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Friday, April 10, 2015

Minimal date-selection for the masses

Note: The following is an excerpt from the "Days to avoid" chapter of my "Practical Date-Selection Methods" video course. It is modified here for people who cannot afford this video course for the time being. So they can at least avoid some bad dates.

DAYS TO AVOID

Regardless of the date-selection system you are using, you should not use certain days within a year. Remove these days from your consideration will reduce the number of days to analyse.

Generally, it is still possible to use these days IF other methods say that they are good. In particular, you may use them if the four pillar analysis shows that the day is strong in your favorable element and some other date-selection methods, like XKDG also approves it.

There are 7 types of days to be avoided:

1. Year Breaker (Sui Po)

2. Month Breaker (Yue Po)

3. Day Breaker (Ri Po)

4. Big Consumption (Da Hao)

5. Yearly San Sha

6. Monthly San Sha

7. Daily San Sha

For simplicity and practical purposes, we will cover only year, month and day breaker here plus an important tip at the end of this message (the course manual covers everything listed above). This should be suffice for common applications. The goal here is not choosing the best date but to avoid bad dates, which is much easier to do for non-professionals. No bad things happen to you is the next best thing to good things happen.

Year Breaker (Sui Po)

If you use a year breaker day:

· Frustrations. Things do not flow.

· Arguments and conflicts.

· Business negotiations will be unsuccessful.

· Contracts and marriages are unsuccessful.

YEAR BREAKER DAYS

Year branch	Animal	YEAR BREAKER Day Branch	Year Branch	Animal	YEAR BREAKER Day Branch
Zi	Mouse	Wu (horse)	Wu	Horse	Zi (rat)
Chou	Ox	Wei (ram)	Wei	Ram	Chou (ox)
Yin	Tiger	Shen (monkey)	Shen	Monkey	Yin (tiger)
Mao	Rabbit	You (rooster)	You	Rooster	Mao (rabbit)
Chen	Dragon	Xu (dog)	Xu	Dog	Chen (dragon)
Si	Snake	Hai (pig)	Hai	Pig	Si (snake)

E.g. 2015 is a Yi Wei (ram) year. Wei (ram) clashes Chou (ox). Avoid Chou (ox) days.

If possible, avoid using the month that breaks the year as well. In some scenarios, you may not be able to avoid a whole month if the activity or event must be held within the month.

Month Breaker (Yue Po)

If you use the month breaker day:

· Frustrations. Things do not flow.

· Arguments and conflicts.

· Business negotiations will be unsuccessful.

· Contracts and marriages are unsuccessful.

MONTH BREAKER DAYS

Month Branch	MONTH BREAKER Day Branch	Month Branch	Month breaker Day Branch
Zi	Wu (horse)	Wu	Zi (rat)
Chou	Wei (ram)	Wei	Chou (ox)
Yin	Shen (monkey)	Shen	Yin (tiger)
Mao	You (rooster)	You	Mao (rabbit)
Chen	Xu (dog)	Xu	Chen (dragon)
Si	Hai (pig)	Hai	Si (snake)

E.g. May 12, 2015. This is a Xin Si (snake) month. Si (snake) clashes Hai (pig). Avoid Hai (pig) days within the Si (snake) month during the year.

Day Breaker (Ri Po)

This is slightly different from Sui Po and Yue Po. The day is broken by the animal sign of the hour. This is relatively minor, compared to the other two breakers.

If you use a day breaker hour:

· Frustrations. Things do not flow.

· Arguments and conflicts.

· Business negotiations will be unsuccessful.

· Contracts and marriages are unsuccessful.

DAY BREAKER HOURS

Day Branch	DAY BREAKER Hour Branch	Day Branch	DAY BREAKER Hour Branch
Zi	Wu (horse)	Wu	Zi (rat)
Chou	Wei (ram)	Wei	Chou (ox)
Yin	Shen (monkey)	Shen	Yin (tiger)
Mao	You (rooster)	You	Mao (rabbit)
Chen	Xu (dog)	Xu	Chen (dragon)
Si	Hai (pig)	Hai	Si (snake)

E.g. July 15, 2015. This is a Ren Chen (dragon) day. Chen (dragon) clashes Xu (dog). Avoid Xu (dog) hour within a Chen (dragon) day.

