Big Picture – Entering the 9th Period

We often lose ourselves in small, personal timeframes, focusing on our Charts, Dynamic Luck, annual pillars, etc., but it’s good from time to time to look at the big picture and see where we are all heading as a planet and as a society.

As some of you may know, BaZi consists of many timeframes, including yearly, monthly, daily, and hourly cycles. There are even smaller cycles, which are measured in minutes and seconds. Still, they are not very practical to use because most people don’t know the exact minute of their birth, so most practitioners ignore that information.

But our topic today is a larger cycle of 20 years, governed by a single Element. We are currently in Period 8, which started in 2004 and will last until the end of 2023. Earth Element governs the current Period, and because the cycle is going backward, the next, Period 9 (also known as Purple Flying Star #9), will be governed by Element of Fire.

Period shifts usually bring rather dramatic changes on a global level, and we often see those changes coming our way a few years beforehand. In 2000, we had a major dotcom market crash just a few years before we entered Period 8. This year, we have some significant challenges too, a few years before we officially enter Period 9.

Changing periods means that certain types of businesses and activities will lose support, while other types will gain it. The real estate business boomed during the Earth governance in Period 8; we saw a lot of development in that area, and being a real estate broker was a trendy and highly profitable profession. We also saw a rise in Airbnb listings, which made the real estate business more mainstream, allowing anyone to earn money by renting their property, no matter how small it was.

Period 8 wasn’t very innovative, though, from a technological standpoint. The development of Social Media was not based on innovative technology, but more on making already existing systems, like AOL chat and public forums, more efficient and widespread.

Period 9 will be different; we will see many high-tech innovations come to life, like Artificial Intelligence and robotics, accelerating the growth of our society tremendously. Bitcoin and Blockchain technology will become the backbone of this ecosystem, and we will see widespread adoption of decentralized services, such as decentralized social media and even decentralized currencies.

The world is entering an era of exponential growth; things are moving very fast these days and will move even more quickly in the coming years. A lot of people won’t be able to keep up with this pace and might fall behind; that’s why it is essential to keep our focus on physical and mental health, otherwise, the pace of development might be overwhelming. All those sci-fi movies we watched in the last 50 years will soon be our reality.

Period 9 will also boost the beauty, spirituality, and life coaching industries. Methods like BaZi will become more popular as people become more open-minded about these things. Because of the development in Artificial Intelligence and robotics, we will generally have more time to explore and learn new skills.

When it comes to our compatibility with Period 9, Yang Fire and Yin Fire Master Elements will get a boost, due to Fire influence. In the last Period, we saw people with a strong Earth Element, on average, being more successful than those with other Master Elements (Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal, to name a few).

This doesn’t mean that every Fire person will suddenly become very successful; our charts still play a significant role, but generally, they might experience an extra boost during this Period.