Auspicious Moving Days for 2018

The following auspicious moving days are based on basic traditional Chinese date-selection method. 

An auspicious moving day can enhance the good Feng Shui of the house and delay negative events from happening if the Feng Shui is bad.

Each day entry below specifies which Chinese Zodiac animal is clashed by that day.  The most important precaution for selecting a moving date is that the moving day animal sign should not clash the animal sign of the principal bread-winner of the family.  There are more detailed precautions listed in the "Practical Date-selection Methods" discussion list.

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Bazi: Meaning of NO wealth element in natal chart

500th article of this blog:  I have started writing articles about Chinese Metaphysics since 2000.   It takes 18 years to write the 500th article. 

MEANING OF NO WEALTH ELEMENT IN NATAL CHART

1. Daymaster (DM) lacks relationship or karma with father like father dies prematurely, runs away, is incapable, chronically sick or handicapped.
2. DM lacks relationship or karma with wife like frequent confrontations, marrying late and likely separated eventually.
3. DM has little or no wealth luck, is likely to make money through physical labor (except chart with output star/s)
4. DM has problems keeping money-- money comes in first half of the year and gone in the second half.
5. DM loses wealth mostly due to defraud, robbery, injury or sickness and not for something of value.
6. DM has no or poor money management skill or losing money due to poor investment or speculations.

As usual, there are exceptions to the above, like if wealth element is unfavorable to the chart, then no wealth element actually is good for wealth.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND NEW YEAR!

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Auspicious and Inauspicious sleeping directions 12生肖睡觉朝向风水

We spend one-third of our life in sleeping.  It is important that our heads pointing to the direction that is beneficial to our body.  The followings are favorable and unfavorable sleeping directions based on your Chinese zodiac animal sign.  The sleeping directions here refer to the pointing direction of your head while sleeping.

RAT (years born: 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020, 2032, 2044) 
Favorable directions:  north, west
Unfavorable directions:  northwest, southwest 

OX (years born: 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973,  1985, 1997, 2009, 2021, 2033, 2045)
Favorable directions:  west, north, northeast,
Unfavorable directions:  northwest, southwest, south 

TIGER (years born: 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022,  2034, 2046)
Favorable directions:  east, south, north
Unfavorable directions:  west
 
RABBIT (years born: 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023,  2035 ) 
Favorable directions:  east, south, north
Unfavorable directions:  west

DRAGON (years born: 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976,  1988, 2000, 2012, 2024, 2036)  
Favorable directions:  north, west, southeast, northeast,
Unfavorable directions:  east, northwest, south

SNAKE (years born: 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013,  2025, 2037) 
Favorable directions:  east, south
Unfavorable directions:  north

HORSE (years born: 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, 2026, 2038, 2050)
Favorable directions:  east, south
Unfavorable directions:  north

RAM (years born: 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015, 2027, 2039 )
Favorable directions:  south, southwest
Unfavorable directions:  northeast, northwest, north 

MONKEY (years born: 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016,  2028, 2040)
Favorable directions:  west, southwest, northeast
Unfavorable directions:  south

ROOSTER (years born: 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981,  1993, 2005, 2017, 2029, 2041)  
Favorable directions:  west, southwest, northeast
Unfavorable directions:  south

DOG (years born: 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970,  1982, 1994, 2006, 2018, 2030, 2042)
Favorable directions:  east, south, northwest
Unfavorable directions:  northeast, southeast

PIG  (years born: 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1994, 2007, 2019, 2031, 2043 )
Favorable directions:  north, west
Unfavorable directions:  northwest, southwest

NOTE:  If a person was born between January 1 and February 3 of the year, his/ her animal sign would be the sign of previous year (due to the Chinese solar calendar). 

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Bazi: How to check the cheating potential of your husband

Will your husband cheat?  Believe it or not, the answer may be found in your own Bazi chart!

In Bazi, power stars (zheng-guan/ qi-sha) represent husband/ boy friend for women.  To check if your husband will cheat or not, you look at the interactions of power stars with your peer stars (bi-jian/ jie-cai) in your own Bazi chart.  If there is/ are interactions would mean potential signs of cheating husbands or boy friends.  It could also mean long courtship/ cohabitation with separations as ending.

