Eastern Fortune

Mountain-behind-water-ahead describes a configuration that sets a mountain at the back and faces water in front, while s

A site backed by a main mountain, embraced on four sides by the Four Guardian hills, and combining mountain-behind-water

The four guardians are the mountain forms in four directions that enclose the energy spot of an auspicious site: the azu

Feng shui divides into the form school, which observes the shapes of mountains and rivers, and the compass school, which

Feng shui is a traditional view of geography that reads the flow of earth energy, symbolized by wind and water, to asses

Eastern fortune-telling is no recent fad but an intellectual tradition stretching back thousands of years. From cracks r

The East Asian year is embroidered with seasonal festivals — Lunar New Year, the first full moon, midsummer, the harvest

In East Asia, big events — weddings, moving house, opening a shop — are often set on a “good day” chosen in advance. Thi

There is a reason East Asia makes so much of the sixtieth birthday. Ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches mesh

Saju literally means “four pillars,” and saju-palja “four pillars, eight characters.” Here is the basic frame: how your

Saju, feng shui, the five elements — beneath them all flows “yin and yang.” Not a clash of good and evil but a pair of g

Before clocks marked twenty-four hours, East Asia split the day into twelve “double-hours,” each named for a zodiac anim

If the West has the twelve signs of the ecliptic, the East had the twenty-eight “mansions” where the Moon lodges. Here i

When you read saju, you often hear “your yongsin is such-and-such.” Here is what that balancing “useful element” is, how

Contrary to a common belief, saju runs not on the lunar calendar but on the 24 Solar Terms — a solar calendar dividing t

Beyond elements and the Ten Gods, the twelve stages trace a Day Master from birth to peak, decline and renewal — a singl

The East Asian framework of three facial zones, and how the eyes, nose, mouth, brows and ears are read as tendencies of

What the ten-year Great Luck cycle is, and how it lets a life be read as a series of changing seasons.

What the Day Master is, why it represents you, and how the whole saju chart is read in relation to it.

A symbolic object held with a heart of wish and protection — the origin of talismans, the heart held within, and how to