In honor of Liu Ming
my teacher
To support grace and ease / For the resolution of all beings
CHINESE ALMANAC ASTROLOGY
Commentary and compilations by Jamie Shulander
All notes from class notes/works by Liu Ming
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INDICATORS - The pattern components that continuously rotate per year, month, daily, lunar or solar phase. The indicators below articulate the current alignment.
LUNAR YEAR: YANG EARTH DOG 4716 - Faithful Vigilance
“Charged: loyal, caring, protective, direct, helpful, intuitive, insightful, private, calm under
fire, just, expansive, congenial and quiet.
Deplete: stubborn, argumentative, spiteful, vain, rigid, frozen with anxiety, stingy and
excessively critical.
Image: The Dog talked about in Chinese Astrology is the Chow. This dog has been domesticated for more than 5000 years, both as an aggressive house guard and a battlefield companion. The battlefield Chow was ferocious at crippling the horses of the enemy chariots while never losing sight of its trainer (whose corpse it would protect even with its own life). The Dog epitomizes loyalty."
YANG EARTH DOG (1898, 1958, 2018, 2078) ‘Mountain Dog’
EARTH is the native element of the Dog Earthly Branch. Earth Dogs are modest, funny
and independent characters. They are light-hearted and generous, often quitting difficult
situations and avoiding confrontations. A short temper is hidden behind their joking. Strong
idealistic aspirations fill their youth and soften as the hardships of life close in. They do not
express their feelings or thoughts easily. They are prone to qi stagnation and poor circulation."
LUNAR MONTH: YIN WATER BOAR (1863, 1923, 1983, 2043) ‘Forest Pig’
WATER is the native element of the Pig Earthly Branch. Water Pigs are volatile, open-minded and gregarious characters. They enjoy career, personal and financial experiments. Their preoccupation with others goes past caring into jealousy and envy. They often squander their qi hoping to please others. Their volatile emotions make them susceptible to all manner of illness and possibly suicide. Their maternal ancestors haunt them. If they resolve their ancestors’ negativity they have great spiritual potential.
QI NODE: 18 Frost Descends
Yin Encloses Yang
"The Frost Descends qi node is when autumn collapses into winter. Lesser Yin gives way to Great Yin. On Earth stasis and frost are prevalent. As the autumn descends into winter, natural activity appears to subside. In fact, activity simply withdraws deeper and deeper inward and down. The northwest wind carries in the growing cold with transitional dam. Days grow short (yang diminishes). During this period the environment grows ever more yin and is characterized by hoarfrost. Dampness (Earth) rides the cold wind and is variable. Snow threatens. The blustery wind is pernicious cold/damp.
Yang, withdrawing in and downward, must not be called back up and out. Dress warmly and stay out of the wind. During the period qi is best at 8pm. Neigong is practiced inside where it is warm, rub your belly until it turns red. Eat warm and nourishing meals and go to bed early. Even if the weather is not cold (temperature) do not get caught in the wind."
LM The Way of Three Treasures
LUNAR HEXAGRAM 2 Kun: Earth
“Let things naturally fulfill themselves. Let go of planning and meddling. Wait. Restraint is rewarded. It is favorable for peace and inaction.”
LM Changing: Zhouyi
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SUNDAY November 11, Yin Fire Goat 4
Hexagram Consult the
Oracle
Lunar Mansion: The
Watchers / Cock
Solar Indicator:
Complete
High-strung and moody,
yet successful, nourish today's character through rest and postponement.
Consult the Oracle, and press in the clutch.
“It is auspicious to
stay home (familiar places / people), study, enter retreat, initiate
austerities and make offerings to the dead. It is wise to postpone everything
proactive (marriage, building, funeral, burials).
“It is not auspicious to
be industrious in any way (building will bring loss). All positive events that
occur today will ultimately have negative results (marriage will end in
disloyalty and divorce). Medical treatments on this day will complicate
existing illness - turn acute into chronic (possibly bring on premature death).
Confrontation or battle on this day will lead to injury or death.”
LM Notes: The Watchers
“It is a day for resting
on your laurels. Success is established and secured and the new state seems to
govern itself. Enemies are few. It is a time for inward reflection (yin) on the
bare face of reality (yang). Struggle (yang) is no longer possible or necessary
(yin). Decline is not feared and success not celebrated. Wisdom approaches and
withdrawing succeeds. Art is the demonstration of confidence, dignity and
wisdom - be artful. No more accumulating - decorate with modesty. The way of perfecting
power is austerity and restraint. Do less, have less, show less and seek
nothing. Enjoy what is already manifest.”
LM Notes: Complete
MONDAY November 12, Yang Earth Monkey 5
Hexagram 32 Heng:
Constancy
Lunar Mansion: The Net
/ Crow
Solar Indicator:
Harvest
Today's character brings
forth more moodiness, but with charm and eloquence. Seek consultation, practice
routine work, and notice when to calibrate and when to stand back.
