This post is based on my past posts about “Grand Duke Talisman charity drive” with updates for 2023.

If you have read my old message about functions of Grand Duke, you know that there are two Grand Dukes watching over your shoulder, counting the good and bad deeds that you have done and executing rewards and misfortunes accordingly.  

Our Grand Duke talismans are consecrated with the energy from Grand Duke and his mother 

Dou-mou (mother or commander of 60 Grand Dukes).  Hopefully, our talismans will motivate Grand Duke to be easy and generous on you when his mother is around him. Why do we ask for a charitable donation for this talisman?  When your talisman is grounded with a charitable deed, GD is less likely to execute any misfortunes due from your karma account. The rationale for donation is an exchange of energy– using a charitable deed in exchange of protection energy from Grand Duke.  One cannot get something out of nothing.

2023 GRAND DUKE GENERAL PI-SHI 癸卯太歲皮时

2023 is Gui-mao or year of water-rabbit.  Grand Duke for the year is General Pi-shi who was a military commander in Northern Wei Dynasty (386- 535).

DO YOU NEED A 2023 GRAND DUKE TALISMAN? 

For 2023, five groups of people need Grand Duke Talismans:

1. “Fu-yin” or same animal sign of Grand Duke 值太岁– people with rabbit sign

  • Birth years: 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011 
  • Symptoms: obstacles, stagnation or running “reverse” instead of forward and not suitable for travels. 

2. “Fan-yin” or “clashing” the animal sign of Grand Duke 冲太岁– people with rooster sign

  • Birth years:  1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017
  • Symptoms: big fluctuations in luck, accident, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death, changing job

3.  “Hai” or “harming” the animal sign of Grand Duke 害太岁– people with dragon sign 

  • Birth years: 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012 
  • Symptoms: interpersonal relationship problems, negative romance, marital problem, backstabbing  

4. “Po” or “breaking” the animal sign of Grand Duke 破太岁– — people with horse sign

  • Birth years:  1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014  
  • Symptoms: backstabbing at work, over-consumption, no luck in non-regular income like gambling/ stock and success slips away in the last minute

5.  “Xing” or “penalizing” the animal sign of Grand Duke 刑太岁— people with rat sign

  • Birth years:  1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020
  • Symptoms: big fluctuations in luck, wealth, career, relationship and health; traffic accident, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death, negative romance, quarrels and etc.

GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY

House violating Grand Duke

In 2023 Gui-mao year, if your house faces mao-rabbit mountain or E2 (82.5- 97.5 degree) direction, your house is said to be “violating Grand Duke.”  House violating GD will affect the overall luck, health and well-being of the people living inside.  The remedy is either avoiding movements, construction, earth-digging and demolition there or put up a Grand Duke talisman facing NE3 direction.  The opposite side of Grand Duke is Year-breaker (Sui-po, W2 or You mountain).  This location should avoid digging and activities too. 

Even with the GD talisman, if you need to do construction, you still need to do a date-selection for an auspicious date and start digging on a non-GD direction and finish last on the GD direction. 

Desk violating Grand Duke
If your desk or wherever you sit for an extended time faces Mao-rabbit mountain or E2 direction, you can put up a Grand Duke talisman there for protection. It is not auspicious to face the Grand Duke direction.  It weakens your competition power in business/career and examinations. However, if you arrange your seat so that E2 will be at your back (and put a Grand Duke talisman there), you will get Grand Duke as support and is good for competition and business. 

GRAND DUKE TALISMAN OFFER

This year we use digital delivery of Grand Duke Talismans because “snail mail” is slow and prone to losses.  Ken Lai will create a GD Talisman, blessed and “activated” on screen digitally. This activated GD file will be emailed to you with notes.  You can print as many copies as you want (but for one unique-named person only).  In this way, you can replace soiled or damaged talismans.  You can carry one talisman in your wallet and post one in your home and/or office for Feng Shui remedy.  You get more “mileage” from a single donation this way. Below are some charities that you can send your donation to.  But you can always support your local charities like food-shelf or soup kitchens, especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

  • homeless shelter
  • Save-the-Children (www.savethechildren.org) 
  • UNICEF (United Nation Children’s Fund)
  • Smile Train (www.smiletrain.org) 
  • children hospital
  • food shelves/soup kitchen
  • Red Cross
  • animal shelter/ humane society
  • Doctors without border (https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm
  • Your local COVID-19 pandemic charity.

Donation made to help alleviate an urgent human/ animal need or suffering (e.g., feeding the hungry, tornado/ typhoon victims or homeless) gets you more karma credits than donation for public good or improvement of public life like church/ temple or public radio/TV. If you are worried about privacy issues and future solicitations– please be assured that no future solicitation or email will be sent to you in the future. You send me NO money. You send your donation directly to your favorite local or international charity.  No purchase involved.  This offer is for people who have no access to Daoist temples.  Please support your local temple if you have access to one.

SUGGESTED DONATION  (same old 2010 pricing!)

If you need more than one Grand Duke Talismans, here is the discount schedule: –one talisman US$30 donation (US$5 if you are unemployed/under-employed)
 –two talismans US$50 donation ($10 if unemployed/under-employed )
 –three talismans US$60 donation ($15 if unemployed/under-employed )

You may go to http://www.xe.com to calculate the equivalent of US$30 to your local currency.

NOTE:  People from countries with annual personal income per capita income below US$8000.00 can use the “under-employed and unemployed rate“.

NO MONEY? NO PROBLEM

Simply perform an act of kindness like visit a senior citizen, feed a homeless animal, buy a meal for the hungry, tutor a needy student– any help or emotional support to all living being and the like can be a substitute of a monetary donation.  Email me what you have done (great if you show photo, but not compulsory) and I shall email you the talisman.

Talisman that is grounded with a charitable event works more effectively because it has an exchange of one type of energy for protection energy.

To claim your talismans and application instructions, please forward your donation receipt with the talisman recipient names and gender info to kenlai88@yahoo.com with the following info:

User Name:

Gender:

Get your Grand Duke Talismans before Feb. 3, 2023, if possible.  Year of Rabbit will start on Feb. 4, 2023 at 10:44 am.  Your consecrated digital talisman will be emailed to you in about 1 week after receiving your proof of donation.

Thank you for participating in this charity drive.


 Ken Lai

 http://www.kenlaifengshui.com
 Email: kenlai88@yahoo.com

This post is based on my past posts about “Grand Duke Talisman charity drive” with updates for 2022.
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If you have read my old message about functions of Grand Duke, you know that there are two Grand Dukes watching over your shoulder, counting the good and bad deeds that you have done and executing rewards and misfortunes accordingly.  
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Our Grand Duke talismans are consecrated with the energy from Grand Duke and his mother Dou-mou (mother or commander of 60 Grand Dukes).  Hopefully, our talismans will motivate Grand Duke to be easy and generous on you when his mother is around him.
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Why do we ask for a charitable donation for this talisman?  When your talisman is grounded with a charitable deed, GD is less likely to execute any misfortunes due from your karma account. The rationale for donation is an exchange of energy– using a charitable deed in exchange of protection energy from Grand Duke.  One cannot get something out of nothing.

2022 GRAND DUKE GENERAL HE-E  壬寅太歲賀諤    

2022 is Ren-yin or year of water-tiger.  Grand Duke for the year is General Hé é who was a military commander in Yuan Dynasty (1271- 1368) specialized in attack warfare.
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DO YOU NEED A 2022 GRAND DUKE TALISMAN? 
Five groups of people who need Grand Duke Talismans:

1. “Fu-yin” or same animal sign of Grand Duke 值太岁– people with tiger sign

  • Birth years: 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010  
  • Symptoms: obstacles, stagnation or running “reverse” instead of forward and not suitable for travels. 

