How to Choose Your Ideal Career Using Bazi Part 2: The Traditional School

The modern school of bazi offers a quick and easy way of identifying your ideal career. It reflects a fast-paced world, which emphasizes making full use of your strengths in an environment that offers both competition and career mobility.

That’s not how the traditional school operates.

In this post, we will explore how the traditional school of bazi provides career advice, and contrast it with the modern school.

In career readings, the critical difference between the modern school and the traditional school of bazi is the pillar of interest. The modern school looks at the month pillar. The traditional school focuses on the hour pillar.

Consider this chart:

The chart holder has Xin-Hai in his hour pillar. Xin is the Direct Resource of Ren, which indicates knowledge and intelligence. Hai carries both Ren and Jia, which are the Friend and Eating God stars. This indicates a powerful combination of creativity, partnerships and mass appeal.

What does this imply? This is someone who uses his knowledge to create a product or service. He partners with others to bring that creation to the market. To generate huge amounts of wealth, that creation should be widely used by the market, ensuring total dominance. And, indeed, that is exactly what happened.

This person is Bill Gates.

Bill Gates and childhood friend Paul Allen sought to establish a business using their knowledge of computer programming. Their first product was a computer to track and analyse automobile traffic data. Next they created a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800. In 1975, they founded Microsoft. Microsoft would go on to dominate the personal computer market with its signature product, the Windows operating system.

What would the modern school recommend?

The heavenly stem in the month pillar is indirect wealth. This implies profits through taking risks, seizing opportunities, and major sales. This is excellent for an investor or an entrepreneur in a high-risk industry. The hidden stems of the month pillar suggest three elements for wealth: fire, earth and metal.

The modern school would suggest real estate investment as a means of earning huge amounts of money, as real estate is linked to earth and earth is the main qi of the hidden stems in the month pillar. Gates instead went into technology, which is associated with fire. Fire, being the sub-qi of the month pillar, apparently doesn’t offer as much profit as earth, but with his background in computer programming, it was easier for Gates to enter.

Indirect wealth indicates high risk appetite, the ability to detect value, and opportunistic method of making money. It also suggests wealth through windfalls and investments. One could argue that that massive sales of innovative and disruptive products over a short time, such as specialised computers and the Windows OS, counts as a windfall. On the back of Windows, Gates went on to become one of the richest men in the world.

Now consider that Bill Gates has bought so much farmland, he is now the largest private farmer in the United States. Maybe he received advice from a bazi master?

Notice the difference between the traditional school and the modern school. In the traditional school, you look at the qualities expressed by the elements in the hour pillar, and piece them together to create a strategy that generates wealth. The modern school simply looks at the month pillar and recommends jobs and industries.

Both approaches have their pros and cons. The modern school is quick and easy. However, the advice it gives may fall apart in special cases, and it doesn’t necessarily provide a comprehensive strategy.

The traditional school may give you a roadmap to wealth, but it doesn’t tell you which industries or careers you should pursue. You’ll be expected to figure it out by yourself, or to apply that strategy to whatever field you feel naturally drawn to. This can be challenging if you have no idea what you should do in the first place and need help figuring it out.

Bazi was created in ancient China, a culture with low social and career mobility. Whatever job you landed was likely the job you worked at for life. A farmer will remain a farmer. An artisan will remain an artisan. Only the elite and educated few have options. A scholar can become a government official, or work as a tutor, an artist, a poet, and so on. In this context, the question isn’t so much what job you should pursue as how to make the most of your current circumstances.

The modern world offers greater mobility compared to the past. You have the ability to choose what kind of jobs to pursue. A peasant with no education, connections or capital can’t. With the freedom to choose a career, it only makes sense to identify and select the optimal jobs and industries for you.

With this in mind, which school should you use?

That depends on where you are and what you want. If you’re new to the working world, or if you have no idea what you should do, your first priority is to gain experience and income. The modern school gives you pointers to get started. Once you have some work experience and skills, you have a better idea of what to do with your life. You can fine-tune your career in accordance with your goals. In contrast, if you already know what you want to do with your life, or if you’re already in a satisfactory career but want to optimize it, the traditional school gives you a plan to realise your full potential.

Regardless of the school you follow, it’s always wise to read the chart in its entirety. By studying the interactions within the chart, you can build a holistic picture of the chart holder’s destiny. It’s the difference between telling someone he can be the next Bill Gates, or merely be an excellent software developer.

Bill Gates has Ren in his day pillar and Bing in his month pillar. This combination of yang water and yang fire promises huge amounts of wealth. Someone who does not have this combo, but otherwise has the other elements described above, would have to settle for being a software developer. It’s not a bad career, but he won’t come anywhere close to seeing Gates’ level of wealth.

Going strictly by the modern or the traditional school, you won’t be able to see this. You need to read the chart was a whole. In the end, the modern / traditional school of bazi are simply guidelines. They can help with interpretation, but they are no substitute for a holistic reading.

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