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Colonel Harland Sanders
Eleven herbs and spices, a white suit and a cane, Kentucky Fried Chicken — he is the founder whose own likeness came to stand in front of restaurants around the world. After drifting through job after job, he began serving meals in a corner of a filling station at forty, and lost his restaurant at sixty-five. From the road trips he then made with a pension cheque and a pressure cooker, selling his recipe, a worldwide chain was born. His two beginnings fall in the same kind of year, twenty-five years apart. On the day in March 1964 when he let the company go, what overlapped? We read his ninety years against the phases of destiny and time.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Colonel Harland Sanders — Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken
- Period analysed
- 1890–1980
- Three pillars
- Day 癸巳 / Month 乙酉 / Year 庚寅
- Void branches
- 午未 (Horse–Goat)
- Destiny area
- 0.033 The area of the triangle formed by the three pillars on the sixty-cycle circle (maximum 1.30)
- Format
- PDF, 14 pages — written in Japanese
- Price
- ¥50,000 including tax
Research Brief
What the case shows
- His destiny carries a pattern of wisdom and originality, while holding a gap in the place that passes things down to others.
- His father's death, his first restaurant, the loss of that restaurant and the public listing of the company fall in the same kind of year, twelve years apart.
- The decade in which his main star and his foremost supportive star aligned was also the decade in which his total measure fell lowest.
- In the year he let the company go, the element that brings his destiny closest to completion stood in the open.
- Three months after entering a twenty-year void, he died.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why did his chicken reach the world only after he lost his restaurant at sixty-five?
- Why did his two beginnings fall in the same kind of year?
- What overlapped in March 1964?
- Why did the company he completed grow in other hands?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1895 | 乙未 (天) | Loses his father |
| 1930 | 庚午 (天) | Begins serving meals at a filling station in North Corbin |
| 1939 | 己卯 | His restaurant and motel burn down |
| 1952 | 壬辰 | The first franchise opens in Salt Lake City |
| 1955 | 乙未 (天) | Interstate 75 bypasses him; he gives up the restaurant at sixty-five |
| 1964 | 甲辰 | Sells the company for two million dollars |
| 1966 | 丙午 (天) | Kentucky Fried Chicken goes public |
| 1971 | 辛亥 | The company passes to Heublein |
| 1980 | 庚申 (天) | 16 Dec — dies in Louisville |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February. (天) = void year or void decade.
Contents
14 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Yin and yang charts
- Axis and type of destiny
- Ten-year phases
- Composite numerical table
- The Horse–Goat years
- Two beginnings
- The four layers of 4 March 1964
- The decade of the main star and the lost restaurant
- The seals of the hand and the cane
- What he completed, in other hands
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii