Robert Lee

IN SUMMARY The distinction between Ba Zi Lunar and Xia Calendar highlights the variability in the quality of Ba Zi charts, with Geomancy.net emphasizing a commitment to thoroughness and integrity in their practice. This approach underscores the importance of reliable methods in the interpretation of Ba Zi charts. CLICK HERE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD OF THIS ARTICLE: MY BAZI LUNAR AND XIA 2020-04-04.pdf 1. The Ba Zi FAQ was developed to address frequently asked questions regarding: Comparison of Chinese Lunar Calendar and Seasonal (Xia) Calendar. What is a Blind or Grey Period There are numerous diverse interpretations of Feng Shui principles. How different Calendar System affects the Ba Zi Chart Geomancy.net adopts the Lunar Calendar and utilizes the Xia Calendar only when it is deemed necessary for specific purposes. It is crucial to have a standardized calendar format. Differences in True Birth Element: Weak or Strong? Some common variations in Ba Zi Concept Special types of charts (Follow the Leader Chart) Is the use of Greenwich Meridian Time (GMT) necessary in Ba Zi? 2. Formerly, information regarding these inquiries was scattered across multiple posts. 3. By consolidating all the resources into one post, we can address the commonly asked questions on Ba Zi without the need for individual responses. Comparison of Chinese Lunar Calendar and Seasonal (Xia) Calendar. Currently, there are two Chinese calendar systems being utilized. [1.] The Chinese Lunar Calendar is primarily determined by the moon's orbit around the Earth. This is why the full moon occurs on the 1st and 15th day of each Lunar month. There are numerous diverse interpretations of Feng Shui principles. 4) Fortune Telling related - I-Ching / Palmistry / Face Reading / Bone Reading even Ba Zi has some of this aspect. In any case, a combination of all these will give a good fortune telling reading. We are primarily interested in Feng Shui, which is commonly associated with Ba Zi, Chinese Horoscope, and Compass School. These practices center around an individual's fortune and how it is influenced by their surroundings. MANY VARIATIONS IN THE SAME CONCEPTS HOW DIFFERENT CALENDAR SYSTEM AFFECTS THE BA ZI CHART B) BA ZI WITH FULL SEASONAL CALENDAR (XIA/H'SIA) A ba zi chart done with Full Seasonal (Xia) Calendar will look like this:- C) BA ZI WITH MIXED LUNAR & SEASONAL (XIA) CALENDAR A ba zi chart done with mixed Lunar & Seasonal (Xia) Calendar will look like this:- Essentially, utilizing either a) Ba Zi with Full Chinese Lunar Calendar or b) Ba Zi with Full Seasonal (Xia) Calendar is considered accurate since they both adhere to a single calendar format for the entire chart. On the other hand, c) Ba Zi with mixed lunar & seasonal Calendar is deemed incorrect. Some websites incorrectly generate the Ba zi with Mixed Lunar Calendar & Seasonal (Xia) Calendar. It is incorrect to mix the calendar formats.. Comparing an Apple to an Orange is not a fair comparison. It is quite challenging to create a chart that displays the day and year in the Lunar calendar while also showing the month in the Seasonal (Xia) Calendar. Geomancy.net adopts the Lunar Calendar and utilizes the Xia Calendar only when it is deemed necessary for specific purposes. However, should you be using the Seasonal (Xia) Calendar for the same date 16 Jan 2009. B) ADVANCED PILLAR OF DESTINY ANALYSIS C) LUCK FORECAST FOR A BA ZI LUNAR CHART ACTUALLY PROVIDED A MORE ACCURATE FORECAST FROM OUR EXTENSIVE TESTING D) BA ZI LUNAR CHART CALCULATION IS ACTUALLY AVAILABLE BUT VERY FEW PEOPLE REALLY KNOWS ABOUT IT It is crucial to have a standardized calendar format. DIFFERENCES IN TRUE BIRTH ELEMENT: WEAK OR STRONG? After all the various checks are done, our website will tabulate a percentage value. By comparing the elements that makes you weak vs the element that makes you strong. Our website report employs this mathematical formula to ascertain whether you fall under the category of weak or strong. We are able to provide users with a transparent explanation of how we calculate your elemental strength for our report. So if our analysis determined you are a weak element, it means elements that make you weak to you are less than elements that make you strong. Our complimentary (FREE) report remains fully functional [isn't crippled in any way], ensuring identical results to the paid report. However, the breakdown of percentages crucial for effective Feng Shui application is exclusively available to our paid Ba Zi report users. Learn more about a case study illustrating our process of determining your elemental composition. URL: SOME VARIATIONS IN BA ZI CONCEPT SPECIAL TYPES OF BA ZI CHART (I.E. FOLLOW THE LEADER CHART) 3. Using GMT time zone is a bad way to apply the location factor, because GMT time zone only affects the longitude changes. Furthermore, GMT has been simplified so much so it is no longer as accurate as in the past. 4. Our stand on this issue is NOT to add these level of complication to the analysis. Meaning that you should just use your local time (regardless of what country), to analyse the Ba Zi. This is because if you truly understand how the Ba Zi works, the HOUR pillar will not make a major impact in terms of the 10-yearly, 5-yearly, yearly and monthly luck pillars. The hour pillar gives additional pillars available for combinations and clashes, so this can affect the final outcome of a person to be either weak or strong. A day without the hour will give the rough element strength of the day. Only a few hours may result in weak/strong element. Otherwise, not much change will occur. Your luck pillars will not be too badly influenced by the hour impact. Except for minor yearly and chart clash or harms that may occur. But these are minor as your general luck will not alter too much. 5. This is why we can still analyse a person luck fairly well even if you do not provide the hour pillar. Just check out some of the masters who had done case study of famous people, you will noticed that they do it just with the date of birth. They don't even apply any location factor. Ba zi has designed to compensate from the lack of the hour pillar. So with or without the hour of birth, a person's chart can still be charted out. Just that with the hour pillar, your forecast will be more accurate. 