What Exactly Are the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches? (Part 1)
For several thousand years our understanding of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly…
What Exactly Are the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches? (Part 2)
In Taiyuan I met a professor who told me the Yijing is not a science. I told h…
What Exactly Are the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches? (Part 3)
When you study traditional culture, do not assume that traditional culture is…
What Is the Astronomical Origin of the Ten Heavenly Stems?
Saturn was called zhenxing, “the garrison star”, in ancient China. It is one o…
What Is the Astronomical Origin of the Twelve Earthly Branches?
The twelve Earthly Branches were fixed by the ancients from the motion of Jupi…
What Is the Real Meaning of Yin and Yang in the Stems and Branches?
A Yang Stem or a Yang Branch can be understood as the form of a thing — its ph…
How the Stems and Branches Generate and Control One Another
There are two kinds of “generation” among the Stems and Branches. One genuinel…
Is the Sequence of the Five Elements a Theorem or an Axiom?
What is a theorem? In plain terms, a theorem is a truth with conditions attach…
What Do the Twelve Zodiac Animals Have to Do with the Earthly Branches?
First. That zi is a rat and chou is an ox is itself a crude misunderstanding.…
The Five-Element Properties of the Twenty-Four Compass Directions
Jia, yi, yin and mao are Wood. Ren, zi, gui and hai are Water. Bing, ding, si…
Why Do Students of the Yijing Keep Getting Cheated by the Masters?
Why do people who study the Yijing keep getting cheated by the masters? You ma…
What Is the Physical Nature of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches?
The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches are, in themselves, nothing but symbol…
How Do You Read a Chart With Only One or Two Elements?
In Bazi practice you will meet many charts built from a single element, or two…
How Do You Choose the "Yongshen" in Liuyao Divination?
This question may surprise many students of the Yijing. But here is the object…
What Are the Movement Laws of the Harmonized Yin–Yang Qi in Feng Shui?
If you study feng shui, you cannot find the yin-yang chonghe zhi qi — the harm…
Where Is the Truth in "Liuyao Prediction Theory"?
For more than a decade, a crowd of home-grown “swindler-masters” has made its…
Where Is the Real Theory of Liuyao Prediction?
Liuyao reads heaven above, earth below, and human affairs in between. It is th…
Shenbing Qimen Is the Real Qimen Dunjia — Every Other School Is a Jianghu Fake
Shenbing Qimen Dunjia is a secret art of the Zhuge Liang line, transmitted in…
Is Qimen Dunjia the Feng Shui Master's Third Eye?
A certain qimen master published an article in a feng shui journal. He wrote t…
Shenbing Qimen in Practice: Three Cases
The Buddha said that it takes five hundred glances across five hundred lifetim…
What Exactly Is the "Taiji Halo"?
Yang Junsong, Liao Jinjing, Zeng Wendi and Lai Buyi — the four patriarchs of t…
Yin Dragons, Yang Dragons, the Open Face and the Taiji Halo
Liao Yu's Sixteen Burial Methods pins down two things precisely. First, the ex…
What Can Feng Shui and the Yijing Actually Predict?
The purpose of prediction is to avoid risk. A prediction is exactly like the s…
What I Got From Studying the Lü School of Natural-Science Yixue
For as long as I can remember I have been drawn to Confucianism, Buddhism and…
What Is Feng Shui? Revisited
In the narrow sense, feng shui means the natural environment — every blade of…
What Is a Feng Shui Master Actually Looking For?
Whether it is traditional feng shui or natural-science feng shui, when we seek…
What Is a True “Dragon Point”?
What is a dragon? A dragon is a mountain range, or a water course. What is a d…
The Core Secret of Seeking the Dragon and Setting the Point (Part 1)
When people hear “dragon point” they think at once of the traditional sequence…
The Core Secret of Seeking the Dragon and Setting the Point (Part 2)
There are very many ways to change the fate of a life. At the large end: trans…
The Dragon Vein: Passing the Canopy, Crossing the Gorge, Binding the Breath
A dragon vein runs from the ancestral mountain to the parent mountain to the p…
Is a Cut Dragon Vein Always Bad Luck?
Every feng shui master, ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, will answer wit…
Where in the Strata Does Vein Energy Accumulate?
1. Vein energy accumulates downstream of a dipping stratum. Because of gravity…
Precautions When Setting the Focal Point
With a focal point, if more energy arrives from inauspicious directions and le…
The Twenty-Four Sand Burial Methods, in Photographs
The twenty-four sand burial methods are a way of setting the point that takes…
The Four Point Methods — Hollow, Pincer, Breast and Mound — in Photographs
There are many ways to set a point. The four most commonly used are the hollow…
The Focal Point in Flat Country
On a plain, a focal point can be formed where a road or a river bends or cross…
Telling Sand From Water (Part 1)
1. Factories. Every factory is sand. A mineral water bottling plant is sand to…
Setting the Orientation in Natural-Science Feng Shui
On the question of orientation, traditional feng shui reached a conclusion — s…
Can the “Sitting and Facing Fenjin” Theory Actually Be Applied?
