Part of the sophistication and subtlety of Chinese medicine is the understanding of time and season. The San Fu treatment combines medicine with electional astrology in order to harness the seasonal yang qi. Solar Fortnight 小暑 Xiao Shu (Slight Heat) Saturday July 6th 2024 22:58 Solar Month 辛未 Metal Sheep When we get to Solar Fortnight Slight Heat, it’s time to ask your acupuncturist about San Fu Tian treatments. They can tell you if it would be helpful or not for you. The next Solar Fortnight is Great Heat. The one after that is the Limit of Heat. See where this is going? The San Fu cold moxa ..read more

Metal Sheep 辛未 Month July 6th 22:58-August 7th 09:05 Here are the Animal Fortunes for the month of the Metal Sheep. To get the most out of the fortunes you’ll want to know all four of your pillars which are based on your birth year, month, day and time. If you don’t know them just ask! Each of the four animals of your BaZi correlates with an aspect of your life. Year Pillar Has to do with your physical body and what you do with it, ancestors, family traits. In terms of luck the year pillar is said to take the first “hit” of any event, good or bad. Month Pillar Relates to career, work environme ..read more

Metal Horse 庚午 Month June 5th 12:34-July 6th 22:58 Here are the Animal Fortunes for the month of the Metal Horse. To get the most out of the fortunes you’ll want to know all four of your pillars which are based on your birth year, month, day and time. If you don’t know them just ask! Each of the four animals of your BaZi correlates with an aspect of your life. Year Pillar Has to do with your physical body and what you do with it, ancestors, family traits. In terms of luck the year pillar is said to take the first “hit” of any event, good or bad. Month Pillar Relates to career, work environment ..read more

The Solar Eclipse of April 2024 occurred on Monday April 8th 2024, shortly after we entered the solar month of the Earth Dragon. It was visible in North America and Central America. The path of totality included Mexico, the central U.S., Texas and East Canada. States that were in the path of the totality included: Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and parts of Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee. Here are the Four Pillars of the day and time totality began April 8th, 2024 11:21 PDT   Hour Day Month Year ..read more

Earth Snake 己巳 Month May 5th 08:22-June 5th 12:34 Here are the Animal Fortunes for the month of the Earth Snake. To get the most out of the fortunes you’ll want to know all four of your pillars which are based on your birth year, month, day and time. If you don’t know them just ask! Each of the four animals of your BaZi correlates with an aspect of your life. Year Pillar Has to do with your physical body and what you do with it, ancestors, family traits. In terms of luck the year pillar is said to take the first “hit” of any event, good or bad. Month Pillar Relates to career, work environment ..read more

Kamala Harris was born in a 甲辰 Wood Dragon year – like 2024. She turns 60 this year which, in the system of Chinese Astrology means she has completed the Cycle of 60 Pillars. When you turn 60 you have lived through all the possible pillars, you’ve had at least a year of every possible energetic combination and presumably you have learned from this experience. Regardless of whether that’s true, turning 60 is a starting over point. Some would say now you are like a child again. Certainly 2024 will be one of the most significant and interesting years of her life. In such an important year, Kamal ..read more

What can you say about a year from the information contained in two symbols? If you study Ba Zi, the answer to that question is: much more than I can write about in this lifetime. Let’s focus on what is relevant about the Wood Dragon pillar in 2024. Wood Dragon Pillar 甲 yang Wood 辰 Dragon The pillar consists of Heavenly Stem yang Wood 甲 sitting on top of Earthly Branch 辰 Dragon whose main element is 戊 yang Earth. Wood controls or clashes Earth. It might be a land grab. Every pillar has a signature energy which is the interaction of the Heavenly Stem and the Earthly Branch. Within the ..read more

I’ve recently published a couple of posts about US Presidential Elections and Ba Zi. One about the pattern of our elections and one about the patterns of elections held in a Dragon year. You may want to read those first. In this article I will focus on election results in a Wood Dragon year, starting with general considerations. and then working down to a Wood Dragon year like this one. What I mean is, not all Wood Dragon years occur in time cycle like the one we are in, so you want to focus on the ones that do. 2024 is a Wood Dragon year in the Chinese Calendar. The pillar consists of yang Wo ..read more

Earth Dragon 戊辰 Month April 4th 15:03-May 5th 08:22 Here are the Animal Fortunes for the month of the Earth Dragon. To get the most out of the fortunes you’ll want to know all four of your pillars which are based on your birth year, month, day and time. If you don’t know them just ask! Each of the four animals of your BaZi correlates with an aspect of your life. Year Pillar Has to do with your physical body and what you do with it, ancestors, family traits. In terms of luck the year pillar is said to take the first “hit” of any event, good or bad. Month Pillar Relates to career, work environme ..read more

In the United States, Presidential elections are held every four years. The first Presidential election was held in 1788, an Earth Monkey year. Because the Chinese Zodiac follows a 12 year cycle, this timing set the precedent for US Presidential elections being held in Monkey, Rat and Dragon years. You can read more about that and view the results of past US Presidential Elections here. In this post I will focus on US Presidential election winners from Dragon year elections and who is running now in 2024. If you’re familiar with Ba Zi, you can already identify the underlying Monkey-Rat-Dragon ..read more