A Chinese Ghost Story

Woh, time passes fast and it is the Seventh Month of the Ghost Festival again, above is a picture of people making all kind of offerings at night to the Ghosts on a street during their annual holidays on Earth for this month. Keeping with the spirits of the festival, let me tell you a Hong Kong ghost story involving a Blind Man fortune teller. There are many versions and the one I like best was this one retold by a popular ZWDS Master Yang and I had made some adaption from other similar stories to it. So here we go,

'In the Fifties in Hong Kong, Scuba Diving was not that popular when it just started as equipments were very expensive, only the super rich can afford it. There was this young man from a reputable family who was crazy about anything to do with the sea and he particularly loves it. He happens to be the only son of this wealthy family and of course, his parents were concerned as there is a Chinese sayings that the chances of meeting danger in the sea is high normally for a sole descendant. However, they have no way of stopping him apart from telling him to be careful as knowing his unrestrainable character . The son to keep the parents from worrying too much went for qualified life guard course and was trained in CPR or resuscitation apart from being a good swimmer. As such, the parents are more at ease, taking comfort that all precautions have been taken.

Now lets call this young guy Ah Qiang, who happened to have a sweetheart named Xiao Mei from his schooldays however Xiao Mei do not like the sea and so do not join him on his weekly routine of boating around the little islands off Hong Kong. Apart from this hobby, most of the rest of the time Ah Qiang have were spent with Xiao Mei as both were very much in love. The parents were happy to see this and were hoping that they will get married early and they can then have additional family members to carry on the family line.

Ironically, when the parents were in the midst of discussing of how to get the couple to settle down early, when one weekend after returning from his scuba diving trip, Ah Qiang came back, pale faced and went straight to bed without taking his supper or bath. The parents were surprised and thought that he probably had too much fun and was tired. However, the next day, they found that he was running a high fever and was delirious and making unintelligible sounds. The House doctor that came then diagnoses that he was just running a high fever. Ah Qiang then recovered after a few days but however, started to behave strangely.

After that incident, Ah Qiang was no longer so loving to Xiao Mei and most of the time, appeared to be lost in his own thoughts. Xiao Mei in an attempt to strengthen their relationship decided to spend more time with him and thus at times, stay overnight with him at his house. Strangely, when Xiao Mei wake up in the morning, she will find faint finger marks on her cheek which looks like a slap and Ah Qiang will then fall sick for the next few days before recovering. This carried on for weeks and did not escape the notice of Ah Qiang's father who believes in Feng Shui and believes something must have happened during that diving trip and decided to seek advices (this was the Age 5 for flying stars school of feng shui). He had then asked his Feng Shui Master to recheck the house for problems and it was discovered that Ah Qiang was sleeping in a Gen Gua(North East) room and the annual star 4 was in that sector for that year. The Bedroom door was at the Kun Gua (South West) sector. It was then decided to shift Ah Qiang to another bedroom but however again after weeks, Ah Qiang shows no signs of improvement and still behaves strangely. Somebody then suggested that Ah Qiang's father to check his son bazi chart (birth astrology) to find out what is the problem.

A friend then recommended a famous bazi expert in Kowloon which the father went but was disappointed as the master could not offer a valid explanation. He then went to a spiritual master who told him that the solution was to get his son married to clash away the bad luck which he agreeds.

Ah Qiang 's parents then met up with Xiao Mei and her parents to discuss about the marriage proposal for Ah Qiang. Xiao Mei's parent have no objections and agreed to it as they have been wanting to see their daughter married rather than cohabiting which they have been uncomfortable with.

After the wedding date was fixed and the announcement was then made to all their relatives and preparations were made for the big day, Ah Qiang immediately fall sick seriously. Doctors were unable to find the cause and decided to have him warded in a hospital instead so that they can monitor his conditions and find out more. However, Ah Qiang's conditions got worse each day and he grows thinner. When asked about it by the parents, the doctors could only shook their heads and told them to bring their son back home as they could not do anything about it.

By now, the parents were worried and desperate and Ah Qiang's nanny then suggested that they seek the help of a Blind Man master called Zheng Mang Gong 鄭盲公. Here the word Mang Gong  盲公 refers to Blind Duke as the analysis uses the Yi Jing by Wen Wang, a Duke from the Shang Dynasty. Interestingly, in Hong Kong at that time, these Mang Gong or Blind Duke were suspected to keep a ghost child as their analysis were very accurate and they will able to foretells a lot of things that a normal fortune teller was unable to. Some says that these group of people have the 'Third Eye' and therefore able to see a lot of things in the future and past. It was not a surprise to visit one and have the master tell you your surname, and the number of siblings you have and whether your parents are still around or not accurately without giving your date of birth.

