About Wealth and Rob Wealth in Ba Zi

When it comes to Ba Zi reading, many people's first question is always about Wealth. Will they become wealthy? Can they be a millionaire/billionaire?

Strong Day Master have potential to earn more when they are in Wealth Luck Pillar or Annual Pillar. During this time, they are strong enough to take the wealth. However, they have potential to leak money when they are in Rob Wealth Luck Pillar or Annual Pillar.

Weak Day Master have potential to lose money easily when they are in Wealth Luck Pillar or Annual Pillar. During this time, the wealth is stronger than them, so they lose (money out). However, they have potential to earn money when they are in Rob Wealth Luck Pillar or Annual Pillar. 

When it comes to Rob Wealth, the Strong Day Master is the one being robbed, while the Weak Day Master is the robber. Not literally of course. That's why Rob Wealth personality is The Leader. They 'rob' other people's talent and lead them. 

An example of this is Liu Bei. Liu Bei was not as smart as Zhuge Liang, not as heroic as Guan Yu, not as strong as Zhang Fei, but he was the leader.

Of course, the entire chart need to be assessed whether Rob Wealth is positive or negative for the person. 

Solar Time vs Clock Time

When it comes to birth time (which affects the Hour Pillar in Ba Zi, and affects the entire reading in ZWDS or QMDJ), there are debates and discussions whether we should use the True Solar Time or Clock Time.

The Clock Time sect believe that if the government set time adjustments (e.g: daylight savings or government adjusted time) and you were born in that country, it's your fate, so the clock time should be used.

The True Solar Time sect believe that reading should be done based on True Solar Time, because that is the situation when Ba Zi, ZWDS, QMDJ were invented. No daylight savings, no adjusted time for government administration purpose.

Interestingly enough, people from the countries without daylight-savings trust the government time more, because they never experience a time when government (human) change the clock forward and back. While people from countries with daylight-savings trust nature's time more, because every year they experience that changing clock forward and back won't actually change the nature time.

I personally think using True Solar Time is more accurate.

Why? Because Clock and Timezones are set by humans. For example: if tomorrow the government of a certain country tell the citizens they'll change the timezone to 3 hours forward. Are you going to read Ba Zi / ZWDS/ QMDJ chart based on the timezone set by human?

Earth rotating the Sun is not set by human. In my opinion, a reading based on correct longitude, latitude, and True Solar Time would be more accurate. Do you trust the nature/universe or do you trust human?

Heaven, Earth, Man applications

According to Chinese metaphysics, someone's Destiny is based on three things: Heaven, Earth and Man.

1. HEAVEN:
Things that we were born with. Things we can't control, like our birthday, our parents, our city of birth. The Heaven part governs our personality, physical body, our talents, our genetics.

Ba Zi (8 characters astrology, based on our birth time, day, month and year) can help us to find out what our talents are, how to maximize our health, how to find out favorable time for us to do certain things.

Application:By finding out our talent, we should be able to make better decisions related to education, job, business, relationships. For example:
- Someone who has natural sports talent can pursue his sports training and pursue a career as a sportsperson, instead of wasting time studying accounting, which he has no talent of.
- Someone who has certain weakness can consume foods that are more suitable to her body, in order to boost her health.

2. EARTH:
Our environment. This aspect is something we can partially control.We can choose to live in a more beneficial environment.

The art of Feng Shui is to match the nature energy (for example: earth magnetic) and attune it with one's individual genetic. Certain directions/locations benefit some certain people. There are certain directions/locations based on Earth Magnetic Force that affects health, relationship, thoughts and morales.

Application: Feng Shui can help us to attune our mind and body in order to find and maximize opportunities. For example:
- Sleeping in a certain sector/direction can help someone to have a much better quality sleep and boost his/her immune system.
- Having the work desk in certain sector/direction can help someone to increase his/her productivity at work.
- Setting up a marketing campaign in a certain sector/direction can help someone's popularity.

3. MAN:
Human efforts. Our decisions. Our hard work. This aspect is something we can fully control.

Application:
By knowing our own strengths and weaknesses, and by knowing other people's psyche, we can make better decisions that impact our day to day live. For example:
- Organizing a date on a favorable day for the couple. On a day that's suitable for both, the mood will be good, and the result will be favorable.
- By knowing the personality of your boss, you can set your work performance to match or exceed his/her expectation. This may make you climb the corporate ladder higher.
- By knowing the strategy of your business rival, you can set up a plan that will be beneficial for your product.


IN CONCLUSION:
Ba Zi, Feng Shui, Qi Men Dun Jia are not magic. They are fantastic tools to help you making better decisions, achieve your goals, and improve your life.