Saturday, April 25, 2009

Ultimate Reality TV Star

I am never a big fan of those reality shows likes those American Idol, The Bachelorette, Joe Millionaire and Survival of the Richest just to name a few. The name Jade Goody caught my attention when I was reading The Economist, the 28th March 2009 issue.

I have always wondered how a person can bare her or his life through the camera and let the world see them in action. I cannot imagine myself doing this kind of things but then I am a very private and relatively shy person. So when I saw the line Jade Goody, a reality TV star died on 22nd March at the age of 27, it prompted me to check out her Bazi chart. At the age of 27, she was too young to die.

I guess to be able to standout in a reality show or any other show for that matter your Xin Metal element must be very prominent. You know, one of the natures of Xin Metal is show business. So the Xin Metal will be in her Bazi Chart, right? Below was Jade Goody's Bazi Chart.

Jade Goody was born on 5 June 1981 in London. I have estimated her hour of birth at around 7 a.m. to 8.59 a.m. that was the Chen Dragon hour based on the news of her health and also her passion of making money. Her Bazi Chart below clearly showed the Xin Metal on the Year Pillar and what more? It was a pure Qi of Xin Metal that penetrated from the Branch to the Heavenly Stem. Among the Xin Metal Pillars, the Xin You Pillar is the most common type of Xin Metal.

2002 Ren Wu 壬午Her fame began at the year 2002, Ren Wu which featured her Hurting Officer Stars, when she appeared on the Big Brother 3 in United Kingdom. The Big Brother TV showed was about a group of ordinary people living in a house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. This can be analyzed to see how people react when forced into close confinement with people who lie outside their comfort zone. Each housemate will be voted out until the last one will be declared a winner. It was a show business of common people exactly the Xin You natures. It was at this reality TV showed that Jade Goody's Xin You Pillar shined through.

The year 2002 was also the year that she entered the Luck Pillar (LP) of Bing Shen (20 LP). This Pillar brought her tremendous popularity. The Bing Fire (Stem of 20 LP) shined on the Direct Officer. The Shen Monkey (Branch of 20 LP) chopped the Jia Wood making it useful. Thus, Jade Goody stand out among all the contestants.

Jade Goody's Bazi Chart
Although the Bing Shen brought her fame and wealth, it was also a difficult pillar to cross. The Shen Monkey itself clashed with the Yin Tiger (Day Branch). It was also a combo and destruction formation with the Si Snake (Month Branch). The Shen Monkey supposes to combine with the Snake monkey to form water, her resource element. However since the chart does not support the combination, the destruction take place.

Jade Goody had a number of health scares throughout the Bing Shen Pillar. In 2002, she had a cervical smear test which revealed abnormal cells, a possible indicator of cancer. She was later tested for ovarian cancer in 2004 and bowel cancer in 2006, but was given the all-clear on each occasion.

2007 Ding Hai 丁亥

In 2007, Ding Hai Year, she got into bad publicity. The Hai Pig was a harm to her Officer Star, Shen Monkey and also a destruction to the Yin Tiger. Furthermore, the Hai Pig also clashed with her Output Star, Si Snake. It meant that her status and good name was affected as a result of her own action. The year stem reveal Ding Fire which was a Hurting Officer Star to her which indicated her outspoken remark that got her into the mess. She was accused of making derogatory and racist comments to her housemate Shilpa Shetty which caused her eviction from the Big Brother Show.

In 2008, Wu Zi year, she returned to public eye on the India version of the Big Brother show. The year, see the three heavenly combination of Shen-Zi-Chen formed the water, her resource element, an indication of health issue. She was told that she had cervical cancer during the show in India. She subsequently withdrew from the show and return to England.

Shen-Zi-Chen combo also saw her many plans become reality as water meet wood (Day Pillar) indicates ideas become objective. Source from Wikipedia showed that during 2008, she released a new autobiography, Jade: Catch A Falling Star. In Christmas 2008, she played the role of the Wicked Queen in a pantomime version of Snow White at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln and was praised for her strength and determination in doing so. Later she withdrew from the production due to health reasons. A reality television documentary, Living with Jade Goody was shown in September as a one off special, as part of the Living With . . . series on Living TV. A one off film "Jade's cancer battle" was aired on 11 December. She also opened her second beauty salon named "Homme Fatel", catering exclusively for men.