“Heng is very
favorable for carrying out routine work. Maintaining and practicing what is
durable in life brings good fortune."
LM Changing: Zhouyi 32 Heng
"To consult a
physician and consult oracles (divination of all kinds) will bring clarity. It
is a good day for industry (labor/gardening = long term wealth), building (restores
clarity) and burying the dead (enhance intuition). It is inauspicious to take
anything for granted. It is inauspicious for revolution, confrontation,
breaking taboos, neglecting responsibilities or travel (someone at home
dies/gets sick)."
LM Notes: The Net
“What makes this day
smooth is a sense of fearlessness. It is not so much how it goes (yang) as what
it shows (yin). Rise and fall are no longer the point - the wide view can be
taken. Ease is possible - effortless continuity on all sides. The qi seems to
float us forward quite naturally - ebbing and flowing are both acceptable. The
lessons of earthly life are found in both maturing and declining. Everything
succeeds. Cleverness and survival give way to courage and directness. Be like
the beloved monarch and not an ambitious merchant. Let new resources and
assistants come forward by standing back.”
LM Notes: Harvest
TUESDAY November 13, Yin Earth Rooster 6
Hexagram 50 Ding:
Tri-pod Vessel
Lunar Mansion: The Beak / Monkey
Solar Indicator: Open
Lunar Mansion: The Beak / Monkey
Solar Indicator: Open
Modest, intelligent and
likable...today the Earth Rooster offer a meticulous quality to observation. Be
open-hearted and seek education, there is opportunity around.
"It is a time of
education and great spiritual and material success. Don’t rush. Your superiors
notice you. Opportunity is abundant. Alliances are offered to you on all
sides.”
LM Changing: Zhouyi
50 Ding
"It bodes well to
follow superiors, practice austerity and/or pool resources with others. It is a
good day to sincerely comply with divination and maintain taboos meticulously.
"It is inauspicious
to push forward, be industrious or initiate new ventures. Revolution or
demanding idealistic justice on this day will be catastrophic."
LM Notes: The Beak
“The choice here is
whether to call fate something to fight or something to embrace. It is a day
with an easy qi. It is a day to appreciate how things really operate beyond the
desire that creates images and appearances. Accepting should be a boundless
(yin) act beyond goals - the goal has always been return to our beginning-less
origin (Dao). There is no protagonist (yang) that should relax - there is only
relaxation itself (yin). Look around for a successor (new plan, idea, task) and
resume the heart/mind of a novice. The son of a rebel leader may become the
second emperor of a new dynasty. An open heart gives the option to acquire
great wisdom.”
LM Notes: Open
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52 Gen: Still
"You are advised to
keep still (resist the urge to move) and enter the unseen (meditation) - two
actions, which are non-actions. Good fortune comes from keeping still. Let
things arise of themselves. Do not struggle.”
LM Changing: Zhouyi
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WEDNESDAY November 14, Yang Metal Dog 7
Hexagram 28 Da Guo:
Excess
Lunar Mansion: The Trio / Gibbon
Solar Indicator: Shut
Lunar Mansion: The Trio / Gibbon
Solar Indicator: Shut
Today's qualities, shy
and hardworking, may appropriately help balance the give and take of the
auspices. Move through today with caution and aim to simplify.
“Da Guo contains
instructions on how to avoid disaster in heavy, grave or weird and
unconventional circumstances. When you get entangled in excess, going forward
with caution may be the best thing to do. Excess and eccentricity have their
place. Something greater than the usual mechanical sense of cause and effect is
at work in Da Guo."
LM Changing: Zhouyi 28 Da Guo
"It bodes well to
dispose of inessentials (haircuts), edit, fast, study (Classics), take exams,
enter retreat and practice meditation. It is good to be industrious close to
home (house clean). Initiating business (particularly group enterprise) will be
fruitful if planning has been thorough.
"It is inauspicious
to push forward aggressively. Do not get married, finalize divorce, bury the
dead (it will create family dissent), spend savings or speculate financially as
these all lead to losing resources and cooperation."
LM Notes: The Trio
“A Shut day is a day of
rest, whether you like it or not. Qi resources are spent and the notion of a
spender (yang) is long gone. Dispersion has ended in exhaustion (big yin) and
no memory exists to create joy or negativity. Struggling to act on such a day
borrows qi from fantasy and sets up a ghostly pattern of bad qi credit. What’s
it like to float down the river with no boat, no river and no protagonist? It
is ideal day for retreat, mediation and severing ties with everything - don’t
worry, it is not the end of anything! Let go anyway - feel the freedom and
inaction, disconnectedness, because it offers limitless insight. Focus on your
golf swing and forget about how the kids are squandering their inheritance on
cocaine. It’s that kind of day! The river has reached the sea and even the
water is confused.”
LM Notes: Shut
In resolution and adventure...
Warmly,
Jamie Shulander
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jshulander@gmail.com
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