If your natal chart meets any one of the following conditions, your husband is a potential cheater:
1.  "Peer star snatches power star"(比劫夺官 ):  Peer stars are daymaster's (DM) sisters, friends of same gender and colleagues.  Power star is husband.  When peer star snatching power star happens, it means close friend or even sister has "snatched" DM's husband away or simply having affair with DM's husband.  The likelihood is higher when peer and power star are in the same pillar.  If peer star and power star show up in stem level, it means they have the affair openly without fear.  If both stars are in the branch level, the affair is going on in secret.
2.   Power star is combined away (官杀被合 ):  Power star represents a woman DM's husband.  When it is combined away means her husband is taken away .  For example, bing-fire is the power star of xin-metal female DM.  If there is another xin-metal in the chart, especially if it is next to bing-fire, the probability of xin-metal DM losing her husband to another female will be high.
3.  Peer star in day-branch (日支见比劫星 ):  Day-branch is the location of spouse palace or husband in a chart.  This palace prefers seeing wealth or power but not peer star.  If peer star is unfavorable in the chart, mistress may likely show up.

For example:  female chart 
YEAR:  Geng-wu
DAY:   Yi-you
MONTH:  Geng-yin
HOUR:  Geng-chen

Female Geng-metal DM's husband is wu-fire.  Wu-fire is in the year pillar.  This means her husband is likely from far away or out of state/ province.  Wu-fire is surrounded by metal (this means peer stars snatching him away).  This women had many unsuccessful romances with out-of-state boy friends.

If your chart does not see any power star, never mind if your husband will cheat or not, worry about how to get a husband first.  Usually this means you may have problem getting a husband or lacking relationship with husband if getting one.

Male readers may find a new explanation for cheating-- "wife's chart shows that I will cheat".  Female readers can tell their hubbies why they keep following them or put a male chastity belt on them in certain periods.  However, there are subtle and low profile Bazi remedies than these in-your-face fixes.

For possible Bazi remedies, you may take these courses:
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With Bazi knowledge, one can predict when the cheating episode may happen and do preventive measures.  It is also possible to check if your boy friend or husband will cheat or not by reading his Bazi chart too (equal opportunity Bazi reading here).  This may be a future post.

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What happen to the peasant who had sold Grand Duke

In March of 2015,  a Liaoning (遼寧 China) peasant Wang Cheng De (王承德 ) had dug up a 70 Kg. "Real Grand Duke"-- a rare type of mushroom that is supposedly has many medicinal applications according to ancient Chinese medicine texts.  He had sold the mushroom for RMB$ 3 million (US$500k).

Peasant Wang Cheng De and has Grand Duke mushroom

A close-up look of the Grand Duke mushroom

Unlike other people with sudden riches, Wang did not spend his new found fortune on luxuries nor speculate on stock market.  Instead, he had invested RMB$1.5 million to build a vacation resort, RMB$260k on 50 donkeys, RMB$180k on a new car, the rest of the money is invested on a fish pond to raise fishes and ducks.

Wang's donkey stable

 

Wang raised ducks and fishes

Wang's favorite pastime is looking at his fishes and ducks from this tree house

Guests at Wang's vacation resort

 Wang is a typical industrious peasant who likes to work.

In the summer of 2017, a giant flood had destroyed Wang's resort and fish pond.  His fishes and ducks were disappeared in a flash.  Wang did not even have a place to stay but to live in his tree house.  His capital equipment is gone and with no funding source.

Wang lived in the tree house after the giant flood

Wang had fallen in depression.  He did some soul searching and reflection in the tree house.  He had decided to sell his remaining herds of about 40 donkeys at cost and raised RMB$200k.

He used the money to buy some pigs and raise them in the donkey stables.  He also bought 2000 chicklings to raise them up as "free range chickens".  At the same time he formed a co-op for cultivating mushrooms.

