January 14, 2021

A Dou Shu Divination: On Travel Luck

AI translated from the original Chinese.

Zi Wei Dou Shu is mainly used to project fortunes: the pattern of a lifetime, the ten-year major periods, the annual fortunes. If the scope is narrowed to months, days and hours, accuracy drops depending on the reader's skill.

I once read a friend's chart and knew he was in a smooth major period, yet he told me he had met some setbacks. I told him: "Even in a smooth major period, there can't be no setbacks. Destiny is like a stock chart: when fortune is smooth, the overall trend visible in the chart rises, but there are bound to be dips, only after each dip it climbs higher. So in a smooth major period, the setbacks you meet will surely nourish your success." Life can't go smoothly in everything. Don't expect that after a reading, the advice will help you find the "perfect" choice. Every choice has pros and cons; a reader can only analyze them from the chart and help the client pick the path they can best accept.

So can Zi Wei Dou Shu not address the details of events? Of course it can.

The direction of a life can be projected from the subject's chart; a single matter can be read by casting a "Dou Shu divination" to judge its outcome. For example, if a client asks about the year's fortunes, we reason from their chart; if a client asks about a job interview, we can cast a Dou Shu divination. Depending on the question, the reading takes a different angle.

Recently, chatting with a friend about how things were going, she mentioned that a few days earlier, driving at night, she suddenly felt unwell in body and mind. My friend is sensitive by constitution, and while passing along the South Link Highway, it seemed an extra "person" had joined them in the car. It stayed for a while and left before they drove out of the South Link. From the time she gave, I cast a divination, and the reading did have something to say. Although Dou Shu can discuss the supernatural, I generally try to avoid reading charts from the angle of ghosts and spirits. But this divination was special, so I'll discuss it for what it's worth, and readers can take it for what it's worth.

When traveling far, the departure time can show whether the trip will go smoothly. So let's see what the Dou Shu divination shows from the data my friend provided.

Time: a little after 8 p.m., January 12, 2021.

People: the driver, a man born in 己未; my friend in the passenger seat, a woman born in 戊午.

Event: attending the funeral of her granduncle, aged 95, born in a 丙寅 year.

From the time my friend gave, we get the following divination chart:

There's little to say from this chart, so as usual let's transform it:

In the original chart, 破軍 (Po Jun) of the 申 Palace falls in the 戌 Palace with stem 丙: 廉貞 (Lian Zhen) becomes 化忌.
The 申 Palace was already where 3 化忌 (×) concentrate; adding the 化忌 brought by 破軍, the force is very strong.

So the 申 Palace is very interesting. Let's see how it fares.

The 申 Palace (with its three sides and four directions: 辰, 子, 寅)

Fire among the Five Elements can be seen but not touched, and can symbolize "drifting spirits."
廉貞: by nature Yin Fire, symbolizing drifting spirits.
鈴星 (Ling Xing): by nature Yin Fire, symbolizing drifting spirits.
祿存 (Lu Cun): with 化忌 concentrated, it becomes "羊陀夾忌" (Ji flanked by 擎羊 and 陀羅), governing "confusion."
陰煞 (Yin Sha): the star representing drifting spirits. Stem 壬: 武曲 (Wu Qu) becomes 化忌, in the three sides and four directions of 申, resonating with 廉貞 and 鈴星 in 申.
天馬 (Tian Ma) in 寅: stem 戊, 貪狼 (Tan Lang) becomes 化祿, auspiciously transforming 申; the trip will be fine.

Overall judgment: a drifting spirit appears in the 申 direction. When traveling far, avoid heading in the 申 direction as much as possible. One may easily encounter something supernatural, but nothing serious.

Me: This reading does show that, when traveling, you'd easily encounter something supernatural.
Friend: Passing along the South Link, I suddenly felt unwell, as if an extra "person" was in the car.
Me: Where did you set out from, and where were you going?
Friend: From Fuli in Hualien to Gushan in Kaohsiung.
Me: From the map, you were heading in the 申 direction, as shown below.

In the chart, the 申 Palace is where supernatural things easily happen, and my friend happened to be heading in the 申 direction. You could call it coincidence, but that's quite a coincidence.

The driver, the man born in 己未, and his stems:

The man born in 己未 has 天同 (Tian Tong) as his main star, in the 亥 Palace, strong. His stem 乙 has no effect on the 申 direction.

For the 申 Palace, its three sides and four directions:

寅 Palace, stem 丙: 廉貞 becomes 化忌, a negative effect on 申.
辰 Palace, stem 戊: 貪狼 becomes 化祿, auspiciously transforming 申.
申 Palace, stem 壬: 武曲 becomes 化忌, a negative effect on 申.
子 Palace, stem 丙: 廉貞 becomes 化忌, a negative effect on 申.

Overall judgment: without noticing, he drove into a haunted stretch of road.

Marking the stems of the passenger, the woman born in 戊午:

The woman born in 戊午 has 紫微 (Zi Wei) as her main star, in the 辰 Palace, neutral, with stem 丙, which makes 廉貞 become 化忌. Heading in the 申 direction, she would sense something strongly.

For the 申 Palace, its three sides and four directions:

寅 Palace, stem 甲: 廉貞 becomes 化祿, auspiciously transforming 申
辰 Palace, stem 丙: 廉貞 becomes 化忌, a negative effect on 申.
申 Palace, stem 庚: 武曲 becomes 化權, auspiciously transforming 申
子 Palace, stem 甲: 廉貞 becomes 化祿, auspiciously transforming 申

Overall judgment: though she sensed something, the journey was fine.

My friend later asked: the trip felt strange, but nothing happened. Could it be related to her granduncle?

Bringing in the stems of the granduncle, born in 丙寅:

The granduncle's main star, 天相 (Tian Xiang), is in the 辰 Palace, overlapping with my friend's 紫微. Stem 壬: 武曲 becomes 化忌, clashing with the 申 Palace.

For the 申 Palace, its three sides and four directions:

庚寅: 武曲 becomes 化權, auspiciously transforming 申
壬辰: 武曲 becomes 化忌, a negative effect on 申.
丙申: 廉貞 becomes 化忌, a negative effect on 申.
庚子: 武曲 becomes 化權, auspiciously transforming 申

Overall judgment: the granduncle's main star 天相 is together with my friend's 紫微. Perhaps it can be read as the granduncle coming to accompany my friend on her final journey with him.

The supernatural can't really be verified, but from what my friend told me, it seems something really did happen. Her granduncle lived to the ripe age of 95, which traditionally counts as a "joyful funeral." On her way back to Kaohsiung she sensed something, but the journey was uneventful. Perhaps it can be read as her granduncle keeping her company along part of the road. Whatever happened on the way, she got home safely in the end. The little episode on the road can probably only be told as a story through a Dou Shu divination. So I discuss it for what it's worth, and readers can take it for what it's worth.

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