How to find or calculate the animal signs of a date and hour? Simply go to the following website and type in the target date and hour.

http://bazi-calculator.com/

To get the animal signs, you need to click the box options in the top right side of the screen as show here. That is, choose "Ken Lai Method" and "Pillars: English" options.

You will find the animal listed at the branch (EB) level of the :

Sample Chart showing April 9, 2015; 10:55 am

-- year pillar (to find out your birth animal sign if keying in your birth date; or if you key in the target date, the year pillar will be the Grand Duke or the animal sign of the year)

-- month pillar (month animal sign)

-- day pillar (day animal sign)

-- hour pillar (hour animal sign)

Besides avoiding year, month and day breakers, the date/time chosen should not clash the animal sign/s of the user/s. If you cannot avoid clashing someone's animal sign in a group situation, simply avoid clashing the principal or bread-winner of the family or company.

To summarize, when choosing a date, avoid clashing: the current year's Grand Duke (Tai Sui) or animal sign, the animal sign of the month, the animal sign of the day and the animal sign of the user or client (dead or alive).

However, for important events and activities, you probably should consult other date-selection methods like XKDG, QMDJ, 4-Pillars and etc., or hire a professional to do the date-selection for you.

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Thursday, April 9, 2015

WHAT IS “DATE-SELECTION”?

Note: The following is an excerpt from the manual of "Practical Date-Selection Methods" video course. The passage is written by co-author Master Lee.

WHAT IS “DATE-SELECTION”?

It is the process of selecting of a date and time that provide beneficial energy to our intended activities.

There are many schools for date-selection. It is likely that the more you learn about date-selection, the more bad days you will run into.

In truth, the date that affects you without your doing anything is based on the four pillars chart of the date. This is the dominant time energy that affects us all, based on our birth particulars. Most other methods require the human qi to activate them.

Date-selection can be related to Feng Shui. Feng Shui without the human qi is purely earth luck. It is about the natural accumulation of qi. Without the human component, this qi has no purpose, and therefore it is neither “good” nor “bad” until people move in.

In date-selection, we tap into the time energy that is naturally there. Some time energy rises and falls, affecting people in different ways based on their 4-Pillars and physical conditions. With other time, it may require a clear intention (whether it is taking a specific action, or just doing mental programming) to activate.

Xuan Kong Da Gua (XKDG) date-selection is strongly related to the I-Ching and the 64 hexagrams. By tapping into the energy of 64 hexagrams, we can modulate and modify the energies coming through. This can happen automatically, but the effect may be weak without the human qi (intention, mind and action) component.

Time energy is also related to space. At certain times, certain locations and directions become auspicious. We can tap into these auspicious locations and directions as well, using human qi.

An auspicious date-selection can enhance a Feng Shui job or at least reduce or delay the negative effects of a lousy Feng Shui placement.

Another function of date-selection is to "reboot" a failing activity (like a business) by "restarting" the activity in an auspicious date and time.

By and large, it is best if the four pillars (of the date and user), XKDG and direction-location energies coincide. However, if it is not possible, then at least two can make it usable.

Date-selection is one of the many vehicles you can use in your evolution to a higher level of Chinese metaphysics. It opens up the energy at a fundamental level and offers you opportunities for turning your life around.

Ken Lai

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Effects of T-junction or "road clash" on the Residents

Note: The following is an excerpt from the manual of "Advanced Visual Form Feng Shui" on the effects of "T-junction" or road clash (a.k.a. road-chong) on the residents of a house.

Road clash is a strong rush of air current hitting a house. It disrupts the magnetic field of the house being rushed and in turn affecting the residents inside.

NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF ROAD CLASH

Clash from the front of house:

l Injuries and automobiles accidents (hitting from the front)

l Lawsuits (road clash is a sha energy, stands for lawsuits)

l Murder and deaths (esp. if the road clash is from the east)

l Serious sickness, surgeries or strokes

Clash from the back of house:

l Injuries and automobiles accidents (hitting from the back or occurs during evening)

l Backstabbing by mean people; being accused or implicated

l Bad debts from relatives and close friends

l Lawsuits

Clash from the side of house:

n effects are similar to clash from the back

REMEDIES FOR ROAD CLASH

l (please see "Advanced Visual Form Feng Shui" course manual)

Note: use bagua mirror only when you have no other alternative. It is more a psychological remedy than real fix.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ROAD CLASH AND DIRECTION

(Direction is relative to the house)

l Road clash from NW, W, NE and S—will bring wealth, but still unsafe (may hurt residents). It is more appropriate for business storefront than residence.

l Road clash from N, SW — likely to have lawsuits

l Road clash from SE— peach blossom and suicides are more likely

l Road clash from East— car accidents and deaths are more likely

AUSPICIOUS ROAD CLASH DIRECTION (direction is relative to the house)

Not all road clashes are negative, the ones that clashes the “timely star” are good for doing business are: (based on current Period 8)

--NW, W, NE and S, especially NE and South

Note: the house being clashed must have back support, green dragon and white tiger to handle the clash.

Ken Lai

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Ba-Sha or "8-killings" Door in Feng Shui

Note: The following is an excerpt from my "Practical Door Feng Shui for Wealth" course.

There are “forbidden” regions in the design of house-facing and door-facing which may not be taught in some Feng Shui schools. Examples are Ba-sha (“8-killings” ) and void lines (covered in past blogs).

BA-SHA DOORS

Ba-sha door is based on 5-element theory. It stresses that the sitting and facing of a house should not be “ke” or subdued by door or road/ water with opposing 5-element nature. For example, if a house sits on gui-water mountain, you don’t want to set a door at a region with earth element nature like chen-earth mountain.

The code for Ba-sha is as follow:

“Kan dragon, Kun rabbit, Zhen monkey

Xun rooster, Qian horse, Dui snake

Gen tiger and Li pig are “Ba-sha” (8 killings).

Houses and tombs will be finished when running into it.”

坎龍坤兔震山猴，巽雞乾馬兌蛇頭；

艮虎離豬為八煞，宅墓逢之一齊休。

BA-SHA LOCATION TABLE

HOUSE/

TOMB

HOUSE OR TOMB

SITTING/ FACING

NO DOOR /

SHA* AT:

坎宅/坟 KAN (N)	坐壬向丙、坐子向午、坐癸向丁 ren/ bing; zi/ wu; gui/ ding	忌开“辰门” CHEN (SE1)**
艮宅/坟 GEN (NE)	坐丑向未、坐艮向坤、坐寅向申 chou/ wei; geng/ kun; yin/ shen	忌开“寅门” YIN (NE3)
震宅/坟 ZHEN (E)	坐甲向庚、坐卯向酉、坐乙向辛 jia/ geng; mao/ you; yi/ xin	忌开“申门” SHEN (SW3)
巽宅/坟 XUN (SE)	坐辰向戌、坐巽向乾、坐巳向亥 chen/ xu; xun/ qian; si/ hai	忌开“酉门” YOU (W2)
离宅/坟 LI (S)	坐丙向壬、坐午向子、坐丁向癸 bing/ ren; wu/ zi; ding/ gui	忌开“亥门” HAI (NW3)
坤宅/坟 KUN (SW)	坐未向丑、坐坤向艮、坐申向寅 wei/ chou; kun/ gen; shen/ yin	忌开“卯门” MAO (E3)
兑宅/坟 DUI (W)	坐庚向甲、坐酉向卯、坐辛向乙 geng/ jia; you/ mao; xin/ yi	忌开“巳门” SI (SE3)
乾宅/坟 QIAN (NW)	坐戌向辰、坐乾向巽、坐亥向巳 xu/ chen; qian/ xun; hai/ si	忌开“午门” WU (S2)

Note: Color here show the elemental nature of each location.

* "Sha" includes power-post, dead trees, T-junction, incoming/ outgoing water or road, well, wall-knife, roof-top corner and etc. ** XU (NW1) is also a Ba-sha location for Kan house/ tomb.

Ba-sha theory has many applications besides door locations. If the Ba-sha location of a house or tomb sees any of the followings: dead trees, T-junction, roof-top corner, well, wall-knife sha, incoming/ outgoing water or road, tall object-- is also considered a violation of Ba-sha.