6. This is why we find no need to apply location into the Ba Zi. Just use your local time and it should be okay. 7. You must always remember that a Ba Zi is supposed to be a heavenly GIVEN chart of what kind of luck you are supposed to have assuming your environment remains constant. This means it does not consider education, your house (earth luck), people around you, your career etc. However, in real life, how can you expect your environment to be the same all the time. Your luck is always being altered by your house luck, people around you, and your career. Let me give you some example:- 8. Ba Zi is not a tool that can predict all past events with complete accuracy. Instead, it can offer insights into potential challenges, enabling you to enhance your fortune by steering clear of unfavorable periods. Some contemporary practitioners may lead you to believe that Ba Zi can provide precise evaluations of your past and future experiences. However, this contradicts the fundamental purpose of the concept, which is to offer guidance on your innate luck. 9. Our recommendation to you is to simply keep the hour unknown or unchanged as it is not required. Read more from this link:- URL: Born which year and what was the changed time? LOL-:) "Singapore has changed time zones 6 times since 1905. From 1933 to 1941, we moved our clocks forward 20 minutes for daylight savings, but then changed it to 30 minutes. During the Japanese occupation in World War II, our clocks were synced with Tokyo, to become 1 hour and 30 minutes ahead of the previous time zone. The most recent switch was in 1982, when our clocks were synchronised with neighbouring Malaysia." [Source & Credit: Gov.sg Factually SG50 Edition: Fun facts about our "little red dot"!] GEOMANCY.NET'S REPORT HAS BEEN EXTENSIVELY TESTED & WILL WORK WELL TOGETHER Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research Related: Frankly not all Ba Zi Reports are created equal. +++ FREE DOWNLOAD OF THIS ARTICLE: MY BAZI LUNAR AND XIA 2020-04-04.pdf 1.22 MB · 0 downloads +++ No Two Ba Zi Reports are created equal

Dear MJ, MJ H. wrote: I bought a Bazi book weeks back and according to it, the birth time after 11pm to 12amis Night Rat Hour (Wan Zi shi). And if the Day is a Yi Wood day, the Hour pillar should beWu Zibut your calculator I utilised gave the time pillar as Bing Zi which is the Early Rat Hour(Zao Zi shi)- 12am to 1 am-for a Yi Wood day. MJ H. wrote: Could you kindly assist in soving the difference? This is one of the many variations in different concepts available in Feng Shui by different practitioner/masters. One chinese hour by default is actually Two (2) western hours. Rat hour happens tovspan between 11-11.59pm and 12am-12.59am. So some modern practitioners, believe it should be broken up into Late Rat and Early Rat. And therefore, they added a modification to the original concept, believing this will solve the late/morning rat. However, we find this to be a flawed concept. The reason is because lets take 14/15 Nov 2008 as an example:- a) 14 Nov 12am-12.59am is already considered the early morning of the 14 Nov. b) 14 Nov 11pm-11.59pm is already considered the late evening of the 14 Nov. c) 15 Nov 12am-12.59am is the early morning of the 15 Nov. d) 15 Nov 11pm-11.59pm is the late evening of the 15 Nov. The confusion here is that when we talk about 11pm-1am, it crosses between b) and c), so the reason why the modern practitioner feels there is a need to break it to early morning and late morning, is because they are refering to b) and c). But don't forget, the day is already a new day for c). The Early / Late Hour is already being considered as you should be refering to a) and b) and c) and d). Meaning the day has to be of the same day. Those that apply this concept, forgot, that the day is already broken up to the early and late zi. So there is really no need to further modify the concept. We must always focus that the Rat hour spans between two dates. But the correct way of assessing that Hour,is the hour represents the time of the day for the same day:- a) 14 Nov 12am-12.59am is already considered the early morning of the 14 Nov. b) 14 Nov 11pm-11.59pm is already considered the late evening of the 14 Nov. If you do it that way, it is exactly the same as what the modern practitioners did of breaking the hour into early or late morning. But they are only applying a 2nd division if you do so. Thus, we find it a very flawed variation in the ba zi concept. Furthermore, by further breaking the hour into Early/Late Rat, instead of having 12 equally divided chinese hours, you now have 11 equally divided chinese hours and 1 chinese hour that is specially broken down into 1/2 a chinese hour. This actually will break the original concept of the ba zi which is based on the 12 earthly branch and 10 heavenly stem. So technically, this is incorrect and will only break the cycle of the 12 hours that ba zi was originally designed for. Thus, it is not recommended to do so. In fact there are a lot of varations for even the same concept. As a newbie to feng shui, you can easily get confused if you do not understand the reason behind it. For this reason, I have recently added a Ba Zi FAQ that hopes to cover most of the common questions about the Ba Zi. URL: http://forum.geomancy.net/phpforum/article.php?bid=2&fid=2&mid=23906&new= Almost, all our concepts that is available on our website has been carefully reviewed. We had also already done a lot of pros and cons evaluations of the various variations in the differentconcepts. Thus, the tools we have on our website is based on best practices and most technically correct. So the tools will work properly together to give the best overall analysis. There is often no need to make any further modification to any results from our website. