Historical Grapevine: I Ching & "Summon spirit technique"

Historical Grapevine: I Ching & "Summon spirit technique"

Came across this incredible story on a China News Program, allegedly happened circa the Qing Dynasty in the Zhejiang, De Qing Province. ... 12/29/2015

Came across this incredible story on a China News Program, allegedly happened circa the Qing Dynasty in the Zhejiang, De Qing Province.

Source: Emperor Epochtimes

During the 33rd year reign of Emperor Qianlong, official imperial historical records had revealed a strange tale of the "Summon spirit technique (摄魂术)" which had taken our late ancestors' society by storm.

Nestled in the Forbidden City, disturbing reports had been submitted by local officials in the ZheJiang Province Emperor Qianlong. Apparently a criminal investigation was started to examine an occurrence of  the "Summon spirit technique".

In a separate but relating report, disarming news emerged that many spiritual mediums had been going around cutting off the pigtails of the peasants!

The Emperor was deeply shaken! Cutting off the pigtails is no laughing matter! For a patriarchal society then, Chinese men were considered prized units of the ancient China society and there was a strict code of governance especially for them.

Source: Nan@tumblr

One of citizen codes would include the donning of Pigtails, this was a cultural tradition imposed during the reign of Emperor Shun Zi. In order to unite all citizens during Qing Dynasty i.e. both the Han and Manchurian people must have the signature look of pigtails as a pledge of acceptance and loyalty to the current Qing Emperor and his absolute rule.

In the report submitted to the Emperor: A skilled builder by the name of Mr Wu had been approached by a stranger while constructing a stone bridge. This stranger had requested Mr Wu to place a "Summoning Spirit Tailsman Package" - a piece of paper bearing his enemy's birth year, month, day, hour and also some hair behind one of the bricks. Mr Wu learnt that the enemy had cheated money from the stranger so he wanted revenge. 

Source: Chinascenic

However Mr Wu was a very stand-up guy and he rejected the stranger to do so. In fact he had decided to stop this malicious practice by making a case with the local magistrate who reported this event to Emperor Qianlong.

Bad news always travel faster than good news, during the half year after this first case of Mr Wu, almost every major city in China started to report of the strange events of monks and spiritual people running around to cut off people's pigtails!

For the local people, apparently there was a tradition for the placement of a red paper bearing the hair, names and birthdays of a few healthy men behind a brick during construction of a structure e.g. a bridge. In the past, without technology and heavy machinery, it was difficult for ancient people to lay the foundation deep into the ground. So somewhere and somehow, someone came up with this "method" to "harness" the soul or energy of a few more men's whose names are placed behind one of the bricks in the structure. 

However humans are complicated creatures, slowly this seemingly innocent way of life had mutated to become one of malicious intent, hence the famous "summon spirit technique" as a way of cursing someone.

摄魂术

But is the summoning spirit technique real or is it one of another superstitious and amazing tale of the past?

To lend weight for authenticity, according to the news report this record had been first documented in imperial records of Qing Dynasty. Once again according to the source, if something was entered in the government official records then surely it was an actual event that had happened right?

The incredible tale did not stop here.

In the 1990s, an American Historian had came across a entry belonging to a western missionary who was alive in the Qing Dynasty and this entry carried details of the entire account ..... yes of a curious, bizzare and amazing case about the cursed spirit technique which had happened in ancient Hu Bei (about 560 KM away from Zhejiang). 

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In this account, there was also a Scholar Wu whom, the missionary noted had previously offended a spiritual medium by openly and explicitly mocking him. 

The medium was furious and proceeded to use the same technique on Scholar Wu. 

Immediately that night while Scholar Wu was half asleep he was awakened by the howling of wind outside his chambers, like a million dogs crying at the same time. Suddenly the window was blown wide opened by an errie gust of wind and according to the historical records by the Western Scholar,  demonic-liked entities appeared!

灵异

Scholar Wu forced himself to calm down. Being familiar with I-Ching, the story went on for him to "disperse" and fought off the demonic-liked entities with the Yin Yang Ba Gua (Eight trigrams) symbol in his I-Ching book. The demons lost the battle and transformed into paper figurines.

I Ching - Baqua

If you are a man of science, it is a popular knowledge that supernatural phenomenon had been associated with abnormal ESP reading (energy). From the I-Ching, we also read that our world is composed of the 5 elemental energies and it all originated from the Yin Yang Ba Gua so the symbol served as a master reset button of sorts. 

So Scholar Wu picked up his "weapon" his I-Ching book and fought the demons who lost and transformed into paper figurines instead.

