She was pregnant
She was pregnant
She was pregnant when she was a student of my saju class. It was a beginners’ class and we were studying the heavenly stems to compose the intangible energies of one’s saju. I was trying to teach how to comprehend the day master (day stem) in association with a month branch. I proposed they plot a saju of one student as a case study. Then she volunteered and presented her saju.
You can see what her saju is like.
She was born with a yang fire day master, with yang wood or a knowledge star in her month branch. The sun is often comparable to yang fire, so people with a yang fire day master have a distinct personality. They are chivalrous and cheerful. They also boast about themselves. They can’t hide their emotions.
I could see that she took great pride in herself and would be straightforward in expressing her emotions.
Owing to the clash between her day and time branches, which are earth elements and her expression stars, I asked my first question about her pregnancy. The pregnancy is usually read by the expression stars of women’s saju. For example, if a day master is a wood element, the pregnancy is ready by the fire element, for a fire day master, it is the earth element that implies pregnancy, and so on.
Day master――――Expression star
● Wood ――――――――Fire
● Fire――――――――――Earth
● Earth―――――――――Metal
● Metal―――――――――Water
● Water―――――――――Wood
Since she was born with a fire day master, the earth elements represent her expression star. According to the position of earth elements, we were also able to assume that she might have a child in later years. At 40, she is now expecting her first child next month. Then, because of the clash between two yang earths in her day and time branch, trouble was anticipated in childbirth.
I understood how cautious and precious it was to have a baby at her age, but the message is that it was seen by saju.
When she was told, she questioned what kind of trouble it would be and I answered that it could be a difficult delivery or a sudden cesarean. She said that her doctor had already confirmed a good condition of her pregnancy so it would be a regular delivery. I was not able to continue our conversation further because she was not ready to listen.
Three months have passed since I read her saju. Then I got a call from her last week. Her first words were, “Master, you were right!” And then she continued that “The doctor advised that the fetus was upside down. We tried to correct it but all our efforts were in vain. We decided to have a cesarean” And as the baby is due next month, she asked me to choose an auspicious day.
I have been asked many times about cesareans. And the question was whether it could change the destiny of a baby. My answer is yes. The destiny is determined by one’s birth year, month, day and time. And if one could select the best day, it would change the destiny. When a saju master chooses an auspicious day, he or she always reads the saju of the baby’s mother and father first, so that the family may have harmony. It is not always easy to choose an auspicious day because we must consider when the baby is due, doctors’ working hours, the family schedule. Also the saju master should be able to present optional saju with different day masters, as possible, because saju cannot be judged as just good or bad. Some may want their child to be an artist, while others may want a scholar or a wealthy person.
In many cases, even though an auspicious day for a desirable saju was chosen for a baby, the child wasn’t able to be born on the chosen day.
That may be the destiny of the baby.
Information: Are you interested in learning more about the ancient Chinese teaching of the “Four Pillars of Destiny”? Saju (Ancient Chinese Teaching ― Four Pillars of Destiny) and face reading workshops are held in Itaewon, Seoul Korea.
For further information, contact Janet Shin on 010-5414-7461 or email janetshin@hotmail.com.
The writer is the president of the Heavenly Garden, a saju research center in Korea, and the author of “Learning Four Pillars” For more information, visit her website at www.fourpillarskorea.com