Chapter 25

The Four Pillars of Destiny, Part 4

In This Chapter

How knowing your favorable and unfavorable phases can benefit you

Determining your best environments and structures

Using the five phases to find your best career—or to make the best of the one you’ve got

Who’s your ideal mate?

If we’re able to change our destiny, how can we accurately forecast our future? It depends on the weapon you choose. If you’re a warrior, you need the proper weaponry to successfully wield your way through the battlefield. If you choose the proper weapon—a sword, say—you’ll change your destiny for the better by conquering your opponent—life’s obstacles. If you choose an improper weapon—a butter knife, say—you’ll lose the battle. Your destiny will take a wrong turn. Therefore, based on the weapon you choose, we can forecast a bright or a bleak future.

Your favorable and unfavorable phases are weapons that help you fulfill your potential. Use your favorable ones, and you’ll succeed in this game called life!

The Phases of Our Lives

Knowing your favorable and unfavorable phases can help you in many ways. You’ll know …

What colors enhance your health, wealth, and relationships and what colors bring hardship and misfortune

What environments are best suited to you

What profession is suitable to you

With whom you are compatible

How to determine whether a year or 10-year period will be auspicious or inauspicious (something you’ll learn more about in Chapter 26).

Let’s take a simple example. Say your most favorable phase is fire, and your unfavorable phase is water. Your lucky colors then would be red, purple, dark orange, and pink. And, because wood generates fire, green is also a favorable color. Your unlucky colors are blue and black. So, following the five-phase correlations, you’re best suited to hot and dry climates. Get the idea?

The following table illustrates what kind of environments and buildings correlate to each of the five phases:

Take this time now to determine the environments and structures that resonate best with your more favorable phase—the qi type that brings balance to your being.

Professional Phases

If your career is stagnant and/or if it doesn’t bring you joy and satisfaction, it might not correspond with one of your favorable phases. Essentially, you’re using a weapon that’s depleting your energy, getting you nowhere.

What follows are the five phases and their correlative career industries. However, please understand an industry can belong to more than one phase. For example, education is wood- and water-related. It’s a wood industry because the profession uses materials made of wood—books. It’s a water industry because the profession channels streams of information to its students.

Now, match the industry you’re in with a phase(s). Then, study the industries that correlate with your most favorable phase.

Wood industries: Lumber, carpentry, construction work, architecture, woodcrafts, furniture making, grocery, herbs, botany, papermaking, journalism, writing, publishing, advertising, textile, fashion, ministry, education, librarianship, politics, art, music, and any field related to animals like breeding, training, and veterinary.

Fire industries: Fire fighting, electrical, lighting, laser and radiation, obstetrics, ammunition manufacturing, explosives, gas station servicing, glass and porcelain manufacturing, military, waiting tables, restaurant, food preparation, welding, and performing arts.

Earth industries: Real estate, land development, farming, ranching, natural resource mining (gas, oil, limestone, for example), gems, bricklaying, ceramic making, computer engineering, and any service-oriented career like insurance brokerage, secretarial, departmental management, accounting, law, consulting, interior and landscape design, and mortuary.

Metal industries: Metallurgy, gold and silver jewelry design, machinery, banking, automotive repair or manufacturing, mechanical engineering, bullion trading, airplane manufacturing, police, leadership, and entrepreneurial.

Water industries: Transportation, travel, fishing, sewage, housekeeping, television and radio, education, ministry, furniture moving, fortune-telling, public speaking, sales, journalism, medicine, acting, and singing.

Before you change careers, let’s examine your role within your industry.

Feng Alert

Many people are drawn to colors, environments, careers, and other people that correlate with his or her most abundant phase. This is because innately we are comfortable with it. Unfortunately, the overabundant phase in question causes imbalance and is not favorable. As the saying goes, “Too much of a good thing spoils the pudding.”

The Actions of Phases

So far you’ve learned that each phase correlates with a color, environment, and career industry. Now, you’ll learn that each phase corresponds with an action that describes what type of job you have:

Earth action: Staying at the central part of an organization

Metal action: Decision-making

Water action: Moving about communicating with others

Wood action: Initiating and implementing ideas

Fire action: Performing, showing off, presenting to an audience.

Although you may or may not be in an industry suitable to your most favorable phase, you can fine-tune your job so that its actions suit what’s favorable to you. For example, say you’re a secretary at a television station. Your job is earth action-oriented. You are stationary, your roots firmly planted in the earth. The industry you work in—television—is water-related. Upon determining your most favorable phase, you learn that wood, not earth, is good for you. Consider trying your hand at copywriting or news writing. If your favorable phase is water, consider hosting a television show. If your favorable phase is fire, sales is right for you. If your favorable phase is metal, management suits you.

Master Class

All industries contain jobs corresponding to one of the five phases. Finding the right job within your industry will set you on the proper path. Armed with the correct weapon, you’ll win promotions and raises. Your self-esteem, happiness, and satisfaction will rise to new heights.

