Four Pillars of Destiny

In recent years, Chinese metaphysic subjects such as Feng Shui and Four Pillars of Destiny (or in Chinese words Ba Zi) are capturing worlwide attention.

The Chinese in ancient time has learned how to improve our life and they created a model of human quality of life which depend on three main factors: Heaven Luck, Earth Luck and Man Luck.

With Ba Zi, we can learn things like below:

1. Your talent which can show you what kind of career suits you
2. Your bad and good luck period
3. Your health
4. Your relationship with your parent, relatives, wife, grandparents, future kids
5. Your type of person
6. Choosing a compatible spouse, partnership
7. And still many more things you can discover

According to this ancient Chinese metaphysics, when you were born on the year, the month, the day and the hour to this world, your Four Pillars of Destiny already set up your destiny of your life. Your parent gave birth to you, but your destiny runs through these four pillars. There are also Luck Period and Year Period which will add flower to your life.

Ok, perhaps your mind getting a bit anxious to know whether people who are born at the same time, data, month, and year, will have the same destiny? No. There are still other factors that we still don't know affect our destiny. But, the Four Pillars of Destiny make up around 80% of our destiny. Like, Feng Shui of your home, etc.

Now, another questions probably arise in your mind whether you can minimize your bad luck if you have already know your Four Pillars. The answer is yes. At least we still can minimize the effect of the bad luck, but we cannot avoid it.

Like if we know from our Four Pillars that we will have trouble with robbery, we can donate our money to the poor, we still loose our money, but in a minimize way.

This is the sample Four Pillars of Destiny of Lady Di. She is a Weak Wood.

Before I further discuss Four Pillars of Destiny of Lady Di, let me explain some of the basic philoshopy behind this Chinese metaphysics. Everything in this world is regard as composed of 5 basic elements - metal, wood, water, fire and earth. These elements interact with each other, one is the "cycle of birth" and one is the "cycle of destruction".

Cycle of Birth is a harmonious relationship showing one element give birth to another element, like water give supply to wood, wood makes fire stronger, etc. Cycle of Destruction reflects one element destroy or control another element, like with metal, we can chop the wood; wood drains the water from the earth; etc.

With the understanding of such relationship, we can understand why the year of 2000, a year of metal over earth shows you a year of peace and harmony. It is because earth give birth to metal (one element support another element). In year of 2000, the conflict between North and South Korea began to subside.

Now, let me explain in brief about the Four Pillars of Destiny of Lady Di so you can understand a bit about the Chinese Metaphysics.

Lady Di is a Wood born in a hot Summer month, so she is a weak wood because wood produce fire (cycle of birth) and it drains the energy of the wood. Another thing is that, this Wood needs support from Water, but the Water in the hour pillar is very weak, because it stands on earth element (earth destroy or control water/cycle of destruction) and there is only one Metal element supporting in the Year Pillar, but unfortunately it is very far away. So Lady Di is a weak wood lady.

A Weak Wood needs Water (Water give support to the Wood), Wood (itself), and Metal (Metal produce Water and Water support the Wood). Her unfavorable elements would be Earth and Fire.

Lady Di died on 31st August 1997 at 00.35. The Four Pillars of the Day is shown at the right. She died because there are 3 penalty (Earth penalty - Goat Earth in Four Pillars above + Dog Earth in Four Pillars in the Luck Period of 32-41 + Ox Earth in the year of 1997). That caused her death underground the earth (she had an accident in an underground tunnel).

I hope this can give you some vision about Chinese Metaphysics especially the Four Pillars of Destiny and what the Destiny is.

Hery Yansen is a Chinese Metaphysics practitioner and owner of Authentic Feng Shui Asia website. His website http://www.authenticfengshui.asia provides an informative content on different kinds of Chinese metaphysics for those who are keen learner on Chinese metaphysics subjects.