Essays on BaZi, Zi Wei Dou Shu, and the way classical Chinese metaphysics maps to a modern life.
Donald Trump's tower, Steve Jobs' I Ching, David Beckham in a Hong Kong feng shui studio, Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop. Four well-sourced cases of Western public figures who took Chinese metaphysics seriously, and the documents that prove it.
Read essay →For two millennia, the eight characters of a birth chart and the twelve palaces of Zi Wei Dou Shu were the working tools of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau. A short history of how a court craft became a private one.
Read essay →A short introduction to the Four Pillars of Destiny, what the eight characters encode, and why they're not a fortune-telling parlor trick.
Read essay →A practical introduction to the Ten Gods (十神), the relational labels that turn a static chart into a story about your life.
Read essay →Two great Chinese systems, often used together. Here's what each does well and why a Combined Reading uses both.
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