星岛日报
按中国天干地支曆法，天干的「庚」属金，地支的「寅」是生肖虎，因此农历2010庚寅年也可称为金虎年，新一年会为大家以至全世界带来什麽？经常接受全美主流媒体採访的知名风水及命理大师孙亦徵撰文详述虎年运程，本报摘译如下以飨读者。
虎的特徵是具爆炸力、愤怒、冲动、活力、大胆、敢言、霸道及自大等等。和一个甲子前的1950年被韩战、冷战、核武竞赛和麦卡锡白色恐怖局势缠绕等情况类似，2010年也会充斥暴力及欠和谐，友谊与合作将会被破坏及分裂，商业竞争趋于敌意，炸弹袭击、大风暴和交通意外频生。
十二生肖在虎年运程各异。和虎相配的肖猪、马和狗者将好运连连，在爱情和事业上一帆风顺。肖猴者与虎是竞争对手，矛盾不断。一山不能藏二虎，肖虎者犯太岁运程不佳。肖鼠者在虎年将埋头苦干争取事业、人生更上一层楼。肖牛者在虎年将会有新尝试，结交新朋友，但由于和虎相剋，做事应有两手准备。肖兔者将会有幸福的桃花运，但会遭遇激烈竞争而一波三折。肖龙者注重出行和学习，年长者须担心健康问题。肖蛇者虽然挑战不少，仍可凭智慧和魅力突围而出。肖羊者今年会喜讯连连，生活美满唯有健康隐忧。肖鸡者可冲破障碍达到目标，但需做好破财的打算。
从经济大局来看，美国在虎年会进入一个缓慢、稳定、逐渐和能够持续的复甦期，力求将失业率降回到8%的水平；受惠于一年前的联邦经济刺激拨款，2010年经济增长可达4%。金虎年，木和金相冲相剋，房市复甦缓慢，虽房价逐步回升，但升幅不高；商业地产市场不景及房屋被查封情况仍然普遍。全球经济将由中国及一些亚洲国家的复甦带动，欧洲和美国仍然疲软，不过中国经济很可能在未来数年泡沫化。
总体来说，联邦储备局将于第二季度六月份加息，全年利息增加起码1%。虎活跃好动的特性意味着美国民众将为工作频繁出行或通勤。根据「一月定全年」的定律，如果一月份股市上扬，全年将上升起码10%，不过至1月31日为止一月份的股市呈下滑状态，相信S&P 500指数将在今年升至最高点1,250，股市全年将和好动的老虎一样动荡不安，六月会有显着跌幅，十月还会有轻度下滑，全年总体会下降3%，商界併购桉将层出不穷。
庚寅属金，利好工程、五金、製造业、交通运输、高科技、金属和其他自然资源等行业，通用汽车将会在2010年有良好发展，美国汽车业将会推出电动车、节能车等新产品。期货和货币交易将在2010年成长迅速，美元日圆汇率将在2010年重新升至108高位，石油和天然气价格多有起伏，介于$68至$108，黄金将在下半年升至$1,350水平。
中美贸易战暗潮汹涌，但很有可能到2011年才会爆发，两国经济及政治地位对全球局势都会发挥重要影响力，只有保持合作才能解决气候转变、核武扩散及国际金融体系改革等重大议题。
伊朗、中东和一些石油资源丰富的非洲小国将会导致一些地区甚至全球危机，阿盖达组织将利用西方国家反恐薄弱环节发动更多恐怖袭击，危险地区包括巴基斯坦、法国、意大利、印度尼西亚、菲律宾、印度、西班牙，美国洛杉矶及拉斯维加斯等地。
全年金、木、火旺盛，自然及人为灾害将频繁降临，美国及日本在八月至十月间有可能发生导致人命伤亡的飓风、台风和龙捲风，东北地区会有暴风雪，欧洲阿尔卑斯山脉会爆发雪崩，会有火山爆发，全球各地将出现大规模民间抗议和暴动。
同样水、金、火相关业界将在今年大展宏图。和水相关、充满流动性的行业包括：出入口、旅游、航运、货运、搬运、清洁、音乐、魔术、伴游、侦探、新闻界、互联网、海产食品、急冻食品、化学、果汁、酒类、茶、咖啡、媒体通讯等。
和金相关的五金行业包括：交通运输、钢铁、五金、金融、州政府、开採、司法、检控、律师、汽车、工程、针灸、功夫、按摩及运动等。
和火相关的行业包括：太阳能绿色能源、高科技、信息技术、电脑软件、眼科、武器、电池、娱乐（电影电视、舞台表演、歌剧）、饮食、石油天然气、整容及美容院等。
从风水佈局来看，西南会带来不吉，东北位有病符，西南位与虎相剋将带来转变，中央和西北位名利双收，北边有利于重组、学习和研发。因此，吉位是：中央、西北、西、北，凶位是：西南、南、东北、东南。
同时，要注意睡房及办公室的佈局，每日最好有蓝色相伴，放上一幅蓝色湖泊或天空的海报或电脑护屏，可对抗虎的暴烈和易怒。
虎年要注意以下身体部位和疾病。一是肺部和呼吸道感染、感冒、哮喘、胸痛和其他血液循环系统。二是头痛、神经紧张、心脏病或中风、高血压、血液疾病、动脉瘤，少吃高脂肪、高胆固醇食品以及虾、蟹及肥腻食品。三是关节、脚、臀部、嵴柱、肠、腹泻等。
金虎对生肖属牛、命理欠水的总统奥巴马不太有利，他应该多游泳、少抽烟以求好运，否则在缺水的金虎年，奥巴马将工作劳累但无好结果，遭受不断攻击，人事麻烦多；胃、臀、肩容易生病以及失眠。二月、三月、四月、七月和十月多有不利。
金虎为属羊的三藩市市长纽森带来新一番活力，处理市政会有新气象，夫妇俩可以考虑投资，如果投资新商业可能几年内就会取得成功。纽森今年有桃花运，要小心应付，十月份是全年的一道难关。
跟去年艰难推动救市方桉及人事议题相比，中国国家主席胡锦涛今年的工作将较顺利，他会在二月、六月、十月和十二月展开一些重要的出访，有关结果会影响到他在2011年的领导地位。中美在第一季会出现争议，但会在稍后平息。十二月预计会有一些领导人事变动，2011年1月对胡锦涛将十分困难，但只要在四月、五月、八月和十一月妥善应对就能将其解决。
For consultations with Y.C. Sun 知名风水及命理大师孙亦徵, visit Inner Beauty, 1332 El Camino Real, Belmont, CA 94002 email:APPLAVNX@AOL.COM Tel: (650) 595-9888.
Fiery Tiger Year: Learn to Chill Out
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For consultations with Y.C. Sun, visit Inner Beauty, 1332 El Camino Real, Belmont, CA 94002 / email:APPLAVNX@AOL.COM Tel: (650) 595-9888.
Julie D. Soo in interview with I-ching Master Y.C. Sun
The Year of the Tiger will be tumultuous as the Metal Tiger or Golden Tiger brings volatility and disagreement. Economic recovery for the United States will continue to be slow and worries about deflation are likely to turn to inflation.
The Tiger is the third of twelve Chinese animal zodiac signs. Tiger people are thought to be fiery and bold, good for people of action. However, fiery Tigers can also be tempestuous and quick to anger, defeating any kind of cordial relations.
