Flying star chart question

[tervino]

Hi Cecil,
under the yearly chart for my SW corner,
20yr base star : 4 weakwood
mountain : 6 strong metal
water : 2 strong earth
year star : 6 strong metal
analysis (20yr vs year star)
Proposed solution : maske us of metal to destroy and control wood
Q: Why the yr star (strong metal) is not able to control a weak wood 4 and require additional Metal as in the suggestion?
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in the NE corner
20 yr base : 1 water
mountain: 3 wood
water : 8 earth
year : 3 wood
(20yr vs yr star analysis)
proposed solution: make sue of fire to exhaust and weaken Wood
(mountain star vs water star analysis)
proposed solution: make use of Fire to exhaust and weaken wood
Q: normally we use Metal to destroy & control wood, why do we use Fire (to weaken and exhaust or drain) Wood instead?
Thanks.

[Cecil Lee]

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On 7/5/00 4:23:00 AM, Anonymous wrote:
Hi Cecil,
under the yearly chart for my SW corner,
20yr base star : 4 weak wood
mountain : 6 strong metal
water : 2 strong earth
year star : 6 strong metal
analysis (20yr vs year star)
Proposed solution : maske us of metal to destroy and control wood
Q: Why the yr star (strong metal) is not able to control a weak wood 4 and
require additional Metal as in the suggestion?

In your case, 6 strong metal does already control the 4 weak wood. However,
as mentioned the report analysis only two stars at any one time.
6 metal has to accomplish two task here, to destroy the weak wood and to
exhaust the earth. So often in such situation more Metal helps it. And since
in the current year the 6 metal comes in again, it does fullfil the need to
help the other 6 metal to destroy and control the elements.

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in the NE corner
20 yr base : 1 water
mountain: 3 wood
water : 8 earth
year : 3 wood
(20yr vs yr star analysis)
proposed solution: make sue of fire to exhaust and weaken Wood
(mountain star vs water star analysis)
proposed solution: make use of Fire to exhaust and weaken wood
Q: normally we use Metal to destroy & control wood, why do we use Fire (to
weaken and exhaust or drain) Wood instead?

This is because I had factored in the problem here that the Wood is a strong
wood and not a weak wood. And usually for such case, we often prefer to use
the exhausting element which is Fire in this case. It is a little more
effective than Metal. Metal remember will do two things it will produce
Water which later helps Wood, while at the same time it destroy the Wood.
Thus, it is like a double edge cure, which helps and destroy. Thus negating
the effects.
Similarly, usually for Strong Earth 2 & 5 we often prefer to use Metal.
However, sometimes the problems often comes in where say if there are 3 & 5
where, if we suggest Fire it will also help 5, and if we suggest Wood it
activates the Earth. In such cases there is an alternative like Metal cure,
or sometimes if say the 5 star is less important, thus Fire can also help.
However, my personal recommendation is to use Metal which will help you
solve this complicated situation as it does two things. Destroy Wood and
Exhaust Earth. But, some little Fire is still required so often such a cure
would be a 6 coins with a read paper or a red string.
So depending on the situation, we may suggestion some more related cures.
In Flying Star, from our experiences, most of the time the types of cures
used are Metal and Fire, the two most common cures. So often I had
programmed the system to choose the 2nd alternative if the first becomes a
problem for the other star. However, Flying Star often deals with more than
3 or more combinations of stars, which makes suggesting cures difficult.
So as you see if you need to consider all the various types of combinations
as more elements needs to be taken into consideration, finding a suitable
cure is extremely difficult as one cure may result in enhancing another bad
stars etc. This is why, in most of the cases the system tries to narrow down
to the nearest possible cures especially for 2 stars.
Warmest Regards,
Cecil