Zuoxiang fenjin — sitting, facing, and the fenjin — means the directions of th…
Reading Sand and Water in the Twenty-Four Directions
You must be clear on this point, because the 290 configurations make use of it…
Reading Feng Shui in an Apartment Block
There are two sides to feng shui in city apartment blocks. First, how to choos…
There Are True Dragon Points in City Buildings Too
In mountains or on plains, in cities or in villages, true dragon points are ev…
Reading a Public Cemetery
1. When surveying a public cemetery and setting a point in it, you face hundre…
Which Floor Is Auspicious?
Our view, in natural-science feng shui, is as follows. First, safety comes bef…
How Do You Read Feng Shui for an Only Child?
An only child owns all three hundred and sixty degrees of the feng shui. So th…
Does Feng Shui During Pregnancy Affect a Child’s Fate?
What is pregnancy feng shui? It is the natural feng shui environment of the ho…
Can Ancestral Graves Affect the Fate of Descendants?
What is an ancestral grave? An ancestral grave is the place where an ancestor'…
Ancestral Graves and the Family Home
Yin dwelling means the ancestral grave; yang dwelling means the family home. O…
Are the Ming Tombs a Good Feng Shui Site?
The Ming tombs outside Beijing are the “dragon points” of thirteen Ming empero…
The Zangshu of Guo Pu: Text, Meaning and a Scientific Reading
The Zangshu — also called the Book of Burial — was written by the Eastern Jin…
Energy Channels in the Mountains
Two graves side by side. Twenty centimetres apart. One family prospers for thr…
Reading a Site by the Sea
The method for coastal and lakeside sites rests on a single definition, and if…
Shopfronts on a Street
Two definitions govern a row of shops facing a road, and both are counter-intu…
Is There Such a Thing as Reverse Feng Shui?
The claim is made often enough to have become a school: premises of certain ki…
Is Feng Shui a Science?
The Yijing itself is a work of philosophy — a humanity, a social science, call…
Energy and Circulation
Two things decide whether a site is auspicious, and only two. Everything else…
Four Ounces, One Thousand Pounds
A practitioner stands in your doorway, points at the corner of a building oppo…
Why You Cannot Pin a Mountain
A practitioner looks at the hill across the valley, tells you it is harming yo…
The Fortunate Live in Fortunate Places
There is a saying every practitioner knows: the fortunate live in fortunate pl…
Feng Shui Cannot Fix Laziness
The line is familiar. The master finishes the adjustment, packs his compass, a…
Missing Corners: Why the Theory Does Not Hold
A flat with a corner cut off is supposed to damage one part of your life, and…
The Green Dragon and the White Tiger: Direction, Not Left and Right
The standard formula in the feng shui literature is left green dragon, right w…
Reading the Feng Shui of a Temple
Temples stand on famous mountains and beside great rivers, their incense halls…
Reading Feng Shui in Water Country
A water town inverts almost every assumption a feng shui reader carries in fro…
Which Directions Want Sand and Which Want Water
Every reading of a site, whether a house or a grave, comes down to the same qu…
Bones and Ashes: Does Cremation Change Ancestral Influence?
Two questions get run together whenever this subject comes up. The first is wh…
When Relatives Compete for the Same Feng Shui
Positional assignment seems like a neutral bookkeeping device. It tells you wh…
Sky Burial and Water Burial: Reading Feng Shui Without a Grave
The challenge is usually put as a trap. Tibetan families practise sky burial,…
A Brief Word on the Underlying Logic of Bazi Reading
What is “underlying logic”? Underlying logic is a way of thinking that starts…
The Positioning System of a Bazi
Every bazi is in fact made of two systems: the surface ten gods and the positi…
The Time System of Bazi Prediction
1. The problem of ten gods in chaotic motion In annual-cycle prediction, when…
The Environmental System of Bazi Prediction
The environmental system is very important, and it is more accurate than the t…
What the Number of Stems and Branches Has to Do With Real Life
Matching the number of stems and branches to real life is one of the commonest…
How to Judge the Strength and Weakness of Stems and Branches
Strength and weakness in a bazi does need to be discussed. But the method of j…
The “Bazi Model” Really Means a Functional-Feature Model
We have said repeatedly that the feng shui of the mother's home during pregnan…
The Bazi Model in Use: A Worked Example
The bazi model theory is a theory of bazi reading built on the relation betwee…
The Most Scientific Way to Determine the Useful and Unfavourable Gods
Different schools of bazi judge the useful and unfavourable gods differently.…
What the Ten Gods Stand For
Every ten god has a fundamental meaning. But many who write bazi books, in ord…
Telling the Ten Gods Apart in a Person’s Bazi
Telling the ten gods apart has two sides: the surface ten gods and the positio…
The Parallel and the Rob Are Essentially Different
Why separate the parallel from the rob? Because, to be exact, the parallel is…
Locating Body Parts in a Bazi
To judge which direction the fate-energy of people born under the same bazi ha…
Twins, Height and the Exam Score
Male: Xinsi, Gengyin, Gengxu, Renwu twins Luck cycle: Wuzi, from 2015. Annual…
Why Do People Born Under the Same Bazi Have Different Fates?
