Foundations of Ba Zi
Foundations of Ba Zi includes all the information you would learn in my One On One Series 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.
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 unsure as how to plunge in to this lifetime study, start here! Toss the coins, record the result, identify the hexagram, begin to interpret. That’s the focus of this workshop.
Schedule One on One any time. Announcements of Group Class offerings will be available through my Substack.
Penalty, Punishment, Harm & Destruction
Everyone knows that life can be hard sometimes, and if there is a Penalty, Punishment, Harm or Destruction in a Ba Zi sometimes it can help us understand more about what is happening. More importantly, by understanding these difficult dynamics, we will be able to come up with some (un)common sense solutions that go beyond avoiding trouble.
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Ba Zhai for House Hunters
Do you know if your current house fits you? Ba Zhai will tell you. If you are house hunting, you’ll want to know that many Feng Shui issues can be avoided or solved simply by getting this one system right.
With this service I share with you the information you need to find the house that fits you best, in a format you can easily share with your agent. We will cover what you want to look for and what your good locations and directions mean for you.
Date Selection Service
The purpose of Date Selection is to prolong the good energy of a moment by doing the right thing at the right time in the right place. The goal is a helpful and predictable outcome.
Selecting a date for an important and specific purpose such as water placement, a business or product launch, or even international travel requires more expertise. If you are in a clash year, taking extra care with timing can make a big difference in how things turn out.
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!
For specific classes or more formal studies, please visit my Study page.
Hidden Stems
Heavenly Stems are hidden within each Earthly Branch. Knowing which Stems are hidden in the Branch we can gain even more insight about the Ba Zi and how it works.
Hidden Stems can reveal many nuances about personality, but also about the timing of events.
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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 , this book is a fundamental tool for any kind of Date Selection. Cheaper and more fun than using a calculator. Go analog!
Everything we will cover is in The Student’s Key to the Hsia Calendar, which is included in the price of the class.
Feng Shui Survey
Typically, a full Feng Shui survey includes both indoor and outdoor analysis of your home. We will address Land Form, Interior Form, annual energies, Ba Zhai, Flying Stars, and much more.
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A Feng Shui survey is the beginning of a process and a collaboration between us. No Feng Shui job is the same as any other, and so, my fees depend on the job. Since this is usually the first thing people want to know about my Feng Shui service, please fill out the Intake Form and I can quote you a fee.
CLASH! Course
What is a clash? What clashes you? In the 2025 CLASH! Course we will focus on the clash between 巳 Snake and 亥 Pig which we’re all going to experience.
What does that mean on a global level? What does it mean on a personal level? The personal part will depend on your Ba Zi which will reveal clues about how you can best manage clash for yourself.
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Monthly Meetup
An invitation to every Monthly Meetup is included with a subscription to the Monthly Guide. This is a free event for paid subscribers where we use the Guide as a jumping off point for discussing Ba Zi, current events and forecasting. Questions are welcome. If you’re not a subscriber, you can attend single Meetups by purchasing a copy of the latest Monthly Guide.
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Student’s Key to the Hsia Calendar
The Key includes instructional materials for writing the 10 Heavenly Stems and 12 Earthly Branches, four calendar pages for practice, the 5 Rats Chasing Hour Table, the 5 Tigers Chasing Month Table, and tables for identifying all of the Chinese characters you’ll need to convert a Gregorian date into the 8 Characters that make up a Ba Zi. If Ba Zi is not your thing, you can learn to read the Chinese calendar for your own purposes.
Pairs perfectly with the Hsia Calendar Book.
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 from knowledgeable teachers and other sources.
Learn about the concept and nuances of Void in this two hour class on Zoom.
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Hsia or Xia Calendar Book
CHINESE LANGUAGE BOOK – NO ENGLISH
The Hsia or Xia Calendar, also known as the 10,000 year calendar or 萬年曆 Wan Nian Li is an essential tool for drafting Ba Zi without calculators or computers. All it takes to read this lunisolar calendar is a little knowledge.
This is the perfect companion to the Student’s Key to the Hsia Calendar.
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? If you want to know when you might get a new job or relationship, what do you look for?
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Ask Your BaZi (Returning Clients)
When you get to the mountain, it’s time to pause and decide whether you will go around, over, or through. Times are changing. Let’s ask your Ba Zi to help with strategies and plans.
Book this service if you are: are looking for signposts, considering a career change, want to reprioritize your life, feeling your luck is changing, curious about relationship compatibility, want to know WHEN to do WHAT…
Ba Zi Combinations
What is a combination in a Ba Zi? Combinations often bring something good. What changes elementally speaking? What does it mean to combine? What does it look like in real life? Who benefits in a Snake year? What happens when elements want to combine but can’t? Bring your Ba Zi to the conversation if you like!
