壬寅 Ren Yin 2022, a year of hope?

壬寅 Ren Yin 2022, a year of hope? 

Time passed so fast and soon we are saying goodbye to 2021 and moving into 2022. 

I remember the moment in 2019 when I was showering and thinking about 庚子 (Yang Metal/Yang Water Rat) in 2020 and I felt the fear and anxiety that something bad was going to happen. A lot of information was flowing through my brain, and I was trying to make sense of it but it’s difficult to pinpoint a particular incident for sure. 

Chinese metaphysic is such that you can only make inference to the 5 elements, Yin and Yang and they cover everything in this world, including our body parts. 

So if you go back to my blog in 2019, I wrote that 庚 is like a White Tiger and it symbolizes danger, injury, misfortune, accidents. At the same time, in health it also represents a “lump”, a blockage like cyst, tumor, cancer and relating to our lungs/respiration system.

子 represents cold, winter, water, dark and fluid. So with the combination of 庚子, an unexpected coronavirus swept through globally affecting our health in great damage. People were dying due to this virus that attacks our respiration system. 

2021 was the year of 辛丑 (Yin Metal, Yin Earth Ox).

Everyone was hoping that things would get better. Vaccines would be developed, and we could move on and get back our lives. However, I didn’t think so when I wrote my prediction in 2020. You could refer to my writing again. (That’s why I enjoyed keeping records in my blog so everyone can refer and see how accurate I was when I wrote my prediction). 

I said that 辛丑 is like a tube/needle (yin metal) above the bottle (yin earth ox). It represents the vaccines that the world was trying very much to create, procure and getting everyone to be vaccinated. But also, that the negative Qi was leaked out and the virus would continue to exist.

And so, we continue to live through 2021 with many people still dying and a devastating Delta variant that evolved and “escaped” into the world continuing impacting everyone’s health and livelihood. Every country was closing off their boundaries, stopping entry of foreign visitors as we continue to go for our third dose of vaccination to block this virus. 

As we come to the end of 2021, everyone including the “Masters” are hoping and writing that 2022 would be a good year. Maybe I’m a pessimistic person. I would say it’s a mix of something good and maybe something bad. 

2022 is the year of 壬寅 (Yang Water heavenly stem on top, and Yang Wood Tiger below). A lot of Masters would say this is a good year as both elements are at their right location. With Yang Water on top as water supposed to fall down and Yang Wood below as wood supposed to grow up. So it is a good combination If we convert 壬 to 坎, 寅 to 震, we have 水雷屯卦, Water Thunder (Tun) Hexagram.

屯(Tun) represents coming out of difficulties. And it represents Spring when plants start growing out of the cold winter soil. 

So generally, the good sign is that we are moving out of our difficult times. The dark days were over, but it doesn’t mean there’s no difficulties or challenges. There still are, but not as bad as compared to the last two years. 

Having the elements are their right locations, means that people/government/health care bodies are getting used to what had happened before. They have better knowledge now and better systems to know how to move on. The last two years caught everyone by surprised, but this year they would be better prepared. 

But that does not mean that everything would be back to pre-covid19 days. As I was telling my friends. When 2020 COVID19 happened, I was looking at the annual chart and was hoping that I could see fire elements. But fire elements would not appear until 2025 乙巳 Yin wood, Yin Fire Snake. I would think only when fire snake appears, then things would get better, and we could be more comfortable and enjoy our life. 

And if you realized, we are going through the phase of 3 tigers. 2020 – 庚 White Tiger, 2021 – 辛 – Small White Tiger, 壬寅 – Black Tiger.

It’s quite a rare chance that we would have 3 tigers in a row and they happen to be in Winter water years. So that exemplify their negative strengths. So that goes to show how devastating they were. Black Tiger although not as ferocious as the White ones, nonetheless still a Tiger, which means it is hurtful and can be damaging. If we look at the hexagram of 坎震 again in details, 坎 signifies obstacles, challenges and difficulties, potholes, sunken, depressed. In tradition Chinese homes, it represents the pop-up slab of wood or stone at the base of an entrance door, which we call 门坎.

Supposing, one has to move your feet over the 门坎 to signify crossing over obstacle and it will be good luck. You do not step onto the 门坎 as it will be bad luck. 

震 represents Thunder. It signifies great movement, shock, shifting。 

In Sun Zi’s Art of War, he described how an army troupe should behaved. 

《孙子·军争》：“故其疾如风，其徐如林，侵掠如火，不动如山，难知如阴，动如雷震。”

“Move swift as the wind and closely-formed as the wood. Attack like the fire and be still as the mountain.” 

But some didn’t know that they missed out on the last two sentences, 难知如阴，动如雷震. Literally means “be mysterious like the shadow and move like the thunder”. 

So it means 2022 may not be a bed of roses. There are still obstacles and there is a possibility of great movement/changes.

And since it’s 壬震 (Yang Water/Yang Wood (movement) means there is a possibility of earthquake, tsunami, heavy typhoon. 

Great water movement above and great earth movement below. 

If we look at 2022 flying star chart. It is the original natal chart where Yellow 5 is in the middle. When the chart is the same, we call it Fu Yin 伏吟 literally hidden cry. 

The Tai Sui is in North East (艮) Mountain and Sui Po is in South West Earth. Both are related to earth, ground, mountain. Which also give us the hint that there could be misfortune relating to earth. San Sha (3 killings is in North) which also signify potential risk/danger due to water, north. E.g flooding, landslides, ships collision, water poisoning. It is difficult to pinpoint where the natural catastrophe will happen as the energy runs through from Northeast to Central to SouthWest. So it could be in China, Japan, Taiwan, Tibet, etc. It could also be in LA, KANSAS, New York.

In any case, let’s not worry too much about it as there’s no way we would know for sure whether it will happen or not. 

Then what will be the industries that will be doing well? I would think things relating to making changes, movement or encouraging people/companies to do overhaul. For example, education, schools. Consultants/consulting companies that starts to change people’s mindset/lives (e.g Meta, Elon Musk).

Transport and travel companies will start to pick up again. 

How to boost luck for yourself? 

I would say wear or carry some bright lively colour clothes, ornaments, accessories. Sometimes you don’t have to change your clothings to be like a walking red packet to be auspicious. In fact, too much of it is no good. A bright colour scarf, or brooch sometimes will be sufficient. 

How to Feng Shui your house? 

I would say there’s not many places/directions to tap on. If I had to recommend, would be to focus on your South area where the auspicious star 9 will be in 2022. You can brighten the place with flowers, grow plants, or even place a standing lamp there to boost your luck. But it may not work for all people. So, if you sense things are not going well. Do remove the lamp. I hope the above helps. 

Till the next time if I have inspirations to write again.