(120) To win game by all means

How can we tell whether someone is trustworthy or not? Can we tell by saju? If one wants to win the game by hook or by crook, there is a high chance of getting off the regular course.

We often see many people struggling to achieve what they aim for. This may be recognized by their passion of life, but when it is overly expressed, they may end up in a crisis losing the reputation they accumulated in life. Why and how does it happen?

Looking at our lives, one may discover that some try really hard to gain what they want as quickly as possible. It is sometimes so excessive that they are even willing to sell their soul, whereas others do not care about the seemingly palpable quick success and take a detour. What makes this difference?

In order to comprehend this, we need to see what the five elements of the generation and restriction cycle imply biologically and socially. This is based on your day master. If you were born with a wood day master, your expression star is fire, money star is earth, career star is metal and knowledge star is water.

Biological signification

Friend star Expression star Money star Career star Knowledge star

Siblings Children for women Father Children for men Mother

Self Wife for men Husband for women

Social signification

Initiative Progress Outcome Assessment Planning

Competition Investment Wealth Recognition Respect

Once a saju is composed, based on one’s birth year, month, day and time, you are able to read the major flow of the five elements.

The cycle of “Expression-Money” (No.1) tends to be efficient. People with this cycle will know how to take the smarter way to success.

The cycle of “Career-knowledge” (No.2) would rather play safe than to take risks for a quicker result.

1. Expression-Money cycle

2. Career-Knowledge cycle

In order to understand this, we may read one example saju currently issued.

Rebekah Brooks, a British journalist and former newspaper editor, was arrested not only for the alleged phone hacking of hundreds of celebrities, politicians and even murder victims, but for bribing police for information. Her sandcastle of power and influence was toppled by the scandal.

She was chief executive of News International, having served as the youngest editor of a British national newspaper and the first female editor of The Sun. Her success seemed to be growing without any stop in sight.

Having a fire day master and being born in the month of friend star (fire), she has an innate strength and initiative. Without having any knowledge star among the year, month and day pillars, she would rather take a short cut to success than queuing in line. Her saju has a definite cycle of expression to money. She has a penalty between the year and month branches, which involves herself (fire) and money or outcome (metal). Last year in particular, and this year, her money stars clashed with coming years’ energy, which stimulated the penalty.

Pondering the mechanism of their circulation, we are able to find certain clues to understand patterns of behavior.

A shallow understanding of five respective stars may lead you to simply think that the career star represents a politician, the knowledge star a scholar, the Money star a business man, and so on. But as you all know, current society is not as simple as it was acknowledged in the past.

In other words, movie stars with expression stars and those with career stars are different. The former just enjoy acting itself, the latter may want to set up a film company to show off their influence.

Likewise, politicians with expression stars and those with careers stars are also different. The former places emphasis on the voters’ support, while the latter takes a more stable stance to maintain current dignity.

Usually those with the cycle of expression to money stars do not care about how others recognize them. They do as they need and they know where they can get more and a quicker outcome which, unfortunately, does not always end up with honorable reputation.

Information: Are you interested in learning more about the ancient Chinese teaching about the “Four Pillars of Destiny”? Saju (Ancient Chinese Teaching ― Four Pillars of Destiny) or face reading workshops are held in Itaewon, Seoul.

For further information, contact Janet Shin at 010-5414-7461 or email janetshin@hotmail.com.

The writer is the president of the Heavenly Garden, a saju research center in Korea, and the author of “Learning Four Pillars.” For more information, visit her website at www.fourpillarskorea.com