An appointment was then made with Zheng Mang Gong by the Nanny who was from his same village in China as this master would only divine for people related to him. On that day the master appeared unwilling to meet him, and despite being told to come another time, Ah Qiang' s father persisted by insisting that he had an appointment and after half a day, finally get to see the master. The master without saying much, starts to shake an old turtle shell with apparently some coins in it and then toss it out. After several similar actions, the master finally stopped and lit a cigarette followed by sipping the tea. He then says: 'A female ghost is in love with your son!'.

Ah Qiang's father was astonished as he have not even told him about the purpose of his visit. However he was shocked and stood up and says: 'I don't get what you means?'

The Master then took another sip of his tea and blew a ring of smoke from the cigarette and then said: 'Your son had kissed the corpse of a young girl causing that girl ghost to fall in love with him. The ghost had since then followed him everywhere and then you all had provoked her by arranging a marriage for your son and it looks like she wants his life so that they can be together forever.'

Ah Qiang's father thought for a while and says :' I don't understand why my son would want to go and kiss a girl corpse...'

The Master: 'It is wrong by thinking that arranging an early marriage would clash away his bad luck, I would suggested that you cancelled the wedding tempoary until you can find a solution to appease the girl ghost and keep your son safe for time being.'

▅▅▅▅▅ Dragon

▅▅　▅▅ Turtle

▅▅　▅▅ Tiger

▅▅　▅▅ Snake

▅▅▅▅▅ Worm

▅▅▅▅▅ Bird

Commentary: The above is an analysis based on the six lines of the hexagram called Liu Yao Yi Gua or Wen Wang Ba Gua. Here there are six Earthly branchs of Zi, Chou, Yin, etc attached to each line and there are six celestial animals attached to it. Just this hexagram alone contains Eight trigrams. E.g. The Lower trigram which is Dui Gua can represent a young woman or an open mouth. The Snake also represent ying spiritual energy.

Ah Qiang's father: 'Will you be able to find a permanent solution to this problem?'

The Master: 'For my solution to works, you need to have belief in me to take certain actions. So please go and check from your son or his friends whether what I have said is true as you still appears to be skeptical of what I have said.'

To be continued, have a great week.

Judgement

The Diary Of A Blindman

My master then continued:

'I deduce that this person is very much younger than you...'

The woman replied: 'By how many years you think?'

Master: 'Should be ten years at least ah...'

Woman: 'Yes, he is younger by thirteen years,' and then she excitedly asked: 'Do you think our relationship can lasts?'

Master: 'No need to be anxious about this, let me confirm more accurately about your this lover first from my readings before we go further.'

This is one strange habit of my master unlike the other fortune tellers who are more than glad to conclude when the customer is satisfied. He treat it as painting a masterpiece, not willing to sacrifice any single minute details to complete a satisfactory work of art. This perhaps differentiate him from the rest who are contented to be mediocre and therefore had make him as a legendary person in the metaphysics world today.

Master: 'I can tell that this person is one of your younger generation of relatives.'

Woman: 'Yes, he is...'

Master: 'And he has true affections for you...'

The woman: 'Yes, he is very close to me. Tell me what I should do and would he change his heart or not?'

Master: 'We will come to that later, let me first confirm who he is among your relatives.'

Woman: 'All-right, you tell me who he is?'

Master: 'This lover is not an outsider, he is your step son...'

Woman then laments : 'Oh Master, why you have to be so accurate in your readings? You tell me now, is my birth chart meant to have this fate of being lovers with my own step son.'

Now I understand why she refused to give her complete birth date when she first went around asking in the alley. She was afraid that it might be leaked out from being shared among others from those who cannot read the chart well. If she had not met my master, I doubt that she might find one easily to guide her on the outcome in the future and probably she would be keeping the secret for life.

This time the woman then started crying as she continued: 'It started five years ago when I started working in a ceramic factory and I had to work overtime at night. Since young, I doted on him and he reciprocate by having concern for me. He felt that it was not safe at night for me go back alone and insisted on fetching me back from work. He was very attentive and caring to me during that period and as time goes by, our feelings developed.'

'In 1990, it was time for him to get married as with our Chinese custom and a match was found for him by his insistent uncle as his father is no longer around, a honest and educated young village girl. They then got married in that year however as from then on when he speaks to his wife on intimate terms as a couple, I started having strange feelings, maybe jealousy.'

