San Yuan Fei Xing (Three Periods Flying Star)
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by Thomas Coxon (M Phil, BSc, FSSA, Fellow BCS)
Flying Star Feng Shui
Who is this course aimed at ? I've been practising feng shui professionally now for over a decade. I often get asked by email and phone for advice. Some people are after a quick bit of guidance on something they are unsure of, others want to find out more before booking a consultation. But there is a third group, those who for whatever reason would like to have a go themselves. It is with this group primarily in mind that I have created this course. It's aim is to help someone who has gained a bit of basic knowledge of feng shui, by reading books, or attending a one or two day workshop, to take the next step and apply flying star analyses to their own house. It's the course on flying star techniques which I would have loved to have had available to me when I was just starting out. It introduces the basics, and tells you how to create the charts and analyse them in a step by step fashion. It even has a fully worked example for you to follow and check that you’re doing it right. It also explains the “special cases” such as replacement stars and contains several appendices of detailed information. It even tells you how to fly the daily and hourly stars as well as the yearly and monthly ones. It contains practical tips and information gained during my fifteen years of professional practice, so although it's aimed at the person who from choice or necessity must do their own feng shui, it contains more flying star information in one place than any one book, course or teacher that I have encountered.
Acknowledgements It's traditional in a paper book to acknowledge those who have in some way contributed to it's creation, so it seems appropriate to do the same in this eCourse. My teachers; Masters, Harrison Kyng, Chan Kun Wah, Peter Leung and Tuan Anh Diep and the 1,000 plus people who have graciously invited me into their homes and businesses businesses over the years have all helped me get to the level of knowledge and practical experience which have been put into the creation of this course. I must also mention the very valuable inputs of ideas and knowledge from the many and sometimes anonymous people who participate in the internet chat groups on this subject, which have challenged and inspired me and helped me to deepen my understanding. It's also appropriate to mention a very special teacher of who I am often only vaguely aware (but whose existence has been confirmed over the years by several people each unknown to the others) who has been patiently guiding and setting up learning experiences for f or me for at least two decades. And lastly it seems appropriate that I mention my daughters and partner who have all put up with “Dad” disappearing into the office for several thousand hours over the last couple of decades to study and research. It is their knowledge, patience, understanding and support which has enabled me to create this course.
About the Author Thomas Coxon became interested in feng shui over 25 years ago and has been a professional consultant since 1995, having studied extensively with some of the worlds top Masters. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Nottingham and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, as well as being a practitioner member of the British Feng Shui Society.
Further Information If you would like further information about any aspect of feng shui (including eCourses on other topics), or you would like my assistance in a more direct way such as a consultation, you can contact me (Thomas Coxon) by any of the methods below:Email
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Tel from within the UK 07973 618 986 or 0116 283 6777 or from overseas +44 7973 7973 618 986 or +44 116 283 6777 If you would like to buy the full course, you can do so here
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Introduction
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Flowing Energy
Introduction We in the West talk about “our luck”. Sometimes we have “good” luck, sometimes we have “bad” luck. Yet how often do we think about why our luck is “good” or “bad” at any particular location and point in time ? Still less often does it occur to us that we might be able to do something to change it. Feng Shui gives us a set of tools not only to find out what our luck is going to be like, but also a lso to change it if we want to. There are many different parts to Feng Shui, some more powerful than others. The Pakua, much covered in the many books about the subject is amongst the weakest and doesn't really address the time aspect. The Flying Star Feng Shui covered in this course, is the next stage on from there, and is one of the simpler systems that examines the effects of the energetic interactions between time, our surroundings and ourselves. Properly applied it can bring about some quite powerful changes in our lives.
Energy Feng Shui, ALL feng shui, is about how energy flows around in the landscape, how it flows around our buildings, and how both of those affect us. Like any fluid, energy flows and it accumulates. Learning to identify and “read” those flows and accumulations is what Form School is about, and it takes years to learn and decades to perfect, but the basics can be learned quite quickly, and will greatly great ly improve your analysis of the flying stars.
