Bazhai Feng Shui Secrets

Bazhai or 8-Mansions Feng Shui is one of the oldest Feng Shui schools in China.  It started around the "Spring and Autumn Warring States" period (770 to 221 BC).

The original Bazhai creators probably were the grand-daddy of positive thinking movement.  They did not label negative sectors of a house as "inauspicious" but using "little auspicious 小吉", "less auspicious 玄吉" and "least auspicious 幺吉" instead.

When the Japanese ambassador requested China for Feng Shui help in around 7th century (Tang Dynasty),  the Chinese emperor had ordered a rewrite of Bazhai to make sure our Japanese friends understand those not so auspicious sectors are actually bad sectors.  This gives rise to modern version of Bazhai with the inauspicious sectors clearly labeled as negative--  "death 绝命", "six-killing 六煞" and "disaster 祸害".

Sample Bazhai sectors of Qian House

Basic premise of Bazhai Feng Shui is pretty simple-- matching the magnetic profile of a person to the magnetic profile of a house.  There are only two magnetic profiles:  east-4-group and west-4-group.  An individual's magnetic profile or ming-gua is determined by his birth year whereas a house is determined by its facing and sitting direction.  Good Feng Shui is when a east-4-group person lives in a east-4-group house,  A Feng Shui mismatch occurs when a east-4-group person lives in a west-4-group house.

While determining the magnetic profile or ming-gua of a person is straight-forward, for the house is a big mess or merry-go-round situation, especially with the changing definition of facing in modern architecture.

To do Bazhai Feng Shui, the first step is to determine the "Fu Wei 伏位" or "stability" sector of a house.  Essentially this is similar to determine the sitting and facing in other Feng Shui schools.

Below are different ways of determine the "Fu Wei 伏位" :

1.  Sitting determines house profile:  the opposite side of door-facing direction is the sitting direction.  For example, if the door-facing of a house is SE, the sitting will be NW or Qian palace, the house is a Qian house or a west-4-group house.  NW or Qian sector is  "Fu Wei 伏位" or "stability" sector of the house.  NW is always has the qi of NW. Hence this method is based on magnetic field
2.  Main door facing determines house profile:   For example, if the main door is in SE or Xun palace, the house is a Xun house or a east-4-group house.  SE or Xun sector is  "Fu Wei 伏位" or "stability" sector of the house.  This method is based on energy or qi-flow.  The main "qi-mouth" is in Xun. 
3.  Resident's ming-gua determines house profile:   For example, the house resided by a person with Li ming-gua will be a Li or east-4-group house.  The south or Li sector will be the "Fu Wei 伏位".  This method is based on the theory that Feng Shui will not operate without the resident and should be people-centered.
4.  The tallest sector of the house determines house profile:  For example, if west side of the house is tallest, that sector will be the "Fu Wei 伏位" and he house is a Dui house.  This is based on the tallest sector is the most dominant sector.

The methods listed above contain valid arguments.  But which one should one use?  I think it all depends on individual situation.  For example, in a retail business, the main door traffic flow is important, using main door facing is likely more relevant.  For residence, main door traffic is not as important as the house magnetic influence.  Same arguments are also applicable to other Feng Shui methods like Flying star and the like.  Consult your teacher or my "Practical Door Feng Shui" course for more inspirations.

Ken Lai

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4P/ Date-selection & the Case of Cat Murderer

"Cat murderer? You mean ..."

No, it is not what you think. It is a real cat murder case."

"How do 4P has something to do with it?"

Well, at least the cat will not die in vain. Here is a news report from a Hong Kong Chinese newspaper:

http://hk.news.yahoo.com/071004/12/2gvgr.html

The report is in Chinese, here is the heading and summary:

"Cook got a 3-week jail sentence for sadistic killing of a kitten"

"A school cook had thrown a 10-week old kitten to the ground thrice, causing the blood-vomiting death of the cat. He was sentenced to jail for 21 days and HK$5000 fine (US$650)."

I do not want to bombard you with minor details, here are the data that we are interested if you want to find something related to 4-Pillars and date-selection.

1. The cat-murderer is 50 years old.
2. He is a cook.
3. The "murder" happened in April 14, 2007

The followings are 4P deductions from above info:

The killer is 50, so he was born in 1957
* ding-you year pillar

The killer is a cook, so he either
* has a lot of fire in his 4P,
* or fire is his favorable element
* or fire is his unfavorable element

The 4P chart of the day when the cat was killed:
Year: ding-hai
Month: jia-chen
Day: wu-yin
Hour: don't know

The cook killed a cat in a strong tiger day!

