I often share a single guiding concept with those who seek me out for destiny reading (命理): if you want your life to run smoother — and to achieve both wealth and happiness — you only need to remember two sentences. Do more of what helps you grow and accumulate. Avoid and stay far from what drains your vital essence and spirit.
Why?
Because long-term smooth fortune is never built on just one or two decisions in life — just as no one who has achieved real results got there by doing only one thing right. There must be a complete internal logic underlying it all.
A friend once raised this question with me: Master Chi, though your articles are profound and wide-ranging, that very depth limits their reach — most ordinary people simply can’t follow them. Have you ever considered writing in a more accessible, down-to-earth style?
My answer: I’ve never once considered going in that direction, because the people I serve are, by nature, a select few — the elite, and those strivers willing to quiet their minds, absorb high-quality thinking, and reshape their own destinies.
On this special occasion, no gift is more meaningful than a substantial piece of wisdom.
The Article:
In my online community (知识星球), Master Chi has always held to one clear principle: I am constantly urging women to step free from the pull of “household affairs.” The reason is simple. Family is sometimes a contradictory thing. It gives you shelter, warmth, comfort, and security — yes. But at the same time, it makes you willingly pour everything into your loved ones. And those very people who benefit from your sacrifices so often fail to see what you’ve given. No matter how much you sacrifice. No matter how completely you drain your youth and the finest years of your life.
Over the years, many female readers have come to me with the same question: “Master, what does a woman look like at her most beautiful?”
Honestly, I’ve never quite known how to answer it. My own standards for female beauty are fundamentally at odds with the world’s crass fixation on physical appearance.
My logic is simple: looking beautiful is not true beauty. A beautiful life, beautiful wealth, a beautiful marriage and family — that is great beauty.
This is a repost of a classic article. Though it centers on family, it contains a wealth of essential insights for those seeking to elevate themselves — well worth bookmarking and reading carefully.
Why does a person need to broaden their knowledge throughout their lifetime? Because there are far too many things in this world that only truly register in your heart once you have witnessed them with your own eyes — and from that recognition, you can set meaningful goals and strategies for your own life.
Master Chi has written countless articles, yet one has been conspicuously absent: a piece dedicated to the “great woman.”
What is a great woman? She is the kind of powerful woman Master Chi admires and respects above all others — one who commands her own destiny and excels at making her life continuously, progressively better.
If that’s still abstract, look at women like Sister Dong, Wanzhou, Tea Sister, and Ms. Deng. Simply looking at their photographs, you can feel that fierce, vital life force radiating from them.
Anyone with even a passing familiarity with Chinese wisdom traditions understands that the fifteenth day of the first lunar month — the Lantern Festival — is for calling in blessings, and that this day carries far greater weight than the fifth day’s welcoming of the wealth god.
When the Lantern Festival blessings are properly received, the entire year that follows flows smoothly and harmoniously. Your wealth fortune improves. Your career prospects brighten. Your romantic destiny flourishes. Your noble benefactors (Gui Ren) appear.
A casual weekend evening, so let’s talk about something related to women. Nothing too long.
For ease of understanding, let’s call this “The Evolution of Little Sparrow.”
Little Sparrow is actually a very distant younger cousin of mine. Precisely because the connection is so distant, her family’s financial situation was worlds apart from my other relatives nearby.
But her parents, knowing that I had built considerable expertise in destiny reading and understood something about raising a person well, asked her — right as she came of age — to occasionally seek my guidance on important life decisions.
The greatest skill in the world is this: “Never judge anything by its outer appearance — always dig down to its core essence.” — Master Chi
Let me begin with a brutally honest piece of life experience.
A person who cannot see through to the essence of things will, with near certainty, spend their entire life stumbling from one failure to the next. Why? Because they will never discover the key that allows them to rise steadily.
The first article of 2022 — the long-awaited Fortune of the Year of the Tiger (Ren Yin) — has finally arrived. Published just in time for the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the day we welcome the God of Wealth, and right before the world returns to work. No small feat.
The reason I pushed to get this out on this particular day is simple: this piece is a comprehensive overview that directly analyzes each Chinese zodiac sign’s wealth fortune (cái yùn), career, blessings, relationships, and favorable and unfavorable influences for the year ahead.