Western astrological aspects describe my "aristocratic" background, my
"highly educated parents" and my "ideal home life as a child". Nothing
could be further from the truth. So I double check with the Tzu Wei Tou Shu
and find an explanation for this gross 'inaccuracy'.
The Tzu Wei suggests that I ought to have been given up for adoption
when I was born and that my life would have turned out differently if
I had indeed been adopted for my second set of parents would have been
all that the Western aspects describe them to be and I would have had
that "ideal home life as a child".
I remember being told that there were several occasions when other (well
to do) families had asked my parents to give me up to them for adoption.
So, not to digress too far ... I'm sharing with you folks that I use
both Astrologies for counter-reference. While I find Western Astrology
to be a very powerful reference to understand personality, for indicating
compatibility in relationships, and for patterns of timing, I find the
Tzu Wei Tou Shu more impressive when it comes to specifics. The details
of a Tzu Wei reading can be far-reaching and mind blowing. If it
wasn't for the taboo of "releasing heavenly secrets", you folks would
know what I mean.
As it is, I withhold a lot of specifics while trying to work around the
"taboo" and yet still endeavor to give practical and useful counsel.TopAugust 23, 1998"Very few careers are as satisfying as being a writer. You will have
the capability to inform, delight, educate, provoke, move and inspire.
Best of all, you will have a creative outlet to express your unique
perspective and share your experiences with others." -- Ian Millar,
Principal of The Writing School, Singapore.
What do I write about?
I write about the lessons I've learned or am in the process of learning.
I write about the issues that I've had to deal with this time around.
I share with my readers (correspondents included), the result of more
than 20 years of consciously and conscientiously being on the spiritual
path.
I write heartfelt and soul searching songs and poetry.
Why do I write?
To clear the confusion in my own head of course. (But if that is the
only reason, I might be better off keeping a private journal?)
I write for the mental exercise; it disciplines and strengthens my mind
as well as my beliefs, after the clearing up of the confusion.
I write to share myself and my experiences.
I write to reach out to others.
I write to express my worldviews and to further enrich myself with an
exchange of ideas.
On a spiritual level, I write to unfold that which is within me.And why are YOU here?Top
A Writer Writes
I started writing a different sort of Tai Qi book a few years back
and there was this chapter on the beginning of the Universe. Halfway
into the chapter, I asked myself who in the universe did I think I
was, attempting to share my imagination (vision?) of something that I
myself understood little of. But I persevered, thinking that it
would be all right in the end if I had a scientific mind edit the
finished work before I embarrassed myself to death.
Writing about the Tzu Wei Tou Shu fills me with the same self-doubts.
Who am I to tackle this subject when more academic minds shun the
challenge? Sigh..., all I have in my defence is the knowledge that
throughout history, little known personalities have been ridiculed
for coming up with unpopular theories in their time.
About 2,500 years ago, two philosophers from Ancient Greece --
Democritus and Leucippus -- expressed what was at that time the
rather unlikely opinion that matter was, in the final analysis,
ultimately composed of some indivisible particles which they named
atomos, which is Greek for un-cuttable. It's been said, "their
discovery is remarkable not for having discovered modern atomic
theory, but for adducing how the universe works by reasoning, in a
logical manner, from a set of assumptions that in a sense, simply
happened to be right."
And so, I offer my theory/theories here for all to ridicule or to
savor as they may.
While Western Astrology deals with the orbits of real planets and
asteriods, Chinese Astrology deals with imaginary ones. These
'imaginary stars' exist in a different dimension and are part and
parcel of the forces at work in our universe that average people
don't see and thus don't understand.
In the days of the 'inventor' of the Tzu Wei system of divination,
some three thousand years ago, there were no scientific words like
'dimension', 'electromagnetic forces', even 'electricity', to
explain his 'visions' and so he recorded these as 'imaginary' ideas
-- easier for the people of that time to appreciate.
I believe many 'discoveries' were discovered not by scientific minds
of the times but by intuitive and imaginative minds. Wasn't it
Einstein who said the "Imagination is more important than Knowledge"?
(The full quotation reads:
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.")
In writing for this site, I shall strive not to repeat what is said
on other similar sites and I shall always try to offer fresh
perspectives on old ideas.
While I may endeavour to stick to positive interpretations of life
and its seeming endless challenges, it needs to be said also that I
don't believe in glossing over realities to the point they become
unrecognisable and thus useless to the reader. In the translation of
Astrological reports, my style prevails.