This happened for 2 nights in a row. In the morning of the 3rd day, Scholar Wu supposedly received an unknown elderly lady who came to his house and pleaded for him to spare the lives of her family.

The elderly lady told him the bewildered tale of what her husband (the spiritual medium) and her sons had done. In the purpose of seeking revenge, the spiritual medium and his sons had somehow sacrificed their own souls and their bodies are all lying at home now, motionless because Scholar Wu had kept the "paper figurines" after the fight.

The record by the western missionary went on to say that out of compassion, Scholar Wu released the smallest paper figurines - bearing the soul of her youngest son in order for their family to carry on the bloodline. 

But he kept and burnt the rest of the figurines, as Scholar Wu was determined to punish this act of gross immorality. The ancient incredible story ended with the only youngest son woke up from his deep sleep while the rest of the bodies of her husband and two oldest son were buried.

Yeap. Total bullshit. It is not illogical for anyone to feel the same way. 

However shockingly and this case recorded by the western missionary was independently verified by the well and alive descendants from the families of both Scholar Wu and the spiritual medium. Allegedly, both families were aware of this curious case which had happened to their ancestors a couple of hundred years ago during the time of Emperor Qianlong! You can even find this book bearing this account in Amazon if you are interested.

I am not entirely convinced by this account as a search on google had also revealed a few different versions of the "summon spirit technique."

However for me, this story suggested that the symbol of Ba Qua was somehow effective in dispersing a concentration of energy - aka apparitions and demons.

The Yin Yang symbol is always introduced in our Chinese metaphysics class as the originator of all the 相 in the world. 

As a student of Chinese metaphysics, I will explore if the Ba Qua is more effective than the 6 metal coins to cure flying stars 2 and 5.

Bazi: Why is Lui Tuck Yew stepping down?

Bazi: Why is Lui Tuck Yew stepping down?

Disclaimer: Politics is a passionate affair.  The author apologise in advance if there are disagreements in interpretations. Opinions e... 8/12/2015

Disclaimer: Politics is a passionate affair. The author apologise in advance if there are disagreements in interpretations. Opinions expressed are the author's freedom of speech and there is no need to be rude in disagreements. In addition being a blogpost, it is not feasible to cover birth chart in totality and hence the author had left out some factors which was deemed not fitting. 

If you are agreeable, do proceed. If not, do not proceed. 

Does the transport minister's birth chart support his decision to step down?

Mr Lui Tuck Yew is currently the transport minister of Singapore. Recently he had became a household name especially whenever the MRT breaks down. Collectively the commuters will go "Tuck Yew!"

Right. He is the mascot for every SMRT failures since the previous CEO had stepped down, arguably the internet trolls' favourite minister by popular voting and took the brunt for some of the fiercest anti-PAP bashing during his term.

Being such a  万人敌, I think if PAP ever offer me the million dollar job - i also scare le.

Recently I had read that Mr Lui had decided to step down honourably from his cabinet minister of Transport Minister.

I think Mr Lui is a Singapore son whom every parent will be proud of. Looking at his CV, he is living every bit the Singapore Dream - a distinguished career, gifted scholar, highly decorated navy chief and is one of the fastest-rising politicians in the unbeatable PAP ruling party for 50 years in Singapore.

Till...the hot potato got tossed into his lap, perhaps?

Hopefully, a look into his Chinese birthday bazi can be illuminating...

Mr Lui is a strong Yin Metal man, born in autumn season and securely rooted in month pillar.

Some Bazi nuggets - Metal represents justice and revolution. Most metal people are suitable to be in 武职 namely military, law enforcement or security.

Yin metal is likened to jewelry, they are flexible and can be crafted into shape under good conditions. I.e Jewelry can only be manufactured under intense heat, some water and take on constant hammering from an expert craftsman. 

Highlights 1: Power element (Fire)

金旺得火，方成器皿。Being a strong Yin Metal man with 2 Yang Bing Fire (fire is power element) closed by, the conditions are prime for Mr Lui to be crafted - 成才成器.

In addition, there are 2 Bing fire elements, aka power elements in Mr Lui's chart. Under the right conditions, someone with 1 power element in a chart - generally denotes his/her leadership and ability to become a boss.

With his 2 power elements = double responsibility. Hence his chart had predisposed him the ability to withstand much pressure and taking on heavy responsibility - previously as a Navy Chief and then as the transport minister of Singapore.


Highlights 2: Category of his Birth Chart 

It is little wonder that Mr Lui's birth chart puts him on the path of a minister, he is strong yin metal born in season - 刧财格 meaning he has lots of friends, supporters or followers in his life.

