The Feng Shui Almanac, or the Tung Shu, is a table days. These calculations are based on the heavenly branches and earthly stems of the day. These results in a simple to understand table that tells us the most auspicious times to engage in various activities that are outlined below.
Knowing your animal sign also gives you familiarity with the Chinese lunar calendar. You can click here to investigate your animal sign or check any of Lillian Too’s feng shui books to consult the 100 year calendar.
1. Sign a big contract
2. Meet with someone important
3. Attend a job interview
4. Start a new venture
5. Give a keynote address
6. Make a presentation
7. Stand for election
8. Arrange a reconciliation with someone
9. Start on a journey
10. Get married
11. Plan a big party
The date given is based on your local time, minus daylight saving if any. It is important that you do not engage in any of the above activities if it is a bad day for the animal sign you were born under. A simple method used to find a most excellent day for you would be either 6 days before or after the day that is most unlucky for you.
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FENG SHUI WOFS helps build a community
As part of its social responsibility, World of Feng Shui (WOFS) Philippines, Inc. has joined forces with Gawad Kalinga (GK), a ‘nation-building’ group dedicated to helping improve the lives of impoverished families in the country. Along with other sponsors, they helped build houses for Pinagsama Village in Western BIcutan, Taguig City.
Last March 30, 2007, the WOFS head office staff led by Ms. Marites Allen went to Pinagsama Village to formally hand over the newly built houses for the said community’s residents. The whole project aims to provide a good jumpstart for the improvement of their lives and their community too. In fact, some have already put up their own general merchandise stores as their family business.
The whole town was in a festive mood that day, and one can only see excitement in the faces of the residents as they receive their new houses.
WOFS Philippines has donated one unit for the village. As the project is still expanding, the WOFS staff also helped out on that day in painting the some of the houses about to be built.
Starting out as a Couples for Christ project aimed to rehabilitate juvenile gangs in Bagong Silang, Caloocan City in 1995, GK has now evolved and extended its mission to other developing countries in dire need of decent housing too. Contrary to what others might think, GK states it does not randomly pick a community, but rather it chooses to award a community whose leaders have nothing but the noblest and sincerest intention to help their constituents.
Incumbent Taguig City Mayor Freddie Tinga and Vice Mayor George Elias were on hand to thank everyone who had devoted their time, money, and efforts for making this dream a reality. Currently, there are four villages named after its sponsors and/or partners, namely: the Poveda GK Village, Fuji Xerox GK Village, Phil-Am Friendship Village, and Makati-West Village. Tinga promises that this would be just the start as the project aims to build 6 more GK villages before the year ends and 30, 000 houses more in ten years in this city.
Aside from WOFS Philippines, also present for the signing of the memorandum of agreement and awarding of units were GK Community Development Foundation’s founders and members. They are: Saint Pedro Poveda Village, Fuji Xerox Philippines, Rotary Culb of Makati-West, Rotary Club of Forbes Park, Rotary Club of Makati-Pasong Tamo, and Rotary Club of Parañaque.
Last March 30, 2007, the WOFS head office staff led by Ms. Marites Allen went to Pinagsama Village to formally hand over the newly built houses for the said community’s residents. The whole project aims to provide a good jumpstart for the improvement of their lives and their community too. In fact, some have already put up their own general merchandise stores as their family business.
The whole town was in a festive mood that day, and one can only see excitement in the faces of the residents as they receive their new houses.
WOFS Philippines has donated one unit for the village. As the project is still expanding, the WOFS staff also helped out on that day in painting the some of the houses about to be built.
Starting out as a Couples for Christ project aimed to rehabilitate juvenile gangs in Bagong Silang, Caloocan City in 1995, GK has now evolved and extended its mission to other developing countries in dire need of decent housing too. Contrary to what others might think, GK states it does not randomly pick a community, but rather it chooses to award a community whose leaders have nothing but the noblest and sincerest intention to help their constituents.
Incumbent Taguig City Mayor Freddie Tinga and Vice Mayor George Elias were on hand to thank everyone who had devoted their time, money, and efforts for making this dream a reality. Currently, there are four villages named after its sponsors and/or partners, namely: the Poveda GK Village, Fuji Xerox GK Village, Phil-Am Friendship Village, and Makati-West Village. Tinga promises that this would be just the start as the project aims to build 6 more GK villages before the year ends and 30, 000 houses more in ten years in this city.
Aside from WOFS Philippines, also present for the signing of the memorandum of agreement and awarding of units were GK Community Development Foundation’s founders and members. They are: Saint Pedro Poveda Village, Fuji Xerox Philippines, Rotary Culb of Makati-West, Rotary Club of Forbes Park, Rotary Club of Makati-Pasong Tamo, and Rotary Club of Parañaque.
FENG SHUI Understanding the Four Pillars in Feng Shui
In Chinese fortune telling, it is of great importance what the Four Pillars reveals. The Four Pillars are quite simply the year, month, day and hour of your birth. Astrologers then calculate the element in which you were born under and whether it is yin or yang.
Now each and every one of your pillars correspond to two elements which is why they are given the names 'heavenly stem' and 'earthly branch'. As there are Four Pillars and two elements for each pillar, there would be a total of eight elements but there is bound to be one element that is missing or lacking and enhancing this missing element is what strengthens an individual's Feng Shui.
Calculating one's personal Four Pillars is something that requires experience as it is a very complicated process. Well known Chinese astrologers have been known to use computers to decipher these intricate calculations so as not to make a mistake which may prove costly to the client's well being or the astrologer's reputation.
And because not everyone has an opportunity to meet in person with these astrologers, Lillian recommendation that you energize all the five elements in your home to be sure you are getting the perfect balance of yin and yang. After all the ultimate aim of Feng Shui is to get all the elements in sufficient doses so that yin and yang hit a perfect balance to harmonize your home. So start learning about what element goes in which sector from the charts and get a compass to help you see where all the sectors go. Good Luck!
Now each and every one of your pillars correspond to two elements which is why they are given the names 'heavenly stem' and 'earthly branch'. As there are Four Pillars and two elements for each pillar, there would be a total of eight elements but there is bound to be one element that is missing or lacking and enhancing this missing element is what strengthens an individual's Feng Shui.
Calculating one's personal Four Pillars is something that requires experience as it is a very complicated process. Well known Chinese astrologers have been known to use computers to decipher these intricate calculations so as not to make a mistake which may prove costly to the client's well being or the astrologer's reputation.
