Asking the Right Questions

Most beginners and newbies frequently ask questions like these:
"This is my birth details / chart. Could you tell me about my life?"
"This is my birth details / chart. Is it good or bad?"

To get maximum benefits from a reading/consultation, you need to ask specific questions. Ba Zi (and other Chinese Metaphysics arts) is a very good tool to help goal-achieving and problem-solving. The more details you provide, the more the consultants can help you.

Career-related topic: an example of BAD question:
"I am not happy in my current job. But I don't have any job offers yet. Should I work elsewhere or do business or staying?"

First of all: Do you have any other job offers? or Do you have any business plans? If you don't, then use common sense and apply for other jobs or start a business. When you have the job offer or a business plan, then the consultant can compare which one (staying/leaving/business) is better for you.

Career-related topic: an example of GOOD question:
"I have job offer from Company B and Company C. Their details are such and such. What is the best option for me? Staying at Company A and ask for a raise or Take the offer from Company B or Company C?"

Romance-related topic: an example of BAD question:
"When will I get married?"

First of all: Do you have a serious boyfriend/girlfriend already? If not yet, then you should focus on meeting potential partners first.

Romance-related topic: example of GOOD questions:
"How do I find potential partners?"
"I have 2 potential partners. Here are our birth details. Which one is more compatible for me?"

Business-related topic: an example of BAD question:
"What sort of business is suitable for me?"

First of all: What business is available for you to start? What are your skill and knowledge? What business opportunities are available to you at the moment?

Business-related topic: an example of GOOD question:
"There are 2 business proposals I'm considering. The details are such and such. The business partners details are such and such. Which one is better for me to invest?"

A lot of newbies asking bad questions because they think BaZi (and other Chinese Metaphysics) are for mere entertainment purpose. But if you ask the good/specific questions, Ba Zi (and other Chinese Metaphysics) can help you advancing more in many aspects in life.

Feng Shui Fundamentals - Landform

In Feng Shui, there are 2 things to look out for: Landform and Formula.

Landform is about the position of your property and its surroundings. What is outside your main door? What is outside your window? What is outside your balcony? How is the road to get to your property?Any blockages? Is it on a higher ground/hill? Is it on a lower ground/valley? Are there visible any rivers or mountains nearby?

Formula is about the Flying Stars and the Eight Mansions.

For Flying Stars, there are 9 Flying Stars in 9 sectors, and each sector has 2 Stars: the Mountain Stars and the Water Stars. There's also Period Stars, Annual Stars, Monthly Stars and even Daily Stars. I will not go into details about Flying Stars in this post (Will go into details on this in another post).

Eight Mansions is about the favorable and unfavorable directions and locations, based on each individual's birth chart. I will not go into details about 8 Mansions in this post. (Will go into details on this in another post).

What I would like to talk in this post is: Landform takes much much higher importance than Formula.

When I first learned Feng Shui, I was so fascinated with the Flying Stars, because it's the popular method. Many websites and teachers heavily promote Flying Stars. I can understand that for beginners, it's so fascinating to learn about how Flying Stars can improve your life. I was once a beginner, so I completely understand that feeling when people are so excited about it.

Is Flying Stars a valid method? Yes, it is. But there's an important factor here. After I learned deeper about Feng Shui and did a lot of practical assessments, I found that Form is much much more important than Formula. The Flying Star will only have effects if it's supported by an external Form.

Example #1: Your main door is facing Star 8 (seen as positive Star by many websites), but facing a straight narrow alleyway (bad landform). Because of the bad landform, you will get the negative effect of Star 8, instead of the positive effects of it.

Example #2: Your main door is facing Star 3 (which is seen as a 'bad' Star by many websites), but it has a good landform, because it's facing a slow moving water curved on a nice side. Because of the good landform, you will get the positive effects of Star 3.

Without any good landforms, the Stars don't really don't much.
Without any bad landforms, the Stars won't harm you.

Flying Stars is a good Feng Shui knowledge, if you know how to utilize it, but the most important thing is: The Property need to have the suitable landform to activate the Flying Stars.

About Relationship and Marriage

Many females ask about relationship and marriage matters. When people ask me questions about this, I normally assess relationship and marriage based on 3 factors: Attraction, Compatibility and Beneficiality. They are not the same thing.

ATTRACTION:
Attraction is the spark at the beginning. It's that love at the first sight or tingly feeling or intrigue feeling wanting to know more about the other person. It can be physical attraction (attracted to handsome men, pretty women), intellectual attraction (attracted to people's way of talking, people's ideas, etc), emotional attraction (attracted to someone who's protective or someone who is caring, etc) or combination of 2 or all 3 together.

Some people with certain Ba Zi charts are attracted some other people with certain Ba Zi charts. The full charts need to be analyze for attraction level.

Attraction is important at the early stage of dating/courting. A high level of attraction gives you a great advantage to start dating or start a relationship. If the attraction level is low, it takes longer time to make the other party interested, but it's still possible if Compatibility level is high. 

COMPATIBILITY:
Compatibility is how the personalities of the couple match each other. This is different to Attraction (early spark). Compatibility is about how the couple solve problems together, support each other through the good times and bad times. This is normally crucial to see whether the couple can last for a long time.

High level of attraction, low level of compatibility = hot, romantic and steamy at the start, but things start to fall apart when one or both have some problems, because they have different points of view, different ways to deal with things, so argument happens when problems arise. Small arguments can become big arguments when the compatibility level is low.

Low level of attraction, high level of compatibility= takes time to start the relationship, need some extra efforts at the beginning to generate the spark, but once the spark is there, things normally go smooth sailing, because they can tackle and solve life problems together.

