I Talk to the Animals: A Definitive Guide to the Four Pillars of Destiny

The Four Pillars of Destiny or ba zi, drafting and interpretation. Chinese Astrology made accessible.

I Talk to the Animals is a comprehensive guide to the Ba Zi, or Four Pillars of Destiny (sometimes misleadingly called a Chinese Horoscope), including Rules of Clash, Combination, Harm and Break-Up, assessment of strength, Special Stars, Special Combinations and Affinities - and, indeed, everything you need to master drafting and interpreting a Ba Zi in Chinese Characters. Ba Zi's being a life study - that, of course, is where the work starts.

Richard Ashworth’s work has been highlighted many times in the media but he is probably best known for introducing authentic Chinese Imperial Feng Shui to BBC tv’s Housebusters and for his book The Feng Shui Diaries. which apart from anything else, may be the funniest book written on the subject to date. He is internationally famous for his ground breaking transformational work with the ba zi or Four Pillars of Destiny, otherwise misleadingly known as the Chinese Horoscope. Press has included the Guardian Diary, Spirit and Destiny, Art and Architecture, and 25 Beautiful Homes. He has worked with A-Listers such as Gillian Anderson of the X-Files (who said he “commands both confidence and awe”) and professionals like Britain’s favourite Interior Designer Kelly Hoppen (see link below) and he has been the subject of the Sunday Times feature ‘A Life in the Day’ His Diaries which are available free from this website, appear on the site of the Feng Shui Society. In the summer of 2010 he was on Big Brother’s Little Brother to give his view of the Big Brother houses over the years which he described as “the dark side of feng shui.”