Wisdom from the Stars E-Book

Mantak Chia

• Herausgeber: mantak-chia-media
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

The stars that govern our planet have many wise messages for us. Mantak Chia and Christine Harkness-Giles use these ancient methods with their understanding of Chinese Astrology, to enhance the Chi you are born with by using chi kung and meditations – core Inner Alchemy practices. Taoists believe that all life on this planet is made up of the Five Elements. Chinese Astrology uses your first breath of air: the time, day, month and year of your birth to chart your own five element make-up. How these energies interact will help you to understand your strengths and weaknesses and events in your life. Enhancing your five elements with Inner Alchemy practices, can lead to greater harmony in your life. Many of Master Chia’s students across the world have had the chance to have a personal Inner Alchemy Astrology consultation with him during his teaching tours. They have been astounded by what he has been able to tell them, about their lives and circumstances, from his interpretation of their birth chart. Some come back to report progress from following the Inner Alchemy practices recommended on the strength of the consultation. For those who have not been able to benefit from a personal consultation, Mantak Chia has made a free Inner Alchemy Astrology calculation program available on his website. This book explains simple interpretational techniques which you can use yourself with your IAA chart.

Leseprobe

Wisdom from the Stars

Inner Alchemy Astrology

Mantak Chia and Christine Harkness-Giles

mantak-chia-media

Wisdom from the Stars

Inner Alchemy Astrology

Mantak Chia and Christine Harkness-Giles

The Mantak Chia Canon: Basic Tao Energy Culitvation

First published as ‘Inner Alchemy from the Stars – Practical Taoist Astrology’ in 2011 by Universal Tao Publications

274/1 Moo 7, Luang Nua, Doi Saket, Chiang Mai, 50220 Thailand

Updated Edition:

Copyright © 2022 mantak-chia-media GmbH, Berlin

ISBN 978-3-949344-10-7

Revision: Christine Harkness-Giles

Title Design: Josefine Reimig

Layout: Jana Marx

www.mantak-chia-media.com

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission from the author except for brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Anyone who undertakes these practices on the basis of this book alone, does so entirely at his or her own risk.

The Mantak Chia Canon

With the book series "Mantak Chia Canon" the publishing house "mantak-chia-media GmbH" honours the work of Tao Grandmaster Mantak Chia and preserves his life's work for the future.

The book collection is divided into the 5 Healing Arts/Branches of the Universal Healing Tao System. Each branch is colour-coded and assigned to one of the elements of the 5-element system:

Basic Tao Energy Cultivation

Internal Martial Arts

Chi Nei Tsang

Cosmic Healing

Higher Inner Alchemy

With the "Mantak Chia Canon" the entire knowledge of Grandmaster Mantak Chia is gradually made accessible to all interested readers in a comprehensive series of books and the Healing Tao is made learnable for everyone.

Contents

Preface to New Edition

Mantak Chia

Christine Harkness-Giles

Acknowledgments

Words of Caution

Introduction

Part One – Simple Inner Alchemy Astrology Chart

Chapter 1

Taoist Astrology and Feng Shui

Law and Order – Wu Chi and the Planets

Wu Xing – Five Elements

Taoist Concept of Time

Heavenly Stems

Earthly Branches – Time Measured on Earth

Chapter 2

Use the IAA Site Calculator to see your 4 Pillars

Find your Day Master

Chapter 3

Ten Types of Day Master

Does your Career fit your Day Master Element?

Chapter 4

Find your own Five Phases

Three Previous Examples

Self

Expression

Wealth

Power

Resource

Balance and Harmony

Is Your Day Master Strong or Weak?

