Character | Personality | A BAZI perspective

A person's character is a set of morals and values that puts that person in a safe mode. Living out a person's character is being oneself and being comfortable in his or her skin. Because it is such a normal for most people, it is hard to change one's character although it is not impossible.

In its duality, a person's character has it positive traits as well as its negative drawbacks.

When a person makes an effort and introduce changes to his/her character, a personality develops.

What motivates a person's change in character for the better ?

Read all about this and see if your personality that you will become fits you.

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Time is your most precious Resource

In the system of Destiny Analysis, better known as BaZi （八字）, the breakdown of the five elements are further expounded into relevant aspects of our daily lives. Within your own personal chart, the element that supports your personal element found in the Day stem (called the Day Master) becomes your Resource star.

The Resource star is the provider for our abilities and motivation to process and create things, conditions and situations which will eventually benefit ourselves and the people surrounding us.

Resources include capitals which are renewable, expandable and for some, can be created.

There are Natural Capital (flow of energies that produces results), Human Capital (our personal health, skills, knowledge and motivation), Social Capital (human chains, communities, family etc), Creative Capital (our tools and assets) and Financial Capital (cash and liquidity).

This leads many to put Financial Capital as the leader as our condition for success.

While all five play major roles in the way we pursue our goals, one resource stands out as the most precious. Often monetized in opportunity costs, Time belongs to the Natural Capital money can't buy.

Not all time are equal. And that has to do with the value attached to it by individual priorities and needs which can change from time to time.

If you convert your time into profitable work, you make money. There are those who spend time building relationships which will result in personal satisfaction and fulfillment. Do you spend time creatively and working for yourself ? Than you are investing time for an exchange of freedom. Some will happily trade time to contribute to the happiness and enjoyment of others, yielding themselves a sense of sharing.

Time is therefore an important resource that one must maximize and protect.

In the system of BaZi, there is Direct Resource | DR （正印）and Indirect Resource | IR （偏印）. Time comes under the Direct Resource category because everyone is given the same amount, not negotiable and functions according to one's disposal.

If one does not see the Direct Resource element in his or her chart, time management is of concern and urgency. You can either discipline and manage your time for better results or choose to waste time on unproductive habits.

As equal as everyone is to time, we must respect and return the respect of others' time. Should you find that your Direct Resource star is missing or being clashed, one can be guilty of wasting time on unnecessary tasks or worse, fall victim to a Thief of Time. This is the one you should avoid or if you can't, manage their own poor time management. Sometimes, one can even turn to become a Thief of Time unconsciously due to their bad habits of doing things last minute and trying to squeeze the maximum out of their own time at the expense of others.

Respect and manage your own time and that of others. Turn it into useful activities, meaningful exchanges and something to treasure.

‘Energies of the Dragon are carried by the winds and collect at the boundary of water’

Perhaps the clearest definition of what Feng Shui means is envisioned by the historian, poet and writer of the Eastern Jin period.

Guo Pu （郭璞）【AD 276 - 324】wrote The Book of Burials （葬書）, the most authoritative source of Feng Shui doctrine that addresses the concept of Feng Shui in the history of China.

氣乘風則散

界水則止古人聚之使不散

行之使有止

故謂之風水

These lines are observed by all practitioners and form the basis of all Feng Shui applications.

This adaptation spells the criteria for the conditions of good Feng Shui.

Sources of Feng Shui originates and evolves into ‘winds’ （風）. Winds are air in motion created by a difference in pressures and moves from high to low.

The natural occurrence comes from the expansion of warmer atmosphere, thus allowing air to flow.

In Feng Shui, the quality of this flow must be gradual and sentimental. The origin of such qualities come from mountains （山）and hills which should be ideally lush and shaped with ridges. As the air brushes through the trees and minerals, it forms and carries with it the vital qualities of what mankind benefits as a breeze and can be further enhanced as wind （風）.

This flow will only stop when it meets with a collection of water （水）in a bright protected space. Preferably clean and moving, representing life, water is seen as a river, a protected channel, a reservoir, a lake, man made dams or a bay.

In urban cities, buildings and undulations of land make up for such sources while roads, drains, pools and ponds can take the place of natural water features.

It is from this quality of conditions that your Feng Shui Master comes in and lay out the possibilities of certain properties and land which will then be matched with the occupants for their enjoyment and benefits.

The point here is clear.

Energies （氣）, popularly termed as the breath of the dragons, cannot be created or manufactured.

We must be prepared and be honest with ourselves that certain land, locations, areas, precincts, clusters and neighborhoods do not come with such a quality.

Turning a property which do not come with such a condition, from bad to good is not a reality. At most, mitigation can be applied to the downsides.

It is therefore ore imperative for property prospects to assess or call in a professional to ascertain if a home is worth investing, right from the start.

Internally, if your home qualifies to be able to draw in the energies （氣）, much can be done to be activated for various functions that bring the desired results for its owners.

In a sequence and with methodologies, a professional consultant should be able to ‘unlock’ and ‘release’ certain points within your home so that energies flow.

Fixtures, layout, locality and the use of certain element related features will usually do the trick.

A professional and ethical consultant will effectively use electrical appliance such as lights (for career and image boosting), plants and flowers (for relationships), water (for wealth, financial and business enhancements) and metal structures or exercise weights to control some negatively affected areas.

Often, the question of wealth activation comes into dispute. what do you need to use in water features.

The answer is, all you need is a water pump (not an air pump) and a container as simple as a pail.

How big should it be ? For a 100 square meters or a 1,100 square feet size apartment, a one foot aquarium will do.

The best is, it must be an open top for energies to collect and it must be moving water so that the energies remain active and live.

This is my personal water feature. Filter, water pump, lights, artificial plants, bit of stones for added aesthetics.

No fish.