My policies on answering questions on this forum are quite clear. I answer technical questions but I do not answer personal questions relating to a person’s chart (for obvious reasons, this creates more problems than solutions almost always and see my entry on why free bazi advice is a bad idea). However, I am frequently in receipt of technical questions for which there is no other way to describe it than – BADLY PHRASED. So...

Career consultations, especially for young people who are new to the workforce, are always a challenge for the consultant. It is the combination of the Gen Y disconnect and anxious parents who seem adverse to their child potentially making mistakes in life.  In a recent case, the client in question was extremely concerned about the role that their offspring (a fresh graduate) was going to focus on and was insistent on a specific answer...

Recently, a friend posted an article about a woman in New Zealand who in her fervant desire to have a Dragon Baby (hence, the article ‘Desperately Seeking Dragon Baby‘), has decided that she will do so by any means, including artificial insemination. Ms Chuang, who is a Rooster, “believes a dragon child will also be “perfect match” as the two zodiac signs are said to be most compatible.” Needless to...

In Part One of this series on Ren Chen 2012, the discussion focused on the pillar of Ren Chen itself. This of course cannot really be a sensible approach to evaluating a year if utilised singularly. Although I personally loath the saying ‘one swallow doesn’t make a summer’ in this particular case, the saying is perhaps apropos although I would prefer to paraphrase it as ‘one pillar does not make a year’....

Dear Leader became Dead Leader today.   Per Wiki, Kim Jong Il actually had TWO dates of births – an official North Korean one which also changed the venue of his birth, and an official Soviet date of birth. Here are the two charts:      

Every time I teach ‘The Art of BaZi’, I get insights into why people who learn BaZi face difficulty and challenges getting beyond the basics into the realm of interpretation. I like to understand why people have difficulty learning certain aspects of BaZi because it informs the process of teaching but also serves to indicate in what way the subject can be made easier to understand. As it stands currently, the areas that trip...

This would have been an entry posted right at the END of my series on 2012 but on Facebook there were a number of questions that were directed at the subject matter of the impact of annual forecasts so I decided I would do this first because it ultimately is more relevant to the Individual than a broad far-ranging forecast that relates to the global picture. I must admit, I was surprised at the number of people who were interested to...

One of the first challenges any BaZi consultant, especially those new to the game, faces, is the demand for Enablement. Enablement is a very interesting concept. On one level, Enablement has a positive connotation, denoting giving a person or situation the tools, resources and information required to achieve a particular goal. Yet, whenever we talk about ‘Enablers or ‘Enabling”, it tends to have the negative...

In our initial and preliminary line of inquiry, we will first look at what information is yielded by the pillar of 2012 itself: Ren Chen 壬 辰. The proverbial brain dump approach probably is a good way to start – get everything out and then make sense of it. So what do we know about Ren Chen? First off, Ren Chen is one of the Fui Kong (Chief) Pillars, along with 庚 辰，庚 戌 and 戊 戌. People often wonder what is the exact...

First, let’s take a look at what the year will look like:   As with all forecasts, to truly get a sense of how a year will look going forward, we must also look at the current and the future. In this case, we must in addition to the 2012 BaZi, reference the 2011 BaZi and also the 2013 BaZi. The purpose of referencing the 2011 BaZi is so that we can see the how the elements from the final pillar of 2011 stack up moving forward...

Having finally sorted out the tech issues with the webinar platform, I’ll be conducting webinars in December 2011. Schedule will be as follows: December 10, 2011 Webinar Topic: How to perform an Annual Assessment of a BaZi chart Time: 4pm-5.45pm (10 minutes break in between) Kuala Lumpur time (use World Meeting Planner to find out the time for your area) Facilitator: Bernice Low Minimum Qualification: BaZi M2 (Mastery Academy) or...

In September, I mentioned to a friend who is born in March (卯 month for the uninformed) that she should be careful of being cut or accidentally cutting herself or getting into some kind of a nasty injury. Appropriately enough, said friend managed to somehow slice her thigh open accidentally walking into a jagged broken pipe. This happened early in October and she squealed to me – but you said I had to be careful in September. Ah,...