The Timeliness of the Day Master Element

Your Teams

Yin and Yang and the Ten Gods

Find your own Ten Gods – Tables

Family and Group Therapy

Chapter 5

Link into the UHT Practices

Supreme Inner Alchemy Practices

Healing Sounds

Inner Smile

Fusion Practice

Chapter 6

Heaven, Earth and Human Luck

Chapter 7

Secret Friends – Animals

Chapter 8

Taoist Five Element Nutrition

Mechanics of Eating

Website Food Chart

Five Element Aromatherapy

Inner Alchemy Colour Therapy

Chapter 9

Feng Shui, I-Ching, and the Pakuas

Inner Alchemy Feng Shui

Cosmic Feng Shui Cleansing Ritual

Meditation Ritual

Inner Alchemy

Chapter 10

Summary of Part One

Part Two – Using the Complete Chart

Chapter 11

Complete Program

Ten-Year Luck Cycles

Annual Luck

Luck Calculation

Daily Luck

Clashes, Harms, Penalties and Trinities

Clashes in the Earthly Branches

Trinities or Super-Elements

Chapter 12

Try your own Interpretation

Understanding You and Your Family

The Meaning of Life – A Divine Mission

Love Interest

Animal Love

Prevention is always better than a Cure

Ten Gods Revisited

Note which of the Ten Gods are visiting

More points to note on the visiting ten gods

Tao of Forgiveness

Energy of Forgiveness

Tao of Abundance

Tao of Tools

Chapter 13

Further Sections on the IAA Chart

The Symbolic Stars

The 10 Stars – Names and Descriptions

The Cosmic ID number

The Hexagrams

The Pictogram

Support of the Roots, Season and Heaven

Predominant Heavenly Influence

Possible favourable and unfavourable Elements

Organ Energy Analysis

Clashes, Trinities and Animal ‘Cures’

Added Information

Earthly Branches Trinity Combinations

Early Heaven Pakua (Bagua) on page 18 of the chart

Appendix

Reference Tables

Glossary by Numbers

Other Terms

Recommended Reading

Links

Preface to New Edition

From its beginning in Metal Tiger year 2010, this Inner Alchemy Astrology book has proved solid support to astrology students, both within UHT and outside. As Tiger year comes around again in 2022, we felt that it was time to refresh and reprint. Mantak Chia has re-edited some of his 60+ books; the theories and practices are all viable today but he has added simpler explanations resulting from enlightenment from his many years of walking the talk or practising what he preaches.

This time the title is a homage to the late Dena Saxer, Mantak Chia’s first co-author with whom he wrote Transform Your Stress into Vitality; thank you Dena for your suggestion: Wisdom from the Stars. The title is so very appropriate and many have successfully used the wisdom conveyed. Indeed, the practices taught in Transform your Stress into Vitality are the ideal accompaniment to our Inner Alchemy Astrology chart.

One complete cycle of the earthly branches, 12 years, has seen Inner Alchemy Astrology blossom and grow. Since 2010, IAA has become an official branch of Universal Healing Tao System, and has been taught regularly: in Berlin, Tao Garden, many places and virtually; if the pandemic had one positive effect, then it was to be able to reach out world-wide and teach so much on-line. Master Chia’s astrology consultations have always been very popular and he has shared his secrets with us. Now more of us can help spread this knowledge.

From the IAA classes we have accredited some new teachers, quite a few consultants and many enthusiasts who use IAA for themselves or in their UHT classes, or in their other fields of work and life. The original programme has been completely re-created to its present, more graphical and colourful form, which contains much more information. A generous part of it is still free to use and the calculator site has hundreds of ‘hits’ a day. Inner Alchemy Astrology is now a copyrighted term and the vocabulary has also had a make-over. If you have done your IAA chart, you will be familiar with the presentation, different from the original ziping programme circa 2010. If not it is time to go to the website and take a look at your chart.

The extra wealth of content added is explained in Chapter 13. We hope you will find that this new edition smooths out anomalies between the first edition and the IAA programme.

Mantak Chia

Mantak Chia is the leading teacher of Taoist Inner Alchemy practices: meditation and Chi Kung, in the West. For the past ten years he has also built up a similar reputation in the East together with large numbers of Chinese students, both on his teaching visits there and for his Chinese language classes, including darkrooms, in Tao Garden.

He is the author of over sixty books, and hundreds of: booklets, DVDs, video and CDs, describing the theory and teaching the practices. He has taught hundreds of thousands of students and has trained a teaching corps of thousands to teach to others throughout the world. Many teachers have gone on to create Universal Healing Tao centres in their countries.