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Kian Lam, Kian Lam K. wrote: My birth date is 1 Feb 1970, male. When I use the calculator in the website, it stated that I am weak yang rooster. Is it correct? I noticed that my birth element is strong water from other readings. Could Masters advise on my bazhi? There are some combinations on the bazhi for the heavenly and earthly stems. Rgds. Please read our newly added Ba Zi FAQ, and you will understand why:- URL: http://forum.geomancy.net/phpforum/article.php?bid=2&fid=2&mid=23906&new= A lot of ba zi analysis available doesn't really do a very comprehensive analysis to determine your element. As for our analysis, we use a mathematical formula of evaluating your favourable vs unfavourable to determine if you are weak or strong. In the above link, i have a few examples showing that. So there is no need for me tohave to individually explain how come it is weak/strong. All our report can be proven with the same formula. So if our free report shows you as a weak element, it is due to your unfavourable element being more to favourable element. Our free report isn't crippled in anyway, the result will be exactly what we will use as the paid report. Only thing isfor the free report is that we do not show you how we derive the results. The five element percentage is extremely important in improving a persons luck. Therefore, this information is exclusivelyavailable onlyto Paid users of the Ba Zi Premium. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Larissa Goodin, Larissa G. wrote: Dear Master, I have a question about the birthplace in BaZi. Shouldn't the birthplace make a difference when calculating your chart? For example, if I was born on the 16th day of the month somewhere in the East, in the Western hemisphere it is still the 15th day of the month. Can you explain, please? Thanks! Yes, it might seem that it is important to apply the location factor. However, it is really not practical when you really have to apply it. I have recently added a Ba Zi FAQ. Read the Applying the Location into Ba Zi section and you will understand why:- URL: http://forum.geomancy.net/phpforum/article.php?bid=2&fid=2&mid=23906&new= That is why we advise users to just use the local time without any further need to modify the ba zi. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui

Edited by Robert: I made further improvements to the forecast layout and updated the various forecast links. Dear Users, 2009 Chinese Horoscope and Feng Shui Forecast (Enhanced) Last year, we had alreadyreleased our 2009 forecast when our 2008 forecast was out. As we improved our 2010 forecast layout, we also decided to update the same layout to ourexisting 2009 forecast. This is still based on our highly successful 2005 format, but with several improvements taken from ourlatest daily forecast. This will significantly improve the reabillity of the forecast. Our Yearly Forecast Features Ba Zi2009 Forecast with2009 Monthly Chart 2009 Flying Star Chart 2009 Grand Duke & Location in conflict 12 Horoscope Signs Summary for 2009 (Which is based on our Daily horosopce format) Individual Chinese Horoscope with all Five Different Birth Element & Strength (ie weak/Strong Rat etc) We also added someanalysis to determinethe impact of the horoscope signs in relation to wealth / health / study /competitionfor career where available. Added colour coding to the detailed individual horoscope forecast section making it easy for users to tell at a glance whether it is good/bad/average etc. Clearly division for the Weak/Strong elements, makes it easyfor users to zoom in to their own horoscope and element signs. So find out what is installed for 2009 The Ox Year (between 26 Feb 2009 to 13 Feb 2010):- URL: http://www.geomancy.net/resources/yearly-forecast/fortunes-2009.htm This forecast is done with a our Yearly Forecast v1.0that assisted us to generate most of the analysis for all possible variation of the different animal sign for that particular year.The latest template will set the foundation for future forecast. 2010-2013 Chinese Horoscope and Feng Shui Forecast Preview As of last year, we had released 1 upcoming year of forecast. This has been highly welcomed by users, so wedecided to release 4 upcoming years forecast instead of 1upcoming year forecast.This will allow users to plan aheadfor any important events. So have a sneak preview of the upcoming year now! Hope you will enjoy our yearly forecast! Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Edited by Robert Lee - 16 Oct 2008 Dear Users, A new daily forecast module has been created and added to the our main page.You can check the daily luck changes when you visit our website. This module is based on the our highly popular Yearly Forecast Module, but has been modified to show it on a daily basis. We also simplified it to show Good/Avg/Bad in colour coded manner for easy viewing. Since the intital release, we have signifcantly improved the forecast report. Here are thecurrent features:- The forecast is real time, so it will update itself asthe hour / day changes. You will be able to see all 12 horoscopes forecast for the day itself. At a single glance, you will be able to tell which horoscope is good / average / bad. You will see how the different five elements affect the different 12 horoscope signs that will be best / good / average / bad / worst. (ie Weak Water Rat and Strong Water Rat will have different luck). This will be more accurate than just looking at the horoscope sign. The colour coding table has been