万年历

I don't care what your religion is but I am a taoist. We believe in reincarnation. We believe in cause and effect. What you do this life, will reflect on your next life and what you are experiencing this life is what a result of what you have done last life. So we believe in reciprocity. We respect all religion and their God(s)/Goddess(es).

Yesterday after the birthday party, cloud and I look through this red thick book. It's call the 万年历. You can calculate how much "Gold" you brought with you when you reincarnate base on your lunar calendar birth date and time. It was created during the Tang Dynasty. So we went to calculate ours. It was so funny because they usually give 4 very complicated ancient chinese sentences. Like this one for example: 此命推来福不轻 自立自成显门庭 从来富贵人亲近 使婢差奴过一生。

I interpreted it as something bad because the last sentence has 差. It means bad in chinese so interpreted that I will be a slave in my bad life. But what it meant was that I will have people following and serving me for the rest of my life. And my sister was laughing at my own interpretation. I must confess that my chinese has gone bad eversince I came back from exchange. I will polish it up. We also calculated wrongly because it depends if you are born in a country with daylight savings or not. It's a pretty detailed book with alot of chinese characters and one chinese phrase can describe many many things.

So I calculated mine. I brought 3 liang 6 qian when I reincarnated. So this is my given poem: 不须劳碌过平生，独自成家福不轻，早有福星常照命，任君行去百般成。

What does these 28 chinese character means? You can expand the 28 chinese characters to this:

　　少年多波折，老来安逸之命

　　

　　注解：此命为人灵机性巧，胸襟通达，志气高，少年勤学有功名之格，青年欠利，腹中

　　多谋，有礼有义，有才能，做事勤俭，一生福禄无亏，与人干事，反为不美，六亲骨肉可

　　靠，交朋友，四海春风，中限光耀门庭，见善不欺，逢恶不怕，事有始终，量能宽大，

　　义利分明，吉人天相，四海闻名，末限成家立业，安然到老，高楼大厦，妻宫无刑，子

　　息三人，只一子送终，寿元七十七，卒于春光中。

Complicated? hahahaha. I thought so too. Each of these phrases can be expanded even further. But in short, it means that I don't have to work too hard in my life (maybe as compared to some really hard working asians), if I start a business it will be awesome, destiny has already prepared some good fortune to protect me from some bad stuffs and whatever i do, it will be smooth sailing. Some good things to hear. :)

P.S. I realized that being busy is a good thing. It makes time goes faster.

TBC..