In 2009, the Si-You-Chou combo saw her marriage Jack Tweed. The Si-You-Chou combo formed the metal element which was her Officer Star a.k.a. Husband Star. This combo also saw her bring two sons from her relationship with Jeff Brazier into the marriage indicated Si Snake in the combo. She never stopped from making use of the opportunity to make money even from her wedding ceremony or her dying. She and Jake Tweed signed an exclusive £700,000 deal with OK! magazine for photographs of the wedding ceremony. All the money making opportunity that Jade Goody get into was to make sure that her two sons are well taken care off in the future (wealth element in the children palace, Hour Pillar).

Jade Goody
When news broke that Goody's cancer was terminal, medical authorities in the UK began reporting a surge in requests from younger women. This reversed a trend which had seen demand for screening decline overall in the past decade. As a result of the publicity surrounding Goody's illness, on 13 March 2009 government health ministers agreed to review the NHS's policy of not offering screening for cervical cancer until the age of 25 in England. Goody issued a press release the same day, saying that she was "immensely proud" that she had helped prompt the review.

In April 2009, Goody was named the "ultimate reality TV star" by Digital Spy. Sir Michael Parkinson wrote that Goody had become property of the media "to be manipulated and exploited till the day she died". This aptly described her destiny as Jia Wood person (Wood should be chopped to become useful).

Cheers

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Husband & Wife Team

They are the "Power Couple" in Beijing. He is born in a rural village in Tianshui in Gansu Province on 14 November 1963. While she is born in Beijing on 24 August 1965 and later on move to Hong Kong at the age of 14. They are no other than the husband, Pan Shiyi (潘石屹), and wife, Zhang Xin (张欣), the property estate tycoons. Theirs is a love story of rag-to-riches.


From Right: Pan Shiyi (潘石屹) & Zhang Xin (张欣)
Pan Shiyi & Zhang Xin's Bazi Charts

On April 1994, Jia Xu year, Pan Shiyi met Zhang Xin through mutual friends. At the time, Pan Shiyi was one of the co-founder of Beijing Vantone Co. Ltd and already made his first million while Zhang Xin was working in Goldman Sachs.

Pan Shiyi Marriage Proposal on April 1994

After four days of meeting, Pan Shiyi proposed to Zhang Xin and three days later she agreed to the marriage proposal. Geng and Xin metal people, sure are decisive! The Month Pillar and Year Pillar on the left was the Pillar for April 1994. At the Year Pillar, Jia Wood, the Direct Wealth Star also the Wife Star appeared on the Stem indicated that his wife had appeared in his life. There were a combo of Xu Dog (Resource Star) and Mao Rabbit (Indirect Wealth/Girlfriend Star) that formed wood element, again the Wealth Star as well as Wife Star. The Chen Dragon on the Month Branch of April 1994 also combined with You Rooster at his spouse palace an indication of marriage. The Chen-You combo formed metal a Friend Star shows a marriage that is based on friendship rather than love which he purportedly mentioned in CRIEnglish.com.

Beijing Vantone formation Year Pillar

It was this Xu-Mao combo that had made him depart from the company that his co-founded in August 1991 (Xin Wei). If you look at his Bazi Chart, Hai-Mao-Wei was combo that forms wood. The Xin Metal in the Year Stem reveals that the company was formed through friends-partnership.

Zhang Xin Luck Pillar Zhang Xin's Bazi Chart shows a Shen Monkey (Friend Star) and Si Snake (7 Killing Star) combo that form Water, her Output Star. This indicated a partnership in her life. In her Luck Pillar of age 25 to 34, his Husband Star appeared on the Stem. On the branch of the Luck Pillar was Hai Pig, an Eating God Star that clashed with Si Snake. In the Hai Pig there is a Jia Wood which represents her wealth element.

In April 1994, the wealth element was more apparent appearing on the Stem. This was an indication that she enter into the marriage with a calculated thought and money on the mind. The Chen-Shen was half-combo of water, indicated it was an emotional decision as well. The Hai-Pig clashed showed her living of Goldman Sachs and later on to form a business partnership with her husband. In a CNN interview, she based her success in marriage and business from the spring of friendship with her husband.

