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Mastering The 9 Ki Stars

Dealing with Nine Star Ki Monthly Stars

Let me show you a neat and easy equation that I found to calculate the Qi for February for any given year. If you want to know the Star for February, you first decide into what sub-group of Stars the annual Star falls, i.e. either 1,4,7 - 2,5,8 or 3,6,9. If we take a 1 Water year, then Star 1 falls into the 1,4,7 sub-group. You now simply add all digits of this group and add 5 and you will have the Star for February in years of 1 Water, 4 Wood and 7 Metal.

It is simply a matter of adding the year Stars belonging to a particular sub-group, add 5 and reduce the outcome to a single digit that gives the Star for February for the year. It will take you no effort at all to commit this calculation to memory and get rid of the table. Once you found the Star for February, you just use your fingers to count other months as shown below. Then, follow the method of counting on your fingers, shown below also, until you reached the desired month Star.

Trick song

Then also I will show you the trick song that I found in order to get rid of the month table and that will get you into some rap rhythm.

It is again all about finding the Star for February for 1,4,7 - 2,5,8 and 3,6,9 years. Once you found the Star for February, all other months Stars for that year fall into place.

Annual Star:  1-4-7  February Star:  8

Annual Star:  2-5-8  February Star:  2

Annual Star:  3-6-9  February Star;  5

If you recall the Dolly Parton song "9 to 5", this may help, but only after you added one more hour to your working day, so it becomes "8 to 5", and this then culminates into 8-2-5. Here then is the rhyme. You can slap your fingers and stamp your feet in an upbeat rhythm when you memorize this song, but I just would make sure your neighbors are not anywhere near, or they may be making a phone call.

"February comes alive; 1,2,3 gives 8-2-5"

It says that the year comes alive (starts) in February and that the Star for February then depends on 1,2,3, which is of course code. Out of each set of Stars, only the first is mentioned, so you extend 1,2,3 to read 1,4,7 - 2,5,8 and 3,6,9 respectively.

You may still wish to stick with the conventional month table - which is in itself not too complicated to memorize even, if only you memorize one month Star for each column, for example your own month Star and another month from the next column but now you tune in on a loved one whose month Star becomes your reference point - or you can now rely on the formula or the trick song.

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