(154) What is your favorite color?

By Jason Shin

A famous opera singer saw “The Kiss” by Gustav Klimt on a television art program. Then he said in a tranquil tone, “I love the color gold, especially brighter gold in this painting.” In the famed painting, a man and a woman stand on a flower scattered field and hold each other to lapse into a state of ecstasy inside a gold aura that radiates as if their halo.

The clear ringing voice of the baritone singer and the gold image of “The Kiss” were seen in a mystical harmony on screen.

Do you have any color or any mood, which mysteriously attracts you? I clearly notify every client that our attempt to change our destiny is very limited. We, as human beings, cannot alter our four pillars of destiny from birth. There is a Korean saying “Oh my ‘palja.’” “Pal” means eight and “ja” means letters. So palja literally refers to the eight letters or four pillars of destiny. This is usually told when a situation is tough and one cannot ameliorate it. By saying this, people try to take hardship as it is and let it go.

How about now? People have learned that there is a lot more they can handle and achieve than before. People have realized their unlimited ability to even reach the moon.

Accordingly, saju reading has become not only about one’s palja, as given destiny, but about how to make one’s life better and to avoid unseen and unexpected misfortune. Some wise ways to guide us to a better path as a map are your faces, palms and feng shui. They are related with shapes, directions and materials. Most importantly, colors play a major role to influence the atmosphere. There are many capable masters who can read faces, palms and feng shui exquisitely well. However, I do emphasize that those readings should be advised based on one’s saju.

I know a model who was born with a yin wood day master.

As you can see from her saju chart, she was born as a flower in hot summer time. On top of her month branch (yang fire), she has more fire elements both in stems and branches. We may easily judge that the flower looks thirsty without enough water in summer time - see the red colors in her saju. The yang water in her time stem doesn’t have any support either from heavenly or from earthly energies. The fire energy (red) denotes her expression star (talents) and the water energy (black) her knowledge star (or mother). She’s got beauty as a model and a gift for art. However her parents were divorced when she was a child and her mother has been depressed for a long time, not being able to take care of her.

After reading her saju, what I could advise as a saju master was to quench her thirst first. By the way, even before I start explaining about colors, she was wearing a black and white outfit and told me that she mostly dresses in achromatic-colored clothes. By wearing black clothes, or by using black for her interior, she may try to compensate and improve her given destiny instinctually.

Many feng shui books introduce the planting of trees or locating a mini pond or fish tank in a house. But this shouldn’t be applied to everyone. For some, it may bring fortune but not everyone. This is why superficial knowledge is dangerous when it is applied unquestioningly.

Knowing your day master and the overall climate of your saju is so important that it can bring priceless fortune and tranquility to your life.

If you are also fascinated by certain colors, like the opera singer or the model whose saju is told here, there is a reason why.

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