Wang examines his free range chickens

Wang bought eggs of other exotic birds

Wang feeds his pigs

Wang once again is full of hope for his future.  He said by next year at around this  time, he will have 10k free range chickens and a rebuilt fish pond.

He is unfazed by the wrath of Grand Duke.




POSTSCRIPT:  THE MANY FACES OF GRAND DUKE
Grand Duke comes in many forms.  Grand Duke can represent a direction not to be disturbed in Feng Shui or a time marker that may clash the birth year of some people.


The "Grand Duke" here is one type of Ganoderma or 肉靈芝 in Chinese.  Because of its rarity, it is enshrined with many mysterious medicinal functions.

According to traditional belief, this Grand Duke mushroom should not be touched or moved except for saving life【太歲勿動除非用作藥材救人】.  When discovered, Grand Duke mushroom is enshrined and worshiped.

According to legend, Grand Duke mushroom is the guardian spirit of the land.  If it is removed, the land in which it resides will lose its "earth energy".  The pictures below are different variations of the Grand Duke mushroom.

This 1000 years old Grand Duke mushroom worth US$30M!

A suspected "Grand Duke" mushroom

This Grand Duke was dug from a field

White Grand Duke is more valuable

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How to determine current year is good or bad for you?

In Bazi,  one's natal chart determines the "quality" of the chart.  But it is only part of the destiny pie.  A "good quality" chart still "sucks" if its luck periods do not bring in the elements that the chart needs to prosper.

There are two types of "luck period"-- the "10-years luck" (10YL) and "annual luck" (AL).  10YL is calculated in terms of one's birth month, which is different from person to person.  10YL provides the backdrops or "climate" of one's luck within that 10-years period. 

Annual luck means one's overall luck for current year. In Bazi, everyone shares the same AL.  For example, current year 2017 is ding-you (fire-rooster) year.  Every person in the world is subject to the influences of the same annual luck of ding-you.  If fire and metal are favorable to one's chart, one will enjoy better luck within 2017.  If otherwise, one's luck will be below average.  The important thing about AL is:  Any fortune or misfortune will be triggered by AL because it brings the favorable or unfavorable elements to the chart.

In this post, we will keep it simple by focusing on how annual luck affects your luck:

1.  AL "fan-yin" or "fu-yin" 10YL:  "Fan-yin" means stem clashing stem and branch clashing branch between two pillars.  "Fu-yin" means two identical pillars.  Fan-yin and fu-yin usually are unfavorable to the daymaster (DM) and jinx his/her close relatives.
2.  Strong DM with AL brings in wealth, power and output (cai, guan and shi-shang) elements means favorable fortune for the year.  But if AL brings in resource and/ or peer (yin or bi-jian) elements, it means misfortune for the year.
3.  Weak DM with AL brings in resource and/ or peer (yin and bi-jian) elements means favorable fortune for the year.  But if AL brings in wealth, power and/ or output (cai, guan and shi-shang) elements, it means misfortune for the year.
4.  10YL is favorable with AL brings in zheng-cai (+wealth), zheng-guan (+power), zheng-yin (+resource), shi-shen (-output), and/ or bi-jian (-peer),  means current year fortune will be enhanced even further.  If AL brings in jie-cai (+peer), qi-sha (-power), pian-yin (-resource) and/ or shang-guan (+output), means current year fortune will be mixed with both good and bad fortune.
5.  10YL is unfavorable with AL brings in zheng-cai (+wealth), zheng-guan (+power), zheng-yin (+resource), shi-shen (-output), and/ or bi-jian (-peer),  means current year fortune will have minor fortunes but major mishaps.  If AL brings in jie-cai (+peer), qi-sha (-power), pian-yin (-resource) and/ or shang-guan (+output), means current year fortune will be very bad.
6.  AL stem/ branch combine with day pillar is generally considered good luck for the year.  AL fan-yin  (clashing stems and branches) or fu-yin (identical pillars) day-pillar is generally negative for DM because it affects DM and the spouse palace directly.  Usually this means something going on with marital relationship or personal sickness/ disaster.
7.  The stem and branch of AL are favorable elements ("yong-shen") of the natal chart would imply the year will be auspicious or fortunate.  If unfavorable ("ji-shen"), the year will be below average or unfortunate.