2. “Fan-yin” or “clashing” the animal sign of Grand Duke 冲太岁– people with monkey sign

  • Birth years1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016
  • Symptoms: big fluctuations in luck, accident, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death, changing job
3.  “Hai” or “harming” the animal sign of Grand Duke 害太岁– people with snake sign 
  • Birth years: 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013 
  • Symptoms: interpersonal relationship problems, negative romance, marital problem, backstabbing  
4. “Po” or “breaking” the animal sign of Grand Duke 破太岁– — people with pig sign

  • Birth years: 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971,  1983, 1995, 2007, 2019   
  • Symptoms: backstabbing at work, over-consumption, no luck in non-regular income like gambling/ stock and success slips away in the last minute

5.  “Xing” or “penalizing” the animal sign of Grand Duke 刑太岁— people with monkey or snake sign

  • Birth years (monkey): 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016
  • Birth years (snake)1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013
  • Symptoms: big fluctuations in luck, wealth, career, relationship and health; traffic accident, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death,  negative romance, quarrels and etc.

SPECIAL NOTE:   “3-penalties” is formed when a chart has tiger (yin), snake (si) and monkey (shen).  Serious misfortune such as major accident/ illness, losing wealth or even death may occur.  So even if your animal sign is not one of the above BUT your natal chart and luck period bring in Yin (tiger), Si (snake) and/ or Shen (monkey), you are also violating Grand Duke indirectly.  For example, you are not a monkey sign (shen) person but you have a shen inside your natal chart or luck period brings in a shen. 
 

GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY
If your house faces Yin mountain or NE3 direction, you need to put up a Grand Duke talisman facing that direction and avoid construction, earth-digging and demolition there.

If your desk or wherever you sit for an extended time facing Yin mountain or NE3 direction, you can put up a Grand Duke talisman there for protection.  It is not auspicious to face the Grand Duke direction.  It weakens your competition power in business/career and examinations.  However, if you arrange your seat so that NE3 will be at your back (and put a Grand Duke talisman there), you will get Grand Duke as support and is good for competition and business.

House violating Grand Duke
In 2022 Ren-yin year, if your house faces Yin-tiger mountain or NE3 (52.5 to 67.5 degree) direction, your house is said to be “violating Grand Duke.”  House violating GD will affect the overall luck, health and well-being of the people living inside.  The remedy is either avoiding movements, construction, earth-digging and demolition there or put up a Grand Duke talisman facing NE3 direction.  The opposite side of Grand Duke is Year-breaker (Sui-po, SW3 or Shen mountain).  This location should avoid digging and activities too.

Even with the GD talisman, if you need to do construction, you still need to do a date-selection for an auspicious date and start digging on a non-GD direction and finish last on the GD direction.

Desk violating Grand Duke 

If your desk or wherever you sit for an extended time faces Yin-tiger mountain or NE3 direction, you can put up a Grand Duke talisman there for protection. It is not auspicious to face the Grand Duke direction.  It weakens your competition power in business/career and examinations. However, if you arrange your seat so that NE3 will be at your back (and put a Grand Duke talisman there), you will get Grand Duke as support and is good for competition and business.

GRAND DUKE TALISMAN OFFERS
This year we use digital delivery of Grand Duke Talismans because “snail mail” is slow and prone to losses.  Ken Lai will create a GD Talisman, blessed and “activated” on screen digitally. This activated GD file will be emailed to you with notes.  You can print as many copies as you want (but for one unique-named person only).  In this way, you can replace soiled or damaged talismans.  You can carry one talisman in your wallet and post one in your home and/or office for Feng Shui remedy.  You get more “mileage” from a single donation this way.

Below are some charities that you can send your donation to.  But you can always support your local charities like food-shelf or soup kitchens, especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Donation made to help alleviate an urgent human/ animal need or suffering (e.g., feeding the hungry, tornado/ typhoon victims or homeless) gets you more karma credits than donation for public good or improvement of public life like church/ temple or public radio/TV.
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If you are worried about privacy issues and future solicitations– please be assured that no future solicitation or email will be sent to you in the future. You send me NO money. You send your donation directly to your favorite local or international charity.  No purchase involved.  This offer is for people who have no access to Daoist temples.  Please support your local temple if you have access to one.

SUGGESTED DONATION
If you need more than one Grand Duke Talismans, here is the discount schedule:
 –one talisman US$30 donation (US$5 if you are unemployed/under-employed)
 –two talismans US$50 donation ($10 if unemployed/under-employed)
 –three talismans US$60 donation ($15 if unemployed/under-employed)
You may go to http://www.xe.com to calculate the equivalent of US$30 to your local currency.
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NOTE:  People from countries with annual personal income per capita income below US$8000.00 can use the “under-employed and unemployed rate“.
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NO MONEY? NO PROBLEM
Simply perform an act of kindness like visit a senior citizen, feed a homeless animal, buy a meal for the hungry, tutor a needy student– any help or emotional support to all living being and the like can be a substitute of a monetary donation.  Email me what you have done (great if you show photo, but not compulsory) and I shall email you the talisman.
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Talisman that is grounded with a charitable event works more effectively because it has an exchange of one type of energy for protection energy.

To claim your talismans and application instructions, please forward your donation receipt with the talisman recipient names and gender info to kenlai88@yahoo.com with the following info:
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User Name:
Gender:
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Get your Grand Duke Talismans before Feb. 3, 2022 if possible.  Year of Tiger will start on Feb. 4, 2022 at 04:52 am.  Your consecrated digital talisman will be emailed to you in about 1 week after receiving your proof of donation.

Thank you for participating in this charity drive.

 Ken Lai

 http://www.kenlaifengshui.com
 Email: kenlai88@yahoo.com

Year of Pig will begin when spring solstice arrives at 11:16 on February 4, 2019.  Below are something that you may do to avoid problems and increasing your luck for the new year.

1.  House-cleaning:  Do your cleaning in Feb. 4 because Chinese New Year will officially start on Feb. 5 this year.  Besides removing physical garbage, you do an qi or energy cleansing for your house.  If your luck really sucks (bad) in last year, open all the windows and doors of your house, boil some water, let water vapor fill up your house and let the vapor blow out through the windows to get rid of any stagnant energy inside your house.  Alternatively you can burn incense or sage instead of boiling water.

If Year of Dog is great for you, do NOT do the qi-cleansing.  You want to keep milking the existing good luck energy for another month or two.

2.  Feng Shui fixes:

a.  Move your monster (ki-lun, cannon, St. Michael, etc.) to west region facing region to fix San-sha (3-killing).

b.  Put your metal fix for 5-yellow disaster star in SW.

c.  Put your metal or calabash fix for 2-black sickness star in NE.

d.  Put a small red doormat in the entrance if you have a door facing south to fix 3-jade star.

e.  Put a bowl of non-moving water in SE if you have a door there to fix 7-robber star.

f.  Move your water fountain or wealth-enhancing item to center of the house.

g.  North is good for career and study, put 4 lucky bamboos there if you want to enhance it.

3.  Clashing Grand Duke:  People with the following pillars or chart features will be in serious problems during year of pig:

a.  Bazi chart with one or more of these pillars:  if the pillar is your day pillar, bad things likely will happen to you and/or your spouse, if in other pillars, happen to your family member represented by these pillars.

yi-si  (most serious)

gui-si

b.  chart with 2+ si (snake)

d.  Jia-wood daymasters:  prone to losing money due to affairs, especially males.

(Go to http://www.bazi-calculator.com, key in your birthday and check the day column in your birth chart to see if you have a yi-si, gui-si day pillar or jia-wood daymaster).  

Possible Remedies:  

1.  Consult a Bazi Reader.

2.  Print out the photo of 2019 Grand Duke from here and pray to him for protection or use the photo as screen saver in your cell phone or computer.  But you must do at least one act of kindness that reduces suffering of any living thing to activate this remedy.  “One kind act neutralizes hundreds of misfortunes.  Numerous kind acts dissolve thousands of calamities一善解百災, 多善解千難” is the famous saying in Chinese.  You may make a donation to a charity, adopt or feed a homeless cat/dog/person or even visit old folks in senior home.

