Dear Cecil:
I'm very fond of your site and I'm suscribed to receive e-mails
from it.I've a doubt I haven't been able to clarify.I was born in
November 10 1954, so I'M AWOODEN HORSE on the other hand
my kua number is 1, weak metal. What can I do to solve this
contradiction? What remedies can I use?
thanks

Dear Anon,
1. I am glad you find the forum useful.
2. Firstly, there should not be any conflict between a weak metal and a wood-horse as the second is the heavenly stem plus earthly branch of your year of birth.
3. And in the greater picture of Pillars of Destiny: it is part of the overall picture of your Pillars of Destiny or Ba Zi - where your weak metal is derived from not only the Year but also includes the Month, Day and Time of birth.
4. For Gua or Kua being 1; one has to remember that it is also based on a general overview i.e. based on the Year of birth only.
Thus, to re-cap; a proper or a simple basic Pillars of Destiny would alone take into consideration Year, Month, Day and Time.
5. Contrast this to just the Year of birth being looked at when we look at Gua or Kua number.
Therefore, it is felt that there is not much comparison that can be done between the two: Eight House (Gua number) and Pillars of Destiny e.g. weak metal. Since there is no direct comparison, the two cannot be used to re-enforce each other.
6. The rationale of the success of the Eight House or 4 good/4 bad directions is it's ease of understanding and ease of use. This is it's plus point.
7. But for those, who want to advance further could perhaps use advanced concepts like: for example if one is a weak metal person, then finding a house with `earth' element is more beneficial. Since earth helps metal to grow. Thus if one uses Ba Zi Feng Shui then, one may consider a house with the directions at NE or SW - or a earth house.
The above is a simplistic look at group of concepts relating to Five elements concept.
8. If one may start to wonder, then it is best said that Eight House cannot be used to confirm the Ba Zi method; since we are not comparing `apples' with `apples' but apples (Eight House - only one's year of birth) with an orange i.e. Year, Month, Day & Time of birth.
9. It is also similar to the concepts of:
Flying Star Feng Shui &
Nine Star Ki
Although, if anyone ask a good FS practitioner, he/she will say that both are one and the same. But when we try to `mix' and match Flying Star with Nine Star Ki; one will be at a total lost or bewildered. As both follow different paths and results are not essentially identical -- for confirmation.
Warmest Regards,
Cecil

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On 3/12/2002 2:25:00 PM, Anonymous wrote:
Dear Cecil:
I'm very fond of your site and
I'm suscribed to receive
e-mails
from it.I've a doubt I haven't
been able to clarify.I was
born in
November 10 1954, so I'M
AWOODEN HORSE on the other
hand
my kua number is 1, weak
metal. What can I do to solve
this
contradiction? What remedies
can I use?
thanks