Grand Duke Talisman charity drive 2023

This post is based on my past posts about "Grand Duke Talisman charity drive" with updates for 2023.

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.  

Our Grand Duke talismans are consecrated with the energy from Grand Duke and his mother Dou-mou (mother or commander of 60 Grand Dukes).  Hopefully, our talismans will motivate Grand Duke to be easy and generous on you when his mother is around him.

Why do we ask for a charitable donation for this talisman?  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 an exchange of energy-- using a charitable deed in exchange of protection energy from Grand Duke.  One cannot get something out of nothing.

2023 GRAND DUKE GENERAL PI-SHI  癸卯太歲皮时    

2023 is Gui-mao or year of water-rabbit.  Grand Duke for the year is General Pi-shi who was a military commander in Northern Wei Dynasty (386- 535).

DO YOU NEED A 2023  GRAND DUKE TALISMAN? 

For 2023, five groups of people need Grand Duke Talismans:

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

• Birth years: 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011  
• 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 rooster sign

• Birth years:  1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017
• 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 dragon sign 

• Birth years: 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012 
• Symptoms: interpersonal relationship problems, negative romance, marital problem, backstabbing  

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

• Birth years:  1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014   
• 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 rat sign

• Birth years:  1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020
• Symptoms: big fluctuations in luck, wealth, career, relationship and health; traffic accident, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death,  negative romance, quarrels and etc.

GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY

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House violating Grand Duke
In 2023 Gui-mao year, if your house faces mao-rabbit mountain or E2  (82.5- 97.5 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 NE3 direction.  The opposite side of Grand Duke is Year-breaker (Sui-po, W2 or You 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 Mao-rabbit mountain or E2 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 E2 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, blessed and "activated" on screen digitally. This activated GD file will be emailed to you with notes.  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  (same old 2010 pricing!)

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".

NO MONEY? NO PROBLEM

Simply perform an act of kindness like visit a senior citizen, feed a homeless animal, buy a meal for the hungry,  tutor a needy student-- any help or emotional support to all living being and the like can be a substitute of a monetary donation.  Email me what you have done (great if you show photo, but not compulsory) and I shall email you the talisman.

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 gender info to kenlai88@yahoo.com with the following info:

User Name:

Gender:

Get your Grand Duke Talismans before Feb. 3, 2023 if possible.  Year of Rabbit will start on Feb. 4, 2023 at 10:44 am.  Your 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

2022 Grand Duke Talisman Charity Drive

This post is based on my past posts about "Grand Duke Talisman charity drive" with updates for 2022.

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.  

Our Grand Duke talismans are consecrated with the energy from Grand Duke and his mother Dou-mou (mother or commander of 60 Grand Dukes).  Hopefully, our talismans will motivate Grand Duke to be easy and generous on you when his mother is around him.

Why do we ask for a charitable donation for this talisman?  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 an exchange of energy-- using a charitable deed in exchange of protection energy from Grand Duke.  One cannot get something out of nothing.

2022 GRAND DUKE GENERAL HE-E  壬寅太歲賀諤    

2022 is Ren-yin or year of water-tiger.  Grand Duke for the year is General Hé é who was a military commander in Yuan Dynasty (1271- 1368) specialized in attack warfare.

DO YOU NEED A 2022  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 tiger sign

• Birth years: 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010  
• 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 monkey sign

• Birth years: 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016
• 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 snake sign 

• Birth years: 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013 
• Symptoms: interpersonal relationship problems, negative romance, marital problem, backstabbing  

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

• Birth years: 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971,  1983, 1995, 2007, 2019   
• 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 monkey or snake sign

• Birth years (monkey): 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016
• Birth years (snake): 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013
• 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 tiger (yin), snake (si) and monkey (shen).  Serious misfortune such as major accident/ illness, losing wealth or even death may occur.  So even if your animal sign is not one of the above BUT your natal chart and luck period bring in Yin (tiger), Si (snake) and/ or Shen (monkey), you are also violating Grand Duke indirectly.  For example, you are not a monkey sign (shen) person but you have a shen inside your natal chart or luck period brings in a shen. 
 
GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY
If your house faces Yin mountain or NE3 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 facing Yin mountain or NE3 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 NE3 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.

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House violating Grand Duke
In 2022 Ren-yin year, if your house faces Yin-tiger mountain or NE3 (52.5 to 67.5 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 NE3 direction.  The opposite side of Grand Duke is Year-breaker (Sui-po, SW3 or Shen 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 Yin-tiger mountain or NE3 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 NE3 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, blessed and "activated" on screen digitally. This activated GD file will be emailed to you with notes.  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".

