Lucky 8, Barack Obama and the race that stops a nation.

Hi Everyone.

Have you wondered why shops are selling goods at $8.88 instead of $9.99 and so many people like 8 in their phone numbers and car number plates? Why did the Beijing Olympics start on the 8th of August 2008 at 8 p.m? In part, it is a Chinese superstition because the number 8 looks like their character for ‘happiness’. It is also like the ‘infinity’ symbol. But the Feng Shui reason is in the advanced system called ‘Flying Star’.

Flying Star is the time dimension of Feng Shui. It charts changes in the subtle environmental energies that affect our fortunes over 20 year, one year and even monthly time periods. Since 2004 we have been in the 20 year Flying Star period 8 and this is the main reason that the number is considered lucky up until 2024.

Period 8 is related to the ‘Gen’ trigram of the I Ching, which is associated with certain characteristics including knowledge, mountain, keeping still, the northeast, young men, hands and fingers and, of course, the number 8. So if we interpret the probable conditions arising from this we see that this 20-year period is a good time for keeping still like a mountain to acquire new knowledge – meditating on what has gone on before and moving on with new knowledge. And the best people to trust to do this are young men.

With this in mind in 2004 I started to look out for young up-and-coming politicians and when I spotted Barack Obama in 2006 with the other Democratic hopefuls I said to myself, ‘There he is – that is the next American President’. When I told my friends in New York about him they said, ‘Obama Bin who’? I said, ‘He will be the next US President’. They said, ‘Oh. We had better vote for him!’. Even when he was so close with Hilary Clinton in the Democrat race I knew he would win, because period 8 is a time for young men. Her time was period 7 (1984 to 2004), which was a time for young women. He is the 44th President and 4+4=8!

Period 8 also represents ‘current prosperity’ and therefore it is good to use it as much as possible for house and business addresses, telephone numbers, car number plates, prices of goods – and any other way you can think of. Is it any wonder that this year’s winner of the ‘race that stops a nation’ in Australia – the horse race called the Melbourne Cup – was number 8, Americain.

Number 8, Americain won the 2010 Melbourne Cup

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