ABSTRACT
The Chinese calendar, commonly known as the Farmers’ Calendar, or the Hsia Calendar, is a fascinatingly accurate system, which not only records the passage of time, but is also a tool for fortune-telling. The famous traditional fortune-telling system – The Four Pillars of Destiny – is exactly referring to reading a person’s destiny from his birth data as presented in the Hsia calendar format. The unique feature of such calendar is that all information about time – year, month, day and hour are presented in terms of the five basic elements – metal, water, wood, fire and earth, which are believed to be the basic components of everything in the Universe. The relationship between the five elements accurately helps one predict what is to come by way of one’s fortunes and thus, one can by using this knowledge, multiply the good luck or minimize the bad luck in one’s life.
THE YEAR OF THE ROOSTER
The Year of the Rooster, 2017, in the Hsia calendar, is symbolized by two elements – with Yin fire sitting on top of metal. According to the cycle of birth and destruction, which governs the inter-relationship between the elements, Fire conquers metal and so they are on the destructive cycle and have fighting relationship. Normally such conflicting elements means disharmony. In particular Yin Fire symbolizes a candle flame which is flickering and unstable, hence it also represents a emotional, sentimental and sensitive person, it is not quick temper like Yang fire, but it can be tense and nervous and its temper will accumulate and once explode, it will be more serious than yang fire. Like the Chinese saying – A Spark of fire can burn down the field. Hence Yin fire is more associate with fire disasters and explosions. As fire and metal are in conflicting relationship, there will be international conflicts and clashes. And Yin fire also symbolizes bullets and guns which can bring more clashes with fire arms. Looking at history, there are quite serious disasters related to Yin fire. Just pick some significant examples – 911 attack on World Trade Towers in 2001 happened on yin fire day and yin fire rooster month, the first atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima on 6/8/1945 which is Rooster year and Yin fire day, Osama Bin Laden was killed on a Yin fire day on 2/5/2011…. Also yin fire sits on rooster is apparently weak as the metal below does not support the fire above. However, we cannot discount the strength of such fire as the Rooster is considered as the “birth place” of yin fire, in the Yin element life cycle. So it will not be surprising that there will be serious explosions, fire disaster and war in 2017.
The Rooster is strong yin metal element which is symbol of Jewelry and decorative metal such as necklace and bracelets. It is charming and beautiful on the outside, but very cold and hard metal quality inside. Hence it also represents a dagger which can associate with killing and assassinations. As such the Yin fire rooster year seems not peaceful and there will be war, gun battles, killings and terrorist attacks. .
The Chinese calendar of Heavenly stems and Earthly Branches goes on 60 years cycle. This means that we had experienced the same yin fire Rooster year 60 years ago in 1957 as well as 120 years ago in 1897. The year 1957 saw the Vietnam war escalating with serious insurgents by the Viet Cong against the Government under Ngo Dinh Diem. In 1897 China is under Qing Dynasty ruled by Empress Dowager Cixi and declining with aggressive invasion by Russia and other western countries. However, as yin fire also symbolizes optimism and rooster is “Peach Blossom” representing romance and beauty, it also generate sentiment for entertainment and happiness, so it is a favorable year for entertainment and glamorous industries. Yin fire over Rooster is also Nobleman and Academic star in Four Pillars of destiny. As such both 1897 and 1957 were remarkable with scientific developments. In 1957 the first satellite – Sputnik 1 was launched by Soviet Union in October followed by Sputnik 2 in November, The USA also sent the first satellite Explorer 1 to orbit in Jan 1958. The Laser was invented by Gordon Gould in 1957. Back in 1897, the word “computer” first appeared, Aspirin was invented and electron was discovered in that year. As for entertainment, the musical “West Side Story” made its first appearance in 1957. Also it is the year John Lennon met Paul McCartney and formed the band Quarryman which is the group preceded the Beatles. .
1897 is also the year when Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula” was published in London. Dracula is a novel about vampire and blood and Yin Fire is related to blood. It so happened that Bram Stoker was born on 8/11/1847 which is also year of yin fire and day of yin fire. The modern vampire movie series Twilight, starring Rob Pattinson, is also born on day of Yin Fire.
There are many explosions and fire disasters in 1957 as well. In Feb. 1957 a coal mine gas explosion in Virginia killed 37 people. In the same month, a fire at a home for the elderly in Missouri killed 72 people. In May a 42,000 pound hydrogen bomb accidentally fell from a bomber near Albuquerque, In Sept. a nuclear disaster occurred at the Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant in Russia, in October there is fire at the Windscale nuclear reactor in England. .
In Chinese Metaphysics, yin fire represents the heart and blood circulation. It also refers to the brain, nerve system and the eyes. Hence a yin fire year is easy to bring sickness of heart, blood, inflammation problem, brain and nerve problem such as hyper tension and stroke. Take for example, Hillary Clinton born in 1947 is year of Yin fire pig, in 2013 the year of yin water snake totally in clash against her yin fire year, and this clash caused her to accidentally knock her head against the wall, and subsequently she discovered blood clot in the brain and have to resign from the post of Secretary of State. Bruce Lee also died on a yin fire day in clash against yin water year in 1973 and the post mortem found water in his brain. . James Blunt, the car racing champion also died of heart attack with clash between yin water and yin fire in 1993.