3.  People with yi-si or gui-si day pillars– donate blood, if too weak to donate, at least do a blood test.

4.  Take my “Destiny Management 2/ 3” courses (listed below).

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

You may print this auspicious symbol for “attracting treasures and wealth” and put it facing your door

Ken Lai

© 2019 Ken Lai, all rights reserved.

Video Correspondence Courses: (click for details)   
“Advanced Visual Form Feng Shui” w/23 hr. HD video
“Visual Form Feng Shui” w/13 hr. HD video
“Applied Bazi: Sickness Forecasting and Management” w/33 hr. HD video 
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 1: Forecasting and Decision Support” w/32 hr. HD video
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 2: Basic Bazi Therapy w/18 hr. HD video
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 3 w/ Advanced Bazi Therapy w/18 hr. HD video
“Feng Shui Toolbox: Sha-qi, Health/Wealth and Career” w/ 7 hr. HD video
“Period 7/8 FS Toolkit w/ Advanced Flying Star techniques” w/ 6 hr. HD video
“Practical Date-Selection Methods (incl. XKDG) w/ 12 hr. video
“Practical Imperial Qi-Men-Dun-Jia 4G” w/ 12 hr. video
“Professional Imperial QMDJ 4G” w/ 21 hr. video
“EZ QMDJ series: Astrology, Date/Task Selection, Annual Luck/ FS” w/ 3 hr. HD
“EZ QMDJ Advanced Feng Shui” with 4 hr. HD video
“Daoist Talismans for Feng Shui/Blessing” w/ 24 hr video
“Practical Door Feng Shui for Wealth” w/ 3 hr. video
“4-Pillars Forecasting Bootcamp+ 2018 edition” with 18 hr. video

http://www.kenlaifengshui.com

A picture is better than a thousand words.  You get essential Feng Shui guidance for 2019 in a glance here.  Ignore the additional notes and free Bazi guide below if you are busy or lazy (but it may save your life or marriage).

Click diagram to enlarge

People with snake and pig animal sign should avoid seeing corpse putting in coffin or burying into the ground.

Remedy for 5-yellow disaster and 2-black sickness star– copper or brass objects.  No fire or red object in these regions.

Center region is good for money this year.  Sleep or sit there more often to attract wealth.

FREE ANNUAL ASTROLOGY/ BAZI GUIDE

People born in 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001 and 2013 with snake animal sign clash Grand Duke this year.  This could mean:

  • moving
  • promotion or demotion
  • major illness
  • travels
  • funeral
  • accident/ death

Actually people with si (snake) day-branch in their Bazi charts are in more danger than animal sign clashing Grand Duke.  They are:  Ji-si, xin-si, gui-si, yi-si and ding-si day pillars. Day-branch stands for spouse palace.  This may mean marital problems (if married, spouse may leave or die) but also means getting married if single.  

In fact, any Bazi chart with Ji-si, xin-si, gui-si, yi-si and ding-si in any pillar of their Bazi chart have some troubles in terms of the family members each pillar represents.  To find if your chart has any one of these pillars, key in your birthday here:

http://www.bazi-calculator.com

People with Gui-si and Yi-si  day-pillars in their Bazi charts better pray more because their day-pillar fanyin Grand Duke (clashing 2019 Grand Duke from stem to branch).  This could mean major sickness, accident or disaster to the person or his/her spouse.  Avoid taking risks/ major decisions, attending funeral, visiting the sick in hospitals and unnecessary travels for this year of pig (2/4/2019- 2/3/2020).

One remedy for the above Grand Duke clash is to adopt a cat from your local animal humane society or rescue a stray/ homeless cat.  This is because cat is yin or tiger in Bazi.  Yin combines with Grand Duke Hai and neutralizes the clash.

If you cannot handle a cat adoption, the next best thing is to get a Grand Duke talisman from your local temple or from:

http://kenlaifengshui.blogspot.com/2018/12/2019-grand-duke-talisman-charity-drive.html

Ken Lai

© 2019 Ken Lai, all rights reserved.

Video Correspondence Courses: (click for details)   
“Advanced Visual Form Feng Shui” w/23 hr. HD video
“Visual Form Feng Shui” w/13 hr. HD video
“Applied Bazi: Sickness Forecasting and Management” w/33 hr. HD video 
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 1: Forecasting and Decision Support” w/32 hr. HD video
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 2: Basic Bazi Therapy w/18 hr. HD video
“Destiny/Luck Mgmt. 3 w/ Advanced Bazi Therapy w/18 hr. HD video
“Feng Shui Toolbox: Sha-qi, Health/Wealth and Career” w/ 7 hr. HD video
“Period 7/8 FS Toolkit w/ Advanced Flying Star techniques” w/ 6 hr. HD video
“Practical Date-Selection Methods (incl. XKDG) w/ 12 hr. video
“Practical Imperial Qi-Men-Dun-Jia 4G” w/ 12 hr. video
“Professional Imperial QMDJ 4G” w/ 21 hr. video
“EZ QMDJ series: Astrology, Date/Task Selection, Annual Luck/ FS” w/ 3 hr. HD
“EZ QMDJ Advanced Feng Shui” with 4 hr. HD video
“Daoist Talismans for Feng Shui/Blessing” w/ 24 hr video
“Practical Door Feng Shui for Wealth” w/ 3 hr. video
“4-Pillars Forecasting Bootcamp+ 2018 edition” with 18 hr. video

http://www.kenlaifengshui.com

This post is based on 2017 “Grand Duke Talisman charity drive” with updates for 2018.

If you have read my old message about functions of Grand Duke, you know that there are two Grand Dukes watching over your shoulder, counting the good and bad deeds that you have done and executing rewards and misfortunes accordingly. This is a major rationale that donation to get your Grand Duke talisman.  When your talisman is grounded with a charitable deed, GD is less likely to execute any misfortunes due from your karma account. Another rationale for donation is the exchange of energy– using a charitable deed in exchange of protection energy from Grand Duke.

Like last year, I have added the topic for house violating Grand Duke, the cure is either avoiding activities/ earth-digging or using the Grand Duke talisman in the Grand Duke location.

2018 GRAND DUKE GENERAL JIANG WU   姜武大將軍

2018gd2018 is Wu-xu or year of earth-dog. Grand Duke for the year is General Jiang Wu who was a military officer in 16th century Ming DynastyJiang had passed his Imperial military officer exam in 1622 and became an officer renowned for neutralizing banditry.  In 1642, he was ordered to rescue the embattled and besieged national army in Kaifeng City of Henan Province.  General Jiang had refused to retreat when cohort armies were defeated and escaped.  He had kept on fighting and terminating many bandit soldiers until he himself was killed.  He was awarded “róng lù dà fū” (榮祿大夫, similar to western knighthood) posthumously which was inheritable by his descendants.

2018年狗年,年干支“戊戌”,太歲為姜武大將軍,。在明代時降生在保德州(今山東省保德縣一帶),天啟二年(1622年)科舉中武舉人,被授予大同威遠守備(今山西省大同市)的官職;崇禎(1628-1643年)初年,升遷為大水峪游擊,建造了杏山城,又遷為宣府西城參將,捕殺了大盜王科,又調守宣府右衛,擢升為通州(今北京市通縣一帶)副總兵,守護皇室諸陵墓;十五年(1642年),跟隨保定總督楊文岳援救開封守軍。當時隨行其他營的軍隊都潰敗而逃散了,唯有姜武的軍隊,堅定防守,毫不動搖。清晨,賊軍蜂擁殺來,姜武親自率軍血戰,殺賊軍達數百人。由于力量耗盡,姜武在怒斥賊軍無義中英勇犧牲。后被贈進榮祿大夫,右都督蔭外衛,世襲總旗。

2018  GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR BAZI CLASHES

Wu-xu or year of earth-dog can be challenging for people with Jia-chen and/or Ren-chen pillar in their Bazi charts because these pillars “fan-yin” or “battle” with both the stem and branch of 2018 Grand Duke. It is especially serious if your day-pillar is Jia-chen or Ren-chen because it means something may happen to you or your spouse.