In my class, our Grand Master used to say that in politics, one will need lots of support from friends.

Strength wise, he is not quite a 羊刃 because strictly speaking there is no 阴刃 (otherwise he will be more suitable to remain in military). However his category is 刧财格, i think of it as the reverse 羊刃格, and instead of 羊刃驾杀, it is good to compliment with Proper Fire Power, which he has two bing fire in his chart. e.g.

And he got 正官 instead based on his chart, you will know that this is a man of "responsibility"

Most likely of dignified and mainstream structure. A government official.

Now the millionaire dollar question: Why did he step down? 

1) Luck is changing - “Cross-over" luck pillars: 

Situations can be explained by looking at his luck pillars. Every luck pillar will last for 10 years. In his case, Mr Lui is about 53 years old and had just crossed over into a new luck pillar from the 43 to 53.

I had noticed that during this "cross-over period" that most people will tend to make more drastic changes and some major decisions. Most visible in the first few years of a new luck pillar cross into the next luck pillar (no matter the elements are favourable or unfavourable). 

2) The election year is 2015 - 乙未:

乙未 is yin wood over yin earth. The 乾坤 lies in the 未.

First of all, Earth is the resource element for Mr Lui. In I-Ching, Earth is 坤, binary code is 0. This is a energy of going back to origin and for him, he is going back to original state of nothingness or quietness, basically a period of retirement. Resource luck sometimes means spirituality for certain people.

Generally when people cross into resource luck, they will also want to "retire" from something. Yours truly here also resigned from a mainstream career when in the resource luck. Resource luck can be considered as a potent indicator of what is coming and to be expected. 

However, this is a good sign for Mr Lui. Again in the I-Ching, 坤卦 is associated with a sign.

大象 (this does not mean an elephant, more like A Visible and Macro SIGN)：大地承载万物，以德服众，仁者无敌。(Loosely translated: Mother Earth can carry the weight of a million things. Exercise virtue to gain public consent. The benevolent one has no enemies)

Perhaps in a strange way by retiring from politics, Mr Lui will once again will regain respect from the people whom originally had given him the most flak. Because 仁者无敌! 

3) Offending Tai Sui + Grave is in clash with his year of Ox, opened to collect Metal elements:

The chinese people will know this, Mr Lui is in the year of offending Tai Sui. 

Usually it is not that serious because millions are born in year of Ox and also collectively offending the Tai Sui. So the "offence of Tai Sui" is spread out and minimised by all the people. 

But Tai Sui energy usually carries the message of "turbulences", layman terms = changes.

In addition what is interesting is also, his Ox had clashed that yearly 2015 Goat Grave opened.

For benefit of non-bazi people, Grave is not always a bad thing. Grave simply means a vault to collect something. Many wealthy businessman had more than one vaults in their bazi, hence they can accumulate cash.

For Mr Lui, the goat vault energy is temporary and only visible during Goat periods. (According to some books i had read, temporary vaults are not real vaults hence its energy is weaker vs pre-existing vaults in bazi)

Therefore in layman terms again, only in 2015 he will have the feeling that his supportive "friends", same element as 辛 all dropped into the grave - he does not feel internal support from his colleagues.

Of course like that, he will feel sian la.


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Post update on 13 Aug 2016:

Just read that he had lost his mother at age 6. Assuming he is talking about his angmo birthday, it will be the year of 1967.

Incidentally, 1967 is a 丁未 and he was in the relatively bad luck period on the luck pillar of 乙未 (when he was age 3).

Hence this grave feature is interesting for him as a metal pot to metal man.

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4) Intuition or someone had given him a nudge? 

Interestingly, the Tiger earthly branch in his 53 year luck pillar will join up with the monkey and goat in his chart to form the infamous fire penalty (寅巳申), which can suggest intense underlying anxiety, health problems e.g. Skin/lung and much external pressure.

First of all, overwhelming fire is threatening his day master for some time now. He is likely to have been experiencing sleepless nights with allergies keeping him up, more anxiety situations etc.

For strong yin metal, optimal fire power is alright. But too much fire, the metal will be melted and become 废铁, a wasted metal nugget. For this current luck pillar, there is a higher possibility that his health may be impacted and so it is of utmost importance to prioritise health first.

I wonder how he knows, he is so SMRT (smart) ...

Based on intuition (earth resource luck will strengthen one's intuition) Mr Lui had probably made a right decision to retire from politics in the GE 2015 year.