'I then took matters into my hands, I will summoned my stepson to my bed chamber and keep him till before midnight and then allowed him to go back to his bedroom. My daughter-in-law had shows no dissatisfaction as she is also normally a quiet girl who do not gossips. Even if she is not happy with the arrangement, I don' t think that she will dare to voice it out.'

The woman then suddenly went quiet and after which she said softly: 'Then out of the blue, a year ago, she committed suicide by taking rat poisons..'

I was shocked on hearing this, the daughter-in law probably have found out the mother and son relationship to be more than what it is and must have suffered a blow which she cannot accepted and ended her life. To be honest, I have come across many strange cases that my master had read the fortune for the customers and this is one that if I did not personally hear it, I would not believe it if anybody will to tell me this as such is our strict culture at that time.

'After her death, my son's attitude changed and he seems to kind of blame me for it as well as himself. He then remarries again later probably out to spite me. He then started ignoring me, I am now stuck as I cannot forget him though I have thought of trying to give up the relationship. Master, tell me what I should do now.'

The woman shows deep torments on her tears stained face by now.

My master then consoles her: 'You Ah, your life is destined to go through this, don't be too sad. Tell me your son's birth date and I will see what will happens in the near future for both of you.'

After working out the birth chart, my master says: 'Well, next year onwards, both you mother and son will undergo some major changes in your lives and when you go into your next luck pillar of Ji Wei luck pillar, both of you will get back together again but it will no longer be the same as in the past of being that loving.'

The woman sounds disappointed : 'Then what about for the future, will it ends.'

'Both of you no longer have that kind of affinity and it will definitely ends when that luck pillar is over when you reach the age of 54. During this period, you will also need to be mindful of your health and that will be all.'

She showed disappointment and sadness in her expression on hearing this, I felt sorry for her but at the same time still cannot accept the thought of her coming between her new daughter-in law for the next ten years or so. I also hope that she won't cause another tragedy in the family again.

After she left, I mumbled to myself : 'Such a despicable loose woman...' and my master on hearing it, the ears of the blinds are particularly sharp, rebukes me:

'Little Chao, do not speaks rubbish. Everyone have their own destiny to follow since born and this woman is no different though she unfortunately have a bad low grade chart. Character wise, she is in fact better than some of our so called model citizens. We are to guide them in their path in life and do not have the rights to judge them.'

However, I have never seen a birth chart like this and I was curious to want to know more,

'Master, why does she still have the affinity with her stepson to be together in the next ten years in Ji Wei pillar?'

'It is because in Wei, there is Ding Fire which represent her male offspring and it is a favorable element to her. The Ji Earth is also controlled by her Jia wood. And remember if the chart have strong parallel stars such as Bi Jian 比肩and Jie Cai 劫财, that person will look for a younger companion.'

'Then why did you says that at the age of 16, she found her ideal match in marriage.'

'It is because she have a hidden Geng Metal which is Qi Sha 七殺 in her year pillar which governs her life for the first two luck pillar and the year when she was 16, it was a Wu Shen year which is why she got married.'

'Then why did you say she married someone far away from her hometown.'

'Normally when the Direct Officer 正官or Qi Sha 七殺 is in the month pillar, it will be somebody close to her or in her hometown however she started her marriage star early in her year pillar.'

'But how did you know that she will be a stepmother when she got married.'

'Her first luck pillar was Yi Mao and probably her first child would be born in the Rabbit year but she was still young and not married. The hour pillar for children was already activated by the Mao pillar then. And as I have deduced further correctly, the second one was born in the horse year and is the secret lover.'

'Her chart is also called Prospers the sons and not the daughters by some masters, and there is one matter which I have not told her.'

I was curious, 'What was it?'

'In the future, one of her daughters is destined to pass away before her as the Eating God 食神(Output star)is weak in the chart. Some fortune tellers will also call it jinxing the daughter chart too.'

'Why will the daughter die and which one will it be as there are two, Master?'

My master then said: 'If you should see her again, ask her for the birth date of her second daughter and I will be able to give you the answers. If there is affinity, she would also come here to find out more at the same time and maybe can avert that disaster.'

I did meet her again later in the following year and I had remembered to ask her for it. She willingly give it to me but did not ask why or wanted to know further as I think that she probably was already back on better terms with her stepson in their relationship which is also one of the irony of Life. My master after looking at the birthdate had told me then that this daughter would contract a terminal disease in the year 1998 and will not live beyond 2004. When she came back to look for my master in the year 2002, my master had already passed on to his new paradise as he had foretold for himself.

