Monday, December 22, 2025

2026 Grand Duke Talisman Charity Drive with Bazi tips

This is the  KISS version of Grand Duke Charity Drive.  It cuts all the fat and presents only essential materials.  If you want to know more about the background of GD talisman, click the following link:

Ken's Cyber Cave: 1/1/24 - 2/1/24

DO YOU NEED A GRAND DUKE TALISMAN?

1.  You need one if you have the following Chinese zodiac birth animal signs:

a.  HORSE (years born: 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014)

-- "Fu-yin" or same animal sign as Grand Dukeobstacles, stagnation or running "reverse" instead of forward and not suitable for travels 

-- Penalizes Grand Duke; big fluctuations in luck, wealth, career, relationship and health; traffic accident, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death,  negative romance, quarrels and etc.

b.  RAT (years born: 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020) 

-- Clashing Grand Duke; very serious; big fluctuations in luck, accident, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death, changing job

c.  OX (years born: 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973,  1985, 1997, 2009, 2021)

-- "Hai" or harms Grand Duke; could be serious for the person's relatives; interpersonal relationship problems, negative romance, marital problem, backstabbing , sudden death or disaster

d.  RABBIT (years born: 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023) 

-- "Po" or breaks Grand Duke: backstabbing at work, over-consumption, no luck in non-regular income like gambling/ stock and success slips away in the last minute

2.  If ANY pillar of your Bazi natal chart has a "Zi" or rat:  Click the following link and enter your birthday and birth hour in the "birth chart" windows, to generate you Bazi natal chart.  Then check if there is any Zi or rat in the chart.  You only need to check the left side Birth Chart.  For example, this Dec. 29, 1948, 1:40 chart:

From right to left:  Year, Month, Day, Hour

-- This person is in big trouble this year with 3 zi or rat branches because Grand Duke clashes 3 of  the 4 pillars and penalize the Chou hour pillar.  This could be major misfortunes or even death.


MEANING OF GRAND  DUKE CLASHING EACH PILLAR:

  1. Year pillar:  you or your senior relative may have obstacles or misfortune
  2. Month pillar:  your parents or siblings may have misfortune
  3. Day pillar:  you or your spouse may have misfortune, divorce or even death
  4. Hour pillar:  your children or younger relative may be in trouble

You are strongly recommended to get a GD talisman if you have a rat in any pillar in your natal chart, especially the day pillar (Jia-zi, Bing-zi, Wu-zi, Geng-zi and Ren-zi).  A MUST if you have Ren-zi or Geng-zi day pillar because both you and your spouse are in danger.

In addition, 2026 Bing-wu year is the strongest fire year.  Even charts that like fire may have problem with it.  Strong fire can destroy anything including water.  It is associated with serious illness like tumor and cancer.  Do medical check up if your chart already has too much fire and/ or chou, wei and xu earth.

HOW TO GET THIS GD TAILISMAN?  This year we use digital delivery of Grand Duke Talismans. Ken Lai will create a GD Talisman, blessed and "activated" with your name on screen digitally in front of a Dou-Mou altar. Dou-Mou is the mother of 60 Grand Dukes.  This personalized activated GD file will be emailed to you with notes.  You can print as many copies as you want (but for one unique-named person or family only).  In this way, you can replace soiled or damaged talismans.  You can carry one talisman in your wallet and post one in your home and/or office for Feng Shui remedy.  

Below are some charities that you can send your donation to.  But you can always support your local charities like food-shelf or soup kitchens.

  • homeless shelter
  • Save-the-Children (www.savethechildren.org) 
  • UNICEF (United Nation Children's Fund)
  • Smile Train (www.smiletrain.org) 
  • children hospital
  • food shelves/soup kitchen
  • Red Cross
  • animal shelter/ humane society
  • Doctors without border (https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm) 
If you are worried about privacy issues and future solicitations-- please be assured that no future solicitation or email will be sent to you in the future. You send me NO money. You send your donation directly to your favorite local or international charity.  No purchase involved now or in the future.  This offer is for people who have no access to Daoist temples.  Please support your local temple if you have access to one.
SUGGESTED DONATION  (same old 2010 pricing!)
If you need more than one Grand Duke Talismans, here is the discount schedule:
 --one talisman US$30 donation (US$5 if you are unemployed/under-employed)
 --two talismans US$50 donation ($10 if unemployed/under-employed )
 --three talismans US$60 donation ($15 if unemployed/under-employed )
You may go to www.xe.com to calculate the equivalent of US$30 to your local currency.
NOTE:  People from countries with Big Mac Value Meal sold under US$ 6, may use the "under-employed and unemployed rate".
NO MONEY?  NO PROBLEM
Simply perform an act of kindness like visit a senior citizen, feed a homeless animal, buy a meal for the hungry,  tutor a needy student-- any help or emotional support to all living being and the like can be a substitute of a monetary donation.  Email me what you have done (great if you show photo, but not compulsory) and I shall email you the talisman.
Talisman that is grounded with a charitable event works more effectively because it has an exchange of one type of energy for protection energy.

To claim your talismans and application instructions, please forward your donation receipt with the talisman recipient names and gender info to kenlai88@yahoo.com with the following info:
User Name, City, country:
Gender:
Your consecrated digital talisman will be emailed to you in about 1 week after receiving your proof of donation.

Thank you for participating in this charity drive.

