Book Review 3: Correct Way of Understanding a Person's Destiny - Benson Yeo

 

 

 This was first book by Benson Yeo... There are few things that are definitely worth knowing from there. The first is the idea of Noble Elements. While today that is somewhat expanded in different places, that seems important idea, as it provides alternative way of reading that seems more aligned to what is happening, in some cases.

As that are the three very popular approaches, it seems. One decides the "useful element" based on temperature of the chart(basically born in summer or winter). Another does it by strength of DM, here we have it based on "usefulness" / Images. 

That seems to be also an approach one may want to know, although nice to keep in mind in other sources the Noble Elements can be different. Usually the idea is the same, but some may be switched, in some cases many.

That also seem able to provide its own way of reading of the whole chart, one reads based on what is missing(Ding missed for Geng DM, then we can already guess what the Geng DM may be missing, as it would be unrefined and raw, in a way it won't be with Ding useful in there).

Other then that, there are some poetic texts to describe Stems/Branches/Hidden Stems that seem very nicely made. The description of the DMs also is very interesting.Also focus on DM strength based on specific elements(rooting etc.) that are rarily focused on, I do find logic in this.

So can recommend his first book, overall, its not "game changing", but stuff from here one may want to know.

 Other books from Benson Yeo... Well, there were a few pages articles about "everything we want to know about wealth ... etc." They were very nice, the style used is close to what people used in the big forums some years ago and very valid, in my humble view. They weren't very big though, but very practical.

Overall, it may need some picking of information from here or there, but if one is willing to do it, there is stuff that is worth seeing in his first book and in the articles.