(22) What do people pursue in their lives?

By Janet Shin

Here is a saju of a man who was born in the Southern hemisphere. His day master, gi, is the energy of yin earth that represents the field. The gi people embrace others but they do not talk a lot. Gi personality is prudent, stable, reliable and a little stubborn. They are also logical and benevolent. Gi is wet earth, especially with hae (yin water) branch, as in this man’s saju. But if we looked at his overall saju, hae water is not in a good condition, as it is next to sa fire. Both elements fiercely conflict each other.

Although gi is the earth, patient and prudent, he has sa and hae in his branches, which are very active, conflicting, moving and fierce. The other branches, sul and mi, are repository places. As learned, jin, sul, chuk, and mi are repository places, meaning storage and graves as they gather and keep things inside. People who have jin sul chuk mi in their saju usually have a deeper and wider perspective about other people, life and the world. Most of them are interested in the spiritual world and ultimate truth.

Sa fire is his knowledge star as fire generates the earth (gi day master). The fact that his knowledge star is a live place means he might have studied overseas and majored in subjects that relate to history, travel, anthropology and archeology. He actually majored in anthropology in a foreign country.

Also, hae water is his money star, indicating his wife, his father or how he makes money. He met his current wife, who has a job in a foreign country. As said, sa and hae conflict, meaning his mother and father divorced. Also, he could have stopped studying in his school days due to money problems or family issues.

We can infer lots of things by the conflict of sa and hae. It also means possible conflict in his marriage life. It could be the conflict of the differences between what he and his wife pursue. The month branch is the fundamental place where a person’s life starts and what the person pursues throughout his life. Although sa fire is broken by hae water, what he pursues most is knowledge and study. When we read one’s fate, we always confirm what the month branch is and explain the other elements in relation with it.

Once we read people’s fate correctly, we can give advice on the fortunate and bad elements. If the saju is too dry and hot, a fish bowl, for example, can be a good tool to make life better. If they live near the seashore or work at the swimming pool, they’ve already improved their lives on their own in a good way. If the person’s saju has too much earth energy, just a plant pot or flowers could make his or her life better than now. In feng shui, people relocate furniture or put some pictures in certain places and so forth for better fortune. Likewise, in saju, we also plant and decorate our life path in positive and proactive methods.

The writer is the president of the Heavenly Garden, a saju research center in Korea. She is the author of the book titled ``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 to janetshin@hotmail.com