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Form
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Plans and Measurements
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Plans and Measurements Successful application of feng shui is all about preparation and attention to detail. So the first stage in the actual analysis is to create an accurate scale plan of your home if you don't already have one. You can get someone to draw it for you, but with a little care and diligence you can create one yourself, that's accurate enough for a flying star analysis. If you draw your plan at a scale of 1:100 (1 metre on the ground = 1cm on the paper), most houses will fit on a single A4 sheet. In most houses and flats the walls are at right angles to each other and straight, so you can work on “squared” graph paper if you don't have a drawing board. Just start in one corner of your home and measure that room. Then draw a rectangle of the corresponding size (e.g. for a room measuring 4 metres by 3 meters, you'd draw a rectangle on the paper which was 4cm by 3cm). Now mark in the doors, windows, fireplaces, cooker, sink, bath, toilet etc. Then move to an adjacent room, measure that and draw a rectangle of the appropriate size next to the first (remembering to allow for the thickness of the wall). Continue working your way round that floor and pretty soon you'll have a plan of your home. Then move to the next floor and repeat the process. You should end up with something like this for each floor.
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You can usually figure out where things are on the outside from those plans and what you can see, but if you can get a large scale map of your plot and its surroundings, it can be helpful. In the UK, HM Land Registry plans are usually to the right scale. Here’s an example based on the sample from their website (http://www.landregisteronline.gov.uk ). ).
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Another potential source of information about the location of objects in your locality is Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/ ( http://earth.google.com/), ), which in some areas gives extremely detailed arial photos, with the ability to overlay other useful information such as road names.
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Compass Direction For a Flying Star analysis you need just one measurement – the Site reading. Use the plan of your house to find where the centre of the back wall is. Then standing outside measure the compass direction from there looking outwards.
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Hold the Lopan at about waist height against the wall and take the reading that’s pointing towards you. If you’re using an orienteering compass (like those below) and the wall is uneven, you can improve the accuracy of your reading by placing a flat piece of wood about 0.75M long against the wall and hold your compass against it to take your reading. ROAD
If you don't have access to a Chinese Lopan, a good quality orienteering compass is plenty good enough for this calculation, providing it meets two criteria; For more information about which of these compasses can be used for Flying Star analyses, which ones can’t and why, please purchase the full course at http://www.fengshui-consultants.co.uk/feng_shui_courses.htm .
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Dealing with Magnetic Anomalies
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Finding the “Front” and “Back” I've glibly said “find the centre of the back wall” - for most buildings where the back is and where the front is, is pretty obvious, but not always. So I thought it worth saying a few words about how to find out when it's not so obvious.
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Flying Star Analysis
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Flying Star Analysis Actually there are several “flying star” methods and it's useful to at least know that the others exist. The ones which I know about and know how to use are:San Yuan (or “20 years”) flying star – this is the one you're going to find out how to use in this course Yuan Hom (or “Mystery of the Void”) flying star Sam Hap House flying star Yuan Hom Kwa flying star (which “flies” the hexagrams). There many well be some others. ·
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The first one – the San Yuan flying star system is the one that's in the books and is the only one that most people know exists, let alone how to calculate and use. So how do you use it? Well, first you need a basic understanding of how it works and what it can tell you.
Time Cycles All flying star systems are examining some aspect of the interaction between space and time. The San Yuan system is looking primarily at the energy within the Earth. As the time cycle moves on the energy changes. Both the San Yuan and the Yuan Hom systems repeat every 180 years and their 180 year cycles are synchronised, but they differ in how that 180 years is subdivided. The San Yuan system divides the 180 years into three periods, Upper, Middle & Lower, and each of those into three, so that you end up with 9 periods of 20 years each. The Yuan Hom system syste m divides the 180 years into Upper and Lower fates of 90 years each. Those are then subdivided into 4 periods of differing lengths, giving 8 periods ranging from f rom 27 years for the longest to 18 years for the shortest. They also differ in exactly when in the year they change. The Yuan Hom system works with Heaven energy so it changes at Dung Gee (Winter Solstice to us Westerners). The San Yuan system works with Earth energy so it changes at Chinese New Year (which occurs on the first day of the new moon following one complete – new moon to new moon - moon cycle after Dung Gee, or put more simply, the second new moon after Dung Gee - Winter Solstice) which is in January or February. So the Yuan Hom 180 year cycle runs from approximately December 21st 1863 to December 21st 2043, and the San Yuan 180 year cycle runs from Chinese New Year in 1864 to Chinese New Year in 2044. This lag effect is because the Heaven energy drives the Earth energy, which in turn drives the Human energy (which changes it's year at the Spring Festival - 4th or 5th of February) – “Hamlets Mill”. Now familiarise yourself with when each of the San Yuan periods start by referring to the table. Before we leave this topic I'd like to say a bit more about the periods. There is a commonly held “rule of thumb” that from period 5 to period 8, during the second half of the period you should look also at the chart for the next period; e.g. during the second half of period 7 (1994 to 2004) you should also look at © Thomas Coxon 2009
First Year
Fate
Period
1864
Upper
1
1884
Upper
2
1904
Upper
3
1924
Middle
4
1944
Middle
5
1964
Middle
6
1984
Lower
7
2004
Lower
8
2024
Lower
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the chart for period 8. This is actually a fallacy, but it's interesting to look at how this comes about. Both the San Yuan & Yuan Hom systems generate similar, but not identical charts given the same inputs. During periods 1 – 4 on the San Yuan system, the Yuan Hom periods are roughly synchronised, and both systems give similar influences in their respective charts. From period 5 onwards, the synchronisation slips such that the Yuan Hom periods change roughly in the middle of the San Yuan periods. So for the first half of the period both charts are similar, but from the middle, the Yuan Hom period (and chart) changes. My advice is to stick with the San Yuan periods and work with those charts, and if you want to work with the Yuan Hom flying star charts during the second half of the period, learn that system as well.