Metal in the human body is related to lung and breathing organ. With fire attacking metal, there is chance of flu and other breathing organ or skin problems. Yin metal attacks yin wood which is related to small bones in the body, so it is also necessary to beware of accident causing injury to back bones, limbs, finger and toe. There are many examples of people broke their back during rooster year or rooster day. Famous examples are Brandon Lee, the son of Bruce Lee, died in rooster year 1993 from a bullet breaking his back when shooting a movie. The Hong Kong rock star Wong Ka Kui also died in 1993 falling off stage in Tokyo breaking his back. Madonna fell off horse back and broke her bones in rooster year in 2005…..
As Yin fire is the Heart and is often compared to the candle flame which is flickering and unstable, yin Fire people are more warm hearted, but emotional, sentimental and sensitive in feelings. The representative yin fire persons are David Bowie, Robert Pattinson and Harrison Ford and Fang Bingbing. They are all artists outstanding for their sensitivity and dramatic innovative performance. In particular David Bowie is regarded as master of innovative music with dramatic visual presentation. It is interesting that Yin Fire people, in particular Yin Fire Rooster, is very commonly found in the Four pillars of influential people in Chinese history. The very powerful Chinese politicians, including Emperor Song Taizu , Emperor Hongwu of Ming Dynasty, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, Chairman Mao Tse Tung, Chairman Xi Jinping are all born on day of Yin fire, with the latter three born exactly on Yin fire Rooster day. Other famous influential Chinese people born on Yin fire day are the popular actress Fang Bingbing, Jack Ma of Alibaba and Ma Huateng of Tencent, of which Fang Bingbing and Jack Ma were born on Yin fire Rooster day. This amazing fact indicates that Yin Fire Rooster year can also bear significance in Chinese politics and economic prosperity.
Yin fire people are warm hearted and kind but can also be nervous, tense and suspicious. Strong yin fire people can be funny and like to joke like a comedian. Famous Comedians such as Bob Hope, Chris Rock and Rowan Atkinson were all born on a strong Yin fire day.
The fire element basically symbolize happiness in the Five Quality of people, and they are honest, warm hearted and kind. Yin fire is optimistic but illusive. They are reliable people and trusted friends but can be dramatic and moody in behavior. As such, yin fire year often boost peoples confidence about the economy bringing good performance to the stock market. Particularly during the spring and summer seasons when the wood and fire seasonal element will make the candle burn very bright and such illusory fire will drive up the stock market sky high. However, once the seasonal support of wood and fire expires in around August onward, there will be dramatic downturn as the illusive candle flame is dying. Hence for people play in shares and stock market have to prepare for big disappointment in the second half of the year. Such phenomenon of crazy market in first half year and collapse in autumn happened in many previous yin fire years before, such as 1987, 1997, 2007.. The bearish market may commence from around August 2017 and this time the impact can be long lasting as there will not be any support to fire element between 2018 to 2022.
The Rooster is strong metal element, in Chinese metaphysics it is a “Peach Blossom” or “Flower of Romance” which brings beauty and charm particularly to people who are born in either year or day of Monkey, Rat and Dragon. Such Peach Blossom year will also be benefitial to glamorous industry such as beauty, fashion, entertainment, music. Yin fire also relates to the kitchen and energy and will bring prosperity to restaurant and cooking business, as well as energy healing, sport and exercise such as fitness and yoga centre. The negative aspect of such “Peach Blossom” is sex scandals.
As fire is hot air, so this element is often related to birds, airplane and flying objects, the year 2017 Yin fire is flickering and unstable, this can bring air disasters. In 1957, the Philippine President and 24 passengers died in a plane crash on 17/3. In November, a flying boat crashed on the Isle of Wight with 45 dead. The Yin fire element also brings development in flying objects and space exploration. The year 1957 was a year when both Soviet Union and the USA raced to put satellites into space. The Rooster is strong metal which also relates to machinery, cars and trains. There will be more traffic accidents involving cars and trains in 2017. Back in 1957, there are many serious traffic accidents. In September 1957, 175 people died in railway disaster in Jamaica. Also in October, 2 trains collided in Turkey killing 95 people. In December, there was Lewisham rail crash in London with 92 dead.
In Chinese medicine, fire element is heart and blood circulation, it is also related to the brain, nerve system and the eyes. Yin Metal is breathing organ, lung, skin and and the Rooster will create “self penalty” when it meets with another Rooster, such metal penalty will trigger flu and breathing organ or skin problem. As this year is fire burning metal, so we have to beware of inflammation of skin and breathing organ problem, So flu pandemic may be more serious in 2017. The suitable supplements to improve our immune system and minimize the chance of heart problem and breathing organ problem are anti-oxidant, vitamin C and omega 3 oil. COQ10 is important for people having weak fire.
