Influences of unfavorable element in Bazi 八字忌神

In Bazi, unfavorable element or "annoying god" (ji-shen) refers to for an element that is detrimental to the person or "daymaster" (DM) of the natal chart owner.

Unfavorable element causes "imbalance" in a chart that may create misfortune, sickness and disasters.  One of the goals of Bazi reading is to find out one's unfavorable element and make preparations and remedies to mitigate its effects.  

The negative influences of unfavorable element can be observed from the ten transformation stars or "10-gods" representing these elements:

1.  Zheng-cai or +wealth star is unfavorable:  low wealth luck and salary or income, work/ career problems; high work output or effort with low return.

2.  Pian-cai or -wealth star is unfavorable:  poor luck in non-regular income, likely to lose money in gambling, speculations, stock and investments

3.  Zheng-guan or +power star is unfavorable:  problem getting promotion in career or official position; unlikely to work for government;  hard to rise through the ranks even if working for government.

4.  Qi-sha (pian-guan) or -power star is unfavorable:  Qi-sha represents "mean people", back-stabbers, illegal groups; prone to getting involved with Mafia-type people or being bullied; feeling pressure or being prosecuted; also lacking performance or achievement in career.

5.  Zheng-yin or +resource star is unfavorable:  stands for low academic background and performance; +resource star also represents helpful mentor or nobleman;  this person lacks helpful mentor and must be self-reliant to achieve success.

6.  Pian-yin or -resource star is unfavorable:  This represents the senior relatives of chart owner are not healthy and is prone to being dragging down or implicated by them.  This also means lacking relationship or communications with family members.

7.  Jie-cai or +peer star is unfavorable:  This stands for disharmony with siblings.  This person appears to have many acquaintances but few real friends.  This also means s/he tends to overwork.

8.  Bi-jian or -peer star is unfavorable:  This stands for siblings are likely financially unstable and not helpful to this person.  It also means s/he is likely implicated or dragging down by his/her siblings.

9.  Shang-guan or +output star is unfavorable: This person is prone to quarrel, dispute, gossip or scandal and likely to have sex scandal.  +Output star also stands for mental fatigue and tough working conditions.

10.  Shi-shen or -output star is unfavorable:  This stands for depression due to no one recognize or hire one's talent.  This could also mean one's thought is out of reality or unrealistic.

If you want to know more about Bazi, please check out the following courses:

“4-Pillars Forecasting Bootcamp+ ″ w/ 18 hr. video 

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“Visual Bazi: Wealth Secrets and Maximization” w/ 18 hr. HD video
“Advanced Visual Form Feng Shui”  w/23 hr. HD video
“Visual Form Feng Shui” w/13 hr. HD video
“Applied Bazi: Sickness Forecasting and Management” w/33 hr. HD video 
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 1: Forecasting and Decision Support” w/32 hr. HD video
“Luck Enhancement and Misfortune Mitigation with Bazi and Feng Shui” w/ 45 hrs. HD video
“Feng Shui Toolbox: Sha-qi, Health/Wealth and Career” w/ 7 hr. HD video
“Period 7/8 FS Toolkit w/ Advanced Flying Star techniques” w/ 6 hr. HD video
“Practical Date-Selection Methods (incl. XKDG) w/ 12 hr. video
“Practical Imperial Qi-Men-Dun-Jia 4G” w/ 12 hr. video
“Professional Imperial QMDJ 4G” w/ 21 hr. video
“EZ QMDJ series: Astrology, Date/Task Selection, Annual Luck/ FS”w/ 3 hr. HD
“EZ QMDJ Advanced Feng Shui” with 4 hr. HD video
“Daoist Talismans for Feng Shui/Blessing” w/ 24 hr video
“Practical Door Feng Shui for Wealth” w/ 3 hr. video
“4-Pillars Forecasting Bootcamp+ ″ w/ 18 hr. video 

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"Over-metaphysicalized person" 2022

 NOTE:  This is an updated version of the same article written in 2011.

A "metaphysicalized person" is someone who uses metaphysics methods like Feng Shui, Bazi, ZWDS, Qi-Men-Dun-Jia,  date-selections, astrology, tarot cards, runes and the likes in some aspects of his or her daily life.

An "over-metaphysicalized person" is someone who will fine-tune every activity with metaphysics methods OR obsessed with maximizing the advantages from applying metaphysics to a major activity-- most likely in business or wealth enhancement aspects, interpersonal relationship or romance.  These people think that metaphysics is their ticket to solve all their worldly problems.

Because I teach Chinese metaphysics, some people thought that I have a magic wand or direct hot line to heaven.  They have requested me to help them move the slow-selling houses in an estate, selling a 50 feet yacht, defeating a spouse in divorce lawsuit, houses or even pushing up the margin call of stocks.

