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Of the Taoist Five Arts, Feng Shui is the most well known in the West. A Feng Shui master is someone who can read the story that will unfold at any given location. This story is likened to the seam because it isn’t everything that will happen there – there will be many neutral days in addition to the good and bad, but this seam of the Feng Shui stitches it all together into a certain shape.
For those with good Feng Shui, their Feng Shui will be like haute couture that showcases their good qualities and covers up their faults.
For those with bad Feng Shui, their Feng Shui will be like a straight jacket that stops them from being able to show their ability and resists their every attempt to shrug it off!
Palm reading is another way of reading the story that will unfold, so it was with delight that when acclaimed Korean-American author and prominent literary agent, Catherine Cho held a book launch party to release her new novel, we were invited along to a memorable twist to the evening’s narrative.
Before seeing her palm, we knew Catherine Cho was full of amazing lines, as she first captured the literary world’s attention with her striking 2020 debut memoir, Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness. The book chronicled her terrifying, sudden descent into stress-induced postpartum psychosis following the birth of her son – an event that landed her in an involuntary psychiatric ward. Highly praised for its raw honesty and luminous prose, Inferno was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and the Jhalak Prize, establishing Cho as a major new voice in contemporary literature.
Her new novel, The Devoted, marks a brilliant transition from memoir to fiction.
Set against the vivid and layered backdrop of Hong Kong, The Devoted is a sweeping, atmospheric family drama steeped in the city’s criminal underworld. The story follows Eunha, a young Korean woman raised in a quiet Hong Kong village by her grandmother. Eunha and her brother grow up sheltered from the reality of their father’s notorious reputation as a “Dragon Head”—the leader of an infamous triad organization.
Eunha attempts to build a clean, respectable life by marrying into an elite Hong Kong family and adopting the peaceful routine of a high-society wife. However, the carefully constructed veneer of her life shatters when her young son is kidnapped. Cast violently back into the criminal underground she spent her life trying to outrun, she crosses paths with Kai—a boy from her past who has now risen to become a Dragon Head himself.
The story written on our hands is similar. Each of us has parts of our character that like unruly villains. If we let our greed, anger, jealousy, delusion, envy and selfishness take centre stage in the story of our life, it can easily turn into a disturbing and uncomfortable plot.
Fortunately, we also have heroes and heroines that can come to our rescue – our good virtues such as honesty, uprightness, loyalty, respect, patience, generosity, empathy and kindness. If these characters are made the focus of our story, even if we have to go through some wild adventures, it will turn into a brilliant tale that others will want to pay attention to.
Palm reading tells us that although there will be others in our life’s story – lovers, bosses, friends, enemies and so on – the real narrator is how we manage the battle between our disturbing emotions and our virtues. Even if encounter a whole army of scoundrels, one with great virtue will definitely find a way to overcome them.
Yeah, yeah, we hear you say. All sounds great in principle, but who has actually done that?
One famous example of a man full of virtues yet surrounded by an army of evil men was the Khitan statesman, Yelu Chucai (Yeh-Lu Ch’u Tsai), who faced none other than the greatest invader of nations that has ever existed – Genghis Khan and his Mongol army.
In 1214, Khan laid siege to the Jin dynasty city of Zhongdu (nowadays known as Beijing). The young Yelu Chucai, then a Confucian governmental official in the city, watched the siege and was deeply disturbed by the carnage, turning to Chan Buddhism to restore his inner peace.
Three years later, he had reached some level of attainment but was summoned by Khan.
The Khitans and Mongols, were united by their common enemy in the Jin dynasty. When Genghis Khan met Yelu Chucai for the first time, there was a famous exchange:
The Khan is said to have been impressed by this frank reply, which avoiding bonding with Khan based upon hatred alone, as well as by Yelu Chucai’s presence – a man of tall stature, a long beard, and a sonorous voice. He was given the nickname “Urtu Saqal” (Long Beard) and placed him in his retinue as an adviser.
Due to his language skills, he effectively worked like Genghis’ lawyer, mediating between the Mongols and Chinese. At the same time, he never forgot his roots in Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. He would often perform divination for Genghis and is credited with stopping the destruction of many temples.
It was the practice of the Mongols to annihilate the populations it had conquered, and there was pressure within the Mongol court to wipe out Northern China and turn it into pasture for the Mongols. Yelu Chucai said it would be far better to tax the conquered rather than slaughter them, a plan that was met with mockery about weeping for the people. Yelu countered that it was possible to conquer people by force but it wasn’t possible to rule them by it. When his taxation plan was accepted, it is believed that it saved as many as eight million lives.
Yelu Chucai’s real life story tells us that it is possible to change the way the world is headed by sticking to virtues and morals, but like him, we need to develop skill at it. He was able, as a foreigner, to stand down the feared Genghis Khan and his army because he was upright and noble with disarming honesty. We all have this within us, but like biceps, if we don’t work them out, they won’t have any power to move anything. To this day, almost a thousand years later, Yelu Chucai is remembered and celebrated as a great hero of the people because he believed in doing the right thing more than he feared his own death. The more we work on doing what we can to benefit others and free them from suffering, the greater our life’s story will be.
Palm reading and bazi astrology can help us quickly know who are the strongest heroes supporting us. For some it is tolerance. For others it is generosity, uprightness, wisdom or compassion. Unlike Catherine’s novel, where the final chapter is already written and set, palm reading helps us know what to do in order to arrive at a happy ending. The skill in being a fortune teller is not about making out that life will perfectly rosy. Everyone will suffer from problems and challenges, no matter how high or lowly we are. But by knowing how to enlist the right heroes of our own mind, we can go on great adventures and leave an inspirational story for generations to come, just like Yelu Chucai.
Our Master Charlotte attended the event at Reference Point, an just off The Strand in London, providing non-stop consultations for a very literary crowd – they were well read in every way! We hope everyone went away believing in the parts of them that can make a difference, and had greater confidence to face all the dramas life will test us with on our journey. Every human being has the potential to be amazing and our sessions aim to help you see that in yourself.
If you’d like to add some unforgettable stories to your event, all delivered in a light hearted fashion with an inspiring aspect, have a look at our Party & Event Fortune Telling Services and get in touch.