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Dear Ang,

1. You have a valid point here. Frankly, as far I know, so far no one has studied this area in a large scale before.

As it is a `recent' while Chinese Feng Shui has been around for more than 2,000 years.

2. Until someone truly studies this closely, we cannot say for sure how accurate their birthchart are based on Pillars of Destiny.

3. However, if we see the logic behind basic Pillars of Destiny, it uses one's Year, Month, Day and Time chart, most likely:-

3.1. the Year chart is still unchanged because no baby has an incubation period of more than 1 year i.e. unless his/her birth falls near Chinese Lunar New Year (end of one Chinese New Year) towards the new year.

Such as the baby which should have been born say on or after 5 February 2000. Is now born before this date.

3.2. The month pillar may not be changed if the child is born within the same `lunar month'. It can change if the baby is born in the earlier months.

3.3. Here, the day pillar will defintely change. Same goes for the hour pillar which changes.

3.4 In the past (even in the present), Pillars of destiny is only one component of the Holistic method of Geomancy. Other areas include: Face Reading, Hand reading, Chinese Astrology (commonly Year of birth). Peronal name choosing/analysing the strokes and thus numbers of the name.

With all these we call "Geomancy", it creates a bigger picture of a person.

Furthermore, traditional Pillars not only have just 4 pillars: Year, Month, Day and Time but (for the living person) two more important pillars known as House of Life and House of Conception.

Here, each Pillar has a `stem' and `branch' and for a 4 pillar `method' there are Eight Characters to analyse or "Ba Zhi".

However, the problem with `Eight Character' analysis is that often "Triple combination" analysis does not `occur' as the probability of only Eight Characters do not usually general "Triple combinations ".

But with the addition of House of Life & House of Conception (4 more characters), the likelyhood of Tribple combinations or clashes will occur.

The more characters that are analysed (the usual Eight under Year, Month, Day and Time) plus four more under House of Life and Conception will make the pillars more accurate in determining one's true element and other `areas' within the Pillars of destiny analysis.

Under Pillars of Destiny, Pillars can be expanded to a few more pillars (these are mostly analysis of Yin or the dead) that are less relevant thus not common today.

3.5 Bearing in mind the above, you have indeed raised a good question. So far, I sincerely believe, no one practitioner can lay claim that a caesarean's birth chart can either be `accurate' or `inacurate' without more thorough research that goes into it.

Thus it is good to bear this in mind whenever one does a Pillars of Destiny analysis on a child of caesarean birth.

However, the present `thinking' is that no matter how, the day/time is born should be the information used for `calculation' of his/her pillars. This is a documented fact.

4. So far, I have yet to see dates of birth for such cases plugged from the `air' for hypothetical calculations. The closest to this is where FS practitioners `study' a person's chart after he/she has died and speculate his day and time of birth to the characteristics of a specific Pillars of destiny `report'.

5. We also have to remember that Pillars of destiny `mentions' that it charts what one's Destiny and Heaven Luck is suppose to be like but many practitioners mentioned that something like 60% of it can be changed.

For example, through one's interaction with parents, education, personal experiences etc.. Which I often call this an `escape clause' of Pillars of Destiny.

Warmest Regards,

Cecil

On 2/10/00 3:11:00 AM, Ang Chye wrote:
>Dear Cecil,
>
>Please explained if caesarean
>delivered baby will be less
>accurate if we analyze their
>pillars of destiny as they may
>not be "born" on the true
>birth hour or day.
>
>RGDS
>ANG