significantly improved for greater visibility immediately tell the good vs bad. You will also be able to see the day and hour information. This will summarisewhich horoscope is compatible and what elements is favourable/unfavourable to you. The forecast is flexible enough to be installed into any page and you can scroll the content to view more details. Therefore, it won't clutter or waste space for other content. We also have a shortcut url for users to bookmark if you want to have a separate page to view the full report:- URL: http://daily.geomancy.net User canview the Next Day's forecast. This will allow users to be able to planwhether the next day is good or bad. Last but not least, this forecast feature is free for all users to enjoy This forecast will be good enough for anyone to make use. Here are the limitations:- Although it can consider the ba zi elements, there is no way to consider the clashes/harms etc unless a date of birth is provided. So for even more detailed luck forecast, you shouldrefer to the Ba Zi Premium's Yearly/Monthly/Daily forecast report. URL: http://www.geomancy.net/products/po-bazi/po-bazi.htm If you are looking for auspicious dates for a specific event (Move-In etc), then the free auspicious date report will still be the most comprehensive as it will consider you ba zi along with the tung shu events. URL: http://date.geomancy.net Hope you enjoy the new site feature. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: I will like to check with you, as I have already selected a date for my wedding but now, need to choose the auspicious time for Guo Men and etc, also need to choose date and time for GDL as well as An Chuang. Are you able to give me some adviceon this matter? I went to a shifu in Goldenmile Complexlast year, paid in full and realisehe actually closed down.My dateis fixed and I get no help. Are you able to enlightenme? Our wedding date analysis is extremely personalised. In order to help you we will need to analyse the birthdate of the bride and groom. Only then will we know which are the auspicious datesavailable before your wedding event can be used as the An Chuan or Guo Da Li. Guo Da Li or An Chuan is usually done 1 week or 1 month before the actual date. As for the auspicious hour, usually this is less important as long as the day is good. But for practical reasons usually most wedding will start in morning about 7-9am or 9-11am timing range. So most of the time we opt for more practical sounding such as 9 (jiu or longevity ie 8.29am etc) So again we still need the ba zi information in order to know which hour is auspicious for picking up the bride or tea ceremony. So if you want us to advise you, please e-mail support@geomancy.net with the date of birth of the bride & groom and your choosen wedding date. Refer to this post as a reference. This wedding procedure guide can be found here for your reference in case you need guide on the wedding procedures:- URL: http://www.geomancy.net/info/wedding-procedures.pdf Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Katrina, Katrina L. wrote: Hello Master Lee, Can you explain the relationships between elements. I read somewhere that the element earth feeds metal BUT metal dissolves earth. How does that happen? Also, earth feeds fire BUT fire dissolves earth. We know that the flying star 5 is in the south for 2008. The south represents fire element. The #5 represents earth element. They say the south being a fire element magnifies the negative 5 star. But they say fire also dissolves earth so does that mean that the south sector which represents fire dissolves the negative 5 star? In that case, why do they say that earth feeds fire and thus makes the flying star 5 stronger in 2008? Please help clarify because it's confusing. You need to understand that there is a productive, exhaustive and destructive cycle for every element. 1) Let's take Fire as an example. a) Productive cycle is where Fire will produce Earth. Imagine after a fire, ashes will appear. Ashes is like Earth. b) Destructive cycle where Fire will destroy Metal. Imagine take a metal sword heat it up and it melts into iron ore allowing you to re-shape it. c) Exhaustive cycle, is opposite to productive cycle whereFire will exhaust wood to produce Earth. If you burn wood, won't wood be reduced to ash by fire? 2) Let's take Earth as the example a) Earth produces Metal (ie you dig the earth for metal ore) b) Earth destroy Water (ie imagine a dam stopping water) c) Earth exhaust Fire (ie after fire burns out it leaves only ash) Quote: earth feeds metal BUT metal dissolves earth 3) So basically, when you understand the above. You will realise that:- a) Earth produces Metal (Productive Cycle effect). b) After all the productive cycle effect is done, Earth is completely exhausted, so Metal dissolves Earth. (Exhaustive effect) Quote: Also, earth feeds fire BUT fire dissolves earth. 4) This question I believe you mis-type. Should be Fire feeds Earth But Earth dissolves Fire. a) which is same as above. Fire produces Earth (productive cycle) b) Earth exhaust Fire (exhaustive cycle) Quote: We know that the flying star 5 is in the south for 2008. The south represents fire element. The #5 represents earth element. They say the south being a fire element magnifies the negative 5 star. But they say fire also dissolves earth so does that mean that the south sector which represents fire dissolves the negative 5 star? Think your question here is a wrong. Yes, South sector is Fire, so if Earth flies there, it will be strengthened by it. Again, after any fire has strengthen the Earth, Fire will be exhausted. But Earth will be very strong by then. While Fire would be weak or virtually exhausted. Fire there does not really affect anything except it makes Earth Strong. So the bad star Earth is left even stronger than it was. In order to dissolve the strong Earth star, you need Metal. That is why you need Metal where there is a Strong Earth. Metal will help exhaust the Earth. So any star 6 (StrongMetal)or 7(weakMetal)will help. So this portion I think you got confused. In any case, we normally prioritise that any strengthen of flying star is done first by other Flying Star rather than by the sector. That portion is checked only after you have check out the overall impact of the flying star effects. Often not before. