Happy Chinese New Year everyone!
Here’s a short article on the forecast for this new year Jia Chen, or Year of the Wood Dragon.
Considering the year 2024, we turn to 2024 BaZi as our reference point for assessing the energy and anticipating societal and economic trends. The BaZi for 2024 occurred on February 4th at 16:29, provides the framework for our simple analysis.
If this was a person’s Bazi chart, it would be a life of turmoil and disaster, with lots of conflicts in the beginning but gets better towards the end. As we are looking at a year long chart, things might be worst in H1 but gets better in H2.
Earth and wood element are predominantly strong, so is metal element. Fire are slightly weak and water element is extremely weak. We can look at it as if earth and metal industries will prosper but then so are competitions.
There are Fan Yin clashes between the Year and Day Pillar, and Month and Hour Pillar in the chart, denoting instability, bullying, discord and conflicts generally. A possible shake up might occur impacting large organization or companies. Disagreement could also occur between those who resist change and those who wants change.
The water element represents wealth in the chart and there is only a tiny amount of it. That means wealth opportunity are scarce with many parties fighting over it. A competitive environment but also opportunity in chaos.
We can see the best solution can be found in the Hour Pillar, which has the metal element EG rooted. EG in Hour Pillar represents creativity and problem solving through having the right mindset.
Although there are many negative aspects of the energy, there are good aspects as well. If we can improve our inner work and mindset, there are opportunities for self-realization and drastic improvements gained from overcoming obstacles. We should learn how to brand or market ourself more. Also, patience, independence and perseverance are good virtues for this year.
2024 is also the start of Period 9 which is represented by Li Gua. Virtual assets and technology will gain traction, along with scammers and fake things. Reputations might be at risk as things might get revealed and physical appearance will be important going forward.
When I have time, I will write more articles on the 10 Day Masters forecast in 2024.