How do you read the Bazi chart of a transgender person?

A few weeks ago, before all the buzz about the controversial transgender Canadian beauty queen contestant for Miss Universe pageant, a Bazi student has asked me,

"How would you do a chart for someone going through a sex change operation ? "

"Charge her double." was my answer.
   
I know this is a politically incorrect answer.  But there is no magic or secret here-- Bazi reader needs to read the chart twice-- one as a male and other as a female to see which one fits his/her life history better.  This is because the 10-years luck periods are read differently for male and female even the birthday is identical.  Hence the double charge.

Other than individuals who thought that they were trapped in the body of a gender that they dislike,  some people may use sex-change as a way to change their "luck" or destiny in life.  Before they have their operations, they should consult a Bazi reader to check if their luck improves significantly with the gender change.  I had watched a documentary video about a man who had changed his gender to a "she" and then changed back to a "he" again.

Jin Xin, the modern dancer from China

Once I had a transgender female with a full body in my 4P class.  Students were volunteered their birth charts for class demonstration.  When "she" volunteered hers, you could hear a pin drop in the class.  Everyone was waiting for her to declare her gender.

She said "male". And I read her chart as a male, her "pre-heaven" or natural gender.

My experience with Bazi charts with gender-change case does not find major change in life in their charts.  Very often this group of people have psychological and social issues that they have to overcome to be successful in life.

However, Jin Xing, the famous transgender female modern dancer from China, has better luck as a female than male.  So everything returns to the hidden dynamics of luck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_Xing

Happy Easter!

Ken Lai

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Fate and Destiny: Joe's Choice

Joe,  a friend of mine in Hong Kong,  always runs into bad luck with financial decisions.  He had lost his shirt when running a printing business many years ago.  Property price shot up after he had sold his house.  We check what stocks he bought and stay away from those stocks because the chance of price drops are very high.   Earthquake happened while he was in Japan a few months ago and got stuck there for a while.  We call him "Dark Dude" (黑仔 hēi zǐ)  because he always runs into bad luck with financial matters.

The male side of Joe's family has a history of dying at middle age (around 50).  Joe is approaching the big 50.  He wants to quit his job, travel the world and spend all his money before he dies.

"What happens if you do NOT die after you have spent all your money?"  I asked Joe.

"That probably is as worse as death -- I'll be penniless and homeless."  Joe replied.

Here are Joe's choices and possible outcomes:
1.  Do nothing and accept death at around 50 years old-- and died with money left
2.  Do nothing and accept death at around 50 -- and survived with money and job intact
3.  Quit job, travel the world and spend all money-- and died a happy man
4.  Quit job, travel the world and spend all money-- and survived as a homeless man

What choice will you advise him to take given his "track records" with his destiny?   What advice can you give him to improve his chance of surviving beyond 50?


Ken Lai

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Show me the money

In 2003, I had read the 4P chart of a friend's 6 year old boy.  The kid is a strong jia-wood day-master with wealth and output elements in both stems and branches.  It is a good "shi-shang (output) produces wealth" profile.  The only problem is metal (control) is very weak and only shows up in hidden elements.

I told the boy that he will be rich when he grows up.  Even at the age of 6, this kid seemed to understand the concept of "rich".  He told his mother, "I will buy a big mansion and won't let you (parents) live with me."   His mother was really irritated.

Now this boy is 14 and cannot part with his IPad for more than 5 minutes.  He plays with it even during dinner and updates his Facebook page continuously.
Unfortunately, his mother is also a Facebook addict.

Anyway, his mother worries about the boy's lack of interest in academic learning and anything that is regarded as "work".  He thinks he will be rich and therefore no need to work hard at all.

"Ken, your 4P reading made him think money will fall from the sky into his pocket.  Could you come and tell him that he has to WORK for the money?"  My friend said.