And because not everyone has an opportunity to meet in person with these astrologers, Lillian recommendation that you energize all the five elements in your home to be sure you are getting the perfect balance of yin and yang. After all the ultimate aim of Feng Shui is to get all the elements in sufficient doses so that yin and yang hit a perfect balance to harmonize your home. So start learning about what element goes in which sector from the charts and get a compass to help you see where all the sectors go. Good Luck!
FENG SHUI The Four Pillars & the Five Elements
In our last issue, we've mentioned how important it is to enhance the missing elements in your personal space based on the Four Pillars of destiny. However, it would make life a whole lot less complicated by playing it safe. So how do you do that? Simple. All you have to do is to energize all the elements in all the corners of your home. This gives you balance of Yin and Yang.
First, equip yourself with a compass. Next, place furniture, objects and other knick-knacks in these areas to energize the different elements based on its auspicious directions.
The directions and their elements are as follows:
Directions Elements
East and Southeast - Wood
South - Fire
North - Water
West and Northwest - Metal
Southwest and Northeast - Earth
Now, based on the above table, you can use your creativity to arrange furniture and other objects to decorate your home while making the most of what Feng Shui has to offer.
First, equip yourself with a compass. Next, place furniture, objects and other knick-knacks in these areas to energize the different elements based on its auspicious directions.
The directions and their elements are as follows:
Directions Elements
East and Southeast - Wood
South - Fire
North - Water
West and Northwest - Metal
Southwest and Northeast - Earth
Now, based on the above table, you can use your creativity to arrange furniture and other objects to decorate your home while making the most of what Feng Shui has to offer.
FENG SHUI Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?
In recent years, Chinese metaphysical subjects such as Feng Shui and Four Pillars of Destiny are capturing worldwide interest. However, there are vast treasures in the ancient Chinese metaphysical subjects and Feng Shui is not even the most representative of them. If you are fascinated by the profound system of Feng Shui and Four Pillars of Destiny, you will be equally interested to explore another even more important subject called "I Ching Divination".
The term I Ching - commonly translated as "Book of Change" - is based on a series of symbols called Trigrams and Hexagrams. These are symbols made up of straight lines - either continuous or broken, to reflect the concept of Yin and Yang in the Universe. According to ancient history, these are symbols invented by a sage called "Fu Si" who lived at least over 6000 years ago. It is recorded that Mr. Fu Si observed the Heaven and Earth and other natural phenomenon. Then he got inspired to create these symbols to represent and interpret the forces of nature.
In the beginning, there are 8 symbols, called the "Ba Gua" or "8 Trigrams". These Trigarms represent the 8 major natural phenomenon as observed by man. They are Heaven, Earth, Fire, Water, Mountain, Lake, Thunder and Wind. Later on, these 8 Trigrams developed into 64 Hexagrams by stacking one Trigram on top of another. Hence they can incorporate a great variety of information and meanings. The superiority of these symbol system is that they are very simple in structure but they incorporated the fundamental nature of Yin and Yang duality of the Universe, and so they are very rich in philosophical content and have been adopted as a tool for divination since the ancient time.
The subject of I Ching is not new to the west. It is perhaps the first Chinese metaphysical subject translated into many foreign languages. However, it is necessary to explain some misunderstanding here. The many versions of I Ching now we find in bookstores is only referring to a book (the Book of Change) complied by King Wen, the Emperor of the Chau Dynasty, and Confucius, the famous Chinese teacher. These 2 authors lived at least 3000 years after the time of Mr. Fu Si. As such, their subjective interpretation of the Hexagrams are not necessarily representative of Mr. Fu Si's original intention. Also neither of these 2 authors are fortune-tellers. They are scholars and politicians. So one can imagine that their version of the I Ching is more on the academic and philosophical side. It is more like a tool for ideology than serve its original purpose - divination and forecasting.
However, as this version of the I Ching compiled by King Wen and Confucius is the only version translated into English, German and other foreign languages, the western people took it as the only way of I Ching divination. Very few are aware of the existence of another more systematic and practical technique of using the I Ching purely for forecasting purpose. We can call this alternative technique as "Fortune-tellers I Ching" in order to differentiate it from King Wen's academic I Ching.
The I Ching technique is basically a tool for asking questions and getting answers. With a question in mind, the first step is to throw 3 coins 6 times to set up the six lines of a Hexagram. Then the next step is to interpret the meaning of the Hexagram resulted from casting the coins. To the layman, they can look up the relevant Hexagram in the King Wen and Confucius I Ching and read their comments. However, as these commentaries are very old, very general and very abstract, it is hard to associate a modern situation with a story in the Warring States about 3000 years ago. As such, the answer as reflected in this manner is far from clear and conclusive.
The professional fortunetellers in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan seldom refer to the book of I Ching by King Wen and Confucius. They take an entirely different approach in interpreting the Hexagram. This system classified the 6 lines of a Hexagram into 5 major categories - Money, Resources, Friends, Power, Intelligence, or 5 type of people - Husband, Wife, Children, Parents, Brothers and Sisters. So that one can easily focus on the relevant subject matter and get clearer answer to the question in mind.
This is a more practical and reliable way of I Ching divination. Unfortunately, as far as I am aware, this system has not been introduced in the English language before, despite there are many English I Ching books in the market.
To demonstrate this interesting system, let us look at an example. The question for this divination is "Who killed Jon Benet Ramsey?"
To use I Ching Divination method, we have to cast 3 metal coins 6 times to get 6 lines for constructing a Hexagram. By casting 3 coins, one can expect 4 possible outcomes:
1. One head means a yang line.
2. Two heads means a yin line.
3. All heads means a yang line changing into yin.
4. All tails means a yin line changing into yang.
After this casting process, a Hexagram will appear with Yin and Yang lines as well as active changing lines showing areas of action. Instead of looking up the book of I Ching for meaning, we will go through a process of labeling each line with 5 elements, 5 aspects of life and 5 category of people. The following is a fully labeled Hexagram relevant to our sample question - who killed JonBenet Ramsey?
Question - Who killed JonBenet?
Month - water
Date - water
I (metal) P (wood) S Tortoise
M (water) Tiger
C (earth) Snake
I (metal) O Earthworm
R (fire) Firebird
C (earth) Dragon
I - intelligence, child
R - resources, parents
M - money, wife
P -power, killer
C - colleagues, brother
JonBenet Ramsey is a little girl in Boulder, Colorado who was found murdered in the basement of her home on Boxing Day, 26/12 in 1996. The murder is still unresolved as of today and even her parents and brother were said to be "under the umbrella of suspicion". The purpose of this I Ching Divination exercise is to find hints to see who is likely to be the killer.
