Tomorrow, the battle of the Yi Si year officially begins.
I know — you’re carrying a quiet, gnawing fear in your heart. You worry that this year will be just like the last: a full year of frantic effort with nothing to show for it, followed by the familiar cycle of disappointment, frustration, and grief.
At the same time, you’re bracing for the black swans and gray rhinos — all those unpredictable disasters that seem determined to pile up on you one after another until you can barely breathe.
So you dread the end of the holiday. You dread having to face naked reality all over again.
But here’s what you need to know: when fear is sitting on your chest like that, the best response is to choose to fight — openly, boldly, without apology.
Because fate is a bully.
Back away from it an inch, and it will advance a foot.
But once you make up your mind — plant your feet and go at it with everything you’ve got — you’ll discover that if you can just endure those first few blows, once you’ve adapted, every moment becomes your chance to strike back.
And then: the more you dare to fight, the more you win. The more you win, the more you dare to fight.
This past Spring Festival, I — Master Chi — received an abundance of blessings and gifts. But unlike ten years ago, this year’s gifts came not only from merchants, celebrities, and noble benefactors (Gui Ren), but from many, many ordinary readers as well.
These gestures may not have stood out among the expensive liquors and luxury goods, but to me they carried extraordinary meaning — enough to bring tears to my eyes.
Among them were oranges from a single mother. I remember when she first came to me for a destiny reading, desperately alone with her child, with no idea where her future lay.
There was homemade liquor from a middle-aged man. I remember how, after being laid off, his world had completely collapsed and he had no idea how he would survive.
And there were nuts from a young man from a small town. I remember how he had been born into poverty, with no family support and no exceptional talents, lost in the big city with no sense of where his life was headed.
When I read their destiny charts, every path was different — but everything I said to them, every thousand words, came down to one thing: Don’t be afraid. Start fighting.
Fight your miserable fate. Fight your victim mentality. Fight your laziness and your drift. Fight your broken wealth fortune. Fight your insecurities. Fight your streak of failures. Fight your confusion and your despair.
To fight means to confront each of these specific problems in a head-to-head battle with no retreat.
It means burning your boats — making up your mind that even if you’re left bloodied and beaten, you still won’t back down.
As long as you dare to fight, you haven’t lost. And if you haven’t lost, you can win.
And the results? That single mother built her own small business. The middle-aged man carved out a whole new commercial venture. The young man from the small town found his own unique path to honest wealth.
They were all once small, ordinary people — and yet each of them became the comeback fighter of their own life story.
So why did these gifts move me to tears? Because they are proof — proof from fighters who refused to accept defeat, proof of their hard-won reversals.
The suffering that went into those victories — no one who wasn’t there can ever fully understand it.
So before the battle of the Yi Si year officially begins, Master Chi wants to tell you something.
We have no reason to let the negativity around us drag us down until we give up on ourselves.
Look back over the past few years — no matter how hard things got, every single year, there were people who made money, got things done, and turned their lives around.
Why not you? Why shouldn’t it be you?
So this Yi Si year, make up your mind: go to war with fate. Don’t be afraid to lose. Don’t be afraid of pain.
The more you fear losing, the more you will lose. The more you fear pain, the more it will hurt.
Tell yourself: no more excuses, no more running. Straighten your spine, get out there, and fight your own piece of sky.
Don’t know how? We can learn. Don’t understand? We can ask. Not there yet? We can practice. The one thing we absolutely will not do is retreat, surrender, or back down.
In something I wrote just moments ago, there was a line that really stood out — and it captures perfectly what this year is about: This Yi Si year is my new beginning. This year, I am claiming my reversal — and that’s final.
Are you hearing me? Tomorrow — land the first punch, so you don’t have to endure a hundred.
For those who want to see their own life pattern (格局) clearly before the year truly begins, Master Chi fully supports you.
After all, the prerequisite for fighting well is strategy and positioning. If you feel like your life has been stalled for years, it’s most likely because you don’t yet know what your true destiny framework actually is.
Master Chi has helped countless brothers and sisters clarify their life pattern and find their path forward. And in most cases, when a person just gets a little more clarity on their general direction, the results start showing up surprisingly fast.
One final reminder: the greatest wisdom available to ordinary people is not to spend a lifetime charging blindly in one direction. It is to recognize, as early as possible, that you are a small existence in a vast world — and that if you want to turn your life around, you must gather the guidance of noble benefactors (Gui Ren), catch the tailwind of the times, and ride the momentum of the larger forces at work.