Are our decisions truly ours?

Yesterday, I stumbled upon a news piece about a well-known CNN anchor, Chris Cuomo, who said in an interview that he doesn’t like his job anymore and wants to move on.

From a typical perspective, it seems he arrived at that conclusion through observation and life experience. But the question is: are our decisions based on logic and reasoning, or is something else at play? After a glance at his BaZi Chart, it seems to me that his decision to completely change his career stems from an external push he is receiving through his Dynamic Luck.

Chris Cumo is an intense Yin Metal. Over the last 20 years, he has been going through a highly favorable Water period, boosting his Output Component, which is quite essential in his line of work.

This Water made his Metal highly utilized. Around May 2020, he will be out of that period, moving into a powerful Earth influence, while the Water will be pretty much gone. Ox will combine with his Rooster and reinforce the Metal Element, while Yin Earth will combine with his Yang Wood stem. Yang Wood is his Supertalent, The Communicator, which is also highly valuable in his profession.

Is it a coincidence that only a few weeks before his Dynamic Luck goes through a dramatic change, he is questioning everything he has done in the last 20 years?

It seems to me that his decision has very little to do with his personal preferences and decision-making process, but more with a change in his Dynamic Luck. Without Output, and at the same time, Communicator Talent changing its nature, his goals and his drive have changed.

He didn’t specify which direction he wants to take after a career on TV, but I assume this will be something completely different. This Ox period is not very useful for him, to be honest, but after that, he will enter Wood, which will boost his Entrepreneurship Talent Bridge so that he might do quite well money-wise.

His case is interesting from a BaZi perspective because it shows how often our decisions are not actually ours. Dynamic Luck represents one kind of cosmic push, influencing our thoughts, feelings, and decision-making process. We can imagine Dynamic Luck as a new piece of code, an upgrade of our software. Most people are not even aware that we regularly receive upgrades. These upgrades are necessary to experience different situations in life, whether good or bad. But knowing ahead of time what will be the nature of our next test can be pretty helpful, don’t you agree 😉