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Episode · 2022

Date selection- The "Breakers" & Best Activities For Each Zodiac Sign

Date selection is one of the best ways to make your Feng Shui most effective. Knowing some general rules for dates don't want to use is a good way to help you get started. While theres many aspects & techniques to date selection learning about the "breakers" will help you automatically cross out the days that shouldn't be used, these are known as the Year, Month & Day Breaker.

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In the second segment I go over the zodiac days for a fun little bit about specific activities you should or should do according to the zodiac sign governing the day,

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Hey guys welcome to Learn Feng Shui 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 funu with me hey guys let's take a little bit further look into the topic of date selection so I've mentioned before that one of the best things you can do is to include date and time selection when you are applying funu so this actually goes for if you're adjusting your bed if you're doing funct way wealth activations or doing major things like construction and you know digging and stuff like that these all require special dates that way you don't trigger a bad energy when you use date selection it actually triggers a really auspicious energy and it could be really good and lucky for your home it can actually also do things like activate a wealth opportunities so what is some of the basics when we're looking at date selection so date selection is based on some of these shifting energies that we experience these can shift through every year they can shift every month they even shift every day and every couple of hours so looking at what is called the 60 animal signs we're actually able to to look at and calculate through this Chinese metaphysics calendar system and predict where these energies are going to fall and this is what we look at when we look at what are called The Breakers so it's going to be the year breaker the day breaker and the month breaker so looking at the book called The Art of date selection personal date selection by Joey Yap I want to read a little excerpt we're going to start with something called the year Breakers so in every year there is a governing Grand Duke it is the controlling or governing energy force of the year so it's it is in relation to a star and sometimes it is called the Grand Duke Jupiter although it is not actually in relation to the planet Jupiter it's not where the planet Jupiter is rather than a star and so when we look at the stars and astrological bodies that are governing we don't want to oppose them so for this year we call that Grand Duke or we call the governing energy the tiger we call it the water tiger because that's what energy that we're coming up with for the year of 2022 so when we look at what is called the year Breakers we want to avoid the days that oppose this tiger energy so if we know our Chinese zodiac we we know that the animal sign of monkey actually opposes the tiger so we know anyone that has a monkey in their natal chart will have what is called a clash this year so it's literally The Clash animal for the entire year so you do not want to practice fun or do major Renovations on monkey days so automatically this year monkey days out so it's the animal sign that clashes the taoy or Grand Duke the year breaker day is the day that goes against the energies of the year and it's the first kind of generally bad day we want to avoid it is generally not beneficial to engage in important activities on a year breaker day because it indicates you're commencing your activity or venture to oppose the year so in addition to that year breaker day that we're just kind of as a general rule we don't really use for the year there is now narrowing it down each month something called a month breaker and it is the day where the energies of the day are in conflict with or in opposition with the energies of the month the month breaker has aamp Amplified effect and is therefore considered to be more dangerous to use then a year breaker day and when asked why here in the book it states that the answer is proximity the month Chi is closer to the day then the year is closer to the day so just kind of breaking that down you you know if you think of the energy over a year you know one of those days in in effect maybe might not have so much of an impact but when you're looking at a month you know one day within the month can have a bigger impact and just to kind of elaborate a little bit more he does use the analogy of the governor of a state versus a prime minister or the president of a country it said a person would be more fearful of a governor of a state because the governor can take immediate action with them compared to the prime minister of the country who is far away you know at their own in their own place right so it's just a little bit less proximity to the year than it is to use that month breaker day so again this is the day that clashes or is an opposition to the month so here in April we are in a dragon month so this month the daybreaker days fall on the dog day narrowing it down even further to get the best date selection we can use we can look at each day now so the day breaker is a term used for the hour that clashes with the day so during this particular hour the chi is lost and it is most inauspicious even if it is a good day so it says here that as a general rule of date selection we do not like to use the hour that clashes with the day this may end up negating any positive energy especially if it was an auspicious day finding the daybreaker may seem a little bit overwhelming or may you know you're like man this is a lot of information to carry but as a general rule of thumb any software any Tong shoe or online will tell you that uh you know that certain hour is the day breaker month breaker or year breaker um especially I use one called Chinese metasoft and it's they have a free version so honestly every day you could go look and um as a general rule of thumb remember the hours they they pretty much go in a clock form they're pretty static even though um some of the information will be different on them but each day the hours from 11:00 p.m. to 1 a.m. govern the is governed by the rat the ox governs the hours from 1: to 3 the tiger governs hours from 3 to 5 5 to 7 is governed by the rabbit 7 to9 is governed by the dragon 9 to 11 is governed by the snake 11 to 1 p.m. is governed by the horse 1: p.m. to 3 p.m.