What follows was really another personal tragedy for her own daughter in retribution for the deceased daughter-in law or perhaps you can call it Judgement Day.....

This is THE END

Okay, folks have a great weekend. Dedicated to Nathalie Mourier and Oey Opkwan at the same time.

Till-then, cheers.

Of Angels and Demons 神煞

Continued from The Diary of A Blind man

It was getting to noon and there was still no signs of her, I was starting to perspires under the hot sun. However, I was impatient to get to see her as I was hoping what my master had find out by just looking at her birth time which was Ding Mao 丁戼 Hour. I then saw her walking to Old Wang who was sick the last few days and was not around. This time, she was obviously frustrated as at the end she shouted: 'Even you Old Wang cannot read my destiny, I think I have to go to the city instead.'

I then waved my walking stick towards her direction, trying to catch her attention and fortunately she saw it. She hesitated for a while and then she came towards me, saying: ' I thought I am done with you...'

I interrupted her before she go further, also afraid that she might lose her temper as she carries on: 'Oh, I spoke to my master last night and he said he can give you the answers you are looking for but you must wait for the sun to set before I can bring you to him.'

She starts to show annoyance : 'How can I just wait till the evening and go all the way to your place and not knowing whether he really knows or not?'

I then said: 'My master said that it is about your children.'

Her expressions changes immediately and I can tell she was shocked, 'Ehmm, very well, I will go over...'

I then told her : 'But my master wants to have your full bazi chart if you want to have your readings done, if not, he said then he will not do it so as not to waste the time for both sides and he wants double the amount that we normally charges if he is correct.'

She then just nodded her head and look sheepishly.

It was nightfall when we reached my master home, we step into the house and there was no one around as I had put a signboard saying we are closed to visitors for that evening when I went out in the morning. I then prepared for tea and I can hear her telling my master her birth date and my master was using our Meteors Chase Moon method to work out her Birth chart. As I poured tea for my master and her, my master said: 'This is your birth chart and you are a Wood day master and your luck pillar starts from age 4, am I correct?'

She said: ' Yes.'

My master then said: 'Okay, as agreed that you will be paying me double the amount, I will give you a full reading from the age of four onwards and gives you answers for the doubts in your mind?'

She nodded her head, and I tapped on my master on his right thigh to let him know as he can't see.

Master : 'At four, you and your mother left home and you have two fathers....'

Woman: 'Correct.'

Master: 'Your stepfather treats you very well as he had always wanted to have a daughter and you have a very good childhood.'

Woman: 'Yes, he treats me very well.'

Master: 'At the age of seven, you started schooling but at the age of ten, you stopped.'

The woman's face show a look of amazement as she nodded her head and I again tapped my master thigh.

My master then paused and took a sip of the tea and after clearing his throat said:

'You got married as with our custom age at the age of 16 and you pick a match that was far away from your hometown.'

The woman nodded her head again,

'Your husband is very much older than you.'

The woman answered: 'Yes, he is forty years old.'

'From the moment, you step into his house, you became a step mother and your life is destined to have 5 sons and 2 daughters.'

'From then on after the age of twenty to thirty, you bear a lot of hardships.'

As I have seen my master done analysis for many times, I was not surprised at all this information but I was more curious as to why the woman was so anxious over her children and come for fortune telling instead of confiding to her close ones. I was also getting impatient, waiting for my master to come to that part.

Finally, my master as usual when coming to something important start to read a poem: '遇不遇，逢不逢。月沉水底，人在梦中。'

'To meet with purpose or by chance is not fated, just like the reflections of the moon in the water as being in a dream.'

My master then said:

'Lately, these few years, you have been living in torment for not being able to share this matter with anyone at all.'

The woman looks shocked at this but still do not believe that my master knows by insisting: 'Then you tell me what is my problem? '

'From my calculations, it can be seen that you have a lover.'

This time, the woman admitted readily and saying softly: 'Yes...' and she have an excited expression on her face probably maybe from having a chance to say it out finally.

'Then the last two years, another woman comes in between you and your lover, and you will not able to confront her and it has started tormenting you from then.'

I can see teardrops starting to well from her eyes though it was getting dark by then but at that times despite my failing eyesight, I found that I was able to see even clearer in the dark. I then started to nudge my master to stop him as I was worried she will start crying but my master ignored me and carried on:

To be continued............


:   ) Well, I thought for Now, this picture is more suitable as Angels and Demons should be using guns at least instead of swords as in the past.......


Till-then, cheers.
I will be back in the next few days.....

