(58) How to Read Marital Harmony (Gunghap 1)

By Janet Shin

By looking at someone's saju, we may understand their personality, life goal, family and social relations, stability or dynamics of life path, etc. Although it seems that money is currently the most pursued thing in society, people can also look for love, a career, recognition, relations, knowledge or anything else that one values more.

While we appreciate the individual variations, there is one thing that everybody is concerned about: marital harmony or "gunghap in saju terms. It can be marital harmony itself literally, but more importantly, it can be the harmony in relationships with friends, business partners, colleagues and loved ones.

We may apply gunghap to read the relation between mother and son: for example, son and girlfriend, me and my boss, you and your business partner and so on.

As we reviewed combinations, assemblies, clashes among stems and branches during past few weeks, we may apply them to gunghap.

Here is an interesting saju of a celebrity couple:

Jang Yoon-jung, a popular trot singer, and No Hong-chul, an entertainer, officially announced last June they are a couple.

Jang had not had a boyfriend for six years, but she was touched by No's sincerity and heartwarming efforts to woo her.

No debuted as a VJ for a cable channel in 2004 and became known to the public on MBC TV reality entertainment program ``The Unlimited Challenge."

While Jang was an ideal girl for most guys, No was known as a funny and dashing man. People recognized his sincerity and diligence but did not see him as romantic.

In looking at their saju for gunghap, we can see severe clashes in both ― a Myo-yu clash in No's and an In-sin clash in Jang's. For both, we can understand they have been born with great talents judging by their strong expression stars.

From the in-sin clash in Jang's saju, we may infer the misfortune in showing her talents (sin-expression star) and getting people's recognition (in-career star) during her early twenties. She did nothing else but make money with a busy life ― traveling and attending events far away. Both In and Sin are from living place in terms of branch classification. Also, it would be safe for her to meet her true love or get married after her 30s.

Jang's in-sin clash is between year and month branches. That means the pain is almost over. No's myo-yu clash is between month and day branches, which warn of possible struggles ahead.

Next year (2010: year of gyeong-in), he might experience challenges from other love competitors. Refer to Jang's saju for an in-sin clash.

In 2011, the year of sin-myo, he would also face pain in his day branch (yu ― girl friend) by the clashing of myo-yu.

Other than these cautions, it is certain that the money star ― yu metal (wife) ― for No is a fortunate and valuable letter. He should do his best to support his wife and also he should be supported by his wife. And the same applies to Jang's saju, as fire (jeong ― No's day master) should generate and support the earth (gi ― Jang's day master).

We don't have to talk about their marriage as it could sound premature at this stage, but we wish for them to overcome their hardships in the next two years to realize their true love.

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 e-mail janetshin@hotmail.com.