According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, “success” is “the accomplishment of an aim or purpose.” But The Britannica Dictionary goes a bit further: success is “the fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.”

In reality, what the word evokes, from psychological and social points of view, goes well beyond that, and is connected to other aspects such as the natural need for being the center of attention and winning (over others), that is, the spirit of competition, which in itself is not necessarily problematic and can even contribute to the progress of communities.

These observations are relevant to the highly subjective nature of the matters addressed by traditional knowledge such as Western astrology and Chinese Bazi.

Both millennia-old systems, still in use today, aim for the same thing: trying to find an answer to the apparent unpredictability of what happens in people’s lives throughout their existence.

On the other hand, it must be taken into account that a person’s life story is much more than a mere, neutral, and objective inventory of situations, moods, and events. The same “objective” event has different meanings for each person, and it must be recognized that, beyond the various psychological and spiritual aspects at play, there are indeed “good”/desirable things and “bad”/undesirable things in life, which these divinatory systems always take into account when diagnosing and prognosticating.