A Dou Shu Divination: On Orthognathic Surgery
By 巫垚
AI translated from the original Chinese.
Zi Wei Dou Shu can be applied to a wide range of things: character, timing, divination and feng shui all have something to say. If the matter in question is a small one in life, such as luck for travel abroad, shopping or surgery, a Dou Shu divination is more direct and clearer than reading your own chart.
Earlier I used a Dou Shu divination to ride the buzz of the US presidential election. Today let's use one to discuss surgery.
Recently a client asked whether her orthognathic surgery would go smoothly. First, what is orthognathic surgery?
Orthognathic surgery is surgery performed to correct structural and developmental problems of the jaw and face, or to improve sleep apnea, temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders, malocclusion caused by skeletal problems, or other orthodontic problems not easily corrected with braces; it is also often used to treat congenital cleft lip and palate.
This client is a fairly popular live streamer, sweet-looking and widely liked, but troubled by "malocclusion" and "missing teeth." So she resolved to fix her jaw problems once and for all. Everyone feels uneasy facing surgery, so I cast a divination to see whether it would go smoothly.
The data:
- Time: December 16, 2020, 12 noon
- Client: born ROC year 78, a 己巳 year, female
- Lead surgeon: surname 姜 (Jiang), 9 strokes.
With this information, let's cast the chart for that day:
This is the original chart, which still can't tell us the key points. Let's reshape it into something we can discuss.
How do we see from this chart whether the surgery will go smoothly?
- The subject is a woman born in the 己巳 year of ROC 78, so the 巳 Palace is very important.
- 化祿 concentrate in the 巳 Palace.
- 太陰 (Tai Yin) is weak in 巳 and sees 天鉞 (Tian Yue). Although it sees the malefics 擎羊 (Qing Yang), 陀羅 (Tuo Luo) and 火星 (Huo Xing), which give 太陰 a negative pattern, the 巳 Palace holds 地空 (Di Kong) and 地劫 (Di Jie), which dilute the negative effect and turn it positive.
- The surgeon's surname 姜 has 9 strokes and falls in the 申 Palace, so the 庚 of 申 can be used. Under 庚, 太陽 (Tai Yang) becomes 化祿 and 太陰 becomes 化科, both auspiciously transforming the 巳 Palace.
Overall judgment: the surgery will go smoothly and achieve the expected result.
This is a Dou Shu divination chart, but is this all we can see? Of course not. We can read finer details from it.
First, the subject is a woman born in 己巳, with 廉貞 (Lian Zhen) as her main star. 廉貞 is in the 辰 Palace with stem 丙, which makes 廉貞 become 化忌. This shows her unease and anxiety about the surgery.
Second, 太陰 falls in the 巳 Palace, which is also the subject's 太歲 (Tai Sui) palace, so 太陰 can also show a person's appearance. If 太陰 falls on the 15th of the lunar month, the face is rounder; if it falls at the start or end of the month, the chin is more pointed. This pretty streamer's divination falls on the 2nd day of the 12th lunar month: a pointed chin, which also shows "missing teeth" and "malocclusion" making chewing difficult. That is why she needs surgery.
Third, the 巳 Palace also has a small star few people notice, called 鳳閣 (Feng Ge). 鳳閣 can also symbolize the condition of the teeth. Orthognathic surgery involves the jawbone and naturally affects the lower teeth too. This also reflects the image of orthognathic surgery.
Fourth, Dr. Jiang's main star, 天梁 (Tian Liang), falls in the 酉 Palace with stem 辛, which makes 文昌 (Wen Chang) become 化忌, harming the subject's 廉貞. 文昌 stands for verbal expression. So we can judge that after the surgery she probably won't be able to talk with people normally for a while.
Fifth, Dr. Jiang's 9 strokes fall in the 申 Palace with stem 庚, making 武曲 (Wu Qu) become 化權 and concentrating Quan stars in 申. So we can tell that Dr. Jiang should be a well-known, confident and capable orthognathic surgeon in the field.
If the subject had asked me to read her own chart to see whether the surgery would succeed, it could be done, but the process is complicated and it's hard to find the key points. Judging instead with a "Dou Shu divination" makes foreseeing the outcome more direct and easier.
Today is December 13, 2020, so in 3 days she will have her surgery. I wish her a successful and smooth operation in advance.
I wanted to post a photo of the pretty streamer, but she said no. Such a pity I couldn't win this perk for my readers. 😂