Feel Good Friday: Find Your Day Element This Weekend

Nobody is shut out of the money.

I want that on the record, because this week I've been a little hard on the Golden Pig. On Monday I told you it's only golden for some of you. On Wednesday I showed you how to time your own wealth luck. If your Day Master isn't Wood, you may have finished the week feeling like the party was happening in another room.

It isn't. I'm the Firepig, and I'll tell you what I believe after 40 years of people asking me when their money is coming: every element gets its turn.

The Wheel Doesn't Play Favorites

Look at how time actually works in this system. Every hour, every day, every month and every year has an element, and they keep turning. No element owns the calendar. Inside any twelve months, every one of the five comes around.

That means every Day Master gets a wealth month, every single year. Wood has it now. After the Pig leaves on December 7, the next two months are Metal months, so if your Day Master is Fire, you're next. In February a Water month arrives, and that's the one the Earth Day Masters have been waiting for.

And if your Day Master is Water, you've been sitting in your wealth year all along. This is a Fire year, and next year is another one.

I find that deeply comforting. Luck isn't a club. It's a schedule.

"But Bill, I've Had Bad Luck for Years"

I've heard it across the table many, many times. I won't tell you it isn't real. Some stretches are hard, and I've never promised anybody otherwise.

But I'll tell you what I see when somebody says that. They've usually been judging their luck by what they read about their animal sign, or by what's lucky for everyone this month. They've been standing at the wrong bus stop, wondering why their bus never comes.

Your bus has a schedule. It's just written on a different page than you've been reading: the one with your day element on it.

And a wealth period isn't a lottery ticket. You still need the other factors, and you still have to do the work. But I would much rather you do the work knowing when it has its best chance than do it in the dark.

This Weekend's Challenge

Three small things. Coffee-length. That's all.

Find your day element. Get your date of birth, use a free Four Pillars calculator, and look at your day sign. Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal or Water. Write it down somewhere you'll see it.

Find your wealth element. Wood looks for Earth. Fire looks for Metal. Earth looks for Water. Metal looks for Wood. Water looks for Fire. That's yours for life.

Mark your next turn. Find the next month that carries your wealth element and put it on your calendar. Then write one sentence next to it: what you want to be ready to do when it arrives. Ask for the raise. Open the account. Finish the thing.

That's the whole challenge. And then enjoy your weekend, because here's the part I want you to feel good about.

You spent years thinking money either found you or it didn't. It's more orderly than that, and a good deal kinder. Your turn is on the calendar. You only have to go and look.

What's your element? I'd love to hear what you find.

If you want to see the whole picture, the Day Master and everything around it, a personal reading is the place to look. And the way of seeing behind all of this is in The Mahjong Mirror.