Learning Bazi - Paul Walker

I read a very interesting article about learning Bazi.
http://www.baziqueen.com/2013/03/14/what-does-it-mean-it-means-what-it-means/

Quote” First off, the ‘confusion’ issue. It is very NORMAL to be confused after you have had your first exposure to BaZi. Typically this is an excited confusion as opposed to a depressed confusion. It’s an oh wow, so much information, oh wow…it’s like the dog that catches 50 different scents and doesn’t know which one to follow because they are all so interesting! So, confusion therefore is par for the course.

For those who have gone through a Mastery Academy BaZi module 1 - if you are confused, this is NORMAL. Keep on going. By Module 2, you won't know which way is the sky. But first there must be confusion for there to be clarity.

Secondly, the person in this question has discovered that thing called ‘Favourable and Unfavourable Elements’ and is now excited, thinking that there is some revolutionary piece of information in this revelation.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but knowing your Favourable and Unfavourable Elements is like knowing the first three alphabets of the entire series of alphabets. As such, the expectation that such information will somehow yield something exponentially revealing is a rather over-enthusiastic expectation.”

My own journey.

I grew up with Bazi. When I was born the Bazi Nun (The real BaziQueeen) in my home town wrote my Bazi along with the hundreds of babies born in Kuching.

Every year my mum would go back to the temple to get readings for the year. For the whole family. Growing up with the annual reading makes me believe that Bazi is really accurate. It is because of the person reading the chart. When she passed on, the sister took over and the readings became mediocre. When the sister passed on, the granddaughter took over and my mum has not been back since.

The original nun is good because she spends her time studying. She told my mum she spends every night studying using candle light. That is the sort of effort she made to study the art.

My first Bazi book was the one by Raymond Lo. I was so excited after reading the book that I started to read more. Mostly Chinese books which I can find. Then I started doing readings for myself and for other people. After a few years I gave up because the readings were all so wrong.

After a few years, I met a guy in my home town who was giving Bazi reading to people at night in a coffee shop. I went to the shop regularly to listen to what he has to say. I was quite impressed and got my interest back. He gave me a few books and one of them is by 胡一鳴  which is quite good. Explaining about the use of 12 Qi phase to determine the strength of the Day Master.

During that time, I was also reading a lot of Joey Yap’s book which just came to the market.

After learning from him for a year, I study with another master who I thought is the best there ever is. The material is mind boggling. Very very detail and with lots and lots of in depth explaination. The reading became a little bit better but still a lot of inconsistency. (meaning still not accurate)

I remember when I felt really confident; a friend brought a person to my house to do Bazi reading. I was so far from accurate it is embarrassing.

Thinking of giving up this art again as a result. Wondering where can I find the answer to this mind boggling system of life reading.

Along came another master who told me to start from scratch. So it was another year of learning. After that I was told by my master, there are still many levels which I will not be taught. I will have to search on my own.
Recently I heard there is a Bazi reader in Kuala Lumpur who can read like a god. Thinking of investigating this god like person to continue the learning process.

Inconsistency.

Whenever I read case studies by others I will try to see if there is some consistency in the theory that they employ.

Especially with regards to deriving strength and flow.

There are just too many case studies where the authors just switched whenever it suits them. I don’t think those authors will be able to give readings for cases where they do not know the person at all.

Paul Walker.

Someone asked me to do Paul Walker’s chart. I searched the internet for a time of birth but I was not able to find one.

However there are 3 websites doing analysis of Paul’s bazi based on different time of birth.

The first one saying it is a weak metal. With Xin born in You month with a Si You Chou in the EB. The reading is then based on a weak Xin. The reason of death being the Xin being drained by water. I would seriously doubt this is correct.

The 2^nd website tries to justify the chart as a weak metal by selecting a Jia Wu Hour Pillar.

The 3^rd website says it is a strong metal. He attributes the death to clashes of the travelling star.

What is your view?
It is difficult for me to imagine this chart as a weak DM even in my wildest imagination. With 2 Xin in the HS and a You Chou Ban He born in You month.

If this is weak I would have to throw out everything I have learned and start all over again.

When analyzing the death of a person, the life palace was not even considered.

Bazi is not as simple as it looks. Many tried to make some sense of this art. But it requires more than a few days in class. It will take the whole life time to figure out.

Would appreciate if you can share your views on this topic.