An average "metaphysicalized person" simply tries to enhance some aspects of his/her life with metaphysics whereas an "over-metaphysicalized person" attempts to get an upper-hand in almost every facet of life or in competitions for wealth.

I have clients who keep begging for new metaphysics techniques to enhance their wealth acquisitions.  I have told them that how much wealth one will acquire and enjoy is pre-destined.  By pushing for wealth, they may do "early withdrawal" from their life-time pre-determined wealth account.  They will die prematurely when their life-time account is drawn empty.  Check the following for a historical case:

Ken's Cyber Cave: Identical birthday and time, but one died earlier 祿盡人亡 (kenlaifengshui.blogspot.com)

You may not believe in this Buddhist view of wealth predeterminaton.  In Bazi or 4-Pillars, there is a term called "weak day-master cannot handle wealth".  Bazi classifies people into strong, balanced or weak "day-master".  People who belong to the "weak day-master" group cannot handle or enjoy big wealth when they are still "weak".  There are numerous stories about lottery winners' life got worse or even got killed after hitting the jackpot.  

There are five major types of over-metaphysicalized persons:
1.  The successful business people:  These are the luckiest group who enjoy successes in their business with application of metaphysics.  But their appetite for metaphysics tricks keeps growing and becomes "metaphysics junkie".

2.  Business people who WERE successful and are low on luck now:  These people either fail to change with time and/or adapt to new business environment.  Their major problem is not metaphysics but personal problems.  They hope the metaphysics magic wand will turn their business around overnight.  I know a businessman who has built two "5-ghost carry wealth" and a few "water-dragons" in his house. But his business still "sucks" because the problem is people-problem.  The better one will use metaphysics to boost their confidence while the worse one will use metaphysics to justify their failures because of "bad luck" or "bad Feng Shui".

3.  Non-business people who WERE successful and are low on luck now:  Like the business counterparts, these people sometimes dwell on their past successes and fail to change or adapt to new realities. They will max out their credit cards to buy or attend new metaphysics courses/ seminars and hope to turn their luck around. These new courses will dig a deeper financial hole for them.  They also tend to justify their lack or action or failures on "bad luck " or "bad Feng Shui".

4.  The dream-chasers who believe metaphysics is their shortcut to wealth and fame:   This group of people are likely drawn by the claims of easy wealth, "abundance", "fulfillment", "financial freedom", "success" and similar slogans.  One common characteristic of this people is:  they keep searching for a "better mouse trap" (course or seminar) to achieve their dreams before they have thoroughly studied the courses already purchased.

5.  The "not-my-fault" people:   This group of people use metaphysical explanations, whether intentionally or unintentionally, to justify their actions/ non-actions or personal failures.  Justifications like "inauspicious date", "bad Feng Shui", "luck period clashing my Bazi", "bad QMDJ direction", "my energy does not get along with ....",  and the like are common.  There are numerous metaphysics methods and is not difficult to find one to justify or explain away an unpleasant incident or failure.

"Ken, do you mean metaphysics does not work?"

Of course, not every metaphysics method works or always work 100%.  But some methods like Feng Shui, Bazi, date-selection methods may enhance your goal-directed activities.  However, my personal bias is:  use metaphysics methods to avoid or keep bad things from happening to you.  Methods for wealth enhancements should be used sparingly or "unless you have to".

Metaphysics methods, especially the wealth enhancement ones, behave like anti-biotic, the more you use them, the less effective they become to your personal qi or energy field.  I use metaphysics methods to the max only for important occasions.  For everyday life, I just use my own natural qi or energy to handle the events.  It is better to develop your own energy defense (like medicine's self-immunity) than borrowing from metaphysics.  

When you get some benefits from metaphysics, sooner or later, you will somehow pay back to the universe.  This is a simple law of karma.

Ken Lai

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“Visual Form Feng Shui” w/13 hr. HD video
“Applied Bazi: Sickness Forecasting and Management” w/33 hr. HD video 
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 1: Forecasting and Decision Support” w/32 hr. HD video
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 2: Basic Bazi Therapy w/18 hr. HD video
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 3 w/ Advanced Bazi Therapy w/18 hr. HD video
“Feng Shui Toolbox: Sha-qi, Health/Wealth and Career” w/ 7 hr. HD video
“Period 7/8 FS Toolkit w/ Advanced Flying Star techniques” w/ 6 hr. HD video
“Practical Date-Selection Methods 2020 (incl. XKDG) w/ 12 hr. video
“Practical Imperial Qi-Men-Dun-Jia 4G” w/ 12 hr. video
“Professional Imperial QMDJ 4G” w/ 21 hr. video
“EZ QMDJ series: Astrology, Date/Task Selection, Annual Luck/ FS”w/ 3 hr. HD
“EZ QMDJ Advanced Feng Shui” with 4 hr. HD video
“Daoist Talismans for Feng Shui/Blessing” w/ 24 hr video
“Practical Door Feng Shui for Wealth” w/ 3 hr. video
“4-Pillars Forecasting Bootcamp+ 2021″ w/ 18 hr. video 

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"How To Predict Chapter" 命理何知章

"Meng-li how to predict chapter 命理何知章" is a poem recited by street fortune-tellers in traditional China.  It has 30 topics and covers popular FAQ from clients.  There are 60 sentences and 420 Chinese characters in the chapter.  It could easily take two or more hours of live class to cover the topics involved.

