作灶