is governed by the goat 3 to 5 the monkey 5 to 7 the rooster 7 to9 is the dog and 9 to1 is the pig and it's like that every day until the end of Eternity and kind of as a general rule of thumb looking at your own personal days that Clash during the year is really helpful so looking at days um that Clash the year you were born is particularly helpful so we don't like to clash the year that you're born or the animal sign of the day you're born those are two that we generally like to not Clash there are exceptions to the rulle sometimes when we use the clashing or the personal Breakers because sometimes we're trying to get a certain result so sometimes you will be instructed to do certain activations on a day that clashes you because we want to see a change so I will say don't um think too much about the personal Breakers because to me some of that um you know you can't go through l looking at every tiny detail of every little thing you do so also some really the activities you want to avoid on these days are some of the most important activities you'll take on like for that time so say if you're signing a really important contract you know you want to use a good day if you're getting married you want to use a really good day um if you're installing you know new equipment to your home that's a big trigger of energy to your home you're going to want to trigger good energies especially if you're doing a renovation and all that there's a lot of factors take into consideration with using date selection for renovations um so big things like that that are going to be big triggers of energy are really big decisions these are just as a general rule of thumb you can kind of avoid some of these days and also just as a reminder I do actually include dates selection on my energy updates each month so those monthly energy updates at the very of the blog um that's all the information that I talk about on the monthly energy update episode but at the end you get the bonus of date selection so I kind of take out the guess workk for you and for the month of May I did start including the animal signs and um whether they combine or Clash so look for that blog post it's just at the website at learnfengshui.com and I'll link the a blog post below and keeping with the theme of date selection there is certain days you don't want to use that contain a certain animal sign for specific activities so this is just kind of a general way to use date selection but let's take a look at which animal signs support which activities so starting with the rat on rat days it's always said that you should avoid doing metaphysics or forecasting it said because it's the most Yin position that it is almost like your your Void of energy and the same goes with the pig it said that especially when you're looking at a water pig day you're not supposed to do funu activations so particularly though for rat days you want to avoid like if you read tarot cards or do um divination it's not a great day to do Divination in readings so avoid rat days when you do readings for days that contain the ox it said that you want to avoid starting new job positions or avoid getting a promotion this day it is said that if you start a new position or start a new job on an AUX day that you may become a workaholic it said that on tiger days you're supposed to avoid praying and avoid manifesting so I'm not really sure if that's super true because um this whole water tiger year it's one of it's one of the spiritual pillars and so it said that you're actually supposed to uh manifest and pray and everything on water tiger days so I don't think that applies to every um tiger day but you know something to think about I'm not really sure where that that is that comes from on rabbit days you are supposed to avoid Renovations and you're supposed to avoid fixing especially Plumbing or anything water related and that I'm really not exactly sure why either but this is just information that I've I've heard that I'm relaying um I will say that I have avoided fixing any Plumbing issues I have on rabbit days that's one thing that sticks with me I'm just not willing to chance it on Dragon days you're supposed to avoid sadness and you're supposed to avoid crying one of the things with the dragon days is it's supposed to cause like further sad events or you know strong emotions if you have an argument on that day or if you feel depressed or sad on that day it's supposed to create more of that sadness it said if you travel on a snake day that you may have items go missing or you may run into a lot of unnecessary hassles so it says it's best to avoid traveling on a snake day hor days you're supposed to avoid visiting people so uh it says the person will have a lot of issues or we'll get into unnecessary arguments with the person visiting so avoid paying visits to people on horse days on Goat days you're supposed to avoid starting a Chinese medicine routine so if you've been to somebody that prescribes you herbs you're supposed to avoid starting your medicine routine on a goat day it said that the goat day will actually cause extra toxicity to the herbs and this one I I think it's very important on a monkey day you are supposed to avoid bed activations and even changing your bed sheets so it says it's supposed to either cause health issues or arguments in your relationship so avoid bed positioning and moving your bed and just even changing those bed sheets out on monkey days on Rooster Days you're supposed to avoid having celebrations like weddings and you know parties and stuff like that because it said that people will get too drunk too fast Rooster Days are supposed to not be great for partying um I think the theory behind this is really the representation or the symbol for rooster it actually represents like wine and um you know even within like somebody's like gu number number seven or if you have a west facing home it could represent maybe you're more social or have more parties um also I always uh think back to when I advise my husband's friend who owns Liquor Stores here in town um to buy west facing properties and he has and he's actually expanded um opening a third west facing liquor store so just something to think about there so on Dog Days this only applies I think think to countries um that still have dog as a delicacy on their menu so it it said that you're supposed to avoid eating dog meat because it's really bad karma and it's just supposed to be bad on dog days so um I don't think we really have much to consider here but and you know I'm not sure most countries probably still have this as a as a you know dish to eat but if you do avoid avoid eating it on a dog day so just as a general rule of thumb also I kind of talked about marriage and how big of a you know energy that is to step into it's a really big decision and so you want to avoid scheduling your wedding on a pig day so it says to avoid marriage and wedding related activities because it just causes a lot of unnecessary issues and I don't know if that's with a relationship ship or if that is with the um just generally the kind of energy you know that is you're just going to have a lot of issues that day um with you know planning and the ceremony and everything so I'm not I'm not sure um but avoid Pig days when you get married and this information I actually got from a live webinar from a gentleman named Dawson Wong he is a with the JY app Consulting Group and he just had like a live webinar on Facebook one day I think during the pandemic maybe it's it's been quite a while so um I don't know if it's possible to find that exact video but I will link to his Facebook profile and I'll see if he has anything on YouTube don't forget if you do leave a review which I really need in whichever platform you listen on it really helps the show you know kind of uh get bumped up in the ratings a little bit um if you have left a review you were entered into a drawing to get 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