NO MONEY? NO PROBLEM

Simply perform an act of kindness like visit a senior citizen, feed a homeless animal, buy a meal for the hungry,  tutor a needy student-- any help or emotional support to all living being and the like can be a substitute of a monetary donation.  Email me what you have done (great if you show photo, but not compulsory) and I shall email you the talisman.

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 gender info to kenlai88@yahoo.com with the following info:

User Name:

Gender:

Get your Grand Duke Talismans before Feb. 3, 2022 if possible.  Year of Tiger will start on Feb. 4, 2022 at 04:52 am.  Your 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

2019 Grand Duke Talisman Charity Drive

I have created a multi-years table for checking Grand Duke violations by birth year that you may use even after I had gone to see Buddha and Jesus.  You may plan ahead with this table. 

We still use the year 2011 old price for Grand Duke Talismans donation for this year.  But you may donate more to your favorable charity if you wish.

This year we start the drive early, so you may take advantage of your usual Christmas or new year donations to get a GD talisman (and income tax deduction, if any).

For details on Grand Duke violations, you may read this posts:
http://kenlaifengshui.blogspot.com/2018/01/2018-grand-duke-talisman-charity-drive.html

To check if you have Grand Duke violation, check the highlighted last row ("Pig") and check next section if you do not know your animal sign.

The animal sign with violations are pig, snake and monkey.  House facing NW3 or hai mountain may need some remedies.

CHECKING YOUR BIRTH ANIMAL SIGN

1. RAT (years born: 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020, 2032, 2044)  
2. OX (years born: 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973,  1985, 1997, 2009, 2021, 2033, 2045) 
3. TIGER (years born: 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, 2022,  2034 )  
4. RABBIT (years born: 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023,  2035 ) 
5. DRAGON (years born: 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976,  1988, 2000, 2012, 2024, 2036) 
6. SNAKE (years born: 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013,  2025, 2037)  
7. HORSE (years born: 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, 2026, 2038, 2050)
8. RAM (years born: 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015, 2027, 2039 ) 
9. MONKEY (years born: 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016,  2028, 2040) 
10. ROOSTER (years born: 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981,  1993, 2005, 2017, 2029, 2041)  

 

2019 GRAND DUKE VIOLATIONS

"Fu-yin" or same animal sign of Grand Duke 值太岁-- people with pig sign
Symptoms:  This is not a the worst violation.  People with this animal sign usually will not have serious mishaps.  They have have some minor health problem or mentally uncomfortable.

"Fan-yin" or "clashing" the animal sign of Grand Duke 冲太岁-- people with snake sign
Symptoms:  This is the worst violation.  People with this violation are likely to have: big fluctuations and changes in luck, wealth, career, relationship and health; traffic accident, sickness like kidney, uterus, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death,  negative romance, quarrels and etc.

 "Hai" or "harming" the animal sign of Grand Duke 害太岁-- people with monkey sign
Symptoms:  backstabbing at work, bad interpersonal relationship, marital disharmony,  jinxing close relatives (esp. older ones, spouse and children),  jealousy from others and minor health problems   

"Xing" or "penalizing" the animal sign of Grand Duke 刑太岁-- people with pig sign
Symptoms:  conflicts, backstabbing, injury, financial disagreements, lawsuits, scares, be careful with friends, romance problem and negative peach blossoms.

GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY 
House violating Grand Duke

In 2019 ji-hai year, if your house faces hai-pig mountain or NW3 (322.5 to 337.5 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 NW3 direction.  The opposite side of Grand Duke is Year-breaker (Sui-po, SE1).  This location should avoid digging and activities too. 

For details on house Grand Duke violations, check this post:
http://kenlaifengshui.blogspot.com/2016/12/what-is-house-violating-grand-duke-in.html 

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 yourself.  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)

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 "pain" or "misfortune" removed from you 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, 2019 if possible.  Year of Pig will start on Feb. 4, 2018 (11:16 am).  Your individually consecrated digital talisman will be emailed to you  or in about 1 week (after January 1, 2019) after receiving your proof of donation.

Thank you for participating in this charity drive.

 Ken Lai

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

2018 Grand Duke Talisman Charity Drive

This post is based on 2017 "Grand Duke Talisman charity drive" with updates for 2018.

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.

Like last year, 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.

2018 GRAND DUKE GENERAL JIANG WU   姜武大將軍

2018 is Wu-xu or year of earth-dog. Grand Duke for the year is General Jiang Wu who was a military officer in 16th century Ming Dynasty.  Jiang had passed his Imperial military officer exam in 1622 and became an officer renowned for neutralizing banditry.  In 1642, he was ordered to rescue the embattled and besieged national army in Kaifeng City of Henan Province.  General Jiang had refused to retreat when cohort armies were defeated and escaped.  He had kept on fighting and terminating many bandit soldiers until he himself was killed.  He was awarded "róng lù dà fū" (榮祿大夫, similar to western knighthood) posthumously which was inheritable by his descendants.