First, I believed that when news broke out that his original constituency had been dissolved by his boss, the PM. He took it quite hard and that had shaken his confidence. Everyone knows that this is a calculated move by the PM. His boss wanted to save him and move him into a safe spot because hey, it is not entirely his fault.

This intuition can send one's thinking into an overdrive. At the back of his mind, a real worry being - he will be victorious or will he bring the team down?

For someone like Mr Lui, a soldier most of his life, honour is very important to him. Being an righteous general with strong belief in discipline, he will want to take responsibility for all assignments which he had undertook.

Secondly, realistically speaking, the opposition parties are all gunning to attack the ministry of transport for the recent total island paralysis of the MRT.

The PAP knows it and the people know it too. Mr Lui probably did not want to drag "the safe team" down, which he was newly assigned into.

All in all, currently Mr Lui has 3 traveling stars appearing in his life/radar right now.

More changes are ahead and it will do him good to be traveling much for the next few years too.

What does the future say?

In 2016 - fire monkey year, 丙申 - duplicate year with Mr Lui's month Pillar, denoting the ending of the past things. So it is good to make peace with endings.

Also next year, the monkey will clash with the Tiger Luck pillar (Age53), with prevailing Tiger Monkey clash. As he already have one monkey in his own chart to clash with the Tiger, as a matter of being kiasu, he can do some Feng Shui at home for better exposure to good directions and good energy.

And be careful of bones injury.

Maybe he should join world ventures for more benefits, but of course he does not need a travel club.

For Bazi Hobbyists

Elements in bazi, representing various aspects for metal people:-

Metal: Friends/followers/competitors
Earth: Resources/unconditional love
Fire: Power Element
Water:Intelligence element
Wood: Money element

Summary of Mr Lui Tuck Yew's Bazi:

-Strong Yin metal born in Autumn  - where metal is strong.
Category is : 刧财格

-Favourable elements are calculated using reverse method: e.g. 羊刃喜七煞.

-Unfavourable elements are Earth (resources) and Metal (friends/followers/competitors) due to over-strengthening Day Element.

Disclaimer: The author apologise in advance whereever there are disagreements in interpretation. Opinions expressed are the author's freedom of speech and there is no need to be rude in disagreements. In addition, being a blogpost, it is not feasible to cover birth chart in totality and hence the author had left out some factors which was deemed not fitting. Thank you. 

Mini metaphysical analysis for Sabah Earthquake in 2015

Mini metaphysical analysis for Sabah Earthquake in 2015

Very saddened by this tragedy. Stories of courageous teachers who had used their bodies to shield their students from sharp rocks sliding d... 6/07/2015

Very saddened by this tragedy. Stories of courageous teachers who had used their bodies to shield their students from sharp rocks sliding down from the mountains.  Stories of parents crying over young lives being cut short tragically. 

However, I am also quite disturbed by some commenters online. 

In my humble opinion, earthquake being a natural disaster is an act of the divine. Nobody wishes for bad things to happen to innocent people, therefore it is not gracious and logical, pinning blame on the MOE or Tanjong Katong Primary School - for a natural disaster. 

They planned for the best, they did not wish for a tragedy. 

The purpose of this analysis is to illuminate the truth through Bazi and flying stars. I also hope it will help in understanding and consolation to the tortured souls for uncontrollable events. 

1) Human factor

Sometimes it is just difficult to escape fate. Pertaining to the primary 6 children, many of them causalities of this earthquake, most of them are 12 years old and likely born in 2003 - 癸未 (Yin water on yin earth year).  Water on earth = sloppy earth. 

In addition 2015 is also 乙未, yin wood over yin earth. Earlier in January, my GM had already predicted that earth based disasters is likely to happen because earth energy is presented in the whole year, the main theme of the year. Therefore avoid going up mountains or tunnels.   

Furthermore, people with many earths elements in their chart, especially the configuration of 丑未戌 are at higher risk of earth penalty. It can mean health issues e.g. cell mutation (cancer) and also earth-based events. 

Question! Then why the teachers also die? Other people as well? 

Many people think Bazi is fortune telling. It must pin point a specific detail or else it is not accurate. 

Actually Bazi in essence, is telling about probabilities, personalities, strengths and weakness. Hence likely what kind of actions will ensue.  

From day 1, we already know that people with the same birthday do not have the exact same outcome. Why? 

Because of the CHOICES people make, THEIR upbringing and lifestyle etc, directly effecting their realities in life. Besides a destiny blueprint, many other factors also come into play, e.g. the physical environment and FREE WILL to work hard or to slack. 

