Minimalist Feng Shui for 2023 Year of Rabbit

 

Happy New Year!

Ken Lai
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Minimalist Feng Shui Guide for 2022

 

NOTES:

• 8-wealth star is in NE this year, make sure your water-fountain is not put in Yin mountain.
• besides no digging, avoid movement in regions with green arrows.
• people with tiger and monkey animal signs avoid watching corpse being put into a coffin when attending funeral

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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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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House and People Violating Grand Duke or Tai-sui

This post is based on 2015 "Grand Duke Talisman charity drive" with updates for 2017.

If you have read my old message about functions of Grand Duke, you know that there are two Grand Dukes watching over your shoulder, counting the good and bad deeds that you have done and executing rewards and misfortunes accordingly. This is a major rationale that donation to get your Grand Duke talisman.  When your talisman is grounded with a charitable deed, GD is less likely to execute any misfortunes due from your karma account. Another rationale for donation is the exchange of energy-- using a charitable deed in exchange of protection energy from Grand Duke.

For 2017, I have added the topic for house violating Grand Duke, the cure is either avoiding activities/ earth-digging or using the Grand Duke talisman in the Grand Duke location.

2017 GRAND DUKE GENERAL TANG JIE   唐杰
2017 is Ding-you or year of fire-rooster. Grand Duke for the year is General Tang Jie who was a military officer in Song Dynasty (618- 907).  Tang was born with super physical prowess.  He was humble and respected by local folks.  He had passed the government military officer exam and become a military officer.   

General Tang was ordered to stop the bandit disturbance in the South.  He had neutralized the bandit chief and decapitated 58 bandits.   Local people were no longer under the threat of plunder and killing.  The government had rewarded Tang with higher rank and silver.

丁酉太歲生於唐代安鄉〈今湖北省安鄉縣〉，名唐杰，字子文。自幼練習武藝，因而身體碩壯。更有一身特殊奇大的力量，在挑擔和舉重時表現突出。然而也受嚴格的禮教，所以待人十分謙讓，為地方人敬重；遇到有人仗力欺辱鄉民時，大家就請唐杰出來主持公道，唐杰只要出面，紛爭就自然平息下去。後來唐杰順利地在科考中考上武舉人，使他出生地大感光彩。因武舉人比一般文舉人還困難，不但要考武藝兵學，也要考基本的文科。當時，南方盜寇動亂，唐杰奉旨到南方平定寇亂，斬殺為首的賊子多人，又乘勝追殺賊寇於桃花岡，斬賊首等五十八人，立了平定賊寇的奇功，使鄉民不再被搶奪殺害。因此，朝廷賜蟒服、銀兩等給與獎勵。唐杰的功勛和德行，受到普遍的推崇。

2017  GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR BAZI CLASHES

Ding-you or year of  fire-rooster can be challenging for people with Gui-mao or Xin-mao pillar in their Bazi charts because these pillars "fan-yin" or "battle" with both the stem and branch of the Grand Duke.  It is especially serious if your day-pillar is  Gui-mao or Xin-mao because it means something may happen to you or your spouse.

In addition, besides the year branch, if any of the branch in your Bazi chart has a mao-rabbit, that branch is also clashing Grand Duke.  The effect may be seen from the people and events represented by that branch location.  For example, if you have a mao month branch clash, the effect may happen to daymasters' parent or sibling.

 Here are the four groups of people who need Grand Duke Talismans:
 1. "Fu-yin" or same animal sign of Grand Duke 值太岁-- people with rooster sign
ROOSTER : years born-- 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981,  1993, 2005, 2017  
Symptoms: obstacles, stagnation or running "reverse" instead of forward and not suitable for travels.  Damages in career and wealth luck and relationship.  Rooster also "self-penalizing" itself when runs into rooster year.

 2. "Fan-yin" or "clashing" the animal sign of Grand Duke 冲太岁-- people with rabbit sign
RABBIT: years born-- 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011  
Symptoms: big fluctuations in luck, wealth, career, relationship and health; traffic accident, hurt by metal object, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death,  negative romance, quarrels and etc.
SPECIAL NOTE:  Mao-you clash is a powerful clash involving wood and metal battling-- negative romance causing serious financial loss or even death or traffic accidents and surgery (injuries by metal).  If your chart has zi-rat, it will get even worse.  If your chart has both zi-rat and wu-horse, pump up your life insurance policy because you have all the 4-cardinal clashes elements-- zi, wu, mao and you.

 3. "Hai" or "prosecuting" the animal sign of Grand Duke 害太岁-- people with dog sign
DOG:  years born-- 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970,  1982, 1994, 2006  
Symptoms: backstabbing at work, bad interpersonal relationship, jealousy from others, emotional problems, success slips away in the last minute and low Feng Shui luck.

