News Flash: The opening weekend of Richard’s next ba zi starter course Discover the Secrets of the Four Pillars” is now January 19th & 20th 2013. Early Bird offer still open. Sound and Vision. When Linda lay dying, Paul McCartney is said to have reminded her of her favourite moments: riding her horse in the… Read More
September, the month of the Earth Rooster in the year of Sudden Change, the Water Dragon, 2012; feelgood Britain is flush with pride following the bread and circuses of the Olympics as libraries and public toilets close and badgers barricade themselves into their homes. I’ve just returned from a brief walkround survey of the most… Read More
Never too late. “No truth is ever a lie. I stumble and fall but I give you it all.” Barry Gibb. Late July and it’s raining fit to remake Blade Runner. This year is different. Back from trips to Singapore (twice) and Bangkok in search of wisdom, I’m teaching, drafting half-a-dozen ba zis at any… Read More
Snake day. So nature adjusts. Too little rain is followed by too much. Just what you’d expect in a Water Dragon year. Followed by a heat wave. Followed by more rain. And today the slugs are at my sunflowers. At the railway station I try to buy a ticket from the ticket machine. It’s attached… Read More
It’s raining as I walk into Godalming, the worst sort of English weather: no driving wind to give the rain character, no cold to make it sharp. It’s not even raining particularly hard, it’s just wet, the sort of wet that makes everything dark and floppy. The walk takes me past the Church of Jesus… Read More
Thailand, early afternoon the second week in February 2012, the “land of smiles”: I have cynical thoughts as the plane circles to land at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi. I’ve spent a little time in Prague with its machine-gun toting police, in Rio de Janeiro and in Las Vegas. Sex tourism is an ugly phrase. But then so… Read More
1. Riding the Water Dragon. Whatever calculation you use, we’re now in the Water Dragon, the Year of Sudden Change: landslides literal and political, seismic events of all sorts. So hold onto your hat. What can happen, may. Here’s the Readers Digest version of what to do for health, wealth and wellbeing in 2012: Occupy,… Read More
This is a long piece; for short simple predictions click here. For predictions for individual Animals click here “Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much…the wheel, New York, wars and so on…while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having… Read More
1. I’ve got a gong and I’m not afraid to use it. My friend Dawn is a self-made not-so secret millionaire. She made her fortune in the flooring business. At pretty much every modern international airport you’ll find yourself stepping on her floors. And she’s been a pioneer in introducing non-toxic solvents and in fair… Read More
Singapore. Friday 17th November. Just a few weeks until the Water Dragon of 2012. The Dragon is the Thunder, the beast of sudden change. Events build to a peak and then the Dragon brings the chaos that resolves. It wouldn’t take a diviner to see that next year is unlikely to be tranquil. In St… Read More
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