5 out of 12 animal signs have “violated” Grand Duke because dog sign forms 3-penalities with ram and ox.  Dog also clashes dragon and “prosecutes” rooster.

In addition, besides the year branch, if any branch in your Bazi chart has a chen-dragon, that branch is also clashing Grand Duke.  The effect may be seen from the people and events represented by that branch location.  For example, if you have a chen month branch clash, the effect may happen to daymasters’ parent or sibling.

In general, “clashing Grand Duke” is the most serious violation.   This means people with dragon animal sign should be more cautious this year.

If fortunately or unfortunately, you chart somehow has a xu-chou-wei (dog-ox-ram) 3-penalties, the outcome could be positive or disastrous depending if earth element is favorable or unfavorable to your chart.

Here are the five groups of people who need Grand Duke Talismans:

1. “Fu-yin” or same animal sign of Grand Duke 值太岁– people with dog sign

  • DOG (years born: 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970,  1982, 1994, 2006, 2018)
  • Symptoms: obstacles, stagnation or running “reverse” instead of forward and not suitable for travels; overspending, digestive sickness, headache, sleeping problem, traffic/ crashing injuries, prone to divorce or separation, money quarrels, do not partnership or offer loans to people;  Damages in career and wealth luck and relationship.   

 2.  “Fan-yin” or “clashing” the animal sign of Grand Duke 冲太岁– people with dragon sign

  • DRAGON (years born: 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976,  1988, 2000, 2012)
  • Symptoms: big fluctuations and changes in luck, wealth, career, relationship and health; traffic accident, sickness like liver, eyes, intestine and stomach, surgery, may be pregnant, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death,  negative romance, quarrels and etc.

SPECIAL NOTE:  If your were born in a dragon day or dragon hour, you are also clashing Grand Duke for 2018!

3.  “Hai” or “prosecuting” the animal sign of Grand Duke 害太岁– people with rooster sign

  • ROOSTER (years born: 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981,  1993, 2005, 2017) 
  • Symptoms: better luck than 2017; backstabbing at work, bad interpersonal relationship, marital disharmony,  jinxing close relatives (esp. older ones, spouse and children),  jealousy from others and minor health problems   

4.  “Xing” or “penalizing” the animal sign of Grand Duke 刑太岁—- people with ox sign 

  • OX (years born: 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973,  1985, 1997, 2009)
  • Symptoms:  conflicts, backstabbing, injury, financial disagreements, lawsuits, scares, be careful with friends, romance problem and negative peach blossoms.

5.  “Po” or “damaging”  (also penalizing) the animal sign of Grand Duke 破太岁—- people with ram sign 

  • RAM (years born: 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015) 
  • Symptoms:  busy for trivial things, consuming/ losing wealth, minor health problems, negative romance, marital problem, backstabbing, prone to missing articles and obstacles in work.

GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY 

1.  House violating Grand Duke

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Click pix to enlarge

In 2018 wu-xu year, if your house faces xu-dog mountain or NW1 (292.5 to 307.5 degree, ) direction, your house is said to be “violating Grand Duke.”  House violating GD will affect the overall luck, health and well-being of the people living inside.  The remedy is either avoiding movements, construction, earth-digging and demolition there or put up a Grand Duke talisman facing NW1 direction.  The opposite side of Grand Duke is Year-breaker (Sui-po, SE1).  This location should avoid digging and activities too.

Even with the GD talisman, if you need to do construction, you still need to do a date-selection for an auspicious date and start digging on a non-GD direction and finish last on the GD direction.

2.  Desk violating Grand Duke

If your desk or wherever you sit for an extended time faces Xu-dog mountain or NW1 direction, you can put up a Grand Duke talisman there for protection.  It is not auspicious to face the Grand Duke direction.  It weakens your competition power in business/career and examinations. However, if you arrange your seat so that NW1 will be at your back (and put a Grand Duke talisman there), you will get Grand Duke as support and is good for competition and business. 

3.  Moving direction violating Grand Duke

If you move to a new house or residence, the relative direction from your old house to the new house is facing NW1 grand Duke direction, you are considered “violating GD“.  Remedy will be choosing an auspicious date to move or at the least, choose a different route of traveling, like driving to a different direction in the beginning, take a break for 15 minutes or more and then to the final destination.  This will convert the original GD direction to a non-GD direction. You may carry a GD talisman too. 

4.  Marriage direction violating Grand Duke

If you get married and the relative direction of your new marital residence to the old residence is facing NW1 grand Duke direction,  you are considered “violating GD”.  Remedy will be choosing an auspicious date to move or at the least, choose a different route of traveling, like driving to a different direction in the beginning, take a break for 15 minutes or more and then to the final destination.  This will convert the original GD direction to a non-GD direction.  You may carry a GD talisman too. 

GRAND DUKE TALISMAN OFFERS

This year we use digital delivery of Grand Duke Talismans because “snail mail” is slow and prone to losses.  Ken Lai will create a GD Talisman with user name, city and country imprinted, bless and “activate” individually on screen digitally.  This unique activated GD file will be emailed to you.  You can print as many copies as you want (but for one unique-named person only).  In this way, you can replace soiled or damaged talismans.  You can carry one talisman in your wallet and post one in your home and/or office for Feng Shui remedy.  You get more “mileage” from a single donation this way.

The offer is the same as previous years: your charity donation of US$30 or more to any legitimate local or international charity will get you a specially blessed Grand Duke talisman with your name inscribed (see below for special rate for countries with lower annual income per capita).    Here are some sample charities suggested in the past drives:

  • homeless shelter
  • Save-the-Children (www.savethechildren.org)
  • UNICEF (United Nation Children’s Fund)
  • Smile Train (www.smiletrain.org)
  • children hospital
  • food shelves/soup kitchen
  • Red Cross
  • animal shelter/ humane society
  • Doctors without border (https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm)

Donation made to help alleviate an urgent human/ animal need or suffering (e.g., feeding the hungry, tornado/ typhoon victims or homeless) gets you more karma credits than donation for public good or improvement of public life like church/ temple or public radio/TV.

If you are worried about privacy issues and future solicitations– please be assured that I will not email you in the future. You will send me NO money. You send your money directly to your favorite local or international charity.  You do NOT need to purchase any additional item from me or anyone else. No future solicitation of any type will be sent to you.  This offer is for people who have no access to Daoist temples.  Please support your local temple if you have access to one.

If you need more than one Grand Duke Talismans, here is the discount schedule:
–one talisman US$30 donation (US$5 if you are unemployed/under-employed)
 –two talismans US$50 donation ($10 if unemployed /under-employed )
 –three talismans US$60 donation ($15 if unemployed /under-employed )
(you may go to http://www.xe.com to calculate the equivalent of US$30 to your local currency)

NOTE:  People from countries with annual personal income per capita income below US$8000.00 can use the “under-employed and unemployed rate“.

Talisman that is grounded with a charitable event works more effectively because it has an exchange of one type of energy for protection energy.

To claim your talismans and application instructions, please forward your donation receipt with the talisman recipient names and address to kenlai88@yahoo.com with the following info:

  1. user name:
  2. gender (sex): 
  3. city:
  4. country:

    Get your Grand Duke Talismans before Feb. 3, 2018 if possible.  Year of Dog will start on Feb. 4, 2018 (5:30 am).  Your individually consecrated digital talisman will be emailed to you in about 1 week after receiving your proof of donation.

    Thank you for participating in this charity drive.

    Ken Lai

     http://www.kenlaifengshui.com
    email: kenlai88@yahoo.com

40d21-2017gd_tangHere is one spiritual remedy for people with rabbit clashing rooster or house clashing Grand Duke direction–  Grand Duke talisman.