You had probably heard about it. People with amazing birth charts and good luck had also fail to achieve phenomenal success in life. Why? 

Because they think Bazi is fortune telling, it is a God-given gift to humans, a meal ticket without working hard for it. 

Question! Then what makes metaphysical tools e.g. Bazi so amazing when it does not "guarantee" and only forecast? 

Consider this....

Without sophisticated tools, sending a satellite into outer space, collecting data from probes buried in the ground, we can already provide a forecast on likely misfortunate events, where and when. 

Without smelling a person's urine, tasting your blood, looking at the color of your tongue, we can tell imbalances in certain elements in your birth chart, therefore likely diseases one is prone to. 

How do you make use of that information? It is up to you. I will never tell you if you should divorce your wife or husband. I will suggest why couples should sit down, know each other's potential and be patient with each other. 

All in the hope that you can make the best of out of a bad patch in life. 

People who are in the business of forecast, knows how forecast works. Forecast is to be prepared, in rain or shine. 

I apologize for the ranting. Here we go:

The Sabah Earthquake analysis

Picture 1: Reigning Flying Stars Chart 

Flying stars is a common and significant tool to measure the invisible energies reigning in time and space. Based on the planetary stars of the big dipper, translating into energies affecting people and triggering events. 

Picture 1 shows the flying star chart on the year, month and day of the earthquake. 3 sets of numbers.  

The year number has strong power because it will reign for a whole year, month number will last for 1 month and day number will last for one day. My teacher usually use only 2 sets of numbers because he is an expert, i am not an expert so I will input more data. 

By only checking the 2 Bad and 5 Yellow (current bad stars denoting sickness, quarrels, misfortunes etc), there are obvious 4 directions identified to be the most energetically disturbed ones, increasing the probability of disasters or isolated misfortunate events. 

Picture 2: The position of epicentre happens to be one of the sectors visited by 2 and 5.

The flying star chart highlighted 4 likely sectors, South, East, NorthEast, NorthWest. 

The epicentre was estimated to be 19 KM, NorthWest of Ranau by the US Geological Survey and international map coordinates of 5.987N, 116.54E.  

The Sabah Earthquake is a significant tragedy for Singapore due to an extradition of primary school kids and their teachers. How can we bring ourselves to blame MOE or the school for it? 

I do not think it is logical, the local geologists had not predicted considerable earthquake risk (I am unaware if there was a warning issued by the geologists at all) and prohibited visitors trekking up the mountain. 

Ok so flying star chart is able to picked out the "possible" areas. However did the earthquake happen along the entire belt in the Northwest or NorthEast sectors all over the world?  

It did not. Does that mean flying stars chart is wrong? 

2) Other factors

In point 1, we had already estimated based on the facts online that most of the children are in primary 6 so 12 years old and born around 2003. Most of them are born in the yin water over yin earth goat year (sloppy earth, one can say from hindsight). 

Therefore also mathematically likely to be 1/3 of the Ox Goat Dog Earth penalty configuration.

Next, extensive damages to human lives a occurred on the mountain because mountain is Earth and the people are surrounded by Earth in comparison, say the swimming pool in a beach resort. 

As mentioned earlier, my GM had already predicted that Earth based disasters are more likely to happen in 2015, something like the theme of 2015. 

Now.....

The smart thing for one to do is not to ask "WHERE", it is to avoid going up mountains or get trapped in tunnels. 

Also the gracious thing to do, will be to stand in solidarity with other humans in strength and unity. 

Not pointing fingers at the government, ministry of education and Tanjong Katong Primary School! 

I can only imagine how much the parents are already blaming themselves for letting their children go on the trip. The parents who had personally signed the consent forms! 

Are the commenters going to add salt to the wound, that the parents should know better and can only blame themselves for accidentally sending their children to an earthquake? 

Horrible things to even think about! 

*I revoked access to all negative energy in this world*

Let us all pray for the best for the remaining missing Singaporeans, sending love and light to the perished and may their souls rest in peace. Your smiles shall live in the memories of us all. 

My passion for Feng Shui Gadgets

My passion for Feng Shui Gadgets

I am a professional Feng Shui / Bazi / I Ching Consultant. I also happened to love gadgets e.g. Wealth Crystals Bowls, water fountains, ... 5/03/2015

I am a professional Feng Shui / Bazi / I Ching Consultant.

I also happened to love gadgets e.g. Wealth Crystals Bowls, water fountains, clocks, Luo Pans, Luo Pan Stands, Tibetan Bowls, Ru-Ban Rulers and Digital Distance Meters. Just to name a few.