How to interpret this Hexagram to get the answer.
The first step is to establish our focus. In a Hexagram, there are usually 2 areas of focus. Firstly, the type of person or matter we are checking. In our case, it is a child, which is labeled as I, this falls on the 3rd line of the Hexagram - a metal element. The second important area is a line of activity as it is a line revealing the action area related to the question. In the Hexagram, we can see the top line is active. This is a line represented by P, meaning power - a wood element.
By examining these 2 lines we can obtain a message from the Hexagram. The Power line, meaning a "destroyer" or a "killer" is active and in crash with the 3rd line of metal, representing the child. This reflected an action of killing. The wood power line is active and changing into metal which is I also meaning the child, and metal conquers wood, so it seems the child had put up a struggle. Is this resistance successful? When interpreting the strength of an element, we have to look at the seasonal influence which determines which element is strongest during the time of the I Ching Divination. In this sample case, the exercise was done in winter (November) of 1999, a month of water and a date of water. The water support the wood, did not support the metal. As such, the wood killer is stronger than the metal child. So the child was murdered.
Then who is the killer?
In the Hexagram, we only see the Power line - a killer is in action. The other lines R - symbolising parents, and C symbolising brother are quiet and inert. There is no evidence to show that the family members were involved in the killing. So the killer is someone else, perhaps an intruder. What kind of intruder? We can see more information from the list of 6 animals next to the Hexagram. The animal on the top line next to the Power line is tortoise - which is a symbol of theft. So the killer could be a thief.
So this manner of interpretation provides more insight and clarity to understand a situation. If one use the Book of I Ching, one can only see the Hexagram is called "Keeping Still" and the active line in the 6th position is explained as "Peaceful Stillness - a great blessing" which one finds hard to relate to our question.
For students who are already interested in the I Ching, this technique opens up new perspective of using the I Ching with much more accuracy in forecasting and understanding a situation. The labeling is not difficult and it will lead you into yet another new treasure chamber in Chinese metaphysical studies.
The term I Ching - commonly translated as "Book of Change" - is based on a series of symbols called Trigrams and Hexagrams. These are symbols made up of straight lines - either continuous or broken, to reflect the concept of Yin and Yang in the Universe. According to ancient history, these are symbols invented by a sage called "Fu Si" who lived at least over 6000 years ago. It is recorded that Mr. Fu Si observed the Heaven and Earth and other natural phenomenon. Then he got inspired to create these symbols to represent and interpret the forces of nature.
In the beginning, there are 8 symbols, called the "Ba Gua" or "8 Trigrams". These Trigarms represent the 8 major natural phenomenon as observed by man. They are Heaven, Earth, Fire, Water, Mountain, Lake, Thunder and Wind. Later on, these 8 Trigrams developed into 64 Hexagrams by stacking one Trigram on top of another. Hence they can incorporate a great variety of information and meanings. The superiority of these symbol system is that they are very simple in structure but they incorporated the fundamental nature of Yin and Yang duality of the Universe, and so they are very rich in philosophical content and have been adopted as a tool for divination since the ancient time.
The subject of I Ching is not new to the west. It is perhaps the first Chinese metaphysical subject translated into many foreign languages. However, it is necessary to explain some misunderstanding here. The many versions of I Ching now we find in bookstores is only referring to a book (the Book of Change) complied by King Wen, the Emperor of the Chau Dynasty, and Confucius, the famous Chinese teacher. These 2 authors lived at least 3000 years after the time of Mr. Fu Si. As such, their subjective interpretation of the Hexagrams are not necessarily representative of Mr. Fu Si's original intention. Also neither of these 2 authors are fortune-tellers. They are scholars and politicians. So one can imagine that their version of the I Ching is more on the academic and philosophical side. It is more like a tool for ideology than serve its original purpose - divination and forecasting.
However, as this version of the I Ching compiled by King Wen and Confucius is the only version translated into English, German and other foreign languages, the western people took it as the only way of I Ching divination. Very few are aware of the existence of another more systematic and practical technique of using the I Ching purely for forecasting purpose. We can call this alternative technique as "Fortune-tellers I Ching" in order to differentiate it from King Wen's academic I Ching.
The I Ching technique is basically a tool for asking questions and getting answers. With a question in mind, the first step is to throw 3 coins 6 times to set up the six lines of a Hexagram. Then the next step is to interpret the meaning of the Hexagram resulted from casting the coins. To the layman, they can look up the relevant Hexagram in the King Wen and Confucius I Ching and read their comments. However, as these commentaries are very old, very general and very abstract, it is hard to associate a modern situation with a story in the Warring States about 3000 years ago. As such, the answer as reflected in this manner is far from clear and conclusive.
The professional fortunetellers in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan seldom refer to the book of I Ching by King Wen and Confucius. They take an entirely different approach in interpreting the Hexagram. This system classified the 6 lines of a Hexagram into 5 major categories - Money, Resources, Friends, Power, Intelligence, or 5 type of people - Husband, Wife, Children, Parents, Brothers and Sisters. So that one can easily focus on the relevant subject matter and get clearer answer to the question in mind.
This is a more practical and reliable way of I Ching divination. Unfortunately, as far as I am aware, this system has not been introduced in the English language before, despite there are many English I Ching books in the market.
To demonstrate this interesting system, let us look at an example. The question for this divination is "Who killed Jon Benet Ramsey?"
To use I Ching Divination method, we have to cast 3 metal coins 6 times to get 6 lines for constructing a Hexagram. By casting 3 coins, one can expect 4 possible outcomes:
1. One head means a yang line.
2. Two heads means a yin line.
3. All heads means a yang line changing into yin.
4. All tails means a yin line changing into yang.
After this casting process, a Hexagram will appear with Yin and Yang lines as well as active changing lines showing areas of action. Instead of looking up the book of I Ching for meaning, we will go through a process of labeling each line with 5 elements, 5 aspects of life and 5 category of people. The following is a fully labeled Hexagram relevant to our sample question - who killed JonBenet Ramsey?
Question - Who killed JonBenet?
Month - water
Date - water
I (metal) P (wood) S Tortoise
M (water) Tiger
C (earth) Snake
I (metal) O Earthworm
R (fire) Firebird
C (earth) Dragon
I - intelligence, child
R - resources, parents
M - money, wife
P -power, killer
C - colleagues, brother
JonBenet Ramsey is a little girl in Boulder, Colorado who was found murdered in the basement of her home on Boxing Day, 26/12 in 1996. The murder is still unresolved as of today and even her parents and brother were said to be "under the umbrella of suspicion". The purpose of this I Ching Divination exercise is to find hints to see who is likely to be the killer.
