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Answers without, answers within took a long break from featuring free Paht Chee / BaZi chart readings: the move and subsequent allergy flare-up was NOT fun!  Things finally seem to be settling down, so now it’s time to play catch-up through a benadryl-induced zombie-like state!

With her analysis originally scheduled for the week of 22nd June, over the next few days we will be looking at Mdm Mid-Life’s chart. She writes:

The 1st 35 yrs of my life was full of excitement and then I had to make a decision of which I did and with no regrets I completed another 7 years of which the earlier 4 yrs of this latter years was a tough adjustment but I went thru with great sense pride. Now what?? You see I used to plan a lot like next 10 years kind of thing of which by heaven’s help it work out to smoothen the ride of life but what about the next 10 years & now? Wud really appreciate your insight into my personal Bazi.

As usual, the first few steps for any analysis are determining the Self-Element and its strength, identifying the favourable and unfavourable elements, and then taking a macro look at what can be seen.  Here goes:

Mdm Mid-Life’s BaZi with Peach Blossom Stars and well-rooted elements shown

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From the Heavenly Stem of the Day column, we see that Mdm Mid-Life’s Self-Element is Yin Fire.  The Rooster in the Earthly Branch of the Month column indicates she was born in Autumn, a time when Water is strong, Metal reigns supreme, and Fire is considered “trapped”.  Thus, despite Yin Fire being well-rooted / penetrating to the Heavens, I read Mdm Mid-Life’s self-element as weak.  Therefore:

FAVOURABLE elements:

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

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UNFAVOURABLE/DISLIKED elements:

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

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Some general observations:

Note that while there is a lot of Fire in Mdm Mid-Life’s chart, the Rabbit in the Earthly Branch of the Hour column is the only source of (Yin) Wood.  As such, any interaction that affects this element needs to be looked at carefully, because if it “takes away” fuel for Mdm Mid-Life’s fire, it would be an unfavourable interaction.  Also, since this precious Rabbit sits in the Children Palace, I would also say that Mdm Mid-Life’s children are good for her, i.e. she gets along well with them, and they help make her feel complete.

The chart also has a lot of Peach Blossom Stars, as indicated by the red stars above (the circled star is Mdm Mid-Life’s own Peach Blossom Star).  Mdm Mid-Life is probably someone always in the spotlight, with a lot of charisma, very attractive to the opposite sex with no shortage of fans and wooers, although with so many Stars in play, it’s too easy for the situation to warp into extremes: the fans might be obsessive stalkers, for example.

Static interactions within Mdm Mid-Life’s 4 Pillars

Ox-Rooster: ⅔ of Metal Frame Three Harmony Combination. This combination needs Snake to be complete (this occurred when Mdm Mid-Life was between ages 22 - 31 years old). In general, Mdm Mid-Life’s husband and her parents can be said to get along pretty well, but I wonder if they sometimes seem to gang up against her: after all, they want to produce Metal, which despite correlating to her Wealth factor, is an unfavourable element for Mdm Mid-Life.

Rabbit-Rooster Clash. This interaction’s impact is diluted because the Rabbit and Rooster are not next to each other. Based on where the Rabbit and Rooster are sitting in the chart, it indicates that Mdm Mid-Life’s children probably don’t get along with their grandparents.

A quick look at the Luck Pillars

Luck Pillars for Mdm Mid-Life with generally favourable periods indicated

In general, Mdm Mid-Life’s Luck Pillars are very much in her favour.  From ages 12 all the way to 71, she goes through a period of Fire followed by Wood, both being her favourable elements.  Interestingly, she has just moved from Fire to Wood, I wonder if this change is what prompts her to take a step back and evaluate where she’s come from, and where she’s going.

In the next post, we’ll take a closer look at her Luck Pillars and see if we can correlate them to Mdm Mid-Life’s statement at the beginning of this post, and help her anticipate what the future might hold.

Stay tuned!

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Just found out that one of my favourite authors, Neil Gaiman (American Gods), will join prop comedian Carrot Top, the Madman of Comedy Amazing Jonathan,  The Simpsons animator David Silverman, and Teller from Penn&Teller for an onstage “Tarot reading” which will then spin off into improvisational sketches. “Matt Donnelly’s Celebrity Tarot Lounge will blend comedy, mystery, improv and a key Las Vegas ingredient: celebrity secrets” says this article from Las Vegas Weekly.

La Lune (The Moon) from the Heron Conver Tarot de Marseille

How does it work?  According to Donnelly, the celebrity will come onstage and will choose a card from a Tarot deck.  The meaning of the card is then read out.  And somehow, that will be a prompt to get the celebrity to talk about a specific aspect of themselves, to ask questions that don’t usually pop up in celebrity interviews.

Still blur and rather curious, I then clicked to the Celebrity Tarot Lounge itself, where the autoplay video shed more light on it all.

Meh.

Let’s just say that the “meaning” of the cards are going to be … amended … to pave the way for “comedy”.  For example, the “meaning” of The Moon is read as “If you have drawn The Moon, be careful when showing your ass to lots of lobsters and dogs, as they will tend to want to bite that ass.”

All I can say is “Ugh!”