Will "Year of Water Tiger" good for you?

Year of Water Tiger (ren-yin) has arrived.  Will it be good to you? 

EFFECTS OF YEAR OF WATER TIGER ON INDIVIDUALS

In terms of energy, water-tiger means strong wood energy.  Bazi astrology categories people in five energy profile groups-- metal, wood, water, fire and earth.  An individual's up and down or luck is the results of interaction between these primal energies and annual energy.  Below are luck predictions for these 5 groups of people for the year. 

Please check the appendix below if you do not know your energy profile or daymaster (DM) element.

LUCK PREDICTIONS ATTRIBUTED TO STRONG WOOD ENERGY

1.  Metal daymaster:  Wood to a metal DM are wealth, father, wife/ mistress (to male).  Strong wood energy, if favorable to the chart,  means better wealth and romance luck; if negative, means losing wealth/ father, affair, wife or girl friend being "snatched" away by close friends.

2.  Wood daymaster:  Wood to a wood DM are siblings, peers, friends, partnership, cooperation and competitions.  Strong wood energy, if favorable to the chart, means better wealth luck and cooperation; if negative, means sickness, losing wealth or wife.

3.  Water daymaster:  Wood to a water DM are talent, IQ, junior generation, subordinates, expression, showmanship, wealth source and children (to female).  Strong wood energy, if favorable to the chart,  means better artistic/ self-expression/ wealth/ mentor/ culinary luck, using one's talent to produce wealth,  if unfavorable,  it means losing husband (for female), poverty and sickness.

4.  Fire daymaster:  Wood to a fire DM are mother, senior generation, academic achievement, protection, nurturing, real estate, reputation, and document,  Strong wood energy, if favorable to the chart,  means better mentor luck, buying real estate and academic advancement; if unfavorable,  it means DM toiling with no leisure time.

5.  Earth daymaster:  Wood to an earth DM are superior, senior generation, career, power, fame, restriction, punishment, lawsuit and husband/ lover (to female).  Strong wood energy, if favorable to the chart,  means better career luck,  better romance luck for female; if unfavorable,  it means losing job, lawsuit, sickness and affair (for female).

Consult a Bazi reader or take the following course if you want to know if wood or any element is favorable or unfavorable to you.

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The above predictions are "generic" in nature because a more accurate prediction needs to take in the consideration of other elements of individual Bazi chart. 

Now comes to more serious problems that some people may have.  If your Bazi chart has the following pillars in any position:

• Bing-shen
• Wu-shen

These 2 pillars are "fan-yin" on battling with current ren-yin year of water tiger.  These are serious clashes especially if it is your day pillar (this means YOU or your spouse get the hit!).  It will be 3x negative if your chart also contains Si-snake (forms Yin-si-shen 3-penalties).  I suggest you go get the advice of a Bazi reader or take these courses:

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WHICH MONTHS ARE MORE CRITICAL?

The intense effects, whether positive or negative, in both societal and individual levels, are likely to surface within this current tiger month due to its concentration of tiger or wood energy (Feb. 4- March 5, 2022).  People with monkey Chinese zodiac animal sign should avoid travel and be extra cautious when driving during this tiger month.

The next intensive month is likely be Monkey month (August 7 to Sept. 6, 2022), the seventh month of the solar year.  This is because monkey (metal energy) clashes tiger (wood energy) in the Chinese Zodiac.  Year energy clashes with month energy. People with tiger or monkey animal sign should be cautious during travel or driving in this month of monkey.

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Appendix:  How to find the daymaster of a person

1.  Go to http://bazi-calculator.com/

2.  Type in the birthday/ hour and gender (F or M) in the input table in the left side.
3.  Click "CALCULATE" box
4.  Check the left color table below the input table.  See the example here:
5.  The third color column (counting from right to left) is the day branch of the person.  It is "Geng-shen" in this example of someone born in June 24, 1990. "Geng" metal is the daymaster of this chart.  Grey color represents metal.

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Prep Guide for 2019 Year of Pig

Year of Pig will begin when spring solstice arrives at 11:16 am on February 4, 2019.  Below are something that you may do to avoid problems and increasing your luck for the new year.

1.  House-cleaning:  Do your cleaning in Feb. 4 because Chinese New Year will officially start on Feb. 5 this year.  Besides removing physical garbage, you do an qi or energy cleansing for your house.  If your luck really sucks (bad) in last year, open all the windows and doors of your house, boil some water, let water vapor fill up your house and let the vapor blow out through the windows to get rid of any stagnant energy inside your house.  Alternatively you can burn incense or sage instead of boiling water.