How to interpret this Hexagram to get the answer.
The first step is to establish our focus. In a Hexagram, there are usually 2 areas of focus. Firstly, the type of person or matter we are checking. In our case, it is a child, which is labeled as I, this falls on the 3rd line of the Hexagram - a metal element. The second important area is a line of activity as it is a line revealing the action area related to the question. In the Hexagram, we can see the top line is active. This is a line represented by P, meaning power - a wood element.
By examining these 2 lines we can obtain a message from the Hexagram. The Power line, meaning a "destroyer" or a "killer" is active and in crash with the 3rd line of metal, representing the child. This reflected an action of killing. The wood power line is active and changing into metal which is I also meaning the child, and metal conquers wood, so it seems the child had put up a struggle. Is this resistance successful? When interpreting the strength of an element, we have to look at the seasonal influence which determines which element is strongest during the time of the I Ching Divination. In this sample case, the exercise was done in winter (November) of 1999, a month of water and a date of water. The water support the wood, did not support the metal. As such, the wood killer is stronger than the metal child. So the child was murdered.
Then who is the killer?
In the Hexagram, we only see the Power line - a killer is in action. The other lines R - symbolising parents, and C symbolising brother are quiet and inert. There is no evidence to show that the family members were involved in the killing. So the killer is someone else, perhaps an intruder. What kind of intruder? We can see more information from the list of 6 animals next to the Hexagram. The animal on the top line next to the Power line is tortoise - which is a symbol of theft. So the killer could be a thief.
So this manner of interpretation provides more insight and clarity to understand a situation. If one use the Book of I Ching, one can only see the Hexagram is called "Keeping Still" and the active line in the 6th position is explained as "Peaceful Stillness - a great blessing" which one finds hard to relate to our question.
For students who are already interested in the I Ching, this technique opens up new perspective of using the I Ching with much more accuracy in forecasting and understanding a situation. The labeling is not difficult and it will lead you into yet another new treasure chamber in Chinese metaphysical studies.
FENG SHUI The Fate Of The Titanic
The Chinese has a profound system of fortune-telling called the Four Pillars of Destiny. It is built on the believe that all matters in the world is made up of five fundamental elements - metal, water, earth, fire and wood. by Raymond Lo
22nd May 1999
The Chinese has a profound system of fortune-telling called the Four Pillars of Destiny. It is built on the believe that all matters in the world is made up of five fundamental elements - metal, water, earth, fire and wood. These can be understood as the five basic natural forces behind all matter and all events in the Universe. Even abstract objects such as human destiny - are composed of these five elements and everyone living on earth are subject to the influence of these elements.
To understand the elemental composition of our destiny, all one needs to do is to convert the birhdata into the Chinese calendar which not only is an instrument to record time, but also reflects the elemental influences prevailing at any moment of time. So as soon as we convert a person’s birthdata into the Chinese calendar, immediately we can see a bundle of elements which are the component of our destiny. As there are four vital information involved in our birthdata, namely the Year, the Month, the Day and the Hour of birth, we call each of these information a “Pillar”. Hence the subject is called the “Four Pillars of Destiny”.
This is a very handy and effective tool to peep into the fortune of individuals. All one requires to understand is the implication of the five basic elements and their inter-relationships. There are two basic types of relationships amongst the five elements. The Cycle of Birth is a harmonious kind of relationship with Metal gives birth to Water, Water gives birth to Wood, Wood gives birth to Fire, Fire gives birth to Earth and Earth gives birth to Metal. On the other hand, there is a conflicting kind of relationship called the Cycle of Destruction - where Metal destroys Wood, Wood conquers Earth, Earth controls Water, Water puts off the Fire, and Fire melts the Metal. If one thoroughly understand these two kind relationships, the fortune of a person will be unfolded to your eyes like reading a book.
The movie Titanic is so popular as the public are attracted and deeply moved by the romantic stories of human fate. The sinking of the Titanic is a fateful event. It also provides good materials for metaphysical study as no tragedy and accident in history has been so well documented. There are plenty of materials recording in minor detail the course of the event, minute by minute and even the birth data of some of the prominent passengers are available. I have done a little bit of research into the metaphysical aspect of the tragedy and come up with some interesting results.
The Fateful night is 14/4/1912 and the collision against the iceberg occurred at around 11.40 p.m. Converting this time into the Chinese calendar, we get the following bundle of elements:
Hour
Day
Month
Year
Earth
Metal
Wood
Water
Water
Metal
Earth
Water
14/4/1912
11.40 p.m.
It is a year of strong water, an hour of strong water, with a day of strong metal. The metal can be taken to mean the Titanic, which is a massive lump of metal floating in water. In the Earthly branches of the configuration, we see two waters, one metal and one earth. However, advance theory of the Four Pillars of destiny tells us that water is born in the metal Monkey, water is the strongest in the water Rat, and water enters the Grave or Storage in the Earth Dragon. So if the Monkey, the Rat and The Dragon are present at the same time, it means a complete life cycle of water and they will all turn into strong water.
Now let us examine the fateful night again, it happens in the year of the Rat, the month of the Dragon, and on the Day of the Monkey, in the hour of the Rat. So all the necessary elements to make the fierce water - the Rat, the Monkey and the Dragon are present, turning the earth and metal into cold and merciless water of the Atlantic Ocean. The Titanic, symbolised by the Metal element on top, seems to be floating in merciless water, with nothing to anchor on. On the Hour Pillar, there is an earth element on top of water, it symbolises a floating mountain - the gigantic iceberg floating in water next to the metal ship. So the configuration of the elements really paints a picture of the accident - the metal ship and an iceberg floating on water and collided against each other. The vessel hit the iceberg a glancing blow along its starboard bow, the impact and the scratch inflicted serious damage to her hull on the starboardside - the right hand side of the vessel.
This is also reflected in the set of Four Pillars. Looking at the Four Pillars, you can imagine you are right in front of the vessel facing her bow. Then the Earth element appearing in the Hour Pillar is on the right hand-side of the metal element - on the starboard side.
After the impact at about 11.40 p.m. on 14/4, water is entering the vessel’s compartments and she is slowly sinking, and at 12.05 a.m. the Captain ordered to evacuate the vessel and uncover the lifeboats. The vessel was last seen at 2.20 a.m. on 15/4 morning. Its lights blinked once and gone out at 2.15 a.m. The stern was lifted out of water, the bow broke off with a sound like thunder and it plunged into the ocean floor.
