From the category archives:
As a standalone, the five yellow is the fiercest force that affects us.
Of all the various stars and influences that we need to consider, the five yellow is one that requires the utmost care and caution.
Where is this fella coming from this tiger year? He sits in the Kun sector and that would be the [...]
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Here are the good days for starting work or auspicious days for reopening your shop or office or business after the Chinese New Year break.
It is a tradition and good sense to select a good day to restart after a year end break. The belief is that a good start heralds a bountiful year.
As a [...]
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Over the weekend I had the good fortune of chit chatting with Professor Dr Thubten Phuntsok of the Nationalities University of Beijing.
Now, this gentleman is a store house of facts and figures. He can quote years and figures off his head, just like that. Naturally, I poked him a little and we went the direction [...]
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As the lunar year comes around, it is a time for making arrangements to appease the Tai Sui. Actually appeasing may be the wrong word. The more apt phrase may be to make offerings.
This Tai Sui. Some have called it the Grand Duke Jupiter but that may not be entirely correct. Neither is it wrong [...]
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It is a Chinese practice to set aside days for a sprucing up the house in time for welcoming the Lunar New Year. (this year it falls on February 14).
It is something like the spring cleaning that preoccupies the Westerners. The only difference is that the Chinese place great importance in selecting a suitable day [...]
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Are we having the right paintings (or pictures) hanging on our walls? A very innocent question but as they say, a story tells more than a thousand words.
I remember the advice of a feng shui master who taught that we should never hang pictures of tigers and ferocious animals on walls of our homes. He [...]
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Those born in the tiger years should be turning 13, 25, 37, 49, 61, 73, 85, 97, 109 on their birthdays this year. The last of the lot would likely qualify as the oldest person on earth. Congratulations!
A young man asked me what he should do since he is a tiger year born. If popular [...]
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Dubai has made the headlines again. Only this time it was negative news. Hardly a year ago, it was the city to rival Baghdad of the Arabian nights. But this time it fell to the syndrome of human folly, greed, aggression, and if I may say, madness driven by egoism.
This burst of the Dubai bubble [...]
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In arranging the bedroom and the bed (where else should the bed be but in the bedroom.. ), there are at least two approaches.
The first of these follow the qi formula method. Commonly practiced are the East-West method of selecting the area of the house or room and the other is the Sanyuan [...]
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Essentially peach blossom luck means love. It is a positive thing only that in this hectic material life, the beauty of love is sometimes lost.
Today, we find it easier to meet people and thus the chance of meeting that someone special is all the much higher. But is that really so?
If you were to live [...]
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