Since the cat (yin-wood or tiger) got him into legal trouble (guan-sha or power), so we may deduce the killer is likely to be a weak earth day-master.

Weak earth likes fire, so he becomes a cook.

Wood (yin-tiger) is unfavorable to weak earth DM. Wood is the guan-sha of an earth DM. It creates health and/or legal problems to a weak DM.

"So what do you learn from this case? Grasshopper?"

"If you want to stay out of jail, do not kill a horse in horse-day, a cat in tiger-day, a rooster in rooster day, a mouse in rat-day, a dog in dog-day, an ox in ox-day, ......"

Ain't our governments glad that there is no "human-day" or they cannot hang, shoot, electrocute, or lethal-inject their citizens in "human day"?

You can have so much fun with 4-Pillars, especially if you get my "4P Boot-camp" homestudy video course.



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The kitten that sleeps like a human

My niece Sammy was given a female kitten a few weeks ago. She calls it "Mimi".

One interesting thing about Mimi the kitten is-- when it sleeps on a human bed, it sleeps with its back on the bed, that is, it sleeps like a human!

When it sleeps on the floor or on its own bed, it sleeps like a regular cat.

Another strange behavior is: it follows my brother Jimmy all the time or sits next to him if Jimmy is working on his computer.

I asked my brother, "Did you know of any ex-girl friends or female admirers of yours die prematurely?"

"No." Answered Jimmy.

"Oh, if you had, Mimi may be the reincarnation of your deceased female admirer. But since you don't have any, then this kitten probably was a woman that has unfinished business with you in your previous life. Since it is not her turn to be your wife in your current life and she does not want to wait, she reincarnates as a cat to be with you."

"Ha ha ha, when do you become a story-teller?" Asked my brother.

"Make sure you do not tell your wife or she will banish your kitten. You know woman can become jealous even with a kitten." I told Jimmy.

Well, I don't know if Jimmy has told his wife the reincarnation story. But yesterday Jimmy told me that his wife bought home a male kitten.

"Jimmy, your wife probably is jealous of you. So she bought home a male kitten and hopefully will follow her around like yours." I told Jimmy.

"In the worst case scenario, this male cat can distract your female cat admirer and she can regain 100% control of you." I added.

In terms of 4-Pillars explanation, my brother Jimmy is a strong wu-earth day-master with wu-horse animal sign. Wu-earth likes to have yang-wood to loosen the hard earth. Cat is Yin (tiger) or jia wood. Wu-horse combines with yin-tiger and xu-dog. So there is an affinity built-in here.

My niece Sammy is a weak Wood day-master. Bring in a cat (jia-wood) will help her to become more focused.

So far I have not heard if the male kitten follows my brother or his wife.

In Daoist (Taoist) and Buddhist literature, stories of some deceased reincarnate into animals to get close to their current or previous life love ones are pretty common. This also explains some incredible animal stories of saving their masters or animals with unusually high IQ.



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How to do a 4P Reading -- without a birthday?

An out-of-state client of mine was in some sort of mid-life
crisis or depression. Jane (not real name) wanted to
"disappear" from her 2 teens and husband.

She emailed me for "wisdom".

Damn! It is hard to charge people for "wisdom".

I told her not to make any hasty decision until I have
checked her 4-pillar chart.

But we got a major problem here: Jane was born in a
war-torn country and does not know her day-of-birth. All
she knows is her animal sign.

There are other ways of doing fortune-reading without a
birthday, like Yi-jing divination method. But 4P is more
personalized and direct method.

How do you do a 4P reading without a birthday?

Today is your lucky day-- top 4P secrets for free.

I asked Jane to send me the birthdays of her children and
husband.

I read Jane's fortune through the 4P charts of her husband
and kids.

In her husband's chart, current year ding-hai is clashing
his day-pillar from stem to branch (ti-ke-di-chong) . Day
stem represents her husband and day branch stands for Jane.

This means either Jane or her husband or both may be or
will be in some serious trouble, sickness, injury or
accident this year.

So I told her to stay put, avoid making major decisions,
and take her hubby along to have medical check up. And of
course, go do some charity works to build up good karma.

She took my advice and tided over her current depression.
She now delivers food to the homeless every weekend.

Sometimes, all people need in critical life situations is just
a little help, a little push or simply someone to talk to.



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