I have already posted the contents below a month ago.  But people do not seem to have read it because I have reader asking for the talisman charity drive.  So I repost it here again for your convenience. 

2017 GRAND DUKE GENERAL TANG JIE  

2017 is Ding-you or year of Fire-rooster. Grand Duke for the year is General Tang Jie who was a military officer in Song Dynasty (618- 907).  Tang was born with super physical prowess.  He was humble and respected by local folks.  He had passed the government military officer exam and become a military officer.   

General Tang was ordered to stop the bandit disturbance in the South.  He had neutralized the bandit chief and decapitated 58 bandits.   Local people were no longer under the threat of plunder and killing.  The government had rewarded Tang with higher rank and silver.

2017  GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR BAZI CLASHES

Ding-you or year of  fire-rooster can be challenging for people with Gui-mao or Xin-mao pillar in their Bazi charts because these pillars “fan-yin” or “battle” with both the stem and branch of the Grand Duke.  It is especially serious if your day-pillar is  Gui-mao or Xin-mao because it means something may happen to you or your spouse.

In addition, besides the year branch, if any of the branch in your Bazi chart has a mao-rabbit, that branch is also clashing Grand Duke.  The effect may be seen from the people and events represented by that branch location.  For example, if you have a mao month branch clash, the effect may happen to daymasters’ parent or sibling.

 Here are the four groups of people who need Grand Duke Talismans:

  1. “Fu-yin” or same animal sign of Grand Duke 值太岁— people with rooster sign

  • ROOSTER : years born– 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981,  1993, 2005, 2017  
  • Symptoms: obstacles, stagnation or running “reverse” instead of forward and not suitable for travels.  Damages in career and wealth luck and relationship.  Rooster also “self-penalizing” itself when runs into rooster year.

 2. “Fan-yin” or “clashing” the animal sign of Grand Duke 冲太岁— people with rabbit sign

  • RABBIT: years born– 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011  
  • Symptoms: big fluctuations in luck, wealth, career, relationship and health; traffic accident, hurt by metal object, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death,  negative romance, quarrels and etc.

SPECIAL NOTE:  Mao-you clash is a powerful clash involving wood and metal battling– negative romance causing serious financial loss or even death or traffic accidents and surgery (injuries by metal).  If your chart has zi-rat, it will get even worse.  If your chart has both zi-rat and wu-horse, pump up your life insurance policy because you have all the 4-cardinal clashes elementszi, wu, mao and you.

 3. “Hai” or “prosecuting” the animal sign of Grand Duke 太岁— people with dog sign

  • DOGyears born– 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970,  1982, 1994, 2006  
  • Symptoms: backstabbing at work, bad interpersonal relationship, jealousy from others, emotional problems, success slips away in the last minute and low Feng Shui luck.

 4. Po” or “damaging” the animal sign of Grand Duke 太岁— people with rat sign

  • RATyears born– 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008
  • Symptoms: interpersonal relationship problems, negative romance, marital problem, backstabbing, skin and nervous system problemsdue to over-confidence and extreme/ radical positions.

 GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY

1.  House violating Grand Duke 7b427-000gd_location

In 2017 ding-you year, if your house faces You-rooster mountain or W2 (262.5 to 277.5 degree, west) direction, your house is said to be “violating Grand Duke.”  House violating GD will affect the overall luck, health and well-being of the people living inside.  The remedy is either avoiding movements, construction, earth-digging and demolition there or put up a Grand Duke talisman facing W2 direction.  The opposite side of Grand Duke is Year-breaker (Sui-po, E2 or east).  This location should avoid digging and activities too. 

Even with the GD talisman, if you need to do construction, you still need to do a date-selection for an auspicious date and start digging on a non-GD direction and finish last on the GD direction.  I have checked through the year of Rooster and compiled a construction calendar with dates that can over-ride the effect of Grand Duke, San-sha and 5-yellow star.  Please look for info in this blog in the near future. 

2.  Desk violating Grand Duke 

If your desk or wherever you sit for an extended time faces You-rooster mountain or W2 direction, you can put up a Grand Duke talisman there for protection.  It is not auspicious to face the Grand Duke direction.  It weakens your competition power in business/career and examinations. However, if you arrange your seat so that W2 will be at your back (and put a Grand Duke talisman there), you will get Grand Duke as support and is good for competition and business. 

3.  Moving direction violating Grand Duke

If you move to a new house or residence, the relative direction from your old house to the new house is facing W2 grand Duke direction, you are considered “violating GD“.  Remedy will be choosing an auspicious date to move or at the least, choose a different route of traveling, like driving to a different direction in the beginning, take a break for 15 minutes or more and then to the final destination.  This will convert the original GD direction to a non-GD direction. You may carry a GD talisman too. 

4Marriage direction violating Grand Duke

If you get married and the relative direction of your new marital residence to the old residence is facing SW2 grand Duke direction,  you are considered “violating GD”.  Remedy will be choosing an auspicious date to move or at the least, choose a different route of traveling, like driving to a different direction in the beginning, take a break for 15 minutes or more and then to the final destination.  This will convert the original GD direction to a non-GD direction.  You may carry a GD talisman too.

 GRAND DUKE TALISMAN OFFERS

This year we use digital delivery of Grand Duke Talismans because “snail mail” is slow and prone to losses.  Ken Lai will create a GD Talisman with user name, city and country imprinted, bless and “activated” individually on screen digitally.  This unique activated GD file will be emailed to you.  You can print as many copies as you want (but for one unique-named person or house only).  In this way, you can replace soiled or damaged talismans.  You can carry one talisman in your wallet and post one in your home and/or office for Feng Shui remedy.  You get more “mileage” from a single donation this way.

The offer is the same as previous years: your charity donation of US$30 or more to any legitimate local or international charity will get you a specially blessed Grand Duke talisman with your name inscribed (see below for special rate for countries with lower annual income per capita).    Here are some sample charities suggested in the past drives:

Donation made to help alleviate an urgent human/ animal need or suffering (e.g., feeding the hungry, tornado/ typhoon victims or homeless) gets you more karma credits than donation for public good or improvement of public life like church/ temple or public radio/TV.

If you are worried about privacy issues and future solicitations– please be assured that I will not email you in the future. You will send me NO money. You send your money directly to your favorite local or international charity.  You do NOT need to purchase any additional item from me or anyone else. No future solicitation of any type will be sent to you.  This offer is for people who have no access to Daoist temples.  Please support your local temple if you have access to one.

If you need more than one Grand Duke Talismans, here is the discount schedule:
 –one talisman US$30 donation (US$5 if you are unemployed/under-employed)
 –two talismans US$50 donation ($10 if unemployed /under-employed )
 –three talismans US$60 donation ($15 if unemployed /under-employed )
(you may go to http://www.xe.com to calculate the equivalent of US$30 to your local currency)

NOTE:  People from countries with annual personal income per capita income below US$8000.00 can use the “under-employed and unemployed rate.

 Talisman that is grounded with a charitable event works more effectively because it has an exchange of one type of energy for protection energy.

To claim your talismans and application instructions, please forward your donation receipt with the talisman recipient names and address to kenlai88@yahoo.com with the following info:
1.  user name:
2.  city
3.  country

Get your Grand Duke Talismans before Feb. 3, 2017 if possible.  Year of Rooster will start on Feb. 3, 2017.  Your individually consecrated digital talisman will be emailed to you in about 2 weeks after receiving your proof of donation.

Thank you for participating in this charity drive.

 Ken Lai

 http://www.kenlaifengshui.com
 email: kenlai88@yahoo.com

This post is based on 2015 “Grand Duke Talisman charity drive” with updates for 2017.

If you have read my old message about functions of Grand Duke, you know that there are two Grand Dukes watching over your shoulder, counting the good and bad deeds that you have done and executing rewards and misfortunes accordingly. This is a major rationale that donation to get your Grand Duke talisman.  When your talisman is grounded with a charitable deed, GD is less likely to execute any misfortunes due from your karma account. Another rationale for donation is the exchange of energy– using a charitable deed in exchange of protection energy from Grand Duke.

