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The four pillars for 2025/02/03 at 10:12 pm (china time)： 癸癸戊乙 亥卯寅巳 The time pilar changes according to the location. At first glance there's a combination between the day master of 2025 and the month stem supported by the year's branch which results in 丙. Interesting to note that the solar cycle is close to reach its peak. Months cycle for 2025 is： 戊己庚辛壬癸甲乙丙丁戊己 寅卯辰巳午未申酉戌亥子丑 How 2025 chart will interact with an individual Bazi chart and how two or more individual charts will interact together within the context of this year's chart is a quite challenging yet interesting problem for the reasoning, logic and analysis abilities. Inspiration or intuition can answer any questions any time but may not be so suitable to operate the four pilars which are not a divination tool.

If you understand chinese here's the explaination of some basic concepts about Taoist cultivation in the northern lineage. The lecturer spent 13 years living as an ermit, then he returned to the world and now is the abbot of the white cloud temple in Beijing. https://youtu.be/l1yEPiYfwGw?si=Cue75PrFcYKCsWqP

Very serious, if you understand the meaning of 收心 you also understand that it is the most elementary fundamental skill to posess before anyone from real northern lineage agree to teach you something more advanced.

Drop 2 pounds of rice on the floor then pick each grain with a pair of chopsticks and put them one by one in a jar. Repeat the operation 2 times a day until nothing can disturb your mind anymore during your practice.

Did you ever heard about 立春八字？ It is a more complete way of analaysis of the year cycle, more difficult to learn too. Here's an exemple for 2025, in cantonese sorry ! https://youtu.be/0UKfW0NW0uM?si=u9HlD-jkAwNQiLgw

Oh sorry, by underlying reasons i wasn't refering to afterborn psychological ones. Power and control describe perfectly some of the forces at play within an inborn individual structure. Today i'd say that without some type of study of the human nature based on natural principles it might be too difficult to identify our individual root self and start the education of its core 'spirit'. Thank you for your question, River, i'll try later when i'll have a bit more time.

Something i experienced several times too, fortunately at some point we may start to notice and begin to investigate the underlying reasons, or unfortunately repeat the same with another 'teacher' or in another type of relationship. Welcome here.

Hello Traditional teachings and the self-healing process usually found within are supposed to aim at the patient's or student's autonomy, but a lot of versions do not have this mindset and can sometimes create a dependent relationship.

In the Yinyang five elements system the sun and its Qi is symbolized by the caracter 丙 Yang Fire. Some people bear Yang Fire as their core nature which includes vitality/lifeforce.

Send me a message when you feel like. They would apply different skills rooted in the Yinyang five elements system. Most of time natal chart reading is applied as a separated technic, so it can sounds like fortune telling.

If you need another type of diagnosis i can redirect you to a Taoist medecine practitioner, otherwise as someone said it is maybe better to stick to this doctor's advices/prescriptions. To design a highly individualized practice a full picture is needed, year of birth tells absolutely nothing about such full picture, the four pillars and the big cycle a bit more, but still not enough. Baguazhang or any other types of martial arts, Qigong etc effects would be very limited as long as it is not integrated within a broader tailor made "Life treatment program" designed according to individual caracteristics.

From Yinyang five elements point of view, it is possible that a complicated arrangement of elements prevents you in the way towards the positive and healthy developement of your life. To tell more by taoist counselling require first to do a complete and thorough diagnosis and analysis of your individual inborn nature's structure before saying anything about the possible underlying reasons behind the problems in your life, and from there to begin to define tailor made solutions.

If efficiency in real fight situations isn't the purpose of one's practice, it won't work for it that's for sure. Another purpose doesn't makes it less real, an excuse or BS, but you are right, it's easy to believe doing one thing when actually doing another, what is BS IMO is when Taiijquan is sold as an effective martial arts whitout even just light free sparring included in the training regimen.

If we agree about the concept of individuality and that people have an inborn individual nature, then these traditionnal cultural heritages can serve as a common soil to support any unique tree in the vast human forest to reconstruct its own set of values and principles according to its inborn caracteristics, Xing and Ming. To me its very tricky, because if some natural principles are missed in the edification of individual ethics, it could change into absolute individual morals and rules enforced at the detriment of absolute common principles, so maybe no matter what someone practice, she or he is the one practicing it with her or his own content.

Very clear, thank you. Coming to Taijiquan from other martial arts background, i can say this is a common point to make these arts applicable in real situations. You point to an important and difficult problem, body/mind integration. It's so easy for theoretical concepts to stay stuck somewhere away from the body in the virtual space operated by our minds, even to make a set of 8 or 9 simple principles being clearly expressed by the movements is really not that easy. Same wishes to you on this infinite path.