The WordPress Dashboard has a very fun useful little feature – amongst the stats, it shows me what people were searching for, when they arrived at this blog. Here are the searches done for July 10 2008:
Interestingly, there are two questions that relate to Peach Blossom. AGAIN.
And today, in a ‘Power of BaZi’ session, where I was introducing the subject of BaZi, once again, Peach Blossom cropped up. So I figure, hint from the universe. Time to talk Peach Blossom again. I say again because this subject actually seems to endlessly fascinate people (despite the fact that in the grand scale of all things BaZi, it really isn’t THAT big a deal). See my previous blog entry on the subject here.
Observations on Peach Blossom Stars
One: women get worked up over Peach Blossom Stars in their spouse or boyfriend’s chart.
Two: women never ask if THEY have a Peach Blossom Star, nor do they seem particularly concerned that they have a Peach Blossom star in their own chart.
Three: men don’t seem to be interested in Peach Blossom Stars, nor do they inquire about such stars in their wife’s chart.
Somewhere out there, some old wives tale has perpetuated about Peach Blossom Stars and that Peach Blossom Stars = Infidelity. Funny now the old wives tale only relates to infidelity and MEN, not infidelity and women. After all, what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander right? So if a man has Peach Blossom Stars, and the conclusion is he will cheat, the same can be applied to a woman who has Peach Blossom Stars as well surely?
Ladies, GET OVER it with the Peach Blossom.
Cheating is not the exclusive purview of the Peach Blossom Star although it is something to consider.
For that matter, if he didn’t have a Peach Blossom Star, YOU wouldn’t have given him a second look in the first place.
“What is Peach Blossom” and “Peach + Blossom”
Obviously, the second search is just an attempt to see what happens when the equation is put in that way, as perhaps the searching party wasn’t sure if there was such a word in the English vocabulary. For those who are curious, the Chinese name is ‘tou fa’ (Cantonese) or ‘Tou Hua’ (mandarin). The BaZi language speaking will abbreviate it to ‘PB’.
The question “What is Peach Blossom” is simple enough to answer. In BaZi, it is a type of Star and is derived from the Shen Sha method of interpreting BaZi. It is not part of the more modern ‘Zi Ping’ method. Peach Blossom is a star of attraction and likability. It makes people likable, pleasant, nice to be with, amiable, and sometimes, attractive. It does indicate sex appeal sometimes (although that in my view is more likely to be caused by a Seven Killings star) but it also depends on what Ten Gods component the Peach Blossom star is. That’s kicking the answer to the question up a notch.
Peach Blossom is not an infidelity star, or a firm indication that a person will cheat, or have many girlfriends (although if one is attractive, it surely is necessarily likely that one will also have many admirers/torchbearers no?).