2021 Grand Duke Talisman Charity Drive

This post is based on my past posts about "Grand Duke Talisman charity drive" with updates for 2021.

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.  When your talisman is grounded with a charitable deed, GD is less likely to execute any misfortunes due from your karma account. The rationale for donation is exchange of energy-- using a charitable deed in exchange of protection energy from Grand Duke.

2021 GRAND DUKE GENERAL YANG XIN  辛丑太岁杨信   

2021 is Xin-chou or year of metal-ox. Grand Duke for the year is General Yang Xin who was a civil officer in Han Dynasty (206 B.C .to - 220 A.D.).  Yang was venerated for defending the dignity of the Han Government when he was a special envoy to the Huns  (Xiongnu, 匈奴) in 116 B.C .

2021辛丑牛年，当值太岁的形象是杨信，汉时生于陕地（今陕西省一带）。生卒不详。元鼎年间（公元前116-公元前111年），杨信一代文臣，出使匈奴。刚强正直，不屈不挠，留下美名。

DO YOU NEED A 2021  GRAND DUKE TALISMAN? 

Five groups of people who need Grand Duke Talismans:

1. "Fu-yin" or same animal sign of Grand Duke 值太岁-- people with OX sign

• Birth years: 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021  
• Symptoms: obstacles, stagnation or running "reverse" instead of forward and not suitable for travels. 

2. "Fan-yin" or "clashing" the animal sign of Grand Duke 冲太岁-- people with RAM sign

• Birth years: 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015
• Symptoms: big fluctuations in luck, accident, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death, changing job

3.  "Hai" or "harming" the animal sign of Grand Duke 害太岁-- people with HORSE sign 

• Birth years: 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014 
• Symptoms: interpersonal relationship problems, negative romance, marital problem, backstabbing  

4. "Po" or "breaking" the animal sign of Grand Duke 破太岁-- -- people with DRAGON sign

• Birth years: 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964,  1976, 1988, 2000, 2012   
• Symptoms: backstabbing at work, over-consumption, no luck in non-regular income like gambling/ stock and success slips away in the last minute

5.  "Xing" or "penalizing" the animal sign of Grand Duke 刑太岁---- people with RAM or DOG sign

• Birth years (DOG): 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018    
• Birth years (RAM): 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015
• Symptoms: big fluctuations in luck, wealth, career, relationship and health; traffic accident, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death,  negative romance, quarrels and etc.

SPECIAL NOTE:   "3-penalties" is formed when a chart has ox (chou), ram (wei) and dog (xu).  Serious misfortune such as major accident/ illness, losing wealth or even death may occur.
 
GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY
If your house faces Chou mountain or NE1 direction, you need to put up a Grand Duke talisman facing that direction and avoid construction, earth-digging and demolition there.

If your desk or wherever you sit for an extended time faces Chou mountain or NE1 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 NE1 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.

GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY 

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House violating Grand Duke
In 2021 Xin-chou year, if your house faces chou-ox mountain or NE1 (22.5 to 37.5 degree) direction, your house is said to be "violating Grand Duke."  House violating GD will affect the overall luck, health and well-being of the people living inside.  The remedy is either avoiding movements, construction, earth-digging and demolition there or put up a Grand Duke talisman facing NE1 direction.  The opposite side of Grand Duke is Year-breaker (Sui-po, SW1 or wei mountain).  This location should avoid digging and activities too. 

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. 

Desk violating Grand Duke 
If your desk or wherever you sit for an extended time faces chou-rat mountain or NE1 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 NE1 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. 

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, blessed and "activated" 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.

Below are some charities that you can send your donation to.  But you can always support your local charities like food-shelf or soup kitchens, especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

• 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) 
• Your local COVID-19 pandemic charity.

Donation made to help alleviate an urgent human/ animal need or suffering (e.g., feeding the hungry, tornado/ typhoon victims or homeless) gets you more karma credits than donation for public good or improvement of public life like church/ temple or public radio/TV.

If you are worried about privacy issues and future solicitations-- please be assured that no future solicitation or email will be sent to you in the future. You send me NO money. You send your donation directly to your favorite local or international charity.  No purchase involved.  This offer is for people who have no access to Daoist temples.  Please support your local temple if you have access to one.

SUGGESTED DONATION

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:

• User Name
• City
• Country
• Can you get yellow paper for printing talismans? (Yes/ No)

Get your Grand Duke Talismans before Feb. 3, 2021 if possible.  Year of Ox will start on Feb. 3, 2021 at 23:01.  Your individually consecrated digital talisman will be emailed to you in about 1 week after receiving your proof of donation.

Thank you for participating in this charity drive.

 Ken Lai

 http://www.kenlaifengshui.com
 Email: kenlai88@yahoo.com

2020 Grand Duke Talisman for Personal Protection and Feng Shui

This post is based on past posts about "Grand Duke Talisman charity drive" with updates for 2020.

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 exchange of energy-- using a charitable deed in exchange of protection energy from Grand Duke.