EFFECTS OF BA-SHA VIOLATION

-- premature deaths (esp. younger males)

-- accidents, surgeries and cancer

-- dwindling luck

-- declining prosperity/ losing wealth

Ba-sha is a major Feng Shui formula sha (Li-qi sha) with a pretty accurate track record. Every Feng Shui practitioner should know the application of Ba-sha. You do not want to ignore this Ba-sha location when designing or buying a house or tomb.

Ken Lai

Friday, March 20, 2015

Mega Form Feng Shui Battle: China vs. Japan

Some Chinese wonder why Japan had always won the battles with China from the late 19th century to the 1940's.

China Map Shaped like a mulberry leaf before Mongolia independence

One clue to this question lies on the shape of China's map before and after 1945.

The shape of China map looked like a mulberry leaf when Outer Mongolia was still part of China. Japan's map looks like a silkworm.

But in 1945, Russia's Stalin had pressured the then Chinese Nationalist Government to let Outer Mongolia become independent. In return, Stalin had promised not to aid the Chinese Communist Party.

In August 8, 1945, Outer Mongolia becomes independent. Without Outer Mongolia, the shape of China map looks like a rooster with its beak pointing at Japan, the silkworm.

China the rooster looking at Japan the silkworm

Whether it was a coincidence or not, seven days later (August 15, 1945), Japan had surrendered to China unconditionally.

SIGNIFICANCE OF FROM MULBERRY LEAF TO A ROOSTER
Form Feng Shui is the study of how land forms or environmental shapes of land and buildings affect the well-being of its residents.

From Form Feng Shui perspective, land shape can influence the perception and behaviors of the people reside on it subconsciously.

By nature, silkworms munch on mulberry leaves. Therefore, Japan the silkworm had feasted on China the mulberry leaf successfully. That is, Japan had won most of the battles with China before 1945 when China's land form was still looked like a mulberry leaf.

When China's land shape becomes a rooster with its beak pointing to Japan the silkworm, the table has turned. It is nature's law for roosters to eat worms.

Hence, Japan has the subconscious fear of being pecked on by the rooster neighbor. China the rooster subconsciously drools on this potential worm dinner. In reality, Japan currently feels the biggest threat is from China.

Believe it or not? Form Feng Shui can be very entertaining. There are more interesting case studies in my "Advanced Visual Form Feng Shui" video course.

Ken Lai

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Misplaced Feng Shui Fountain Can Kill you

Other than money and sex, this heading should get your attention.

Feng Shui fountain is used to "enhance" the wealth water star in Flying Star Feng Shui. Water symbolizes wealth in Feng Shui and moving water to model flowing wealth energy. In Period 7 (1984- 2003), the wealth star is the 7-white metal star. For Period 8 (2004-2023), it is the 8-white earth star.

However, 7-white metal star becomes the "robber" star after 2003. Make sure you remove your Feng Shui fountains designed for the 7-white metal star enhancement if you forget to do so.

Some people get very excited when they are told or read that Feng Shui fountain can enhance their wealth luck with proper placement. They may think that Feng Shui fountains are like oil diggers, the more diggers (or fountains) you put out, the more oil (or wealth) one can extract from the universe.

Some people try to put as many Feng Shui fountains inside their houses as possible. But how? Because normally one can only put one fountain in the current Feng Shui Period's wealth star location, it is difficult to put more than 2.

By using the concept of "Every object has its own Tai-ji (center, universe)", every room in a house can be treated as a single Feng Shui entity with its own wealth star location. In Feng Shui jargon, some people use the small Tai-ji of individual room within a house to squeeze in more Feng Shui water fountains.

I have seen people put water fountain in their bedrooms.

"Ken, cut the craps. How does Feng Shui fountain kill us?"

According to Yi-jing (Book of Changes), "Auspiciousness, inauspiciousness, fortune and misfortune are attributable to movements."

Every house inevitably has some sectors or "palaces" that are auspicious and some sectors that are inauspicious. Basic Feng Shui principle is to arrange movements or activities in auspicious sectors and minimize movements in inauspicious sectors.

By putting a Feng Shui fountain in almost every sector of a house, even using the small Tai-ji trick, one will invariably put movements in a sector that should have minimal movements-- like sectors with 5-yellow disaster star, 7-robber star or 2-sickness star.

