(54) What Makes Extreme Incidents in Our Lives (Clash III)

By Janet Shin

The clashes among branches in our saju tell us how dynamic lives are, when they have critical events and who are affected. Sometimes it can be death or accidents, or it can be broken hearts or dishonor. However it also can be unexpected success.

As said, the clashes are not something we need to feel fear about. Although the construction and combination of the saju have to be carefully reviewed in order to determine whether they have evolved or not, we may be able to use a clash as a momentum for a change.

Here is a saju that is not easy to recover from.

It is a saju of a lady born May 16, 1983. You may review her saju to find how hot it is. Sin metal in the time pillar is being melted by the strong fire energy.

Her mother and father were divorced when she was a little girl and her father passed away several years ago from a heart attack.

The only energy that can cool her down is gye-hae (water element) in the year pillar. Unfortunately, it clashes with sa-fire in the month pillar.

She is a beautiful and smart sophomore who is studying architecture at a so-called prestigious university. Although her childhood was not blessed since her parents divorced and nobody took care of her, she tried to be strong and studied hard. But life has never given her any comfort.

Without financial support from anyone, she has searched for help from elder men at the cost of selling sex. It was unfortunate what clashed in her saju is sa (friend star: herself) and hae (career star: opposite sex). In order to continue her studies (career for a student), she sacrificed herself to the opposite sex (boy friend, husband).

In the course of her life path, she pushed the wrong button and once it went wrong, she was not able to correct it. She has continued her life and studying through the support of other rich men. Although she desperately hated living like that she couldn't stop it.

What we can advise her is to ask for a leave of absence from school and to become economically independent by working a part time job.

That's the only way she can escape from her fate chain and leap to live her own life.

The six clashes can be classified by their phenomenon in related with diseases and accidents as (Chart 1).

There is a ja-o clash as they are located next to each other. For this clash, ja water and o fire lose their elements. For byeong fire (day master), o fire means its siblings and peers. Owing to ja-o clash, there could be an obstacle for siblings or peers. In serious cases, it may mean the death of one's brother or sister.

There is in-sin clash to cause in wood and sin metal to be damaged. For gap wood (self), sin metal is a career star that means some obstacles in one's place of work and lessens the luck of her husband or boyfriend

Although there are ja and o in this saju, they are not located next to each other, so there is no clash

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.