Recently as luck will have it, (I chose my nobleman Year, Month and Day) while shopping on Taobao for my fix of new chinese metaphysical books, on the right hand side of the web page where lots of other deals popped up ... a beautiful sight manifested and I just could not resist but mouse over ... next thing I know, my credit card is also out from my wallet.

Stature of a IWC, dimensions of a IWC and the engine (the mechanism) of the Begeel is an automatic! Very luxurious looking and feeling.  

In addition, the accurate display of 十二时辰 on a sophisticated, posh and clean white dial is obviously a runaway winner. 

In the course of my work; auspicious hours, days, months, years and directions are frequently discussed. Having this watch will be a great help, I can point to my beautiful timepiece instead of drawing the timeline out for clients time and again.

However, something is nagging on my mind. For such a high quality watch as depicted on website, i am very happy to part with my hundreds SGD with it .... condition being that the shop is at Bedok, Woodlands or Jurong. 

Yes there is always a warranty period. But with the overseas vendor, if issues were to arise with the watch within the 365 days of warranty period, It is still a big hassle plus logistic nightmare for any form of redemption.

Anyway enough of the insecurities. I will be going ahead with the purchase, taking a great leap of faith so I am going to do a pre-review of the watch here now vs a real review, when I finally get to hug the baby in my arms.

Growing up with businessmen and watchmakers, I have always been a horological fanatic and pretty crazy about the usual Rolexes, Panarai, Chopard, BRMs, and Cartiers. The expensive brandings of these time pieces aside.

The mechanism, aka inner engine driving the date reel, hour, minute and second hands are the real draw to mechanical watches.

I will like to think mechanical/automatic watches are an extension of the famous 长明灯 , a result of the human drive for everlasting life.

Mechanical watches go ticking forever, all you need is to wind the watch up regularly. There is no need to change batteries and if built well, one can wear it for a lifetime. Perhaps even like the Patek, pass it down to the next generation.

Is the Beegel mechanical watch built well? Looks like it, the manufacturer chose Sapphire glass which is more scratch- resistant instead of the usual acrylic window for it. Visibility of the Sapphire glass is also much better when viewed from multiple angles. Can I trust the manufacturer that this is indeed scratch-proof? A picture speaks volumes.

I am also delighted to be informed that for a couple of hundreds SGD, I will be getting 12 rubies which will definitely bling up the dial considerably.

The dial is beautiful and shone like a diamond. Masterful use of gold and red.  The dial is not decorated in an overly complicated fashion and yet not too boringly sterile clean. A balanced state of beauty for both camps of watch lovers.

This watch even comes with a deployment buckle, one of the early reason which i was sold on. Though money can't buy class, I will have you know that this entire watch reeks class.

And like the expensive swiss counterparts, every watch also comes in an unique serial number. As a consultant, I hope mine comes in 369, so that I can draw the energy from the Three Periods and Nine Ages. Though this is more of a personal pursuit of numbers more than academic purposes.

Speaking of water- resistance, if a watch-maker claimed 50M instead of the typical 30M, I will trust that the product is quite well-built. Granted that unlike the mega watch-makers, actual tests would have been carried out for actual resistance, awarded by accrediting bodies.

But hey, we are talking about a great time-piece at great price point so we must be reasonable in our expectations as well.

Rose gold plated casings? Looks good to me!

Basically, the main draw of the watch is really the dial which tells time and also the chinese 时辰 in great detail.

I like the fact that there are niche watch-makers servicing the chinese metaphysical market in this aspect.

I just wish that these watch-makers are also here in Singapore.

In summary, I hope I can tell you how beautiful this watch is in terms of quality, functionality and pricing in a few thousand words. But I do not have the real thing yet, when the baby arrives, i will do another review for it.

However, if I am unable to do so,  I have a feeling that the pictures will speak for itself as well.

Now it is just the question of choosing the black or the brown leather band for it.

A Bug's Life - West Singapore 2015

A Bug's Life - West Singapore 2015

Bukit Batok is now a bugs’ hub.  Some flats got it worst than others, according to the report. Intensified bugs activity occurred f... 4/23/2015

Bukit Batok is now a bugs’ hub. 

Some flats got it worst than others, according to the report. Intensified bugs activity occurred from 2 weeks ago. Is it a Feng Shui problem?

From 玄空飞星 perspective, energetically 2 and 5 flying stars are considered as public enemy #1. Humans are trained to do something about 2 and 5 since 6500 years ago.

Specifically, flying star 5 is a misfortune star. Dormant 5 star is already considered as unlucky. If number 5 is activated, we will see increase in delays, arguments, inconveniences, unhappiness, discomfort, stress-related health and emotional issues.