2018年狗年，年干支“戊戌”，太歲為姜武大將軍,。在明代時降生在保德州（今山東省保德縣一帶），天啟二年（1622年）科舉中武舉人，被授予大同威遠守備（今山西省大同市）的官職；崇禎（1628-1643年）初年，升遷為大水峪游擊，建造了杏山城，又遷為宣府西城參將，捕殺了大盜王科，又調守宣府右衛，擢升為通州（今北京市通縣一帶）副總兵，守護皇室諸陵墓；十五年（1642年），跟隨保定總督楊文岳援救開封守軍。當時隨行其他營的軍隊都潰敗而逃散了，唯有姜武的軍隊，堅定防守，毫不動搖。清晨，賊軍蜂擁殺來，姜武親自率軍血戰，殺賊軍達數百人。由于力量耗盡，姜武在怒斥賊軍無義中英勇犧牲。后被贈進榮祿大夫，右都督蔭外衛，世襲總旗。

2018  GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR BAZI CLASHES
Wu-xu or year of earth-dog can be challenging for people with Jia-chen and/or Ren-chen pillar in their Bazi charts because these pillars "fan-yin" or "battle" with both the stem and branch of 2018 Grand Duke. It is especially serious if your day-pillar is Jia-chen or Ren-chen because it means something may happen to you or your spouse.

5 out of 12 animal signs have "violated" Grand Duke because dog sign forms 3-penalities with ram and ox.  Dog also clashes dragon and "prosecutes" rooster.

In addition, besides the year branch, if any branch in your Bazi chart has a chen-dragon, 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 chen month branch clash, the effect may happen to daymasters' parent or sibling. 

In general, "clashing Grand Duke" is the most serious violation.   This means people with dragon animal sign should be more cautious this year.

If fortunately or unfortunately, you chart somehow has a xu-chou-wei (dog-ox-ram) 3-penalties, the outcome could be positive or disastrous depending if earth element is favorable or unfavorable to your chart.

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

"Fu-yin" or same animal sign of Grand Duke 值太岁-- people with dog sign
DOG (years born: 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970,  1982, 1994, 2006, 2018)
Symptoms: obstacles, stagnation or running "reverse" instead of forward and not suitable for travels; overspending, digestive sickness, headache, sleeping problem, traffic/ crashing injuries, prone to divorce or separation, money quarrels, do not partnership or offer loans to people;  Damages in career and wealth luck and relationship.   

"Fan-yin" or "clashing" the animal sign of Grand Duke 冲太岁-- people with dragon sign
DRAGON (years born: 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976,  1988, 2000, 2012)
Symptoms: big fluctuations and changes in luck, wealth, career, relationship and health; traffic accident, sickness like liver, eyes, intestine and stomach, surgery, may be pregnant, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death,  negative romance, quarrels and etc.
SPECIAL NOTE:  If your were born in a dragon day or dragon hour, you are also clashing Grand Duke for 2018!

 "Hai" or "prosecuting" the animal sign of Grand Duke 害太岁-- people with rooster sign
ROOSTER (years born: 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981,  1993, 2005, 2017) 
Symptoms: better luck than 2017; backstabbing at work, bad interpersonal relationship, marital disharmony,  jinxing close relatives (esp. older ones, spouse and children),  jealousy from others and minor health problems   

"Xing" or "penalizing" the animal sign of Grand Duke 刑太岁---- people with ox sign 
OX (years born: 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973,  1985, 1997, 2009)

Symptoms:  conflicts, backstabbing, injury, financial disagreements, lawsuits, scares, be careful with friends, romance problem and negative peach blossoms.

"Po" or "damaging"  (also penalizing) the animal sign of Grand Duke 破太岁---- people with ram sign 
RAM (years born: 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015) 
Symptoms:  busy for trivial things, consuming/ losing wealth, minor health problems, negative romance, marital problem, backstabbing, prone to missing articles and obstacles in work.

GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY 
House violating Grand Duke

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In 2018 wu-xu year, if your house faces xu-dog mountain or NW1 (292.5 to 307.5 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 NW1 direction.  The opposite side of Grand Duke is Year-breaker (Sui-po, SE1).  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 Xu-dog mountain or NW1 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 NW1 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 NW1 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 NW1 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)

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, 2018 if possible.  Year of Dog will start on Feb. 4, 2018 (5:30 am).  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