(52) What Makes Extreme Incidents in Our Lives? (Clashes I)

Saju of a tragic actress Jang Ja-yeon

Jang Ja-yeon, a TV actress, was found to have hanged herself on the stairs of her home on March 7 this year.

Her suicide shocked many since the 30-year-old actress had just started attracting attention from her supporting role in the popular KBS drama ``Boys Over Flowers.''

The case became a social issue after her suicide note revealed that a former agent forced her to provide sexual services to several high-powered entertainment figures and journalists.

Jang was born Aug. 25, 1980, with her saju as below.

Her day master, jeong fire, tells us how passionate she was in trying to show her talents. She must have had talent as we see her expression stars in the year and month branches.

However her expression stars chuk and mi are clashing. She could have experienced some frustration in expressing her talents. This year 2009 (year of gi-chuk), she was able to gain some opportunity but it clashed with her inner expression star.

We have classified the 12 branches into three groups as below,

1.

repository place

― jin (dragon), sul (dog), chuk (cow), mi (sheep)

2.

live place

― in (tiger), sin (monkey), sa (snake), hae (pig)

3.

flourish place

― ja (rat), o (horse), myo (rabbit), yu (chicken)

Among them, the branches in the repository place are usually described as the birth, progress, regression and death of living creatures. As those four branches in the repository place are positioned in between each season, it also represents a change of luck. They are also often called storage and grave places.

It doesn't mean that people with clashes of repository branches always have fatal events in their lives. But we have to watch the impact of the clashes ― whether it hurts only the elements, or makes matters worse in terms of the timing in their age range.

As we study this further, chuk (yin earth) puts jeong, gi and gyeing stems into a grave so we can assume how dreadful the impact of this year's clash was for Jang.

We feel pity for her misfortune that she was not able to blossom. It could have been fortunate if she had been able to escape from the fatal bonds, but she couldn't.

Clashes could be the most frequently used skill to infer the fate of one's life, death, divorce, accident, or smoothness of life path.

We trace which stars are influenced by these clashes. If it is a clash of knowledge stars, there would be an impact on the mother (in terms of family relations), study or launch of a new project. If it is a clash of money stars, there would be an impact on the father or wife, money fortune or the result of a project.

We can expand our skill and imagination in analyzing and reading the fate by the clashes among branches.

There is a clash if the branches located in opposite directions (azimuth) meet each other. Then they conflict and hurt the other (as shown in chart 1).

Six branch clashes:

Ja-o

Myo-yu

In-sin

Sa-hae

Jin-sul

Chuk-mi

Ja-o and myo-yu are the clashes of the flourishing place. Most inclusions in these branches are hurt according to the generation and restriction activities of five elements. We need to watch the diseases affecting the mind and internal organs.

In-sin and sa-hae are the clashes of a living place. Most inclusions in these branches are hurt. It is more like an external injury. Sa-hae clash often infers the diseases related with the heart and nervous system.

Jin-sul and chuk-mi are clashes of the repository place. Not all the inclusions are hurt, because all of them are earth elements in their regular energy. So we call them friendly clashes and the earth energy is not damaged by the clash. For some saju, jin-sul and chuk-mi clashes give positive momentum in their lives as it plows the hard soil.

In general the six clashes represent breakage and pain. One branch clashes with the other branch, then they are broken, lose their elements and experience pain. This can mean gossip, an administrative problem, car accidents or diseases.

However, they are not always bad influences. As explained before, everything has two sides. So clashes create pain on the one hand, but also makes a person grow and develop.

There is no single answer in reading the saju. So the professional fortune teller needs to carefully deduce how one's fortune flows and where the positive and negative aspects are

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 (https://blog.naver.com/janet―shin) or email janetshin@hotmail.com.