12 Animal Fortunes for the Water Monkey Month

Water Monkey Month August 8-September 8 Here are the Animal Fortunes for the month of the Water Monkey. To get the most out of the fortunes you’ll want to know all four of your pillars which are based on your birth date and time. If you don’t know them get in touch. Each of the… Read More

12 Animal Fortunes for the Sheep Month

Metal Sheep Month July 7th-August 8 Here are the Animal Fortunes for the month of the Metal Sheep. To get the most out of the fortunes you’ll want to know all four of your pillars which are based on your birth date and time. Each of the four animals of your BaZi correlates with an… Read More

12 Animal Fortunes for the Horse Month

It’s the Fire season where everyone and everything speeds up. We are all more active and some of us may be taking on more than we usually do. That’s what the Fire season is for. Accordingly, I decided on the spur of the moment to take a Qi Men Dun Jia class a week ago.… Read More

A Horse In The Running : Joe Biden

The Horse respects rules only in the sense that rules are for others. This is slightly less true with Water and Metal Horses. That’s why it will be interesting to see what transpires with Joe Biden this summer, especially in August. He’s a 1942 Water Horse born in the Metal Pig month. With those two… Read More

The Ox in 2019 ~ Earth Pig Year

Who is an Ox? Years: 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009. Month*: January Hour: 01.00-03.00am Day: Ask Us * Caution: the start of the Chinese month can be as early as the 4th & as late as the 9th, depending on the year. I can let you know this too. What is an Ox? The… Read More

2019 Year of the Earth Pig

I Say What I Mean and I Mean What I Say If you’re looking for brutal honesty consult a Pig. With the Pig, if things don’t turn out the way you expected that means you probably didn’t listen to what they were saying. Actually this is true with everyone you meet. It’s just that the… Read More

Of Calculators, Cusps, and the Uncommon Sense of Ba Zi

A calculator can’t deal with a cusp but a human can. This thought has been hanging around since I had a series of conversations first with my son Joe, and then with my husband Peter, about the time it takes to draft a ba zi. It takes me hours to draft a full ba zi.… Read More

A (Re)Productive Cycle

The Pig Month, which covers most of November, marks lap dung in the Chinese almanac. This is the beginning of winter. The winter season also includes the Rat (December) and the Ox (January). In terms of 5 elements, winter is the season of water. Think ice, snow, cold, rain, sleet, hail, flooding, slipperiness, clouds, downward… Read More

Hunter’s Moon

Gardeners learn to observe the cues of nature to properly time their efforts. Simply by paying attention every day to what is going on in the garden you will learn how to identify changes in season by noting the smell of the soil, temperature, precipitation and plant growth rather than relying solely on the calendar.… Read More