Bazi . Pictorial . Divination

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During a recent bazi workshop, I was introducing the concept of bazi being used as a form of divination technique vis-a-vis other common systems like King's Wen or I-Ching to the participants.

Such way of reading bazi does not require all 4 Pillars to be present. Depending on the subject matter, you can extract just one pillar for your reading. For instance, if you are asking about career prospect in 2011, we zoom into how your hour pillar interacts with the annual pillar of 2011. Sometimes, without knowing your bazi, I just look at today's day pillar and how it compares with 2011. If there is a clash or combination, chances are you will change job in the coming year. To know the cause of the change and how good is the prospect of the new job, you need to look at the 10 Gods involved.

It is of paramount importance for bazi students to learn and write the heavenly stems and earthly branches in chinese character. There are tell-tale signs that you can pick up just by looking at the shape of the chinese character especially if you are also into 测字 or in English I call it Word Divination. For example, if you wish to know the outcome of an event and you saw a 乙巳，chances are the event is going to take an unexpectable turn. If a lady comes to you and asks you what is happening to her now and you saw the word 申，you can instinctively tell her that she is expecting - and it will be a girl - when you also suddenly discover a spider on your table. This is the inexplicable part about chinese metaphysics which makes it so enigmatic or 玄 .

Intrigued by the concept of bazi divination, one of the ladies in the class volunteered to help her classmate M, who was seated on her right, to ask if she is able to have a grandchild in 2011. I did not have the grandmother-to-be's bazi. So, I asked the younger lady for her day pillar which is 辛巳. With that, we can extrapolate and say that M's day pillar is 庚辰 (which may not be her actual day pillar in her bazi) based on their seating arrangement.

When the lady popped the question, it was a 己丑 day. A 庚辰 lady's grandchild (her son's kid) is her resource star. Earth is so prominent at the point of divination. So, I told her to wait for good news.

In doing bazi divination, an important thing to highlight is that there must be a very specific question asked in order for me or for any bazi practitioner to give you a good answer. Such method of reading is very fluid but require one to be intuitive at that point in time.

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