Converting this time of sinking into Chinese calendar, we have a different configuration. The Year and the Month Pillars remained the same, but the Day Pillar changed into a Day of Yin metal Rooster, and the Hour Pillar becomes an hour of earth on earth element. Unlike the metal Monkey, which is the birth source of water, the metal Rooster is not able to form a complete water configuration with the Earth Dragon and the Water Rat. So the dominating elements in the morning of 15/4 was no longer water. It becomes a configuration of strong earth, with the metal element surrounded and buried in heavy earth formed by the Month pillar and the Hour pillar. It is later concluded that the Titanic broke into two sections and the bow fell to the sea bottom first and hit the ground with such heavy momentum that the bow was found buried in 65 feet of mud. This is also clearly reflected in the elements of 2.20 a.m. 15/4 when the metal is surrounded by heavy earth.
Hour
Day
Month
Year
Earth
Metal
Wood
Water
Earth
Metal
Earth
Water
15/4/1912 02.20 a.m.
Another aspect we need to explore is the fate of the passengers. Over 1500 passengers, crew, servants and workers on board perished in the tragedy. Why this tragedy had caused the precious lives of so many people? The main reason is insufficient lifeboats. However, the rescue ship Carpathia arrived at the scene at about 4.00 a.m. Two hours after the sinking of the Titanic. Most of the passengers were given lifejackets so they should be able to tolerate the two hours floating at sea. However, the Carpathia was only able to rescue those in lifeboats. Almost all passengers fallen into the sea were not able to survive the two hours gap mainly because the water is icy cold.
The factor of cold temperature is of vital importance in analysing the fate of the victims in this accident. Amongst the five elements, Fire is the one generating warmth. So if a person died of freezing cold temperature - it means he lost his life because the fire element is lacking. This is exactly the key to examine the destiny of the victims of the Titanic tragedy. If we look at the Four Pillars of the “Night to remember” again, there is absolutely no fire element in the night of 14/4 and the early morning of 15/4/1912. All the elements present are cold metal, water and earth. The lacking of fire element is exactly the cause of death of those who fell into the sea. To prove this point, it is worthwhile picking a few examples to see how such misfortune is reflected in their destiny on the fateful day of 14/4/1912.
The man in the centre of this disaster is Capt. Edward J. Smith who perished with the Titanic on the fateful date of 15/4. The following is his Pillars of Destiny:
Hour
Day
Month
Year
?
Water
Wood
Earth
?
Metal
Earth
Metal
62
52
42
32
22
12
2
Water
Metal
Metal
Earth
Earth
Fire
Fire
Metal
Earth
Fire
Fire
Earth
Wood
Wood
He was born on a day of water. Therefore by definition he is a water gentleman. His water element is very strong as it was in the winter season - a season of water, and also there are strong support from two metal elements. The strong presence of water in Capt. Smith’s destiny explained why he choose a career in shipping which is a career of water. The philosophy of Four Pillars of Destiny is a principle of balance. If the water is too strong, it is necessary to provide some elements to weaken the water. As such, we can consider wood and fire as favourable elements to Capt. Smith. The reason is that water has to give birth to wood and to conquer the fire element, thereby spent its energy. On the other hand, we can consider water and metal are unfavourable elements, they will make the strong water stronger and intensify the imbalance in his destiny.
The system Four Pillars of Destiny not only provide insight to human destiny, but also shows the luck which a person will encounter in different stage of his life. This is listed out as a series of elements in pairs, each pair governs ten year of a person’s life. This pairs of elements are called “Luck Pillars” and the number on top of each luck pillar shows the age when a person comes under its influence. Take for example, Capt.Smith’s first luck pillar is Fire and Wood, this luck pillar affected his life from the age of 2 until the age of 12. As fire and wood are his favourable elements, it reflected he was in good luck since childhood.
Thereafter, he had gone through good luck pillars of earth and fire until the age of 62, when he entered a luck pillar of water and metal, indicating bad luck began at that age. Capt. Smith was born in 1850, so 1912 is exactly the year he got into bad luck. Not only the luck pillar is a bad one, the year 1912 was also a year of water on water, reinforcing his unfavourable elements - water. When a person is in bad luck, and there comes a bad year, a bad month and a bad day, disaster will occur.
It is exactly under such bad elemental influences when Capt. Smith brought the Titanic and her over 2000 passengers to disaster. At the age of 62, and on the date of 14/4 and 15/4/1912, there is absolutely no fire element turning up in Capt. Smith’s destiny. Therefore he died with the ship in the icy cold water of the north Atlantic Ocean.
I have also examined the available birthdata of a few victims in this tragedy and all points to the fact that they died owing to lacking in the fire element.
Let us view the situation from a different angle and examine an example of a survivor. This is a gentleman called Mr. Joseph Bruce Ismay. He is the Chairman of the White Star Line - the Company that owned the Titanic. Some people held him responsible for the tragedy as he had told the Captain to go on full speed regardless of the hazard of icebergs, in order to arrive New York earlier to gain more publicity. He was born on 12/12/1862. The following is his pillars of destiny:
Hour
Day
Month
Year
?
Metal
Water
Water
?
Water
Water
Earth
68
58
48
38
28
18
8
Earth
Earth
Fire
Fire
Wood
Wood
Water
Earth
Fire
Fire
Earth
Wood
Wood
Earth
Mr. Joseph Bruce Ismay
He is a metal person born in winter with very strong water elements exhausting the strength of his metal. So he needs the support of more metal and earth, which in turn needs support from fire. As such, metal, earth, and fire are his favourable elements. His destiny is dominated by strong water, this obviously placed him in a water business in shipping industry.
Also metal gives birth to water, so water symbolises his creativity and skill. It also means his aggressiveness. This explains why he is adventurous and taking risks at the expense of safety. The heavy concentration of water elements on 14/4 also brought trouble to him, but when 15/4 arrived, the presence of strong earth and metal elements had saved his life. One important factor is that he was 49 year old at the time and he was in a good luck pillar of strong fire. So he would not die like others lacking in fire. He escaped in one of the last lifeboats, leaving behind his passengers, his butler, his secretary, and his reputation. He was blamed for cowardice. But another way of looking at it is that his destiny will not let him died that night.
It is interesting to see that almost all the birthdata of survivors I collected more or less possessed stronger fire in their destiny, which prevented them from the fate of being frozen in the icy cold water.
