Work Space at Home - The New Normal.

The days of your Feng Shui master stepping into your home, identifying your wealth location, advising where your head should point, telling you who sleeps where, unlocking secrets to wealth, matching you to happiness and tilting doors are numbered.

Digital disruption to the way we live, work and play has even pushed the traditional methods of ranking our main entrance, bedroom and the kitchen stove back to one critical area for creating a sustainable future for the family - the Work Area.

As economies transform, individuals will require essential skills to move along with the digital ecosystem. On a broader scale, this transformation will spawn businesses and consumers towards sharing and gig economies.

From temporary contract work to independent professionals, this free market system is driven and empowered by technology, digital platforms and apps. As we know it today, technology will continue to update and upgrade at a speed that most will never be able to catch up. The introduction of Artificial Intelligence will surely impact us not only our habits but our behaviour. Some may treat a gig economy job as the mainstay of work and many more shall use this opportunity to expand their channels of extra income.

Digital solutions such as 5G will accelerate the transfer of information and bring about new ways of trade and service provision, opening up a world of possibilities for people to explore business opporunities from the desk.

This leads us to the significance of paying attention to the place you work at home.

For many of us, the limitations of space lead us to only two options. One is a spare room after all the needs are taken care of. Two is to create a place where it is usually the living room, dining area or the balcony space.

While there are many approaches to locate the best and most productive location in the house, you could at this level, make use of your personal BaZi chart in which you will find your personal palace as well as the favourable directions according to your birth data. However small and humble your Work Space is, let it be the one that is going to propel you to success and a better life for you and your family.

So, the next time you call in your Feng Shui master, consider to place more emphasis on where it is best to locate your Work Area.

Taking on the Corona Virus. A Strong Logo to show Commitment.

The WuHan Huo Shen Shan Hospital, literally translated as Mount Fire God, is dedicated to battle the ongoing viral outbreak, now known as CoVid-19.

The dominantly red-coloured logo has interesting Feng Shui and BaGua accents that suggests much thoughts and consideration have been given to translate the intentions of its institution to the country and the world.

If you look at he centrepiece, you will see the image of a gourd (HuLu) that is symbolic of Chinese medicine and treatment.

Flanking this is a pair of flame-like drawing which seems to symbolise the element Fire which is representative of life, comfort, confidence and warmth.

The internal ring which forms a protective layer over its intentions is the depiction of the Early Trigram BaGua. This is traditionally used as the purest and strongest symbol of protection from nature, much like what you will get out of a BaGua mirror which homes and businesses hang over their main doors and entrances.

Another coincidence is the location of the Fire element in this BaGua which is found in the East, geographically punting to China as well as the HuBei province where the virus is at its epicentre.

The Year of the Rat in 2020 is dominated by the Water element with the Fire element under much threat and is at its weakest.

With their strong belief and great efforts, we hope that they will see breakthrough by Summer this year when the element Fire will gain strength to fight this disease.

THE TEN GODS - CLEAR INTERPRETATIONS OF YOUR BAZI CHART.

In their traditional formats, the ten gods are representatives of what matter to us in life, on account of the stars or energies that are expressed in our charts.

Are you a conservative person ? Do you possess the gift of speech ? How rich am I likely to become ? Will I marry well ? Am I suitable to run my own business ? What sort of health threats are there in my life ? Can I command respect from others ? Is it a better choice if I continue to work in the corporate world ? These are some of the common questions that will confront you at some point in time and it is human nature to want to have answers so that a good decision can be made for the best possible outcome.

All around us, we see the other person as one who seems to have it all in life to make it even more successful. Maggie seems to have the parental support, John is ever so popular, Kenny looks rich and travels around the world ever so often, Steph just got the determination and discipline good enough to run an army.

The consolation is - far and few in bteween, if not none, have it all.

Therein lies the value of understanding what you have and what you lack, strategise, plan, act, review and make life work the way you want it.

From your personal BaZi chart, you will discover that there are a combination of the ten gods indicated against the elements in the heavenly and the hidden stems. Note that there is a systematic allotment of the ten gods in your personal chart that is symbiotic with each of the five elements and polarised between Yin and Yang.

Dependent on the Day Master which is highlighted in pink in your chart, the element that supports your element is called the Resource Star, further differentiated between Direct Resource (DR) and Indirect Resource (IR).

The element that your Day Master sees as their own, for example if your Day Master is Yang Earth（戊）and somewhere there exists another of the same character, you get a Friend Star (FR). Should you see a Yin Earth（己）, you see a Rob Wealth (RW) in your life.

At this point, do not imagine or judge that one of the Ten Gods is 'better' than the other, just by its namsake. A Friend Star surely sounds gentler than the Rob Wealth Star.

However, while there are traditional ground rules of 'qualifying' each of the Ten Gods, the evolution of time and the dynamcis of society have drastically changed the way these stars are viewed upon, utilised, managed and leveraged on.

The Rob Wealth Star, for one, speaks volumes of a person's opportunities to master it, of the massive followings and trust placed upon one who has it.

The element produced by the Day Master are known as the Output Stars, namely Eating God (EG) and the Hurting Officer (HO), key qualities of an individual's ability to turn out results and creativity that lead to benefits, financial or otherwise.

Then comes the coveted Direct Wealth (DW) and Indirect Wealth (IW) and before you jump into quick conclusion, having them in your chart does not automatically mean you will be rich without doing anything. Most times, having too much Wealth Stars means you are perpetually busy. If uncontrolled, you become busy for nothing.

With wealth comes power, authority and control. In this system, they are labelled as Direct Officer (DO), one which instils systems and discipline and on the other end, the Seven Killings Star (7K), one which no action superstars can do without because it spurs competitiveness and the need to excel and show.

And there you have it, a summary of the Ten Gods in your chart. Find out what you have on the website and find the BaZi Calculator under the Resource button.

In the next few posts, I will delve into the details of each of the ten and explore the possibilities each offers you on your path to success.

What makes the people who are hugely successful the way they are today ? More than the luck or some extraordinary powers they possess, the commen thread was - they maximised and execute their plans according to their individual strengths endowed upon them in their own charts. So can you. Tell me what you have and post a comment so I can answer for all to discover and share.