At present, the flying star 5 of the year and month congregated and both flew to the West sector - Bukit Batok West unfortunately is at the wrong place and wrong time.

With double 5 flying to same west sector, understandably energies will be more turbulent in the west. Akin like a mini invisible tornado constantly irritating human’s life force in that area.

Also blocks 170 to 172 in Bukit Batok West seem to be sitting/facing NE/SW (Grand Duke direction). If so, likely any constructions nearby the blocks may have accidentally also triggered GD. Humans are expected to keep peace and quiet in presence of GD. Not moving the earth will help!

Perhaps to minimize discomfort, try putting up a metal wind chime in the West Sector in my home? Metal will exhaust 5 yellow energy and also energetically transform into musical notes. 化解法.

Asiaone article 

2 Singapore killer crane accidents on the same day!

2 Singapore killer crane accidents on the same day!

On the 3rd March 2015, 2 accidents involving construction cranes occurred on the same day in the afternoon afternoon. As mentioned in pre... 3/05/2015

On the 3rd March 2015, 2 accidents involving construction cranes occurred on the same day in the afternoon afternoon.

As mentioned in previous post, traveling accidents involving people and traffic are more likely when traveling horse stars appear. The traveling horses are 寅申巳亥。

What is so special about that day? 

 Hr       Dy      Mo    Yr

 庚       戊       戊      乙

Metal   Earth  Earth Wood 

 申       寅       寅      未

Metal   Wood Wood Earth 

There were 3 traveling stars, 申寅寅 showing up on that fateful day afternoon. Usually with so many traveling stars all gathering, a ball of energy will disturbed the humans with restlessness, overwhelmed with increased activity around them and distracted. 

Also in the afternoon, the Monkey Hour 申 clashing with the 2 Tigers寅on month day and month pillar side by side. Clash usually will trigger events. It may not happen immediately in that hour, but unknown to us, a chain reaction was in play and slowly gearing up speed. Errors after errors chalking up and gearing speed. Like a ticking time-bomb and accident waiting to happen. 

In the Punggol accident, while the crane was in operation, the concrete slab stabilizing the crane had fallen off due to unknown reasons. Leading to the gigantic mobile crane's centre of gravity being disturbed, toppled over and causing causalities. 

A. Construction crane toppled into ground (earth)

The 2nd accident on the same day, same afternoon (some hours apart) on KJE. We saw dramatic footage of a crane crashing out from the trees and cutting into all the cars which were stationary and waiting for traffic light to turn green. 

Reminds me of a high budget Hollywood Movie:

B. Right side, a yellow vehicle in the trees

C. Construction crane cutting through the trees

D. Moment of impact, crashing into another car

 Haunting similar factors on the two accidents.

1. It happened around the same time when the traveling stars are up
2. The culprit - large metal object i.e. construction cranes. 
3. It involved some casualties but not massive.  A large metal object plunging into the earth and trees. 

Hr       Dy      Mo    Yr

 庚       戊       戊      乙

Metal   Earth  Earth Wood 

 申       寅       寅      未

Metal   Wood Wood Earth 

Bazi explains why:

- It happened around the same time, as duplicate elements had shown up. 戊 寅 on day and mo pillar. In bazi, duplicate can mean double happiness or double shit. Generally not a good sign but not always so. We were taught to pay attention to it though. 

- Culprit was a large metal object, the crane. 庚申 are both Yang metal and appeared in the setup, indicating a metal object which is obvious, massive and strong.  Retrospectively, the clue here is a big metal object will be involved. 

Here comes the interesting lines connecting the dots:

- A large metal plunging through the earth and wood. Looking horizontally from left to right, the top heavenly stems shows: 

 庚       戊       戊      乙

Metal   Earth  Earth Wood = Metal into earth (Crane crashing into earth - refer to picture A)

and bottom, left to right earthly branches shows: 

申       寅       寅      未

Metal   Wood Wood Earth = Metal into wood (Crane cutting out from the trees - refer to picture B to D)

After two obvious traffic accidents occurring in the last month where traveling star 寅 was presented for a month. We should take precautions by combining traveling stars away. The universe is showing us a sign yo! 

The traditional cure from the past 6500 years is to carry a pig to combine the tiger away. Simple and effective method. 

However there are 4 types of traveling stars. Different animals are required from different occasion. Buzz me if anyone is interested. :) 

Anyway today marks the start of a new month!  

We had moved into a new month of 己 Yin Earth over 卯 Yin Wood, what will the new month bring? 

