If you have read my old message about functions of Grand Duke, you know that there are two Grand Dukes watching over your shoulder, counting the good and bad deeds that you have done and executing rewards and misfortunes accordingly. This is a major rationale that donation to get your Grand Duke talisman. When your talisman is grounded with a charitable deed, GD is less likely to execute any misfortunes due from your karma account. Another rationale for donation is the exchange of energy-- using a charitable deed in exchange of protection energy from Grand Duke.
For 2017, I have added the topic for house violating Grand Duke, the cure is either avoiding activities/ earth-digging or using the Grand Duke talisman in the Grand Duke location.
2017 GRAND DUKE GENERAL TANG JIE 唐杰
2017 is Ding-you or year of fire-rooster. Grand Duke for the year is General Tang Jie who was a military officer in Song Dynasty (618- 907). Tang was born with super physical prowess. He was humble and respected by local folks. He had passed the government military officer exam and become a military officer. General Tang was ordered to stop the bandit disturbance in the South. He had neutralized the bandit chief and decapitated 58 bandits. Local people were no longer under the threat of plunder and killing. The government had rewarded Tang with higher rank and silver.
丁酉太歲生於唐代安鄉〈今湖北省安鄉縣〉，名唐杰，字子文。自幼練習武藝，因而身體碩壯。更有一身特殊奇大的力量，在挑擔和舉重時表現突出。然而也受嚴格的禮教，所以待人十分謙讓，為地方人敬重；遇到有人仗力欺辱鄉民時，大家就請唐杰出來主持公道，唐杰只要出面，紛爭就自然平息下去。後來唐杰順利地在科考中考上武舉人，使他出生地大感光彩。因武舉人比一般文舉人還困難，不但要考武藝兵學，也要考基本的文科。當時，南方盜寇動亂，唐杰奉旨到南方平定寇亂，斬殺為首的賊子多人，又乘勝追殺賊寇於桃花岡，斬賊首等五十八人，立了平定賊寇的奇功，使鄉民不再被搶奪殺害。因此，朝廷賜蟒服、銀兩等給與獎勵。唐杰的功勛和德行，受到普遍的推崇。
2017 GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR BAZI CLASHES
Ding-you or year of fire-rooster can be challenging for people with Gui-mao or Xin-mao pillar in their Bazi charts because these pillars "fan-yin" or "battle" with both the stem and branch of the Grand Duke. It is especially serious if your day-pillar is Gui-mao or Xin-mao because it means something may happen to you or your spouse.
In addition, besides the year branch, if any of the branch in your Bazi chart has a mao-rabbit, that branch is also clashing Grand Duke. The effect may be seen from the people and events represented by that branch location. For example, if you have a mao month branch clash, the effect may happen to daymasters' parent or sibling.
Here are the four groups of people who need Grand Duke Talismans:
1. "Fu-yin" or same animal sign of Grand Duke 值太岁-- people with rooster sign
ROOSTER : years born-- 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017
Symptoms: obstacles, stagnation or running "reverse" instead of forward and not suitable for travels. Damages in career and wealth luck and relationship. Rooster also "self-penalizing" itself when runs into rooster year.
2. "Fan-yin" or "clashing" the animal sign of Grand Duke 冲太岁-- people with rabbit sign
RABBIT: years born-- 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011
Symptoms: big fluctuations in luck, wealth, career, relationship and health; traffic accident, hurt by metal object, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death, negative romance, quarrels and etc.
SPECIAL NOTE: Mao-you clash is a powerful clash involving wood and metal battling-- negative romance causing serious financial loss or even death or traffic accidents and surgery (injuries by metal). If your chart has zi-rat, it will get even worse. If your chart has both zi-rat and wu-horse, pump up your life insurance policy because you have all the 4-cardinal clashes elements-- zi, wu, mao and you.
3. "Hai" or "prosecuting" the animal sign of Grand Duke 害太岁-- people with dog sign
DOG: years born-- 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006
Symptoms: backstabbing at work, bad interpersonal relationship, jealousy from others, emotional problems, success slips away in the last minute and low Feng Shui luck.
