8 Dates you shouldn’t use for Feng Shui adjustments

Hey guys, welcome to the Learn Feng Shui podcast, where you'll learn Feng Shui from a classical point of view, taking out the myth and superstition. If you like weekly tips as well as fun, folklore, tales, you'll enjoy learning Feng Shui with me. Hey guys, today I'm going to talk a little bit about date selection and some things concerning timing for Feng Shui. Hey guys, a quick announcement. I'm so excited to announce what I've been working on all summer.

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I'll probably put a little teaser up here and definitely make that announcement when it is all ready to launch. I'm so excited, so be looking for that. Hey guys, so Day Selection is one of those things that I've, you know, I talk about it in the podcast. I really want to dedicate a whole episode to it. It's just it's just too much it's too much to talk about.

So Day Selection, basically, whenever I do a client's home for myself, personal activations, you know, very important activities, like renovation, bed positioning, they only need to be done in a really good day so you can be receiving a good energy. Usually a day that connects to you personally, you know, a day that has good stars, good energy and that's called Day Selection. And again, I really try to incorporate a whole episode about it, but it's really just too much. I mean, it's for me, when I learned it, it was like I think a three six, I think it was a 12 or 15 hour of learning. And so to pack that into, you know, a 30 minute episode, it's not going to work.

But what I do want to do is just kind of talk about some of the days you don't want to use. So there's a specific days between the seasons that the Chi isn't really a good, you know, it's not really good. It's not that's not good. It's that it's very low. It's like a low or depleted Chi.

So let's kind of look at what those days are and talk a little bit about what happens if you use those days for a Feng Shui. To kind of explain this a little bit better, I'm going to be referencing Joey Yapp's book on personal date selection. He has really amazing books. Seriously, if you want to learn anything about Feng Shui, he has a book on it. Highly, highly recommend.

And this probably is really the one of the easiest books to read about a selecting a date for yourself. It's actually a very good book. And it's actually pretty easy to understand, especially if you've already done some Feng Shui or you're a little bit familiar with some Feng Shui terms. Today, I wanted to talk about eight days during the year you should not use to do Feng Shui. So this is a date you're not going to want to do like Feng Shui activations, which include like placing out water, you know, those type of wealth activations.

You're not going to want to do bed placement. You're not going to want to like dig, do renovations and stuff like that. So this is just an easy guide. It's straight out the box. Eight days that you can avoid doing important activities on.

So I'll put up a link to this book, probably on the Amazon store. I'll actually probably put a link to the joe app bookstore on his website too, because sometimes they have really good deals going on. I think because of COVID, they've been limited in their shipping. But you know, it doesn't hurt to sign for this emails and get the details because I've had a hit up some really good sales on those at Joey Yappbooks. So this is eight days you're not going to want to use during the year.

So these are called four separating days. So what happens is the day before the equinoxes is a day you cannot use for Feng Shui activations. So the day before spring equinox, summer solstice, autumn equinox, and winter solstice you cannot use. So if you'll notice these are the days that the seasons change. So it you know, it switches over from summer to autumn, from autumn to winter and winter to spring.

And this is because the chi is like depleted. So I'm going to read here. It says, there are certain days in the Chinese solar calendar where the chi is still and dead. There are they are known as four separating days. The chi is depleted on these days and the stars lack vitality and the energies are like leftovers.

So using such days where the chi is depleted and relying on leftover energy means you're infusing your activity with at best very weak chi and at worst unstable chi. Using the four separating days results in important activities are endeavors lacking support or commencing on days that are not conductive to success. So again, these days are one day before the season's equinox. And these are all pretty clearly marked on the calendar. Even the western calendars show that.

And you already know like the first day of autumn is in September. So we got one coming up. First day of you know, that winter solstice is in you know, like December 20th, you know, it falls in pretty much the same day every year. And it's really a core response with the solar calendar, you know, the Chinese solar calendar. And so you don't even have to learn how to use the Chinese Almanac to find these days.