From left: Rupert Murdoch, Zhang Xin, Yves E. Wencker, GM of the Commune at the Great Wall, Wendy Deng, Su Mang, executive editor of Harper's Bazaar Chinese edition, and Pan Shiyi at SOHO China's party at the Great Wall In 1995, Yi Hai year, both of them co-founded the company called Hongshi, later renamed to SOHO China in 2002. The starting of the SOHO China is not an easy one. There is a punishment of Hai Pig of the Annual Branch and Month Branch of Pan Shiyi's Bazi Chart, while the Hai Pig formed a half-combo of water element with Shen Monkey, an indication of emotional issues (too much of metal and Water elements result in emotional complication). It also put a strained into the marriage life.

Nevertheless, the company has jump started them to billionaire status.

However, their partnership does work-out successfully whether in business or in thier marriage. If you look at both of their Day Masters, they complement each other well. He (Xin Metal) has take-on the sales which Zhang Xin, her wife described that he is brilliant salesman. Xin Metal with hurting officer is very much suited in sales and marketing field. The China Central Television or CCTV, the most famous television network in China, has described Pan Shiyi as "the most eye-catching real estate developer, though he is not the richest". He has been described by many as a "tireless self-promoter". His wife (Geng Metal) has taken-on the construction work which is suitable for her as Geng Metal person can endure hardship with their hard-working nature.

Both Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin's Bazi Charts indicated a partnership element with their spouse. In Pan Shiyi's Bazi Chart there is half-combo of Hai-Mao. The missing Wei Goat, and earth element is replaced by the construction company (hence, completion of Hai-Mao-Wei combination). While Zhang Xin's Bazi Chart has a Shen-Si combo that formed water, her output element. As their marriage and business are based on friendship, therefore the Mao Rabbit (Indirect wealth) represents Pan Shiyi's wife Star while the Si Snake (7 Killing) is her Husband Star.

Both of the Bazi Charts indicate their life have cross path and now moving on together. You can call this meeting of a soul mate or in Chinese "Yuan " though it may not base on love.

Monday, April 13, 2009

The Giver, the Peace-Keeper and the Savior!

She was born in Skopje, capital of the Republic of Macedonia on 26 August 1910 at 2.25 p.m. At the tender age of 12, she was already convinced that she should commit herself to a religious life. Subsequently at the age of 18, she left her home to join the Sisters of Loreto as a missionary and never see her family again.

In 1929, she arrived in Darjeeling, India, near the Himalayan Mountains to begin her novitiate toward religious life and nun-hood. She took her solemn vows as a nun on 14 May 1937, while teaching in Loreto Covent School in Calcutta.

Disturbed by the poverty that surrounded her in Calcutta, she recognized her true calling on 10 September 1946 and later leaved the convent to begin her missionary work in 1948. Her first year of missionary work was fraught with difficulties and hardship. In her diary she had mentioned that there were times she faces doubts, loneliness and temptation to return to the comfort life of the convent.

On 7 October 1950, she received the permission to start the diocesan congregation that would later become the Missionary of Charity. Its mission was to care for, in her own words, "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, and all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone." It was also at this point that a savior was born to the world and she never again looked back to her life in convent. Who was this lady who dedicated his whole life to selfless caring of those in need? She was no other than Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, better known to the world as "Mother Teresa". Below was her Bazi Chart.

Mother Teresa

Every Bazi Chart tells the life story of a person. In Mother Teresa's life, 1she had offered kindness, selfless-caring and endless sacrifices to those in need. During the course of her work she was very much 2hands on in helping those who faced hardship and suffering. In her life, Mother Teresa will always cross path with those living in despair and at the edge of hopelessness. 3,4She was particularly surrounded by poverty, sick and dying as destine by her Bazi chart. Mother Teresa was only destined to bring some warm, comfort and dignity to those who were sick and dying but were unable to change their life. 4,5It was not in her power to do what some of her critics had said, like David Scott, who wrote that Mother Teresa limited herself to only keeping people alive rather than tackling poverty itself.

Mother Teresa’s Bazi Chart

Mother Teresa has been admired and praise for what she had done. 6Her work also had attracted the like-minded, those who shared her vision and ideal to join her course. 6The nuns and priests were her sisters and brothers and the missionary where she worked was her home.

Mother Teresa

7,8In her life, Mother Teresa also crossed path with those who were powerful, high official as well as autocratic and the corrupt. These people had donated to Mother Teresa's Missionary of Charity.