The Rooster is the animal in clash against the Rabbit. It is small metal cut into small wood. So it is related to stabbing with knife, surgery operations, injury to back bone and neck, injury to small bones such as fingers and toes.
People who are born in the year of Rooster are offending the year, People born in year of Rabbit is in clash against the year. They usually have more movements and travelling in 2017, it is ok to take such chance to make necessary changes such as moving house, moving office, or changing job or taking trips. However they should take extra care and refrain from risky sports such as driving fast cars, driving airplane, skin diving, parachuting etc. It is recommended that they carry the pendant of a Dragon which will help to attract away the Rooster, so as to minimize the negative influence of the clash. For people born in year of the Rabbit, it is good to minimize travelling direct towards the west direction as it is the direction of the Grand Duke in 2017
In the last 3 years from 2013 to 2015, we have experienced fire and earth years, fire is blood circulation, carbohydrate, energy and sugar, earth is stomach and muscles, as such, these years will make people gain weight more easily. However since 2016 the arrival of metal element is a good chance to exhaust the excessive amount of earth we gained in the last few year. So Rooster year is also a good year to do more exercise, watch diet and lose weight, one will find these two years of Monkey 2016 and Rooster 2017 will be more effective to trim down excessive fat.
Regarding flying star feng shui, the current twenty year period from 2004 to 2024 is called “Age of 8” and this number 8 represents the Trigram of Mountain and it also is symbol of young children. Therefore since stepping into Age of 8 in 2004, it seems there are more disasters, troubles and misfortune affecting children. This number 8, representing children will always present in the centre of the flying star chart in this 20 years from 2004 to 2024. So it is always important to pay attentions to children safety and well being in this period of 8.
Regarding the economy, fire element is often the driving force behind the stock market. The five elements are also affecting people’s mood. In general fire is joy, water is fear, Earth is meditation, metal is sadness, and wood is anger. As such, fire year often generates optimism and drive up the stock market, For example the last financial tsunami happened in 2008 because it is strong water year of the Rat. The economic crisis deepened and continued until 2012 because all these years did not have fire element. As expected, when fire returned in 2013 with Snake year, the US economy showed strong recovery with Dow Jones industrial Average surpassed 18000 points in 2014 strong wood fire horse year. In 2015, the year of wood goat does not show apparent fire, but there is fire hidden in the goat, hence optimism continued until January 2016 when the month of Ox came to clash against the Goat and extinguished the hidden fire. So there is serious setback in stock market, terrorist attacks, many celebrities passed away, and extremely cold weather and snow storm. In 2016, year of fire monkey, it is “sun setting in the west”, so the economic atmosphere suffered slow down. However,. 2017 the Yin Fire is still positive for the economy and the optimism continue to bring confidence to buy particularly in spring and summer time, when the candle flame gains seasonal support and drives up the illusory optimism. However, as the yin fire is illusory candle flame, it will be extinguished by autumn and winter. So there will be serious setback towards August and October and this will bring long term bearish market as there is no more fire years before Tiger year 2022.
Yang fire is compared to the Sun, then Yin fire can be Stars. With yin fire weakening on metal, there could be passing away of some movie stars and celebrities in 2017.
The fire and metal element of 2017 is expected to bring prosperity to fire industries and water industries; this is because fire conquers metal, so the metal element is a symbol of money to the fire industry, which includes energy, entertainment, stock market, finance. The second best industries could be water, as water conquers fire, so fire is money to water industry. Water industries are transport, communication, shipping. Earth industry is also positive as Earth produces metal, so it will be an active year for earth elements such as property, construction, high tech, mining... The not so good industry is metal. Metal industries are banking, engineering, computer, cars, …, in a strong metal year, this industry will be very active, but competition is also very strong and the Rooster year brings many competitors in the scene. Wood industry, such as textile, paper, environment… is active because wood produces fire, but the money to wood industry – earth is absent.
In summary, the industries that will perform well in the year of the Rooster will be industries related to Fire and Water elements. Fire industries are energy, stock market, finance, entertainment. Water element is referring to transport, shipping, communication. Earth industry will be active and productive but money element to earth is water which is not obvious.
In general, the Yin Fire Rooster year, with fire on top and metal below, is symbol of optimism, innovation and progress. There is still conflict and disharmony in international relationship and may not be a peaceful year but people are optimistic, open-minded, confident and innovative to bring solution to obstacles. Also there are natural disasters such as fire, explosion, nuclear issues and some environmental disasters and disease and epidemic still prevail.
The yin fire on Rooster is also a rare year of both Nobleman and Academic stars. This means every baby born in 2017 will automatically possess such good stars. Nobleman will make a person’s life smooth with support from others, and academic star is symbol of intelligence and strong appetite for knowledge and study. Such stars are essential for successful life today and such year with both Nobleman and academic star only appears twice in the 60 year cycle – yin fire Rooster year and yin water Rabbit year. So it is a very good year to give birth. The next chance with similar good year is 2023 yin water Rabbit year.
