America traditionally bids farewell to the Horse month of June in a haze of rockets’ red glare, cordite and insomnia. This year we significantly magnified Independence Day’s carbon footprint thanks to you know who. Many people in the neighborhood mentioned recently that they can’t tell the difference between the noise of the gunshots and the… Read More
Metal Horse Month : It’s Only a Test
This year, the month of the Horse is a Metal Horse beginning on June 6. The monthly star is a 7 – young women lead the way. Both the pillar and the star refer to Fire and Metal together. Forging and refinement are most timely. The Horse is often called the most Yang of the… 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
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
Notes from the San Sha
Way back in February I wrote about my new office and the risky business of being in the north in 2018. I’ve been acting as my own guinea pig, partly out of year-related doggedness and partly to see how much it is possible to mitigate the negative energy. As you may recall, the Wu Wang… Read More
But We REALLY Want a Fountain!
I was sitting here in my new office listening to the rain this morning, while working on calendars for date selection. The sound of the water and the idea of “a good date” got me to thinking about a couple that I worked with around ten years ago. They found me via my website. At… Read More
Chris Cornell and Generation X
I didn’t really know Chris Cornell but I had seen him in Post Alley a couple of times and once at the restaurant where I worked. And of course I had seen him perform with Soundgarden. Arriving in Seattle in late 1989 I was a little late to the Grunge scene, or maybe just in… Read More
Harvey Weinstein : Release the Hounds
Let’s take a look at the Ba Zi of Harvey Weinstein. He was born March 19, 1952 in Queens, NY. His birth time is unknown but I have estimated it to be the hour of the Horse. As you read through this analysis please keep in mind that how all of this plays out is… Read More
Empty Nested Phoenix, Itchy Footed Dragon
One of the traditional ways to make predictions about the coming year is to look at past years that share the same animal branch. The Dog is what is called an Earth branch. The branch is to the year as a flavor is to ice cream. Each year branch has its own particular taste, texture… 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