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear R G, R G. wrote: Can anyone please tell me whether I am a weak earth or a strong earth? I am very confused because some feng shui consultants tell me that I am weak however some would say I am strong. Can anyone please let me know whether I am a weak or strong earth and what are my favorable and unfavorable elements as well as my favorable careers? Please let me know. Thanks. birthday: September 12, 1986 / 2:56 a.m female born on Guam Frankly, whether you are treated as weak or strong depends on how accurately the ba zi chart is analysed to give you a breakdown of your five element. If you already used our free ba zi element, you will know that you are a Strong Earth. And thus, your true element is a Strong Earth. And a portion of the paid report will show you why you are a Strong Earth:- Element Strength Percentage 0 Water Strong 0 % 3 Wood Extremely Weak 8 % 2 Fire Weakest 11 % 6 Earth Weak 66 % 1 Metal Strongest 13 % Your favourable elements that make you strong are Earth 66% + Fire 11% = 77% Favourable elements. Your unfavourable elements that make youweak are Water 0% + Wood 8% = 8% Unfavourable elements. Your Favourable elements 77%

Dear Ken, Anonymous wrote: As I'm very new to Bazi, could I trouble you to enlighten me with an idea as to how your online report has ascertained I'm a Strong Yang Fire? I was born on 24 Oct 1985 between 12 am to 1 am. Frankly, even though the free report does not show you the details, our ba zi analysis considers a lots of factors before it assigns a weak or strong status. This information is exacted from a portion of the paid ba zi report for your date of birth:- Element Strength Percentage 0 Water Extremely Weak 0 % 2 Wood Weakest 8 % 4 Fire Weak 26 % 5 Earth Strongest 55 % 1 Metal Strong 8 % You are a Fire element person.Whether you are a weak or strong depends on whether the element favourable to you strongis greater or weaker than the unfavourable elements that make you weak. Your favourable elements (Wood 8% + Fire 26% = 34%) Your unfavourable elements (Metal 8% + Water 0% = 8%) Earth will help and also weaken your elements so it cancel itself out in the balancing of the five element. As it is both a favourable and unfavourable elment. Your favourable elements 34% Frankly, you have to consider a lot of factors, the five elements in all the 4 pillars including the house of conception, house of life. The changes in elements between the pillars, seasonal strengths, combination and clashesetc. Our report considers all these factors to determine your true element as accurately as possible. As this will determine how your chart will be read in the future. For example, with the five element percentage, you will know accurately which is the most favourable element you need. That is Water/Metal. Earth is also your favourable but you already have 55% so won't benefit from having more. Also, though your unfavourable element is Fire/Wood. Wood percentage is 8%, which means a little more wood when you have sufficient of your favourable (water/metal) will overall be good to bring your chart in perfect harmony (ie 20% of each of the five element). Although our free report does not give you the details of the breakdown or the full chart, the final resulting element won't differ from the full report. Just that you will not be able to see the details behind the assessment of the element, nor the full detailed ba zi chart and changes happening between the pillars. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Hi, Actually, I had previously replied to a similiar question about the Follow the Leader or special type chart. URL: http://forum.geomancy.net/phpforum/article.php?bid=2&fid=2&mid=20335&new= If you use our website's ba zi analysis, you won't need to worry too much about all this kind of special chart. As we already considered them when we broke the five element into your favourable and by five element percentage value. Those special chart are nothing more than an extremely unbalanced chart which requires you to increase more of the element you lack and reduce the elements you have too much more. Which is basically the five element percentage portion of the ba zi analysis that our website uses. For example, a Strong Wood by default usually means :- Fire/Earth/Metal are your favourable.Assuming you know the percentage such as 10% Fire/ 35% Earth / 0% Metal. You will know that even though Earth is your favourable but as you already have 35% which is 15% over normal 20%, you won't benefit from having more. In fact, Metal which you have 0% would ideally be the element you like to have more. While Water/Wood are your unfavourable. Assuming again you know the percentage 50% Water / 5% Wood for example. This means you a Strong Wood because of too much Water rather than Wood. While Wood is generally still lacking. So this means that you want to avoid Water but some Wood is good for you when you have sufficient of your favourable elements (Fire/Earth/Metal) first. So really if you understood the how those special charts generally comes from, it is really nothing special if you had applied the ba zi favourable elements with the five element percentage to breakdown what exactly you really need. