(23) How We Forecast Fate by Branches in Your Saju

The substantials that represent each branch

The four pillars to read your fate are set by the year, month, day and time of your birth. Among the four pillars, the day stem represents yourself, while the other stems and branches are explained in relation with the day stem.

We have learned that Byeong fire is like the sun in the sky in learning the 10 celestial stems in previous chapters. Byeong people have a distinct personality. It is yang fire and radiates the fire's character. It doesn't focus on one place but spreads out all over the world. However once it has no attention, it easily loses passion.

There is certain saju that it is hard to describe the personality of a day master as itself.

Here is a saju of a lady born in the year of rat (1984-ja), the month of O (fifth month of lunar calendar) and her birth time is In wood (4 am).

At first glance, the day master, byeong fire looks strong as it was born in the month of yang fire (o-friend star). O month is when the fire energy prevails. However on second look, it shows that o fire is severely hurt by the ja water on both sides. Usually the conflicts between water and fire lead to mental disorders. Especially when the day master is a fire element, there is a higher chance of problem. Look at the chart below. It shows that O fire means heart and nerve system.

Gap wood indicates her mother star and gyeong metal is her father. These elements sitting on very unstable branches indicate family troubles.

This year (2008) is mu-ja (earth-water) in terms of the 60-year cycle of stem and branch (ten thousand year calendar). Then ja water attacks o fire, the root of byeong, day master in her saju.

She plays the piano and applied to the college of music this year. However she failed in the entrance examination. Ja water is her career star, which means school for the student. But this conflicts with o fire. On top of that, she starts to have a physical illness and has to get medical help because it gets serious.

Her mother and father were divorced but her mother came back home to take care of her. We can foresee that she must be very careful about her health (mentally and physically) this year.

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 learning courses to open for people who are interested. For more information, visit her Web site (https://blog.naver.com/janet_shin) or email to janetshin@hotmail.com