He created the Universal Healing Tao System in 1979: the system distils and clarifies ancient traditional Taoist practices and is now taught on every continent, providing a uniquely modern integration of traditional theory, method and practice.

It is a system of self-cultivation and independent spiritual development. Mantak Chia created the system to effectively share the many ancient Chinese meditative and internal energy practices transmitted to him by a series of masters and teachers from his native Asia. His sincere wish is that every individual may have the opportunity to complete the harmonious evolution of body, mind and spirit. Through these practices, the student learns to take personal responsibility for his or her own physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.

Mantak Chia was born in Thailand to Chinese parents in 1944. Recognised very early as having great potential for spiritual development, he was initiated into meditation practices by Buddhist monks at the age of six. While studying in Hong Kong, he learned tai chi chuan, aikido, kundalini yoga, healing massage techniques, the I Ching and astrology from a variety of teachers. His pursuit of Taoist teachings led him to meet Yi Eng (One Cloud Hermit), a Taoist master originally from central China, who was living in the mountains not far from Hong Kong. He became Mantak Chia’s principal teacher and over a period of ten years transmitted the most sacred and closely held Taoist practices and formulas and methods of inner alchemy. Realising that these important practices, as transmitted to him, could not be easily absorbed by Western students, Mantak Chia undertook to demystify them and integrate them using his Western human anatomy studies.

He also moved to New York for fifteen years, opening the Universal Healing Tao Center in 1979. He then returned to Thailand in 1994 and created Tao Garden, a teaching and training retreat centre and health spa in the beautiful foothills of the Himalayas, near Chiang Mai.

Tao Garden hosted the ‘Tao Congress – Pearls of Wisdom 2010’ in celebration of the thirty years of Universal Healing Tao’s existence. It was attended by Taoist teachers and practitioners from around the world and many of the system’s well-known were present as speakers. A delegation of the World Medical Chi Kung Federation, led by the President, presented Mantak Chia with a special honour for his work. He has also twice been named ‘Qigong Master of the Year’.

Tao Garden has since hosted regular UHT congresses and held a summer and winter retreat for the last 20 years. This includes the famous ‘Darkroom Retreats’ which concentrate on the higher practices. Meanwhile in the months between those retreats Mantak Chia undertook teaching world tours to at least 30 countries.

He has also taken part in many events organised by other spiritual leaders and has been interviewed on many different tv stations.

The challenge of the covid pandemic saw him teach on-line for 2 years, those zoom times being a life-line to many new and previous students.

Christine Harkness-Giles

Christine is a Senior Instructor in the Universal Healing Tao system, an astrologer and Feng Shui consultant from the UK, living in Europe. As a student of Taoism for many years, she studied: feng shui, astrology, the I Ching, notably with Master Joseph Yu, founder of the Feng Shui Research Centre.

Meeting Mantak Chia and learning the Universal Healing Tao practices provided the ‘missing link’ for her between Taoist knowledge and living Taoist philosophy in today’s world: working with chi and feeling chi in the body, becoming a way to live in harmony with the environment.

Regularly assisting Mantak Chia during his astrology consultations, when called on as a translator, she benefitted from true ‘master classes’ in Mantak Chia’s own Inner Alchemy Astrology. She has since helped to set-up the UHT Inner Alchemy Astrology branch and programme and regularly teaches at home in the Eurostar triangle of London, Paris, Brussels as well as in other parts of the world, mainly Thailand and Hawaii. Through her role in Mantak Chia’s European tour organisers’ team, she also has the satisfaction of sharing his work.

Acknowledgments

The authors and Mantak-Chia-Media wish to thank all those involved in the preparation and production of Wisdom from the Stars – Inner Alchemy Astrology.

We extend our gratitude to the many generations of Taoist Masters who have passed on their special lineage over thousands of years, in the form of unbroken oral transmission. We thank Taoist Master Yi Eng (One Cloud Hermit) for his openness in transmitting the formulas of Taoist Inner Alchemy.