Anyway, the above is a rough guideline for making annual luck interpretations.  You still have to take the whole chart and both luck periods into consideration to make more accurate predictions.

Ken Lai

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Beauty and the Beast: Dog Edition

Sophie Wang, of Taiwan, has a 13 years old dog named "Black Bear".  This young woman treats Black Bear like her younger "brother".

Motor bikes are popular in Taiwan.  Black Bear is unable to sit on a bike.  Sophie bought a cloth carrier, carry Black Bear on her back and travels around the island on her bike.  She posts the daily live and travel with Black Bear on her Facebook page. 
https://m.facebook.com/blackbearwithsophie/

A few days ago, while traveling with Black Bear on her back,  Sophie something warm rushing down her back.  The aging Black Bear has incontinence.  A 13 years old dog is equivalent to a 70 years old human.

Below is the original descriptions written by Sophie translated from Chinese:

"The weather is so nice.  After work, had I rushed back home to carry Black Bear for a joyride on my motor bike.   While cruising, my tail vertebra suddenly felt something warm flowing downward.   I had a not so nice premonition coming up.......

I had touched my back.  It was wet.  I had smelled it.  It was smelly. 😑

I have already known that Black Bear is very old and may have incontinence problem occasionally.  So upon returning home, I took Black Bear to the bathroom to wash and clean up.  While washing, Black Bear had lowered his head as if blaming himself for the mishap.  Of course I did not scold him.  I know Black Bear was not deliberately to wet me.  I had petted his head and said, "Never mind, everything will be all right after a little wash.  Sister Siao Siao is waiting to eat beef now!"

Dogs are similar to human,  require more care when getting old.  Please do not avoid or abandon them, because they are your family members."

黑熊和姊姊的揹揹日記

這麼好的天氣，下班立馬衝回家揹著黑熊騎哺哺兜風，騎著騎著，姊姊的尾椎骨部位感到一股熱流，不好的預感湧上....
手一模，溼了，拿上前一聞，騷的😑😑😑
姊姊其實知道，黑熊年紀大了，有時候會有失禁的問題，所以回到家後，就先把黑熊帶進浴室清洗，清洗時黑熊頭都低低的，好像很自責，姊姊當然沒有罵他，因為姊姊知道黑熊一定不是故意的，拍拍他的頭跟他說：沒關係喲～洗一洗就好了，姊姊秀秀，等等吃牛肉噢！
狗狗和人一樣，老了一定會需要更多的照顧，請不要拋棄或嫌棄他們，因為他們是你的家人

 


Many Chinese news media have picked up this post.  Netizens give comments like "very touching", "Black Bear is very fortunate with a loving sister", "Touching!  Family member will not leave or abandon family member".

To see more pictures of this "beauty and the beast" story, click the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58rT6dUpD2E 

Dogs have luck too.  Some homeless dogs suddenly are adopted by nice families while some dogs get abandoned or mistreated by their owners. 


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Feng Shui: Bad locations for bathroom

There was no plumbing in ancient China, bathroom was put outside the house.  With modern plumbing and flush toilet, bathroom is integrated into the house interior. 

Bathroom is important in Feng Shui because it is where wastes or negative qi/ energy accumulates and removed.  Every resident in a house uses the bathroom everyday.  The location of bathroom affects the health and luck of the residents of the household.

The locations below are where NOT to put your bathroom:

