The Triad of Fortune: How Fengshui and Bazi Could Change Your Life
Fortune is never unpredictable in the ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui. Rather than attributing fortune solely to chance, the Daoist philosophy proposes a dynamic interplay of three fundamental domain of energy: the celestial or heaven luck (天), the environmental or earthly luck (地), and the human or personal luck (人). The ultimate goal of Fengshui, then, is to create harmony among the three domains.
The annual cycle of the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) rotates and shifts, bringing different energies and influences to specific sectors of a space. These annual afflictions and auspicious energies can indeed impact the overall luck experienced by the occupants. We term this impact as the Celestial Domain, as Ancient Taoist Masters found out that the change of the annual energy is reflected by the star movement up in the sky. Such an powerful influence could be moderated or amplified with annual Feng Shui cures and enhancements, but never entirely resisted.
The environment we inhabit has a significant impact on our well-being and luck in Feng Shui. A well-balanced space, considering the layout, orientation, and placement of objects according to Feng Shui principles, can support and harmonize with an individual's energy. Conversely, an unbalanced space can create stagnant or conflicting energies that hinder one's progress and call for misfortune. This is where practical Feng Shui adjustments come into play.
Each person is born with a unique energy pattern determined by their birth date and time. The Bazi birth chart reveals one’s personal energy blueprint, inherent strengths, weaknesses, and how they interact with the energies of different time periods (year, month, day, hour) and environments. When the prevailing annual energies align harmoniously with an individual's Bazi, it can bring opportunities and smoother sailing. Conversely, clashes or imbalances between the annual energy and the Bazi can lead to challenges and obstacles.
Your inherent Bazi potential interacts with the ever-changing annual energies, and the Feng Shui of your environment either supports or hinders this interaction. It's a dynamic interplay where all three domains (heaven / earth / person) contribute to the overall experience of luck. The heaven domain, namely the annual Feng Shui energies (often referred to as the "Yearly Flying Stars"), are considered to be a macro-level influence that is beyond individual control. We can’t resist the universal trend of luck, and we don’t. The central core of Daoism and Fengshui is that we don’t fight the nature, we ride with the flow. Be friend with the universe, not enemy. Therefore, the focus in Feng Shui practice is often on adapting to these energies through spatial adjustments and by understanding our personal Bazi in relation to them.
In other words, Fengshui is the art of adjusting the earth and the person domain of an individual, to better adapt with the unchangeable destiny. Even though we could not change the inevitable annual energy, we could modify our environment to achieve harmony between the personal energy and the annual pattern. A Bazi chart would be employed to understand individual strengths and weaknesses, and then tailor the spatial arrangements to mitigate negative influences and enhance positive potentials, in alignment with the annual energies.
Simply put, the heaven fortune rotates every year, people with certain animal zodiacs and five element alignments could be lucky this year and unlucky the next. We could Fengshui your environment and adjust your personal energy based on a Bazi analysis, in order to shield away the bad luck and make better use of the good luck.
