Snake – The Arbiter of Truth.
Snake – The Arbiter of Truth.
Assuming they’re drafted right, the Chinese characters of a ba zi will tell most of what there is to know about a person. The practitioner may have to dig deep into the ba zi and into their own resources but approached appropriately, the ba zi will reveal the soul. My interpretation, as I often say, varies but the ba zi itself does not. The soul is in there.
The Snake’s concern is with truth. This concern can show as the vulnerable candour of a Bernie Sanders – equally loved and loathed for his ability to call a spade a spade; the alternately shameless frankness and shameless duplicity of a Xi Jin Ping or a Tony Blair – both 1953 Snakes. In 2003 Triple Snake (Day, Month & Year), Tony Blair bought into his own spin so deeply that he lost sight of the line between a flexible viewpoint and an outright lie. When 1.5 million people demonstrate their lack of faith in your “evidence”, it’s time to consider your position.
And it may be of course that I am simply expressing mine. The observer changes the observed – that’s why no psychic has ever performed under lab conditions; the scientists are there to prove themselves right. Technically this is called confirmation bias. But trust me my take remains flexible although it is based on a great deal of fieldwork. Indeed it’s a truism that a house oriented SE3/NW3 (that is to say between Pig & Snake) conceals something: what you see is not what you get. My late friend Merlin Woolcott (not his real name) lived in one such at the time he was online-scammed for £150,000. Not that any of this would stand up in court.
So this month expect truth to be the football in play.
Some Snakes are outraged by this. One correspondent on social media who follows (or perhaps followed) my daily ramblings, recently complained that she was offended by my view. Let’s make it clear: the topic is truth, it’s not a charge sheet but a curriculum. We’re all learning, we’re all seeking. A wise Snake is the seeker of truth, the veteran of ashram and encounter group; the unwise Snake lapses at least occasionally into astonishing duplicity. And there are of course a thousand shades in between. Some, as they say, of my best friends (indeed of my relations) are Snakes.
But as we enter this Snake month and a million football fans are asking about the hidden plans of the owners of their clubs; we’re all on tenterhooks to learn who pays for Boris’ furniture; Xi Jin Ping claims that tearing Uighurs from their homes is an exercise in adult education and Narendra Modi won’t release the Indian Covid death figures, tell me this Snake month is not about truth. Answers on a postcard.
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Richard Ashworth is one of the most respected Western Feng Shui Masters. He was among the pioneers of feng shui survey & analysis at a distance (for now of course the most prudent way to do it) on MySpirit Radio in the noughties. A good taster of his approach may be found on Audible at https://adbl.co/2m92Es3.You can also see him at work on tv’s Housebusters at https://bit.ly/2lJWLBl Most Thursdays and Fridays he is to be found teaching both feng shui and ba zi one-to-one online (times by mutual arrangement) with students from Seattle to Belgium,
Richard has worked from Lebanon to Bermuda, in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore and with stars such as Naomie Harris, Kelly Hoppen and Gillian Anderson. Unusually for a Western Master, he has addressed the Grand Masters at the International Feng Shui Conference in Singapore.
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