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Dear Anthony,

Please see below:-

On 12/6/2002 9:39:00 PM, Anthony Vincent wrote:
>Dear Cecil,
>
>Can you help me know whether
>the "Auspicious Date" for
>Housewarming / Moving-in/
>Contract Signing / New Job
>starting date etc:-
>(A) Depends on Ba Zi of a
>person (Birth Date Element,
>and the Four Pillars) ?
>For instance a person with
>"strong wood" as his/her birth
>element, should consider a day
>with Metal, Fire element being
>stronger as his/her's
>auspicious date.

Yes, in my opinion, this should be the most accurate method. However, for the Chinese, it is used in conjunction with the months/dates of festive occassions or specific dates.

For example, the Chinese dread the 7th month and even if a date (move-in) is auspicious under Ba Zi; due to belives, it is not a good date.

There is a rationale why Ba Zi should be the standard for chosing auspicious dates:-

1. The lowest common denominator or LCM

The lowest common denominator is based on the Five Elements concept:

1.1 This is where every day, hour has a specific Five element.

1.2 Not only is there a specific Five element e.g. wood. But also its strength.

Thus for example: one can refer to the daily forecast here:-

http://sg.geomancy.net/freebies/free-forecast/free-forecast.htm

It will show the day's prevailing element and strength.

2. For individuals, a proper Ba Zi analysis is based on one's Year, Month, Day, Hour, House of Life and House of Conception. And the above combinations/clashes/interactions are used to determine the final result for a person: weak or strong (element). For example strong water.

element, should consider a day
>with Metal, Fire element being
>stronger as his/her's
>auspicious date.

This is not exactly correct. As there is a signficant difference (a person's ba zi) between being Strong or Weak vs a specific day.

For example if the person is a STRONG metal person. Thus if the day happens to be either STRONG or WEAK fire, this is auspicious for this person.

BUT in the event that the person is a WEAK metal person. This changes the equation. A weak metal person cannot directly beneifit from the Fire day (even worse off if it is a STRONG fire day). Since under the destructive cycle: Fire will control metal.

As one can see:-

1. There is a common language between a day and person's BA ZI i.e. Five element concept.

2. One has to be careful what type of Ba Zi analysis is used here. It should be as accurate as possible based on Year, Month, Day, Hour, House of Life and House of Conception.

If the ba zi is simply based on just the day pillar and further more if an inaccurate strength of element has been determined it can result in as `bad' an analysis based on Gua number.

>OR
>
>(B)Depend on the KUA number
>based dates in Tong Shu, with
>respect to Chinese Animal
>Zodiac Signs?
>For instance some days are
>GOOD or BAD or AVERAGE for
>DOG, DRAGON, HORSE etc signs.
>
>OR
>
>(C) Anything else???

I hope one can see the above flow.

Gua unfortunately is simply based on one's Year of birth. So how acurate can this be as compared to what was mentioned above.

It is by far also too smplistic since it also does not accurate look at one's element and strength. And cannot be properly compared with each day's element

Warmest Regards,
Cecil