If Year of Dog is great for you, do NOT do the qi-cleansing.  You want to keep milking the existing good luck energy for another month or two.

2.  Feng Shui fixes:
a.  Move your monster (ki-lun, cannon, St. Michael, etc.) to west region facing region to fix San-sha (3-killing).
b.  Put your metal fix for 5-yellow disaster star in SW.
c.  Put your metal or calabash fix for 2-black sickness star in NE.
d.  Put a small red doormat in the entrance if you have a door facing south to fix 3-jade star.
e.  Put a bowl of non-moving water in SE if you have a door there to fix 7-robber star.
f.  Move your water fountain or wealth-enhancing item to center of the house.
g.  North is good for career and study, put 4 lucky bamboos there if you want to enhance it.

3.  Clashing Grand Duke:  People with the following pillars or chart features will be in serious problems during year of pig:
a.  Bazi chart with one or more of these pillars:  if the pillar is your day pillar, bad things likely will happen to you and/or your spouse, if in other pillars, happen to your family member represented by these pillars.
-- yi-si  (most serious)
-- gui-si
b.  chart with 2+ si (snake)
d.  Jia-wood daymasters:  prone to losing money due to affairs, especially males.
(Go to www.bazi-calculator.com, key in your birthday and check the day column in your birth chart to see if you have a yi-si, gui-si day pillar or jia-wood daymaster).  

Possible Remedies:  
1.  Consult a Bazi Reader.
2.  Print out the photo of 2019 Grand Duke from here and pray to him for protection or use the photo as screen saver in your cell phone or computer.  But you must do at least one act of kindness that reduces suffering of any living thing to activate this remedy.  "One kind act neutralizes hundreds of misfortunes.  Numerous kind acts dissolve thousands of calamities 一善解百災, 多善解千難" is the famous saying in Chinese.  You may make a donation to a charity, adopt or feed a homeless cat/dog/person or even visit old folks in senior home.
3.  People with yi-si or gui-si day pillars-- donate blood, if too weak to donate, at least do a blood test.
4.  Take my "Destiny Management 2/ 3" courses (listed below).

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

You may print this auspicious symbol for "attracting treasures and wealth" and put it facing your door

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Get-rich-quick with your own "Annual Feng Shui/ Luck Predictions" seminars?

Have you ever attended some inexpensive live seminars for "Annual Feng Shui/ luck Predictions" and ended up purchasing a few thousand U.S. dollars' worth of Feng Shui remedies like white pagoda, Jurassic animals and/ or courses?

Do you want to do these seminars yourself and get-rich-quick like those "masters"?

Today is your ultra lucky day if your answer is "yes".  This article discloses the little not-so-dirty secret of how to make annual predictions. 

ANNUAL CHARTS
In Li-qi or formula Feng Shui systems like Purple White, Flying Star, QMDJ and the likes use an "nnual chart" to calculate the change of energy or qi distributions of 8 major directions.

This annual distribution of energies is determined by the star "flying" (or "rotation" of 9 different stars) into the center palace.  The movement of these 9 stars follows the Lao-shu pattern.  Hence, once we know the center star of each year, we can draw out the annual chart of that year and make your own "annual predictions" easily using the nature of 9-stars and your own imaginations.

There are only 9 flying stars and hence 9 possible annual charts.  This means after you have done 9 annual predictions, you can claim to be an environment conscious person by recycling the old charts, predictions and cut down your workload. Hopefully your past attendees have forgotten that they already have paid for the same info once or more (Disclosure:  This is how I do my annual "minimal Feng Shui guide".  Sorry, no return or refund for your "clicks").

There are a few methods to calculate the center star based on different centuries.  Below is one simple method.

Year 1900 to 1999:  Use 10 to subtract the total from the last 2 digits of the year. For example, Year 1989= 8+ 9= 17; 1+7=8  (reduce the total to a single digit number); center star for 1989= 10 - 8 =2
Year 2000 to 2099:  Use 9 to subtract the total from the last 2 digits of the year. For example, Year 2019= 1+ 9= 10; 1+0=1  (reduce the total to a single digit number); center star for 2019= 9 - 1 = 8
Year 2100 to 2199:  Use 8 to subtract the total from the last 2 digits of the year.
Year 2200 to 2299:  Use 7 to subtract the total from the last 2 digits of the year.

How about the center stars of previous centuries?