Which Period to Use ?
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What to do if the Period Needs Changing
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Calculating the Chart
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Calculating the Chart Now we can start to assemble the pieces and create the chart, but first there is one more piece that you need.
The Template Take a moment or two to study the template. You'll see that it divides the circle into 8 known as Gua's (the same 8 sectors as the Pakua, with which you may be familiar), and that each of those 8 are further divided into 3 – giving 24 sectors in total. These are known as the 24 Mountains. I've given the Chinese character for each (in case you want to cross refer to other texts which use that system & to help me as I prepared this course) and I've labelled them Na, Nb, Nc, NEa, NEb, NEc etc. - which is the system we'll use in this course, to avoid you needing to learn Chinese. Each Mountain is also labelled “Yin” or “Yang” - we'll come to the significance of that in a moment. And you'll also notice that each of the 8 sectors has a number in it.
San Yuan Flying Star Template
Marking up the Plan First you need to take the scale plan of your house, find the centre and mark North on it. If you have a perfectly rectangular house, finding the centre is easy
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Finding the Site and Facing Mountain
Finding the Period
SE
S
E NE
SW W
N
NW
By convention the charts are laid out like this with South at the top.
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9
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5
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e.g. For our period 3 example you should get a chart like this.
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Finding the Mountain and Water Stars 2
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9 Site
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Facing
Flying the Mountain and Water Stars
e.g. For our period 3 example you should get a chart like this.
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9 Site
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3 9
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5 6
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4
Facing
Replacement Stars
e.g. For our period 3 example you would replace the 9 with 2 and the 6 with 7. Then fly them in the same directions as the 9 and the 6.
2 3
7 6 7
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9 5 7 9
8 1 6
Mountain
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Replacement Star
Na Nb Nc
Effect of Form
NEa
B
7
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NEb NEc Ea Eb Ec SEa SEb SEc Sa
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Sb Sc SWa SWb SWc Wa Wb Wc NWa NWb NWc
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Analysing the Chart
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Analysing the Chart
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Who Gets Affected ?
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The geography of the house ·
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Some Areas are More Important than Others
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The people People connect to the flying star influences by
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Remedies
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Remedies
“If it Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It”
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“If it is Broke ....”
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So how do you remedy things?
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Enhancements
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Enhancements
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Timeliness
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Special Cases
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In Prison (or Locked) Stars
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7 Star Robbery 7 Star Robbery is a technique to help you pinch energy from a future period, to help you in the present. Some people say that it's a bit like having some investments stashed away, but instead of leaving them to grow for your retirement, you spend them now. There are circumstances which are so desperate as to justify such measures, but although they may help you now, they will create a problem for you in the future. Usually this method is used only for grave sites, so rather than using this method for your home it is far better to first explore the many other methods which are available in other aspects of the feng shui, that an experienced practitioner can use to help you without incurring these very serious side effects.
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Visiting Stars
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Directions In this course I’ve taught you how to do the Flying Star analysis using the methods which I have been taught, plus what I’ve learned from my own observations gained whilst carrying out over 1,000 consultations, mostly here in the UK.