The greatest unsolved puzzle in Chinese bazi prediction is the differing fates…
What Is the Only Standard for Testing a Bazi Theory?
Whatever the school, only accuracy can prove a theory scientific. A predictive…
Feng Shui and Bazi: Which One Decides Fate?
Long-press the QR code to follow the account. There are many essays from antiq…
Two Reasons a Correct Reading Gets Rejected
Long-press the QR code to follow. Chinese bazi has a long history and, through…
The Shikongren Method: Cases, Volume One
Watch one change in another person's expression. Watch one change in his gestu…
The Shikongren Method: Cases, Volume Two
What follows are live case readings by Lü Wen-yi in the hundred-day top-predic…
The Shikongren Method: Cases, Volume Three
A student asked: a bee circled the person being observed and then flew off in…
The Shikongren Method: Cases, Volume Four
A student asked: two flies were hovering in front of the observed person's lef…
The Shikongren Method: Cases, Volume Five
Observed information: The person being observed rested his arm on the arm of t…
The Shikongren Method: Cases, Volume Six
A student asked: the person observed, the male owner of a restaurant, carried…
The Shikongren Method: Cases, Volume Seven
In July 2024 Lü Wen-yi took a group of colleagues on a field visit to Fufeng.…
Mount Wudang: A Discussion of Time, Space and Person
Wudang Shan, the foremost mountain of Taoism. Its Taoist culture is vast and d…
The Shikongren Method: Cases, Volume Nine
Teacher Xu Hongtao was demonstrating in the new classroom that one more person…
The Shikongren Method: Cases, Volume Ten
1. On a certain day, while pouring water in the morning, I Hu Lina was suddenl…
What Is the Use of Reading a Fate?
Reading a fate is like a medical check-up. The check finds what is wrong, and…
Why Fate Can Be Predicted
Long-press the QR code to follow. Dialectical materialism holds that the movem…
What Fate Prediction Actually Is
Long-press the QR code to follow. A single slap can kill a fortune-teller. Do…
The Problem with Formulas
1. With their conditions, all the formulas are exact Every formula in every sy…
What "Injury, Illness and Disaster" Actually Means
In fate calculation, injury, illness and disaster means harm to the body and h…
The Principle of Adaptation
In my books I have repeated the same points over and over: that fate is materi…
Why More Than a Hundred and Thirty Died at Once
At two in the afternoon on 15 November 2010, a high-rise apartment block on Ji…
How Sima Yi Knew from the Stars That Zhuge Liang's Time Was Up
In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang looks up at the sky and knows hi…
What Actually Fixes a Person’s Hour of Birth?
Fixing the hour of birth was originally very simple. In the early days of the…
How Much Does Choosing the Day Matter?
The influence of date selection on a fate is not to be underestimated. A perso…
Five Notes on Resolving Disaster
Every client and every reader, in every age, has gone looking for the magic th…
The Five Principles of Disaster Resolution
What is a disaster? Harm done by nature or by people. What is resolving one? U…
Time, Space and Person: The One Principle Behind Changing a Fate
Chinese predictive method has many schools and many theories. Some read accura…
What “Promotion” and “Demotion” Mean in a Reading
In fate calculation, “promotion” means advancement in post and development in…
Breaking a Gaming Addiction: A Worked Method
A behaviour has a structural description, and once you have the description th…
Adjusting Marriage and Romance
For a man: the day branch is fundamental; the wealth star is secondary. Togeth…
Four Tests for a Remedy
Any claim to change a person's fate has to answer one question: how would you…
The Ceiling of Adjustment
Before the method, the limit. An adjustment has a band. Inside the band it wor…
Eight Directions, Not Eight Hours
Almost everyone who studies the four pillars begins from the same premise: the…
Adjusting for a Child: A Worked Case
Every method in this archive has a precondition, and this one states it bluntl…
Winning the Contract: Direction and the Right Gift
Getting rich and winning a particular piece of business are not the same probl…
Adjusting for Study: What Can Be Promised
Study is adjusted through two things, and the order matters: the seal star, wh…
The Pagoda Problem: Why a Wen Chang Tower Usually Does Nothing
Every year, before the university entrance examination, families buy a Wen Cha…
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