1. Southwest location:  This is the location of Kun trigram in Feng Shui.  It represents the oldest female or mother of the house.  A bathroom in this location will affect the health and luck of the mother.  It also affects marital relationship of the couple.
2. Northwest location:  This is the location of Qian trigram in Feng Shui.  It represents the oldest male or father of the house.  A bathroom in this location will affect the health and luck of the father.  It also affects marital relationship of the couple and career of the father.
3. Northeast location:  This is the location of Gen trigram in Feng Shui.  It represents the youngest male or son of the house.  A bathroom in this location will affect the health and luck of this son.  Gen trigram also represents the current Feng Shui Period 8 luck for the house.  This may affect the overall luck of the household.
4. South location:  This is the location of Li trigram in Feng Shui.  It represents the middle daughter or 30+ years old female of the house.  A bathroom in this location will affect the health and luck of this female mother.   Li trigram is fire in nature and bathroom is water in nature.  This will create water and fire clashes that may give rise to disasters and accidents to the residents.
5. Center location:  This is the worst location for a bathroom.  Center is like the "heart" of a house and should be kept quiet, clean, minimized movements, no heavy objects, no staircase and no bathroom.  Sickness like heart problem and acute illness may occur to the residents if a bathroom is put in this location.   This is also the most difficult problem to fix here.  Walk away if you find a new house with a bathroom in the house center.

There are some limited remedies for these bathroom problem.  I have some solutions in my "Advanced Visual Form Feng Shui" video course (please check below for details).

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“Practical Date-Selection Methods (incl. XKDG) w/ 12 hr. video
“Practical Imperial Qi-Men-Dun-Jia 4G” w/ 12 hr. video
“Professional Imperial QMDJ 4G” w/ 21 hr. video
“EZ QMDJ series: Astrology, Date/Task Selection, Annual Luck/ FS”w/ 3 hr. HD
“EZ QMDJ Advanced Feng Shui” with 4 hr. HD video
“Daoist Talismans for Feng Shui/Blessing” w/ 24 hr video
“Practical Door Feng Shui for Wealth” w/ 3 hr. video
“4-Pillars Forecasting Bootcamp+ 2017 edition” with 18 hr. video
“Advanced Visual Form Feng Shui” w/23 hr. HD video
“Visual Form Feng Shui” w/13 hr. HD video
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Bazi: Meanings of "Void" in pillars and 10 transformation stars

"Void" means nothing, missing, lacking karma and poor or no relationship in Bazi.  "Void" occurs because there are 12 earthly branches to match with ten heavenly stems.  Two branches in each group of 10 binomials in the 60-jia-zi cycle will have no match and are defined as "in void".


MEANINGS OF VOID IN PILLARS (四柱空亡)

• Year pillar in void:  Year pillar represents life period between age 1-16.  Daymaster (DM) suffers obstacles and illness during this period; lacking support from older generations.
• Month pillar in void:  Month pillar represents life period between age 17-32.  DM suffers obstacles more than successes during this period;  disharmony or with little or no relationship with siblings or parents.
• Day pillar in void:  Day pillar represents life period between age 33-48.  DM suffers bad luck in career/ wealth and disharmony in family during this period;  poor relationship with wife; wife may die prematurely or simply no wife
• Hour pillar in void:  hour pillar represents life period after age 48.  DM has little or no relationship with children or simply no children; cannot rely on children for old age support; likely to be alone and poor

MEANINGS OF VOID IN 10 TRANSFORMATION STARS  ("10 Gods"十神空亡)

1. Bi-jian (+peer) in void:  few siblings or siblings are not helpful or in disharmony; male DM will have no wife or wife is not helpful;  female DM lacks relationship with husband
2. Jie-cai (-peer) in void:  incapable or unhelpful siblings;  problems in accumulating wealth; easy to waste money away.
3. Shang-guan (+output) in void:  few children or no kid; marital problem or remarry
4. Shi-shen (-output) in void:  decreases in blessing and life expectancy
5. Zheng-cai  (+wealth) in void:  problems in accumulating wealth;  toiling hard for money; lacking relationship with wife; late marriage;  family disharmony.
6. Pian-cai (-wealth) in void:  jinxing father;  lacking relationship with father; no "unexpected wealth" luck
7. Zheng-guan (+power) in void:  deceases in wealth from government career; not suitable for public post;  few children for male DM;  poor relationship with husband for female DM.
8. Qi-sha (-power) in void:  lacking mentor/ help from superiors or senior generation; DM has no authority or influence;  few children for male DM;  poor relationship with husband for female DM.
9. Zheng-yin (+resource) in void:  problems in achieving authority and academic successes;  jinxing mother.
10. Pian-yin (+resource) in void:  problems in getting success in academia or school; jinxing step-mother.