The Royal Phases

In the previous chapter, we established that Princess Diana’s most favorable phase is water. There’s only a trace amount of it in her chart. Innately, Diana watered her wilting garden by living in London, which certainly has its share of rain. Had she known about The Four Pillars, perhaps she would have lived on or very near a large body of water. Perhaps she would have favored blue and black (water colors) clothing. Regarding her interests (dance, for example) and “career,” innately she was drawn to water-based pursuits. Diana’s various charities took her around the world, connecting and motivating others to contribute to her causes. She was also an effective communicator and a media darling. Had Diana survived, at age 42, water would have come into her 10-year luck pillars, nourishing her depleted spirit. (We’ll discuss Diana’s luck in more detail in the next chapter.)

The question arises, should Diana have stayed married to Prince Charles? As we determined in the previous chapter, his chart overflows with water. Although you may think Charles’s abundance of water would have provided Diana’s garden with ample nourishment, it does not. Diana needs soft misting water. Charles’s gushing flow effectively overwhelms and drowns her spirit.

How would Prince Charles benefit from knowing his favorable phases are water and wood? He would understand he should stick to water- and wood-related activities. He should write, develop television programs, and continue his advocacy for organic produce, among other things. Pursuing earth-related tasks related to leadership will deplete and obstruct his qi flow. In other words, being king is not suited to him. Regarding a suitable wife, interestingly, Diana’s qi favored his. Her abundance of wood provided Charles’s water an outlet—something to do. For the record, Camilla Parker-Bowles’s qi also favors Charles. She has a strong wood base nourished by a sufficient amount of water.

Feng Alert

An astrologer who says he or she can forecast a person’s death should not be trusted. It would mean that people sharing the same birth chart must die on the same day. There is an abundance of evidence to the contrary. The date of a person’s death is unknowable.

Phase Mates

As you’ve just learned, one qualification for a successful marriage is to find a mate whose qi contains the phase you most need. But there’s another technique for determining a suitable mate. For a woman, the phase that controls her Day-Master and that is opposite in yin/yang polarity represents her ideal husband. For a man, the phase his Day-Master controls and that is opposite in yin/yang polarity represents his ideal wife. (Gay couples are also divided into husband and wife units.)

For example, let’s take John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline.

John and Jackie were ideal for each other. His Day-Master was yin (-) metal. There-fore, his ideal wife was yang (+) wood. Jackie’s Day-Master was yang (+) wood. Conversely, Jackie’s ideal husband was yin (-) metal. John’s Day-Master was yin (-) metal.

J.F.K.’s ideal wife was yang (+) wood. Jackie’s ideal husband was yin (-) metal.

Now let’s look at Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s Day-Masters.

Ronald Reagan’s ideal wife was yang (+) metal. Nancy’s ideal husband is yin (-) fire.

Ronald and Nancy Reagan were also very compatible. His Day-Master was yin (-) fire. Therefore, his ideal wife was yang (+) metal. Nancy’s Day-Master is yang (+) metal. Conversely, Nancy’s ideal husband is yin (-) fire. Ronald’s Day-Master was yin (-) fire.

If the ideal mate phase is not the Day-Master of your spouse, it appears elsewhere in the chart. For example, if a woman’s Day-Master is yang (+) earth, her ideal husband is yin (-) wood. Although her husband’s Day-Master is not yin (-) wood, let’s say the phase can be found elsewhere in his chart. If it correlates with his performance phase, the wife is attracted to her husband’s talent. If it correlates with his resource phase, the wife seeks to be supported. If it correlates with his wealth phase, she’s attracted to his money. If it correlates with his power phase, she is attracted to his power and status. If it correlates with his parallel phase, she is attracted to his kindness. If yin (-) wood is not present in his chart, then innately, she is not attracted to him.

Master Class

Princess Diana’s ideal husband was yang (+) metal. This phase is not present in Prince Charles’s chart. His ideal wife is yang (+) fire. This phase is not present in Diana’s chart. They were not attracted to each other. Bill Clinton’s ideal wife is yang (+) earth. Hillary’s Day-Master is yang (+) earth. Hillary’s ideal husband is yin (-) wood. Bill’s Day-Master is yin (-) wood. They are suited to each other. George W. Bush’s ideal wife is yang (+) wood. Laura Welch Bush’s Day-Master is yang (+) wood. Laura’s ideal husband is yin (-) metal. George’s Day-Master is yin (-) metal.

Take this time now to analyze your relationship with your spouse, or a prospective one. In the next and last chapter, you’ll learn about how your 10-year and yearly luck pillars affect your destiny.

The Least You Need to Know

Favorable phases bring a chart to balance, and unfavorable phases unbalance a chart.

Favorable phases correspond to colors, the environment, and suitable professions beneficial to your well-being; unfavorable phases are those colors, environments, and professions detrimental to your well-being.

If your spouse’s chart contains the phase you need most, the partnership is likely to be successful.

For a woman, the phase that controls her Day-Master and that is opposite in yin/yang polarity represents her ideal husband. For a man, the phase his Day-Master controls and that is opposite in yin/yang polarity represents his ideal wife.