Answers without, answers within

… so I’ve been providing free Paht Chee / Ba Zi analyses for interested readers, with the qualifier that I’m no expert, and that whatever I produce is only to the best of my ability.

After all, I’m still learning, and doing what I can while referring to the one book I have on the subject: Lillian Too’s Eight Characters Chinese Personal Forecasting.

Lillian Too is the reason Feng Shui gained so much prominence in Malaysia and the region.  She had the right timing, right product, etc, and very quickly made a name for herself in the Feng Shui arena.  Thing is, she commercialised it so much that even for someone who didn’t follow it all, I couldn’t help but form an opinion that her version of Feng Shui sure involved buying a lot of figurines and such that, hey what a coincidence, she happened to be selling for only xxx bucks!

Soon after, another person rose to prominence: Joey Yap. Again, not being one who really paid attention to this scene, even I couldn’t help but hear over and over again that he was a much better Master than Lillian Too.

So why did I go with a Lillian Too book? Because at the time, my mentor in this area was using it, so I set aside my reservations about Lillian Too vs Joey Yap, and went ahead and got myself what my mentor was using. …

… and of course, by now, my mentor has matured into the Joey Yap school of thought, and has urged me to do the same.

As such, I am currently going through Joey Yap’s BaZi The Destiny Code Revealed - Delve Deeper into the Four Pillars of Destiny.

I can immediately say that his style is definitely more easily understood. It’s less chatty than Lillian Too’s, but at the same time a lot more comprehensive and better presented, better discussed, better explained. There’s a WHOLE LOT of stuff that doesn’t even appear in Lillian Too’s book!

I am having information overload, however.

Worse, I am faced with the fact that Lillian Too’s charts may not be correct, therefore throwing my past readings into some disarray.  Compare the Eight Characters / Four Pillars chart for this week’s querent, Ms Toth:

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Do you see it?  Yes, there’s a lot more information in the right hand version, but that’s not the issue.  Do you see it?  No?  Okay, look at the Month pillar.  Totally different!!!  Joey Yap provides an explanation here, if you would like to read it: it’s essentially about a mistake in transitioning from the Chinese solar calendar to the Gregorian calendar.  It’s all kinda above my head, but I am inclined to go with the Joey Yap version.  And I am utterly irritated by this discrepancy.

I’ll forge on, but if you’re waiting on a Paht Chee / Ba Zi analysis, be patient, k?  I don’t want to churn one out for the sake of churning it out; I’d rather take a little bit more time to digest the new info better before taking a stab at the charts.

Fun!

Deck used: Doreen Virtue’s  Ascended Masters Oracle Cards

Jen, who blogs over at Dark Passenger, recently requested a reading, stating “I’ve got some changes going on in my professional and spiritual lives right now so I guess my questions center around those… but if the cards want to tell me something else then I’m open to hearing it.”

This gave me a lot of leeway in terms of how to word any questions I would pose. I ended up asking two questions to start with, figuring Jen and I would then be able to pinpoint more specific questions, depending on what the cards indicated.

First, the summary:

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It seems as if love and sensuality have played a part in your immediate past that now results in the changes in your professional and spiritual lives.

Right now, it would be beneficial for you to literally detach yourself from the drama surrounding you. Step back and observe what is going on; feel compassion for people in the “drama”; but don’t get sucked in. In addition, you might benefit from either working with crystals, or with horses*.

Successfully navigating the present, you should then be able to not just identify your true priorities, but to make time for them. In fact, it looks as if you will find the resolve in you to step beyond the rules imposed — whether by you or by others — onto yourself, to pursue what you really want.  Freedom awaits you.

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* I know, I know.. “either crystals or horses”?? Well, I didn’t get a good feel for that one card, and it can signify either… so it’s up to Jen to see which resonates more with her own self.

Want to know what questions were asked? Want to see the nitty-gritty of the card readings? All that and more in the extended post. (more…)