The animal sign which is most unfavorable is the Rabbit which is in direct clash against the Rooster. Such clashes will usually bring about turbulence, movements, accident or changes...As it is metal wood clash, it will stimulate misfortunes related to traffic, injury by metal knives, injury to bones and back. As both Rooster and Rabbit are “Flowers of Romance”, it can also bring sex scandals. . The Rooster creates self penalty with Rooster and it will bring health problem related to lung, breathing organ, skin and teeth. and the Yin fire on top is heart and brain and problem with nerve system. . .People born in the year of the Rabbit will anticipate more traveling, or movements such as changing jobs or moving house. It is necessary to carry the pendant of a Dragon as protection to attract the Rooster away. For the Rabbit people, the clash against the Rooster could bring accidents related to injury of back, bones and limbs.. For people who are under clash with the year, it is ok to travel more, making changes such as moving house, or change job.
However, for people born in the year of the Tiger, it is recommended not to travel directly towards the direction of the Grand Duke, which is the west direction. . The other animal’s signs facing unfavorable positions is the Rooster which is offending the Grand Duke as well as self penalty. . Such penalties will usually bring disharmony, irritation, worries and frustrations, as well as sickness, it is necessary to carry Dragon pendant to minimize the negative effect.
The animals combining with the Rooster year is the Dragon, the Snake and Ox. These animals are into a year of harmony. However, such animal astrology is not totally reliable as the system is not recognized as a formal type of fortune-telling. For more reliable assessment of one’s fortune in the year of the Rooster, it is recommended that one checks the full Four Pillars of Destiny, which requires full birth data information of the Year, Month, Day and Hour of birth. As the animal signs can appear in all four pillars in a person’s birth data, the clash and penalty relationship with the Rooster will not only cause impact on people born in the year of Rabbit and Rooster. Such clash and penalties can also impact anyone who has such animals in the birth month, or day or hour.
Some examples of famous people born in the year of the Rabbit and in clash against the Rooster in 2017 are Tiger Woods, Brad Pitt, David Beckham, Angelina Jolie, Maria Sharapova, Novak Djokovic, Jamie Oliver, Park Geun Hye, Jeff Bezos… There are people not born in the year of Rabbit, but they are also under clash because they are born on the day of Rabbit, so they will also face a challenging year. Some examples of these people are Prince Charles, Harrison Ford, Nicole Kidman, Stephen King, Rachel Ray, Christine Lagarde … The clash against the Day Pillar will usually cause movement or conflict in the family or human relationship area, especially in the relationship with the spouse or opposite sex.
People born in year of the Rooster is said to be “offending the Grand Duke” and in self penalty, it is also recommended to carry pendant of the Dragon.. Examples of people born in Rooster year are Paris Hilton, Cate Blanchett, Carrie Lam, Fang Bingbing, Kate Middleton, Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Eric Clapton, Roger Federer, Emperor Akihito…..…
People born on day of Rooster also will suffer self penalty which will affect relationship area and marriage. Penalty is hidden danger and will cause irritation, worries and serious disharmony in relationship. It can also create health problem. Some examples of such people coming up with self penalty in 2017 are Jodie Foster, Camilla, Mick Jagger, Matt Damon, Larry Page, Fang Bingbing, Jamie Oliver, Carrie Lam…The minimum protection is to carry pendant of Dragon to attract away the incoming Rooster year.
The Rooster is “Flower of Romance”. For people who are born in years or day of Monkey, Rat, Dragon can anticipate a more sociable year with more opportunity to develop friendship with the opposite sex... People born in year of Pig and Rabbit will have more chance to travel and move around this year.
The Rooster is a “Nobleman” for people born in years or days of Yin Fire or Yang fire Heavenly stems. This means any birth year ending with the number 6 or 7 such as 1956, 1957, 1966, 1967, 1976, 1977, 1986, 1987, and 1996, 97…..etc. “Nobleman” is our protective angels who will come to help us and make everything smooth and positive. The Rooster is also the “Academic star” for people born in year of Yin Fire or Yin Earth. So 2017 is also a good year for baby birth as all baby born this year will automatically have both “Nobleman” and“Academic star” which means intellectual quality and strong desire to learn with strong support from people around him.
Feng Shui energies also change from year to year. Therefore, it is necessary to watch out for the re-allocation of good and bad energies at the beginning of each year, so that we can take necessary precautions if some bad energy happens to arrive at important locations of our residence or offices. In the year of the Rooster, the bad energy called “Five Yellow” – symbolizing obstacles and misfortune, arrives at the South. It is recommended that one hangs a metal wind chime in the South of the house to dissolve this bad energy. The worst months will be in March, September, December, 2017. Another bad star number 2, symbolizing sickness, will arrive in the Northwest in 2017. The traditional method to dissolve this 2 is to hang a string of six metal coins in the affected area in the Northwest of the house. The Grand Duke this year is in the West, hence it is not favorable to “move earth” or make substantial construction work in this direction. It is also not recommended for one to sit with back against East as you will be sitting against the unfavorable energy called “Three Shars” or “Three Killings”. The East is also the “Crash position” against the Grand Duke which is also not good to sit. The bad star 3 is a star of conflict and robbery. This is present in the west.. It is necessary to put a piece of red paper in this position to minimize such bad influence. Also the bad star 7, representing scandals is in the Southwest, the traditional solution for this bad star 7 is to place 3 piece of bamboo plant grown in clear glass vase of water in the Southwest location.
