This ferry took off at April 15, around 9 pm.
I ran a date-selection program which gives results from different traditional Chinese date-selection methods. It is about 50% for and 50% against traveling in April 15 . (see enclosed pix if you can read Chinese).
But out of the numerous results from this Chinese program, three pieces of data are most relevant:
1. The Purple White Star of the day is 5-yellow disaster star and the likely sailing hour is 2-black sickness star bing-xu hour. Combination of 5-yellow and 2-black is the worst combination in Purple White Star Astrology.
2. One of the month San-sha locations is south. The ferry had sailed towards south from north. Year San-sha is in the north.
3. The date is a Wu-chen month, bing-chen day, sailing hour likely was wu-xu hour (9 pm). Chen-dragon clashes Xu-dog. So the hour clashed both the month and day.
I ran Qi-Men-Dun-Jia day pan for the day, south has Shang-gate (hurt) with bing-ren (heaven and earth pans fighting). It is not the worst direction for the chart. SE palace has xin-yi (white tiger) was the worst direction. I wonder if the ferry was off-course to SE.
Anyway, from this unfortunate case, we can see that choosing the right date-selection method is also based on your luck (for choosing the "right" method). But it seems basic traditional stuff like purple white star and San-sha, 5-yellow and the date breakers, are still your best bet. You don't really need fancy methods.
Now let's pray for miracles for the missing passengers in that ferry.
Ken Lai
http://www.kenlaifengshui.com