We offer eternal gratitude to our ancestors and teachers for their many gifts to us, which enable our continued efforts in presenting the Universal Healing Tao System. As always, their contribution has been crucial in presenting the Taoist concepts and techniques of the Universal Healing Tao.

We wish to thank the thousands of unknown men and women of the Taoist healing arts who developed many of the methods and ideas presented in this book. For their continuous personal encouragement, we wish to thank our fellow Taoists, students, astrology clients, families and friends who have inspired the writing of this book by their eager desire to understand inner alchemy astrology.

Particular thanks to:

• our Tao Garden Production Team for the layout of the original 2011 edition, especially Suthisa Chaisam, Production Designer

• Pavlo Maksymenko, for his dedication, creative genius and work on the Inner Alchemy Astrology programme

• Eve Lome, photographer, for her generosity and for capturing the feel of the five elements in her work

• Jana Marx and Josefine Reimig of Mantak-Chia-Media for layout and production

• Universal Tao Germany Stiftung (Berlin Tao Foundation) for injecting the financial chi (qi) to keep the IAA programme functioning

Words of Caution

The information presented in this book is based on the authors’ personal experience and knowledge of Taoist astrology and practices.

The practices and chart reading described in this book have been used successfully for thousands of years by Taoists trained by personal instruction. Readers should not undertake the practices without receiving personal transmission and training from a certified instructor of the Universal Healing Tao, since certain of these practices, if done improperly, may cause injury or result in health problems. This book is intended to supplement individual training by the Universal Healing Tao and to serve as a reference guide for these practices. Anyone who undertakes these practices on the basis of this book alone, does so entirely at his or her own risk.

The meditations, practices and techniques of astrological interpretation described herein are not intended to be used as an alternative or substitute for professional medical treatment and care. If any readers are suffering from illnesses based on mental or emotional disorders, an appropriate professional health care practitioner or therapist should be consulted. Such problems should be corrected before starting Universal Healing Tao training.

Neither the Universal Healing Tao nor its staff and instructors can be legally, or in any other way, responsible, for the consequences of any practice or misuse of the information contained in this book. If the reader undertakes any exercise without strictly following the instructions, notes and warnings, the responsibility must lie solely with the reader.

This book does not attempt to give any medical diagnosis, treatment, prescription, or remedial recommendation in relation to any human disease, ailment, suffering or physical condition whatsoever.

Introduction

Taoist Astrology and Chinese Astrology are actually the same thing and many disciplines of the Taoist arts are referred to as either Chinese or Taoist, whilst being the same thing. That is of course because early Taoist thought was mainly defined in China, and so many of the theories and practitioners were justifiably Chinese.

Chinese Astrology is also known as Five Element Astrology as it defines the Five Element make-up of a person using calculations based on the Year, Month, Day and Time of birth. The place of birth has a relevance as well; particularly important is to know if there was a daylight saving or summer time in use at the time of your birth, in which case the hour needs adjusting to the time.

But above all we need to know where the natural place of the sun was, as it is solar time and the solar year which are used. Irregular shaped countries do not fit neatly into time zones; finding the solar hour of the actual birth place gives more accuracy, but this cannot be calculated in the chart.

There are several websites which can calculate this information for you to be able to put the correct solar time into our Taoist Astrology program. There is usually a link to a calculation reference site on the IAA complete chart page.

Chinese astrology is also known as the Four Pillars (of Destiny); as the Year, Month, Day and Time information form four pillars of information about your life, as defined by Universal energy at the time of birth. It is also called Ba Zi, which means eight characters, as each of these four pillars has two parts: a heavenly stem and an earthly branch, making eight characters. Those eight Chinese characters are visible on the complete chart; and the whole chart is in English. They are expressed in five element terms.

Knowledge of your own Five Element make-up can help you with your Supreme Inner Alchemy practices, or, if you are an instructor, you can use astrology chart information with your students. Knowledge of their own element make-up will help them better understand the principles behind the meditations and the positive and negative emotions stored in their own organs. It will be an aid to achieving faster, more pertinent and balanced results.

The Universal Healing Tao practices are based on inner alchemy, i.

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