(53) What Makes Extreme Incidents in Our Lives? (Clash II)

By Janet Shin

As we learned last week, we review clashes in one’s saju to understand critical fate, such as death, divorce or other accidents. By the activities of clashes, the smoothness or crookedness of one’s life are determined.

Believe it or not, most former Korean presidents have clashes in their saju as do some famous celebrities who achieved their fame after struggles.

The clashes were not welcomed in the past, since that meant higher chance of death and diseases. In the old days, people longed for a secure and noble life rather than a dynamic or distorted one.

However people who trust saju and fate these days, especially politicians and CEOs, intentionally create clashes in the saju of their sons and daughters as their lives are filled with battles and competitions. Without experiencing frustration, conflicts or dealing with disappointment in their lives, the offspring cannot survive the real battlefield during their adulthood.

Birth cannot be manipulated by human beings, so we consider saju as dealing with fate or destiny. We may make efforts to improve our life path. Someone may desire a smooth life while others want a dynamic life. We may turn our life wheel a little bit to follow a desired road, but the ultimate condition and destination cannot be changed in the big picture. That’s why we call saju “palja,” in Korean, when we talk about the destiny of our life.

People have tried to improve their lives either by effort or by other channels, such as reading the saju, names, fengshui, face reading, etc. Trying to give birth to their children on a specific day and time when the saju comes out as desirable is one reason why people try to have Caesarean sections nowadays. This is something I do not totally agree with.

In order to study further on clashes, let’s review a woman’s life with significant clashes in her branches. She was born Feb. 23, 1967 at 4 p.m.

In her saju, we first can see a big mountain with a beautiful lake and some minerals inside. In general, we evaluate a saju with this kind of stem combination as noble. If she had sun (byeong fire) or wood (in wood) in other stems, it would be much greater.

However, the stems are more like an ideal status and when you want to evaluate the reality, you have to review the condition of branches and their relationships.

First of all, in this saju, you will be able to see the clash of in-sin between month and day branches.

We consider the relationship between month and day or day and time branches more important as they are closer to the person’s actual life.

She is a beautiful music teacher at a school and rich. However, after her first child, she divorced her husband. Then she had a second marriage and lived a happy life. But right after her second child, the second husband passed away for unknown reasons.

The critical clash of in-sin is between her career (husband) star and expression (children) star. So, upon her children’s births, she had to lose her husbands for whatever reason. What a tragedy she had to endure in her past life although she is beautiful, still young, and talented.

As mentioned, in her stem combination, if there were gap wood, it would be greater as the mountain is not lonely. The trauma she has been and will be holding in her whole life is her husband.

Even after the death of her second husband, whoever she dated, the relationship resulted in an unfortunate end. Nevertheless she desires to meet a good spouse whatever the cost. She sensed that having a child would cause her another misfortune. Everybody has their own trauma, whether it is money, love or social success. People can’t get everything perfect while some appear to lack for nothing in their outer appearance.

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.