不要用你今天的成敗，來評論你的人生價值。
Many people go to fortune-tellers and just want to ask whether their marriage is good and /or how their careers would develop. Few people think that these things have different ups and downs in everyone’s’ life. Even if your current career is unsatisfactory, your academic performance not as ideal, or love life frustrated (even to the extent of marriage failure), this does not necessarily mean that you will be like this all your life. There are many different stages in your life, and you should never give up lightly.
很多人去算命，就想問一下自己的婚姻好不好，事業如何發展。卻很少人想到，這些事情在每個人的一生中，有着不同的起伏。即使你現在事業不如意，讀書成績未如理想，或愛情失意，甚至婚姻失敗，這未必代表你一生都如此，人生有很多不同階段，絕不應該輕言放棄。
The Bazi is like a personal life manual that belongs to you. It has four parts: “root”, “seedling”, “flower”, and “fruit”. It tells of the good and bad luck at different stages of life. When you are at a loss, you may wish to take a look at your Bazi to gain some enlightenment to tailor your plans accordingly to make the most of your life.
In the Bazi, the year pillar is the “root”, which represents your birth and your childhood growth. If you have good roots, it means you can get good support from your family, so you can venture into different situations boldly.
The month pillar is a “seedling”, representing your family and peers, and also your educational achievements. This achievement is one of the keys to your stepping out of society and doing things; the month pillar also affects your views on things, and your attitude and method of responding to situations and hence has a critical impact for your successes and failures in a lifetime.
The day pillar is a “flower”, it determines your middle-aged personality and also greatly affects the way you interact with the opposite sex, and this day pillar also plays an important role as to whether your life is happy or not.
The hour pillar is the “fruit”, it determines your lifestyle in later years, how well your children achieve, whether they are filial, etc.
八字有如一份屬於你個人的人生說明書，當中有「根、苗、花、果」四個部份，顯示着人生不同階段的吉凶禍福，當你不知所措的時候，不妨看一看當中有甚麼啓示，以作出最佳的人生規劃。八字當中，年柱是根，他代表你的出身，及你童年時的成長。如果根好的話，代表你能得到家族很好的支持，令你可以較放膽去闖不同的境遇。月柱是苗，代表家庭及同輩，也代表你的讀書成績，這個成績將是影響你踏出社會做事的其中一個關鍵；月柱也影響了你對事情的看法，及回應的態度和方法，所以對於一生的成功於失敗，有着很關鍵的影響。日柱是花，它掌管了你中年的性格定型，這個性格定型也大大影響了你對異性的相處方式，而你的生活過得快樂與否，這個日柱也起了重要作用。時柱是果，它決定你晚年的生活形態，子女成就如何、是否孝順等。
Life has many facets. Please focus the positives and embrace them daily, away from unpleasant people and things. This is the key to living a successful life. Finding out the elements of success from the Bazi, appreciating them, enjoying them, and taking time to improve yourself to make this life worthwhile.
人生是個多面體，請你把快樂的一面放大，並且天天靠近它，遠離不愉快的人和事,這是成功人生的要素。從八字中把這些成功的要素找出來，欣賞它、享用它，讓出時間來昇華自己，則不枉這一生了。
Yan Chan 陳一言
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