About
I didn't come to this through curiosity. I came to it because nothing else was working.
I'm Xianting (贤廷). I run 筑壬 — a practical Chinese metaphysics consultancy in Singapore working across BaZi, Feng Shui, Yijing divination, number selection and name analysis.
Before this I spent my career in MNCs, in project management and strategy. That background is still how I work: I'm looking for the structure underneath a situation, and for the decision you can actually make on Monday morning.
A few years ago…
By most measures I was doing well. I had a track record, I was considered a strong performer, and I expected the next step to come.
It didn't. The promotion I'd been working toward didn't happen. A new manager arrived and over the following months my confidence came apart in pieces. I did the obvious thing and changed companies — and found the same conditions waiting for me, only heavier.
It didn't stay at work. Things at home thinned out. The distance between my wife and me widened quietly, the way it does when neither person is doing anything obviously wrong. Ties with people I was close to loosened. And my health gave way underneath all of it — that stretch of my life is measured in hospital visits.
That's the part I don't skip when people ask why I do this. I wasn't researching a subject. I was trying to get out from under something.
What changed
After enough time looking outward for an answer, I decided to go and learn it myself. Not to consult someone else. To understand it.
I found a teacher in Singapore working in an orthodox lineage, and I started studying properly — BaZi, Feng Shui, Yijing divination. And I used myself as the first case. Not as an observer of the material, but as the person it had to work on.
Over the next stretch, things steadied. My health settled into something manageable. The relationships that had gone quiet started to come back. At work, I regained the standing I'd lost.
筑壬
筑 means to build — constructing a life the way you'd construct anything solid, piece by piece.
壬 is the heavenly stem of water: flowing wisdom, resilience. It's also the energy code sitting inside my own name.
筑壬 exists because I went through it. Everyone who books a consultation is somewhere in their own version of that — a decision that won't resolve, a pattern that keeps repeating, a stretch that feels harder than it should.
用易经导航你成长的方向。
That isn't a slogan. It's the reason the practice exists.
The method, plainly
I work from Yin Yang, the Five Elements, and the 8 Trigrams. That's the foundation underneath everything I do — the BaZi readings, the Feng Shui audits, the number and name work.
If you've been to a consultation before, this is worth knowing up front — different schools reach different conclusions about the same house or the same chart. It's better to know which one you're getting.
A strategist's habits
Years in MNC project management and strategy taught me things this field doesn't usually teach.
- Structure over anecdote. I want to see how the parts of a situation connect before offering a view on any single one.
- Decisions, not descriptions. A reading that tells you what you're like is interesting. A reading that changes what you do next is useful. I'm aiming for the second.
- Plain language. In corporate life, if you couldn't explain it to the room, it didn't get approved. I've kept that.
What to expect
- Your chart gets studied, not matched. Roughly 30,000 people are born in any given hour. If a reading could be produced by formula, all 30,000 would be living the same life.
- No selling of extravagant Feng Shui ornaments. I've been on the receiving end of a consultation that ended with a set of expensive objects to place around the house. I placed them. Nothing changed. What I do instead is work with the layout, the placement and a selected use of crystals — changes you can make without turning your home into a showroom.
Start with a conversation
If you're not sure which service fits, don't guess. Message me and describe what's actually going on — I'll tell you what would help, and if nothing I offer would, I'll say that too.