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Today let’s jump right in to deciphering Tricia’s Paht Chee / BaZi chart in relation to her career.  Remember she had a specific concern about an undertaking, wondering if it was worth the risk?  We’ll tackle that below the fold.

Overview

In general, when one goes through favourable Luck Pillars, this would be the time for for career advancement, growth or progress.  As we saw yesterday, however, in Tricia’s case it looks as if such favourable periods only occur very late in life.  This indicates that in general, Tricia might find her career life to be challenging, and perhaps not very fruitful.

Tricia’s Four Pillars / Eight Characters / BaZi / Paht Chee chart

Four Pillars: Output factor

Let’s take a look at Tricia’s Output factor - represented by Metal in this case.  As this relates to a person’s ability to perform a job, their achievements and accomplishments, and so on, how this element is affected over the course of her life should indicate something about the health of her career.

As mentioned before, Metal is very strong, deeply rooted / penetrating to the heavens in Tricia’s chart.  Since Metal is unfavourable to Tricia, however, she may find herself being exhausted by her work: a case of having to give heart and soul in order to produce what needs to be produced, perhaps.

Notice that Tricia’s self-element has a Yin Metal to its right, in the pillar that represents, among other things, her boss/superior.  This might indicate a superior who drains her, i.e. one who gets her to produce all the work, but doesn’t give her the credit.  This possibility is supported/compounded by the next element…

Four Pillars: Influence factor

Let’s move on to Tricia’s Influence factor - represented by Wood in this case.  As mentioned before, Wood is also quite strong, deeply rooted / penetrating to the heavens in her chart.

It’s not as strong as Metal though, because Tricia was born in autumn, when Wood is considered dead (while Metal reigns supreme).  As such, while Wood is another unfavourable element for Tricia, it’s not as strong, nor as unfavourable, as Metal.

From a career perspective, the Influence element indicates luck associated with recognition, rank, power.  Since this element is unfavourable for Tricia, periods involving Wood might indicate times of loss of rank, power and influence, or stagnancy.  Poor choices and their consequences could result in being put in “cold storage”, or worse: being laid off, fired, perhaps.  This could also be the consequence of the situation with the boss/superior mentioned above.

Four Pillars: Wealth factor

Let’s now take a quick look at Tricia’s Wealth factor, represented in this case by Water. This element isn’t limited to just money, it does also represent success in general.  As such, this would indicate something about reaping benefits from the effort put into one’s career, or other business opportunities.

While Water is technically an unfavourable element to Tricia, can she nevertheless exert enough control over it in order to reap the benefit of its presence in her chart? I say yes. Why?

• Her self-element is rooted / penetrates to the heavens, indicating a well-supported Yang Earth (remember: mountains, boulders).
• The Water elements present in her main chart (i.e. not hidden) are Yin Water. Picture the impact of clouds or rain on majestic mountains: any damage/effect can only be seen in the long term, and the impact would probably be superficial… as opposed to the powerful ocean or a raging river that would much more quickly harm/erode boulders and cliffs in their path.

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Zooming in on Water Luck Pillars (ages 17 - 46)

Keeping all the above in mind, let’s now turn our attention to Tricia’s Luck Pillars.  We saw them in the previous post, but today I’ll concentrate on the Water Luck Pillars specifically.  Why?  Since Tricia can control her Wealth element, it looks like this might be the time for her to amass her Wealth.  This will also be the time to talk about that risky undertaking. (more…)

This week’s querent is 25 year old Tricia, who was introduced to Paht Chee by her taichi teacher, and would like a reading on her relationship (when & if she’s met the one?) and career (is a current uncertain entrepreneurial undertaking worth the risk?).

As usual, before attempting to answer the questions, first we take a look at the Four Pillars / Eight Characters in order to get some basic yet vital bits of information:

Tricia’s Four Pillars / Eight Characters

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Determining the strength of Tricia’s self-element

Tricia’s self-element is Yang Earth.  Think mountains and large boulders, immensely solid, constant through time, trustworthy… but also perhaps a bit too set in one’s ways, stubborn, unyielding.

Born in autumn at a time when Earth is weak (but not trapped or dead), Tricia is therefore a weak Yang Earth (but not as weak as some others I’ve analysed to date).  Thus, the five elements relate to her as follows:

FAVOURABLE elements:

• Earth (correlating to Companions / Friends, Foes, Colleagues, Competition)
• Fire (correlating to Resource / Support, Authority)

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UNFAVOURABLE/DISLIKED elements:

• Water (correlating to Wealth / Financial Success)
• Wood (correlating to Influence / Recognition, Power, Rank)
• Metal (correlating to Output / Intelligence, Creativity)

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How balanced is Tricia’s chart?

While quality always wins out over quantity, it is still good to see whether or not all elements are present in a chart.  For this tally, I rely solely on what is provided by this online BaZi calculator, which takes into consideration Hidden Stems, and not just the “official” eight characters within the Four Pillars.

Here is Tricia’s tally of elements:

• Metal - 3
• Wood - 3
• Water - 3
• Fire - 0
• Earth - 2

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Notice that of her two favourable elements, one is totally missing from her chart.  We’ll have to see how this comes into play as we dig a little deeper into her chart.

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Hidden Stems that “penetrate to the heavens”

Take a minute to study the three sets of circles and arrows I’ve added to Tricia’s chart above.   In three, perhaps even all four, of her pillars, it can be said that each pillar’s Hidden Stems penetrate to the heavens.  This occurs when the element of the Heavenly Stem is also present in the Hidden Stems (underneath the Earthly Branch of the same pillar). This means that Wood, Metal and Earth are very strong in Tricia’s chart.  Since the polarity of the elements in the Year pillar don’t match (the Heavenly Stem is Yin Water, the Hidden Stem is Yang Water), I’m unsure whether this pillar can be considered to be penetrating to the heavens like the others.

These penetrating pillars compound the weakness of Tricia’s self-element: despite having her Self-Element well-supported, Tricia is flanked by equally well-supported unfavourable elements that serve to weaken her.

One observation about this situation: the Yin Wood might not be that bad for her, relatively speaking.  Think about it: how negatively affected would a boulder be by being covered in moss (Yin Wood) as opposed to getting crushed by the roots of a tall tree (Yang Wood)?
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A challenging time: favourable Luck Pillars only kick in during old age!

One last bit of information to be gleaned from a first look-see: determining when Tricia’s favourable periods in her life will occur. This is simply done by looking at the 10-year Luck Pillars and finding the “seasons” (correlating to sets of three elements) favourable to her.  If you’ve already forgotten, re-read her list of favourable and unfavourable elements above.  Now take a look below.  What observations can you make?

Tricia’s Luck Pillars

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It looks as if Tricia’s favourable Luck Pillars don’t come into play until she turns 77! In general, this indicates she’s got quite a tough road ahead of her.

Currently aged 25, Tricia will soon be moving from the 2nd from the right pillar (Yin Water - Pig Yin Water: an extremely Watery time) to the third from the right (Yang Wood - Rat Yang Water).   In fact, between ages 17 - 46, Tricia is in a time relating to her Wealth.  We’ll take a closer look at this in relation to her question about a risky entrepreneurial undertaking in the next post.

In the meantime…

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