The past year more mellow with the earth element for the Earth Ox or Brown Ox Year brought trust and kindness to promote conflict resolution, will turn as the metal element for the Metal Tiger or Golden Tiger (4708 on the Chinese lunar calendar) begins on February 4 to a year of disagreement and hostility says Bay Area I-ching Master Y.C. Sun. Geomancers like to look at sixty-year cycles because the five elements — metal, wood, water, fire, and earth — and 12-animal zodiac generally bring circumstances full circle.
Sun predicts a year of growing global disagreement and hostility in keeping with the last Metal Tiger Year. In 1950, the United States suffered under the strains of the Korean War, the Cold War, the nuclear arms race, and McCarthyism.
As Master Sun, a computer scientist and multi-generational geomancer, has enhanced his focus on global economics and geopolitics and is often quoted in CBS MarketWatch, he does see some glimmer with the metal element associated with the Golden Tiger. Metal is associated with money and transportation, so that should bode well even with a slow economic recovery. Think public works projects and high speed rail.
Two years ago, Sun explained, “The U.S. is one year ahead of the looming global recession that will come in the second quarter of 2009.” Early last year, he saw signs of our housing market bottoming out in the summer with signs of recovery in the fall. Sun had also indicated in early 2008 that China, our big investor, wouldn’t be able to control inflation and a power struggle would erupt there as President Hu Jintao would experience a bad luck year in 2009. While China hasn’t suffered the major recession of most countries following an Olympic host year, Sun predicts that China’s bubble will burst in the next couple of years.
Sun sees China and other Asian countries leading in a sustained but uneven global recovery in 2010, while the United States and Europe remain weak primarily due to a lack of consumer support and high unemployment. World output will increase by about 2 percent this year after having fallen about the same in 2009. For the first time in history, the recovery from a global recession is being driven by an emerging market rather than by the United States.
Since 2004, the Earth has been on “Track 8” in our solar universe and will remain for a period of 20 years until 2023. According to Sun, this schematic places China as the new super economic power, taking over the lead position from the United States. Sun reminds us that in 2004, the U.S. started its economic down fall as the housing bubble was inflated initially by keeping target short-term rates too low for too long, leading to reckless lending and borrowing in the housing market, and subsequently by loans being repackaged as securities sold to investors. But, China will not be immune to its share of problems as it is heavily invested in the U.S. and the communist leadership faces internal struggles.
