your online guide says that I am a strong yin water monkey and my unfavorable elements/colors are gold/white, blue/black/gray

however a feng shui master told me before that I am a metal monkey and I should be wearing more white/blue/gray/black clothes or gold jewelries

which is which?

thank you

The proper traditional method is based on your personal bazi and not basic Chinese zodiac signs. Anyone practising such Chinese zodiac signs are using only very basic "kindergarten" type of Feng Shui practitioners.

Why? It is so rudimentary and basic and is not the highest standard. It is just like a teacher who has only limited skills and can only teach nursery to primary school.

Proper Ba Zi can even go to as high as "tertiary" level standards. So there is no comparison, here.

Thus there are things like very basic Chinese zodiac signs that some people use. For example, http://www.lovesigns.net/horoscope/ayear/a60-80.htm

Those born say between 16 Feb 1980 to 4 Feb 1981 are SIMPLY called the Metal monkeys. But these are just generally based soley on one's Year of birth.

Where else traditional ba zi uses Day / Month / Year and even time of birth to evaluated to derive a properba zi information. As these variables will interact with each other to give the final analysis based on one's Day of birth pillar.

Further to what I had mentioned, a person's ba zi is derived by looking at the relationships of one's Heavenly stems and Earthly branches.

A proper ba zi chart will involve 2 variables each for Year, Month, Day, Hour of birht and House of Life and House of conception to properly derive one's ba zi element and strengths.

See attachment.

While a rudimentary Chinese zodiac sign is based purely on one's year of birth. For example, Metal monkeys are only found under the year 1920 and 1980.

http://www.lovesigns.net/horoscope/astro/mmonkey.htm
(You just need to roughly know which year you are born)

Compare the two and see which has more variables and information.

In addition, everyone born in the 1980 are Metal Monkeys! So what? Too general! Even if everyone is born in 1980, there are such things as born in the a specific month and day. Even general Western zodiac signs have things like Gemini, Cancer, Aquarius etc...

thank you so much for the clarification sir