Where Tử Bình Came From: Lý Hư Trung, Từ Tử Bình and the Source Texts
Tang and Song records on Lý Hư Trung and Từ Tử Bình show Tử Bình has layered origins, with source texts like Lý Hư Trung mệnh thư altered over time.
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Hoa Loc Star in Four Transformations: Its Role in Zi Wei Dou Shu Chart Interpretation
Hoa Loc in the Four Transformations of Zi Wei Dou Shu: its meaning, how placement shapes its influence, and why it is not always favorable.
Building a Xuan Kong Flying Star chart step by step: placing the period star in the center, flying it along the Luo Shu, taking the mountain star and facing star, and deciding forward or reverse flight by the San Yuan Long
Build a Xuan Kong Flying Star chart: place the period star in the center, fly it along the Luo Shu, set the mountain and facing stars.
Vượng Sơn Vượng Hướng in Huyền Không Phi Tinh: Why It Is the Best Configuration and Why No Primary Facing in Period 9 Achieves It
Vượng sơn vượng hướng in Huyền Không phi tinh: why it ranks as the best pattern, and why no main facing direction achieves it in Period 9.
What Is Hà Lạc Numerology and How Are Hexagrams Cast from Can Chi?
Hà Lạc lý số casts a hexagram from the can chi of a birth date: the number tables, the 25 and 30 reductions, and a worked example from Học Năng's book.
What is Kiến Lộc?
Kiến Lộc is a BaZi configuration where the Day Master meets its own Lu in the month branch, indicating a strong self and self-reliance.
What Is the Year-Opening Bud-Picking Custom and Why Has It Shifted to Receiving Lộc?
Year-opening bud picking is the Vietnamese custom of taking a small green branch from a temple for luck. Today many ask for lộc or buy salt instead.
Flying Transformations and Self-Transformations in Kham Thien Tu Vi: Reading the Direction of Hoa Loc and Hoa Ky Correctly
Phi hóa: a palace's stem turns a star into Lộc, Quyền, Khoa or Kỵ and sends it to that star's palace. Tự hóa: it does so within itself.
The Truc Lam Yen Tu Zen School: Tran Nhan Tong's Monastic Renunciation, the Three Patriarchs, and the Thought of 'Cư trần lạc đạo'
The Trúc Lâm Yên Tử school founded by Trần Nhân Tông: its three patriarchs and the idea of cư trần lạc đạo, living in the world yet glad in the Way.
Children of the Dragon, Grandchildren of the Immortals: How the Old Histories Recorded the Tale of Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ
The story of Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ, the sack of one hundred eggs, as recorded in Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư and Đại Nam quốc sử diễn ca, and what is myth.
How to Read Hóa Kỵ in Tử Vi Phi Tinh Correctly? Kỵ Nhập, Kỵ Xung, Lộc Kỵ Đồng Cung and Trùng Điệp Kỵ
How the Phi Tinh school reads Hóa Kỵ in Tử Vi: Kỵ nhập, Kỵ xung, Lộc and Kỵ in one palace, and stacked Kỵ, following Từ Tăng Sinh's book.
Duong Nhan in Bat Tu: How to Look It Up by Day Master, Its Relation to Loc, Phi Nhan, and the Points Schools Disagree On
Duong Nhan is the branch one position before Loc of a yang stem, the same as De Vuong. See how to look it up by day master and where schools disagree.
What Is Cửu Cung: The Nine Squares of Lạc Thư and How Divination Arts Use It
The nine palaces are the nine cells of the Luo Shu, a 3x3 square whose every line totals 15, and the grid used by Huyền Không and Kỳ Môn.
What Is Loc Ton, Why Does Every Chart Have It, and Why Is It Always Flanked by Kinh Duong and Da La?
Loc Ton is the Yin Earth wealth star heading the 12-star Loc Ton cycle, always flanked by Kinh Duong and Da La. Here is how it is placed by birth stem.
What Does Trần Nhân Tông's Cư trần lạc đạo phú Say Through Its Ten Assemblies and Closing Verse?
Cư trần lạc đạo phú by Trần Nhân Tông: ten sections in Nôm and a closing verse in Hán, on living in the world while delighting in the Way.
An Dương Vương, the State of Âu Lạc and Cổ Loa Citadel: The Legend of the Magic Crossbow and the Historical Records
An Dương Vương, the state of Âu Lạc and Cổ Loa citadel in the old histories and the legend of the magic crossbow: the Thục house, dates and site.
What Are Ha Do and Lac Thu: Number Arrangement, Links to the Tien Thien and Hau Thien Bagua, and the Nine Stars
Ha Do arranges birth and completion numbers by direction and element, while Lac Thu is a 3x3 square where every row, column and diagonal sums to 15.
What Are the He Tu and Luo Shu? Why Every Li Qi Calculation Comes Back to the Nine Cells of the Luo Shu
The He Tu and Luo Shu are ancient diagrams behind feng shui li qi, explaining the 4-9-2 magic square and the nine palaces of the Later Heaven ba gua.
Dong Son bronze drums: dating, star motifs, Lac birds and frog figures and what they say about ancient Vietnamese beliefs
Dong Son bronze drums: their dating, casting techniques, star motifs, Lac birds and frog figures, and what these reveal about ancient Vietnamese beliefs.