The annual star 1 located in the centre is the Trigram Water. As such, it is anticipated that more water related disaster can happen in 2017 and the affected area could be Central and South area and. This will often affect Middle East and countries and regions with name “Central”, this may include China as well as the name of China is Central Country.
Another not so good month to watch out is March 2017 Yin water Rabbit in total clash against the year of Yin fire Rooster with flying star 2 and 5 in South. With serious clash between fire and water, one can expect heart attack, stroke, fire disaster and explosions. Similar clash will also happen in Jan. 2018.
Since middle of 2016, the Chinese calendar is actually entering a long cycle of metal, earth and water without the yang elements of wood and fire. The next wood year will only come up in 2022 the year of water tiger. Before 2022 the powerful metal and earth is not favorable for strong metal people. The prominent world leaders affected are David Cameron – who is strong metal, already have to step down in 2016 and succeeded by Theresa May who is also a strong metal lady. The other strong metal leaders coming up with unfavorable years are Shinzo Abe, Hollande, Tsai Ing-wen, and C.Y. Leung. On the other hand, leaders whose favorable elements are metal and earth will enter a phase of smooth luck, these include Putin and Xi jinping…..
ABSTRACT
The Chinese calendar, commonly known as the Farmers’ Calendar, or the Hsia Calendar, is fascinatingly accurate system, which not only records the passage of time, but is also a tool for fortune-telling. The famous traditional fortune-telling system – The Four Pillars of Destiny – is exactly referring to reading a person’s destiny from his birth data as presented in the Hsia calendar format. The unique feature of such calendar is that all information about time – year, month, day and hour are presented in terms of the five basic elements – metal, water, wood, fire and earth, which are believed to be the basic components of everything in the Universe. The relationship between the five elements accurately helps one predict what is to come by way of one’s fortunes and thus, one can by using this knowledge, multiply the good luck or minimize the bad luck in one’s life.
THE YEAR OF THE MONKEY
The Year of the Monkey, 2016, in the Hsia calendar, is symbolized by two elements – with Yang fire sitting on top of metal. According to the cycle of birth and destruction, which governs the inter relationship between the elements, Fire conquers metal and so they are on the destructive cycle and have fighting relationship. Normally such conflicting elements means disharmony. In particular Yang Fire symbolizes a straight-forward and quick temper person more ready to explode. So there will be international conflicts and clashes. However, it seems such conflicts may not be very violent and yang fire sitting on Monkey is also symbol of the “Setting Sun” as Monkey is metal representing the west. So the yang fire is comparatively mild. Also yang fire people is known to lose temper quickly but is honest and open at heart. So conflicts can be more easily resolved with compromise and concessions when the heat is cooling down after sun set. With such character of yang fire, I can expect 2016 will be comparatively less violent than 2014 and 2015 when the yang wood is a stubborn tree standing by its principles and refuses to bend. Also yang fire being the sun always brings optimism and warmth. As such, it will be easier to reach agreements and treaties to resolve conflicts and struggles.
The Monkey is strong metal element and hidden inside is yang metal, yang water and yang earth. Yang metal is a destructive element representing a sword or a killer weapon.Yang water is powerful ocean water with aggressive energy. As such, it also indicates clashes related to the ocean or conflicts at sea. So it will not be surprising the tension about disputed territories in South China sea may escalate.The Monkey in Four Pillars system is the birth place of water, and yang fire – the sun setting in the west is weakening fire. Hence there will be chance of shipping and airline accidents and air and sea disasters.
The Chinese calendar of Heavenly stems and Earthly Branches goes on 60 years cycle. This means that we had experienced the same yang fire Monkey year 60 years ago in 1956 as well as 120 years ago in 1896. The year 1956 saw the outbreak of crisis in Suez Canal with Egypt nationalized the Canal July, this eventually led to Bombing of Egypt by U.K. and France and Israel invasion of Sinai Peninsula in Oct, 1956. There are also revolutions against Soviet Union control in Hungry and in Poland, both were brutally suppressed by Soviet forces. In Hong Kong there is riot of the Nationalist on 10th Oct. So it was also a year of conflict and war. However, as yang fire symbolizes the Sun, it also generate sentiment of optimism and happiness, so it is a favorable year for entertainment and glamorous industries. 1956 is a very successful year for big stars such as Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and Doris Day. Elvis Presley conquered the world with “Heartbreak Hotel” in February 1956, Marilyn Monroe changed her name from Norma Jean to Marilyn Monroe, and Doris Day recorded her most famous song “Que Sera Sera”…. All these happened in 1956.