'

When A Blindman Cries

Taken from Chip and Candi :

West Gate & Blind Fortune Tellers

'Outside every gate in Jingzhou there are blind fortune tellers. This is how they make their living. They sit and wait for someone to ask them to tell their future and then they get paid. It is really sad to see them sitting there waiting everyday.'

Doubel Clicks on the picture to count how many blind people.

廖墨香的关门弟子瓦房店刘文元在其书《四柱命理正源》中对一些自封为“盲派宗师”的亮子举起了正义的刀！

刘文元在书中说道：“。。。。。。。盲人算命开头几个问题算得很准，。。。。但是如果求测者继续问更多的问题，盲人的预测结论就会出错！问得越多出错就越多，这就是盲派的局限所在！”

刘文元接着说：“我认为，只要你一个“睁眼人亮子”就不要去抢盲人那点吃饭的唯一“家什”，盲人本来就不容易，好不容易学点吃饭的本领，却被我们这些睁眼人亮子给偷学！亮子们学来自己用还不要紧，可是偏偏有些不讲江湖道德的人拿来（偷来）盲人唯一依靠这些来吃饭的“断言、口诀”大肆传播于天下！还不知耻地自封为“一代盲派命理宗师”！

我看这些人不是什么“宗师”，他们是睁着眼睛的真正“盲人”！

连盲人唯一吃饭的“家什”都拿出来办班、培训敛财了，就算你们教的是真的，学员也学到了，那你们将把盲人的饭碗置于何地？盲人的未来再靠什么来吃饭？

盲人只是生理上有缺陷，但是他们的心灵是光明的！自封为“一代盲派宗师”的亮子呢，虽然他们的眼睛是睁开着的，但他内心深处永远因为敛了黑心财而受到谴责，暗无天日！”


The above passage was quoted by a chinese metaphysics blogger:

'Liu Wen Yuan, an indoor disciple of Famous chinese bazi expert Liao Mo Xiang, Daliang, wrote in his book, 'Four Pillars Life Analysis Origins' in a passage on his viewpoints of the New School of Blindman in destiny studies.

'There is nothing to envy about the blindman technique in destiny analysis though they might be extremely accurate in the intitial readings but as it goes further into the analysis, it tends to get more errors prone and this is where we can see the limitations of this technique.

However, I still feel that if you are not a handicapped person (meaning you can still learn from other traditional schools of destiny analysis), you should not compete with these people livelihoods. As a blind person, there are already hardships for them in their daily lives and it is not easy for them to earn a living and yet there are unscrupulous people who try to learn secretly from them through manipulations (The blind apprentice is under oath to pass the knowledge to the blinds only). To learn it for analysing your own destiny is still all-right but then to steal their knowledge and share it publicly by conducting courses where a fees is charged reflected that it is more of a commercial intent. In this instance, where will that leaves the blind man fortune tellers if every normal person can do their unique technique of destiny analysis after learning the so called real blindman theory even if it is the correct stolen techniques.

Although the blind people are handicapped but not so in their hearts.It is unfortunate that people who are not blind but in doing so are themselves in the Dark for not being able to See the Heavens.'

End

Well, I leave it to you readers to decide again on the above comments and as lately I have been busy and to make up for it, let me tell you a story about the accuracy of the fortune telling readings of blindman from a case study in :

The Diary of a Blind Man (Xu Xian Chao)

In the summer of 1993, I had just started learning destiny analysis from a blind bazi master for 2 years and while as usual making a living outside in the Blindman alley, I chanced upon a frantic looking lady. At that time, my failing eyesight could still discern shadows and colors, she looks like a normal housewife but she was very fair looking and young. She was going from one to another of the fortune tellers' stalls however, refusing to pay after the readings was done saying it was incorrect. I can feel that she has some problems from my sixth sense as it is probably to compensate for our handicap. I beckoned her over and ask her: 'Would you like me to read your future?'

She answered back with a question: 'All-right, I can give you by my birth time and you tell me what is my situation now and what is going to happen to me in the future?'

At that time, my knowledge and experience was also almost the same as with rest of them in that alley, I was unable to tell much from her birth data and was hesitant at which she can tell, she then said: 'You are also the same, I don't think you are able to read my destiny.' after which she put a token and walk off.

I have met customers who refused to pay for their readings after being done, some were out to take advantage of us blind people but apparently, this was a different case. I then as usual after the sun starts to set, went back and told my teacher, Ching Feng who is a Taoist master too. My master smiling says: 'If you see her again, you can asked her over and tell her I will give her the answers that she is looking for. But let her comes only after you have finished your work and there is nobody else in our house at that hour.' I was curious too why my master had made such an arrangement on the time as I was also anxious to find out too as nobody in our alley managed to find out her problem.