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Worked Example
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Now we can create the Base Plate for our Flying Star chart, by placing 3 in the middle and “flying” it round the other squares, to give a chart like this:-
2
7
9
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3
5
6
8
4
Now we can mark on the Site and Facing directions and put put the Mountain and Facing stars in the centre as follows:Site (SWa)
2
7
9
1
3
5
9 6
6 8
4
Facing (NEa) Next we need to decide which way to fly each star. (see chapter 4 for details, but here’s a quick reminder)
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Now we can fly the stars and create the chart:-
2 1
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4 9 6
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Before we start analysing there are a couple of additional things to do which will make it easier to relate the chart to the building. First well add in the LoShu numbers and note down the compass directions as follows:-
2
7
9
1 5 5 1 3 3 SE 4 S 9 SW 2 1
3
2 4 9 E3 6
5 6 7 8 W7
8
4
6 9 4 2 8 7 NE 8 N 1 NW6 Now we’ll rewrite the chart so that it lines up with the house like this:-
7
9
5
5 1 3 3 7 8 S 9 SW 2 W 7 2
3
1 5 9 SE 4 1
4 6 8 7 NW6
6
8
2 4 6 9 4 2 E 3 NE 8 N 1 Now that we have Site at the top centre and Facing at the bottom centre we can see at a glance where everything is as we start to analyse. But before we start to analyse lets create a family for our fictitious house and work out where they connect to.
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Also lets look at the surrounding forms (in this case via an aerial photo take from Google Earth).
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Both the front door and this area predispose to involving the mother and her daughter in conflicts and arguments (with each other in the case of the front door and with anyone in the case of this area) If you want the mother and her daughter to have peaceful lives you will need to fix both areas. Over the years I’ve found that it’s quite common to have multiple aspects of the feng shui all contributing similar influences like this, and the more you fix, the better the result.
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Sometimes the influences are all in the flying star chart, but often they are spread across Flying Star, Ba Chap, Sam Hap, Hexagrams, Form ..... The good news is that if you fix only one it improves things a bit. If you fix two it improves them more and so on.
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burning/melting the Metal of the 6 Star. The Body number here is 6 so that doesn’t help us any. The reverse in fact because it
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excess of Metal with the 7 giving rise to some stress creating influences. The body number is 4, which has a beneficial financial interaction with both the 8 and the 7, but because it’s in the NW it will tend to create stress. We also need to remember that inside the house we have the stairs and outside the house we have a short open space and then another house.
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So all in all this is not a particularly good area for the Daughter (or the Mother for that matter). So what do we do ?
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Lastly we need to take a look at the in prison stars.
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Well that’s pretty much all I want to say about San Yuan Flying Star methods. The final chapter tells you about some of more advanced methods that are available, which will help you put your flying star knowledge into context. But please remember that at the end of the day there is only one measure which is worth anything and that is how effective your interventions are at helping people.
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Advanced Feng Shui Methods
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Advanced Feng Shui Methods Up to now I've been pretty selective in the feng shui that I've told you about. Flying Star is quite complicated to get to grips with when you're starting out, so I've deliberately only mentioned other aspects of feng shui as and when relevant to using the San Yuan Flying Star methods to keep your learning load to the minimum. But if you start using Flying Star thinking that it will tell you everything, and let you fix everything, you're going to get a surprise!! It will help you to do a lot, but not everything. Feng Shui is such a vast subject that you could literally fill a library with books on it's various aspects and nuances. So in this chapter I want to introduce you to some of those wider aspects so that you can better use the Flying Star methods in context, and be better aware of when you're getting out of your depth and need to call in professional assistance. First I'd like you to turn back to the title page for this chapter and compare it with the title page for the other chapters. What do you notice ? With the other chapters, the figure in the top left corner of the page is part of the PaKua with which you were probably familiar from other studies and reading books. The figure in the bottom right takes the PaKua and expands it out into a simplified version of the 24 Mountains and 64 Hexagrams. It's from my masters teaching notes and I chose it to begin to subconsciously awaken you to the deeper levels of feng shui to help you as you learned Flying Star. In the header page for this chapter, that diagram has migrated to the top left (the “starting from” position) and it has been replaced in the bottom right (the “this is where we're heading” position) with a photo of part of the LoPan which I use on consultations (again designed by my master). You'll notice that it expands the diagram in the top left into far more depth. To give you a rough comparison; the diagram in the top left has 15 rings, and the LoPan has 35. That's not quite a true comparison though, because 5 of the rings on the diagram get compressed into 2 on the LoPan, so it's more like an 11 to 35 ratio. But even that is a simplification, it's more like an “n” to the power of 11 to “n” to the power of 35 ratio. Also please bear in mind that Flying Star is only part of what we can do with the information in the diagram in the top left. Now I hope you're beginning to understand my comments about “filling a library”. OK that’s set the scene, now lets start scratching the surface a little deeper.