My "Destiny and Luck Management" courses (see below) include some remedies and fixes for void.

Ken Lai

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“Applied Bazi: Sickness Forecasting and Management” w/33 hr. HD video 
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 1: Forecasting and Decision Support” w/32 hr. HD video
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 2: Basic Bazi Therapy w/18 hr. HD video
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 3 w/ Advanced Bazi Therapy w/18 hr. HD video
“Feng Shui Toolbox: Sha-qi, Health/Wealth and Career” w/ 7 hr. HD video
“Period 7/8 FS Toolkit w/ Advanced Flying Star techniques” w/ 6 hr. HD video
“Practical Date-Selection Methods (incl. XKDG) w/ 12 hr. video
“Practical Imperial Qi-Men-Dun-Jia 4G” w/ 12 hr. video
“Professional Imperial QMDJ 4G” w/ 21 hr. video
“EZ QMDJ series: Astrology, Date/Task Selection, Annual Luck/ FS”w/ 3 hr. HD
“EZ QMDJ Advanced Feng Shui” with 4 hr. HD video
“Daoist Talismans for Feng Shui/Blessing” w/ 24 hr video
“Practical Door Feng Shui for Wealth” w/ 3 hr. video
“4-Pillars Forecasting Bootcamp+ 2017 edition” with 18 hr. video
“Advanced Visual Form Feng Shui” w/23 hr. HD video
“Visual Form Feng Shui” w/13 hr. HD video
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Winning Feng Shui for small group gambling

The tips below are for increasing the probability of winning in small group gambling like table games (blackjack, poker and the likes) and Chinese mahjog.  These games are characterized by a small group of people, usually less than 10,  sit around a table and play.

I deliberately do NOT explain the rationale behind the tips below (take my "Visual Form Feng Shui" course if you are curious).  You may understand the theories behind if you have studied Feng Shui.

FENG SHUI TIPS FOR SOCIAL GAMBLING

1. Sitting location:  Your back must have a wall or a tall object as your "back support".  It must not be empty or your wealth luck will suffer.
2. Facing:  Your facing direction must be open and wide.  It is even better this open space is connected to the main door to receive wealth energy from outside. This affects the magnitude of your wealth luck. 
3. See no toilet:  Your facing must NOT seeing/facing a toilet.
4. No toilet at your back: Your back location must not be a toilet.
5. Round table:  If sitting around a round table, sit at the side that has a wall.
6. Square table:  If sitting around a square or rectangular table, sit at the side with a wall.  If the side has two seats, sit at the right side.  If the side has 3 seats, sit in the middle.  If the side has 4 seats, sit at the third seat (counting from the left), if you cannot get the third seat, sit on the 4th seat. 
7. Avoid traffic:  If you cannot get the ideal seat, avoid the seat on the side with walking traffic at your back.
8. Time-out:  Take a break to "recharge" your energy when someone keeps winning (to interrupt his winning streak energy) or you keep losing.

These tips have been tested and found high accuracy in predicting who will win or loss in small group social gambling situation.

Similar principles can be applied to casino situation.  Avoid dealer with a back support like a wall or tall object.  Sit at the right side of a table (but make sure there are people in your left side) and avoid opening/ door at your back.  Unfortunately, it is rare to find back support/ wall for gamblers in casinos.  So at the least, find a dealer with an empty space at his back, the bigger the better.

A student of mine has combined Imperial Qi-Men-Dun-Jia and Bazi to win slot machines in casinos.  His winnings are more than enough to pay for my courses and more.

Disclaimer:  There is no guarantee for anyone to win in any gambling situation.  The author of this post will not be responsible for any losses/ profits resulting from any application of the tips listed in this post. 

