This is the question that we all ask ourselves several times in life but I have heard that if a person reaching 40 still does not know, it becomes neurotic, and that is when the famous crisis comes, because we have not yet discovered that by or for what.
In Chinese metaphysics the term destiny is used a lot, which has different meaning for each person, some believe that it is already predetermined, others believe that it is in their hands, actually from the point of view of Chinese astrology it is a bit of the two, because although there is a predictable part that is how I will react with people or events according to my way of being, or my abilities or weaknesses; there is another one that is in my hands, when I am aware of what I am and do something to change, make more congruent decisions about what suits me, the choice of a partner, or the reaction to the specific demands of a job, they certainly go to bring us better results than what by basic nature or instinct would have done without this awareness.
How to call him, is the least, because the name does not really matter, as long as we believe that there is a part of us that defines us very individually with a set of virtues and defects that we should know well.
In the Chinese calendar there are 12 stations with a duration of 10 years each, so if we know the characteristics of each one, we can predict how it will affect us in areas such as health, relationships or the ability to accumulate wealth or power etc. , as we each know what to expect and how spring feels, as a similar thing but seen with a zoom, throughout our lives.
There are times conducive to everything, the issue is to identify them, in this life we go as if groping trying to achieve success in what occurs to us at the moment we occur, but there are vibrations that will facilitate much more than these things happen in one moment than another. The four pillars help us get a guide on what is coming and when, so we can be better prepared.
In Asia it is widely used to prevent health issues, since according to Chinese medicine, the symptoms of a disease appear when there is much of what is not needed or little of what I need, and to know the cycle of these seasons and what they offer me, it helps me to see clearly when that condition can be exacerbated or improved.
What do I do about it? Once I identify what each station is about, I can decide if it is time to change jobs, to open my own business, to have a child, etc. Many times when we begin to feel restless about something it is because the energy itself is moving in one direction or another, that is, we begin to feel like changing residence, for example, and this is in our four pillars; the moments in which our energy of creativity and the energy of power face each other, this possibility is born which has a good chance of happening, as long as we decide and take action.
It is an unconscious connection that we have with the universe, because we are energy and we are connected, so it is not known what my idea is first or the energy that leads me to the idea, but when I follow this current or this intuition I feel satisfied!
It is clear that not everyone is worth everything, certainly we can learn everything and do it well, but from good to excellent the difference is called passion, vocation, when I work and the hours pass without feeling, when I visit a client and I loved talking about subject, it is not the same feeling as when I finished my career as a financial accountant, where only to see those squared green leaves my stomach was compressed and made me want to yawn. Now I have experienced it, the definition of success lies in my experience, in finding and doing what you are passionate about.
Some years ago I was confused without knowing where to throw, apathetic, and by chance if this term is not yet obsolete, all this Chinese philosophy came into my life and since then I stayed here, learning all I can, working everything what I can, observing everything around me.
Thanks to the fact that I began to recognize Feng Shui as an important part of my life, I learned that we should align ourselves with nature, not her with us, and I began to be aware of the consumption of healthy food, of avoiding wasting food, of taking food. Nature is what I occupy and no more, is what I always say, and it is a way of life. Somehow the people who still do not identify this connection are those who think that Feng Shui is bullshit— they called me a witch one day, another day a man asked me how he saw the chakras at home. Anyway, how is simple fact of not being visible so basic?
I have also had my moments of doubt to test what my teachers teach me, even with skepticism, I remember for example, placing 6 metal coins in that place where energy required it, in that sector where inexplicably there was no good roll, communication for some reason happened to aggression or sarcasm, and it was to place them and really, we started to laugh at harmony and good vibes.
On another occasion, I listened to a psychiatrist who explained some topic of quantum physics that seemed super deep to me and talked about the power of the word or the sound, that the prama, or the qi, respond to the sound. That is why it is important to say positive things and generate pleasant sounds. My teachers always say that the sound of metal, in the case of wind chimes, emits waves or an expansive echo that alters energy but that you have to put them in the right place, and not indiscriminately where they look pretty.
In short, the tests and the changes in attitude are incredible, and only when I experience them I am tremendously passionate and take even more respect for nature, are we like their toys, do we believe in it or not.
The work is daily, the line between Feng Shui and the four pillars is logically invisible but they go hand in hand, because besides tuning, as my friend Adrian said, the place where time passed, I also work on the energy that I give to my body, the prevention for when those stations where the energy is not at all favorable arrive, it is about eating what stops the erosion that the organs suffer depending on that way of being, of that predictable part that costs so much to mold, while I learn or improve at least we give the body what it needs most, that is if I tend to be a choleric person because I try to take care and clean my liver, green juices and those things will be the counterpart of that self, if I am afraid I will avoid diuretics, even if I love coffee, if I spend it turning things around from one side to another without stopping to think, then I will make sure that my stomach does not remain empty and try to pay special attention to what I eat, because appetite impulses are usually very irregular for these people, etc.
When I identify in my four pillars that the energy does not favor me or is in conflict with me, I must take care of myself much more and take more precaution, which I did not have this summer and I learned again clearly how the thing works, first a phalange break, followed by a twin injury, and thus at rest without being able to walk much here and there, curiously I verified how the month of the monkey in combination with my natal year of snake became water which collides with yang fire of my master day, and when fire and water collide, there is no room for negotiation, they taught me.
If you are interested in starting to try Chinese philosophy, this is the moment, congratulations.
Leonor Estrada
Fenshuista Member of the British Feng Shui Society Disciple of Grand Master Raymond Lo