 4. "Po" or "damaging" the animal sign of Grand Duke 破太岁---- people with rat sign
RAT:  years born-- 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008
Symptoms: interpersonal relationship problems, negative romance, marital problem, backstabbing, skin and nervous system problems-- due to over-confidence and extreme/ radical positions.

 GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY
1.  House violating Grand Duke

Click to enlarge

In 2017 ding-you year, if your house faces You-rooster mountain or W2 (262.5 to 277.5 degree, west) direction, your house is said to be "violating Grand Duke."  House violating GD will affect the overall luck, health and well-being of the people living inside.  The remedy is either avoiding movements, construction, earth-digging and demolition there or put up a Grand Duke talisman facing W2 direction.  The opposite side of Grand Duke is Year-breaker (Sui-po, E2 or east).  This location should avoid digging and activities too. 

Even with the GD talisman, if you need to do construction, you still need to do a date-selection for an auspicious date and start digging on a non-GD direction and finish last on the GD direction.  I have checked through the year of Rooster and compiled a construction calendar with dates that can over-ride the effect of Grand Duke, San-sha and 5-yellow star.  Please look for info in this blog in the near future. 

2.  Desk violating Grand Duke 
If your desk or wherever you sit for an extended time faces You-rooster mountain or W2 direction, you can put up a Grand Duke talisman there for protection.  It is not auspicious to face the Grand Duke direction.  It weakens your competition power in business/career and examinations. However, if you arrange your seat so that W2 will be at your back (and put a Grand Duke talisman there), you will get Grand Duke as support and is good for competition and business. 

3.  Moving direction violating Grand Duke
If you move to a new house or residence, the relative direction from your old house to the new house is facing W2 grand Duke direction, you are considered "violating GD".  Remedy will be choosing an auspicious date to move or at the least, choose a different route of traveling, like driving to a different direction in the beginning, take a break for 15 minutes or more and then to the final destination.  This will convert the original GD direction to a non-GD direction. You may carry a GD talisman too. 

4.  Marriage direction violating Grand Duke
If you get married and the relative direction of your new marital residence to the old residence is facing SW2 grand Duke direction,  you are considered "violating GD".  Remedy will be choosing an auspicious date to move or at the least, choose a different route of traveling, like driving to a different direction in the beginning, take a break for 15 minutes or more and then to the final destination.  This will convert the original GD direction to a non-GD direction.  You may carry a GD talisman too.


 GRAND DUKE TALISMAN OFFERS
 This year we use digital delivery of Grand Duke Talismans because "snail mail" is slow and prone to losses.  Ken Lai will create a GD Talisman with user name, city and country imprinted, bless and "activate" individually on screen digitally.  This unique activated GD file will be emailed to you.  You can print as many copies as you want (but for one unique-named person 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.  You get more "mileage" from a single donation this way.

The offer is the same as previous years: your charity donation of US$30 or more to any legitimate local or international charity will get you a specially blessed Grand Duke talisman with your name inscribed (see below for special rate for countries with lower annual income per capita).    Here are some sample charities suggested in the past drives:

• 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)

Donation made to help alleviate an urgent human/ animal need or suffering (e.g., feeding the hungry, tornado/ typhoon victims or homeless) gets you more karma credits than donation for public good or improvement of public life like church/ temple or public radio/TV.

If you are worried about privacy issues and future solicitations-- please be assured that I will not email you in the future. You will send me NO money. You send your money directly to your favorite local or international charity.  You do NOT need to purchase any additional item from me or anyone else. No future solicitation of any type will be sent to you.  This offer is for people who have no access to Daoist temples.  Please support your local temple if you have access to one.

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 annual personal income per capita income below US$8000.00 can use the "under-employed and unemployed rate".
 
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 address to kenlai88@yahoo.com with the following info:
1.  user name:
2.  city
3.  country

Get your Grand Duke Talismans before Feb. 3, 2017 if possible.  Year of Rooster will start on Feb. 3, 2017.  Your individually consecrated digital talisman will be emailed to you in about 2 weeks after receiving your proof of donation.

Thank you for participating in this charity drive.


 Ken Lai

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

What is "house violating Grand Duke" in Feng Shui?

If you have read this blog for a while, you must have seen topics on individuals "violating" or "clashing" Grand Duke or Tai-sui.  In Feng Shui, a house can "violate" or "clash" Grand Duke too.

According to Chinese metaphysics, Grand Duke is the annual ruler based on the relative movement between Jupiter and earth.  The relative orbit location that Jupiter projects to earth has a strong energy called Grand Duke.  One should not disturb this energy with activities and "moving earth" (digging) or disasters and misfortune will follow.