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BaZi and other Horoscopes Lets take a brief look at BaZi, or rather, lets take a brief look at horoscopes, of which BaZi is one method.
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More Feng Shui Methods So let's now take a look at Feng Shui methods. Lets start with “Eight House” or Ba Chap as it translates from Chinese. We all know all about “Eight House” don’t we, or do we? It's in all the books about Feng Shui, it's about the PaKua. It's about your personal directions (four good and four bad), it's about East Group and West Group. You can find out how to use it for free on many websites, mine included. You can go on courses to learn how to use it. So you know all about it don’t you? Or do you? Lets take a more in depth look. © Thomas Coxon 2009
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Lets start with the PaKua, which gets asked to do so many things by so many people which are usually well beyond its capabilities. For starters there are TWO of them, the one on everyone's website and in everyone's books is based on the so called Late Heaven sequence and applies to indoors. The other one, of which this might be the first you've ever heard, is based on the Early Heaven sequence and applies to OUTDOORS. OUTDOORS. So everyone of those garden feng shui books which talk about tweaking the southeast of your garden for wealth, southwest for relationship and north for career is using the wrong one!! I was even in class alongside one such author as a Chinese Master told us that. That author went off and published the book knowing it to be based on wrong information! The rest of us went off and did our research, individually and in small groups to find out if the Master was correct – he was. So you at least, now know that there are two PaKuas, one which applies to outside (and leaks inside a bit via doors and windows) and the other which applies to inside. So is that it ? No, it's barely scratching the surface. To tell you about it all and how to use it would require another ebook the size of this one, probably more, since it's more complex than Flying Star and most of the calculations need to be repeated twice to teach you the indoor version and the outdoor version. Like Flying Star it has its interactions with Form, except in much greater detail and in my experience much more powerful in the effects. Like Flying Star it has “Mountain” stars and “Water” stars, but these can be created by the land forms, as well as the building and the compass directions. It interacts with time and people, in similar ways to Flying star. So this is just one reason why your Flying Star interventions will sometimes spring surprises on you – they interact with all of the Feng Shui present at their location, whether or not you know about it in advance, including the BaChap charts.
Even more Feng Shui Methods Ba Chap and Flying Star are the “simple stuff”. We can also divide each of those eight divisions of the PaKua into eight parts each, giving us 64 in total – the 64 Hexagrams. I was taught this aspect of feng shui under the umbrella term of Yuan Hom or Mystery of the Void, but aspects of it are also know as Xuan Kong Da Gua. Each hexagram has many attributes including, two Guas (or trigrams), a stem and a branch, star number and period number, an element and six lines (each of which can give rise to a new hexagram, with its attributes and lines). Using these methods you can examine the interaction between space, time and people, and the Chinese Masters say that with it you can create just about
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anything. Certainly I've used it to good effect on occasion to help peoples finances when nothing else would. So why don't we just use this feng shui “magic bullet” and nothing else? Well a Hexagram is about 5 degrees wide and an individual line just under a degree. That should just need a high degree of proficiency with a Lopan, if the Earth's magnetic field was completely stable – but it's not, it sometimes “wobbles” a bit. I did a job in western Ireland a few years ago, where I had the opportunity to observe the building over several days. On the second day I thought that I’d got the reading wrong the day before. But on the third day the reading had moved by a further degree. All in all during the week I tracked those readings as they wandered away from the original reading by about 5 degrees and back again to only one degree away from the original. Over the years I’ve come across other buildings like that. So because of this it is sometimes better to use other more robust methods. So are there some other ways in which we can subdivide the PaKua? Yes is the answer, which brings us to the other main subdivision of compass formulas. We can subdivide each of the eight “Guas” as they're known, into three which gives us the 24 “Mountains”. There are many many calculations based on these - San Yuan Flying Star being one. Another is a version of the Ba Chap, but using 24 divisions of the compass instead of 8. Other methods are based on pairs of mountains, or Double Mountain formulas as they're known. Others still combine information from the Hexagrams with information from the Double Mountains and from the land forms – and these can get extremely powerful. If I want to very quickly get an idea of the strengths and weaknesses of a property without spending hours analysing it, I use one of of these