To be continued...........


For Mulberry, this is her chart and the analysis was done about 18 years ago when she was at Chinese age of 41 in 1993 Gui You Year and still in Wu Wu luck pillar :

Till-then, cheers.

Nicholas Tse

Tomb for the Living 生基

                                            An Urn with a small coffin and personal belongings




Taken from Hong Kong News Daily:

Hong Kong Media Expose: A "Live Burial Ritual’ list obtained have the name of popular actor, Nicholas Tse being involved came as a shock to many people.

According to sources, Nicholas Tse was undergoing bad luck, a motoring accident which results in 2 weeks of prison, an assault case and a dip in his popularity in 2002. His mother, Deborah troubled incessantly by this had then approach a spiritual Master in Guangxi, China who uses ‘Live Burial’ to change his luck.

It is believed to cost S$30,000 to conduct a standard ritual.

So today, let’s have a look at this mysterious ritual which accordingly requires feng shui knowledge as well as the need to conduct a spiritual ritual and which had intrigue a lot of people. It also has other supposed powers such as to bring abundant wealth as well as protecting the Life of the person.

The meaning of Living Tomb simply means a tomb for a living person and would also refer to longevity abode. This practise originates during the founding of the Han Dynasty by Emperor Liu Bang where a Taoist Zhang Liang, an advisor, search for a heavenly paradise to practise immortality came upon a plot of land in Xuzhou, now known as Jiangsu Tongshan and built a longevity abode with superior Dragon Qi or in modern context, good feng shui. Henceforth, this was then passed down in history and later evolved into a feng shui ritual.

To be frank, I am just surprised as I can’t find any well-known Emperor using this feng shui ritual except for Burial for the Dead or Ying Zhai Feng Shui in the Feudal China History. A Taoist master, Lao Miao Zhu of Penang, a friend of mine had said that it is actually used in Mao Shan ritual to hide the soul to avoid calamity for a period of time and how it then evolved into being a feng shui ritual, he also have no inklings about it too. In my opinion, this is more of a spiritual practise than feng shui and secondly, all along, the Chinese have always uses Taoist for funeral ceremony and other religion related activities. It is a known fact that most Taoist priests should have some basic knowledge of feng shui.

Surprisingly, the original Blindman school of thought have an almost similar ritual when meeting bad luck cycle where a Taoist talisman would be required and a ritual conducted at least two years before the bad luck commences. They called it the 躲身法 or 'Hiding the Body Ritual' which is to be conducted on an auspicious date. Based on their school of thought which I am familiar with, Nicholas Tse is supposed to have faced a calamity in this luck pillar of Ding Hai and apparently it is working from the above Taoist ritual as he is going into his next luck pillar Wu Zi which though is no better but should not be that disastrous,' 死於非命' or 'Meeting Death but keeping the Life.'

However so far, there is only bad publicity on this feng shui ritual; one was a public outcry  in neighbouring Malaysia where a Taiwanese master had went to Penang last year and conduct feng shui class. At the same time, he bought a piece of burial land, enthusiastically promoting it as the Dragon Lair (Rare superior feng shui land) and encouraged his students to buy it for live burial for prosperity. An original plain plot of burial land that was bought for $40,000 was then sub-divided and sold for $120,000 a piece to the fortune seekers. Apparently he was the who got the fortune as he panicked and absconded with the money successfully after other feng shui masters in Malaysia investigated the landforms of that land and revealed that it is just a normal piece of land and could be a possible fraud on unwitting students who had enrolled in that master feng shui classes too.

The other publicity that this ritual got was however during the court case on Nina Wang’s will where this ritual was bought up in an affidavit and it was mentioned that the deceased billionaire had paid Mao Shan practitioner Tony Chan S$200 Million to conduct this ritual as she was suffering from Terminal cancer and which had then renewed interest in this ritual for fortune seekers. It apparently doesn’t work for Billionaires too while some claims that Tony Chan was a fake.



Life Tombstone of Nicholas Tse

Okay, I would just go about into the so called important principles that accordingly are used to conduct this ritual for Nicholas Tse.

First find a plot of land termed the Dragon Lair with superior Qi based on Ying Zhai Feng shui landforms theory. Then collect together the living person belongings such as favourite clothing, teeth, nails and hair, etc., together with the seven precious stones and five types of colour beans together, symbolizing the Bumper Harvest for the ritual. For some masters, 10 cc of the person blood would be needed.