You just look at a western calendar and you can note that you know, these days are the solstices. So the day before you just want to avoid important activities and avoid your Feng Shui activations. So the four separating days falls on March 20th, June 20th, September 22nd, and December 21st. And again, this is pretty universal for these years. These days should not be used for important personal activities or endeavors.

There are some date selection specialists who use these days. Typically they're used for problems like marital separation, dealing with stalkers or dealing with people who are harassing you. Separating days are used to commence legal action. For example, if you're seeking your restraining order, you know, things like that says these separating days aren't bad. But it's also not good.

So it just says here, if you can choose a different date, you know, it's even better. But these types of activities that separating days are used for are not conventional activities. So they're not open to just freely use. And here it says, I generally do not advocate the use of four separating days for personal activities or endeavors. The next four days you want to avoid during the year, here again, reading from the book, it says, in Chinese metaphysical studies, Qi moves upward and downward cycles.

So accordingly, at certain days of the year, the Qi cycles an energy of the particular element are at their lowest and weakest point. And these days coincide with the ending or last day of each quote unquote season. So the four extinct days fall on February 3rd May 5th August 8th and November 7th. And these are days, this one would be days that you really have to look at that Tang Xiu Chinese Almanac. But these really marked that midway point in the summer.

So the coming of equinox, coming of solstice, coming of spring, they really are going to be days, it's almost like a mid summer or like that first day of harvest, I believe, the coming of autumn, we just had. And so the coming of autumn started at the beginning of the month. I talk about the energy cycles that kind of govern the month and the coming of autumn was in August. And so it's always like that midway point or like that first, for us, like the first harvest. And this really does, it doesn't really matter this season.

So if you do live in the southern hemisphere, like in Australia and you guys are fixing to go into summer, right? Excuse me, that means that these days still correspond. So it doesn't really matter the, that's why I said quote unquote season earlier. You're still going to take these days, whether you live in the northern or southern hemisphere as the, you know, the four separation of four extinct days. So don't worry about whether it's like, you know, the technicalities of whether it's summer or winter.

These dates pretty much remain the same. So you're not going to change it based on your, you know, which hemisphere you live in. So these four extinct days are called extinct days because on these days, the cheese very weak. So it says here, for example, on the last day of winter, the energies of the water element are at their weakest and winter is the season of water. So now extinct means to come to an end.

So accordingly, any activity that you undertake in a four extinct days, it says here, Joey Yaps has himself will be doomed from the start and I can only one way, which is down. That sounds pretty grim. I sounds worse than the the four separating days. The four extinct days are not good days to use for any activity that involves growth or advancement like marriage, important business transactions. So it says here, if you can marry on a four extinct day, you will not be blessed with offspring is if you sign a contract that it'll be stagnant.

And so, you know, mark these four days on your calendar and it says reference them so you'll know not to use these days. And I'll try to remember to note that in my monthly, you know, my monthly energy report that when I do at the beginning of the month, I'll try to remember to address those days and warn you when they're coming because again, those are ones that are kind of those midway season points. And to me, I feel like this is a little bit more negative connotation than the separating days where the cheese is weak. But this is like the almost like it's devoid of cheese. So again, just avoid these eight days.

This is just your quick guide to doing Feng Shui with date selection is to avoid these eight dates throughout the year. Hey guys, for this folklore Friday, I'm going to be reading a tale called Ho-Hee and the Ten Suns. And this comes from the Joeyya book on Chimen Duinja called The Stins. It must be in a little bit of a Joeyya pig this week. I was digging through my books and thought this would be a good tale to tell.

During the Shang-Juan dynasty, people believed that there were once ten suns with each appearing on different days of the week as a ten-day cycle. These suns were the offspring of the D. June, the god of eastern heaven. Each day they would travel with their mother that goddess Shi-Hee to the valley of light in the east. There Shi-Hee washed her children in the lake and put them on the branches of the enormous mulberry tree called the Fusang to dry.

