Eastern knowledge, page 16
What is Tây Tứ Trạch?
Tây Tứ Trạch is one of two house groups in Bát Trạch feng shui, with four orientations, Can, Khon, Can and Doai, suited to the Tây Tứ Mệnh group.
What is Thập Thần?
Thập Thần are ten relationships of generation and control between the Day Master and the other stems and branches in a Four Pillars chart.
What is Thiên Can?
The Heavenly Stems are ten symbols in the Stem-Branch system, used to record days, months, years and hours in East Asian calendrics.
What is Tiết khí?
Solar terms are 24 markers dividing the year by the Sun's position on the ecliptic, used in East Asian calendrics to determine seasons and festivals.
What is Tứ Hành Xung?
Four conflicting zodiac signs are four Earthly Branches in two opposing pairs: Rat-Horse-Cat-Rooster, Tiger-Monkey-Snake-Pig, and Dragon-Dog-Ox-Goat.
What is Tứ Hóa?
Tứ Hóa are the four stars Hóa Lộc, Hóa Quyền, Hóa Khoa and Hóa Kỵ in Tử Vi astrology, standing for prosperity, power, reputation and adversity.
What is Tử Vi Đẩu Số?
Tử Vi Đẩu Số is a traditional Vietnamese-Chinese astrological system that casts a twelve-palace chart from birth date and time.
What is Vòng Trường Sinh?
Vòng Trường Sinh is a sequence of twelve stars in Zi Wei Dou Shu that models birth, aging, illness and death, placed by the Yang palace of the birth year.
Why young people seek fortune tellers: pressure, uncertainty and the psychology of the Barnum effect
Young people turn to fortune telling, tarot or astrology amid study and work pressure and uncertainty about the future, not from full belief in the occult.
What Palm Reading Is: How Palm Lines Are Read and Why They Cannot Predict the Future
Palm reading is a folk divination practice that reads palm lines to infer personality and destiny, yet it has no scientific basis.
The Luban Rule: Three Rules, How to Read Them, and Why Certain Sizes Recur
The three Luban rules measure 52.2cm, 42.9cm and 38.8cm. Each divides into auspicious and inauspicious sections that repeat in cycles.
What is Con giáp?
The zodiac animal system is the twelve Earthly Branches, from Rat to Pig, used to reckon years, months, hours and ages in East Asian culture.
What is Cung Phi?
Cung Phi is the Eight Trigrams (Ba Zhai) palace assigned to a person by birth year and gender, used to find East Four Life or West Four Life in feng shui.
What is Địa Chi?
Địa Chi is a system of 12 symbols, from Rat to Pig, used to mark time, direction and relationships in East Asian calendrics and the Stem-Branch cycle.
What is Kinh Dịch?
The I Ching is an ancient Chinese philosophical and divination system built on 64 hexagrams formed from the eight trigrams, or Bagua.
What is Ngũ Quan?
Ngũ Quan (五官) means the five facial features: eyes, nose, mouth, ears and eyebrows. Eastern physiognomy uses them to read character and destiny.
What is Nhật Chủ?
The Day Master (Nhật Chủ) is the Heavenly Stem of the Day Pillar in a Four Pillars chart and the central reference point for reading it.
What is Phong Thủy?
Feng Shui is a traditional body of knowledge about arranging living spaces in harmony with landscape and energy flow, based on yin-yang and the five elements.
What is Quẻ?
A hexagram (卦) is a unit of the I Ching, made of six lines arranged from bottom to top that represent a situation or state of change in all things.
What is Tam Đình?
Tam Đình is a face reading method splitting the face into three parts: head to hairline, hairline to nose tip, and nose tip to chin.
What Are the 12 Zodiac Animals? Meaning and How to Calculate Age by Earthly Branches
The 12 Vietnamese zodiac animals and their Earthly Branches, what each animal means, how to calculate age, and the folk relationships.
The Spouse Palace in Zi Wei Dou Shu: Meaning and Interpretation
Explore the meaning and interpretation of the Spouse Palace in Zi Wei Dou Shu: position, major stars, peach blossom stars and factors affecting marriage.
What Are Feng Shui Stones? How to Choose Stones for Your Destiny and Zodiac
An overview of feng shui stones: concepts, how to choose stones for your Five Elements destiny and zodiac sign, meanings of popular stones, and care tips.
Career Line in Palmistry: Meaning and How to Read It
The career line in palmistry, or line of fate, reflects career tendencies and shifts. Read its shape, length and variations with other lines.