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Friday, March 5, 2010

Bazi: Tiger-snake-monkey and Dog-ox-ram 3-Penalties

The combinations of Tiger-snake-monkey (yin-si-shen) and Dog-ox-ram (xu-chou-wei) are called 3-penalties. 3-penalities (3P) is one of the more serious afflictions in 4-Pillars or Bazi astrology.

With 6 out of 12 branches involving 3-penalties, there is a 50% chance that a year is 3P-prone, like last year's chou and current year's yin. (Note: zi-mao is also considered one of the 3Ps).

For people with monkey sign in a tiger (yin) year, it is not difficult to run into a snake (si) luck period or with snake in one of the 3 branches in the natal chart--- this combination hits the 3P jackpot!

Natal charts with in-born 3P elements are likely to attract bickering or back-stabbing incidents throughout day-master's (DM) life. 3P formed with natal chart and luck periods is likely to cause accidents, legal problems, financial losses, sickness, marital breakup and even death. Another characteristic is 3P is likely to jinx DM's close relatives like parents, spouse and offspring.

While 3P may not be always negative, but it is more likely to be negative. When it is positive or negative? I'll give you some general ideas here.

What are the differences between tiger-snake-monkey (yin-si-shen) and dog-ox-ram (xu-chou-wei) 3 penalties? Yin-si-shen 3P generally involves "bodily harm" like sickness and accidents. Xu-chou-wei 3P is more into relationship problem, lawsuits, legal problems, bickering, gossiping, backstabbing and etc.

When 3P can be positive to the DM? According to 4P classics, strong DM can handle 3P and weak DM cannot. So this may explain the differences in outcome for people with the same 3P.

There are also "Na-yin 3P" and "Shen-sha 3P" theories to predict outcomes of 3P. These topics hopefully will show up in the advanced version of my Bazi/ 4P courses.

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Sunday, August 5, 2007

Void

The concept of "void" is important both in FS and 4P.

For FS, void line primarily means the borderline between two mountains (90% of the case, there arevoids exist NOT in borderline, see my "Practical Door FS manual") and no "qi" comes into the house.

For 4P or Bazi, concept of void is derived from matching 10 stems to 12 branches-- 2 branches will have "no matching stem" and thus they are in "void".

When a 4P chart has void branches, depending on the location of the branch (year, month, day or hour pillar), it implies the lack of relationship between the day-master (DM) and the relative (family member) represented by the void branch. For example, if mother palace is in void, it means DM has little or no relationship with mother, separated from mother, mother died early and etc..

I'd a 4P client who was raised by her grandmother. She was depressed because she cannot figure out why her mother had left her and had been seeing a psychologist.

After I've pointed out there is a void branch in her mother palace and is predestined to have little or no relationship with her mother, she no longer needs to see the psychologist.

There are many applications and interpretations about void branches. Most are listed in my "4P Bootcamp" manaul.

Here is another way of playing with void branch.

First, find out the na-yin element of each pillar. For example Ding-hai's na-yin is earth (you can find a na-yin table from the free 4P file that I had given to this list long time ago).

For example, let's have an imaginary 4P:

Year: Ding-hai : na-yin = earth
Month: Jia-chen : na-yin = fire
Day: Yi-wei : na-yin = metal
Hour: gui-you : na-yin = metal

Day void branch = chen, si
Year void branch = wu, wei

From the above, we know month and day pillar are in void.

In this system, NOT all na-yin voids are negative.

When a metal vessel is empty (void), it makes noises. So this means fame (temples like to be built on metal void line, for fame).

When water is in void, it means clearness. So it means intelligence and righteousness.

When earth is in void, it collapse, so it is not good.

When fire is in void, wind blows in and become flaming and gives out light. This is consider as auspicious.

When wood is in void, it breaks.

Conventional interpretation for this example will be: lack of karma or relationship with mother (or sibling)- lack of karma or relationship with spouse (or no spouse).

With the na-yin interpretation: lack of karma or relationship with spouse though either one may be famous.

These deductions are not possible with strict 5-element or 10-transformation star ("10 gods") analyses.

There are other ways to look at void branches, like switching day and year void branch and switching day and hour void branches.

The concept of void is even more important in Buddhism. But that is a very long story!