 Ken Lai

 http://www.kenlaifengshui.com
 Email: kenlai88@yahoo.com

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Can "monetary losses" neutralize disasters? 破财消灾

After suffering monetary loss for whatever reason, some Chinese would self-comfort themselves by saying "losing money to neutralize disasters (破財消灾) ".  Some may say "Normalcy is restored when money is gone 財散人安樂".

Could losing wealth really fend off disasters or is this simply a "method of spiritual victory" (aka "Spirit of Ah Q" in Chinese language)?  Is there any theory to support this claim? 

Actually, in terms of Bazi's 5-elements Nurturing and Controlling theory using 10-transformation stars ("10-gods"), "losing money to neutralize disasters" is valid under the scenarios listed below.

However, one needs to understand the nurturing and controlling relationship between the 10-transformation stars to grasp the logic discussed below.

The following diagram summarizes this nurturing and controlling relationship:


Examples:  Output star nurtures (blue arrow) wealth star and controls (black arrow)  power star.  Wealth star nurtures power star and controls resource star.

I.  DAYMASTER (DM) USES SHI-SHEN AS PROTECTOR

"Daymaster" is the chart-owner.  Power stars (zheng-guan/ qi-sha) control or attack DM.  Hence power stars are the symbols for disasters and misfortune.  In Bazi, -output star or shi-shen controls power stars.  Ideally, -output star should have power stars under control to avoid disasters.   But if strong wealth stars show up, it will turn the whole chart upside down.  This is because output stars nurtures wealth stars and the latter in turn nurture power stars, making disasters (power stars) even stronger.  The -output protector becomes collaborator of the power star attacker!  Wealth stars become the mediator between -output and power stars and form an alliance to drain and control DM.  This means major disaster!

From the above analysis, disasters are attributed to strong wealth stars. If there are no strong wealth stars, disasters and misfortunes may not exist.  Wealth stars are represented by our cash and money reserves.  Hence, if DM can create "losing money" events (charity donation, buy real estate/ expensive items...)  to weaken his/her strong wealth stars to the point that wealth stars are not able to perform the mediating function, disasters are neutralized or at the least, minimized.

II.  DAYMASTER USES ZHENG-YIN/ PIAN-YIN AS PROTECTOR

Resource stars (zheng-yin/ pian-yin) nurtures DM.  Power star will attack DM if no mediator stands in-between them.  Resource stars protect DM from power stars by draining or as mediator between DM and power stars because power stars nurture resource stars.  Hence, resource stars play the role of mediator by turning power stars into collaborator to boost the strength of DM.

Wealth stars nurture power stars and control resource stars.  Hence when strong wealth stars show up in the system, they control and stop resource stars performing the mediator and protector functions.  Wealth stars further nurture and strengthen power stars to make the potential disasters more aggravating.

From the above analysis, disasters are attributed to strong wealth stars. If there is no strong wealth stars, disasters and misfortunes may be weak or not exist.  Hence, if DM weaken his/her strong wealth stars by "losing money" (buying real estate/ shopping spree, charity donation, and etc.)  to the point that these stars are no longer able to control or prevent resource star from performing the mediator and protector functions, disasters are averted or neutralized. 

III.  DAYMASTER USES BI-JIAN/ JIE-CAI AS PROTECTOR

Peer stars (bi-jian/ jie-cai) strengthen DM.  Power stars controls peer stars.  The act of controlling peer stars drains power star.  If peer stars are as strong as power stars,  the latter will be "tied up" and cannot attack DM.  

Peer stars controls wealth stars.  Wealth stars nurture power stars.  When strong wealth stars show up in the system, peer stars will be drained for attacking wealth stars.  Furthermore, wealth star will nurture power stars.  Consequently, power stars become more powerful whereas peer stars are weaker than before.  Peer stars become too weak to counter these power stars.  DM will lose the protection from peer stars and suffer the control or attack of the power stars.

Similar to the analyses of section I and II, all the problems are attributed to the appearance of wealth star.  The same "losing wealth" remedy should be used to eliminate or weaken wealth stars.

The difference between I and II situation is:  In the -output star scenario, wealth stars turn -output star into mediator to attack DM.  In the resource star scenario, wealth stars stop resource star from being a mediator and protector.  In the peer stars scenario,  wealth stars weaken the peer star protector and enhance the power star aggressor.

The best way of "losing wealth" is through charity donations because one can feel good and perhaps getting some karma credits for future good luck.

If you want to know more about Bazi, please check out the following courses:

“4-Pillars Forecasting Bootcamp+ ″ w/ 18 hr. video 

“Luck Enhancement and Misfortune Mitigation with Bazi and Feng Shui” w/ 45 hrs. HD video

Ken Lai

Video Correspondence Courses: (click for details)

“Visual Bazi: Wealth Secrets and Maximization” w/ 18 hr. HD video
“Advanced Visual Form Feng Shui”  w/23 hr. HD video
“Visual Form Feng Shui” w/13 hr. HD video
“Applied Bazi: Sickness Forecasting and Management” w/33 hr. HD video 
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 1: Forecasting and Decision Support” w/32 hr. HD video
“Luck Enhancement and Misfortune Mitigation with Bazi and Feng Shui” w/ 45 hrs. HD video
“Feng Shui Toolbox: Sha-qi, Health/Wealth and Career” w/ 7 hr. HD video
“Period 9 Feng Shui Bible w/ P8/ 9 Period Upgrade Advisor” w/ 14 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+ ″ w/ 18 hr. video