Been a long time since I last posted and it’s really not for a lack of topics to post on but just finding time to craft a good and interesting post is a challenge. Anyway, today’s post is an attempt to try to put things into a different perspective, specifically with regards the element of 庚and the subject matter of whether or not a person can be TRAINED.
Now, training a person does not necessarily mean training a person in a specific way. All aspects of the individual strictly speaking, could be trained – the physical, the emotional, the mental, the behavioural.
To me, whether or not a person has the capacity to be trained to do something (be it to improve their self-discipline or just overall improve themselves), depends entirely on whether or not they have the element of Geng in their chart. Geng of all the 10 Stems, is the only Stem that actually must be trained in order to be effective. Train in this context, is the practical reference for the concept of ‘forging the Metal’ that is often talked about when referencing Geng Metal.
If you have no Geng Metal in your chart, then you are not someone who responds to training (meaning, doing something repeatedly, or enduring through a lot of obstacles, or just through sheer 10,000 hours of effort ala Outliers). You’re pretty much untrainable. So change or improvement or advancement for you has to be attained through perhaps other means.
If you have Geng Metal in your chart, then depending on what that Element represents to your Day Master in the 10 Gods, THAT ASPECT of your life, is trainable. For example if Geng Metal is your Rob Wealth Star, then your skills at working with people, cooperating, collaborating, speaking, persuading, can be TRAINED. With practice, these skills will become better and better. With repeated use, these skills will gradually but certainly improve. Through several tough experiences related to these areas, your skills in dealing with people, collaborating, and networking, will improve.
If on the other hand, Geng Metal is your Resource Star, then it means that basically, you can train yourself to be mentally strong. It may also indicate that learning how to relax, or chill out, or let go, or just feel comfortable, is not something that is inherent in you, but needs to be sort of ingrained into you. It very specifically indicates that your academic ability is not nature, but is something that you attained through sheer bloody hard work and repetitive efforts. It means studying is only effective probably through route learning or through just putting in a thousand hours. You have the ability to be a good student, but only if you endure. And suffer. And slog.
So today’s BaZi question for you is: are you UNTRAINABLE?