Year, Month, Day and X - Missing Hour Pillar.

Remembering what my "shifu" 师父  told me, “I go to bookstores to find many books for research. But I do not buy books about stars description unless it contains famous people’s biography that has birth details attached. As it will then have their major and important events of their life. But most of the time I will end up being disappointed . At first,  I will be delighted to find many "Bazi" charts from the surface of the books in regardless of "Zi Wei Dou Shu" 紫微斗数 or "Bazi" 八字. and I will usually buy all them from the bookstore so that I can utilize my skills and techniques to validate. But back home when I pick up the book to read I will be very unhappy some of the Time 'shijian' 时间 from the book is not real but a mere guess by the authors. The authors are not even their family members but they just fit in the guess work that they have assumed. That is a shear waste of time and money. I will never assume a time of a Destiny chart”.

 

Is it really the right way? To fit a presumed time of birth and put a guess work out of their life eventhou you are not even their family?. And especially in "Zi Wei Dou Shu" where the "runyue" 闰月lunar leap month comes into play. If you have a son or a family member that is born on the upper leap month, some "Zi Wei Dou Shu" schools will take the upper month as the similar month. You may then need to use two charts to verify the happenings. Sometimes both charts and stars can be very similar and the differences  lies only in the monthly stars. True research spirit, means that these kind of different charts must be validated and research for at least 20 or 30 years like what my "shifu" did with her own children's chart. Sometimes it  takes a major events like the death of the grandmother or father to verify. Until then the right techniques  will be firmed and adopted as a person's life path research. Even as a family, we may need a very long time to validate events. So how could an author or a stranger predicts the hour of birth by guessing the events of a person’s "Bazi" chart without much details available. So a TIMELESS Bazi chart are not suitable to be used in judging a person’s success or failure, as many other factors may influenced it. It is strongly advised that we do not become a Misleader or being Misleaded by others. Whether qualified or non qualified practitioner, a "Bazi" with 3 pillars namely the Day pillar, Month pillar and Year pillar, cannot be assumed with a time of birth pillar. Although the person has a very good 3 pillars but the hour pillar may destroy the entire chart even during the good period. When a person going thru a good period the path is smooth but it doesn’t mean that they have a good hour of birth. Maybe you see a bad combination of 3 pillars but the "Yong Shen" 用神 could be in the hour pillar and during the good period the owner may rise to a certain level of success. As a destiny master without the time it is best to avoid giving advice or putting assumptions. All charts can be unpredictable in its path as it is also influenced by many factors. A same Bazi can be influenced by the environment, friends and surroundings. It is also under the influenced by the family background as there are so many complications that can affect the chart. Not being the person around the subject it will be impossible to understand fully. The current era and society changes and fluctuation are so frequent, as a destiny researcher we must have enough knowledge and experiences. You must know the environment, society and happenings around you then only you can be a successful destiny reader in the current times.

 

Recalling an incident that happened recently as my students was paying a visit to our academy. A friend happens also to drop by for a visit. He was on his way to meet someone after delivering us the moon cake. He invited us for dinner as he was on his way to meet a so called, very accurate destiny reader from a famous “visiper” centre, if I recalled correctly. This “shifu” was recommended because of her unbelievable accuracy. So we were delighted to oblige the invitation. When our group arrived, one of our student, namely Mr.Goh was introduced to the lady as the boss of a soon to be listed company. So we  all sat quietly to listen and observe. Shortly after some chit chatting, he requested for a reading from the lady "shifu" who is very talkative and outspoken. She asked for his day, month and year of birth without asking for the time. Then she scribbled some numbers and triangle on the paper. Then she started by describing him as a very successful person with good verbal skills. She continued by saying that he built his successes on his own and was a smooth guy and very suitable for sales. She praise him for being the a leader among leaders and possess high authority. So it went on and in the end, he was impressed and happy. She also mentioned that he will have problems related to his kidney, liver and lungs. He nodded his head in agreement. So after dinner, we left and in the car my student happily asked me what do I think of her. I replied “Do you remember your cousin Mr.TY that had the same birthdate with you but born one hour apart? He kept quiet for a while recalling and then said “Ya! Come to think about it she only mentioned correctly about my liver but the rest of the description wasn't right”. Now suddenly Mr.Goh had a total different reaction from earlier. In fact his cousin was born on the same day but different 时辰 "shi chen" time and also had a very different life. Mr.TY is below average income, have a broken family and still unmarried at age of forties. He is dark, fat and untidy. Mr.TY and Mr.Goh is the exact opposite in contrast except having the same great grandfather. Mr.Goh is a boss and look presentable but he definitely is not a sweet talker as she described. Recalling the consultation where she named many numerous health problems, it is not difficult to hit a right one.

This story not only illustrates that a same day "Bazi" with a different hour branch can have such significant differences. But sometimes certain people are easy believers. Some can be overly superstitious and some are very easy to convinced. They tends to have this FYIB “Fit Yourself Into Bazi” tendency . They will try to fit themselves into the destiny reading to achieve self convince accuracy. Take a look around and you will be surprised that many have done it without being aware. November 2012 http://www.ziweidoushubazi.blogspot.com/