Career and Officialdom Palace in Zi Wei Dou Shu: Meaning and Interpretation
The Career Palace in Zi Wei Dou Shu reflects work style and dealings with authority. Read it with the ruling Major Star and auxiliary stars.
Worship of Ba Chua Kho and the Year-Opening Custom of Borrowing Luck
Ba Chua Kho of the Ly Dynasty, her legends, the year-opening custom of borrowing luck and the rituals at her temple in Bac Ninh.
The Money Line in Palmistry: Meaning and How to Read It
The Money Line in palmistry is a mix of minor lines, mainly the Fate line, Head line and Mount of the Moon branches, and can suggest financial potential.
The 2nd House: Wealth in Astrology: In-depth Meaning
The 2nd house in astrology covers personal finances, material values and income, plus how planets there shape your relationship with money.
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.
Lost Items and the Ong Dia Prayer: The Vietnamese Custom of Finding Lost Things, Divination Sticks, and What to Do First When Something Goes Missing
When something goes missing, many Vietnamese families pray to Ong Dia, the Earth God, promising an offering if it turns up. Search first, then try the ritual.
The Wealth Spouse Line in Luc Hao: Money, Wife, and How to Read It When Asking About Fortune or Marriage
In Luc Hao, the Wealth Spouse line is the line overcome by the palace element, standing for money, goods, prices and employees, and the wife when a man asks.
Ham Tri Star in the Four Peach Blossom Stars of Zi Wei Dou Shu
Ham Tri is one of the Four Peach Blossom Stars in Zi Wei Dou Shu, a dark peach blossom tied to romance, art and charm, read by position and stars.
What Is the Hỷ Thần Star in Tử Vi? Placement Rules and Meaning According to Vietnamese Tử Vi Books
Hỷ Thần in Tử Vi is the eighth star of the Lộc Tồn ring, counted forward or backward from Lộc Tồn. Placement table and meaning in Vietnamese Tử Vi books.
Why We Avoid the Belongings of the Dead and Seek New Year's Luck: Contagious Magic in the Modern Mind
Contagious magic rests on two laws: contact transfers properties, and similarity means shared essence. Rozin's 1986 experiments show they still shape us.
Why traders go to Ba Chua Xu to 'borrow fortune': an anthropological view of Sam Mountain pilgrimage
Philip Taylor links the Sam Mountain pilgrimage boom to the Doi Moi market economy, where traders borrow fortune from Ba Chua Xu as sacred capital.
The Bac Si ring in Tu Vi: which twelve stars does it contain, how is it placed, and what does each star say on a chart?
The Bac Si ring holds twelve minor stars, from Loc Ton through Quan Phu, placed forward or backward by yin yang and gender.
What is Khâm Thiên Tứ Hóa: a Tử Vi school that takes Tứ Hóa as its axis, using the stem of each palace and not only the birth year stem
Khâm Thiên Tứ Hóa is a Tử Vi school that reads charts through Lộc, Quyền, Khoa and Kỵ, flying transformations from each palace's stem.
Zen Master Vạn Hạnh and the Meaning of the Verse Thị đệ tử
Vạn Hạnh was a monk of the Lý era, linked to the story of Lý Công Uẩn. His verse Thị đệ tử speaks of impermanence, life and death, rise and decline.
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 Phù in Tử Vi and How Is It Placed? Its Position in the Thái Tuế Circle and Meaning in Interpretation
Tử Phù in Tử Vi: the sixth star of the Thái Tuế circle, five palaces clockwise from the birth-year branch, and what Vietnamese books say of it.
What is giáp cung in Tử Vi and how are the stars placed?
Giáp cung in Tử Vi: why Kình Đà always flank Lộc Tồn, when Tả Hữu and Xương Khúc can flank Mệnh, and how Tử Vi Đẩu Số toàn thư ranks each case.
What is Tứ Bất Tử?
Tu Bat Tu is the collective name for four immortal saints in Vietnamese folk belief: Tan Vien Son Thanh, Saint Giong, Chu Dong Tu, and Holy Mother Lieu Hanh.
Reading a Career on a Tử Vi Chart: Which Palaces, Which Star Sets, and Where to Stop?
A career reading on a Tử Vi chart centres on the Mệnh, Tài Bạch and Quan Lộc triangle, the Phu Thê palace opposite, plus Thiên Di and Phúc Đức.
How Do Quan Phủ in the Bác Sĩ Circle and Quan Phù in the Thái Tuế Circle Differ?
Quan Phù of the Thái Tuế ring and Quan Phủ of the Lộc Tồn ring: how each is placed and what four Vietnamese Tử Vi books say they mean.
Reading Love and Marriage on a Tử Vi Chart: Which Palace, In What Order, and How to Read Responsibly?
Read love and marriage on a Tử Vi chart starting from the Phu Thê palace, then Quan Lộc, Thiên Di, Phúc Đức and Tài Bạch, with the love stars read in context.
Hexagram Thủy Hỏa Ký Tế (No. 63, 既濟, ䷾): When the Work Is Done and Why 'Good at First, Chaos at the End'?
Thủy Hỏa Ký Tế (No. 63) is the only hexagram with all six lines in correct position and paired. It teaches small success and a good start but chaotic end.
Thành Lộc
Nghệ sĩ Ưu tú, a spoken drama actor long associated with the southern stage, founder of Kịch đoàn Thành Lộc