22nd May 1999
The Chinese has a profound system of fortune-telling called the Four Pillars of Destiny. It is built on the believe that all matters in the world is made up of five fundamental elements - metal, water, earth, fire and wood. These can be understood as the five basic natural forces behind all matter and all events in the Universe. Even abstract objects such as human destiny - are composed of these five elements and everyone living on earth are subject to the influence of these elements.
To understand the elemental composition of our destiny, all one needs to do is to convert the birhdata into the Chinese calendar which not only is an instrument to record time, but also reflects the elemental influences prevailing at any moment of time. So as soon as we convert a person’s birthdata into the Chinese calendar, immediately we can see a bundle of elements which are the component of our destiny. As there are four vital information involved in our birthdata, namely the Year, the Month, the Day and the Hour of birth, we call each of these information a “Pillar”. Hence the subject is called the “Four Pillars of Destiny”.
This is a very handy and effective tool to peep into the fortune of individuals. All one requires to understand is the implication of the five basic elements and their inter-relationships. There are two basic types of relationships amongst the five elements. The Cycle of Birth is a harmonious kind of relationship with Metal gives birth to Water, Water gives birth to Wood, Wood gives birth to Fire, Fire gives birth to Earth and Earth gives birth to Metal. On the other hand, there is a conflicting kind of relationship called the Cycle of Destruction - where Metal destroys Wood, Wood conquers Earth, Earth controls Water, Water puts off the Fire, and Fire melts the Metal. If one thoroughly understand these two kind relationships, the fortune of a person will be unfolded to your eyes like reading a book.
The movie Titanic is so popular as the public are attracted and deeply moved by the romantic stories of human fate. The sinking of the Titanic is a fateful event. It also provides good materials for metaphysical study as no tragedy and accident in history has been so well documented. There are plenty of materials recording in minor detail the course of the event, minute by minute and even the birth data of some of the prominent passengers are available. I have done a little bit of research into the metaphysical aspect of the tragedy and come up with some interesting results.
The Fateful night is 14/4/1912 and the collision against the iceberg occurred at around 11.40 p.m. Converting this time into the Chinese calendar, we get the following bundle of elements:
Hour
Day
Month
Year
Earth
Metal
Wood
Water
Water
Metal
Earth
Water
14/4/1912
11.40 p.m.
It is a year of strong water, an hour of strong water, with a day of strong metal. The metal can be taken to mean the Titanic, which is a massive lump of metal floating in water. In the Earthly branches of the configuration, we see two waters, one metal and one earth. However, advance theory of the Four Pillars of destiny tells us that water is born in the metal Monkey, water is the strongest in the water Rat, and water enters the Grave or Storage in the Earth Dragon. So if the Monkey, the Rat and The Dragon are present at the same time, it means a complete life cycle of water and they will all turn into strong water.
Now let us examine the fateful night again, it happens in the year of the Rat, the month of the Dragon, and on the Day of the Monkey, in the hour of the Rat. So all the necessary elements to make the fierce water - the Rat, the Monkey and the Dragon are present, turning the earth and metal into cold and merciless water of the Atlantic Ocean. The Titanic, symbolised by the Metal element on top, seems to be floating in merciless water, with nothing to anchor on. On the Hour Pillar, there is an earth element on top of water, it symbolises a floating mountain - the gigantic iceberg floating in water next to the metal ship. So the configuration of the elements really paints a picture of the accident - the metal ship and an iceberg floating on water and collided against each other. The vessel hit the iceberg a glancing blow along its starboard bow, the impact and the scratch inflicted serious damage to her hull on the starboardside - the right hand side of the vessel.
This is also reflected in the set of Four Pillars. Looking at the Four Pillars, you can imagine you are right in front of the vessel facing her bow. Then the Earth element appearing in the Hour Pillar is on the right hand-side of the metal element - on the starboard side.
After the impact at about 11.40 p.m. on 14/4, water is entering the vessel’s compartments and she is slowly sinking, and at 12.05 a.m. the Captain ordered to evacuate the vessel and uncover the lifeboats. The vessel was last seen at 2.20 a.m. on 15/4 morning. Its lights blinked once and gone out at 2.15 a.m. The stern was lifted out of water, the bow broke off with a sound like thunder and it plunged into the ocean floor.
Converting this time of sinking into Chinese calendar, we have a different configuration. The Year and the Month Pillars remained the same, but the Day Pillar changed into a Day of Yin metal Rooster, and the Hour Pillar becomes an hour of earth on earth element. Unlike the metal Monkey, which is the birth source of water, the metal Rooster is not able to form a complete water configuration with the Earth Dragon and the Water Rat. So the dominating elements in the morning of 15/4 was no longer water. It becomes a configuration of strong earth, with the metal element surrounded and buried in heavy earth formed by the Month pillar and the Hour pillar. It is later concluded that the Titanic broke into two sections and the bow fell to the sea bottom first and hit the ground with such heavy momentum that the bow was found buried in 65 feet of mud. This is also clearly reflected in the elements of 2.20 a.m. 15/4 when the metal is surrounded by heavy earth.
Hour
Day
Month
Year
Earth
Metal
Wood
Water
Earth
Metal
Earth
Water
15/4/1912 02.20 a.m.
Another aspect we need to explore is the fate of the passengers. Over 1500 passengers, crew, servants and workers on board perished in the tragedy. Why this tragedy had caused the precious lives of so many people? The main reason is insufficient lifeboats. However, the rescue ship Carpathia arrived at the scene at about 4.00 a.m. Two hours after the sinking of the Titanic. Most of the passengers were given lifejackets so they should be able to tolerate the two hours floating at sea. However, the Carpathia was only able to rescue those in lifeboats. Almost all passengers fallen into the sea were not able to survive the two hours gap mainly because the water is icy cold.
The factor of cold temperature is of vital importance in analysing the fate of the victims in this accident. Amongst the five elements, Fire is the one generating warmth. So if a person died of freezing cold temperature - it means he lost his life because the fire element is lacking. This is exactly the key to examine the destiny of the victims of the Titanic tragedy. If we look at the Four Pillars of the “Night to remember” again, there is absolutely no fire element in the night of 14/4 and the early morning of 15/4/1912. All the elements present are cold metal, water and earth. The lacking of fire element is exactly the cause of death of those who fell into the sea. To prove this point, it is worthwhile picking a few examples to see how such misfortune is reflected in their destiny on the fateful day of 14/4/1912.
The man in the centre of this disaster is Capt. Edward J. Smith who perished with the Titanic on the fateful date of 15/4. The following is his Pillars of Destiny:
Hour
Day
Month
Year
?
