The Science of Destiny Reading Using Bazi: Demystifying BaZi the Logical Way（20K）

Preface

●Chapter 1 Understand BaZi with the Right Mindset
The Limitations of the Traditional BaZi Methods
Our Vision

●Chapter 2 Real Cases of BaZi Analysis
Case Study 1 Ankylosing spondylitis
Case Study 2 The affair of Chien-Min Wang
Case Study 3 No one believed what I said
Case Study 4 Never judge a person by appearance
Case Study 5 Confidential matters that is not known to family members
Case Study 6 In memory of Echo
Case Study 7 It happened anyway
Case Study 8 Recovery from cancer
Case Study 9 Should you take the role of CEO?
Case Study 10 Accidents that happened to me and my student

●Chapter 3 The Basic Knowledge of BaZi
Section 1 The Five Elements
Production
Countering
Section 2 The Ten Heavenly Stems (tian gan) and the Twelve Earthly Branches (di zhi)
The Ten Heavenly Stems (天干 tian gan)
The Twelve Earthly Branches (地支 di zhi)
Section 3 Solar terms of the year
Section 4 Building a BaZi chart
The Four Pillars and the Grand Fortune
Building a chart
Looking up a person’s BaZi Chart on a website
Section 5 Deriving the Ten Spirits from the relative positions of the Five Elements
Section 6 The structure (格局 ge ju) of a chart
Section 7 Other important interactions among the Five Elements
Yin and Yang
The Clashes (沖 chong) of the Earthly Branches
Coupling and transformation
Other

●Chapter 4 Dissecting the Intrinsic Personalities with the Four Pillars
Section 1 Using the Ten Spirits to tell a person’s character
Peers
Creations
Wealth
Officers
Empowerments
Section 2 Analyzing the interactions among the Four Pillars
Cases of Productions
Cases of Countering
Section 3 The Four Pillars and the physical health of a person
Wood is countered
Fire is countered
Earth is countered
Metal is countered
Water is countered
Others
Section 4 Case Examples

●Chapter 5 The Science of BaZi Analysis: Grand Fortune, Year Flow, and Month Flow
Section 1 The energy of Year Flow
Section 2 How to integrate Grand Fortune, Year Flow, and Month Flow into the analysis along with the Four Pillars
Section 3 Grand Fortune, Year Flow, and Month Flow and their interactions with the Four Pillars
Officers Countering Peers
Empowerment Countering Creation
Creation Countering Officer
Peers Countering Wealth
Wealth Countering Empowerment
Officer Produces Empowerment
Peer Produces Creations
Creation Produces Wealth
Wealth Produces Officer
Empowerment produces Peer
Section 4 Case Studies
Case Study 1 Ankylosing spondylitis
Case Study 2 The affair of Chien-Min Wang
Case Study 3 No one believed what I said
Case Study 4 Never judge a person by their appearance
Case Study 5 Not easy to read the chart of a relative
Case Study 6 In memory of Echo
Case Study 7 Inescapable fate
Case Study 8 Recovery from cancer
Case Study 9 Should he take the role of CEO?
Case Study 10 Accidents that happened to me and my student
Case Study 11 Troubled students born in the same month
Case Study 12 Can BaZi be used to help make major decisions?
Case Study 13 Transformed Month Branch
Case Study 14 Transformation affected by Year Flow
Case Study 15 The death of Corporal Hong
Case Study 16 Is everything predestined? The BaZi of twins
Case Study 17 The life of Claude Monet
Case Study 18 Lost and found
Case Study 19 Observing the energy in your day-to-day life
Case Study 20 When disaster strikes: the six fallen heroes and the death of the famous director Chi Po-Lin
Case Study 21 Michael Jordan
Case Study 22 Elizabeth Taylor: the everlasting Cleopatra
Case Study 23 The Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway
Case Study 24 Starry Starry Night: The Life of Vincent Van Gogh
Case Study 25 The 2016 US presidential election: Trump vs. Clinton
Case Study 26 2017 French Presidential Election:Macron vs. Le Pen

●Chapter 6 Taking Your BaZi Analysis Skills to the Next Level
Section 1 The influence of Month Flow
Section 2 How to analyze one’s wealth
Section 3 Special BaZi patterns
Submissive Pattern
Dominative Pattern
Section 4 When hour of birth is uncertain
Section 5 Picking a good time of birth
Section 6 Is it possible to predict one's time of marriage, time of death, and other major life events?
Section 7 Is one’s life destined?
Section 8 The physics of BaZi

●Chapter 7 Debunking Common Myths and Superstitions
Section 1 The Fallacy of the fu-yi (扶抑) Method
Section 2 Why some practitioners give wrong advice
Section 3 Changing fortune
Section 4 The kinds of BaZi practitioners to keep away from

