When I was very young, my maternal grandfather was already 72. I thought him quite old back then. To be honest, I still think so, even though he passed away many decades ago. He had white hair and a white beard, and his skin sagged because...well, he was old. He taught me a poem that... Continue Reading →
Pssst. Come closer. I have something to tell you. It is scary, but it needs to be told so we can shed light on this. You ready? One of the most powerful, most evil black magic known to man is called the Bùa Thiên Linh Cái. Forget using plants and animals, or even dead fetuses. ... Continue Reading →
In my previous post regarding the Dark Warrior, Huyền Vũ 1: The Black Tortoise, I detailed my search for this mythical hero. I bounced around from historic materials, to mythology, to star charts, and I was able to determine a couple of things concretely. 257 BCE was the initial point in time when we Viets... Continue Reading →
(Continued from Human Fruits, the Karmic Harvest of Nhân Quả) Some people think karma is like cash. You do good deeds, accumulate good karma for a rainy day. When you need it, then you can redeem some bad deeds and not be in the negative and have to deal with the bad fall-out of karmic... Continue Reading →
Human Fruits sounds rather strange. It conjures up images of human-shaped squashes hanging on vines, but Human Fruits, or Nhân Quả, is simply what we Viets call Karma, which is Sanskrit for Deeds. Human Fruit conjures up the idea that anything we do, we receive in kind, the ripening of our own fruits, be they sweet or […]
So. I'm not sure if I told you guys, but I do have a Chinese name. The character is thus: 美 It means beautiful in Mandarin. It also means the good ole USA, but that's just because it is a homonym for my country's name (I am a citizen of the US, so it is... Continue Reading →
(Continued from The Original Asian Zodiac 5: The Twelve Earth Branches) Ten Heavenly Stems I have to state for the record that this subject is an exhausting subject to dig into. I kept running into a few issues, and although they are not huge issues, they exhaust me. Firstly, all the words are not modern. ... Continue Reading →
The Twelve Earthly branches 2020 is the year of the Metal Rat on top of the earthen wall. Sounds quite amazing doesn't it? That's the power of the Can Chi working together to give you the whole picture. Out of everything that has to do with the Asian Calendar, the twelve Earthly Branches take the... Continue Reading →
Lunisolar Calendar It's been awhile, but I remember playing my music on one of these cassettes as a very young girl. Nowadays, you can't even find these ribbon cassettes anymore. Give it a few more decades and nobody will know what they were used for. In the relatively short time that it took for a... Continue Reading →
(Continued from The Original Asian Zodiac 2: The Moon Calendar) Lunar Calendar Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein said time was a relative construct of mankind. Certainly, if we talk about a calendar system, that is the truth. The current Asian Calendar (I call it Asian because it is spread throughout the Asian continent) used […]
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