Fake rock mountain is the form for 5-yellow star

When annual star like 2 or 5 lands on sector with 2 or 5 with a running water fountain, it could activate the negativity of 5-yellow disaster star. Star combinations of 2-5, 5-5 or 5-2 are especially dangerous. Someone can get seriously sick or accident or even death.

One may misplace numerous non-movable Feng Shui paraphernalia like ki-lun, dragon-turtle, calabash or the likes without serious consequence. But not with moving water.

Effects of moving water can be swift and merciless.

I have seen some people do DIY water-dragon (water drains network) and become sick or broke for years.

Borrowing from the "no-smoking" message from the late Yul Brynner: "Don't play with moving water, whatever you do, just don't play with moving water."

Hire an experienced Feng Shui practitioner to handle your moving water issues. If you want to keep it simple, remove all Feng Shui fountains from your house.

Ken Lai

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Emperor's New Clothe: Mountain Edition

In my previous blog, I wrote about green tombs in China. This edition shows how some barren mountains in China become green.

At first, I think all these "greening" of stuff is a recent Chinese invention. Upon further research, it is a quite "old" practice. The following photos pretty much "tell" the story itself.

In May, 2004, in Dìngxī city of Gansu Province, a barren hill was painted green for a local celebration.
2004年5月，甘肃定西市陇西县仁寿山公园，为了迎接农历初八的朝山会，将没有长草的山体涂上了绿颜料。

In June, 2004, Shenzhen city government (Guangdong province) had spent RMB$1 million (US$160k) to make a mountain "green".
2004年6月，深圳芙蓉工业区的芙蓉尾山上，当地政府实施山体刷绿工程，整体耗资100万元。

In February, 2007, in a county of Yunnan province, the broken part of a mountain due to mining was painted green.

2007年2月，云南富民县勤劳乡梨华村，采石出现的山体缺口，被涂上绿漆

In October, 2008, a town in Guangdong province had spent over RMB$100k+ to buy green nets to cover up barren hills, arid land and illegal structures, to cheat on satellite inspection of "re-green" (afforestation) effort.

2008年10月，广东东莞横沥镇六甲村，为应付卫星复绿检查，花费十几万购买绿网，铺在荒地、山石及违建上。

In July of 2010, in a county of Yunnan Province, tombs along a hill were either painted green or covered up with a green or black camouflage net. Reporter found out this was due to a afforestation campaign.

2010年7月，云南昆明市宜良县，从宜良县城往狗街路上，两侧山上坟墓墓碑要么被刷上一层绿油漆，要么披上绿或黑的伪装网。记者采访获知，这是宜良在推进城乡园林绿化工作。

From fake eggs to fake Rolex, it is no surprise that we can find fake green mountains in China. Faking a green mountain is much quicker than planting trees and waiting for the mountain to turn green naturally. Local government officials can claim credit much quicker and earn political capital for further advancement.

Everyone knows the new green clothe is fake except the "emperor", At the minimal, this reversal of "emperor's new clothe" practice has been going on since 2004.

What is the connection between fake green mountains and Chinese metaphysics?

In the last 20 years, we have seen many "new", "long lost" or "family heirloom" metaphysics theories and manuscripts from China. They cover topics like Bazi, Yi-jing, Feng Shui, QMDJ and the likes. How real or authentic are these "new" export from China?

The answer to this question is not optimistic if you see Chinese citizens swarm Hong Kong and Japan to buy basic necessities like baby formula and even rice. They do not trust China products sold in China largely due to safety concerns and counterfeit problems.

People argue about the business ethics or the lack of business ethics in China is a major cause of China's counterfeit problem. But this is beyond the scope of this blog.

Ken Lai

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Friday, April 10, 2015

Minimal date-selection for the masses

Thursday, April 9, 2015

WHAT IS “DATE-SELECTION”?

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Effects of T-junction or "road clash" on the Residents

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Ba-Sha or "8-killings" Door in Feng Shui

Friday, March 20, 2015

Mega Form Feng Shui Battle: China vs. Japan

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Misplaced Feng Shui Fountain Can Kill you

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Emperor's New Clothe: Mountain Edition

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