I have similar experience with other 4P clients.  They got excited to know that they have a wealth luck coming.  But they just waited and did nothing.  Of course,  money will not knock at their doors.  Then they blame the messenger--- the 4P reader.

When your 4P shows that you have a wealth luck coming, it just means you will have a better chance of making money than usual IF you are actively doing something to make money.  Heaven will not throw money at you if you just sit down, wait and do nothing.

God helps those who help themselves.

Ken Lai

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Personality, luck and Feng Shui

In 2008, I had blogged about "Grandma's Tou-fu Dessert" and argued that luck is more important than Feng Shui.
http://kenlai.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/grandmas-tou-fu-dessert/

I was in Hong Kong last month and checked out Grandma's Tou-fu dessert again.  She still stays in the same location and as usual, there is a crowd in front of her store.  Her competition across the street was no longer there.  Of course, I had gulped down a few bowls of her tasty and smooth Tou-fu dessert.

Why Grandma does not open more Tou-fu stores?

I had also checked out the top secret green bean soup dessert location near Apliu street of Shum Shui Po district.  Apliu street is the location of Hong Kong's famous flea market for electronics.

A middle-aged woman that people called "Green Bean Lady" sells cups of green bean soup dessert near a pawn-shop on the pavement.  She has no storefront, not even a kiosk or cart.  She has the paper cups with dessert put inside a tin bucket and stands near the pawnshop's building pillar.

Old customer passing by will raise his hand  and she will give him a cup of green bean dessert.  She turns her head around frequently to see if any policeman is coming because she is not licensed to sell prepared food.  Strangers may think she is selling cracks.

She has the best tasting green bean dessert in Hong Kong.  Her "stand" is one of the "must-visit" when I return to Hong Kong.  I had asked her once how come her dessert is so tasty.  Her secret is using traditional stone cookware to prepare the green bean dessert with seaweeds.

(2025 update:  Grandma's Tou-Fu store still operates in the same location since early 2000 with crowds in front of the store. )

A few years ago, I had asked her, "You have a great product.  Why don't you open a shop to sell your green bean dessert and maybe eventually open many branches or do franchising and become filthy rich?"

Green Bean Lady just laughed her head off and replied, "Talk is easy!"

I should have brought Tony Robbins along to give her a motivational talk or simply threw her out from 20000 feet above the sky to build up her confidence.

I have estimated her income from this low profile selling is at best about the income of a laborer.

Obviously, Green Bean Lady is neither in good luck nor in bad luck.  She does not seem to be aggressive or eager to expand her "business".  In other words, her personality affects her risk-taking or business behaviors.

Besides social environment influences, one's personality is primarily "born with" or what we call "pre-heaven".  We may use astrological methods like 4P (Bazi) or ZWDS to analyze one's personality make-up.

Comparing Grandma of Grandma's Tou-fu to Green Bean Lady, we can see the effect of luck and probably personality on risk-taking.  Grandma takes the risk of renting a store and moves around when landlord raises her rent.  Green Bean Lady also sells but does not take the plunge of renting a storefront.  Her marketing style limits her business growth.  Grandma will probably accumulate a sizable wealth eventually.  Green Bean Lady is likely running in circles or staying in the same economic strata.

(Update:  Green Bean Lady had quitted business in around 2020)

What is the morale of this story?  Find a Bazi reader to read your 4P birth chart to see if you are in good luck period and have what it takes to run a business (or take my "4P Bootcamp" video course).



Ken Lai

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Can a cat override bad Feng Shui?

This is an amazing story about a stray cat and the firemen of a small fire station in an Asian city.

This small fire station has less than 10 firemen and is located at the edge of a cliff.  The back of the station is on the steep side of the cliff and hence it has  no "support mountain".  The front of the station faces a vertical boulder and a semi-circular road or "sickle sha" (in Feng Shui terms) cutting into the main entrance.  The layout of the building is like a stretched "U" with the right-hand side longer than the left side.

