(356) Saju and name of baby born by cesarean

By Janet Shin

More and more people take seriously the influence a name can have in one’s life. This has led them to pay serious attention to creating baby names or sometimes changing their own names as adults. In response to the requests of making a name either for a baby or an adult, a qualified name master must scrutinize not only the person’s saju in question but other factors, such as the saju of his or her parents, spouses and other parties concerned.

Recently, I was asked to pick an auspicious date and hour for a baby who was going to be born by cesarean and to name the baby boy, then I asked for the parents’ birth records and vocation, as well as family tradition.

We attribute quite a significant extent of our fate to the composition of our saju, being generated by our birth year, month, date and hour, which can’t be altered once we are born, even though some factors may be improved owing to our efforts, whereas names contribute to complementing the deficient energy of saju and instigating a certain energy to promote our achievements.

The expectant mother wanted me to pick her cesarean date after June 27. In this case, the dates must be selected within a week because doctors and the hospital cannot accommodate such a long period.

Whenever I am asked whether a C-section can indeed make a difference to one’s destiny, my answer is ‘’yes.’’ And I actually devote myself to picking dates for the cesarean. However the difficulty is, although we try to select a date as auspicious as possible, four saju letters out of eight are already fixed. In other words, there is a certain limitation as we cannot select the month and year which are predetermined in most cases. Accordingly what we can do is compose only half of the saju.

Reviewing saju alternatives from June 27 to July, I found all the letters have fire energy (red) except for one which is metal (white). Furthermore, there are not many solutions to harmonize this saju during the week. If we pick a date with different elements to balance out the excessive fire, it has to be abundant enough to coordinate the existing fire. On top of that, two or three optional dates need to be presented for the mother so she can cope with any unexpected situations. And a name will be made after the baby’s birth to supplement the conditions that is not properly comprised by saju.

Consequently, picking a date for a cesarean and naming after is not easy work at all. In a certain way, babies will select their own destiny and we cannot manipulate that.

Are you interested in learning more about the ancient Chinese teachings, the "Four Pillars of Destiny" and Oriental ways of fortunetelling or fortunetellers? Janet teaches saju for the public at Seoul National University of Education. For further information, visit Janet's website at www.janetshin.modoo.at or her blog, https://blog.naver.com/janet_shin. You can also contact her at 010-5414-7461 or email janetshin.kor@gmail.com. The writer is the author of "Life's Secrets."