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Steven, Steve S. wrote: I help my friend generated a report and saw that his life is bad, from luck against him and wealth against him... but he is prosperous and living a carefree life. I don't understand. Can you explain? Firstly, you need to understand two things here:- 1) Free report only shows you a person's big luck. There can only be 3 conclusion from this info. Basically, whether you are a person that:- a)enjoy life earlier than suffer later. b) suffer first than enjoy life later. c)mix, whereby there will be atleast a 30-year rangein the middle of your life where luck is with you oragainst you. Soit does not really mean that a person with luck against him or luck with him willbe his actual luck forecast. This is because, even within the different big luck, there are 5-yearly luck/yearly luck/6-montly luck which changes every few years so luck is always changing. This means that even for a 10-yearly luck that is bad, there is varying degree of good or bad depending on how the 5-yearly/yearly/6-montly luck interact with it. Also, whether or not you enjoy that luck, depends on how balance your five element luck is. The more balance the luck, the better that luck period. 2) In any case, ba zionly helps toreveal the type of luck a person is suppose to be born with, when luck is with you, when are the good and bad years to take not off. It is not a forecast of what you will exactly encounter. Why? A person has 3 forms of luck all together:- a) Heaven Luck - Luck that you are born with b) Earth Luck - Luck from your home and surrounding environment c) Human Luck - Luck from your relationship with others and your own hard work. A person with good or bad ba zi luck, does not mean that he or she will actually have a good or bad luck. It will only be good or bad if the Earth and Human Luck also supports it. For example, the best way to explain this is the ba zi of a twin born on the same day and time of birth. One stays in a war torn country (his Earth Luck will be adversely affected), so his luck will be significantly reduced. While another stays in a peaceful country, so his luck will be significantly improved. Thus, although both may appear to have the same chart, their luck encountered will be ultimately different. Even if both stays in the same country, but one works hard and another one is lazy. This human luck factor also affects the outcome of the actual luck he or she will enjoy. Even if Earth and Human luck is similiar, but say one ventures more into his favourable career or elements, another chooses to go into career that is unfavourable, their luck will again be different. So what this shows is that the ba zi only attempts to reveal the luck a person is born with. With that info, you know what elements is favourable/unfavourable for you, when are the good and bad times. As long as you try to have more favourable elements and avoid the unfavourable elements, even if the period is bad for you, you will reduce the impact of that bad period. So once you understand this, you will know that the ba zi only shows you what luck you will have assuming everything else is not adversely affecting it. But in reality, there are Earth and Human luck factors that isn't considered in the ba zi. So that will eventually change the reality luck that you actually encounter. That is why the ba zi IS NOT a forecast of luck you actually encounter. But rather it is a luck forecast of what luck you are suppose to have. Whether or not you will follow that luck depends on whether you have enough favourable elements to help balance up your luck, and whether your earth and human luck is adversely impacting you. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Actually, our free report will already give you that answer. Given the date of birth Male, 28 Jan 1964, Pig hour. You will be a Strong Fire. Element Strength Percentage 4 Water Extremely Weak 12 % 2 Wood Weakest 12 % 3 Fire Weak 28 % 3 Earth Strongest 46 % 0 Metal Strong 0 % This is because your five element percentage after calculating all the combinations and clashes will be as shown above. To determine if you are weak or strong, this will depends finally on whether favourable elements that make you strong is greater or lesser than unfavourable elements that make your weak. As a Fire element person, favourable element is Wood (12%)+Fire (28%) which makes up 40%. Your unfavourable elements that make your fire weak is Metal (0%) and Water (12%) which makes up 12%. Earth element can both weaken your favourable element and strengthen your unfavourable element. So it cancel itself out in the equation. Given favourable element (40%)

Dear Rachel, Rachel R. wrote: My question is : If I want to obtain a bazi element report for my son, do I use the monkey hour or the dog hour as his hour of birth (since he was born last Saturday 23rd Aug 2008 at 4.58pm British Summer Time GMT +1 )??? Our stand for all time zone related is to use the local time of birth. This is because to factor in location, the only true way is to input the long. and lat. of birth. But that adds further degree of error and not everyone will record this information, so not practical to be used. So you should use the hour as in the hour when your son is born. So for example if he is born is the British Summer Time, then use that time as his hour. If he is born in the winter months, then use the winter months hour which is GMT +0. So since he is born in the British Summer Time, then just use that as the hour of birth without any further modification. