(315) Do twins live the same life?

By Janet Shin

Owing to some recent popular television programs, people like to watch how twins or triplets act on the show and it is even said that many who are planning to get pregnant wish to have twins and consult obstetrician accordingly.

One of my clients gave birth to boy twins from a test-tube in 1998. But she has experienced many hardships as the second boy had suffered serious misfortune during delivery. She, as a mother, went through all the pains together with her son and part of the reason was that the twins were born cesarean, which was almost a life-threatening emergency. Fortunately, now the second boy became stronger but ironically the first one is showing various small symptoms. She also added that the two boys are completely different in their personalities, on top of the fact that they are fraternal twins, not identical.

For this reason she is curious about why she and her boys had to endure the troubles they endured and why they are so different but experience similar health problems in turn. In addition, she wants to know what the future for the boys will be like, whether it is going to be similar and what she can do to make them live better lives.

It is not easy to interpret a saju chart without preliminary knowledge. One of the basic but very important tools is to read it with the day master’s family tree. It can be an immature method if not properly exploited, but it is still a very useful means of information.

You may start with the same element as the day master. It is read as his siblings. In this saju, he has one (metal element, colored white) in the heavenly stems and another in the earthly branches. He actually has one boy twin, and another elder brother. The element that generates the day master is his mother. For the metal day master, earth in yellow is his mother. On the other hand, the element, which is restricted by the day master, is his father. The wood element (green) is his father in this case. This way, we can easily figure out the twins’ major family members.

By the way, one thing that catches our eye is his day pillar (yin metal in the heavenly stem and fire in the earthly branch). According to the 12 stages of life, this combination is described as death. So those with this day pillar undergo certain trials. Some experience a death of his or her siblings, others with one’s own health. One of my clients is a fourth-generation only son himself and he doesn’t have his own son either. Meanwhile some may reach a powerful position after all their adventurous incidents. One of the former Korean presidents has this day pillar and a woman became a proud Korean overseas. It is obvious that she endured all the adversities living in a foreign country and overcoming all the conceivable discrimination.

The day pillar of the twins suggests some bad luck that they experienced from the birth.

Most of you would have wondered if there is the same saju and whether it leads to the same life. Another inquiry would start with this: if you have luck to change and promote your current hopeless lives.

If we simply refer to world population statistics, there is a birth every eight seconds. Considering that saju numerates 12 hours a day, there would be almost a thousand people born with the same saju, meaning in the same year, month, date and hour. Do they live a similar fate? As you all know, the answer is no.

Although we can argue by explaining the disparate conditions to discriminate diverse life styles, such as natural, cultural, ethnic and family background, it is still intricate to provide a clear-cut explanation. Some practitioners try to demonstrate fatal consequences brought by feng shui but it doesn’t seem so perfectly convincing.

There are inexplicit areas that saju can’t analyze, yet it is still true that saju connotes valuable information and we need to get a hold of its treasure. What we should do is to retain some open spaces so that humans can complement and develop their own life beyond the given destiny.

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.”