From the category archives:
One of the favorite questions asked is this – what is the ideal direction my house should face?
Views from the balcony or windows aside, feng shui has many methods to find your ideal direction. Of hand, there would be the year based method. A more refined method would be that which uses your eight characters. [...]
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Most Chinese homes in the old days have a thick longish red book hanging on the wall ever ready to be used. And you can bet that its pages are worn and dog eared. This is the Chinese Almanac or Tong Shu. And it is a very good guide book for conduct of all daily [...]
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World weather has been kind of vicious lately, if that is the correct word. There is a deluge of rain in Southern China and lives and properties have been washed away or damaged. Just not too long ago there was the earthquake in remote Yushu which has left so many homeless and traumatized. Fortunately the [...]
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Oh my time flies. Tomorrow it is June. We have reached the half way mark and Tiger has roared in Yushu. Please pray and offer your best energy for those who have perished as well as those who survived.
I had actually thought of using the Tibetan calendar for June’s auspicious days but then I always [...]
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The last one, making babies is somewhat bias as the directions or locations that are deemed most auspicious are supposed to favor success in adding male babies to the family line. So here I am writing again to make up for that.
As with all things fengshui, this one is inescapable; there is a yin direction [...]
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Maybe it is the precoccupation of the Chinese with male offsprings I do not know but they do have so many techniques for enhancing the law of probability in their favor.
At one time, the Qian Long method was very popular. Yes, the same famous Emperor Qian Long although I would think that whoever came up [...]
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Oh how nice if it is at all possible that we could know when we know when we are going to make it!
If you were to believe in fate, then this wish may not be that difficult to realize. The answer may just be found from the chinese art of Eight Characters astrology or [...]
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Sitting back and reflecting, many a time we realize that there is such a thing as fate. All pursue success. But as one old master said, we can know fate but we don’t have to be subservient to it.
That man was a master of eight characters. He has seen and observed the fate of many [...]
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Over cups of coffee at Ikea, the talk turned to life and the challenges that confront us. The subject turned to Bazi astrology and Western astrology.
If we were to plot out an eight characters horoscope, we would be able in a subjective way make a prediction of the fortunes like good times and bad times. [...]
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