In Chinese Metaphysics, yang fire represents the sun and energy – heart and blood circulation. Yang fire also refers to the shoulder. Hence a fire year is easy to bring sickness of heart, blood, inflammation problem and shoulder pain. Metal in the human body is related to lung and breathing organ. With fire attacking metal, there is chance of flu and other breathing organ or skin problems. Also the flying star 2, representing sickness occupies centre in 2016. As such, it will be a year with more chance of flu pandemic. Indeed in 1956, there was actually Asian flu pandemic originated from China. As Yang fire is often compared to the Sun. Hence yang Fire people are more warm hearted, open minded and straight-forward, they are easy to make friends and is popular in social circle. The most representative yang fire persons are Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs, without their open-mindedness and hot enthusiasm, we may not be able to enjoy the products of their innovative ideas. However, yang fire people are quick tempered and sometimes impulsive and outspoken without careful thinking and this may get them into trouble sometimes. A typical example is Russell Crowe who is a yang fire man and had a reputation for having quick temper. In 2005 he was arrested and charged with assault in a New York hotel after he threw a telephone at the hotel manager when he failed to connect a call from his room. Mr. Steve Jobs is also known for hot temper. However, inside a yang fire person there is also a kind and soft heart. Many famous yang fire people are, scientists, writers and artists and entertainer, besides Steve Jobs, Einstein and Russell Crowe, other famous yang fire people include J. K. Rowling, Sandra Bullock, Paris Hilton, Alfred Hitchcock…… However some yang fire people can be dramatic and eccentric due to their explosive temperament, such as Adolf Hitler and Kim Jong Un……
The fire element basically symbolize happiness in the Five Quality of people, and they are honest, warm hearted, open minded and easy to make friends. Yang fire is optimistic. They are reliable people and trusted friends. As such, yang fire year often boost peoples confidence about the economy bringing good performance to the stock market. On 12th March 1956, the Dow Jones industrial Average Index surpassed 500 points for the first time in history. Also 1956 was a year of entertainment – besides Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Doris Day, it is also first year The Broadway musical “My Fair Lady” opened in New York, and the First Eurovision Song Contest was broadcast from Switzerland. The film “The King and I” was also released in this year of yang fire monkey.
The Monkey is strong metal element, in Chinese metaphysics it is a “Travelling Horse” and it clashes against the Tiger. Hence in a Monkey year there are more people travelling, in particular for people born in year and day of Tiger, Horse, Dog, and also people born in year or day of Pig, Rabbit, and Goat. As so many people have chance to travel, it will also trigger traffic accidents. In general Monkey and Tiger are land animals, hence the accidents are often involve car crashes. However, as it is year of yang fire which is related to airplanes, and the Monkey is also mother of water, we need to beware of air and sea traffic disaster as well in 2016. Back in 1956, the last yang fire monkey year 60 years ago, it was also a year of air and sea disasters. On 30/6/1956, A TWA airplane and an United Airlines DC-7 airplane collided in mid air over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, killing 128 passengers. On 25/7/1956 a Italian Ocean liner sank after colliding with Swedish ship SS Stockholm in heavy fog, killing 51 people. On 9/12 Trans-Canada air line crashed into a mountain in British Columbia killing 62 passengers. On 31/1/1957, still in the year of yang fire monkey, another mid-air collision happened between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a fighter jet near L.A.
As yang fire is the powerful energy of the Sun, certainly the very powerful fire energy will also bring explosion and fire disasters. On 8/8/1956, 262 miners died in a fire in a coal mine in Belgium, On 28/6/1896, also another yang fire monkey year 120 years ago, another coal mine in Pennsylvania exploded killing 58 miners. Yang fire is gigantic energy such as nuclear, the world’s first commercial nuclear power plant is opened in England in October,
1956. Also the Fukushima nuclear power plant was destroyed by the 311 earthquake and tsunami on a yang fire tiger day on 12/3/2011. Hence we also have to beware of nuclear issues and possible nuclear accidents in 2016.
As fire is hot air, so this element is often related to birds, airplane and flying objects, the year 2016 can be regarded as flying monkey, which is the drones flying in the air. It is expected the application of drones and robots will be getting more active and popular in 2016.
In Chinese medicine, fire element is heart and blood circulation, it is also related to the shoulder and the small intestines. Metal is breathing organ, lung, skin and and the Monkey will create “fire penalty” when it meets with Tiger and Snake, such fire penalty will trigger fire disasters and explosions. In the human body, fire penalty will cause inflammation, heart disease and high blood pressure problems. As this year is fire burning metal, so we have to beware of inflammation of intestines and breathing organ problem, and the sick star 2 dominates the center. So flu pandemic may be more serious in 2016. The suitable supplements to improve our immune system and minimize the chance of inflammation is anti-oxidant, vitamin C and omega 3 oil.
Take for example, Elvis Presley died in 16/8/1977 and he died of inflammation of his internal organs resulted from Monkey Tiger Snake fire penalty. The more serious month for such penalty will be February and May as these are months of Tiger and Snake.
The Monkey is the animal in clash against the Tiger. As both are travelling stars and they are land animals, such clash is related to traffic accidents. Also both Monkey and Tiger belongs to the Fire penalty of Tiger, Monkey, Snake. So it will also cause air disasters, explosion and fire hazards.