For 2017, I have added the topic for house violating Grand Duke, the cure is either avoiding activities/ earth-digging or using the Grand Duke talisman in the Grand Duke location.

2017 GRAND DUKE GENERAL TANG JIE  

2015 is Yi-wei or year of wood-ram. Grand Duke for the year is General Tang Jie who was a military officer in Song Dynasty (618- 907).  Tang was born with super physical prowess.  He was humble and respected by local folks.  He had passed the government military officer exam and become a military officer.   

General Tang was ordered to stop the bandit disturbance in the South.  He had neutralized the bandit chief and decapitated 58 bandits.   Local people were no longer under the threat of plunder and killing.  The government had rewarded Tang with higher rank and silver.

丁酉太歲生於唐代安鄉〈今湖北省安鄉縣〉,名唐杰,字子文。自幼練習武藝,因而身體碩壯。更有一身特殊奇大的力量,在挑擔和舉重時表現突出。然而也受嚴格的禮教,所以待人十分謙讓,為地方人敬重;遇到有人仗力欺辱鄉民時,大家就請唐杰出來主持公道,唐杰只要出面,紛爭就自然平息下去。後來唐杰順利地在科考中考上武舉人,使他出生地大感光彩。因武舉人比一般文舉人還困難,不但要考武藝兵學,也要考基本的文科。當時,南方盜寇動亂,唐杰奉旨到南方平定寇亂,斬殺為首的賊子多人,又乘勝追殺賊寇於桃花岡,斬賊首等五十八人,立了平定賊寇的奇功,使鄉民不再被搶奪殺害。因此,朝廷賜蟒服、銀兩等給與獎勵。唐杰的功勛和德行,受到普遍的推崇。

2017  GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR BAZI CLASHES

Ding-you or year of  fire-rooster can be challenging for people with Gui-mao or Xin-mao pillar in their Bazi charts because these pillars “fan-yin” or “battle” with both the stem and branch of the Grand Duke.  It is especially serious if your day-pillar is  Gui-mao or Xin-mao because it means something may happen to you or your spouse.

In addition, besides the year branch, if any of the branch in your Bazi chart has a mao-rabbit, that branch is also clashing Grand Duke.  The effect may be seen from the people and events represented by that branch location.  For example, if you have a mao month branch clash, the effect may happen to daymasters’ parent or sibling.

 Here are the four groups of people who need Grand Duke Talismans:

 1. “Fu-yin” or same animal sign of Grand Duke 值太岁— people with rooster sign

ROOSTER : years born– 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981,  1993, 2005, 2017  

Symptoms: obstacles, stagnation or running “reverse” instead of forward and not suitable for travels.  Damages in career and wealth luck and relationship.  Rooster also “self-penalizing” itself when runs into rooster year.

 2. “Fan-yin” or “clashing” the animal sign of Grand Duke 冲太岁— people with rabbit sign

RABBIT: years born– 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011  

Symptoms: big fluctuations in luck, wealth, career, relationship and health; traffic accident, hurt by metal object, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death,  negative romance, quarrels and etc.

SPECIAL NOTE:  Mao-you clash is a powerful clash involving wood and metal battling– negative romance causing serious financial loss or even death or traffic accidents and surgery (injuries by metal).  If your chart has zi-rat, it will get even worse.  If your chart has both zi-rat and wu-horse, pump up your life insurance policy because you have all the 4-cardinal clashes elementszi, wu, mao and you.

 3. “Hai” or “prosecuting” the animal sign of Grand Duke 太岁— people with dog sign

DOGyears born– 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970,  1982, 1994, 2006  

Symptoms: backstabbing at work, bad interpersonal relationship, jealousy from others, emotional problems, success slips away in the last minute and low Feng Shui luck.

 4. Po” or “damaging” the animal sign of Grand Duke 太岁— people with rat sign

RATyears born– 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008

Symptoms: interpersonal relationship problems, negative romance, marital problem, backstabbing, skin and nervous system problemsdue to over-confidence and extreme/ radical positions.

 GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY

1.  House violating Grand Duke

Click to enlarge

In 2017 ding-you year, if your house faces You-rooster mountain or W2 (262.5 to 277.5 degree, west) direction, your house is said to be “violating Grand Duke.”  House violating GD will affect the overall luck, health and well-being of the people living inside.  The remedy is either avoiding movements, construction, earth-digging and demolition there or put up a Grand Duke talisman facing W2 direction.  The opposite side of Grand Duke is Year-breaker (Sui-po, E2 or east).  This location should avoid digging and activities too.

Even with the GD talisman, if you need to do construction, you still need to do a date-selection for an auspicious date and start digging on a non-GD direction and finish last on the GD direction.  I have checked through the year of Rooster and compiled a construction calendar with dates that can over-ride the effect of Grand Duke, San-sha and 5-yellow star.  Please look for info in this blog in the near future.

2.  Desk violating Grand Duke 

If your desk or wherever you sit for an extended time faces You-rooster mountain or W2 direction, you can put up a Grand Duke talisman there for protection.  It is not auspicious to face the Grand Duke direction.  It weakens your competition power in business/career and examinations. However, if you arrange your seat so that W2 will be at your back (and put a Grand Duke talisman there), you will get Grand Duke as support and is good for competition and business.

3.  Moving direction violating Grand Duke

If you move to a new house or residence, the relative direction from your old house to the new house is facing W2 grand Duke direction, you are considered “violating GD“.  Remedy will be choosing an auspicious date to move or at the least, choose a different route of traveling, like driving to a different direction in the beginning, take a break for 15 minutes or more and then to the final destination.  This will convert the original GD direction to a non-GD direction. You may carry a GD talisman too.

4Marriage direction violating Grand Duke

If you get married and the relative direction of your new marital residence to the old residence is facing SW2 grand Duke direction,  you are considered “violating GD”.  Remedy will be choosing an auspicious date to move or at the least, choose a different route of traveling, like driving to a different direction in the beginning, take a break for 15 minutes or more and then to the final destination.  This will convert the original GD direction to a non-GD direction.  You may carry a GD talisman too.

 GRAND DUKE TALISMAN OFFERS

This year we use digital delivery of Grand Duke Talismans because “snail mail” is slow and prone to losses.  Ken Lai will create a GD Talisman with user name, city and country imprinted, bless and “activate” individually on screen digitally.  This unique activated GD file will be emailed to you.  You can print as many copies as you want (but for one unique-named person only).  In this way, you can replace soiled or damaged talismans.  You can carry one talisman in your wallet and post one in your home and/or office for Feng Shui remedy.  You get more “mileage” from a single donation this way.

The offer is the same as previous years: your charity donation of US$30 or more to any legitimate local or international charity will get you a specially blessed Grand Duke talisman with your name inscribed (see below for special rate for countries with lower annual income per capita).    Here are some sample charities suggested in the past drives:

Donation made to help alleviate an urgent human/ animal need or suffering (e.g., feeding the hungry, tornado/ typhoon victims or homeless) gets you more karma credits than donation for public good or improvement of public life like church/ temple or public radio/TV.

If you are worried about privacy issues and future solicitations– please be assured that I will not email you in the future. You will send me NO money. You send your money directly to your favorite local or international charity.  You do NOT need to purchase any additional item from me or anyone else. No future solicitation of any type will be sent to you.  This offer is for people who have no access to Daoist temples.  Please support your local temple if you have access to one.

If you need more than one Grand Duke Talismans, here is the discount schedule:
 –one talisman US$30 donation (US$5 if you are unemployed/under-employed)
 –two talismans US$50 donation ($10 if unemployed /under-employed )
 –three talismans US$60 donation ($15 if unemployed /under-employed )
(you may go to http://www.xe.com to calculate the equivalent of US$30 to your local currency)

NOTE:  People from countries with annual personal income per capita income below US$8000.00 can use the “under-employed and unemployed rate.