Year 1800 to 1899:  Use 11 to subtract the total from the last 2 digits of the year.
Year 1700 to 1799:  Use 12 to subtract the total from the last 2 digits of the year.
Year 1600 to 1699:  Use 13 to subtract the total from the last 2 digits of the year.
Year 1500 to 1599:  Use 14 to subtract the total from the last 2 digits of the year.
Year 1400 to 1499:  Use 15 to subtract the total from the last 2 digits of the year.
Year 1300 to 1399:  Use 16 to subtract the total from the last 2 digits of the year.
Year 1200 to 1299:  Use 17 to subtract the total from the last 2 digits of the year.
Year 1100 to 1199:  Use 11 to subtract the total from the last 2 digits of the year. 

"Ken,  we were not born before year 1100 and most of us will not live through 2100, why bother giving us so many centuries of calculations?"

The ones for year 1100 to 2000 are for you to do historical Feng Shui audit/ detective work.  For example, you want to check a major historical fire of 1777 of an ancient palace was related to Feng Shui or not.  With its sitting and facing direction, you can generate its Feng Shui charts and tie to the annual chart of 1777 when the fire had happened.   Year 2000 to 2299 data is to protect our descendants for generations to come from "annual prediction" marketing because they can DIY.

For more interesting ideas on doing annual predictions, read this:

http://kenlaifengshui.blogspot.com/2012/01/annual-predictions-diy.html

P.S.:  Few will read this article if the title is "How to calculate the center star of annual charts".

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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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Annual Predictions DIY

Have you ever wondered how those masters or non-masters make their annual predictions? Today is your lucky day-- you will find out you can do it too--- no Chinese metaphysics courses needed to take from me or other masters.  Of course, it helps if you have knowledge of Chinese metaphysics.

Most of the annual predictions focus on these areas:
Disasters-- natural or man-made disasters like tsunami, earthquake, flooding, drought, snowstorm, tornado, tropical storms, epidemics, nuclear accidents, war, train accidents, terrorist attacks, air disasters, cruise ship sinking ....(hints: earthquake is likely in  the "rings of fire" region; war in the middle east... throw a dart to a world map if you can't make up your mind)
Economy-- stock market, housing market, FOREX, oil market.... (hints: either up or down or "up a little bit or down a little bit"; pretty easy to predict!)
Politics-- who gets or loses power (hint: don't make  50/50 chance prediction like the USA presidential election.  A bad guess will make you look like an idiot and correct one will not win you anything)
People-- mostly celebrities or politicians; who cheats, marries, divorces, scandals...etc.

COMMON TOOLS FOR MAKING PREDICTIONS
Gut-feeling : Simply make any guesses or "educated guesses" based on past year statistics.  Isn't this easy?
Psychic reading: People who are psychic or think they are psychic make predictions based on their "psychic feeling". You may even use what you have dreamed.
Divinations: For people who are not psychic, they may use Yi-Jing, Xuan-Kong-Da-Gua, Plum-Flower and similar divination methods to make predictions down to individual month or even days.
Bazi of the New year:  This method requires knowledge of Bazi (4-Pillars).  You find out the exact date and hour when the New Year kicks in and generate a 4-pillars chart.  This treats the new year as if it is a person and make predictions or telling stories based on the combinations and clashes in the chart.
Animal sign of the New Year:  This method creates a story based on the animal sign of the new year. For example, 2012 is ren-chen or water-dragon year.  The story-telling part will be concentrated on the personality and characteristics of dragon and its water nature.  So you may hear about flooding stories.

Annual chart based on 9-stars: this method is used mostly in Feng Shui predictions.  For example, 5-yellow disaster star flies to southeast for 2012, so major disasters are likely to happen in the southeast, especially when monthly 5-star flies there.
Qi-Men-Dun-Jia Year Chart:  Predictions can also be made based on QMDJ, but it is not common to see.  It is pretty good at predicting Feng Shui problems.
Scavenger method:  If you can't think or don't want to think, you can "improvise" on other's predictions.  This method summarizes or pick-and-choose the predictions made by other people.  The disadvantage of this method is that you lose the bragging right of being the first to make the prediction.  The advantage is that you can make the most comprehensive predictions.

It is  rare that "masters" utilize only one method to make predictions.  They use combinations of the above methods to "enrich" or throw out more predictions.  When one throws out 100+ predictions, a few of them will "hit".  "Masters" can brag about how accurate their predictions were the following year (never mind or mention the ones they have missed).

Compare with economic predictions, astrologers are doing pretty well.  The late economist John Kenneth Galbraith wrote:

"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."

"Ken, I have not seen you make any annual predictions."

I do not want to make economists feel good.  Besides, predicting disasters will generate mass negative manifestations.  It is bad karma for everyone.

Happy Year of Dragon!


Ken Lai

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