Here I just translate the topics that do not need background concepts or historical info.  50% of this poem is translated.

何知其人离祖籍，年冲月提坐迁移。

How to predict one leaving hometown-- year pillar clashing month branch
何知其人成功名，三奇得地用神灵。

How to predict one succeeds in getting high official post--
何知其人是富豪，三合财局运气高。

How to predict one is a wealthy person-- 3-unities wealth combination in his/ her chart
何知其人富又富，财逢长生又遇库。

How to predict one is an uber rich--
何知其人喜花酒，桃花带水见癸酉。

How to predict one likes booze and prostitutes--  peach-blossom with water and gui-you in chart
何知其人爱小妾，正财旁落偏财坐。

How to predict one likes his concubine more--  pian-cai (-wealth) sits in spouse palace and zheng-cai (+wealth) in elsewhere
何知其人贵无比，杀刃相济龙德临。

How to predict one with high status in military--
何知其人贱且淫，命坐伤官色中滚。

How to predict one is deprecatory and lustful--  daymaster sits on shang-guan (+output)
何知其人贫又贫，比肩叠叠克财神。

How to predict one is uber poor--  numerous peer stars controlling wealth elements
何知其人没有钱，财星偏偏逢比肩。

How to predict one has no (or cannot keep) money--  wealth star/s running into peer stars
何知其人寿元高，三命生旺难不招。

How to predict one living a long life--
何知其人命早夭，命星死绝运也消。

How to predict one dies prematurely (short life expectancy)-- 
何知其人运不通，五行颠倒八字中。

How to predict one lacking good luck--
何知其人运气来，长生沐浴一路排。

How to predict one has good fortune coming--
何知其人吉带凶，八字暗藏一煞星。

How to predict one has an auspicious life but also with misfortune--
何知其人凶带吉，官杀争混有印医。

How to predict one has an inauspicious life but also good fortune--
何知其人富后贫，先遇财星后劫神。

How to predict one getting rich and then poor--  running into wealth luck and then -peer luck
何知其人贫后富，食神化劫生财路。

How to predict one being poor and then rich-- 
何知其人发科甲，官格逢印人人夸。

How to predict one excels in academic examinations--  

何知其人怀技艺，食伤得用且有气。

How to predict one has special talents or craftsmanship--  output elements are favorable with support
何知其人得贤妻，正财得位助夫基。

How to predict one getting a good wife-- +wealth (zheng-cai) sits in spouse palace
何知其人妻不贤，坐下偏官不安然。

How to predict one getting a wicked wife--  -power (qi-sha) sits in spouse palace
何知其人出身微，年遇凶神父母亏。

How to predict one has a humble origin--  year pillar elements are unfavorable
何知其人兄弟殃，月逢七杀又见伤。

How to predict one has sibling/s died prematurely--  qi-sha (-power) in month pillar and shang-guan (+output) in the chart
何知其人婚不顺，日犯差错受困顿。

How to predict one has marital problems--
何知其人子忤逆，时上无情又无义。

How to predict one has rebellious children--  hour pillar elements are unfavorable
何知其人儿女孝，福神入命把恩报。

How to predict one has filial children--
何知其人琴瑟和，财官相生婚宫谐。

How to predict one has a harmonious marriage--  +wealth and +power stars nurture each other with no clash or combination in spouse palace 
何知其人性好嫖，酒色猖狂妻财摇。

How to predict one indulging in paid sex--
何知其人爱赌钱，太阴偏财两结缘。

How to predict one likes gambling--

Like any other poems or "trick songs" in Chinese metaphysics, this poem does NOT specify the conditions or context to apply any of the poem contents.  You need to read the whole Bazi chart to determine if the contents here can be applied or not.

