Logic may break down .......

Programming is a nice hobby because it trains the mind to think logically.

Chess is a nicer game because it teaches tactics and strategy at the same time.

Sometimes we need to apply some logic before we move to the artistic realm.

I happen to chance upon a Xuan Kong Da Gua date selection course promotion. One brief case study was presented to show the pow wow of Xuan Kong Da Gua date selection.

In summary,

'Two houses have the exact same Facing Direction and same Structure. Feng Shui reading for the both is good in Period 8, anyone who stay in these house will enjoy good fortune and prosperous luck. The owners are however advised by their respective Feng Shui master to move in at a very different timing and season.'

The year was 2009. One group (single parent) moved during summer and the other (businessman) autumn. The latter group prospered while the first group experienced a series of misfortune.

This is the question and conclusion according to the 'marketer' of the course probably not the course instructor.

Is it because different people have different luck? Result is different depending on individual? Or is it that one has done something wrong his or her previous life?

The Truth & Answer:
Difference in the time-factor (Good and Bad Move-in date)

Method of Date Selection:
House A: - Other date selection method
House B: - Traditional XKDG Date selection

To be fair, we have incomplete information at this time but let us examine the claim.

Commentaries

1. Is it premature to conclude the luck plays no important factor? From from the start, this comparison is flawed because of the different Bazi, gender and occupation of the owners. Why pit a businessman against a white collar worker?
   
2. If the 'summer' group has better luck, she will probably hired someone who used another preferred date selection.
3. The 'other' date selection was not mentioned.
4. No further examples were given after 2009 to showcase the pow wow of Xuan Kong Da Gua date selection.
   

A wicked question could be posed, what about Bill Gates? He probably scoff at Xuan Kong Da Gua date selection as gibberish but if he used his billions to back his scoff, what will you do?

And finally, in a stock market bull run, even a monkey has a good chance of punting the correct stocks. It is during a bear run that the professionals revealed themselves.

A date time full of clashes but ....

Hr Day Mth Year
Geng Geng Jia Ren
Chen Xu Chen Chen
1 9 3 6
9 9 2 4

This looks like a horrible date, yikes! Remember if there is no such thing as a perfect date, the converse is probably true, a bad date may have some silver linings.

So I analysed the date using my home brew Xuan Kong Da Gua date selection application.





















Now at least the hour and day clash is not so fearful anymore, of course care must be taken to ensure some gender incompatibility is taken of nicely.

This is the Qi Men Dun Jia chart for the same time division.

The south actually looks promising. Therefore not all 'bad' hours should be discarded.

Mr Ding Mao wants to use this date....

15th Mar 2011, 10:15 AM, Longitude 108

Hr Day Mth Year Owner House
Ji Ji Xin Xin Xin Xin
Si Si Mao Mao Mao Mao
8 8 2 2 2 2
2 2 3 3 3 3

Mr Ding Mao looks at the date and he knows it is good for Mr Xin Mao. All that family gua interaction, combination of 10, 5 are too good to be true.

'We both born in Mao year and if it is good for him, so it must be good for me.'

What will you tell Mr Ding Mao?

Mr Ding You comes by and shove Mr Ding Mao aside and proclaims.

'Ha, I am the Qi Sha of Mao, let me use this date to reap immense wealth.'

What is the simple answer to Mr Ding You's claim?

13th April 2012 7PM GMT+8 - Not a bad date

April 2012 7PM GMT+8 is another highly useable date from Xuan Kong Da Gua date selection perspective. There at at least 3 interesting basic interactions among the date time elements? Do you know them? Oops, some of the hints are given below.


However there are subtle inherent weakness in this date. Remember, there is no such thing as a perfect date.

Now while we know this is a above average date time from Xuan Kong Da Gua perspective (assuming we did not consider the owner and dwelling), we can further refine it using Nine Palace Qi Men Dun Jia. The map (Zhi Lun, Rotating Palace) does not bode well but on closer analysis, it is useable and if you do a simple mathematics, southeast and northwest are the best directions. For the blokes who house sit/face this axis, it is your lucky hour. To make the full use of this time will require some conditions. If it was so easily, Singapore will be full of billionaires.


For the Flying Palace die hard supporters, they will probably use this map.


I will resist stating a corny quoted wrongly attributed to Mao Zedong regarding coloured cats, rats or mice. To be precise, Mao did not use that analogy at all. He was probably busy thinking of new schemes to thwart his political imaginary opponents (formerly comrades) after defeating the Nationalists.

Which of the following methods is correct?
For example, in Chess, we have many openings and defense. There are probably no secrets left, only surprises. Extensive analysis by various grandmasters and annotated games have advanced the game since the last 100 years. There is probably no such thing as a best opening or defense, it is how the game is played that matters.

Another date time selection request

Question was posed for date time for given house and owner using another date selection system. Let us do a brief analysis using Xuan Kong Da Gua Date Selection.

30th May 2012, 5-7 AM GMT+8, Longitude 120

Hr Day Mth Year Owner Door facing
Xin Xin Yi Ren Ren Wu
Mao Mao Si Chen Xu Zi
2 2 7 6 4 7
3 3 3 4 4 4

Slightly above average date because that the year Xuan Kong gua qi 6 spoiled the nice 2,7 hetu combination and it will 45 days later. Well we cannot change the year pillar.

The strong point is the user and house has affinity with the date time and that upgrades it to a good date for the owner and house.