●Chapter 8 Practicing BaZi to Help Others: Some Advice
The right attitude of BaZi consultation
Guiding the energy
Principle of confidentiality
Fee
Skill, ethic, wisdom, opportunity


 

作者序

Gwan-Hwan Hwang (黃冠寰)

　　Even as of now, it is still very hard for me to believe that I am publishing a book about BaZi. As an engineer by training and a researcher in academic for over 20 years, mastering BaZi was never part of my plan. When I first started years ago, all I wanted to find out was whether BaZi has any truth in it or simply is a thousand-year-old baloney. I did not have any teacher to guide (or misled) me. I studied everything on my own, with the same systematic method I used in my academic research works. In my career I have published many papers and professional articles, but never a book addressed to the general public. Allow me to start by asking you to bear with me if in any part of this book the use of words is less than perfect.

　　Contrary to most of the books about fortunetelling, the main objective of this book is to help debunk superstitions. There are a lot of fortunetellers who practice without trying to improve or even verify their own analysis. Whenever the result is not accurate, they conveniently attribute it to Karma or some sort of will of divinity. They are never wrong because they always say things that are ambiguous and unverifiable, with the sole purpose to scam more money out of the client’s pocket. Those who fall for their scheme often lose a lot more than just money. Some happy couples are torn apart. Others simply do not dare to enter relationship. Some even send their children away for adoption because some fortuneteller tells them that keeping their children in the family could threaten their own lives. All these are, undoubtedly, superstitions, and should be condemned by all.

　　The art of fortune telling, especially BaZi, was considered highly valuable in ancient China. Each school of practitioners guarded their knowledge as the top secret. Many of them did so by spreading out false or misleading information so that they can keep the real knowledge within. This is why we are seeing so many false knowledge and superstition in the art of BaZi today. The only way to restore the knowledge to its purest essence is to study it with a scientific and logical attitude. I hope that this book can serve as a beginning of such endeavor.

　　The influence of BaZi and Five Element to one’s luck and life, although significant, is never absolute. Learning BaZi helps us understand the influence of the energies around us, but the purposes is to help us better plan our moves, not to make us submissive. We are still the masters of our lives. All we have to do is to incorporate the influence of BaZi as we plan ahead and maintain a proactive attitude.

　　Learning BaZi not only gave me the ability to help others, it also helped change my perspective toward life with a more open-minded and inclusive way. I become more interested in the topic of philosophy and life, and more willing to help others. Not only I make constant charity donation from the income of my BaZi practice, I also urge my clients to do the same.

　　I would like to thank my wife Hsin-Fen, who co-authored this book with me. Hsin-Fen has been my greatest help throughout the course of my BaZi study. She is a smart lady and is a lot more sensitive in personal interactions than I am. Therefore she can always provide me valuable feedback. A lot of insights and findings that I developed came from her inputs. I always discussed every case with her.

　　Since the first edition in Chinese was published, our readers have provided us lots of positive feedbacks. Such recognition is the best reward that drives us forward. We have also received lots of questions from readers (prof.hwang.fortune.telling@gmail.com). We always replied each one of them as best as we could. Many readers even visited us in-person. Some of them come all the way to Taiwan from Hong Kong, Singapore, USA, and Canada. I have always been moved seeing that each of them carrying a copy of this book filled with their footnotes and remarks all over the pages. We really appreciate having such a group of supportive readers.

　　The basic principle of BaZi is simple, but applying it into real lives is a highly complicated art. I have the fortune to have a group of students, who identify with my idea of studying BaZi in scientific and logical perspective, and strengthened our course along the way. For that we are thankful.

　　This is our first English version. We made a lot of efforts to help English readers cross through the cultural barriers, which could have been the most difficult part for non-Chinese speakers to learn BaZi and perhaps the main reason that BaZi is less known outside the Chinese society. We believe that the principle of BaZi can be learned across cultures and does not need to be lost in translation. With that in mind, we made unprecedented changes such as marking Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches with simple symbols (H1 – H12, E1 – E12) instead of sticking to the Chinese phonetic translations (Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding,…). We also translate the Ten Spirits with the same principle – making it easy to understand for English readers, rather than sticking to the phonetics.

　　Anther major effort we made in the English version is adding a number of case examples familiar to our English readers. The original Chinese version contains mostly examples of people in Taiwan. To better relate the art of BaZi to our English readers, we added a number of cases examples of persons familiar to English readers, such as Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jordan, Van Gogh, and the recent presidential campaigns of US (Trump vs. Clinton) and France (Macron vs. Le Pen). We believe that these examples will bring the art of BaZi closer to our English speakers, and prove that the principle of BaZi is universal.

　　We are excited to have this book published. We hope you like our book and find the art of BaZi fascinating and look forward to any feedback you may have.