A Celebrity Introduction to the Chinese

Destiny Stars Astrology

by Ting-Foon Chik

2015

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What is Chinese Destiny Stars Astrology?

At Chinese New Year you hear about the animal sign that is

going to rule the year ahead. Babies born in that year are said to

be born under that animal sign. Personality and luck are

influenced by the energies of the year animal sign.

There are a total of twelve

different animal signs. Year

Animal Astrology is a simple

form of Chinese Astrology

based on a cycle of twelve

years.

The same cycle of twelve

animals also rule months, days

and double hours (the twenty

four hours in the day are

divided into units of two hours).

The twelve animals are

pseudonyms for the twelve

earthly branches, and time is measured with the twelve earthly

branches together with the ten heavenly stems.

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There is far more to Chinese

Astrology than your year

animal sign. The heavenly

stems and earthly branches

form a cycle of sixty pillars. A

pillar is a unit of time written

vertically, with the name of the

heavenly stem above the

name of the earthly branch.

When a baby is born you can write out the date and time of birth

as four pillars: a year pillar, month pillar, day pillar and hour pillar.

These four pillars become part of a chart for the method of

Chinese Astrology known as the Four Pillars of Destiny. The

Four Pillars gives you a far more personalized picture of your

innate characteristics and luck than your animal sign. An

experienced astrologer can analyze and interpret the Four Pillars

chart to give a life reading. Learning the art of life readings using

the Four Pillars is complex, and it can take years of practice to

become highly competent.

There is the simple Year Animal Astrology and there is the rather

more sophisticated Four Pillars of Destiny. The question

remains, what is Chinese Destiny Stars Astrology?

Chinese Destiny Stars Astrology is another name for the Master

Ghost Valley system of life reading. We have translated the

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ancient Chinese poetry classic known as "Ghost Valley Art of Life

Reading" (鬼谷子算命術 Gui Gu Zi Suan Ming Shu) into English

and packaged it into a brand new app launching soon.

With Chinese Destiny Stars Astrology

(“Destiny Stars”) you do not need to study a

Four Pillars chart in detail in order to obtain

a life reading. You still plot the Four Pillars,

and you can use our free Four Pillars

Calculator included in the app to do that

quickly and accurately. Our Four Pillars

Calculator is a little different from the other

Four Pillars calculators in that it is

programmed with the Master Ghost Valley

system. This means as well as working out a Four Pillars chart

and accompanying luck pillars, the Four Pillars calculator also

finds your Destiny Numeral and Stars.

In Year Animal Astrology your luck is influenced by one animal

sign. You could say it is quite general as it predicts that everyone

born in the same year will have the same luck at the same time.

In the Four Pillars Astrology you get a far more personalized

reading because the influences of the year, month, day and hour

are studied, but you need to know how to interpret a Four Pillars

chart, or consult an astrologer to read your chart.

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The life readings in Chinese Destiny Stars Astrology are ‘done

for you’ readings. There is no need to analyze all the intricacies

of the Four Pillars, yet you get a more individual reading than you

would from one of the twelve animal signs.

With Chinese Destiny Stars

Astrology you have a poetic life

reading from:

A Year Star (free in the app)

A Numeral (in-app purchase)

An Hour Star (included in the in-

app purchase for the Numeral)

Not only were you born under the

auspices of a year animal sign, you have two stars shining on

your life and a Numeral predicting your fate and fortune.

You can get your brief Year Star reading for free in the app.

If you want to know more about what Master Ghost Valley says

about your luck you can purchase the full life readings from within

the app.

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You can even input birth information of famous people to see

what sort of luck your favorite celebrities will be facing.

In this little ebook, we are going to take a quick look at the year

stars for some celebrities.

You can find your own year star for free when you download the

Chinese Destiny Stars Astrology App onto your smartphone,

ipad or tablet. To make sure you get the app as soon as it is

available, we invite you to put your name on the guest list to get

notified of the launch:

https://learnfengshui.leadpages.net/destinystarsapp/

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Prince William (June 21, 1982) was born in the year of the

Water Dog. What is more

interesting is that his year

star is the Heavenly

Chronology Star.

The Heavenly Chronology

Star has a metaphor for

Prince William’s life:

“Phoenix going out to meet

companion”. What does

that mean? An explanation is

included under the metaphor

carried by each of the year stars in the Master Ghost Valley

system. The meaning of “Phoenix going out to meet companion”

is that the person’s career depends on the help from the spouse.

Do you think that is a fitting description of Prince William’s luck?

That’s just from the year star. There is more from his Destiny

Numeral and hour star. 1

1 Photo attribution: by anonlinegreenworld [CC BY-SA 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)],

via Wikimedia Commons

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Mark Zuckerberg

(May 14, 1984) was

born under the

auspices of Chinese

year animal sign of

the Water Rat.

The Heavenly Noble

Star was shining on

all the babies born in

the Water Rat Year.

What sort of luck

does the Heavenly

Noble Star bring?

The answer is “Fast

wind, fast rain”,

which is a metaphor for being lucky and having helpful

benefactors.

The year star is only one part of the Master Ghost Valley system.

Are you curious about what else the Destiny Numeral and hour

star might reveal for Mark2?

2 Photo attribution: by Elaine Chan and Priscilla Chan [CC BY 2.5

(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons

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Those were two lucky young men. What about the ladies?