There should be similar or better dates during the same time period.

And with a modest computer and home brew Xuan Kong Da Gua date selection software utility, life is made simpler.

Brief commentaries for earlier date samples

Mixed Hetu and Combination of 10, Grade B

Hr Day Mth Year Owner House
Jia Bing Bing Ren Geng Ren
Wu Chen Wu Chen Xu Xu
9 4 4 6 9 4
1 1 3 4 9 4


Now in this case, day Bing Chen clash owner's year gan zhi without family gua support, the clash is difficult to defend.

Note: Gender taboos from previous posts considerations are necessary.

Almost a nice family gua formation....

Hr Day Mth Year Owner House
Wu Ji Bing Ren Geng Ren
Chen Wei Wu Chen Xu Xu
9 1 4 6 9 4
6 2 3 4 9 4

Wu+Wei = earth defended the San Sha trouble makers from creating useful havoc.

This is not a bad date given the family gua flow among the related hexagrams.

However the Wu Chen hour branch clash with Geng Xu branch in the owner's year branch.

时支冲福主年支.

Mandarin is a concise language. And that is the cause of many divisions with Chinese metaphysical studies, ambiguity. It is compounded by the notorious Chinese habit of retaining secrets.

A typical date selection example from the start

Ever wonder why date selection is not a good business to be involved?

The economic returns aka fees for a full fledged geomancy consultancy job has higher $ returns. For date selection, you have to pore through mountains of data instead of using the Chinese Farmer's Almanac aka Tong Shen.

Now there are 30 days in a month and 12 hours for a day. 30*12=360

That is 30 date times to be evaluated. For house moving, we usually use day hours and that trimmed the date time list by half 180 date times.

Yet the date selection bloke has to work numerous permutations, avoid taboos and pick the best dates given the time constraints.

We have an example below to work your hands, for the purpose of illustrating the examples below, we restrict the date selection method to elementary Xuan Kong Da Gua date selection.

Constraints
House moving before July 2012.
Apartment facing 144°.
Owner birth year pillar is Geng 9 Xu 9

Two more dates similar to the one posted earlier are proposed.

Mixed Hetu and Combination of 10, Grade B

Hr Day Mth Year Owner House
Jia Bing Bing Ren Geng Ren
Wu Chen Wu Chen Xu Xu
9 4 4 6 9 4
1 1 3 4 9 4

Hr Day Mth Year Owner House
Wu Ji Bing Ren Geng Ren
Chen Wei Wu Chen Xu Xu
9 1 4 6 9 4
6 2 3 4 9 4

Both date time looks promising. What are the strong and weak points?

Any comments?

Commentaries will be posted later.

Some things to take note when using automated date selection

21th June 2012 8:23 GMT 8 Longitude 103.8

Combination of 10 implies it all is well in Paradise?

Hr Day Mth Year Owner House
Bing Gui Bing Ren Geng Ren
Chen Chou Wu Chen Xu Xu
4 6 4 6 9 4
1 8 3 4 9 4

Around 1 hour after the solstice change over time at 21th June 2012, 7:09 AM +8 GMT, Qi transition may not be stable.

Bing Chen hour clash owner year gan zhi. In addition Bing is also the Qi Sha of owner's year Geng stem.

Note:
Owner year pillar Geng Xu is parent gua of Pi-Tai family. All Pi-Tai/Sun-Jian child hexagrams on seeing this parent gua will lean towards it. However the appearance of Sun-Jian parent guas Ding Mao/Ding You will wreak havoc and create a gender indeterminate situation.

Incoming dragons, water points may also affect gender leanings and must be considered in geomancy applications.

A 7 Stars Robbery and '4 of a kind' date structure

This is a 7 Stars Robbery and '4 of a Kind' Xuan Kong Da Gua date structure. Poker players will know 4 of a Kind is a very good hand.

The Chinese mandarin name is elegant 一卦纯清.

It can be considered a 同流格 for the date stems.

Despite the clash in the earthly, this date is highly useable if unique conditions are present. Using 'Complementary Theory', this date is also not suitable for some scenarios despite the fact we have 七星打劫 and 一卦纯清.

Do you want to make a guess?

Rare natal 7 Stars Robbery date times

I was mucking around the home brew Xuan Kong Da Gua software, quashing a few bugs with inputs from testers when I remembered this old thread.

I was thinking why Xuan Kong Da Gua style 7 Stars Robbery date times are rare?

Why not run a trivial utility and and determine the number of 7 Stars Robbery date times for the next 100 years. This brings back memories the old university days when we put in punch in some parameters and analyse the computer simulation results after lunch.

Heck, its only a few lines of code.

If you happen to use this date with good results, please remember to make a significant donation to any children orphanage home.

Ok, the results are interesting......they are in the screen capture below. Date time is generated for GMT +8 time, longitude 120 using a 2 hour time division.

For the blokes who can play with the hexagrams and family/parent gua formations, they can easily drum up applications for this date. Yes, despite the rarity of this date, not every bloke or house can use it properly and you have to be nice to the people around you for starters, whats why a good donation to orphanage is good before a nice holiday.

Maybe i will run the program for the next 100 years...

Apparently those high mental dexterity or experience will probably have their own manual tricks. Master Zhang, in his Xuan Kong Da Gua date selection book has an example in the 1930s but with a modern computer, it becomes simpler.

Happy Good Friday!