2014 WATFengH ’S insi ShuDE &i IWnHATex’S aheaD Feng Shui In ex 60 YEARS, 12 BRANCHES, 10 STEMS, FIVE ELEMENTS, FOUR PILLARS, THREE KILLINGS, O TO MANY FLYING STARS . ALL ON ONE PAGE! FIVE ELEMENT THEORY Dearth of Earth? Short o’ It’s all in the stars, is it? FLYING STARS THEORY 20 4 WU XING Water? Yes, but wait . All jolly well - except XUAN KONG 1 N this may be the beginning when it’s not, of course. 3 7 3 3 7 of a beautiful friendship. Three Killings Which will it be this year? No Earth! No Water! Pages 4-5 Page 14 Pages 4-5 5 9 7 No worries NORTH W 6 4 2 E Career 1 8 3 S s Page 21 NORTHWEST Page 20 Page 22 NORTHEAST Travel & support THE YEAR’S GRINNERS Self-improvement TIGER SHEEP DOG Page 19 Page 23 HOURPILLAR DAYPILLAR MONTHPILLAR YEARPILLAR HEAVENLY WEST Creativity & children 丙 甲 辛 丙 STEMS Xin Bing Bing Jia } Yin Metal Yang Fire Yang Fire Yang Wood Rabbit Horse Tiger Horse Page 18 Page 24 BRANCHES 卯 午 寅 午 EAST Health & family Mao Wu Yin Wu } Yin Wood Yang Fire Yang Wood Yang Fire EARTHLY Pages 4-5 THE YEAR’S GROANERS RAT COW RABBIT Page 17 Page 25 SOUTHWEST SOUTHEAST Relationships Wealth & home SOUTH Reputation Page 16 Page 26 Page 15 HORSE’S NEGATIVE TRAITS HORSE’S POSITIVE TRAITS ARROGANT CONCEITED CUNNING ZHANG CI CONFIDENT CREATIVE ENERGETIC HOT-HEADED INSECURE MEDDLING TAI SUI HARD-WORKING INSPIRING KIND o e STUBBORN SUPERFICIAL VULGAR PATIENT PERSUASIVE POPULAR How best to handle the year’s S2 172.5˚-187.5˚ . the Tai Sui, Three Killings and top three heavenly horrors . Five Yellow Flying Star. Page 14 Y EA R HOR E Corporate Communications CLSA FENG SHUI INDEX 2014 THE CLSA FENG SHUI INDEX 2014 CLSA FENG SHUI INDEX 2014 YEAR OF THE wood horse CLSA FENG SHUI INDEX 2014 YEAR OF THE WOOD HORSE CLSA FENG SHUI INDEX 2014 It is written It is written Opportunities When we get multiply as they to the mountain, are seized. there will be a way through. * THE CLSA FSI FAQ bourse is a bourse, whose course, Ch What’s this CLSA Feng perforce, seems a random walk . inese New is celebrated Year with reference the lunar to calendar ( Shui Index all about? ‘less you’ve recourse to a secret A filly bit of foalishness, source on the year’s qi force - say, manely: We hoof a go at A predicting the relative a flamin’ thoroughbred! And what a breed, monthly moves of the indeed, this speedy Steed. Hang Seng Index for the coming Chinese year For if we’ve right-read the riddle-wrapper Zodiac position: No.7 using little more than that retails as the 2014 Celestial Form Guide, Lunar month: 5th (June) ‘wind and water’ - in the soon-to-be-bourse-boss Hoss bridling to Hours: 11am - 1pm other words, feng shui. Fixed element: Fire ETHEigh FOURt EXTINCTIONSdays THE FOURwit DEPARTUREShout qi CELESTIALSky W MOVEMENTSatch UNSADDLINGNeigh Da DATESys HHORSE-SPICIOUSay Day DsATES grab the zodiac reins come sparra’s start on Direction: South All this fuss and fiddle- By a season’s end, the Mid-season, qi is also Only one of the four 10 JUN Tuesday 24 MAY Saturday 4 February* is un toro in toto: pure bull from Chinese name: ma 馬 faddle at right is what? qi is exhausted; the said to be spent, and eclipses this year is visible in Hong Kong. 22 JUN Sunday 05 JUN Thursday grass-cutters to fly-swatter. We rather hoped it was last days are deadly: thus the days deadly: 04 JUL Friday 24 JUN Tuesday self-explanatory. It’s the 04 MAY Sunday 20 MAR Thursday TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE 17 JUL Thursday 22 OCT Wednesday ‘Horsefeathers!’ we seem to hear you snort THE HORSE’S TAIL CLSA Feng Shui Index 06 AUG Wednesday 20 JUN Friday 08 OCT Wednesday 09 DEC Tuesday 08 NOV Saturday in retort (though we could have sworn it came The plotters’ mantra 2014. At the top of each 18:25 - 19:25 (‘location’ x3) gives us a 06 NOV Thursday 22 SEP Monday 31 DEC Wednesday 20 NOV Thursday from that po-faced pony behind you). You month column is: our call 03 FEB 2015 Tues 21 DEC Sunday key to the gee-gee and (Ahead, Middlin’, Behind may be right - we know not the mechanics entree to the grinners’ - echoed by the small 31 circle. At No. , Mister Ma by which the Divine Equine will effect the Jan in 7 arrows); start and end firestarts the final leg of Chinese-calendar dates; lofty heights marked on the flight plan at left. the Chinese zodiac’s 12- and best direction for ‘Apples-horse!’ you neighsay (or perhaps it 2014 year cycle, unleashing windfalls. Various panels was your long-faced friend). Where did we feng); shui calculations typically use which the solar starts calendar, the new year on the first day of Spring, a flashflood of second- highlight the most horse- wind qi in his wake. It’s spicious and unsaddled get this ‘wide-eyed, pie-in-the-blue-sky, pigs- a tiptop tonic, but mere days. The red feverline might-fly, barmy-side-of-the-Street, saddle- sarsaparilla to the mare- shows the direction and brewed giddyup gear strength of our call. The brained bull’s spit’? A whisper of wind and a dispensed by the Wood coloured bars assess the babble of water - that’s feng shui for you. The Horse, at whose hooves balance of the energies two old characters (風水) may not look much, the mane 60-year cycle (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal of the zodiac pivots and and Water) versus their but in harness they’re the keepers of centuries heads for home. That’s ideal 20% weight - the of cumulative conjecture and complex calcu- some seriously strong qi. HSI should do best when lation by the best and brightest, seeking to all five align. Next is the They don’t rate engines month’s Chinese zodiac make sense of what often seems to have none. by horse units for neigh name and a summary of For those who delight in devilish detail, the reason. Gee-gee qi is our more detailed call. powerful, race-paced, rationale behind this year’s CLSA Feng Shui positive and surprisingly How do you do all this? Index is given throughout the report. Here, sensitive to sentiment. It Dip a toe in the briny, we simply note that our focus, first and fore- both feeds off and fans then hold it up to the good vibes and virtuous breeze. Seer-iously, we most, is forecasting the fate of the Hang Seng cycles. Is the ol’ Hi-ho seek the views of a few Aaand . racing! The A second helping of With Fire expired, the ‘Yee-haww!’ as the Overall money flows Our Arriba! call for Balance? You’d get And here comes last Hitch a ride as Mr Ma Once again, the Stars ‘Lots of action; little A Cow of a month? Index, which - as we revealed last year - is an hot to trot or what? Fire-sired Steed leads much-missed coal cuts best we can hope for bomb-buckin’ Major are strong even if the the month could turn better from a drunk month’s even meaner heads back up north, lift the spirits. And a traction’ - that’s the To the Horse-hurried, true sifu - master casters Earth Rooster with yin-water Day Master. who know bazi (fortune a stampede whose Fires animal spirits; all is flatlining overall. Kong would put it. index itself may slow. Arribah-humbug! in chatting up a lamp- big bro-uh-oh! Cross affording some much- Rooster booster surely call for what’s likely -harried and -hee- In fundam-elemental charts) backwards, can speed we read as under the influence of Plenty of bright spots Against tradition’s Element balances are a flash, so best to be post. Fire’s fled afore stars are clashing and needed relief, albeit is in order. Though the to be the ding-dong hawed Hang Seng’s As such, we expected to chart no better terms, the Wood of the make wu xing (the five fast enough to leave another brace of brill though, including the trend, we expect to definitely decent and nimble. Five Yellow a flash Flood. Even the energy flows lack all too brief, between trend is down in the month of the year. Rooster, it’s moo-tiful ! than a decent outlook under the Horse. What coming year will fuel energies) sing and never Gansu’s swift-lifted Flying Stars. But we coin-it combination make hay in May as it’s double-double for Star is a pain but it the ‘romance’ star passion - and since it Doomsday Bookends south, there are lodes Stars may beam, but See page 9 rather than feud with # # we found was a series of coincidences, odd- read xuan kong (flying Flier swallowin’. Stars rein in expectations, of 6 & 8. Chance Mr Ma finds his hot Flying Stars’ powers, can be contained. seems more inclined is too late to cash in, of grief. Not the mane of luck and stacks of the best-played hands the Horse’s intrinsic Fire stars) wrong. We pop it align; energies sync. reflecting a few dark of heavy windfalls feet and heads for which we rate ‘great’. Well, at least it’s not to slap than tickle. we’ll settle for a few game - but handy cash hidden here and of Mice and Mr Ma ities and affinities that persuaded us this may - which, luckily enough, all in a bagua blender, Mustang Seng’s off! blots on the qi-scape.