For the benefit of readers, I have also come up with a list of advocated Zi Wei Dou Shu (“ZWDS”) stars residing in each candidate’s Zi Wei Dou Shu Self Palace for the respective position as follows:-

Sales personnel ought to have Ju Men or Sun in their ZWDS Self Palace because Ju Men represents eloquence and Sun represents reaching out.  It is bad to have Zi Wei star for sales personnel because Zi Wei is the Emperor and naturally awaits others to serve him and runs counter to the need for sales personnel to serve others.

Marketing Communication personnel ought to have the Sun, Wen Chang or Wen Qu.  The 2 latter stars represents talent in writing and would serve well the needs of a person in Marketing Communication because there is a lot of writing to be done.

 Accounting personnel should preferably have Moon,  Tian Ji or Tian Liang .  The Moon is synonymous with wealth accumulation and would be most appropriate for accounting personnels.  Tian Ji and Tian Liang are analytical and conservative and definitely a plus for the accounting profession that is viewed as being conservative.

Banking and financial personnel ought to have Wu Qu in their Self Palace.

Research and development personnel ought to have Ju Men, Tian Liang or Tian Ji.

Engineering and Operational personnel ought to have Wu Qu or Qi Sha in thei Self Palace.

Managing Directors and CEOs ought to have Zi Wei Hua Quan, Wu Qu, Qi Sha, Tan Lang, Sun or Tian Liang in their Self Palace.

The list provided is not exhaustive.  If you need advice on other professions, please contact the author.

My inspiration to blog about this comes from a chat with a friend A who shared about her and her friends’ encounter with a fortune teller.  She and that group of friends were all ladies, single and had not much luck in love all these while.  In fact, one of them, let’s call her B,  had considerably worse luck in this aspect as she was hurt twice by jerks in the course of her romantic encounter.  It was one of those days when the mood beckons that B decided to pay a visit to this fortune teller for consultation and naturally brought along her group of single friends which included A who was single thenand other friends which included another lady C.

This fortune teller’s modus operandi comes in the form of reading people’s fortune by pulling out poker cards that were shuffled by the client.  It was not clear if the ladies had unwittingly let out some information of the state of matter for B in the course of conversation with the fortune teller.  But he was able to predict that B had bad luck in romance because she always meet “bad Peach Blossom烂桃花” in Chinese, which means that she, in terms of  her romantic relationship matters, always meets the bad guys.

The solution proposed by the fortune teller? A pair of scissors to be placed in the Southwest corner of the room/house of lady B.  He reasoned that the scissors will cut away the negative “Peach Blossom” and that Southwest is the love corner which is reserve for Fengshui-ing romance and love matters.  The ladies were curious and enquired whether the scissors will “cut” away all romantic relationships alike, whether it be with good or bad guys.  The fortune teller then justify by explaining to them that good guys or good romance will not be cut away and the scissors only acts on bad guys and bad relationships.

He then proceeded to display his “generous” and “altruistic” side by telling the rest of the single ladies that Southwest is the universal love corner in Fengshui.  Since the ladies are single, they can turbo-charge their love corners in the Southwest by placing flowers and crystals.  Like typical girls starved of good romance, these ladies with the exception of A, are willing to try the cures for romance recommended by this fortune teller. The reason why A did not follow the recommended cure is because the Southwest corner in her room is placed the bed, and she could not place those items suggested by the fortune teller.

Now, fast forward to 2-3 years later and what is the romantic fate of these girls?  For Ms B, she is still single and in fact, had not gone on dates with guys since activating the Southwest corner of hers.  For Ms C and the rest of the unnamed gals, they are still single.  As for Ms A, who had fortunately or unfortunately not adopted the recommended Fengshui cure, she is married! 

Now, with the facts of this case, it would strongly suggest that the Southwest may not be the universal Fengshui-able love corner.  Even if it is, it may not be effective enough just to activate this corner by flowers and crystals.  The outcome to Ms B also suggested that good guys or good romance are not invincible against the scissors as claimed by the fortune teller.  As for the outcome to Ms A, it shows that a stroke of good luck and her own sensible action in seeking romance is more effective than those poorly thought-out cures.

Is it possible to use Fengshui or Chinese Metaphysics knowledge to enhance the chances of good romantic encounters?  Yes it is possible but defnitely not as simple as activating a universal love corner!  In Zi Wei Dou Shu, it is certainly possible to differentiate where the good and bad romantic encounters are coming from and tune accordingly.

