Chinese Astrology:
Inner Landscape Readings
with Dr. Paul Arellano
萬物之所生也，性於從
“Each being’s life unfolds according to its inner nature”
-The Book of Zhou
Discover Your Life Path with a BaZi Inner Landscape Reading!
Explore deeper aspects of your being through elegant imagery of natural symbols and personal landscape, through the unique lens of a 八字 BaZi natal chart reading. This Classical Chinese divination system explores the zodiac animals and elemental forces in your birth chart, which in turn is used to construct a picture of your “Inner Landscape”. The Inner Landscape image illustrates your natural resources, skills and areas of growth in a way that is beautiful, personal and easy to understand.
In reading your BaZi chart, we explore how to make the most of your personal resources to find fulfillment in life and navigate difficult decisions or challenges. Where there is a lack of resource, we explore how to best access these resources in the world and relationships surrounding you. We will also look at the timing of auspicious moments throughout life. The BaZi is a practical problem-solving system, and is useful when you have specific goals or life questions in mind: we consult the map and find the best route to the destination you are seeking.
A BaZi reading explores your inner strengths, challenges and ultimately, destiny
At its heart, a BaZi reading offers a mirror in which we can glimpse a new dimension of ourselves. It reveals our inner strengths, challenges and ultimately our destiny, to help guide us in our day-to-day living and better understand how to work with points of friction in our relationships, career and life pursuits. If you are feeling stuck in your work, your relationships or personal development, overcoming these obstructions may be a simple matter of identifying the helpful resources - activities, skills and dynamics in life - and consciously nurturing those aspects. BaZi Inner Landscape reading guide the way with simple, intuitive imagery and detailed analysis of your personal chart
Inner Landscape Example Chart:
Here, using Frida Kahlo’s Bazi Chart as an example, we can see how the elements and zodiac animals of a chart become an Inner Landscape image. Above is a sample of her Bazi Chart, with the color of the animals representing their associated elements (Fire for Horse, Earth for Dragon and Goat, Wood for Rabbit). Frida’s chart is extremely hot and dry, with so much fire and earth — but no water! The hour a person is born in symbolizes a dominant aspect of their personality, so the Rabbit in the foreground is symbolic of Frida’s personality and relationship with the “Landscape” of her life.
As the picture of her Inner Landscape visualizes, this as a chart and life full of passion, inspiration and daring but also precariousness, with the dominating influence of Fire threatening to overwhelm the whole landscape if nothing is brought in to contain it.
Discover your Inner Landscape— the unique skills and opportunities present in your BaZi chart!
I offer individual readings and also offer Partnership Compatibility Charts for couples, co-workers, family members or any two people who want to discover how best to understand and collaborate with one-another harmoniously.
For those who have already received a reading, I offer Yearly Tune-Ups, offering a detailed look into the coming year in terms of overall energetics, your personal roadmap for the year, and a month-by-month analysis of your helpful resources and activities.
What you can expect:
Before our reading, I will need your birthday, time and birthplace to begin calculating your BaZi chart.
I will spend time calculating and analyzing your chart, which I will then translate into the Inner Landscape map slideshow, with all insights spelled out in detail. This process is done by hand and takes several hours of personal attention to your chart.
A 90-minute reading (Zoom or in person for PDX), walking through your Inner Landscape with detailed analysis of your personal constitution, character, plus the aspects of life and activities that benefit or hinder your growth and development.
A PDF of your Inner Landscape reading (30+ pages), complete with personalized images of your Inner Landscape and written descriptions of everything covered in the reading.
Ongoing support for any questions regarding your chart or personal life questions that may come up after our reading - complimentary for all BaZi clients in perpetuity.