4. "Po" or "damaging" the animal sign of Grand Duke 破太岁---- people with rat sign
RAT: years born-- 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008
Symptoms: interpersonal relationship problems, negative romance, marital problem, backstabbing, skin and nervous system problems-- due to over-confidence and extreme/ radical positions.
GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY
1. House violating Grand Duke
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Even with the GD talisman, if you need to do construction, you still need to do a date-selection for an auspicious date and start digging on a non-GD direction and finish last on the GD direction. I have checked through the year of Rooster and compiled a construction calendar with dates that can over-ride the effect of Grand Duke, San-sha and 5-yellow star. Please look for info in this blog in the near future.
2. Desk violating Grand Duke
If your desk or wherever you sit for an extended time faces You-rooster mountain or W2 direction, you can put up a Grand Duke talisman there for protection. It is not auspicious to face the Grand Duke direction. It weakens your competition power in business/career and examinations. However, if you arrange your seat so that W2 will be at your back (and put a Grand Duke talisman there), you will get Grand Duke as support and is good for competition and business.
3. Moving direction violating Grand Duke
If you move to a new house or residence, the relative direction from your old house to the new house is facing W2 grand Duke direction, you are considered "violating GD". Remedy will be choosing an auspicious date to move or at the least, choose a different route of traveling, like driving to a different direction in the beginning, take a break for 15 minutes or more and then to the final destination. This will convert the original GD direction to a non-GD direction. You may carry a GD talisman too.
4. Marriage direction violating Grand Duke
If you get married and the relative direction of your new marital residence to the old residence is facing SW2 grand Duke direction, you are considered "violating GD". Remedy will be choosing an auspicious date to move or at the least, choose a different route of traveling, like driving to a different direction in the beginning, take a break for 15 minutes or more and then to the final destination. This will convert the original GD direction to a non-GD direction. You may carry a GD talisman too.
GRAND DUKE TALISMAN OFFERS
This year we use digital delivery of Grand Duke Talismans because "snail mail" is slow and prone to losses. Ken Lai will create a GD Talisman with user name, city and country imprinted, bless and "activate" individually on screen digitally. This unique activated GD file will be emailed to you. You can print as many copies as you want (but for one unique-named person only). In this way, you can replace soiled or damaged talismans. You can carry one talisman in your wallet and post one in your home and/or office for Feng Shui remedy. You get more "mileage" from a single donation this way.
The offer is the same as previous years: your charity donation of US$30 or more to any legitimate local or international charity will get you a specially blessed Grand Duke talisman with your name inscribed (see below for special rate for countries with lower annual income per capita). Here are some sample charities suggested in the past drives:
- homeless shelter
- Save-the-Children (www.savethechildren.org)
- UNICEF (United Nation Children's Fund)
- Smile Train (www.smiletrain.org)
- children hospital
- food shelves/soup kitchen
- Red Cross
- animal shelter/ humane society
- Doctors without border (https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm)
If you are worried about privacy issues and future solicitations-- please be assured that I will not email you in the future. You will send me NO money. You send your money directly to your favorite local or international charity. You do NOT need to purchase any additional item from me or anyone else. No future solicitation of any type will be sent to you. This offer is for people who have no access to Daoist temples. Please support your local temple if you have access to one.
If you need more than one Grand Duke Talismans, here is the discount schedule:
--one talisman US$30 donation (US$5 if you are unemployed/under-employed)
--two talismans US$50 donation ($10 if unemployed /under-employed )
--three talismans US$60 donation ($15 if unemployed /under-employed )
(you may go to www.xe.com to calculate the equivalent of US$30 to your local currency)
NOTE: People from countries with annual personal income per capita income below US$8000.00 can use the "under-employed and unemployed rate".
Talisman that is grounded with a charitable event works more effectively because it has an exchange of one type of energy for protection energy.
To claim your talismans and application instructions, please forward your donation receipt with the talisman recipient names and address to kenlai88@yahoo.com with the following info:
1. user name:
2. city
3. country
Get your Grand Duke Talismans before Feb. 3, 2017 if possible. Year of Rooster will start on Feb. 3, 2017. Your individually consecrated digital talisman will be emailed to you in about 2 weeks after receiving your proof of donation.
Thank you for participating in this charity drive.
Ken Lai
http://www.kenlaifengshui.com
email: kenlai88@yahoo.com
