…ah, I am feeling a bit impish today.

My mantra to students who learn BaZi is always to BE A BUSYBODY.

You can’t succeed in BaZi without being a busybody. It’s an intellectual interest, and that by necessity requires a certain measure of curiosity. Which is often the reason why people are busybodies. They’re curious first and foremost. Knowledge-centrics. Busybodies by any other name.

The next key to success in mastering BaZi is OBSESSION. I prefer that term to that NLP-Anthony Robbins-esque phrase IMMERSION because well, as much as immersion is the better word, somehow obsession conveys the madness a little better.

You gotta eat, dream, sleep, think Coca-Cola. Sorry, I mean BaZi.

An example of BaZi Obsession. I was in the car and heard Alanis Morisette’s hit song ‘Ironic’. The first line of the song is:

An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day

Immediately, I thought – oh, that’s a BaZi concept. (my Twitter feed has the answer as to how to define the above in BaZi contexts).

Similarly, how would one define “Knight in Shining Armour Rescues Damsel in Distress’ in a BaZi context?

Hear BaZi. Speak BaZi.See BaZi. That’s the key, folks. Have fun…