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Learn to Read the Hsia Calendar in Chinese

If you’re familiar with the 10 Heavenly Stems and the 12 Earthly Branches, it will only take an hour to get comfortable navigating and using the lunisolar Hsia calendar. Sometimes known as the 10,000 year calendar, the Hsia calendar (book) is a fundamental tool for drafting Ba Zi by hand. Using a book is less expensive and more fun than using a calculator. Go analog!

Foundations of Ba Zi

Foundations of Ba Zi includes all the information you would learn in my thirteen Intro Series classes AND you’ll learn how to draft Ba Zi without a calculator. Weekly meetings help add accountability and give you time to go over new concepts and information before your next class, however, you may schedule your classes at your own pace. Pay tuition in full or pay quarterly.

Explore Roots, Stems & Branches of Ba Zi

Roots, Stems and Branches of Ba Zi is for anyone who wants to learn more about Ba Zi or Chinese Astrology. You don’t need any prior knowledge or training. If you’d like to take other classes with me and you have no prior experience, start here. This is foundational knowledge.

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Wu Xing For Ba Zi 1

Wu Xing for Ba Zi 1 introduces a core principle of Ba Zi and Feng Shui. Wu Xing is a study of movements or processes; it is dynamic, not static. Learn to identify the Five Elements in a Ba Zi, or broaden your perspective on the Five Elements by taking the first session of this three part class.

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Wu Xing for Ba Zi 2

Enrich your knowledge of Elemental meanings by taking the second session of this three part class. The goal of Wu Xing for Ba Zi 2 is to increase your agility with applications of Five Element theory. By the end you will have a basic understanding of how to work with the elements in different modalities.

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Wu Xing for Ba Zi 3

Complete your Wu Xing journey with the final class in this three part series. We’ll start with a quick review of Elemental Cycles and then we will move on to tie everything you’ve learned so far together with the concepts of Self, Output, Wealth/Success, Power, and Resource.

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Hidden Heavenly Stems

Heavenly Stems are hidden within each Earthly Branch, and knowing them allows us to add nuance to interpretation, as well as increasing your understanding of the system of Ba Zi. As a diviner, I can tell you the Hidden Stems reveal many nuances about personality, but also about the timing of events.

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CLASH! Course

What is a clash? What clashes you? What is it like? Any Ba Zi will tell you all about what clashes it and reveal clues about how to manage the clash. In the 2025 CLASH! Course in the second hour we will focus on the clash between 巳 Snake and 亥 Pig, something we’re all going to experience.

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Ba Zi Combinations

What is a combination in a Ba Zi? For one thing combinations often bring something good. Sometimes they change the elemental dynamic of a Ba Zi for better or worse. Learn who potentially benefits from combination in a Snake year and the unique characteristics of the combination of 巳 Snake and 申 Monkey.

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Penalty, Punishment, Harm & Destruction

Life can be hard sometimes, and if there is a Penalty, Punishment, Harm or Destruction in a Ba Zi it can help us understand more about what is happening. More importantly, we will be able to support healing by coming up with some (un)common sense solutions that go beyond avoiding trouble.

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Twelve Life Stages

Just as humans do, every element has its own cycle of birth, growth, decline, and death. This may or may not be literal, but when we read a Ba Zi we want to look at what the growth stage of each element means to the day master. Accurate analysis rests on understanding the 12 Life Stages, aka 12 Growth Palaces.

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Shi Shen : Ten Spirits or Ten Gods

The component of Ba Zi called Shi Shen, Ten Spirits, Ten Gods or Shifting Palace is what will allow you to identify people in a person’s life and their relationship to the person. Elements tell all. Secrets will be revealed! Fluency with the Shi Shen can’t be faked in a reading.

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All About Void

Void is one of the least taught and possibly the least understood of the foundational principles of a Ba Zi. Lucky for you, in my 23+ years of study I’ve gathered quite a bit of information to share from knowledgeable teachers and other sources.

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Conception House and Life House

In this class you will learn how to calculate the Conception House and Life House. More importantly, you will learn how to add this professional touch to your readings based on your existing knowledge of Elements and Elemental dynamics.

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Selected Special Stars for Ba Zi

The finishing touch on any Introductory Series to Ba Zi is a lesson on the Special Stars or 神煞 Shen Sha that are present in any natal chart. Who knows how many Shen Sha there are? Definitely too many to cover in this class which is why I’ve selected the ones I use the most to share with you.

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Relationships and Compatibility

What do people want to know about the most, maybe even more than money? They want to know when they will meet someone, fall in love, get married or commit, or all of the above. In this two hour class we explore how to use the Ba Zi to determine compatibility or synastry. This can be applied to any relationship – not just the romantic ones.

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Date Selection 1 : Concepts

Date Selection is done in order to take advantage of timing; to extend the luck of a day or moment in time. For example, Feng Shui practitioners use it when placing water, but this technique is quite useful for every day life. This is Electional Astrology.

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Date Selection 2 : Practical Applications

In the first part of this Workshop we cover concepts. In this second part, we want to apply what you’ve learned to your Ba Zi and/or any date. Now it’s time to learn when to execute your plans, and when to prepare. When is it time to rest? Learn how to work with time.

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Beginner’s Yi Jing Divination Workshop

Yi Jing 易经, also known as the I Ching or Book of Changes, is a core text for students of Ba Zi or Feng Shui, however, anyone can engage with the Yi Jing as a method of divination. If you’ve been waiting to plunge into this lifetime study, start now!

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Support for Independent Study

Book an hour or two of study with me to learn something new or ask those nagging questions that you have about Ba Zi. If you’re working on a Ba Zi (other than your own) and you want to get confirmation or other feedback, I can help with that too. Maybe all you need is a hint!

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Ba Zhai : Eight House or Eight Mansions

Ba Zhai is one of the most easily accessible systems of Feng Shui. All you need is a compass! It’s not that complex, and yet it’s quite powerful in application. Many Feng Shui issues can be avoided or solved simply by getting this one system right.

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