Today the emperor is yin fire. Yin fire is the philosopher. The person who is most concerned with the meaning of life. The cycle from cradle to grave. Yin fire is like the candle - the ONLY thing able to dispel darkness. Today we have yin fire sitting over the rooster. The rooster is metal, we remain in a controlling cycle.

Remember that the branches are moving into a contracting cycle. The rooster is the midpoint of metal. After metal comes water. Water is most yin. Metal is the late evening.

The stems have moved from greatest yang and are just starting the contract themselves. As I said yesterday it takes 60 days to complete one cycle of stems and branches. It takes 60 months to complete the cycle in the months, and 60 years to complete the cycle of years.

Let us look at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran. He was born 28th of October 1956. This makes him born the year of the fire monkey, his month pillar is yang earth over dog and his day pillar (depending on the hour he was actually born) appears to be yang earth sitting over dragon. This appears to make him a very very tough earth man. His day and his month are all earth. He has 'yin eyes' with a clash between the dragon and the dog sitting adjacent to each other. We will not look at his luck pillar at this stage. This year there is in a clash to his year of birth with the current year (metal tiger). Yesterday I heard on the news that Iran had offered to 'escort' the activists ships out of Turkey to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza strip. Also on the news yesterday I heard that North and South Korea are facing off with each other again.

The months of fire (snake and horse) are supportive of the earth man - resource to him. Yang fire is more 'useful' to a man with Qi Sha in his chart. Without a doubt we must see Qi Sha in Ahmadinejad for him to have dealt so ruthlessly with his opposition in the recent Iranian elections. A man with Qi Sha can lack circumspection. If he lacks it, and it is so vital to the stability of the world that it be manifested, we must manifest it for him, and all the others who would violently and ruthlessly overthrow others rights.

Your challenge today is to reflect deeply on the occasions when you might have or be tempted to oppress others. Having looked, choose one person to make adjustments with. If they have passed over then get two chairs, put that person into one of the chairs and you take up the other. Talk to them as though they were present right in front of you. Speak to them from your heart. Now take up the other chair and be them, respond to the things that you have said to them. Keep up the dialogue from both points of view. It is important that you continue the process until the situation feels resolved. If you lack the courage to speak to someone you have 'wronged' then use this technique - you will be surprised at how much freedom it can give you. We will manifest thoughtfulness, the ability to listen and the willingness to resolve conflict today.

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