People who are born in the year of Monkey are offending the year, if they have also a Tiger somewhere in their four pillars or in their luck, they will suffer from clash or fire penalty and is more susceptible to traffic trouble or fire hazards, inflammation in 2016 if fire is their unfavorable element. This will create health problems and misfortune related to blood pressure, heart, breathing organ or skin. People born in year of Tiger is in clash against the year. They usually have more movements and travelling in 2016, it is ok to take such chance to make necessary changes such as moving house, moving office, or changing job or taking trips. However they should take extra care and refrain from risky sports such as driving fast cars, driving airplane, skin diving, parachuting etc. It is recommended that they carry the pendant of a Snake which will help to attract away the Monkey, so as to minimize the negative influence of the clash. For people born in year of the Tiger, it is good to minimize travelling direct towards the Southwest direction as it is the direction of the Grand Duke in 2016.
In the last 3 years from 2013 to 2015, we have experienced fire and earth years, fire is blood circulation, carbohydrate, energy and sugar, earth is stomach and muscles, as such, these years will make people gain weight more easily. However 2016 the arrival of metal element is a good chance to exhaust the excessive amount of earth we gained in the last few year. So it is a good year to do more exercise, watch diet and lose weight, one will find these two years of Monkey 2016 and Rooster 2017 will be more effective to trim down excessive fat.
Regarding flying star feng shui, the current twenty year period from 2004 to 2024 is called “Age of 8” and this number 8 represents the Trigram of Mountain and it also is symbol of young children. Therefore since stepping into Age of 8 in 2004, it seems there are more disasters and misfortune affecting children. The latest incidents included the South Korean ferry boat disaster in 2014 killing a lot of school kids, this is another examples of young people problem which is most prominent in “Age of 8”. This number 8, representing children will always present in the centre of the flying star chart in this 20 years from 2004 to 2024. So it is always important to pay attentions to children safety and well being in this period of 8.
Regarding the economy, fire element is often the driving force behind the stock market. The five elements are also affecting people’s mood. In general fire is joy, water is fear, Earth is meditation, metal is sadness, and wood is anger. As such, fire year often generates optimism and drive up the stock market, such as 2006 and 2007. But in 2008 the water arrived and obviously people began to have fear about worsening of the USA sub-prime problem and recession. So the financial tsunami occurred in autumn of 2008 leading to a few years of instability in the world economy. The years subsequent to 2008 were missing the fire element, so the crisis and instability particularly in USA and Europe prevailed until 2013, when the US economy showed strong recovery with the fire Snake year. In 2014 horse year the fire element continued to fuel the economy and it is obvious that USA and Europe are out of the bearish years. In 2015, the momentum of fire driven optimism will continue so this could be a year that the economic activities and stock market will continue to be very active particularly in spring and summer. The yang fire in 2016 is still positive for the economy and the optimism continue to bring confidence to buy. This positive fire energy will continue into first half of 2017 which is also fire showing up in the Heavenly stems.
The fire and metal element of 2016 is expected to bring prosperity to fire industries and water industries; this is because fire conquers metal, so the metal element is a symbol of money to the fire industry, which includes energy, entertainment, stock market, finance. The second best industries could be water, as water conquers fire, so fire is money to water industry. Water industries are transport, communication, shipping. Earth industry is also positive as Earth produces metal, so it will be an active year for earth elements such as property, construction, high tech, mining… The not so good industry is metal. Metal industries are banking, engineering, computer, …, in a strong metal year, this industry will be very active, but competition is also very strong and the Monkey year brings many competitors in the scene. Wood industry, such as textile, paper, environment… is active because wood produces fire, but the money to wood industry – earth is absent.
In summary, the industries that will perform well in the year of the Monkey will be industries related to Fire and Water elements. Fire industries are energy, stock market, finance, entertainment. Water element is referring to transport, shipping, communication. Earth industry will be active and productive but money element to earth is water which is not obvious. In general, the Yang Fire Monkey year, with fire on top and metal below, is symbol of optimism and flexibility and progress. There is still conflict and disharmony in international relationship and may not be a peaceful year but people are optimistic, open-minded, confident and innovative to bring solution to obstacles. Also there are natural disasters such as fire, explosion, nuclear issues tornado and hurricane and some environmental disasters and disease and epidemic still prevail.
The animal sign which is most unfavorable is the Tiger which is in direct clash against the Monkey. Such clashes will usually bring about turbulence, movements, accident or changes...As it is travelling stars clash, it will stimulate misfortunes related to traffic, air and sea disaster, explosion and fire disaster. The Monkey creates fire penalty with Tiger and Snake and these excessive fire will bring health problems related to inflammation and breathing organ. People born in the year of the Tiger will anticipate more traveling, or movements such as changing jobs or moving house. It is necessary to carry the pendant of a Snake as protection to attract the Monkey away. For the Tiger people, the clash against the Monkey could bring accidents related to traffic on the road and in the air.. For people who are under clash with the year, it is ok to travel more, making changes such as moving house, or change job. However, for people born in the year of the Tiger, it is recommended not to travel directly towards the direction of the Grand Duke, which is the southwest direction.