 
Talisman that is grounded with a charitable event works more effectively because it has an exchange of one type of energy for protection energy.

To claim your talismans and application instructions, please forward your donation receipt with the talisman recipient names and address to kenlai88@yahoo.com with the following info:
1.  user name:
2.  city
3.  country

Get your Grand Duke Talismans before Feb. 3, 2017 if possible.  Year of Rooster will start on Feb. 3, 2017.  Your individually consecrated digital talisman will be emailed to you in about 2 weeks after receiving your proof of donation.

Thank you for participating in this charity drive.

 Ken Lai

 http://www.kenlaifengshui.com
 email: kenlai88@yahoo.com

This post is based on last year’s “Grand Duke Talisman charity drive” with updates for 2015.

If you have read my old message about functions of Grand Duke, you know that there are two Grand Dukes watching over your shoulder, counting the good and bad deeds that you have done and executing rewards and misfortunes accordingly. This is a major rationale that donation to get your Grand Duke talisman.  When your talisman is grounded with a charitable deed, GD is less likely to execute any misfortunes due from your karma account. Another rationale for donation is the exchange of energy– using a charitable deed in exchange of protection energy from Grand Duke.

2015 GRAND DUKE GENERAL YANG XIAN   
2015 is Yi-wei or year of wood-ram. Grand Duke for the year is General Yang Xian who was a military officer in Song Dynasty (960- 1279).  Yang was interested in alchemy and metaphysics since his childhood.  He had traveled and lived as a hermit in various holy mountains.  A government official Master Zhu had invited Yang to stay in his home for a few years.  Yang could predict future very accurately.  One day, after a banquet, Yang suddenly told Zhu that he will leave the earth. Yang had died later without any sickness.  

Two years later, on his way to the capital, Zhu ran into Yang suddenly.  They had chatted like old acquaintances.  Zhu had inquired about what had happened, but Yang did not answer.  later, Zhu had returned to his hometown and went to check Yang’s tomb.  He had opened the tomb and found the tomb was empty.

2015  GRAND DUKE TALISMAN 
Yi-wei or year of  wood-ram can be challenging for people with Ji-chou or xin-chou pillar in their Bazi charts because these pillars “fan-yin” or “battle” with both the stem and branch of the Grand Duke.  It is especially serious if your day-pillar is  Ji-chou or xin-chou pillar because it means something may happen to you or your spouse.

Here are the four groups of people who need Grand Duke Talismans:
1. “Fu-yin” or same animal sign of Grand Duke 值太岁– people with RAM sign
Birth years: 1919, 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003
Symptoms: obstacles, stagnation or running “reverse” instead of forward and not suitable for travels.

2. “Fan-yin” or “clashing” the animal sign of Grand Duke 冲太岁– people with OX sign
Birth years: 1913, 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009
Symptoms: big fluctuations in luck, accident, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death, changing job

3. “Hai” or “harming” the animal sign of Grand Duke 害太岁– people with RAT sign
Birth years: 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008
Symptoms: backstabbing at work, and success slips away in the last minute

4. “Xing” or “penalizing” the animal sign of Grand Duke 太岁– people with DOG sign 
Birth years: 1910, 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006
Symptoms: legal problems, accidents, injuries by knife, disloyalty from lover, subordinates, coworkers and friends (penalty of ingratitude)

GRAND DUKE TALISMAN FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY
If your house faces Wei mountain or SW1 direction, you need to put up a Grand Duke talisman facing that direction and avoid construction, earth-digging and demolition there.

If your desk or wherever you sit for an extended time faces Wei mountain or SW1 direction, you can put up a Grand Duke talisman there for protection.  It is not auspicious to face the Grand Duke direction.  It weakens your competition power in business/career and examinations. However, if you arrange your seat so that SW1 will be at your back (and put a Grand Duke talisman there), you will get Grand Duke as support and is good for competition and business.

GRAND DUKE TALISMAN OFFERS
This year we use digital delivery of Grand Duke Talismans because “snail mail” is slow and prone to losses.  Ken Lai will create a GD Talisman with user name, city and country imprinted, bless and “activate” individually on screen digitally.  This unique activated GD file will be emailed to you.  You can print as many copies as you want (but for one unique-named person only).  In this way, you can replace soiled or damaged talismans.  You can carry one talisman in your wallet and post one in your home and/or office for Feng Shui remedy.  You get more “mileage” from a single donation this way. 

The offer is the same as last year: your charity donation of US$30 or more to any legitimate local or international charity will get you a specially blessed Grand Duke talisman. Here are some examples of donations already done:

  • homeless shelter
  • Save-the-Children (http://www.savethechildren.org)
  • UNICEF (United Nation Children’s Fund)
  • Smile Train (www.smiletrain.org)
  • children hospital
  • food shelves/soup kitchen
  • Red Cross
  • animal shelter/ humane society

Donation made to help alleviate an urgent human/ animal need or suffering (e.g., feeding the hungry, tornado/ typhoon victims or homeless) gets you more karma credits than donation for public good or improvement of public life like church/ temple or public radio/TV.

If you are worried about privacy issues and future solicitations– please be assured that I will not email you in the future. You will send me NO money. You send your money directly to your favorite local or international charity.  You do NOT need to purchase any additional item from me or anyone else. No future solicitation of any type will be sent to you.  This offer is for people who have no access to Daoist temples.  Please support your local temple if you have access to one.

If you need more than one Grand Duke Talismans, here is the discount schedule:
 –one talisman US$30 donation (US$5 if you are unemployed/under-employed)
 –two talismans US$50 donation ($10 if unemployed /under-employed )
 –three talismans US$60 donation ($15 if unemployed /under-employed )
(you may go to http://www.xe.com to calculate the equivalent of US$30 to your local currency)

Talisman that is grounded with a charitable event works more effectively because it has an exchange of one type of energy for protection energy.

To claim your talismans and application instructions, please forward your donation receipt with the talisman recipient names and address to kenlai88@yahoo.com with the following info:

1.  user name:
2.  city
3.  country
4.  printer info:  color?   black and white?
5.  paper size used:  eg.  Letter, A4, etc

Get your Grand Duke Talismans before Feb. 4, 2015 if possible.

Thank you for participating in this drive.


 Ken Lai

 http://www.kenlaifengshui.com
 email: kenlai88@yahoo.com

This post is based on last year’s “Grand Duke Talisman charity drive” with uImagepdates for 2013.

The “extra strength” 2012 GD talisman seems to have saved you from the 2012 end of the world event.

If you have read my old message about functions of Grand Duke, you know that there are two Grand Dukes watching over your shoulder, counting the good and bad deeds that you have done and executing rewards and misfortunes accordingly. This is a major rationale that donation to get your Grand Duke talisman.  When your talisman is grounded with a charitable deed, GD is less likely to execute any misfortunes due from your karma account.

2013 GRAND DUKE GENERAL XU DAN

2013 is Gui-Si or year of water-snake. Grand Duke for the year is General Xu Dan who was a military officer in Han Dynasty (25- 220 AD). Xu was known for his bravery and generosity.  He had conquered the barbarian tribes and small kingdoms that had plagued the west side of China with an army of volunteers. Over 50 tribes and kingdoms were annexed into the Han Kingdom with Xu‘s help.

2013  GRAND DUKE TALISMAN Image

Si or year of Snake can be very dangerous for people with Shen (monkey) and Yin (tiger) signs because these signs can form “Yin-Si-Shen 3-penalties”.   People with this penalty usually jinx their close relative to major sickness/ injury or even death.  However,  some people may experience meteoric rise to fame overnight if the 3-penalties elements are favorable in their Bazi chart.  People with Hai or pig sign in their Bazi chart may suffer injuries caused by fire or water.

