Married Into Status, Power And Wealth

Many women think this is like dream come true if you marry a man you love, and at the same time you also inadvertently marry into status, power and wealth. A particular "Cinderella Story". In the Chinese olden days it was seen as the "Heaven Blessing" for a lady to be married into status especially into the Imperial Family. It did not matter that life in the Imperial Palace was a lonely and precarious one. In the modern day, the Cinderella story does not turn out so well too. We all know that Princess Diana did not have a "Happy Ever After" ending.

Looking to the East, a long standing Imperial Family that still exist, Japan, had opened their family door to the ordinary people who was not from the court nobility much earlier. Empress Michiko was the first ordinary citizen to marry into the Japanese Imperial Family.

How was a lady's BaZi Chart destined to become the Her Imperial Majesty The Empress of Japan look like? If Wikipedia was correct of her birthday, she is born on 20 October 1934 with an estimate time of birth at 7.43 a.m.

A pure Qi of Jia Wood appears on almost all the Heavenly Stems in her BaZi Chart indicate nobility in life whether or not she is born into one. Her chart is surrounded by wealth stars [earth element]. Her first Luck Pillar saw the Gui You [Direct Resource and Direct Officer Star]. This indicates that she was already from a comfortable wealthy family with good name. In her Spouse Palace shows support from the Direct Resource Star indicates comfort of life as well as support from her husband.

Note that the Fu Yin on the Year and Month Pillars [Jia Xu]. Yes, being The Empress of Japan is not easy. Furthermore she is not from the expected noble family of Japan make it even more difficult. In Time Online, Empress Michiko of Japan has spoken of the "sorrow and anxiety" she experienced as the first commoner to marry into Japanese royalty, and of her fantasy of donning a magic coat of invisibility to escape the constraints of life within the Imperial Family.

Her BaZi chart is also differing from the traditional BaZi reading of what a woman with grace should have. In the traditional conservative old days, woman was expected to "yield to others; let her put others first, herself last." "When she is young, she obeys her father; when she is married, she obeys her husband; when she is widowed, she obeys her son."

Therefore, in the woman chart those days were preferred to see some of these features:

• A yin Heavenly Stem Day Master
• Day Master should not be overly strong
• One strong Direct Officer Star
• Eating God Star was the preferred Star for Output

However, you would not find those in Empress Michiko' BaZi because as the modern Empress she cannot stay in the background and lived a life of a traditional good wife that hardly come-out from the house. Her official duties bring her more contact of the outside world than one can thought of. Hence, the Hurting Officer Star is much preferred but with certain condition. The Hurting Officer Star must not be overtly strong as it hurts the Direct Officer. It must be suppressed like Empress Michiko's Hurting Officer Star which is in the graveyards. Hence, the outspoken manner is tempered and checked.

A yang Day Master is also preferred because a yin Day Master would have withered away and calls it a quit when faced with many obstacles, suffering and opposition from the old conservative Imperial Family. It would also take a strong persistence lady with a stubborn streak to bring modernisation and break free from the suffocating court etiquette of world's oldest hereditary monarchy.

In 1946 when the Emperor Hirohito publicly disclaimed his divine origin, he may had already recognized that there was a need to bring modernization to the age old Imperial Family. Under his disclamation, schoolchildren no longer have to bow low before an unveiled portrait of the God-Emperor, whose dynasty was very ancient and old. For the first time in 2,600 years, an Emperor of Japan went among the common people—not just to drive in state through "dead cities" where everyone was compelled to avert his face, but to visit factories and chat with workers.

When Michiko Shoda stepped into the shoe of Crown Princess, she also inadvertently fitted into the role of modernising the Royal Imperial Family of Japan. Although there were wide spread of disapproval and opposition from the former court nobility but the Imperial Household Council must have realised this need when they approved the engagement of the Crown Prince to Michiko Shōda on 27 November 1958.

Empress Michiko of Japan may have a Bazi of nobility and wealth but it did not promise of an easy life. However, she fairs better than other marrying into the same status as her as she has her husband full support and love.