HOW ACCURATE WAS THE ENERGY FORECAST FOR 2013? - THE YEAR OF THE WATER SNAKE

This is just for my own purposes actually to learn from what I did right and what I did wrong. But for those interested in might be an interesting read as well.

On the whole, I think the reading was quite accurate. Some highlights below. You can read the full forecast here:

http://www.practicalfengshui.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/feng-shui-prediction-2013-part-i.html#more

WEATHER

Forecast: Rain with chance of flooding in April, November and December

And if we did have lots of something last year, it was rain.  November and December saw flooding in the UK with some needing to be evacuated from their homes on Christmas Day itself.

There were floods in Singapore in November as well. In these months, there was just too much of water in the chart. 

Forecast: Big natural disaster in April or October

The St Jude Storm was the biggest to hit England over a decade with gusts of up to 100 mph (close to that reached during the 1987 hurricane). This storm caused more havoc all over Western Europe. And pretty soon after that, the typhoon hit in Philippines with devastating consequences.   

Forecast: Proper summer this year

And true enough, we had a proper summer in England this year after a long time. It was the hottest summer since 2006

POLITICS

Forecast: There will be abdications among Heads of States (basically a loose term that denotes central figures for a country)

I actually thought it would be Queen Elizabeth but it turned out to be Queen Beatrix and Pope Benedict. They both announced their abdications late January / early February.

2013 WATER SNAKE FORECAST PART II

So how are the New Year preparations coming along? House cleaned? New clothes bought? Pineapple tarts, love letters all stocked up? We're having reunion dinner at my friend's place tonight. I can't wait to dig in to her Kong Bak Pau but that's for later. The question everyone's been asking is how's 2013 going to affect them? What's good for them? Where's good for them? And here my friends are the answers.

Feng Shui Prediction 2013 Part I

It's here everyone. The year of the water snake. After a dismal economic year, full of flooding and natural disasters, is good luck going to slither in this year (see what I did there?)

House on the motorway in China

Did you guys read about this house?

When it was first reported, they said the owners of the flat (an elderly couple) refused to sell their house and land so the government built the road around it. I remember thinking there's no way they would be able to hold on to this and true enough, they've capitulated and sold the house and land.

If you think of the house as a hill on a piece of land and the roads built around as a fast flowing river, what basically happens is that the river will slowly wear down the land, making it smaller and smaller and the hill would slowly erode as well. If this was a small, side road, the story would have been quite different but it is a motorway (a strong, ferocious water flow).

It's good that he sold the flat. To be situated right in the centre of things like that is precarious and makes the house very vulnerable. You want to live in a place with strong foundations, not something which makes you feel you are under siege. The inhabitants of the house would probably have fallen ill and finances would have taken a beating. Not something you would want if you were an elderly couple.   

Natural disasters in 2012

Ok, this might be a case of confirmation bias (i.e. using only examples that confirm your theory) but I have been doing the Ba Zi charts (chinese horoscope) of the days of when some of the more recent natural disasters have occured and it's quite startling (for me, at least) how much the energy of the day resembles the occurences and even how it's being talked about by the media. 

2012 itself was meant to be a year of TOO MUCH WATER (read floodings, rain, tsunamis). And this year definitely reflected that. In November, there was another round of flooding in the UK. The chart for those days showed TOO MUCH WATER falling on SOGGY EARTH. If you read http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/nov/27/rain-eases-northern-england?intcmp=239, the floods have been attributed to "saturated ground alrady waterlogged after one of the wettest summers in recent times ..." 

Besides massive rain and flooding, there have also been a lot of earthquakes in 2012. If you study the elements, when there is too much water in a Ba Zi chart, the earth energy is weak. Weak earth is not a good support. If you are weak, you give way easily which is why this year has been particularly prone to earthquakes. We have seen at least one 7.0 magnitude eathquake every month this year (with the exception of May and June). 


Are we going to have some respite in December? Nah. The chart for December is basically a raging ocean (Heaven water). It will wash everything away. Nothings going to stand in its way, It'll be hard to control. Tsunamis and earthquakes seem very likely. The hexagram is literally thunder below a lake (earthquakish energy) which then transforms to lake over lake (excess of water). So the energy for the month is an earthquake that has the potential to transform to a tsunami and if a tsunami does hit, it's going to be very hard to control.

The recent earthquake in Japan struck on 7 December 2012, exactly on the date of the start of December in the Chinese calendar. There was a small tsunami and there were fears of a repeat of 2011 tsunami but thankfully, the tsunami didn't materialize. If it did, there's a high chance there could have been lots of damage (human and otherwise).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/07/japan-earthquake-tsunami-fukushima-fears

Scarily, if you study the hexagram, the tremors show an origination from the Northeast and the earthquake in December shook the Northeast coast of Japan. YIKES

And what about Super Storm Sandy? That's another post altogether!