They were lifted by a passing dragon to ride across the sky to mount Zensu in the far west on their journey. They created sunlight. Eventually the suns grew tired of their ten-day routine and it was decided that all of them would rise up in rebellion at the same time. The heat on the earth became intense as a result the crops shriveled and died in their fields. Lakes and ponds dried up, humans and animals took shelter or died from heat exhaustion.

Time passed and the suffering continued in the Embryo, decided to plead for divine intervention and ask D. June for assistance. D. June as his son to stop but the tinstems were enjoying themselves too much to listen. They laughed and carried on riding around the sky.

D. June sent for Huyi, the god of archery, to send his teacher Sunsoulesan. D. June then asked Huyi to frighten his children into returning to their normal routine. Huyi too wanted to end this crisis peacefully but after he saw the squirt land and corpses of dan animals he knew that desperate measures were warranted and he began to shoot down the ten suns one by one.

After Huyi shot down the ninth sun in Embryo intervened and he asked Huyi to stop killing the final sun because he didn't want to leave the world in total darkness. So Huyi agreed and was hailed as the hero of mankind. The remaining sun now scared into submission did his duty and behaved well, always rising and setting on time. The earth returned to normal and the perfect environment for life to flourish forevermore. According to Chinese folklore mythology the names of the tin suns correspond with the names of the tin heavenly stems which are the five elements in Yen and Yang polarity.

So it says it's possible that the story of the suns may well have this been the origin of the heavenly stems that we recognize now and that the sun remains in the sky and corresponds to the element called ja which is yang wood. So the heavenly stems go in this order ja ye bing ding woo ji geng sun rin kue so that roughly translates to Yang wood, Yin wood, Yang fire, Yin fire, Yang earth, Yin earth, Yang metal, Yin metal and Yang water and Yin water. One of the more interesting things that it also mentions here in this book is that these tin heavenly stems share their names with tin embers during what is called the shang dynasty or I guess sometimes it's called the Yin dynasty. It's what it says on wikipedia we know that's very reliable right. But it does say that a lot of the embers and noble people back in the day a lot of times they would put you know one of the names that the heavenly stems in with their names.

So it gives the example here of a a emperor called tiang ye and so it says here tiang was a Chinese character for heaven and ye is the second of the heavenly stems remember ja and ye right, ye is the Yin wood. So I just thought that was pretty interesting. It does also state that the titles were given after the person passed and so I think it was like a tighter title of honor and it does say though sometimes that the emperors you know didn't get a name that really matched their rule and so it could be you know like a nice name but it didn't necessarily match their you know their their political leanings and their their attitudes and stuff so and it does say that this naming convention actually ended after the fall of the shang dynasty and it's not seen in subsequent dynasties and I thought that was pretty interesting too. Again this book is actually part of the system or like the collection of the qimen dune jaw books. So qimen dune jaw is just a system of what Joey App calls forecasting or divination.

It's one of the more difficult ones and so I have a lot of the books on the system because I you know when I first start learning I had to go all in right but this one the the ones that stand alone call the stems, the stars, the doors, the gods those are very very good books for some you know stand alone reading. I highly recommend the stems book because it talks a lot about the attributes of the elements and the Yin and Yang polarity of the elements so even if you do not do qimen dune jaw these stems are still part of the system of Chinese metaphysics and understanding their attributes will actually help you understand your Feng shui a little bit better and even your your botzi if you you know do you know you know that you have an element also associated with your animal sign you know just understanding the characteristics of those elements will actually help you quite a bit it's actually interesting and he does it in a really fun way in this book where he kind of compares it to game of thrones and the kingdom so it's it's actually really a fun interesting read which I'll include a link to of course below to support the podcast be sure to subscribe we review and share with your family and friends who you think may be interested especially if you found this content useful to learn more about Feng shui and Chinese metaphysics follow the link to the website below