Don’t try new tricks this Year of the Dog, as it favours those who stick to convention, Hong Kong fortune-tellers say
Their advice: Conservatism is the way to go this ‘double earth’ year, while the city’s leader and justice minister, likely to have a bumpy road ahead, should keep cool and face challenges bravely
This Year of the Dog will be an auspicious one for Hongkongers who play safe and stick to convention, but for others who are less prudent and more progressive, their fortunes could literally go to the dogs.
“It is a year of double earth. And it favours those who are conversative or the rise of social conservatism,” renowned Hong Kong-based soothsayer Raymond Lo Hang-lap said.
Thursday is the last day in the year of the Fire Rooster, with the Lunar New Year on Friday ushering in the year of the Earth Dog.
Popularly known as “Feng Shui Lo”, he predicts people’s fortunes through complex calculations of how the five elements – metal, earth, water, wood, and fire – interact based on the movement of the Sun and Moon to create auspicious or inauspicious forces.
Lo anticipated that the city’s pan-democrats would find themselves “being obstructed” when they tried to block government policies they disagreed with.
The “grandmaster” from the Singapore-based International Feng Shui Association, said: “The Earth Dog is a massive mountain. It could block your way. That means you might encounter obstacles and you would need to make efforts to remove them.”
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Referring to the election authorities’ disqualification of several pan-democrat candidates for the March 11 by-elections, Lo warned it was only the start of what was likely to be a bad year though he stopped short of making further predictions on how the opposition camp might fare.