8Sighting cases that she had been 9criticized e.g. Mother Teresa accepted 10donations from the 8autocratic and corrupt Duvalier family in Haiti, and openly praised them. She also accepted 1.4 million dollars from Charles Keating, involved in the fraud and corruption scheme known as the Keating Five scandal, and supported him before and after his arrest. The Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles, Paul Turley, wrote to Mother Teresa asking her to return the donated money to the people Keating had stolen from, one of whom was "a poor carpenter". The donated money was not accounted for, and Turley did not receive a reply. Mother Teresa had no qualm in accepting charity from those who were corrupted to achieve her course.

7Mother Teresa was globally recognized by the world and honoured by both governments and civilian organizations for her humanitarian services render to the people at large. Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971, Albert Schweitzer International Prize in 1975 and Order of Merit in 1983, just to name a few of the awards that granted to Mother Teresa for her work, charity and efforts of peace. 10,11Through her work she had brought awareness on humanity and peace to the people around the world.

Mother Teresa passed away on 5 September 1997 after stepping down from the head of Missionaries of Charity on 13 March 1997.

12Towards the end of her life, Mother Teresa attracted some negative attention in the Western media. Christopher Hitchens, one of her most active critics, was commissioned to co-write and narrate the documentary Hell's Angel about her for the British Channel 4. He also written a book named "The Missionary Position" criticizing Mother Teresa in 1995. However, the criticism would not overshadow Mother Teresa as an icon of humanity and peace as well as eclipse her work and contribution to the society.

Notes:

  1. Gui Water nourishing the Jia Wood. Wood element represents kindness, caring and empathy natures.
  2. Jia Wood as an output, Hurting Officer Star shoed that Mother Teresa is a doer rather than a planner or thinker. She was a very hand-on person.
  3. The Jia Wood was sitting on the Shen Monkey and next to it was the Geng Metal on the Year Stem. This indicated wood was weak because it constantly being chopped down. This indicated the people that were helped by Mother Teresa were the weak, helpless and suffering.
  4. There was no Bing Fire, the fire of Sun in Mother Teresa's Bazi chart. The Bing Fire is very much needed by the wood element to growth and prospers. Fire also represents passion, hope and happiness of a person. These mean that Mother Teresa would not be able to change the life or circumstances of those people around her. She can only offered some warm and comfort that was represented by the two little Ding Fires in her chart.
  5. Yi Wood the Eating God Star that represents a thinker and planning ability is also not present in Mother Teresa's chart. That's mean she do things as she went along. It was not in her natures to plan things ahead thus with the money she received she used it to solve the immediate problems at that point of time. It did not occur to her to plan the usage of the donation to solve the core poverty issues. Even she was aware of the need to do so, she was not destine to achieve it. However, she had done whatever in her abilities (Element of Ding Fires, Gui and Ren Waters, and Wu and Ji Earths) bringing awareness to those people who had the power to do what she can't.
  6. Hai Pig, the Rob Wealth was sitting on the Day Branch (Home Palace) contains Jia Wood. Rob Wealth can represent your brothers, sisters, colleagues, friends and admirers. Since the Rob Wealth contains the Hurting Officer Star to Mother Teresa that stand-out on the Stem of the Month Pillar, they shared the same ideology with her.
  7. Xu Dog (Year Branch) and Wei Goat (Hour Branch) are the Direct Officer Star and Seven Killing Star respectively. Direct Officer indicates people who have status, good name or power. These two stars had brought fame and recognition to Mother Teresa's work and contribution.
  8. At the same Seven Killing Star can represent powerful people who corrupted or involved in illegal means.
  9. Seven Killing Stars (Hour Pillar-Ji Earth on the Stem while Wei Goat on the Branch, pure Qi of earth penetrated to the Heaven) are inspiring and charismatic but also attracted petty people.
  10. Ding Fire, wealth element to Gui Day Master are secondary Qi hidden in Xu Dog and Wei Goat. It represented the donation given by those in power to Mother Teresa to help her course. The Ding Fire's natures are the candlelight, showing people the way in the dark and spreading the knowledge.
  11. Water (Gui and Ren Water in the Day Pillar) and earth (Ji Earth and Wei Goat in the Hour Pillar and the Xu Dog in the Year Branch) element together carried the messages to every corner on the earth.
  12. The Ji Wei in the Hour Pillar represented the last period of Mother Teresa's life. The yin earth element represented the Seven Killing Star to Mother Teresa and thus also represented the petty people especially toward the end of her days.
  13. People always say that the eyes are the window of one soul. If you look at Mother Teresa's pair of eye in the photos from young until old, there is always sadness in it.