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: I have learnt from a bazi book that my chart contains a punishment combination of Sheep, Dog and Ox. Why is this combination a punishment? Will it be very negative in my four pillar luck cycle? Frankly there are different types ofconflicts between differentearthly branchcombinations.There are 4 different conflictsclash / harm / punishmentandself punishment. Each will occur depending what is present. Of which Clash is the worst, followed by Harm, then Punishment and Self Punishment. Often it is between two different signs. In your chart there is the chou wei (Ox-Ram)andshu-chou (Dog-Ox). These signs if found in your chart will indicate punishment. Any form of clash/harm/punishment and self punishment occuring in your ba zi chart, will of course not be a good sign. It's impact normally is related to the pillars that is present. For example, if the this sign occur between your Day and Year pillar. It may represent conflict present between your Self & Spouse (Day)or GrandParents (Year). Or you may face difficult Middle Age (Day) or difficult Childhood (Year). All depends on what context you are refering to. Often you will need a detailed analysis to understand how it will impact your chart. Anonymous wrote: Furthermore, is my Sheep and Ox a genuine clash since I have the Dog starin between? Chou-Wei (Ox-Ram) also is a Clash, so the Clash will often take priority over the Punishment impact. But where two occur together it won't be good as the Punishment is also has some impact. But again it depends on the content. If this clash is analysed on to your luck pillar, then it will mean a very difficult year for you. But it is present in your ba zi chart and you are referring to your relationship pillar, then it has to do with relationship issue. If it is refer to your stage of life, then it's impact will deal with your stage of life issue. In either case, you will probably need an indepth analysis to explain what this will eventually impact. As a ba zi is ultimately pretty complicated, in that there are many things it can relate to. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Robert: What a complete & professional response! I thank you for your professionalism. I will definitely contact you in the future. I use your website as a reference all the time. You have done an incredible job in the education of lay people into Classical Feng Shui. Thank you, Mimi Casavantes Monday, 21 July, 2008 1:23 PM Hi Mr. Lee,

Dear Johnny, Firstly, in your ba zi there are 4 degree of conflict. 1) Clash - is the worst as it denotes 100% incompatibility between the two signs. 2) Harm - is the next bad conflict as it denotes that your signs creates friction but not really as bad as Clash. 3) Punishment - is where your signs itself usually contains an element that conficts the other sign. It is an indirect conflict, so has less impact. 4) Self Punishment - is where your sign'shidden elementconflicts with itself. How the clash/harm etc affects your sign depends on what you are relating the clash/harm and where it happens. For example, a clash occuring between your ba zi chart and that year denotes conflict between the year for you. So things not likely to go smoothly for you. For example, if you relate the clash to the relationaship, then a clash may denote conflicts or incompatibility. Quote: 1. May I know if this means that my spouse and close family will have problem? Whether or not that will have impact, it is best you have someone review it to explain it to you. As without all the details, I have actually no idea what your chart looks like as such not able to tell you if the self-punishment is good or not. In general, Day pillar represents self and spouse, while month pillar represents parents. So if you are looking at the relationship analysis, yes, the self-punishment may denote some slight incompatibilty. But again depends on whether the pillar favours you or not. For that, best you get someone to review it to confirm it. Quote: 2. As ?? is metal and is unfavourable to me. Does this self punishment cancel out the metal? Or does this self punishment on unfavourable element actually good to me? Or Self punishment simply is no good no matter what? In general, the self punishment does not cancel out your original element. As previously mentined, this clash/harm/punishment/self-punishment only comes into effect when you relate it to what you want to review. By itself, it does not mean anything in particular. Anyway, self-punishment is only just like imagine you want to do something but things does not go as you plan. Basically that is it. Often, it is not big enough to cause too much major problems, just minor things that will cause some delays or slowdown. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

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Dear Annie, Quote: Given in tung shu,

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Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: Does this also apply with business facing direction? Why not Wood (East) facing direction as in my Best Working position in the Reference Material? My Best Working Position are 1. East 2. South. Generally, the executive summary tries to make sense of how the five element percentage changes each luck period. The goal is always to try to ensure you have exactly 20% of each of the five element to attain perfect harmony. So depending on what is your birth element, there are a few elements that will bring you luck. That was just an example of one of the things that could bring you luck. It usually try to shows the most important element. That is all. If say you are a weak wood, then water/wood elements and if the percentage is very lacking both elements directions will be good for you. So if wood is also your favourable element, then that is also another posibility. Like mentioned, the proposed direction or is just to guide you a guide or example. Given both wood and fire are both 0% then both are generally still favourable. Where in doubt, always use your original five element as a guide. As your original element denotes generally what you lack, while each 10-yearly summary only is good for that 10-year period. After which it will change again the next luck period. So you should only use it to fine tune what you lack. Anonymous wrote: Is Wood (East) ok also on the house or business facing