Feng Shui and Your Lucky Money Day

There is an astrological component to Feng Shui where a house that is good for one person may not be for another. For example, a house which sits in the Tiger direction of magnetic E/NE (about 60 degrees), is not such a good house for someone born in the Year of the Ox. It can make it harder for them to get married or stay married with that house type orientation. The Chinese zodiac signs are associated with both timing and directions.

Back to timing: Even the day when someone installs their remedies or does physical alterations to their home or landscape, there will be some days that are better to choose from, based on birth year of head of household.

The Lu Cun (loo choon) Lucky Money Day repeats every 12 days because it is correlated with a Chinese zodiac sign. Many people know that each year is depicted by a Chinese zodiac sign, and yet unless you actually study Chinese Astrology, you might not know that each month, day and even hour is also broken down into these twelve signs. The Chinese hour is actually a double hour, so this fits in perfectly with our 24 hour cycle. For example, 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. is the Rat Hour.

The Lu Cun Lucky Money Day is normally used as a good day to make money, take financial risks, sign contracts or do anything with a financial consequence. I try to set up my classes on my Lu Cun day, whenever possible and practical. The turnout is usually better on those days.

A common question asked of me, is why the Lucky Money Day is not the same for people born of the same zodiac sign. The reason this is usually not the case, is because the Lu Cun day for each person is based not on their own Chinese zodiac sign, but the last digit of the year of birth. This would be a birth year ending in 0 through 9, so that is a 10 year repeating cycle, called the year Stem in Chinese astrology.

And with this special application called the Lu Cun Lucky Money Day, not all of the Chinese zodiac signs are represented. Some signs even double up. For example, those born in a year that ends in a 7 or a 9 will share the same Luck Money Day, which is the Horse Day. Obviously, a person born in 1977 and one born in 1979 are not the same yearly Chinese zodiac sign.

The zodiac signs repeat every 12 years, not ten years. So this is where there is the discrepancy. The only time you will have a person with the same Lucky Money day as another person with the same zodiac sign, is when their birth years are equally divisible by both 10 and 12. For example, people who are sixty years apart in age will have the same Chinese zodiac sign and the same Lucky Money day because 60 is divisible by 10, 6 times. And 60 is divisible by 12, 5 times. A person born in 1901 and 1961 are both born in the year of the Ox and they both have the same Lucky Money Day because their birth year ends in a “1.” All of those whose birth years end in a 1 (1941, 1951, 1961, 1971, etc) share the same Lucky Money Day which is the Rooster Day.

A similar question comes up with people who are a certain personal trigram (aka ming gua), but a different Chinese zodiac sign than someone of the same trigram. This is because we are now comparing a 12 year repeating cycle with a 9 year repeating cycle. Someone born in 1961 is the Zhen Wood trigram and also an Ox (Year Branch) in Ba Zi (Chinese astrology). But in the Ba Zhai (Eight Mansion School), the only other people who are Zhen trigram and also Oxen, are those with birth years that are equally divisible by 9 and 12. One example is the 36 year span between birth years. The number 36 is divisible 4 times by 9 and 3 times by 12.

What this means is that Feng Shui employs more than one different personal astrology system into the audit, or at least it should. You are entitled to a personalized analysis, which takes into account the “birth data” of your home (year of construction) as well as your own personal birth data along with your family members. The coordinates of time and space are the essential ingredients in a proper and comprehensive evaluation.

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When you determine your own Lu Cun Lucky Money Day, please know that the Chinese solar calendar begins on February 4th or 5th of each year in the Western calendar. This means that those born from January 1st-February 3rd or 4th (must check the exact year), then you are a year older by these standards. For example, someone born January 27, 1967 would be considered born in 1966 and then look to the 6 digit for their Lucky Money Day.

Lucky Money Days for birth years ending in 0=Monkey Days, years ending in 1=Rooster Days, years ending in 2=Pig Days, years ending in 3=Rat Days, years ending in 4=Tiger Days, years ending in 5= Rabbit Days, years ending in 6 or 8 =Snake Days, years ending in 7 or 9=Horse Days. In order to know when these days occur, you do need to obtain a current Chinese solar calendar.

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