The movements of the planets and stars at a particular moment in time create energies that influence everyone's life, success, failures, aspirations, hopes, and happiness. Whether this influence is positive, negative or neutral depends on the individual – first, it depends on when that individual was born (time, date, month and year) and second, whether that person has lived a good, productive and non-harmful life. Good things come to those who do good. Thus, if a person who has lived a life of crime, harm or ill will can not expect the same results as someone who has lived an honorable, useful and good hearted life.

The time, date, month and year of a person's birth imbues in that person a certain cosmic energy and heavenly influence that stay with them their entire lifetime. This energy and influence generally governs their life, but whether it is an auspicious time, inauspicious time or neutral time in a person's life depends on the energies created by the alignment of the planets and stars. Thus, not everyone will be affected by the cosmic energies the same. Two people born during the same year may generally experience similar affects of the heavenly movements, but will not have the same auspicious or inauspicious times because they may have been born in different months. Even if they were born in the same year and month, they will not be the same if they were born on different days. In fact, if two people are born on the same day, month and year, but different times (down to the second), then they will have different cosmic influences over their lives.

With the knowledge of one's own auspicious or inauspicious times, a person can dramatically change the way he makes decisions and go about taking action on those decisions. For example, perhaps you are trying to decide whether to take advantage of an opportunity that has been presented to you. If that opportunity arose during an auspicious time in that person's personalized feng shui calendar, then that should give comfort that it is an opportunity worth considering and pursuing. However, if that opportunity arose during an inauspicious time, then don't spend any additional time or energy considering it.

Similarly, if you are planning to enter into a business transaction, to help ensure its success you can make the formal decision or sign the formal documents during your auspicious time. If you do it during an inauspicious time, then such venture will surely not go well. The same concept is true when it comes to purchasing stock, asking for a promotion, proposing a marriage, negotiating for the purchase of a car, house or business, or doing anything in which you desire a positive result. Conversely, if you know that a certain time is your inauspicious time, then you can reduce your activities and not make major decisions or take any important decisions.

Being armed with the knowledge of one's auspicious times can be a powerful advantage when dealing with those who may not have such information and are just blindly walking through life and being subject to luck or non-luck. In a way, this information greatly enhances one's luck, perhaps even creating one's own luck, if used properly. The temporal aspects of feng shui by themselves can be a very useful tool in decision making. However, coupled with the other aspects of feng shui, harnessing the powers of timing can be a tremendous tool to achieving and ensuring success.

As mentioned earlier however, the cosmic energies are most helpful to those who live a productive, useful and helpful life. That is, those who do good deeds, whether big or small, benefit more from the cosmic forces than those who lead a harmful, unhelpful or nonproductive life.

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