The other animal’s signs facing unfavorable positions is the Monkey. When Monkey encounters Monkey year will be offending the Grand Duke as well as potential penalty with Tiger and Snake. . Such penalties will usually bring disharmony, irritation, worries and frustrations, as well as sickness, it is necessary to carry Snake pendant to minimize the negative effect.
The animals combining with the Monkey year is the Snake, the Dragon and Rat. These animals are into a year of harmony. However, such animal astrology is not totally reliable as the system is not recognized as a formal type of fortune-telling. For more reliable assessment of one’s fortune in the year of the Monkey, it is recommended that one checks the full Four Pillars of Destiny, which requires full birth data information of the Year, Month, Day and Hour of birth. As the animal signs can appear in all four pillars in a person’s birth data, the clash and penalty relationship with the Monkey will not only cause impact on people born in the year of Tiger and Monkey. Such clash and penalties can also impact anyone who has such animals in the birth month, or day or hour.
Some examples of famous people born in the year of the Tiger and in clash against the Monkey in 2016 are Tom Cruise, Terry Gou, the Queen, Rob Pattison, Lady Gaga, Jodie Foster…... There are people not born in the year of Tiger, but they are also under clash because they are born on the day of Tiger, so they will also face a challenging year. Some examples of these people are Hilary Clinton, Park Geun Hye, Paris Hilton, Joan Jett, Kiefer Sutherland, Britney Spears … The clash against the Day Pillar will usually cause movement or conflict in the family or human relationship area, especially in the relationship with the spouse or opposite sex. Take for example, both Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are both on the day of Tiger and so both are under clash in the year of Monkey. Hence their marriage is breaking up.
People born in year of the Monkey is said to be “offending the Grand Duke” and it is also recommended to carry pendant of the Snake... Examples of people born in Monkey year are
Hugh Jackman, Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson, Celine Dion, Joey Yung, Yao Ming, Daniel Craig…
The more serious configuration is the Three Fire Penalty formed by the presence of Monkey, Tiger and Snake. Penalty is hidden danger and will cause irritation, worries and serious misfortune related to fire element. These will include misfortunes, relationship problems and health issues. Some examples of such people coming up with fire penalty in 2016 are Hilary Clinton, Paris Hilton, Pricilla Chan, Justin Beiber, Jennifer Aniston, Ron Pattinson, Oscar Postorius….. So many celebrities seems to be affected in 2016. These penalties are serious and dangerous, and the minimum protection is to carry pendant of Snake to attract away the incoming Monkey year.The Rooster is “Flower of Romance” in the year of the Monkey. For people who are born in years of Rooster or day of Rooster can anticipate a more sociable year with more opportunity to develop friendship with the opposite sex... People born in the year of the Tiger or day of Tiger will be into year of “Travelling Horse” and the Monkey year will also trigger more travelling and movement for people born in year of Pig, Rabbit and Goat.
The Monkey is a “Nobleman” for people born in years or days of Yin wood, Yin earth Heavenly stems. This means any birth year ending with the number 5, or 9 such as 1955, 1959, 1965, 1969, 1975, 1979, 1985, 1989, and 1995, 99…..ect. “Nobleman” is our protective angels who will come to help us and make everything smooth and positive. The Monkey is also the “Academic star” for people born in a Yang fire year. So 2016 is also a good year for baby birth as all baby born this year will automatically have “Academic star” which means intellectual quality and strong desire to learn.
Feng Shui energies also change from year to year. Therefore, it is necessary to watch for the re-allocation of good and bad energies at the beginning of each year, so that we can take necessary precautions if some bad energy happens to arrive at important locations of our residence or offices. In the year of the Monkey, the bad energy called “Five Yellow” – symbolizing obstacles and misfortune, arrives at the NE. It is recommended that one hangs a metal wind chime in the NE of the house to dissolve this bad energy. The worst months will be in February, May, November, 2016. Another bad star number 2, symbolizing sickness, will arrive in the centre in 2016. The traditional method to dissolve this 2 is to hang a string of six metal coins in the affected area in the centre of the house. The Grand Duke this year is in the Southwest, hence it is not favorable to “move earth” or make substantial construction work in this direction. It is also not recommended for one to sit with back against South as you will be sitting against the unfavorable energy called “Three Shars” or “Three Killings”. The Northeast is the “Crash position” against the Grand Duke which is also not good to sit. The bad star 3 is a star of conflict and robbery. This is present in the NW.. It is necessary to put a piece of red paper in this position to minimize such bad influence. Also the bad star 7, representing scandals is in the North, the traditional solution for this bad star 7 is to place 3 piece of bamboo plant grown in clear glass vase of water in the North location.
The annual star 2 located in the centre is the Trigram Earth and it is also a star of sick spell. As such, it is anticipated that more sickness or flu pandemic can be anticipated in 2016 and the affected area could be Central and NE area and. This will often affect Middle East and countries and regions with name “Central”, this may include China as well as the name of China is Central Country.