Some of you may think it is no big deal given that there are some write ups in the market on what are the tell-tale signs in a Bazi or ZWDS chart of a gay.  However, having research extensively these writeups in the market, I remain convinced the authors of these writeups made little headway in the technique of determining a gay Bazi or ZWDS chart.  The reason for my saying so is because they use very general rules like “overly Yang or overly Yin Bazi” or “Yang star in the Self Palace of a female ZWDS chart or Yin star in the Self Palace of a male ZWDS chart.  This is like the chef proclaiming he can whip up a dish of Indian curry because he can best describe the dish as spicy – the fundamental description is right but vague and does nothing to suggest the efficacy of the sayer.

Bazi and ZWDS originated from ancient China whereby homosexuality does not exist or is not known to exist.  Naturally, there are no classical text from the forefathers of Bazi and ZWDS that touch on determining homsexuality from their respective astrological charts.  However, the principles of these arts are applicable in the modern society as well.  What is required, is for a practitioner of these arts that are able to apply the principles of these 2 arts in the modern context by thorougly understanding the principles behind rather than by memorizing classical texts of these arts by hard.

There are some Bazi and ZWDS practitioners that staunchly takes the view that being gay is an acquired lifestyle because in the Bazi and Zi Wei Dou Shu clearly divides the line between Yin and Yang and therefore gay-ism (whereby Yin and Yang are mixed) does not conform to the laws of nature.  Likewise the staunchest of followers of religion will also take the stand that homosexuality is not inborn because their gods will not have in their blueprint, gays that are neither end of the sexuality spectrum.

For those that are practising Bazi or ZWDS and takes the view that gay-ism is an acquired lifestyle (because Yin and Yang are distinct) can do better with understanding the classical phrase in our study of “in every Yin there is Yang, in every Yang, there is Yin).  If homosexuality is not inborn, we will never be able to determine it from the astrological (ie Bazi and Zi Wei Dou Shu) charts of gays.  Having analysed the astrological charts of many celebrity and non-celebrity gays, I am convinced that my self-developed methods of determining gay-ism from the astrological charts are accurate.

“Apple rises to become No. 1 tech firm” reads the headlines of the newspapers.  In fact few days ago, having already sense the turn of tide of Apple’s domination, I had googled for Steve’s Job, CEO of Apple Inc, for his birth date and hour.

When I found the birth data, I will exihilated at the thought of dissecting his potentials and achievements  using Zi Wei Dou Shu (ZWDS) Astrology.  ZWDS astrology is also known as Purple Star or Emperor Astrology.  The exhilaration soon gave way to disappointment as the ZWDS analysis did not throw up anything that bears semblance to that of the CEO of the number 1 technology firm in the world.

Upon more extensive research of the history of Steve Jobs then did I realize that he was an adopted child and the birth data I obtained was provided by his foster relatives.  The reliability of the birth data was also questioned by the website.  There you go, ZWDS never lies!

If someone else uses Bazi (also known as 4 Pillars) astrology to analyse this set of unrealiable  birth data of Steve Jobs, he may instead, be able to spin a story or two about how well the Bazi chart fit into Steve Job’s background.  4 Pillars astrology is a more open ended tool that lends itself into ambiguous territory.  This is not a case of picking on one isolated case of ambiguity to discredit the tool.  I remember it also happened before with different groups of Bazi practitioner each justifying that 3 differing sets of 4 Pillars chart fit into Michael Jackson’s autobiography.  Apparently there were 3 differing sets of birth data of Michael Jackson’s floating in the internet.  3 sets of birth data can fit into Michael Jackson’s life history?  Readers can figure out what I mean.

There is always a reason why ZWDS astrology was practised exclusively in ancient Chinese Imperial Palaces whle its cousin Bazi was allowed to circulate among commoners.  Bazi is definitely still a useful tool and I use it frequently too.  I am only calling for it to be used appropriately.

The UEFA Champions League Football has just found a new Champion in Inter Milan 3 days ago.  After a 45 year drought, Inter Milan finally won it.  Who better than Jose Mourinho, their manager,  could have the midas touch to help them end this drought?  If we research on Jose’s achievements, we would have realized his achievements are astounding and he has already won the Champions League twice at age of 47, the youngest among all managers who won it twice.  In fact, he remains one of the rare trio to have won it with 2 different clubs.