Water
Wood
Earth
?
Metal
Earth
Metal
62
52
42
32
22
12
2
Water
Metal
Metal
Earth
Earth
Fire
Fire
Metal
Earth
Fire
Fire
Earth
Wood
Wood
He was born on a day of water. Therefore by definition he is a water gentleman. His water element is very strong as it was in the winter season - a season of water, and also there are strong support from two metal elements. The strong presence of water in Capt. Smith’s destiny explained why he choose a career in shipping which is a career of water. The philosophy of Four Pillars of Destiny is a principle of balance. If the water is too strong, it is necessary to provide some elements to weaken the water. As such, we can consider wood and fire as favourable elements to Capt. Smith. The reason is that water has to give birth to wood and to conquer the fire element, thereby spent its energy. On the other hand, we can consider water and metal are unfavourable elements, they will make the strong water stronger and intensify the imbalance in his destiny.
The system Four Pillars of Destiny not only provide insight to human destiny, but also shows the luck which a person will encounter in different stage of his life. This is listed out as a series of elements in pairs, each pair governs ten year of a person’s life. This pairs of elements are called “Luck Pillars” and the number on top of each luck pillar shows the age when a person comes under its influence. Take for example, Capt.Smith’s first luck pillar is Fire and Wood, this luck pillar affected his life from the age of 2 until the age of 12. As fire and wood are his favourable elements, it reflected he was in good luck since childhood.
Thereafter, he had gone through good luck pillars of earth and fire until the age of 62, when he entered a luck pillar of water and metal, indicating bad luck began at that age. Capt. Smith was born in 1850, so 1912 is exactly the year he got into bad luck. Not only the luck pillar is a bad one, the year 1912 was also a year of water on water, reinforcing his unfavourable elements - water. When a person is in bad luck, and there comes a bad year, a bad month and a bad day, disaster will occur.
It is exactly under such bad elemental influences when Capt. Smith brought the Titanic and her over 2000 passengers to disaster. At the age of 62, and on the date of 14/4 and 15/4/1912, there is absolutely no fire element turning up in Capt. Smith’s destiny. Therefore he died with the ship in the icy cold water of the north Atlantic Ocean.
I have also examined the available birthdata of a few victims in this tragedy and all points to the fact that they died owing to lacking in the fire element.
Let us view the situation from a different angle and examine an example of a survivor. This is a gentleman called Mr. Joseph Bruce Ismay. He is the Chairman of the White Star Line - the Company that owned the Titanic. Some people held him responsible for the tragedy as he had told the Captain to go on full speed regardless of the hazard of icebergs, in order to arrive New York earlier to gain more publicity. He was born on 12/12/1862. The following is his pillars of destiny:
Hour
Day
Month
Year
?
Metal
Water
Water
?
Water
Water
Earth
68
58
48
38
28
18
8
Earth
Earth
Fire
Fire
Wood
Wood
Water
Earth
Fire
Fire
Earth
Wood
Wood
Earth
Mr. Joseph Bruce Ismay
He is a metal person born in winter with very strong water elements exhausting the strength of his metal. So he needs the support of more metal and earth, which in turn needs support from fire. As such, metal, earth, and fire are his favourable elements. His destiny is dominated by strong water, this obviously placed him in a water business in shipping industry.
Also metal gives birth to water, so water symbolises his creativity and skill. It also means his aggressiveness. This explains why he is adventurous and taking risks at the expense of safety. The heavy concentration of water elements on 14/4 also brought trouble to him, but when 15/4 arrived, the presence of strong earth and metal elements had saved his life. One important factor is that he was 49 year old at the time and he was in a good luck pillar of strong fire. So he would not die like others lacking in fire. He escaped in one of the last lifeboats, leaving behind his passengers, his butler, his secretary, and his reputation. He was blamed for cowardice. But another way of looking at it is that his destiny will not let him died that night.
It is interesting to see that almost all the birthdata of survivors I collected more or less possessed stronger fire in their destiny, which prevented them from the fate of being frozen in the icy cold water.
FENG SHUI The Four Pillars of the 911 Attack on WTC
On 11th Sept. evening time in Melbourne, I am in my hotel room with friends, and we are chatting with the TV on, but the volume is turned down to almost silent mode. Suddenly something on the TV screen captures my attention. It is the picture of two tall buildings with heavy fire and smoke on top, like 2 large candles. Then I turn up the sound, and I am totally shocked by the terrible attack on the World Trade Center twin towers in New York.
The Chinese calendar is a calendar of elements. Any moment of time can be expressed in terms of four pairs of elements. Two elements for the Year, two for the Month, two for the Day and two for the Hour. We call this art the Four Pillars of Destiny. If the moment of time represents the birth data of a child, these elements will reflect his destiny. But if something really serious occurs at such a moment in time, the elements will paint a symbolic picture of what happened. In my previous article widely distributed on the internet, I have used 11.40 p.m. 14th April, 1912 - the moment when the Titanic clashed with the iceberg - to demonstrate that the Chinese calendar for this moment clearly showed the picture of a metal ship colliding with a floating mountain on the starboard side.
Now, the tragedy which occurred in New York at 0845 a.m. 11th September, 2001 is definitely a huge event in human history, so let us look up the Chinese calendar and see what shows up at that fateful moment in time. The following is the Four Pillars of elements obtained by converting the tragic moment into the Chinese calendar.
Hour
Day
Month
Year
Wood
Fire
Fire
Metal
Fire(snake)
Earth(ox)
Metal(rooster)
Fire(snake)
The elements appearing on top are called Heavenly Stems, and the elements underneath are called Earthly Branches. The calendar shows two yin fire elements standing on the Month and Day pillars. Yang Fire is symbol of the Sun, Yin fire is symbol of candle light. It is the more unstable and dangerous fire. So it is often associated with hot temper, explosion and fire disasters. The Chinese character for yin fire looks like a "T" and I often compare this "T" to the shape of a mushroom cloud resulted from a huge explosion. Indeed, I have observed that big explosions and fire disasters often occur on such a T day. An obvious example is the day 6th Aug. 1945 when the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. This is also a T - a Yin fire day.
On 11th Sept. 2001, the Chinese calendar shows double T, so it is not just one tower, but 2 towers on fire. Exactly like 2 ignited candles. The attack took place at 8.45 a.m. which is a wood hour, and such wood ignited the double yin fire.
