Saturday, October 28, 2006

Money Talks

Mirror, mirror on the wall, where lies the riches in one's world?

Lakshmi Mittal (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi_Mittal) is a billionaire industrialist, CEO of the world's largest steel company - Mittal Steel Company NV, and notably the 5th richest man according to Forbes in March 2006. Is he really worth the estimated fortune of US$27.7 billion, by birth?

BaZi (birth chart) of Lakshmi Mittal, w/o time pillar, 1950-06-15

Lakshmi is a Xin (yin metal) person, born in the 5th, yang fire solar month. His metal life element is weak, because the earthly branches are either individually fire elements or together form a partial fire combination (Tiger-Horse) or penalty (Tiger-Snake). And fire attacks metal, eliminating even its dubious root hidden in the Snake. The only obvious assistance the Xin metal has are in the heavenly stems: Geng metal (year-stem) reinforcing the presence of metal, and Ren water (month-stem) as a cooling agent suppressing the inherent inferno. His favourable elements are therefore metal, water and wet earth (Chen - yang earth, Dragon or Chou - yin earth, Ox).

I suspect Lakshmi might have been born in a time which supports his life element, possibly in the yang, wet earth hour between 7:00-8:59am or the metal hours between 3:00-6:59pm. That will have easily explained the tremendous success he enjoys since the hour pillar also represents the career palace. Besides, it will also set forth potentials for a unique condition known as "metal shines in the heat of summer", since the heavenly stems will then remain clean and uncontaminated by other elements, particularly earth.

Nonetheless, I believe the most significant contributing factor lies in his choice of trade: steel production, inevitably a metal industry. Irregardless of Lakshmi's hour of birth, the very nature of his trade already perfectly befits his BaZi and makes up for its apparent weakness in metal.

This may well serve as a case of wise selection against the odds of the givens.

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