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Actress Moon Bloodgood |
By Janet Shin
The fact that saju helps understand people's fate using their birth year, month, day and time, means its basis comes from the universe.
Oriental studies are based on heaven, earth and human philosophy. When it comes to saju, heaven is studied through celestial stems, earth through terrestrial branches and humans through the stem inclusions of branches.
The four pillars (saju) that are made up of one's birth year, month, day and time, explain a person's past, present and future, as well as what the person pursues in life, how dynamic or stable the person's life path is, and so on. The stems and branches are combined to generate a 60-year cycle that represents each pillar. The 10 stems are intangible forces from heaven. They are pure with five elements, and yin and yang properties.
On the other hand, the 12 terrestrial branches are the complicated energies' mixture of 10 stems. The 10 stems from heaven come down to Earth after a certain period of time and mix together to create the 12 branches. Although we describe each branch as one of five elements and yin or yang, actually they have several different elements inside. Consequently, they react with each other, combine to generate other elements and clash to diminish or stimulate certain inclusions.
Owing to these activities, human society has leaps, unrevealed stories and challenges.
Here is the saju of Moon Bloodgood, an American actress and model who has starred in such films as ``Eight Below'' and ``Terminator Salvation.''
She was born September 20, 1975, to an American father of Dutch and Irish descent, and a South Korean mother. Her father was stationed in Korea when he met her mother.
She is one of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People in the world for 2009, and appointed as the goodwill ambassador of the Korean Tourism Organization, becoming the first Hollywood star to promote Korea.
Her day master is gi ― yin earth born in yu ― yin metal ― month of expression star. From this, we can easily infer her talents. The Myo-yu clash between the year and month branches tells us about the adversities she faced during her adolescence. She might have had a boyfriend when she was young, but it would have been hard to realize her love. Putting her knowledge star (mother) in her marriage palace explains how her mother means a lot in her life.
This year, which is the year of gi-chuk, there is a sa-yu-chuk metal trine, so the myo in her year branch is free from the myo-yu clash.
We can infer that she can achieve something in her career path. Being appointed as the goodwill ambassador of Korea can be one example. She may also expect to find true love this year, by saving myo, which shows the career star (husband or boyfriend).
Then, how can we prioritize when penalties, clashes, assemblies and combinations overlap in one's saju, and when they are affected by every coming year's stem and branch?
The power of these associations is ranked below:
Azimuth trines > Assembly trines > Half trine with celestial inducing forces > six branch clashes = six branch combination > half trines
We do not rank the five stem combinations as they represent intangible energies. And once they are combined, they lose their original energy.
In the above ranking system, six clashes and six combinations are equal in power, so if there are six combinations and six clashes in a saju, they are not active.
Some people may live on a fortunate life path, while others may suffer from successive misfortune throughout their lives.
Six combinations (sa-sin) and six clashes (sa-hae) have the same power, so if they exist as above, they do not influence life.
In this saju, both a jin-sul clash and sul-myo combination exist. As they have the same power, none of them will be effective.
The writer is the president of the Heavenly Garden, a saju research center in Korea. She is the author of Learning Four Pillars. She offers saju courses to all who are interested. For more information, visit her Web site (http://blog.naver.com/janet_shin) or email janetshin@hotmail.com |
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