direction? According to percentage above Wood is 0% also. Which is best, Fire or Wood? Given that Water/ Fire / Wood are your favourable elements. So you should be a Strong Metal person if I am not wrong. As a Strong Metal, you generally strong because you have either too much earth/metal. Thus either water/fire/wood would generally be good for you. How good each will depend on the five element percentage in your chart. If without your five element percentage, as long as you add water/fire/wood all should benefit you. However, if wood percentage is greater than 20% then, probably it won't bring you too much of a benefit compared to tlement that you have very little. So whichever of the five element you have least is your favourable. Anonymous wrote: Is Wood (East) ok also on the house or business facing direction? According to percentage above Wood is 0% also. Which is best, Fire or Wood? For this 10-year period, wood and fire percentage are 0% so either element is lacking for you. Thus, either one should be good. However, the one you lack most in your default ba zi percentage should still be the most important factor. As that is based on what you generally lack for your rest of your life. Anonymous wrote: Water- Advertising, Arts, Communications, etc. Anonymous wrote: Fire- Marketing, Sales, Fashion, etc. Anonymous wrote: So, which one is it? Maybe you mean Fire and not Water under such as Marketing, Sales, Fashion, etc. or the other way around? Anonymous wrote: On the Reference Material: My Favourable Elements are: Water- Most Favourable; Fire- Favourable ; Wood-Favourable Wealth Element. And on the Recommended Career,it only pertains to Wood (Wealth) and Fire (Power & Authority). Why not career for Water Element (which is the most favourable)? The reference material one is correct. I think the example should be fire element rather than water element. Maybe you want to let me know where in the report it is showing the error and I will correct it. Anonymous wrote: On the Reference Material: My Favourable Elements are: Water- Most Favourable; Fire- Favourable ; Wood-Favourable Wealth Element. And on the Recommended Career,it only pertains to Wood (Wealth) and Fire (Power & Authority). Why not career for Water Element (which is the most favourable)? It really depends on the situation and your five element percentage. The element you lack most is what is best for you. Probably why water is not showing is probably because the percentage is more than sufficient. So no point having more. Anonymous wrote: And if I have a business based on Fire element, what is the best facing direction for the building? South (Fire), my wealth sector (Prosperity)or East (Wood), the most favourable element? Actually, you can have your business as whatever element it is. It will just boost your favourable element. The direction of the place should not be based on what is your business element. But rather on the feng shui luck of the place based on the flying star chart and whether it is suitable to your eight house, followed by ba zi. The reason is because eight house even though it is only based on your YEAR of birth, has proven time and time to be useful. From our experience, those staying in house/office that is facing their death or disaster tends to have lots of problems. So this is ultimately more important than ba zi simply because you cannot correct it. At least for your ba zi, even if the house element isn't the most favourable, you can still enhance your ba zi from colours of the office, shapes/colours/career. So there are many areas to improve this suitability. Thus, it is a correctable problem. That is why it is more important to choose a suitable house based on your eight house (Prosperity sector or any of the 4 good sectors), followed by the best posible flying star house/office luck so that you can get the best luck from the house. For example, North-East/South-West for a West group person with the house/office in Period 8 is the best. While South/East facing for a East group person with the house/offfice in Period 8 is the best. Normally, we go by the above. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

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Dear Cindy, Auspicious Date considers 3 factors:- 1. The Tung Shu impications of the Year vs Day. (such as clashes between the year and day or even a broken day). Such days are often inauspicious irregardless of whether you are suitable to the day or not. 2. Whether the day clashes with your ba zi or not. Major clashes are deemed as very inauspicious and Minor clashes are not so bad. 3. Last would be whether the element of the is suitable to your ba zi or not. What you have only looked at was only point 2 and 3. 17 Feb 2008 is bad because it is deemed a broken day due to the self-punishment. So that is why the day is bad. In an auspicious day analysis, the key tung shu influence are equally imporant or more important then whether or not the day fits you. An auspicious day is different from an favourable day in your ba zi. So even if the day is suitable for yourdaughter, it just isn't a good day under the Tung Shu. It has nothing to do with whether or not the day is suitable to your daughter. You use the auspicious dates report to find which day is good or bad for an important event. While you use your ba zi favourable day to determine which day has best luck for you. A day that has the best luck for you in your ba zi, need not necesary mean it is a good day for certain events. That is why when looking at events (ie move in date, weddings or key events), you refer to the auspicious dates. Whereas, if you just want to know which day is best luck for you, then you refer to your ba zi forecast. That would be the better date for you within the month etc. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research.

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