Of course, there are other combinations, but after reading my examples above, you'll be able to figure out what the other combinations mean.

BENEFICIALITY:
Beneficiality is about whether people will become better, worse or at the similar level after a relationship/marriage. This is easier described by using examples.

Some examples:
Some certain charts need some certain elements from their partner to succeed in business or career.
Some certain charts need some certain elements from their partner to be more pro-active/daring.
Some certain charts need some certain elements from their partner to be less impulsive.

After being in a relationship or marriage with someone, some people get better in their general behaviors (e.g: become calmer, and able to make better decisions), and some people get worse (e.g: become lazier). These effects have indirect contributions in their career, wealth or other factors in life. For example: someone that becomes more hardworking will be able to get career promotion.

High level of attraction, high level of compatibility, low level of beneficiality = Very loving relationship/marriage, but not much career/wealth upgrades after the relationship/marriage. Bear in mind, this doesn't mean that person can't progress in career. This just means the partner doesn't give career/wealth benefits. That person can still get better career and wealth by his/her own efforts, for example: studying a post-graduate degree, or attending investment seminars, etc.

High level of beneficiality, high level of attraction, low level of compatibility = Hot and steamy at the beginning, a lot of quarrels in the relationship/marriage, but their career/wealth are very successful after marriage. This is quite common when two rich/famous people (for example: celebrities) get marriage. They become richer and more popular, but they keep quarreling with each other at home. Do you ever wonder why a lot of celebrities get married and divorce often? This is the reason why.

I will not explain other combinations here, because it's too long to type. I'm sure that by reading the examples above, you will be able to figure out the other combinations yourself.

WHICH ONE IS MOST IMPORTANT?

The best combination is of course: High Level of Attraction + High Level of Compatibility + High Level of Beneficiality. But this is very rare in real life. It is common in movies and TV dramas though 😄

In my personal opinion, Compatibility is most important, but I'm aware that everyone has different views in life.

The playboys and playgirls would probably say that Attraction is most important.
The people that want stable relationship/marriage would probably say that Compatibility is most important.
The people that worship money/status would probably say that Beneficiality is most important.

When it comes to making a decision about relationship/marriage in life, our Ba Zi readings can help you to find out the Attraction, Compatibility, Beneficiality levels between you and your partner.

Best Time to Engage a Feng Shui Consultant

When is the best time to engage a Feng Shui consultant?

Best time to engage a Feng Shui Master is BEFORE you move to the property. This is because external landforms (the surroundings) affect at least 70% of the property's Feng Shui. Internal adjustments can be made, and maybe helpful, but the impact of internal Feng Shui is about 30% or even less.

How big is the apartment? How many bedrooms? How many people will occupy the apartment? A Feng Shui master can give you advice on people to sleep in suitable rooms, and put the bed in a position that's suitable for the room occupants.

If it's a big family and big apartment (e.g: 4-5 bedrooms), it's probably worthwhile to get a reputable Feng Shui master so everyone can sleep in the rooms that are most suitable for them. If it's a small apartment (studio or one bedroom), you need to consider whether the cost is worth it.

Qi Men Dun Jia - Direction for Execution

Qi Men Dun Jia is a very sophisticated tool for forecasting/divination and for strategic execution. In this post, we'll talk about the execution of a plan.

Qi Men Dun Jia can tell you most favorable direction at a certain time. This can be used for meetings, such as: business meetings, work meetings, job interviews, etc. The way of using it in your favor is by selecting the seating locations of you and other people that you need to convince or impress.

When you sit at a certain direction at that certain time, your opinions/suggestions/proposals/ideas will be easily accepted by the other party. I test this technique quite often. Whenever I am able to set the seating location and day/time of the meeting, the result is always favorable or at least neutral for me.

An important aspect of this is: face-to-face meeting. QMDJ was initially developed for war purpose, when there are two or more different parties are facing each other.

For example: "Attack the enemy from the West at noon", NOT "write a letter at this time".

Some people try to use certain direction to send emails, putting online application, etc. I asked these people about their results, and mostly told me they got inconsistent result like 50-50 or lower. If it's 50-50 rate or lower, it's highly doubtful that the non-face-to-face method works. When you don't have any opponents facing you, QMDJ is not the right tool to use for plan execution. For things like sending job application or emailing, it's better to use Personal Date/Time Selection.

My metaphysics predictions

When I was new on Qi Men Dun Jia, I did several predictions on sports to test the theories and to improve my skills. At that time, the predictions were limited to winning team/person only in one vs one contest.

Eventually, as I got better, I tried things that are more complex. Here are a couple of samples:

1. NBA All Star Game 2020: someone asked me to predict the winner. Instead of just predicting the winner (which is 50-50 chance), I also predicted the MVP (1 out of the 24 players). Attached is the bet slip that I placed before the event.

2. Oscar 2020 Best Director: This is slightly easier than the above, because it's picking 1 out of 5 nominees. However, the one I picked was not the favourite before the event. Attached is the best slip that I placed before the event.

The bets placed were $5 bets only, because the main purpose was to learn whether I could apply my QMDJ knowledge accurately, and to improve my metaphysics skill.

There are other events that are 1 on 1 (50-50 chance) that I won't post, because those events don't prove much. Someone can just get 50-50 events right by lucky guesses.

So I predicted the outcomes of an event with 24 candidates and an event with 5 candidates correctly. My point is not to brag, but to prove the existence of metaphysics. It can improve your life by helping you making the right decisions.

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.