Here are the four groups of people who need Grand Duke Talismans:

1. “Fu-yin” or same animal sign of Grand Duke 值太岁— people with SNAKE sign

  • BIRTH YEARS: 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001
  • SYMPTOMS: obstacles, stagnation or running “reverse” instead of forward and not suitable for travels.

2. “Fan-yin” or “clashing” the animal sign of Grand Duke 冲太岁— people with PIG sign

  • BIRTH YEARS: 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007
  • SYMPTOMS: big fluctuations in luck, accident, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/ wealth, moving, death, changing job

3. “Hai” or “harming” the animal sign of Grand Duke 害太岁— people with TIGER sign

  • BIRTH YEARS: 1914, 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010
  • SYMPTOMS: backstabbing at work, and success slips away in the last minute

4. “Po” or “breaking” the animal sign of Grand Duke 破太岁— people with MONKEY sign (also penalizing GD)

  • BIRTH YEARS: 1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004
  • SYMPTOMS: legal problems, accidents, injuries by knife, low luck and personal safety problems

GD TALISMAN FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY

If your house faces Si mountain or SSE direction, you need to put up a Grand Duke talisman facing that direction and avoid construction, earth-digging and demolition there.

If your desk or wherever you sit for an extended time faces Si or SSE direction, you can put up a Grand Duke talisman there for protection.  It is not auspicious to face the Grand Duke direction.  It weakens your competition power in business/career and examinations. 

GRAND DUKE TALISMAN OFFERS

The offer is: your charity donation of US$30 or more to any legitimate local or international charity will get you a specially blessed Grand Duke talisman. Here are some examples of donations already done:

  • animal protection shelter
  • homeless shelter
  • Save-the-Children
  • children hospital
  • food shelves/soup kitchen
  • and more…..

Donation made to help alleviate an urgent human/ animal need or suffering (e.g., feeding the hungry, tornado victims or homeless) gets you more karma credits than donation to public good or improvement of public life like church/ temple or public radio/TV.

If you are worried about privacy issues and future solicitations– please be assured that I will not email you in the future other than sending a note that your talisman is sent. You will send me NO money. You send your money directly to your favorite local or international charity. You do not even need to pay me postage. You do NOT need to purchase any additional item from me or anyone else. No future solicitation of any type will be sent to you. This offer is for people who have no access to Daoist temples.  Please support your local temple if you have access to one.

If you need more than one Grand Duke Talismans, here is the discount schedule:

  1. one talisman US$30 donation (US$5 if you are unemployed/under-employed)
  2. two talismans US$50 donation ($10 if unemployed /under-employed )
  3. three talismans US$60 donation ($15 if unemployed /under-employed )

(you may go to http://www.xe.com to calculate the equivalent of US$30 to your local currency)

Talisman that is grounded with a charitable event works more effectively because it has an exchange of one type of energy for protection energy.

All talismans sent are individually purified, bless and stamped with the seal of a major deity. The ritual itself normally has a suggested donation of US$50- 100.

To claim your talismans and application instructions, please forward your donation receipt with the talisman recipient names and address to: kenlai88@yahoo.com

All talisman claims will be sent by First Class mail in USA and air-mail outside USA.

Get your Grand Duke Talismans before Feb. 4, 2013 if possible.


 Ken Lai

http://www.kenlaifengshui.com

email: kenlai88@yahoo.com

This post is based on last year’s Grand Duke Talisman charity drive post with some additions and new twists.

If you have just read my previous message about functions of Grand Duke, you know that there are two Grand Dukes watching over your shoulder and counting the good and bad deeds that you have done and execute rewards and misfortunes accordingly. This is a major rationale that donation to get your Grand Duke talisman.  When your talisman is grounded with a charity deed, GD is less likely to execute any misfortunes due from your karma account.

2012 GRAND DUKE GENERAL PENG TAI
2012 is Ren-Chen or year of water-dragon. Grand Duke for the year is General Peng Tai who was born in 13th century during the Ming Dynasty. Peng was intelligent and smart since childhood.  In 1394, he had passed the Imperial Examination and become a high level official.  Yet he still lived an average and frugal life like ordinary citizens and was keen at improving government services for the public.

Before passing the Imperial Examination, Peng was engaged to a poor village girl.  After becoming a government official, Peng’s family thought that his fiancee’s social status was not compatible with his newfound status.  They also thought she was physically unattractive to be the wife of an official and wanted to cancel the engagement.

When General Peng heard his family’s intention, he had strongly opposed the idea and married the original poor girl anyway. The couple lived a happy and loving life together.  Therefore, people who have problem getting married due to physical characteristics and/or financial situations may get the sympathetic ears and help of General Peng this year.

2012  “EXTRA-STRENGTH” GRAND DUKE TALISMAN

With all the end of the world predictions about 2012, I have prepared an “extra strength” Grand Duke Talisman for you.  It is 30% bigger in size.  It invokes protection, blessings and treasures from Buddha, Lord of Sun, Moon, North Dipper, South Dipper, Thunder, Grand Duke and two Celestial armies.  It may make the end of the world impossible (I guarantee it or your money back!)

Here are the four groups of people who need Grand Duke Talismans:

1. “Fu-yin” or same animal sign of Grand Duke– people with DRAGON sign (also “xing” or penalizing GD)
BIRTH YEARS: 1928, 1932, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000
SYMPTOMS: obstacles, stagnation or running “reverse” instead of forward
2. “Fan-yin” or “clashing” the animal sign of Grand Duke– people with DOG sign
BIRTH YEARS: 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006
SYMPTOMS: this is the worst case scenario– accident, sickness, surgery, losing competitions/wealth, moving, death, changing job
3. “Hai” or “harming” the animal sign of Grand Duke– people with RABBIT sign
BIRTH YEARS: 1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011
SYMPTOMS: minor obstacles
4. “Po” or “breaking” the animal sign of Grand Duke– people with OX sign
BIRTH YEARS: 1913, 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009
SYMPTOMS: minor obstacles and sickness
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FOR FENG SHUI REMEDY
If your house faces Chen mountain or SE direction, you need to put up a Grand Duke talisman facing that direction and avoid construction, earth-digging and demolition there.
.
If your desk or wherever you sit for an extended time faces SE direction, you can put up a Grand Duke talisman there for protection.  It is not auspicious to face the Grand Duke direction.  It weakens your competition power in business/career and examinations.
.
GRAND DUKE TALISMAN OFFERS
The offer is: your charity donation of US$30 or more to any legitimate local or international charity will get you a specially blessed Grand Duke talisman. Here are some examples of donations already done:
  • animal protection shelter
  • homeless shelter
  • Save-the-Children
  • children hospital
  • food shelves/soup kitchen
  • and more…..

If you are worried about privacy issues and future solicitations– please be assured that I will not email you in the future other than sending a note that your talisman is sent. You will send me no money. You send your money directly to your favorite local or international charity. You do not even need to pay me postage. You do NOT need to purchase any additional item from me or anyone else. No future solicitation of any type will be sent to you.  This offer is for people who have no access to Daoist temples.  Please support your local temple if you have access to one.

If you need more than one Grand Duke Talismans, here is the discount schedule:

–one talisman US$30 donation (US$5 if you are unemployed/under-employed)
–two talismans US$50 donation ($10 if unemployed /under-employed )
–three talismans US$60 donation ($15 if unemployed /under-employed )
(you may go to http://www.xe.com to calculate the equivalent of US$30 to your local currency)
.
Talisman that is grounded with a charity event works more effectively because it has an exchange of one type of energy to protection energy.
.
All talismans sent are individually purified, bless and stamped with the seal of a major deity.  The ritual itself normally has a suggested donation of US$50- 100.
To claim your talismans and application instructions, please forward your donation receipt with the talisman recipient names and address to: kenlai88@yahoo.com
.
All talisman claims will be sent by First Class mail in USA and air-mail outside USA.
.
Happy Holidays!
.
Ken Lai
email: kenlai88@yahoo.com