2020 GRAND DUKE GENERAL LU MI  盧秘
2020 is Geng-zi or year of metal-rat. Grand Duke for the year is General Lu Mi who was a civil officer in Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644).  Zhang was known for his knowledge in the classics and concern for the well-being of the citizens when he was a county official.  He had died in his post and was too poor to afford funeral. Public funds was used to pay for his final expenses.  Local citizens had lined up in the streets to send him off despite heavy rain.

2020  GRAND DUKE TALISMAN 
Geng-zi or year of  metal-rat is unusually hazardous affecting 5 Chinese zodiac animal signs out of 12.  Besides ram, it somehow affects all the 4-cardinal animals-- zi, wu, mao and you (rat, horse, rabbit and rooster)

2020 can be very dangerous for people with Bazi chart disliking water because Geng-zi is strong water energy.   However, charts that like water will enjoy strong luck for this year.

Zi-rat clashes Wu-horse. Zi, Wu, Mao and You are the 4-cardinal elements which are regarded as "peach-blossom" elements.  When Wu clashes Zi,  it stands for illicit romance.  Keep an eye on your spouse or lover if s/he has a Zi-wu clash in his/her Bazi chart.  This is especially valid IF wu-horse sits in one's spouse palace or day-branch.

Besides zi-wu clash, zi-rat also forms a formidable penalty with mao-rabbit.  It is one of the "3-penalties" in Bazi.  People who have rabbit animal sign or mao-rabbit in any pillar of their Bazi charts should be very careful in relationship.  It could mean losing major wealth due to lust or negative romance.

Here are the five groups of people who need Grand Duke Talismans:

1. "Fu-yin" or same animal sign of Grand Duke 值太岁-- people with RAT sign
Birth years: 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008  
Symptoms: obstacles, stagnation or running "reverse" instead of forward and not suitable for travels. 

2. "Fan-yin" or "clashing" the animal sign of Grand Duke 冲太岁-- people with HORSE sign  
Birth years: 1918, 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014 
Symptoms: big fluctuations in luck, accident, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death, changing job

3.  "Hai" or "harming" the animal sign of Grand Duke 害太岁-- people with RAM sign Birth years: 1919, 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015
Symptoms: backstabbing at work, and success slips away in the last minute

4. "Po" or "breaking" the animal sign of Grand Duke 破太岁-- -- people with ROOSTER sign
Birth years: 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981,  1993, 2005, 2017   
Symptoms: interpersonal relationship problems, negative romance, marital problem, backstabbing, skin and nervous system problems-- due to over-confidence and extreme/ radical positions. 

5.  "Xing" or "penalizing" the animal sign of Grand Duke 刑太岁---- people with RABBIT sign
Birth years: 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011    
Symptoms: big fluctuations in luck, wealth, career, relationship and health; traffic accident, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death,  negative romance, quarrels and etc.

SPECIAL NOTE:  Zi-mao penalty is a powerful penalty-- negative romance causing serious financial loss or even death or traffic accidents and surgery.  If your chart has both you-rooster and wu-horse, pump up your life insurance policy because you have all the 4-cardinal clashes elements-- zi, wu, mao and you.
 
GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY
If your house faces Zi mountain or North direction, you need to put up a Grand Duke talisman facing that direction and avoid construction, earth-digging and demolition there.

If your desk or wherever you sit for an extended time faces Zi mountain or North 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 North 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.

GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY 

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House violating Grand Duke
In 2020 Geng-zi year, if your house faces zi-rat mountain or N2 (352.5 to 7.5 degree, ) direction, your house is said to be "violating Grand Duke."  House violating GD will affect the overall luck, health and well-being of the people living inside.  The remedy is either avoiding movements, construction, earth-digging and demolition there or put up a Grand Duke talisman facing N2 direction.  The opposite side of Grand Duke is Year-breaker (Sui-po, S2).  This location should avoid digging and activities too. 

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. 

Desk violating Grand Duke 
If your desk or wherever you sit for an extended time faces Zi-rat mountain or N2 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 N2 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. 

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 N2 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. 

Marriage direction violating Grand Duke
If you get married and the relative direction of your new marital residence to the old residence is facing N2 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:

1. homeless shelter
2. Save-the-Children (www.savethechildren.org) 
3. UNICEF (United Nation Children's Fund)
4. Smile Train (www.smiletrain.org) 
5. children hospital
6. food shelves/soup kitchen
7. Red Cross
8. animal shelter/ humane society
9. Doctors without border (https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm) 

Donation made to help alleviate an urgent human/ animal need or suffering (e.g., feeding the hungry, tornado/ typhoon victims or homeless) gets you more karma credits than donation for public good or improvement of public life like church/ temple or public radio/TV.

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.  gender (sex): 
2.  city:
3.  country:

Get your Grand Duke Talismans before Feb. 3, 2020 if possible.  Year of Rat will start on Feb. 4, 2020 (17:05).  Your individually consecrated digital talisman will be emailed to you in about 1 week after receiving your proof of donation.

Thank you for participating in this charity drive.

 Ken Lai

 http://www.kenlaifengshui.com
 email: kenlai88@yahoo.com