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Wood Snake 2025 Almanac
The Almanac is a reference tool, calendar, and learning journal. If you’re not familiar with Chinese Astrology, all of the information you need to navigate the Almanac is included before the calendar portion including the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, Elements, Cycle of 60, Chinese hours, days, months, seasons, and years.
WRITE IN THIS BOOK!
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!
For specific classes or more formal studies, please visit my Study page.
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.
Why do some people seem to find love so easily? Why is it harder for others? There are specific characteristics in a natal chart that will help you to understand these things.
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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Feng Shui Annual Tune Up
If I’ve already done a full Feng Shui Survey of your home, you may book an appointment to find out what changes you might want to make to be Wood Snake Year compliant. We will mainly deal with Ba Zhai, Flying Stars, San Sha, Sui Po and Tai Sui. Those last three are sometimes called the Annual Afflictions but it’s really not that scary I promise.
For Returning Clients only. This is not a full survey.
Available from January-April only.
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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Get Lucky with the Monthly Guide
Whether you’re a serious student who wants to learn more about Feng Shui, Ba Zi and Date Selection, or a person who wants to add more meaning to their time on Earth, I recommend you subscribe to my Monthly Guide. Each issue includes information for every day of the Chinese Month.
Start your 12 issue subscription any time, or purchase a single issue when you need some extra guidance in your life.
The Wood Snake 2025 Wall Calendar
The Wood Snake 2025 Wall Calendar is a regular Gregorian style calendar with the Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch for each day.
The illustration for each month includes the name and start date of the Chinese month. They don’t conform to the Gregorian calendar. In the background of each calendar is the lucky flower for that Earthly Branch of the Chinese Zodiac.
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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Wu Xing for Ba Zi 3
Wu Xing for Ba Zi (Session Three) completes this three part series by teaching you how to identify what each of the Five Elements means for you, and who they represent in your life. You can also do this from the perspective of any day stem.
Bring your Ba Zi and your questions to the discussion and you will begin to see the accuracy of this ancient system of divination. If you don’t already know your Four Pillars please ask me before class.
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Yi Jing Divination Service
The magic of Divination with Yi Jing is that it always seems to offer both practical and metaphysical answers to the questions we might have. It addresses the past, present and possible futures. If you have just one question, this might be the right service for you.
You provide the question, cast the Hexagram and share your results with me. Then we will meet to talk about what the Yi Jing has to say. It’s not complicated!
Date Selection 1 : Concepts
Do you like patterns?
Do you want to learn how to do some practical magic?
Do you want to know what’s behind the Serious Dailies?
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. Who wouldn’t want to know when to do what? Make your efforts count. You want to know when you’re going against your luck, and know when it’s time to ride it. Usually, bad luck means it’s time for you to prepare for the good luck.
Ask Your Ba Zi (New Clients)
Book this service if you want to explore fresh perspectives on past, present or future or you are interested in finding uncommon solutions to your problems.
Other reasons you might want a Ba Zi would be that you are considering a career change, want to reprioritize your life, feeling your luck is changing, you’re curious about relationship compatibility, want to know WHEN to do WHAT…
Explore Roots, Stems & Branches of Ba Zi
If you’d like to take other classes with me and you have no prior experience, start here. This is foundational knowledge.
Stems, Roots 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.
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Ba Zhai : Eight House or Eight Mansions
Ba Zhai is one of the most easily accessible systems of Feng Shui. 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.
Once you learn how to calculate the Ming Gua, you can apply this system to any house, based on any person. You can share your knowledge with others and eliminate guesswork. Anyone who has a compass can make quick decisions about whether a house will fit them – or not!
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Twelve Life Stages
Add further nuance to your Ba Zi readings by learning about the Twelve Growth Stages. An understanding of The 12 Life Stages, 12 Growth Stages or 12 Growth Palaces is crucial for accurate analysis.
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.
Wu Xing for Ba Zi 2
Deepen your learning of Five Elements, empower your independent study of Ba Zi or enrich your knowledge of Elemental meanings by taking the second session of this three part class.
Wu Xing for Ba Zi (Session Two) will broaden your knowledge of the Five Elements by introducing more concepts and perspectives.
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Wu Xing For Ba Zi 1
Learn how to identify the elements in your own Ba Zi, empower your independent study of Ba Zi or enrich your perspective on the Five Elements by taking the first session of this three part class.
Wu Xing for Ba Zi (Session 1) is an introduction to the core principle of Ba Zi and Feng Shui. We will approach this topic as a study of movements or processes. Wu Xing is dynamic, not static.
By the end the third session, by knowing the element of your day stem you will be able to identify what each of the Five Elements means to you.
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Shi Shen : Ten Spirits or Ten Gods
The component of Ba Zi called Shi Shen, 10 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. Secret feelings will also be revealed!
If you’re comfortable with elemental cycles, you’re already prepared to learn this technique. Fluency with the Shi Shen can’t be faked in a reading. You will want to know this system backwards and forwards, so to speak.
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