Focus on Strength, know your weakness

Some BaZi charts are good, some are bad. Good or bad, it is not the end. What is important is what you do about it in your life.

When you find your BaZi chart is good, with the luck pillar supporting you throughout, you must maximise your good fortune that is bestowed upon you. Don't squandered it all away.

When you find your BaZi chart not so ideal, get to know your weaknesses, concentrate on building your strength and focus on your positive.

Timothy Ferriss, author of "The 4-Hour Workweek" says that it is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor.....Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.

This way, your weaknesses will be taken cared of....

Kitchen In NorthWest

Very often we hear that if the kitchen is located on NorthWest sector of a house or apartment, it has bad Feng Shui and it is detrimental especially to the Father or the male head of the family.

The reason is because the "Flying Star" theory using the Later Heaven Ba Gua arrangement, the NorthWest sector represents the Father, Qian Gua. This Gua or sector is represented as Metal. Since the kitchen is "Fire", probably because it is the place that has a lot of fire used to cook food for the family, the "Fire" will melt the Metal, i.e. the father.

Suppose if this theory is true, all families living in condominiums with the kitchen located on the NorthWest shall be fatherless, unhealthy fathers and whatever reasons you can think of. Does this make sense?

Bring me a property with a kitchen on the NorthWest sector, I can prove to you that there is nothing to worry about and the family can still be healthy and prosperous. The question is how?

It's all about balance

In Chinese metaphysics, everything is about balance. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), it is also talking about balance. The TCM practitioner will try to identify what is excessive or lacking and he will provide something to balance, to counter the abundance or the lack of it.

We hear the famous dualism of Yin and Yang. Many people intepret it as the opposites such as hot and cold, male and female, tall and short, etc, etc. But, just how many of us really know what it really means? Is it really 'opposite'?

One of the first thing we must know is that both must exists together at the same time. If they are indeed opposite, how can they be helping each other? One cannot live without the other. It is only when they are together, that you will have balance. When it is in balance, you have peace and harmony.

If you have too much of either a Yin or a Yang, this is the beginning of trouble.

When you do Feng Shui, even before you start taking measurements, the balance of Yin and Yang of the place must be evaluated first. If they are not balanced, any measurements taken and implemented may at best be only 50% effective.

As you drive around town, try to observe why certain shops are doing well and why the others are not. Why certain stalls have brisk business only at night and hardly any customers during the day? Why some business are busy 24-hours? The answers are all there.

Action

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

- BENJAMIN DISRAELI, former British Prime Minister

Real Feng Shui?

Just read an article published on The New Paper, page 16, 13 September 2008. A businessman paid SG$4000 for a Feng Shui Master to approve the location and setting up the office. And, what happen to his office? Flooded with sewage water.

Read about it...The New Paper Report

What shall I write about BaZi?

I have been thinking about the topics that I should write on BaZi. I realised that it is not easy to write this topic. Here are some of the reasons:

• If I write an article about a famous person, I may be accused of "reverse engineering" or I write based on hindsight. In other words, try to fit a person's life details into his/her BaZi.


• If I write about an unknown person, I may be accused of pulling a fast one as no one can verify (other than the person I wrote about) my analysis. I'd probably get killed by this person for revealing his/her life details on the Internet.


• I thought about explaining the techniques but then, I may be revealing too much.


• If I give a future prediction on world events, I could find myself in trouble with the law for causing major riot or unnecessary panic.


• If someone gives me their birth details to write about, I may be giving away free consultations.

So you see, it's not easy to write articles about BaZi....

Is Window behind your back bad?

There was a case where a Mr A's business was not doing well and he could not understand why as his office was Feng Shui audited before.

We conducted a check in his office and a recommendation was given to him to turn the work desk to face a certain direction for him to improve his business situation. He was reluctant to change because there was a glass window and it will be behind him if he moves his desk. According to him, it was recommended earlier that he must sit with the wall behind him so as to receive the "support" that he is lacking. Sitting with the window behind cannot give him the support and hence, detrimental to him.

We assured him that he does not have to be too concern about that. The wall behind ones back is all symbolic. We are more concern about what is on the outside and whether he is able to tap on any of the auspicious Qi or not. If he is not tapping on it, what's the point of having a wall behind?

We recommended a few more changes to his office and he is now a happy camper.