Pure Feng Shui

Did you know that the Chinese calendar system is made up of 2 parts; a lunar calendar and a solar calendar? It is called a luni-solar calendar.  Many are familiar with the lunar calendar part of the Chinese luni-solar calendar that tracks the shape of the moon in the night sky, with special days for Chinese festivals and events on the 1st and 15th day of the lunar month. Traditionally the older generation of Chinese people celebrate their Chinese lunar birthdays. The solar calendar part of the Chinese luni-solar calendar corresponds to the orbit of planet earth around the sun, and is systematically divided into 24 parts, called Solar Terms. The first of the Solar Terms is Spring Begins or Li Chun and it falls on 4 February 2022. Although the lunar new year of the Tiger had already started on the 1st of February, the start of the Water Tiger year in the solar calendar part of the luni-solar calender is actually on 4 February 2022.  For the Ba Zi birth chart, we use the solar calendar pa

(1) How many "New Year's Day" are there in a year?  There are 3 "New Year's Days": (i) 1st of January, 2022 (International Gregorian Calendar) (ii) 1st of February, 2022 - Lunar New Year (based on the orbit of moon around earth), and  (iii) 4th of February, 2022 - Li Chun day or Spring Begins solar term, beginning of the solar calendar of the Chinese luni-solar calendar (based on the orbit of earth around the sun). (Note) Although I use the word "orbit", the ancient Chinese mapped the path of the moon in its waxing and waning phases across the night sky, and likewise used the Gnomon stick's sun shadow to track the path of the sun across the sky.  For all of the three first-days of the year, you can construct a Ba Zi chart for the beginning hour of the day and analyse them for the 5 elements interaction. It means that there will be 3 different Ba Zi charts with different meanings and interpretations according to different masters. Confusing isn&

Hello readers of this blog, advance new year greetings to you for the year of Xin Chou, Metal Ox . This coming OX year's Li Chun falls on the 3rd of February 2021 . The timing for GMT +8 is 22:58 hours, or 11.58 PM.  Someone sent me this video about Li Chun: It is a Tik Tok video in Chinese, and it describes some common observations for the day of Li Chun: (1) Do not move house on this day, as the Qi is changing and implies no peace (2) Do not cut your hair (or nails - added by me) on this day, as this means the new shoots sprouting out in Spring are being cut, i.e. arrested development (3) Do not idle away at home, go outside to experience new Qi of Spring (4) Do not quarrel nor get into conflicts on this day, as it will be a bad start for the year. Keep your cool on this day.  Li Chun Riddle You may have read my earlier articles about the Li Chun day, and so here is a riddle for this Li Chun day: If Li Chun starts at 22:58 hours on the 3rd of February (+8 GMT), and 4th of Februar