Stereotyping Wealth Luck and Bazi

​“Will I be wealthy mah?”, this is often a question I get asked so often during bazi reading.
Often, when I plot their bazi chart, the next question is, “Do I have wealth element in my bazi? How many are there?”.
 
You can probably predict where this goes. And yes, many would be disappointed when I say none or only 1. While those has a handful, their face brightens up like a camera ready to flash for the next pic.

Over this article, I will share my thoughts on why wealth element is not everything to gain wealth. And through your bazi, when is your wealth luck coming even if you don't have it in your bazi.

Clients' expression when hearing on wealth and their bazi

Our Bazi Chart – and how to see any wealth element?

Your bazi is a map to your life through the interaction of 5 elements and the categories in life the element represents. The categories is in a gist of how I can put to it in a layman term per below:

1. people around you
2. your thinking/creativity
3. wealth
4. career
5. resources in life or support

These 5 elements is then further broken into what we call “10 gods” (十神). It further help us define into your characteristics and things in life during reading of bazi.
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Depending on your Day Master, what you control is your wealth element

​Depending on your Day Master's element, what you control is your wealth element.

So for example, if your day master is Wood, your wealth element is represented by Earth. (See the red arrows per above 5 elements cycle)

Likewise, if your day master is Metal, your wealth element is represented by Wood.

Use any bazi calculator, and explore your chart! Just punch in your date of birth and hour (If unsure of hour, just assume 1 first).

Case Studies
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​A client with good wealth luck. He is a Fire (丁) day master. Metal is what Fire controls and hence is the Wealth element. Notice he has just 1 Wealth element. 

The client is in fact born into a rich family and is happily married now. Money has never really been an issue to him in life.

Wealthy bazi chart with just 1 wealth element. Day master Fire (circled black), Wealth element Metal (circled green).

​Client with average wealth luck. She has a Earth (戊) day master. Water is what Earth controls and hence is the Wealth element. Notice the numerous wealth elements in her chart but she is unlike the first chart in wealth luck. In fact, she is more tight-fist over money matters.

Average to do bazi chart with multiple wealth element. Earth day master (circled black), Wealth element (circled green).

​Golden Question - Does the number of wealth element matter?

There is no straight forward question to this answer.
But if anything and generally, no. In a normal bazi chart, you need just 1 wealth element to be wealthy. (not inclusive of special category chart).
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On the contrary, if you have too many wealth elements, there is a chance you may have poorer health or be henpecked! A case of 财多身子弱.
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Steve Job’s bazi chart was analyzed by many practitioners and there was possibly no wealth element. Yet, he is one of the richest men at one point in time. (We will come to that in a bit..)
 
As such, you can see that there is no simple easy way of – “Oh! I have many wealth element.. it means I am (going to be) super wealthy!”.

Surprise! There are other areas that can help bring wealth!

Here is a surprise to share with you. These other categories of stars and areas in your bazi can have positive impact to bring you wealth too.

Categories of Stars:
- Career
- Thinking/Creativity

Areas in Bazi
- Bazi Structure
- Your Luck Pillar

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Career
Depending on your bazi chart and structure, your career star can bring you not only wealth but fame or authority in life.

One with such stars usually can take the responsibilities and ease up the career ladder or is well liked by bosses. When their bazi structure allows, one typically rose to be leaders in their own fields or are in senior management.

But when one has such talents, gaining wealth also means certain sacrifice in life (e.g. family time or leisure time).

To attain riches, its not all rosy.

Thinking/Creativity​
You maybe thinking how can thinking stars in your bazi bring you wealth.
The logic is simple. In bazi relationship, your thinking star grows your wealth stars.

Using the production cycle in 5 elements, for a Metal day master, your wealth is Wood. Water is then Metal's thinking.

The formula is hence: 
Metal (self) produces Water (thinking) and produces Wood (wealth).

​This route typically belongs to roles in marketing, design or innovating fields.

Bazi Structure
This is probably less mentioned in bazi context. But, this is also an area that can define you as ability to reach the top or being the Average Joe. (When I mention Average Joe, one can also earn comfortably so long as one tap on their given talents indicated in their bazi.)

​I shall not go into this area as it would be a lengthy write up, but just to give you a flavor of other areas in bazi other than purely wealth star.

Going through good luck is like sailing in a smooth waters!

Luck Pillar
This is the luck that one goes through at different stage of our life.
In our bazi, each luck pillar define 10 years of our life's luck. And this define from young to when we aged.

Using sailing as an analogy, think of it as you sailing out in the ocean. If its a choppy sea and bad current? You can think of the movie "Poseidon". Or you are enjoying good luck sailing through smooth favourable current. 

The golden tip is - when one is going through good wealth luck in luck pillar, one can enjoy good wealth too. This is even if you do not have Wealth element in your bazi.

Conclusion

So I hope you have learn that in bazi, wealth star is not all you need to be wealthy. Certainly not the generic way of thinking - the more wealth star the merrier. Through other categories and areas in bazi, one can become wealthy or at least comfortable in life too. 

In life, we “win” some – the gaining of wealth, and we “lose” some – the loss of family time. So its not all perfect at times too.
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Curious about your wealth luck or have questions to your bazi?
Do drop us a note here, and we will try to revert.