Around the end of the year, the time arrives for many to try their hands at forecasting the incoming year. Their predictions often make fun readings, especially as different practitioners could give different conflicting forecasts. As one astute news editor said, these predictions, even by reputable masters, were often wrong!

There are a few methods used by Chinese astrologers to peer into the incoming year:

• There is the sexegenary cycle method, which is a basis of the Tong Shu (Chinese Almanac) predictions. From the matching of the tiangan and dizh signs one can predict if a year would be sunny and dry or rainy and wet and so on. This method can even be used to forecast a month to month and day to day fortune. It may be integrated with the 28 Lunar Constellations method.

• Another is the Flying Stars method. The individual year has a number (from 9) which is used to create a flight of stars through the squares of the Lou Shu. This method is used to tell the general fortune of the year. The individual square can tell what can happen to a sector of the nation.
  • Related methods include Qi Men Dun Jia, Liu Ren, Tai Yi, etc.

• Another way should be through the birthdate of a nation. The nation will take the character of an individual. Then the elements of that character would be matched against the element of the year. It would be almost like telling the Ba Zi Eight Characters or Zi Wei Dou Shu divination of a person, except in this case the person is replaced by the nation.

The diverse methods may explain why practitioners may obtain conflicting forecasts. But, basically, the forecasts should not have been different.

top

Another mistake is the tendency to gloss over the negative aspects.

In 2008 the Chinese New Year had a solar eclipse. A solar eclipse is always a bad sign for the rulers in the region where it could be seen. I informed that 2008 would be bad for the ruling party, but the news editor dared not print it.

One practitioner even forecast that the solar eclipse signaled improvements in trade and forecast that the economy would pick up. However, 2008 was a set back for the ruling party in the country. The economy remains in doldrums even into 2009 where there was again another solar eclipse at the new year. Both in 2008 and 2009 the ruling party suffered traumatic changes.

For 2010, where there will be no solar eclipse at the new year, there may be less trauma as in 2008 or 2009. Those who had been able to adapt to the turmoils of 2008 and 2009 will reap the benefits in 2010 and 2011.

If 2010 is the Year of Tiger it will be turmultous.

However, according to the evidence of the precession of the equinoxes, 2010 is really the year of the Rabbit. It is a year of opportunities but one will need foresight and wisdom to realise them - i.e. be creative. Those who seize these opportunities will become much richer or realise their ambitions in 2011. These opportunities would be mostly those related to the Wood element. 2010 is also good for those supposed to be under the sign of the Tiger, but are actually Rabbit - they should especially seize the opportunities. Those born under the conventional signs of the Horse and Dog will also do well.

• Western astrology predicts that 2010 is the year for change and that the turmoil of the past few years will give way to a realisation for new planning. New ways of doing things will emerge. Pressing world problems, financial discord, corporate corruption, climate change, starvation, energy shortages and global epidemics of the current past are calling for a worldwide change of attitude. World problems call for world solutions with dialogue and decisions made on a global scale.

Solar eclipses will occur in 2010 in 15 January and 11 July. Lunar eclipses will occur on 26 June and 21 December 2010.

According to 28 Lunar Constellations astrology, owing to the nearness to the solstices, the 2010 lunar eclipses are especially ill omens of criminal behaviour, especially of sex crimes, particularly during the month before and after the solstices - ladies should beware during these periods.

Anybody born during the months or days near these eclipses dates (solar calendar)? They should beware, as 2010 will be bad for them.

The Chinese imperial astrology always refered to actual positions of planets and planetary events and made forecasts accordingly. The Chinese emperors would not use the erratic calendars. This imperial approach is what is seen in Hindu and Western astrology, where forecasts are based on actual positions of planets. The current typical Chinese astrology with their calendrical calculations are only approximations of actual astronomical movements. They have become more inaccurate due to deviations through time - and they require new re-calibrations.

It is time for practitioners to realise that astrology and Feng Shui have scientific astronomical and geography basis. Too long practitioners have been mired in superstitious mind sets.

GUI Management Centre is offering new science-based courses on Feng Shui and astrology based on re-calibrated dating procedures. Enrol in these courses for proper correct Feng Shui and astrology!

• The over 100 "stars" of Zi Wei Dou Shu are not imaginary but actual planetary movements! Current practitioners have lost this knowledge.
  Emperor falsified Zi Wei Dou Shu, which is now a much watered down version.
  Amazing origins of inferior Ba Zi Eight Characters divination from a small part of Zi Wei Dou Shu. The imperial design was to prevent people from using Zi Wei Dou Shu.
• Mei Hua Plum Blossom divination is a fraud.
• You want to apply a Feng Shui and astrology which can make you a king or top leader? Contact us!

Come and join us and learn in our advance courses. Be more than the current masters. Learn scientific and imperial level Feng Shui and astrology far superior than any you may have known.