1st day of CNY: 2 unrelated chain collision occurred along the same road within hours

1st day of CNY: 2 unrelated chain collision occurred along the same road within hours

19th Feb 2015 is the first day of Chinese New Year in Singapore. Naturally millions of Singaporeans are out and about, visiting relati... 2/20/2015

19th Feb 2015 is the first day of Chinese New Year in Singapore. Naturally millions of Singaporeans are out and about, visiting relatives and friends dressed smartly in 50 shades of red.

In Destiny 4 Pillars, frequent human movements can be predicted when traveling stars 驿马
show up. Individual traveling stars differ from one individual to another, there are four traveling stars i.e. Tiger, Monkey, Snake and Pig. When we see these occurring in the earthly branches, this means there will be more activity and sometimes turbulent energy. Something like turbulence mid-flight.

On the 19th Feb 2015 at around 2 pm to 3pm, the first accident occurred and the 4 pillars are:

Hr        Dy     Mo       Yr
乙        丙      戊         乙
Wood  Fire    Earth   Wood
未        寅      寅         未
Earth  Wood  Wood   Earth

On this day there are 2 tigers - 寅 in the month and day pillar. This is indicative of lots of activity, more than double actually hence can be interpreted as many people are traveling.

Then on this day also there are a lot of wood elements. This composition means the wood will support fire. Fire also mean heart, red, happiness and joy. Well it Chinese New Year so many chinese people are happily with festive celebrations everywhere.

But with so many wood elements, the wood energy is also strong. Wood represents liver, green and anger etc. So it can mean many people on this day are easily worked up, angry and aggressive. Perhaps more so with the stress or exhaustion of keeping to a schedule to visit the numerous uncles, aunties, in-laws and colleagues within the same day.

So at this time, all the elements come into an interplay. This visual comes to my mind .... an expressway full of cars, lots of activity, the driver got impatient and honked at the car in front, the car suddenly applied the E-brake and a chain of collision occurred.

Moments later, an totally unrelated chain accident happened on the same expressway! Granted the road is very long and accident can happen anywhere. But from the above set of 4 pillars, there is a clue as well that there will be another accident later.

Notice that the elements on the year pillar is 乙未 and the elements on the hour pillar are the same. This is a duplication, known as 伏吟. Usually duplication is seen as not an auspicious sign, but it is not always bad, if the elements are favorable it can mean double happiness as well. But in this case, because the 1st accident happened at the time of duplication, it is reasonable to deduce that the odds or fate of another chain collision was already set in motion.

This news was reported on Asiaone.

In addition, 2015 is a Wood Earth year. There is also a likelihood of occurring the Ox-Goat-Dog penalty which means higher rate of cells mutation leading to cancer. Earth also means stomach, hence according to the article, one of the car drivers hurt his stomach. The health theme of 2015 will be taking care of your gut and digestive system.

Revisiting some basics, the 5 elements are related to various parts of human beings and this has been verified by the Traditional Chinese Medicine as well.

In fact current knowledge base has put all this co-relation into this wonderful table as below. So Fire element represents the heart organ, is the color red and the emotion is Joy. 

While for Wood, it represents the liver, green and anger. 

Tree in the middle of a house is bad feng shui?

Tree in the middle of a house is bad feng shui?

Chanced upon this floor plan. A modern education centre designed by a very talented architect. As a commercial entity or even a casino, this... 2/11/2015

Chanced upon this floor plan. A modern education centre designed by a very talented architect. As a commercial entity or even a casino, this setup is interesting. 

As a home, it is probably not a good thing to have such a setup. In Feng Shui, humans utilized typical shapes, colors, numbers and sounds etc to design cures for problematic landscape. e.g. 8 = Huat. As chinese saying goes, 有形就有灵. In this floor plan, a big plant in the middle of the house can be written as 困 = trap. As plants or greenery is a common object to improve energy of Wood element. For a casino or shopping centre, it is probably a good thing to "trap" the human traffic for as long as possible to achieve maximize business. For a home however, the occupants will feel "trap" in their own house, like a poison cell.

In addition, trees provided shade right? Not only it provides shade for humans during the day, it can provide shade for spirits for both day and night! Therefore in the country side where greeneries are aplenty, we sometimes see trees with deep roots originally situated near the house to extend its roots into the house. Such a phenomena is commonly termed as  树大招阴. 

The forbidden forest, the mysterious forest. Experienced trekkers, villagers, medicine man and actually logic, had foretold the dangers of thick jungles after sunset. 

Do they know what they fear or do they fear what they know?