Second, this will involves Metaphysics knowledge; use a Luo Pan Chinese Compass to check and choose a suitable plot that matches the living person Bazi chart. An average plot with good feng shui configuration will do if a superior plot cannot be obtained in land scarce country; we have to be flexible right?

Third, this will involves some spiritual imagination as it is assumed that there is a negative energy attached to that living person which is causing bad luck and we are burying that bad energy here, and as long as it is comfortable and the place is peaceful and it do not hate the place, it will not go back and haunt that person and creates problems or bad luck anymore. Therefore, a spiritual ritual would needs to be conducted.

The ritual would then start by picking an auspicious day to bury an urn or a small coffin with the person’s belongings as in a normal funeral burial. Then, a ritual of forty nine days involving spiritual invocations would then be needed to be conducted too by the spiritual master. And that will be all to start life afresh with that vexing spirit or negative energy being buried though it is supposed to hide the soul from disaster in the original Taoist version. Okay, I will leave it to you readers to decide on its effectiveness.






Next, the Bazi chart of Nicholas Tse, 謝霆鋒 aka Tse Ting-Fung. Now, lets look further into Nicholas Tse’ s Bazi Chart to see if we can find where his problems started from which luck pillar and whether it tally with this special chart on its likes and dislikes of elements.

His chart interestingly belongs to Special category and is called a Fake Follow Power Chart. It would also be interesting to see whether his live burial has helped him when the years were unfavourable as the ritual was supposed to have been done in 2002.

As can be seen in the chart below, Nicholas Tse is a Jia Wood Daymaster born in Autumn where Wood is controlled by Metal.The only support he has is a Bi Jian Friend aspect element next to him, another Jia  which is however sitting on Shen Metal but is clash by the Geng Metal in the year pillar and cannot render Support. As such, with no other major support like resources aspect Water and parallel aspect Wood, he has to succumb and follow the strongest element which is Metal. As the two earths Chen  and Xu (Spouse Palace) is in clashing though Heavenly stem protrudes Wu.

Metal will be the strongest element in the chart. So we can call this chart a Follow Metal (Power aspect) Chart 从杀格.

However, though Power aspect Metal element is supposed to be favourable for this category but because there is no Unconventional Intelligence or Indirect output star 食神 Yang Fire in his chart and therefore there is no control on Qi Sha Indirect Power Star Metal 食神制七杀, it has resulted in a tendency for rebellious streak behaviour with disregard for proper authority in ten elemental relationships in its absence.

                                               Nicholas’s Parents in celebrations for the Grandson

Output Star Fire is still favourable though as Wealth (Earth) aspect protrudes in the Heavenly stems to protect the Power Star (Metal). As the Power aspect prominent in Year and month pillar as well as being favourable represents strong family status and fame which reflects in his family background, his father is popular HK actor, director and producer, Patrick Tse Yin. Mother Deborah Lee, 1973 Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant winner and famous HK actress. Recently, I read with amusement again at the newspaper headlines wrong impression that Patrick Tze was chiding the son for being weak which actually is good as he is trying to provoke his son to regaining his fighting spirit as the latter was probably depressed by his divorce and children custody problems. Guess as what they alway says, the father will knows best.

From Wikipedia, Tse and Lee divorced in 1996 and in 2008; Patrick Tse started dating a girl named Coco who is almost 50 years younger than he is, if you can read the bazi chart well, it is all in there. A clue, the father is next to him in the Hour pillar.

His luck pillars:

Bing Xu pillar (Chinese age 13-23) Indirect Output Star  and Wealth 食神制七杀

As mentioned, here was a good luck pillar as he meets Indirect Output Star to control his Strong Power Star where he propelled into Stardom.

In 1997 Ding Chou, Nicholas Tse aged 18 in sign a record deal with EEG under the Fitto label, releasing his first album, "My Attitude". The album was ranked 3rd on the top selling CD chart of IFPI. It was that year where he won the most popular new artist award.

Tse received mainstream success in 1998 Wu Yin with songs like "早知" and "如果只得一星期" and became a prominent successor in the entertainment industry. He received a musical award during the 1999 Ji Mao, Jade Solid Gold Top 10 Awards with his popular song "非走不可" recorded on September 27, 1993 (Gui You).

Ding Hai luck pillar (Chinese age 23-33) Direct Output and Direct Resource Star

Here is where the Blindman School of thoughts would put this as the worst luck pillar to be in for Nicholas Tse.

