August 8 and China
Is today a good date for China?
Before selecting a date, it is pertinent to look at the days before the day and not at the day itself.
"The art of date selection is not just about choosing the right day. I wonder if they know that on Aug 1, there was a total eclipse of the sun, and the eclipse path went through from Russia into China," mused yappy.
"Everytime an eclipse happens, it has a negative short term effect on the countries/ areas that the eclipse crosses. So, even though it's a good day today, the powers are greatly diminished by the eclipse that had taken place on Aug 1."
Source from a Chinese Classic (English translated)
The king who waited for a sign
At the lunar eclipse in 1065 BCE, Ji Fa (Zhou Wenwang, better known in the West as King Wen) wrote to his sons from his prison cell. He was expecting a signal from the heavens that Zhou would rule instead of Shang. It was the same signal his father (Ji Li) had been expecting. The eclipse gave King Wen hope that it would occur in his lifetime.
Zhou astronomers knew that there would be another conjunction of the five major planets. To the Chinese, these conjunctions indicated a shift in the fortunes of those on Earth. One of these conjunctions started the Chinese calendar. Another signaled the ascendance of the Xia at the time of Yu. A later conjunction heralded the end of Xia and the start of Shang. That was nearly a thousand years before Wen's time. The impending conjunction was going to elevate the Zhou.
Is it just a coincidence that King Wen was imprisoned in 1068 BCE, the same year that a new Shang calendar was established? Perhaps Wenwang pointed out some flaws in the calendar, or the newfangled rituals that accompanied it; and that's what prompted the king to throw him in prison.
Challenging the accuracy of a calendar was a form of treason in those days. It's a wonder Wenwang wasn't beheaded. After all, he and his father expected a change in the Mandate.
There must have been flaws, because the new calendar apparently failed to account for the lunar eclipse. It was the eclipse that prompted the happy letter from Wenwang to his sons.
Without an accurate calendar, King Di Xin would lose the confidence of the people. According to the Shujing and other sources, the king and his ministers seemed oblivious that Shangdi had turned against him.
The correct orientation of any consecrated space, the scheduling of religious ceremonies, and the proper conduct of seasonal occupations all depended on the king. The ability to comprehend the celestial patterns (e.g., seasonal constellations) and to maintain conformity between astral and terrestrial realms became a fundamental qualification for kingship.
This crisis echoed the changing of the Mandate from the Xia to the Shang in the Shujing: [Xia hereditary astronomers] … have violated the duties of their office, and left their posts. They have been the first to let the regulating of the heavenly (bodies) get into disorder, putting far from them their proper business. On the first day of the last month of autumn, the sun and moon did not meet harmoniously in [xiu] Fang. [The astronomers] heard nothing and knew nothing — so stupidly went they astray (from their duties) in the matter of the heavenly appearances,and rendered themselves liable to the death appointed by the former kings.
What does a Mandate look like?
The Zhou rejoiced in 1062 BCE when King Wen was released from prison. The Mandate appeared on 28 May 1059 BCE. Wenwang named 1058 BCE as the year when Heaven's Mandate was entrusted to the Zhou, and proclaimed himself universal king.
Mozi explained how the Mandate appeared:
A red bird holding a gui by its beak alighted on Mt. Qi proclaiming: "Heaven decrees King Wen of Zhou to punish Yin and possess its empire."
Book 5, Chapter 19
Just a few notes: the url I gave you is not the one with the long article, I must have bookmarked the wrong one. However, this notation 'Book 5, Chapter 19' is probably the Book of History, available online at Sacred Texts.org. I saw your energy ball, it reminds me of a weird encounter with a polaroid in an island cemetery in Belize: a simple cement cross on a grave came out surrounded and ablaze with white light with the background barely visible through a blue glaze. I took another photo of the graves just to see if anything was wrong with the film and all the graves were surrounded with white light, thicker and slightly curved at the sides. Strange!
Personally I believe that with some 4,000 astronomers, diviners, and other soothsayers, King Wen knew that he would die before the mandate passed to Zhou. I believe the sign for death would have been the eclipse (there are 3 solar eclipses around this time, all partial) but I could not say which one. I think the 4 sons and the heir apparent simply turned every celestial sign into the Mandate much like Bush appearing in front of the Victory Banner to announce 'victory' in Iraq. If the Zhou didn't know King Wen was going to die, they would have been really stupid and I don't think that is the case.
The Zhou sons after the battle of Mu fought with each other (including the Duke of Zhou who is credited with writing much of the Zhouyi) for 5 years eventually the young regent assumed the kingship and left the Duke of Zhou who had been his protector and guide and who ultimately betrayed him in a grab for power. I think it could have been a great power move by the other 3 sons, each who had armies to take the Duke of Zhou out of the field of battle and on the sidelines babysitting this young regent. Eventually the capital was moved eastwards while the Duke of Zhou remained in the old western capital. There is debate now as to exactly where this western city was. The red bird thereafter became the symbol of the South. Prior to the Zhou the bird had been the pheasant. I was excited to see the feather of pheasants in graves of the apparently Caucasian mummies of the Taklamakan desert. For me the pheasant would be the symbol of the South.
Crap Commentaries:
Feng Shui originated from China. Have some respect lah! Do not forget your ancestors and your lineage, and where your forefathers came from... if not China, then where?
So when reading a Ba Zi chart, one should check and look at the days before a person was born. That's new and sounds somewhat really truly stupid! Who the hell taught this little boy how to bullshit this way?!
Is it true that the eclipse of the sun brings negative effects where it passes through? I don't think so... If that is so, how about the people observing and witnessing the happening, will they be affected by the negative effects too? Will these people die young?
Thoughts running wild now... How about babies born on the days the eclipse of the sun and moon happen, will the Ba Zi charts of these babies be affected by the negative energies? If so, parents to be - legally or illegally - choose a good date before 'making' your baby. It is pertinent that you know this 'new' information on date selection.
Please... please... please read and reread the above translation on "Wenwang and the Zhou Dynasty." Perhaps you may be enlightened on the eclipses. Some brainless amatuer self-proclaimed Feng Shui monsters like to criticize and insult others to make themselves look great. As if by blowing out other's candle makes his brighter... If so, then this dumb-ass nincompoop will have a tough time doing blow jobs!
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