Ken Lai

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“Applied Bazi: Sickness Forecasting and Management” w/33 hr. HD video 
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 1: Forecasting and Decision Support” w/32 hr. HD video
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 2: Basic Bazi Therapy w/18 hr. HD video
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 3 w/ Advanced Bazi Therapy w/18 hr. HD video
“Feng Shui Toolbox: Sha-qi, Health/Wealth and Career” w/ 7 hr. HD video
“Period 7/8 FS Toolkit w/ Advanced Flying Star techniques” w/ 6 hr. HD video
“Practical Date-Selection Methods (incl. XKDG) w/ 12 hr. video
“Practical Imperial Qi-Men-Dun-Jia 4G” w/ 12 hr. video
“Professional Imperial QMDJ 4G” w/ 21 hr. video
“EZ QMDJ series: Astrology, Date/Task Selection, Annual Luck/ FS”w/ 3 hr. HD
“EZ QMDJ Advanced Feng Shui” with 4 hr. HD video
“Daoist Talismans for Feng Shui/Blessing” w/ 24 hr video
“Practical Door Feng Shui for Wealth” w/ 3 hr. video
“4-Pillars Forecasting Bootcamp+ 2017 edition” with 18 hr. video
“Advanced Visual Form Feng Shui” w/23 hr. HD video
“Visual Form Feng Shui” w/13 hr. HD video
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Bazi: Free soap opera writer training?

NOTE:   Below is a "Reality Bazi" exercise that I give to my Bazi students today.  It is the real life version of "The Graduate" movie.

There is a soap opera going on in Taiwan that grabs TV and people's attention.  Here are the characters:

1. Mother-in-law:  36 years old  (1981 xin-you)
2. Daughter:  20 years old  (1997 ding-chou)
3. Son-in-law ("Sing"):  18 years old (1999 ji-mao)
4. The young couple has one kid, age and gender not reported.

This "incident" has happened in 2017 ding-you year (likely in metal months, September - October).

This mother-in-law has seduced Sing the son-in-law and has sex.  She claims that Sing loves her and tells people that Sing will divorce her daughter.  She said her current husband does not care as long as she returns home at night.

Her daughter is mad and spills out this in-laws affair in the social media.  The daughter says that she would have filed a lawsuit for damages if the mistress is not her own mother.  Mother and daughter have public "cat-fights" in the internet.  Local TV news are busy with this event to push up rating.

Most "netizens" sympathize with the daughter.  Some comment that the incident looks like a Japanese AV (adult video). 

Friends of this son-in-law said he had relationship with 2 females simultaneously for a while.

Based on the limited information from the media, can you create ("guesstimate") the possible composition of daughter's natal Bazi chart  (incomplete chart OK, just need the critical elements)?

If you can read Chinese, here are the links for more juicy details.

【瞞住阿囡】台36歲外母偷戀18歲女婿 遭網民起底鬧爆

【瞞住阿囡】女婿現身回應 咁講同外母關係…

Ken Lai

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Video Correspondence Courses: (click for details)   
“Applied Bazi: Sickness Forecasting and Management” w/33 hr. HD video 
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 1: Forecasting and Decision Support” w/32 hr. HD video
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 2: Basic Bazi Therapy w/18 hr. HD video
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 3 w/ Advanced Bazi Therapy w/18 hr. HD video
“Feng Shui Toolbox: Sha-qi, Health/Wealth and Career” w/ 7 hr. HD video
“Period 7/8 FS Toolkit w/ Advanced Flying Star techniques” w/ 6 hr. HD video
“Practical Date-Selection Methods (incl. XKDG) w/ 12 hr. video
“Practical Imperial Qi-Men-Dun-Jia 4G” w/ 12 hr. video
“Professional Imperial QMDJ 4G” w/ 21 hr. video
“EZ QMDJ series: Astrology, Date/Task Selection, Annual Luck/ FS”w/ 3 hr. HD
“EZ QMDJ Advanced Feng Shui” with 4 hr. HD video
“Daoist Talismans for Feng Shui/Blessing” w/ 24 hr video
“Practical Door Feng Shui for Wealth” w/ 3 hr. video
“4-Pillars Forecasting Bootcamp+ 2017 edition” with 18 hr. video
“Advanced Visual Form Feng Shui” w/23 hr. HD video
“Visual Form Feng Shui” w/13 hr. HD video
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