Feng Shui predictions for people of this station are:  major accident or injury happens at least once every 3- 6 years to member of  certain Chinese zodiac animal signs, high turnover, scandals, and bickering.

In reality,  people consider stationing in here is a "plum job" , like taking a vacation while working.  Working life here is peaceful and enjoyable.

The unusual feature of this fire station is that it has adopted a stray cat Mary despite the local belief that adopting a stray cat is inauspicious to one's wealth luck.

Firemen here do not know when this cat was adopted due to routine job rotations in the Fire Department.  They only know Mary was adopted over 10+ years ago.  So Mary should be 12- 14 years old or is equivalent to 70+ years old in human terms.

Everyone treats Mary as if she is the patron saint of the fire station.  They believe Mary protects them from major mishaps.  Even when a new boss takes over the station at regular intervals, he dares not remove Mary because the firemen may feel insecure.

Mary is the famous feline within the local fire department.

A few years ago, Mary was hit by a car and suffered massive injuries.  The firemen in the station believe that she took the "hit" for them.  They had raised about US$2000 among themselves for Mary's surgery.

When I saw Mary in this fire station, I put my hand over her head and felt her energy.  She looks like an earth-god or nymph or mountain god to me.

Does this cat override the bad Feng Shui of this fire station?  My answer can be "yes" and "no".  "Yes" because this cat may have supernatural power.  "No" because it is not really about the cat's power, whether supernatural or not.  It is about the kindness of the firemen adopting this stray cat and treat it like a god.  This collective kindness generates a huge positive energy that shields the firemen from negative Feng Shui energy. 

What can you learn from this story?  Go to the "death row" of your local animal humane society and adopt a cat or dog. Death row cats or dogs are the one that no one wants to adopt due to their old age or physical characteristics.  This type of adoption is as good as saving a life and will  generate more positive energy around you.   This positive energy will shield you from misfortunes.




Ken Lai
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Destiny Management Courses Pre-release Special Offers

The following pictures show the table of contents and descriptions of Destiny Management Based on Bazi -- Basic and Advanced Levels.  You may click on the picture to see a bigger image.  Each level has at least 10 hours of video instructions.  These 2 courses can change your life and can be a "Helping Business in a box" to generate revenue for you.  Please check for pre-release order specials below.

 

Unlike other metaphysics courses that you may have taken so far, the Destiny Management series empowers you to think how to make your life or your client's life better or at least less crappy. It is a practice-oriented course with all the business forms and templates for someone like you to run it as a "helping business".

These two courses can be seen as "applied 4P" that empowers people to take charge of their destiny and refuse to be the pawns of the Gods or slave of destiny.

This course was first taught in Mexico City in 2008 with only a 15 pages manual.  Now it grows to over 300 pages with 3 manuals and 20 hours (estimated) of video.

SPECIAL PRE-RELEASE OFFERS:  (offers expired Sept. 12, 2010)

We are doing video portion of these two course and will be finished in 6- 8 weeks.  We offer these incredible pre-release offers for a very limited time only.  It will not be offered again if you miss this golden opportunity  (In 2007, we had pre-release offer for  "Practical Imperial QMDJ" video course for $200 and now the same course sells for $999 and still sells well).  

Tuition fee per course is US$ 999, plus $30 shipping for outside USA and $15 for within.
Both courses will cost US$1998 plus $30 shipping (you only pay shipping once when shipped together)

Here are the two pre-order specials:  (subject to quantity requirement, all pre-orders will be canceled if there are not enough takers).

OFFER #1:  40% off US$1998 with US$500 down pre-order and pay the balance when courses are ready to ship ($100 cancellation fee if order is canceled for any reason).

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Note:  Discount does not include shipping.  You do not need to buy remedial products or cures from me if you want to.  The course will show you how to create your own.  Estimated delivery time is 6- 8 weeks after receiving payment.

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If there are not enough takers, the release date will be pushed until live class is taught.

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