The characteristics of the animal combined with influences from five basic elements — metal, wood, water, fire, and earth - foretell the kind of year. The balance of the elements promotes harmony. Each animal can be converted into the five elements. This Tiger Year also contains wood, fire, and earth elements. Wood and fire together will make fire stronger. Metal is challenged by fire and metal is also against wood. That means the metal element and the Tiger will fight each other, creating turbulence for the year. The lack of water for this year also means a lack of tact, according to Sun.
Geopolitically, continue to expect turmoil from Iran and the Middle East but also energy-rich African countries, where these areas will create internal struggles that spill over into global crises. Expect Al Qaeda to surge again.
The metal, wood and fire energy will create plenty of natural disasters and man-made problems: deadly hurricanes, typhoons, and tornadoes in August through October; deadly snowstorms in the Northeast; avalanches in Europe, particularly at the Alps; volcanic eruptions; and, frequent mass civic protests and violent riots globally.
Tensions stand to grow with China, our biggest creditor to whom we owe some $800 billion. However, opportunities exist if the U.S. partners with China with working to solve the world’s most challenging problems, such as climate change, nuclear proliferation, and global financial reform.
President Barack Obama has called for “cooperation, not confrontation” with China, so the U.S. may defer any imminent trade wars. Obama, born in the year of the Metal Ox, carries metal and earth energies, according to his birth chart - a wood goat birth month carrying earth, fire, and wood. Obama was able to utilize the water energy over the last few years to catapult his fame and keep lady luck by his side, culminating in a Nobel Peace Prize at the end of 2009. But, this year the absence of water will prove trying for Obama. The U.S. will have to be on guard as North Korea and Iran press to build nuclear arms and the President must continue to work with Russia on nuclear disarmament, says Sun.
Swimming may just be the panacea to increase Obama’s luck this stormy year. While he will be able to start new initiatives, this year will be full of compromise and President’s Plan A’s will more likely be his Plan B’s.
The elements also indicate popular business and investment sectors. According to Sun, the metal energy points to some profits in metal industries, transportation, government, criminal justice, and even auto segments. GM and the U.S. auto industry will make a comeback with new products, including electric and fuel efficient vehicles, predicts Sun. The fire energy pulls in sectors such as solar green energy projects, high tech, information technology, computer software, fire arms, entertainment - movies, television, show business, and opera, and oil and gas.
Tapping into the absent water energy industries will provide profits this year, pointing to the import/export, travel, shipping, moving company, cleaning, musical, magic entertainment, Internet, seafood, chemical, fruit juicing, wine spirits, and tea and coffee industries.
During last year’s Earth Ox, Sun explained that the confluence of earth and water would produce a rich soil to grow wood, representative of the U.S. dollar, indicating a rebound for the weakened currency and stemming a global free fall. This year, Sun predicts that the dollar will come back alive and do some rebounding. Oil and gas will be volatile within the $68 to $108 per barrel range. Gold prices will start to race up to the $1,350 level in the second half of 2010.
The stock market will be volatile like the Tiger. Sun says watch for the market to pull back big in June and less so in October. Good investments in the Metal Tiger Year should center on the metal energy industries - engineering, hardware, manufacturing, transportation, and high-speed rail. Sun also predicts that the earth energy from Track 8 combined with the elements of this year will make for strong commodities trading activity.
According the “Nine Spots of Flying Stars” theory, Sun says that good locations this year are northwest, middle, north, and west, while bad locations are southwest, northeast, south, and southeast. The directionals can apply to one’s home, a city, a state, a country, or the world. Sun says the southwest location will experience bad accidents, disasters, or misfortune. A metal wind chime placed at this directional can breakup with bad energy.
For Bay Area political followers, Sun predicted last year that San Francisco Mayor Newsom, a Fire Goat, would have a challenging year as he set into the California gubernatorial race because the Fire Goat posed conflicts with the Ox. Sun saw more positive energy with his family life with an addition to the family and indeed, daughter Montana Tessa was born in the fall. As of this writing, Newsom has not yet decided whether to seek the Lt. Governor’s seat. While Sun believes the likelihood of success for Newsom in that race is good, the Metal Tiger brings Newsom a renewed energy to focus on city business and produce with high productivity, efficiency, and good results.
Sun predicts a strong year for Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, a Fire Horse. Last year, Sun advised that Ma should focus on planting new seeds during the Earth Ox Year, removing anything that was unproductive for strong gains in 2010. In the elective year of the last of her three two-year term limit, will reap benefits from her workaholic nature. The Metal Tiger will provide Ma with strong energy and vision, combined with timely strategy and outstanding leadership to achieve a very successful year. She will bring strong financial gains for California, no doubt in part to her role in bringing the high-speed rail project to fruition. Her personal life will be equally strong as Sun sees wedding bells for Ma next year.
A little meditation and conflict resolution training will help this year and for the next 24 months. Next year –the Year of the Rabbit — and another metal year looks to be another fierce year, more sticks than carrots.
http://www.asianweek.com/2010/02/26/fiery-tiger-year-learn-to-chill-out/
