The Nature Of BaZi

Question: I have been reading on the internet on and off for the last few years. I notice the more I read the further I got confused. I tried visiting fungshui masters twice to clear my doubts but the experience are not too well. One of the master was pushy on me to buy his product ornaments. I do not know clearly if wearing these things does helps. The other master told me quite opposite of the earlier master reading but both did not answer my questions.

Your questions posted on 1 & 2 kind of shocked me. It further confirmed that I'm confuse with my research. I could not answer any of your question. All I could conclude from my understanding and I really believe are as follows,

1) Bazi set our destiny. It is fated and nothing could change it.

2) We could not turn what is bad into good and good into bad.

3) The only thing I could do is prevent bad turning into worst and maximizing what is good.

4) And to tell when is good and bad lies in the year, month, day and even hour.

By now you should have know that it is a bad year for me in 2011. I did badly this year and with all the good news saying that 2012 is a good year for rooster, I doubt it will be any use if I do not get the timing to size favorable opportunities. Thinking back, I have made wrong decision often spot on at the wrong timing and missed good times watching it passes by. The wrong decision was made at the time where it seems so good and nothing should goes wrong, but it does.   

Sir, it is greatly appreciated if you could provide the answers to the questions you asked me on the earlier mail. I think this is what I'm searching for the past 4 years. Thank you so much. Finally, I think I have found the correct person. 

Answer: 

1) BaZi consists of 3 components. The natal chart (8 characters) are Early Heaven (born with it). This is fixed. It is liked a make up of a car. If the natal chart is excellent it is almost liked, let say BMW otherwise it is just a normal car. The other components, Luck Cycle and Annual Pillars are dynamic, Later Heaven, change through 10 years period or annually. This components are liked the roads or highways the car travels. If the Luck Cycle or Annual Pillars are excellent, it means to say the roads are so good that given a lousy car it still moves faster then a BMW traveling on a pot holed roads. So, change is a relative concept.


2) Metaphysics do not change bad to good but teaches one to live through both good and bad. For example, it is very easy to consult a BaZi base on favorable stars but difficult to tell people to use their negative treats to their benefits. Example, a wife has a loggerhead with her mother in-law and apparently her wealth element is negative. How is she going to use her wealth to her advantage?


3) This is what is commonly perceived, but it is not the case. Nature has given us 5 elements, why do we opt to only use the better one?


4) A textbook answer is not always the answer. Life is complicated and remember there are many ways leading to Rome. The correct understanding is to navigate your life journey through a road of less resistance and not in loggerhead with resistance.

On a side note, your chart is a very interesting one as at the moment I reserved to comment until such time I have the mood to discuss it over in YiBazi. In fact you have been meeting all the correct FengShui masters in the contrary of your believes. If it is without them, how would you seek further in search of the Truth. They appeared in your life at a time when your destiny crosses path with them. So it is affinity, so is the same of me replying your email in spike of my busy schedule.

Paradoxes Of Flying The Stars

Question:

I am an avid follower of your Blog. Being a FengShui enthusiast, I had taken up numerous courses in FengShui from various schools. Most of the schools emphasized on the Flying Star methodology as a predictive tool and 8 Mansions as the prescriptions. Honestly, I begin to doubt as both seem as contradictory in applications as one says favorable and the other says not favourable. How am I going to consolidate these differences and make good use out of it? I know, I should have asked in the forum, but it seems to be quiet lately. Then there is this thing between the grid and the pie approach. Which is which? At times, I found it difficult to divide the rooms into some reasonable sectors. Please help.

Answer:

I hesitate to jump into conclusion to say that Flying Stars and 8 Mansions are FLAWED methodology. I may just say, these are all stand alone methodology with very limited applications. In other words, they are just another end user methodology for interior applications. Someone else called it, entry level FengShui, but I stand to differ. The application as prescribed in most of the book available in the stores may seem simple, but the principles behind are complex and complicated. Without appreciating the principle behind this methodology, applications become a constraint as to what is what. So, it is also right to say that in this context, we only see the application and forgotten there is still the body as principles.

First, these 2 methods may be classified as SanYuan, in actual fact; they may not be of the same category. In SanYuan, elements follow the HeTu sequence. However in Flying Star available in the market, the elements are following the LoShu sequence. Worst, 8 mansions methodology followings the SanHe elements. So, how can these methods come from the same parent SanYuan?

So, you will NEVER get a satisfactory conclusion by applying these methods simultaneously. Therefore, it becomes a FLAW system. Yet, it is again taught all over the school.

Saying that these systems are entirely flawed is again, unjustifiable, because there are successful cases based solely on the application of this methodology. The key is in its applications.

As an end user methodology, it is not a full fledge FengShui method but a piecemeal of methods conjoining to make it as a method on its own rights. So there is a lot of patchwork here and there. These successful cases are largely stemmed out of one very singe fundamental approach. That is arraying Yin and Yang, before even the stars are being assigned in. When the YinYang has been established, Qi movement becomes smoother and ultimately things will change for the better.

So, in a nutshell, I don’t even bother to say is the grid or the wedge approach is applicable. Once you understand, what is meant by arraying Yin and Yang, all other things will fall in place. That include among others, taking facing and sitting which are deemed so important to fly or flip the stars.

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