Before the Champions League final, an avid reader was discussing with me about Mourinho’s Zi Wei Dou Shu chart in my forum. http://fengshuiforward.com/forum/index.php/topic,1951.msg14435/boardseen.html#new

He provided birth data of Jose Mourinho and asked me to analyse his chart.  Unfortunately, the hour he provided seemed inaccurate to me which he then admitted that he had adjusted for the hour of birth as he usually does.  It is quite common among Chinese Astrology practitioners plying their trade in the West to adjust the hour of birth in accordance with the longtitude of one’s place of birth.  They reasoned that sunlight reaching the earth is the real measure of time and not the time that is set by local government.  Hence, a place’s longitudinal location should be the adjusting factor to one’s time of birth they reasoned.

Perhaps they are pandering to Westerner’s liking and acceptance of anything that looks scientifically reasonable.  Unfortunately, while methodologies of the 4 Pillar  (or Bazi) astrology are more open ended and allows them to cut the reason to fit their argument, methodologies of Zi Wei Dou Shu (”ZWDS”) astrology is much more precise and would not allow its practitioners to massage the hour of birth to fit the events that took place.

If Jose Mourinho had been borned about half an hour earlier if we practised time adjustment, he would not have lifted the Champions League as a manager 3 days ago nor would he have been such an irrepressible talent.  Instead, it is his originally reported hour of birth that shows a ZWDS chart that fits his autobiography to a T.

I was teaching ZWDS astrology to a person by the initial of N.S over the weekend.  As we were analyzing one chart belonging to a yet- to- be-identified celebrity,  N.S asked me if the chart belonged to that of a prostitute.  I can see his logic for guessing so because this lady’s chart had a 贪狼 Tan Lang (Greedy Wolf) star it has a 化忌 Hua Ji (Transformed Avoidance) star.  In Zi Wei Dou Shu astrology, star images are critical to our understanding of each star and the image for Tan Lang is a courtesan 歌姬 or geisha艺伎.  Hua Ji means unstable or exhibiting unstable characteristics.  Most Zi Wei Dou Shu book authors or teachers classify Hua Ji as a negative star or negative enhancer although I beg to differ on the description that Hua Ji star is all about negativities.

So it is comes as no surprise most people would surmise that a Geisha that turns negative is likely to be a prostitute.  It is true Geishas or Courtesans sells entertainment and for ladies in the entertainment industries, when we think of work obligation going to the extreme, we may think they sell their bodies as well.  However, Hua Ji is not a negative star or negative enhancer as I often reiterate.  The way I would read the Hua Ji enhancer is that it makes this person an extremely engaging or outstanding entertainer. 

The entertainer whose chart we were discussing is actually the famous but deceased Hong Kong entertainment industry diva Anita Mui Yim Fong 梅艳芳.  Refer to the wikipedia writeup for more information on her – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Mui

So as we can see, the Hua Ji is not unequivocably exerting negative influences on her, at least not on her career.  Hua Ji represents extreme and in this case, it manifests in her as a “extremely popular” person in the entertainment (singing and acting) industry.  So while prostitution and performing arts all belong to the same career categorization of entertainment, care should be taken not to colour the birth chart of performing artistes with sleaze.   While people with Tan Lang star may do well either in the performing arts or prostitution industry,  there is a world of difference in both industrial professions.  When is a Tan Lang star a talented artist or a great (sic) prostitute?  Learn from Ken!

Eventually I also taught NS how to decipher a birth chart belonging to that of a prostitute as against that of an extremely outstanding entertainer and how to interpret her demise and family matters by using Zi Wei Dou Shu.

Like Tiger Woods’ chart, John Terry also has a Transformed Authority Star in his Zi Wei Dou Shu (”ZWDS”) Destiny Palace.  Mere coincidence or consistent pattern? 

The concept of the Authority Star is that you must be capable before you will given authority.  In ZWDS, we can surmise that the person is a capable person if he has the Transformed Authority Star.  His Transformed Authority Star is triggered by ??  Wu Qu.  In ZWDS, Wu Qu symbolizes a General and Leader.  Small wonder that John Terry was the Captain of the England Football Team until he was forced to give up tee Captain’s armband by the team manager.