Ancient Chinese has humanized this astrological force and assigned 60 historical figures to each year in the 60 Jia-zi years Chinese calendar cycle as "Grand Duke" of the year.

This Grand Duke energy is based on the Chinese zodiac animal sign (means earthly branch).  So if your house facing is on a heavenly stem, your house will be free from this violating Grand Duke business-- one less hassle to worry about.  This is why experienced Feng Shui practitioners would prefer choosing a house with a heavenly stem facing.

The opposite side/direction of Grand Duke is the "year-breaker" or Sui-po.  It is also not to be disturbed with activities and "moving earth".

The picture below shows the precise 15 degree location of Grand Duke for each year (click picture to enlarge):

The opposite side of Grand Duke is "Year-breaker".  E.g., for 2017, GD is you-rooster and YB is mao-rabbit.

4 TYPES OF FENG SHUI VIOLATION OF GRAND DUKE
1.  Grand Duke at the door and house facing
The facing of a house is at Grand Duke or Year-breaker direction.  This includes door facing GD even if the facing is not in the GD direction.

2.  Location violating Grand Duke
Function-specific rooms like office, kitchen, bedroom locate in Grand Duke location

3.  Moving earth in Grand Duke direction/ location
"Moving earth" means digging, construction or remodeling here.

4.  Marriage movement
If the traveling direction from home of the bride relative to the new marital residence is facing Grand Duke direction, this is considered violating Grand Duke.

5.  Home moving movement
If the traveling direction from old home the new residence is facing Grand Duke direction, this is considered violating Grand Duke.

Most info on Grand Duke location just gives you the major 8 directions like South or SW.  This will make more houses violate Grand Duke than the reality.  Today is your lucky day, I take out a table from the course manual of my
"Feng Shui Toolbox: Sha-qi, Health/Wealth and Career” w/ 7 hr. HD video
to give you the exact 15 degrees to check if your house violates Grand Duke.

 Note:  The red entry means in years 2026 and 2028, both Grand Duke and 5-yellow disaster star are in the same location.  Avoid digging there at all costs. (updated 12/13/2016)

"Ken, is there any remedy for house violating Grand Duke and what if we really need to do construction in Grand Duke location?"

Please read my next post in near future.

Ken Lai

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Sighting: Grand Duke

The idea of "Grand Duke" is not the monopoly of classical Feng Shui. It is also widely employed in 4P, fortune-telling and Chinese folk religions.

In terms of 4P and fortune-telling, someone is said to "violate" Grand Duke when his/ her Chinese animal sign is identical to the current year. For example, 2002 is the year of Horse, whoever is 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72, 84... should be careful and avoid high-risk behaviors, because they are in "violation" of the Grand Duke.

For people who are 6, 18, 30, 42, 54, 66, 78, 90... or whose animal sign is rat (for the year of horse only), they "clash" with the Grand Duke. If you pay attention, people tend to die in year which clashes their own animal signs.

The 5 element nature of horse is fire and for rat is water, so rat clashes with horse.

In Feng Shui, Grand Duke is a directional energy which changes direction according to the animal sign of the year. Movements and constructions should be avoided in the direction of Grand Duke. Misfortunes like accidental death, loss of wealth and severe injury will happen if the Duke is disturbed.

Where can we "see" Grand Duke?

In some Chinese Temples, you may see there are 60 doll-sized figurines in a corner. All figures look the same except each has a label with a unique name. These are the Dukes.

Why 60 figures and not keeping it simple to have just one Duke? Chinese calendar is based on a 60 years cycle ("jia"). One different Duke per year is a logical deduction.

To explain the concept of Grand Duke is not easy, especially in ancient times when people's literacy levels were low.

Some smart people, mostly marketers, had personified the Grand Duke with 60 statues and names, so people could buy sacrifices and stuff to pray to the Duke on duty to forgive the clashes and violations.

Appeasing Grand Duke rituals is a staple income for many temples in China.

People do not know where to worship if you tell them Grand Duke is some sort of energy.

Is there any scientific basis of the Grand Duke concept?

Well, today is your lucky day, I just learn this a few hours ago in Barnes and Noble Bookstore.

In terms of western astronomy, the Chinese Grand Duke corresponds to the Jupiter.

Jupiter circles the sun once every 12 years. Our earth does that in a year.

The shadow of Jupiter casts on earth is the location of the annual Grand Duke.

Do you know Jupiter has the strongest magnetic field in the solar system? It is 25 times stronger than the earth's magnetic field.


Ken Lai
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