Taylor Swift

(December 13, 1989)

was born in a year

which was ruled by

the Heavenly Gloomy

Star.

Is this a fortunate star

to be born under? The

name does not sound

too promising, but this

star tells those who

born in 1989 to

“Cherish your great

talents regardless of

what goes on in the world”. Is that a message for Taylor?

There are more messages from the Destiny Numeral and hour

star for Taylor3 and for everyone who wants to consult the Master

Ghost Valley system.

3 Photo attribution: by Paolo Villanueva Uploaded by MyCanon (Taylor Swift) [CC BY 2.0

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A lot of the stars have star names beginning with Heavenly, but

stars in the Destiny Stars are not actual stars in the sky. It is still

a bit of a mystery as to how Master Ghost Valley came up with

the star names and with his system of astrology which has a set

of ‘done for you’ life readings.

To prove our point that not

all the star names begin

with the word Heavenly,

there is the Purple Qi

Star. Who has the luck of

the Purple Qi Star?

Anyone born in the

Chinese solar year of

1986 (February 4th 1986-

February 3rd 1987) will be

under the influence of the

Purple Qi Star and that

includes Lady Gaga4

(March 28, 1986).

“Toasting the Moon” is

the metaphor of the

Purple Qi Star. What does

this metaphor mean? It

means that in your prime years you have everything you want

and in retirement you can enjoy doing nothing. Sounds like the

Purple Qi star can bring a lot of luck. In the full life readings,

which are found under the Destiny Numerals, a person’s luck is

described in a set of luck verses which talk about career,

marriage and children as well as retirement and later years.

4 Photo attribution: (http://www.flickr.com/photos/luigioss/5829582089/) [CC BY-SA 2.0

(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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The celebrities we have looked at so far were all born in the

1980’s, what about those celebrities who have been famous for

a long time?

Prince Charles5 (November 14, 1948) has

the Heavenly Noble Star shining on his life.

Haven’t we already had the Heavenly

Noble Star? Mark Zuckerberg born in 1984

has the Heavenly Noble Star, but this

Heavenly Noble Star has the same name,

but a different reading. The Heavenly

Noble Star for those born in 1948 carries

the metaphor “Cool breeze under the

moon”, which sounds rather agreeable and

means that the person has a comfortable lifestyle and can go

through life without any worries. One of the fascinating things

about the Destiny Stars is that the same star name can give

different readings for different birth years. Why is that? If we had

a time machine and could travel back to around over two

thousand years to the period, 475BC to 221BC, we might see if

we can visit the place in China known as Ghost Valley to find the

sage who was known as Master Ghost Valley and ask him.

It is a bit of a mystery as to why the Heavenly Noble Star as a

year star for 1948 has a different metaphor to the Heavenly

Noble Star for 1984. Maybe you can spot a pattern if you were

to look at all the Destiny Stars and Destiny Numerals?

5 By Reza Akram of British Council Sri Lanka (Source) [CC BY 2.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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Oprah Winfrey (January 29, 1954) was born in a Water Snake

year. The Chinese solar year starts on or around February 4th

each year, but the celebrations for Chinese New Year take place

at the start of the lunar year.

Oprah was born under the Heavenly

Responsive Star. What does that star

say about Oprah’s life? The year star for

Oprah says “You stand up and show

your ability and everybody will

listen”. That just about sums it up.

Wonder how the Destiny Numeral and

hour star will fill in some more details?

You will need to find the Destiny Numeral

for Oprah6 then read the luck verses to

find out.

You don’t have to think about how to

work out the Destiny Numerals. The free

Four Pillars Calculator in the app will

work it out for you when you input a date and

time of birth.

To make sure you get the app as soon as it is available, we invite you to put your name on the guest list to get notified of the launch: https://learnfengshui.leadpages.net/destinystarsapp/

6 Photo attribution: by vargas2040, Cropped by OsamaK [CC BY-SA 2.0

(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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About the Author

Ting-Foon Chik, known as Foon, has

been helping people improve their luck

with feng shui and Chinese astrology

for over twelve years, professionally.

As an official lecturer of the Feng Shui

Research Center, Foon teaches

classical feng shui and four pillars of

destiny (Chinese astrology) in live classes and webinars. The

two year feng shui training programme taught by Foon has

accreditation from the UK Feng Shui Society. To find out more

about how you can learn feng shui visit

www.learnchinesefengshui.com.

Foon and her teacher, Master Joseph

Yu, worked together to translate, into

English, the ancient Chinese poetry

classic known as "Ghost Valley Art of

Life Reading" (鬼谷子算命術, Gui Gu

Zi Suan Ming Shu). We called this

system of ‘Done for You’ life readings

Chinese Destiny Stars Astrology and we are delighted to bring

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it to a new audience in the modern age in the form of an app for

smartphones, ipads and tablets. To join in the excitement of the

launch of the first app by the Feng Shui Research Center sign

up on our guest list to get notification

https://learnfengshui.leadpages.net/destinystarsapp/

Since 2011, Foon has been writing a daily Chinese astrology

column for www.gbtimes.com. You can read your Chinese

horoscopes on www.daily-chinese-astrology.com.

You can find Foon online:

www.fengshuibritain.co.uk

www.facebook.com/learnchinesefengshui

https://twitter.com/AstrologerFoon