formulas, with a few other key readings from the Lopan. If you look carefully at the photo of my Lopan on the header page for this chapter you may notice that there are actually three 24 Mountain rings, each offset a little from the others (7.5 degrees clockwise and 7.5 degrees anticlockwise to be exact). The ring you used in the San Yuan Flying Star calculations is know as the Earth Plate and is used for measuring buildings. The other two are used for measuring water and hills. Each of these “Mountains” is also subdivided into three – the 72 Dragons as they're know, and into 5 – the 120 Fin Kam. These latter can also be divided into two giving the 240 divisions of gold. So you can see that it can all get quite complicated. Although as a general rule the formulas based on the 24 Mountains are not so powerful as those based on the hexagrams, they are generally much more tolerant of minor instabilities in the Earth's magnetic field. The area covered by each mountain is also about three times the size of the area covered by a Hexagram (six times the size in the case of double mountain formulas), so it's much easier for people to place remedial objects accurately. © Thomas Coxon 2009
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All in all these methods are much easier to work with, and much more likely to keep working after someone upsets the local magnetic field whilst fixing a sewer. Don't laugh or think I made it up!! I actually know a case first hand where exactly that happened. Granted it was an unusual combination of circumstances, but it happened. A major energy line (Ley Line in Western terminology) flowed under a nearby church, across a major road with a sewer underneath it, then the energy fanned out. Every time a truck went over main line down stream from the road, the compass (about 100 metres away down stream from the truck) wobbled by a few degrees. But then it returned to normal and all was well. Over a period of about 9 months the local sewer authority burrowed away underground replacing and enlarging the sewer. After they’d finished, the reading at the original compass location had moved by a full 5 degrees and had become much less stable, wobbling every time a car crossed the line, never mind a truck!
The Moon There's just one more thing I'd like to tell you about before we move on from the compass. If you take yet another look at the photo of my Lopan on the header page for this chapter, right at the outer edge. Right at the outside is a thin black ring with a couple of gold and black rings inside that. Just inside those is the degree scale (just like a regular compass), and just inside that are three narrow rings, one with large and variable length divisions and two with very narrow divisions just inside that. Those help you work out what effect the Moon is having!
Professional Feng Shui So what you can expect from professionals that you can't do for yourself ? You can expect them to have a lot more experience for starters (don't underestimate the value of that, there's a world of difference between doing something that you've done a hundred times before and doing it for the first time). You can also expect them to know a lot of different compass methods, and how to relate form, horoscopes and timing to those formulas – basically the more they know, the more complete the picture they can build up and the more likely they are to be able to find effective ways of helping you. In summary if your DIY feng shui didn’t work as well as you hoped, all is not lost. It’s very very likely that with professional assistance you will still be able to achieve your objectives.
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Tools and Tables (Appendices)
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Appendix A - San Yuan Flying Star Template
Appendix A - San Yuan Flying Star Sta r Template Template
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Appendix B - Analysis Chart You can use any 3 x 3 grid, but the one below has the direction, base LoShu number and element pre filled in to make your job a bit easier. There is also some space round the outside for you to make a notes (such as the effect of forms) round the outside, and there’s a spare blank chart so that you can move everything round to match your house.
SE 4 Wood
S 9 Fire
SW 2 Earth
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E 3 Wood
5 Earth
W 7 Metal
NE 8 Earth
N 1 Water
NW 6 Metal
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Appendix C - Meaning of the Mountain and Water Star combinations.
Appendix C - Meaning of the Mountain and Water Star combinations. These pairings are given in the order of Site Star followed by Facing Star e.g. 1 2 below means that the Site (or Mountain) Star is 1 and the Facing (or Water) Star is 2 1 Mountain Star 1 1 Romance. Can be true love or false love. Can also mean brothel. Especially if at front door or centre palace. Diseases relating to Water (loose bowels, kidney or bladder) 1 2 Male - stomach problems, problems, Woman - stomach or or gynaecological gynaecological problems, also Pregnancy.
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Appendix C - Meaning of the Mountain and Water Star combinations.
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Appendix C - Meaning of the Mountain and Water Star combinations.
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Appendix C - Meaning of the Mountain and Water Star combinations.