His problems starts to begin in 2002 Ren Wu Chinese age 23 when he enter into luck pillar Ding Hai pillar, first being involved in a car accident driving a ferrari where a false police report was lodged and he was jailed for 2 weeks. It was then followed by another incident of an assault on a reporter where it was settled out of court. He also had another car accident in 2003 Gui Wei and had his license suspended for 2 years. In 2005 Yi You, he had another accident and was again suspended from driving for another six month. Apparently, he is out for death thrills through speed in racing.

Things started to change, in July 2006 Bing Xu where he meets the favorable Indirect output star 食神again, he officially admitted he was dating Cecilia Cheung and in September that year, they got married secretly. First son, Lucas was born in 2007 Ding Hai  followed by second son, Quintus in May 2010 Geng Yin last year.

But 2011 Xin Mao this year, rumours surfaced that he has marriage problems as it was supposed to be activated next year Ren Chen where the Chen will activate the clash with Xu in his spouse palace. Nicholas Tse reportedly filed for divorce on the 14th of June 2011, Geng Zi day in Jia Wu month. Obviously there is a difference for 2011 Xin Mao compare to in 1999 Ji Mao where he had became more popular with a music award instead. A source revealed Tse reached his decision after realising unconditional sacrifice would not lead to ultimate happiness and divorce was the only right decision. This comes after pictures of Cheung and Edison Chen on a plane together surfaced in the Taiwanese media. Cheung and Chen had earlier been embroiled in a sex photo scandal. Tse was also reported to have had enough of Cheung’s constant demands and “threats” in their marriage, including taking her own life and son Lucas if he did not give in to her demands. Next year Ren Chen, Nicholas Tse should be entering  into Wu Zi luck pillar which though does not sounds so good, but anyway, let's still wish him the best.

Till-then, cheers.

Followers Chart 從格?

   '奇奇奇，地利与天时。灯花传信后，动静总相宜'


My apologies to my dear friends who have dropped by while I have been getting disillusioned and inactive with the World.

However, I may have found something new to get out of boredom after having a talk with my Mentor to get me out of this rut that I am stuck in.

This is a special category chart that I am thinking of putting up as a discussion for a possible coming SFSC event at food and drinks ticket pricing for any interested Bazi Enthusiasts which my Mentor Vincent Koh have suggested. His history is available at Wikipedia for those interested in analysing this very interesting chart which is also somewhat rather like the DSK chart and highly debatable about its structure with its so called Likes and Dislikes.

I have decided to discuss about this chart as further more Astrotheme, a popular Western Astrology website had also done a write up about him and also requesting for help to get his birthtime,

'If you happen to know the time of birth of Sergueï Bubka, we would appreciate it very much if you would send us your information including your source, if any. We thank you in advance for contributing to the enhancement of our astrological database. As a token of our gratefulness, we shall be glad to send you for free the comprehensive astrological portrait (38-40 pages) of this celebrity, if you let us know that you are interested in it.'

Chart courtesy of Singapore Feng Shui Centre software and the free link is at the right hand corner of my blog for friends who would like to plot bazi chart.

Disclaimer: The Hour pillar is above is for show only as I also don't have it but if you pay me enough, I might consider getting a PI to check if you are really that interested.  :   )

However for the moment you decided yourself whether it is a Follow Whatever Chart or Not Follow by doing research on his background as you are doing it for yourself to learn and not paid by Sergei, Ok?

A bit of his History:

From his biography at Bookrags.com

'When Bubka was 15, his parents divorced Luck pillar Ren Xu 1977 Ding Si . (My opinion: Si clash the Hai and Ding does not seem to be favorable. Luck Pillar Ren is also locked by Ding and Xu attempt for fire combination with the Mao in his year pillar. All these are in the Ancestor(year) and Parent(month) Pillar.)  Life was hard for the two brothers, who lived in a factory dormitory. Twice Bubka broke his foot, and doctors advised him to give up the sport. He refused and kept vaulting.

Serhiy Bubka entered international athletics in 1981 Xin You in Luck Pillar Xin You  participating in the European Junior Championships where he reached 7th place. But the 1983 Gui Hai World Championships held in Helsinki proved to be his actual entry point to the mainstream world athletics, where a relatively unknown Bubka snatched the gold, clearing 5.70 metres (18 feet 8 inches). The years that followed witnessed the unparalleled dominance of Bubka, with him setting new records and standards in pole vaulting.'

End.

The rest you can dig out from Wikipedia.

I assure you that you will have fun in trying to figure out about this special chart structure. Have fun with it if you really got nowhere to go and nothing to do for the weekend.

Till-then, cheers.