Ken's Cyber Cave: Do you suffer from "back-pointing sha" 指背煞

Note: The following article is written for my Bazi discussion groups after someone reported that her spouse suffers office politics and "backstabbing" at work.

People with "back-pointing sha" are likely to suffer backstabbing, gossiping, bad-mouthing from people around them. Below are the characteristics of people with this sha in their Bazi:

1. like to show off or high profile, hence attracting jealousy, gossiping, backstabbing and bad-mouthing

2. do favor for people but do not get their appreciation

3. have few or no close friends, being bullied by others

Here is the formula for finding back-pointing sha in a Bazi chart:

Birth year monkey/ rat/ dragon (shen/ zi/ chen) with shen in any branch
Birth year pig/ rabbit/ ram (hai/ mao/ wei) with hai in any branch
Birth year snake/ rooster/ ox (si/ you/ chou) with si in any branch
Birth year tiger/ horse/ dog (yin/ wu/ xu) with yin in any branch

EFFECT OF BACK-POINTING SHA LOCATIONS

"Back-pointing sha" is less serious in year pillar, people just talk bad about you at your back.
"Back-pointing sha" is most serious in hour pillar, people talk bad about you in your face.
"Back-pointing sha" in month or day pillar-- people talk bad about you both in your face or at your back, but they can't do much to you or bully you.