Taoist ways to change your luck: methods and rituals for turning fortune, breaking luck-borrowing spells, habits that drain wealth, and an old master's advice.
At the burial mound field, a man in a black robe threatens Qian Minghui and reveals that he means to seize three generations of the Qian family's blessings. After a great fire in the city, Qian risks his life to save others and gives his wealth to the needy, and the power of virtue breaks the spell and unmasks the mastermind.
Qian Minghui, a generous Ming-dynasty merchant of Suzhou, begins losing money at forty and finds a talisman bearing his birth data buried at home. An old Taoist master identifies the art of luck borrowing and describes three remedies; Qian uncovers his steward's suspicious acts, but a greater master seems to lurk behind them.
Taoism holds that “my destiny lies with me, not with Heaven,” and that fate can be changed. This article presents four methods: doing good deeds, honoring the ancestors, adjusting the feng shui of ancestral graves, and understanding one's own BaZi to choose favorable colors, directions, homes, numbers, and careers.
Ten everyday methods for changing one's luck compiled by an old Taoist master: the Twelve Pieces of Brocade, jujube and saliva for qi, water for calming qi, choosing a home, a feng shui self-check, purifying the house with salt and rice, settling the Earth God, enshrining deities properly, reciting scriptures, and self-protection against evil.
Money has a spirit of its own, and your attitude toward money decides its attitude toward you. Beginning with the story of Li Ka-shing retrieving a single coin, this article lists ten habits that let wealth leak away, from refusing change and ignoring coins on the ground to careless storage and flaunting wealth.
An introduction to common Taoist rituals for turning one's luck: repaying the underworld debt of rebirth, rituals of deliverance, rites for averting passes and sha and worshiping the Dipper, replenishing the treasury of wealth and honoring the God of Wealth, Wenchang rites for career, harmony rites for marriage and family, and the Flaming Mouth food-bestowal rite.
This part presents the Taoist “Twelve Verses” for changing luck and destiny, also called the Twelve Pieces of Brocade—from sitting with closed eyes and a darkened mind, tapping the teeth, and beating the Heavenly Drum to the windlass turns and reaching for the feet—with line-by-line notes on method and health principles.
Taoism holds that changing one's luck and destiny requires dual cultivation of nature and life: the mind turns first, qi follows, the body shows the change, and destiny takes shape. This article explains the core theory and its sequence, with Taoist maxims for daily cultivation of nature and of the body.