(268) How to improve your love fortune

By Janet Shin

Setting up a family with a true love is not easy for everybody. The one you are in love with now may not turn out to be your everlasting mate. What attributes the conjugal ties? People usually ascribe it to external qualities, such as appearance, financial condition and or other family, social, educational and class backgrounds that form one’s values. However, as everybody acknowledges, there is something else that accounts for man-woman relationships.

Saju explains it with the five elements interactions. If there are any embedded obstacles in one’s innate destiny, it is considered hard to meet the one. Otherwise, he or she has to experience hardships in the process. Is there any way to improve this and how can it be identified?

For Koreans, reading “gunghap,” or marital harmony, is very common. It can also be for the compatibility between friends, parents and children and even the business partners as well as the relations between the sexes. Above all, the imminent question would be about when and whether one could meet the right match and who the one is.

Last December, a woman consulted me about her daughter, born in 1983. She was beautiful and excellent in her career but had a hard time finding the right mate. She met a man in 2013, which didn’t go well and broke up at the end of the year. The woman was so disappointed and couldn’t understand why, because the couple looked a perfect match.

She regards her daughter so pretty, as most mothers do, who actually showed a brilliant figure in her social connections.

What was the problem? Her four pillars of destiny revealed an obvious clue.

The five elements have correspondences of generating and overcoming cycle. Among them, we read the man-woman relations with the mutual overcoming ones. For example, for the metal day master, her spouse is the fire element.

Mutual Nourishment

(generation or inter-promotion)

Wood->Fire->Earth->Metal->Water

Wood makes the fire by burning, (wood generates fire)

Fire creates ashes from wood to nourish the earth (fire nourishes earth)

Earth contains metal and makes metal solid (earth generates metal)

Metal purifies the water (metal generates water, water comes from rocks)

Water allows woods to grow (water nourishes wood)

Mutual restraint

(overcoming)

Wood->Earth->Water->Fire->Metal->Wood

Wood absorbs the earth’s energy (wood restrains earth)

Earth blocks the water (earth restrains water)

Water extinguishes the fire (water restrains fire)

Fire melts the metal (fire restrains metal)

Metal axe chops the wood (metal restrains wood)

The daughter was born with the yin metal energy, which can be represented by jewelry. She has strong ego with abundant friend stars (same metal elements) and also was born in the month of metal. In addition, she has strong water energy that portrays her talents, expression star. Those who have a strong expression star would distinguish themselves especially in specialized professions.

However, she doesn’t have fire energy, red, in any of her four pillars or eight letters. The fire stands for her husband. At the same time it sheds lights on her life, once applied well.

The fire energy was brought into her destiny via the year fortune because 2013 was gye-sa (combination of water-fire). She met a man apparently. However it ended up to clash with her year branch. That’s why she broke up with him at the end of the year.

Fortunately, another fire element is coming in 2014, which wouldn’t cause any conflict with her saju. Therefore the chances are pretty excellent this year.

While she may attain the wishful fire energy owing to the lucky year fortune, we can cast additional tips with the help of feng shui. I advised the mother to have electric lights installed as bright as possible especially at the daughter’s room. Lights can supersede fire elements.

Feng shui can be implemented better in accordance with one’s saju reading. I would recommend the customized feng shui instead of just applying either saju or feng shui. This way, you can appreciate what is truly required for your situation rather than just following the prevalent information.

Information : Are you interested in learning more about the ancient Chinese teaching about the “Four Pillars of Destiny”? For further information, visit Janet’s website at www.fourpillarskorea.com, contact her at 010-5414-7461 or email janetshin@hotmail.com.

The writer is the author of “Life’s Secrets”.