If you are interested to know more about Bazi, you may want to consider:

“4-Pillars Forecasting Bootcamp+ 2021 edition” with 18 hr. video

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Video Correspondence Courses: (click for details)
“Visual Bazi: Wealth Secrets and Maximization” w/ 18 hr. HD video
“Advanced Visual Form Feng Shui” 2021 w/23 hr. HD video
“Visual Form Feng Shui” w/13 hr. HD video
“Applied Bazi: Sickness Forecasting and Management” w/33 hr. HD video 
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 1: Forecasting and Decision Support” w/32 hr. HD video
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 2: Basic Bazi Therapy w/18 hr. HD video
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 3 w/ Advanced Bazi Therapy w/18 hr. HD video
“Feng Shui Toolbox: Sha-qi, Health/Wealth and Career” w/ 7 hr. HD video
“Period 7/8 FS Toolkit w/ Advanced Flying Star techniques” w/ 6 hr. HD video
“Practical Date-Selection Methods 2021 (incl. XKDG) w/ 12 hr. video
“Practical Imperial Qi-Men-Dun-Jia 4G” w/ 12 hr. video
“Professional Imperial QMDJ 4G” w/ 21 hr. video
“EZ QMDJ series: Astrology, Date/Task Selection, Annual Luck/ FS”w/ 3 hr. HD
“EZ QMDJ Advanced Feng Shui” with 4 hr. HD video
“Daoist Talismans for Feng Shui/Blessing” w/ 24 hr video
“Practical Door Feng Shui for Wealth” w/ 3 hr. video
“4-Pillars Forecasting Bootcamp+ 2021 edition” with 18 hr. video

http://www.kenlaifengshui.com

Secret of Mind-reading in Bazi

It is not unusual to see a Bazi reader taking a quick glance of a Bazi natal chart and spelling out some characteristics and life events of the client without thinking.  Is this Bazi reader a mind-reader?

The trick is to memorize the simple info below.

In general, when a client chart has numerous or none of a certain 10 transformation stars ("10-gods"), some deductions or generalizations can be made about this client.

When a chart 命局 has numerous ("numerous" means 3 or more): 

1. +wealth (zheng-cai)-- likely a stupid person 财多愚
2. -wealth (pian-cai)-- likely working hard for money 才多劳   
3. +power (zheng-guan)-- likely a lower class or humble person 官多贱
4. -power (qi-sha)-- likely dies prematurely or tragically 杀多死
5. +resource (zheng-yin)-- likely alone (widow/ widower/ orphan etc.) 印多孤
6. -resource (pian-yin)-- likely a vicious/treacherous person 枭多凶   
7. +output (shang-guan) --  likely a provocative or challenging person 伤多害       
8. -output (shi-shen) -- worries too much 食多愁
9. yang-ren (knives)--  likely has disability/ handicap 刃多残
10. +peer (jie-cai)-- encounters more failures than successes 劫多败  
11. -Luk (-peer, bi-jian)  likely living in poverty 禄多贫
12. traveling horses (yin, shen, si, hai)-- running around hectic working 马多奔波
13. clashes -- unstable/ insecure life 冲多不安
14. combinations--  a sociable an enthusiastic person 合多热情     
15. yang pillars--  an open-minded and frank person with no hidden agenda 阳多坦荡
16. yin pillars--  a sullen and calculated person 阴多深沉
17. tombs/storages--  jinxing close relatives 墓库多克六亲，

When a chart does not have a certain transformation star, it also has similar predictions made above except in different directions.  You may find out the details in my Bazi discussion group. 

Caution:  You need to read the whole chart to ascertain if the above pointers fit the person.  The demeaner, attitude, physical appearance and clothing style could also give hints if this straight deduction based on 10 transformation stars applies or not.   Another precaution is that special chart may not work with the above deductions.  For example,  it is quite common for special profile charts with 3+ of the same stars.  So the above is likely not applicable.

Ken Lai

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“Advanced Visual Form Feng Shui” 2021 w/23 hr. HD video
“Visual Form Feng Shui” w/13 hr. HD video
“Applied Bazi: Sickness Forecasting and Management” w/33 hr. HD video 
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 1: Forecasting and Decision Support” w/32 hr. HD video
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 2: Basic Bazi Therapy w/18 hr. HD video
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 3 w/ Advanced Bazi Therapy w/18 hr. HD video
“Feng Shui Toolbox: Sha-qi, Health/Wealth and Career” w/ 7 hr. HD video
“Period 7/8 FS Toolkit w/ Advanced Flying Star techniques” w/ 6 hr. HD video
“Practical Date-Selection Methods 2021 (incl. XKDG) w/ 12 hr. video
“Practical Imperial Qi-Men-Dun-Jia 4G” w/ 12 hr. video
“Professional Imperial QMDJ 4G” w/ 21 hr. video
“EZ QMDJ series: Astrology, Date/Task Selection, Annual Luck/ FS”w/ 3 hr. HD
“EZ QMDJ Advanced Feng Shui” with 4 hr. HD video
“Daoist Talismans for Feng Shui/Blessing” w/ 24 hr video
“Practical Door Feng Shui for Wealth” w/ 3 hr. video
“4-Pillars Forecasting Bootcamp+ 2021 edition” with 18 hr. video

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