On the Year pillar, there is a metal element standing. On the Earthly Branches underneath, the animals we see are Snake, Rooster, and Ox. In Four Pillars of Destiny, the 12 animals have various kinds of inter-relationships. The Snake, Rooster and Ox belongs to the metal family and they can combine to form total metal. So the picture I see is a metal element under fire attack, and such metal element stood on a strong metal foundation. What is such strong metal to do with the twin towers? I realize it after reading some articles about the structure of these 2 buildings. They are actually made of plenty of steel which conduct the heat quickly down from the top, causing the metal to deform and melt. Such metal structural design is considered as the cause of the total collapse of both towers quickly after the attack.
So just as the Titanic elements clearly reflected the collision of the ship and the cause of serious casualty due to absence of heat (fire) on that day, the 11th Sept., 2001 elements also shows that the buildings are mostly made of metal so they collapse quickly. I find it really amazing!
The 911 event is a huge tragedy in human history and it is an event worthy of many studies from various angles. Just through looking at the Chinese calendar, we can find more indications. 2001 is a year of the yin metal Snake. So these pair of elements is obviously in focus this year. Indeed, the pair of elements actually pointed out the two most important persons of the year - President George W. Bush, born on 6th July, 1946 and Osama Bin Laden, born on 10th Mar. 1957. If you covert both gentlemen's birthday into the Chinese calendar, you will find they are born exactly on a day of Yin metal Snake! I may as well mention another person in focus this year - her photo has been all over the place the last 2 months - she is the famous Angelina Jolie and she was also born on a day of yin metal Snake!
In my forecast for 2002, the year of the Horse, published in the Chinese Almanac for 2002, I have predicted that "The Year of the Horse, 2002 ……fire sitting underneath its destroyer - water, is a symbol of disharmony and conflict and this may be serious and will lead to war…This could be the sign of a large scale war…It is not easy to pinpoint where the war will break out. But the feng shui of 2002 indicated that East is not a favorable position. So the trouble could involve the East." The Chinese calendar system goes in 60 years cycle. That means the world will experience the same pair of elements every 60 years. The Pearl Harbor attack occurred in 1941, sixty years ago. People are already comparing the WTC attack to Pearl Harbor. In 1942, the whole world was involved in the Second World War. So sixty years later 2002, we can expect the whole world will be in a world war also. But now it looks likely that it will be the whole world against terrorism, not countries fighting against each other.
The Chinese calendar is a calendar of elements. Any moment of time can be expressed in terms of four pairs of elements. Two elements for the Year, two for the Month, two for the Day and two for the Hour. We call this art the Four Pillars of Destiny. If the moment of time represents the birth data of a child, these elements will reflect his destiny. But if something really serious occurs at such a moment in time, the elements will paint a symbolic picture of what happened. In my previous article widely distributed on the internet, I have used 11.40 p.m. 14th April, 1912 - the moment when the Titanic clashed with the iceberg - to demonstrate that the Chinese calendar for this moment clearly showed the picture of a metal ship colliding with a floating mountain on the starboard side.
Now, the tragedy which occurred in New York at 0845 a.m. 11th September, 2001 is definitely a huge event in human history, so let us look up the Chinese calendar and see what shows up at that fateful moment in time. The following is the Four Pillars of elements obtained by converting the tragic moment into the Chinese calendar.
Hour
Day
Month
Year
Wood
Fire
Fire
Metal
Fire(snake)
Earth(ox)
Metal(rooster)
Fire(snake)
The elements appearing on top are called Heavenly Stems, and the elements underneath are called Earthly Branches. The calendar shows two yin fire elements standing on the Month and Day pillars. Yang Fire is symbol of the Sun, Yin fire is symbol of candle light. It is the more unstable and dangerous fire. So it is often associated with hot temper, explosion and fire disasters. The Chinese character for yin fire looks like a "T" and I often compare this "T" to the shape of a mushroom cloud resulted from a huge explosion. Indeed, I have observed that big explosions and fire disasters often occur on such a T day. An obvious example is the day 6th Aug. 1945 when the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. This is also a T - a Yin fire day.
On 11th Sept. 2001, the Chinese calendar shows double T, so it is not just one tower, but 2 towers on fire. Exactly like 2 ignited candles. The attack took place at 8.45 a.m. which is a wood hour, and such wood ignited the double yin fire.
On the Year pillar, there is a metal element standing. On the Earthly Branches underneath, the animals we see are Snake, Rooster, and Ox. In Four Pillars of Destiny, the 12 animals have various kinds of inter-relationships. The Snake, Rooster and Ox belongs to the metal family and they can combine to form total metal. So the picture I see is a metal element under fire attack, and such metal element stood on a strong metal foundation. What is such strong metal to do with the twin towers? I realize it after reading some articles about the structure of these 2 buildings. They are actually made of plenty of steel which conduct the heat quickly down from the top, causing the metal to deform and melt. Such metal structural design is considered as the cause of the total collapse of both towers quickly after the attack.
So just as the Titanic elements clearly reflected the collision of the ship and the cause of serious casualty due to absence of heat (fire) on that day, the 11th Sept., 2001 elements also shows that the buildings are mostly made of metal so they collapse quickly. I find it really amazing!
The 911 event is a huge tragedy in human history and it is an event worthy of many studies from various angles. Just through looking at the Chinese calendar, we can find more indications. 2001 is a year of the yin metal Snake. So these pair of elements is obviously in focus this year. Indeed, the pair of elements actually pointed out the two most important persons of the year - President George W. Bush, born on 6th July, 1946 and Osama Bin Laden, born on 10th Mar. 1957. If you covert both gentlemen's birthday into the Chinese calendar, you will find they are born exactly on a day of Yin metal Snake! I may as well mention another person in focus this year - her photo has been all over the place the last 2 months - she is the famous Angelina Jolie and she was also born on a day of yin metal Snake!
In my forecast for 2002, the year of the Horse, published in the Chinese Almanac for 2002, I have predicted that "The Year of the Horse, 2002 ……fire sitting underneath its destroyer - water, is a symbol of disharmony and conflict and this may be serious and will lead to war…This could be the sign of a large scale war…It is not easy to pinpoint where the war will break out. But the feng shui of 2002 indicated that East is not a favorable position. So the trouble could involve the East." The Chinese calendar system goes in 60 years cycle. That means the world will experience the same pair of elements every 60 years. The Pearl Harbor attack occurred in 1941, sixty years ago. People are already comparing the WTC attack to Pearl Harbor. In 1942, the whole world was involved in the Second World War. So sixty years later 2002, we can expect the whole world will be in a world war also. But now it looks likely that it will be the whole world against terrorism, not countries fighting against each other.
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