In Bazi perspective, John Terry is a strong Daymaster, source of his strength coming mainly from Indirect Resource and Friend Element.  Indirect Resource represents unorthodox thoughts while Friend represents a stubbornness.  Can we say that John Terry’s misdemeanour is more a result of his own doing?  Notice that his girlfriend element, is represented by earth and rather weak in the chart.  This means usually he would not have that many chance to have flings.  But unfortunately in 2009, the year is Ji Chou a year of strong earth.  Hence his girlfriend element is strengthened.  Not forgetting that Ji element combines with his day element of Jia.  With this observation, I would think that John Terry would not repeat such flings in the coming years although he cannot claim to be a victim of being courted and seduced.

Looking at his series of Transformation Stars exchange between his Destiny Palace and Romance Palace, it would also suggest that while his lover only heap attention on him, he is the one that makes the move because it was a Transformed Authority Star that his Destiny Palace fires out.  When we see the Transformed Authority Star, it suggests the action comes from the owner of that particular Palace.  Hence, my view is that John Terry cannot use a mitigating plea that those women threw themselves at his feet.

What about his exploits in soccer?  I can see that his luck is coming down especially with this year being the last belonging to the current decade luck.  By next year, his decade luck will be poorer.  Maybe Chelsea should sell him by end of this season!  In fact this year looks like a difficult year for him as well.  The England Football team may have make the right choice not to name him as the Captain, otherwise their World Cup dreams will go up in smoke.

For more discussions on John Terry’s chart, please visit http://fengshuiforward.com/forum/index.php/topic,1789.0.html

I am sure by now most of us would have been aware of the saga revolving around Tiger Woods.  What struck me is that there seems to be 2 ideologically opposite camps of people in their assessment of Woods’ sexual trysts with many women as a married man.  On the opposing camp, they view Woods as an outright marriage cheat who deserves no pity while the other camp feels that given his superstar and ultra rich status, which sees to many women throwing themselves at him, it is understandable that he had strayed.Out of curiosity, I just wanted to see if he deserves the pity from an astrology point of view.  Astrology does not seek to exonerate anyone of his wrong doing but more importantly to assess if he is a victim of circumstances or immoral perpetrator.  His birth date is listed as 30 December 1975 and hour is listed as 22:50 hrs.  To be sure that these information are really representative of him, I did a quick check of the publicly known events to happen to him so far and it does jive with the 30 Dec 1975, 22:50 hrs birth chart.

In Bazi perspective, Woods is a weak Daymaster with plentiful wealth elements and is duly strengthened and positioned to overcome wealth in the current luck pillar.  By the way, in Bazi, Wealth represents money as well as woman to male Daymaster.  It is small wonder that he amassed so much wealth and bedded so many women.  In Bazi, a weak Daymaster rides more on luck than on his own doing.

Now’s let switch over  to using Zi Wei Dou Shu (”ZWDS”) to assess Woods.  He has a Tian Liang Transformed Authority Star in his ZWDS Destiny Palace.  A Transformed Authority Star usually represents capability and it is small wonder that he did so well in golf.  But does that also mean his trysts are borned out of his capability?

It is interesting to note that this capability was bestowed on him by the general public, if we use ZWDS to assess the source of this capability.  In addition, his Romance Palace shoots stars into his “Self” and marriage related palaces.  This can be construed as the women throwing themselves at his feet.

For further detailed analysis of Tiger Woods’ Astrological charts, please visit my forum at http://fengshuiforward.com/forum/index.php/topic,1788.msg13972.html#msg13972 . At this juncture, I still have some pity for him.

Ever wonder how you can improve your own finance? Many books will advise us to start developing some good spending habits in order to save more money and spend lesser. However, in order to understand how you can develop good spending habits, it is more important for you to your own earning and spending pattern.

A quick check using the stars definition in Zi Wei Dou Shu can help you understand more about your own spending habits. For those with Zi wei star in your wealth palace, you tend to be someone who is good at managing money yet wealth luck might not be that positive since this star leans more towards career building than wealth gaining.

Tian ji star on the other hand will be indicative of people who are willing to gain wealth through intellectual means. Most likely, these people will have advantage in term of stock trading and investing. However, these people will tend to spend over their own means and ought to be careful.

People with Sun in their wealth palace tend to be more lucky with money yet because of face value, they are also people who like to spend money to applease others or to ’show’ off their wealth.

Wu Qu star is one of the best star to have in one’s wealth palace as this star is the main wealth star. People with such star should generally be capable of managing one ’s finance well.

We shall continue with the discssion of other stars in relation to wealth in my next post.