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Appendix D - The Properties of the 9 stars
Appendix D - The Properties of the 9 stars
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The positive influences are exhibited when
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Appendix E – The 5 Element Cycle
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Appendix E - The 5 Element Cycle There are two cycles at work between the elements. In one (the Generative cycle) each element enhances or strengthens the next one round in the sequence, e.g. Wood generates Fire As it does so the generating element gets weakened e.g. Wood is weakened as the Fire gets stronger
Earth
Fire
Looking at this example in one of its physical manifestations, you burn real wood to get a real fire and in doing so you use up the wood.
Metal
Generates
W o Water
o d
In the other (the Control cycle) each element controls (or attempts to) the next but one in the sequence, e.g. Wood controls Earth As it does so the element being controlled is held in check e.g. Wood (real plants) holds the Earth in place.
Earth
Fire
Metal
Controls
If the controlling element it too weak to do the job, it can get destroyed in the process e.g. If the (real) Earth attempts to hold back the (real) Water but isn’t strong enough and fails it gets washed away. W o o d
That’s the simple relationship and it will work well enough for your Flying Star interventions, but there are some subtleties which I’d like to introduce to you. As my Master says “It’s all about balance”. Let me give you an example from nature. The Sun (Yang Fire) if it’s not too strong warms the soil (Yin Earth). With some rain (Yang Water) if there’s not too much, the plants (Wood) grow and hold the soil in place. The soil held in place by the plants can then withstand the rain when there’s a lot of it and channel (control) it into rivers and streams. If that system is thrown out of balance (e.g. The Sun gets too hot and kills the plants, or there is not enough water and the plants die, or Man comes along with a bulldozer (Metal) and removes the plants) , the soil isn’t held in place by the plants and gets washed away by the water - the whole system collapses. Translating that across to your Flying Star interventions, just because “one lot” of something produces a benefit, ten times as much may well not!!
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To introduce an element into an area all you need to do is For details about how to intri=oduce an element somewhere please purchase the full course from http://www.fengshui-consultants.co.uk/feng_shui_courses.htm .
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Appendix F – Strength of each star in different periods
Appendix F - Strength of each star in different periods The strength of each star varies with time.
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Appendix G – In Prison Stars
Appendix G - In Prison Stars The basic idea behind “In Prison” stars is quite simple. If the Mountain and/or Water star who's number is equal to the current fate number is in
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So what are the effects if the star is “in prison”? If it’s a Water star, your money is going to suffer and if it’s a Mountain star it’s your health that’s going to get the brunt of the effect. So if they are in prison and you’re suffering because of it, what can you do?
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Appendix G – In Prison Stars
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Appendix H - Annual, Monthly, Daily and Hourly Visiting Stars I’ve already mentioned in the main text how to calculate the Yearly and Monthly stars, but let me recap here. To find the Gua Number for a Year
e.g. 1970 Subtract 1900 (e.g. Gives 70) Keep adding the digits until you end up with a single digit e.g. 7+0 gives 7 Now subtract that digit from 10 to give the Gua Number Number e.g. 10 - 7 gives 3 To find the Gua Number for a Month
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San Yuan Flying Star Course To find the Gua Number for a Day
This is easy in principle but difficult in practice,without access to my spreadsheet!!
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To find the Jia Zi days, and also to do the counting for you, I’ve created a spread sheet “SYFSGuaCalculator”
There are two calculator sheets in the file related to finding the Gua Number for the day; “Jia Zi Days” and “MG Calc”. “Jia Zi Days” will work out the first Jia Zi day after the dates which you give it for Dung Gee and Ha Gee ( you can get these dates from the “Months” spreadsheet ). This gives you the Jia Zi dates to input to “MG Calc” if you can’t get them from a Chinese “10,000” year calendar or its online equivalent. “MG Calc” will work out the Ming Gua numbers for the date which you give it.
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San Yuan Flying Star Course To find the Gua Number for a Chinese Double Hour
Why a “Double hour” ? We Westerners divide the day up into 24 hours starting at midnight. The Chinese divide the day into 12 periods starting at 23:00 - hence the term “Double Hours” First you need to convert the Western time into it’s Chinese Double Hour using the table below
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The “SYFSGuaCalculator” also contains a third calculator sheet “Day SB” which will work out the Stem and Branch number for the date which you give it. Then look up the actual Stem and Branch name in the following Table:-
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Now you can find the Hour’s Gua Number Number as follows:If the date is between the first use this table.
and
Day Branch
Hour Number 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11 11
12 12
Hours Gua Number (for “Dung Gee” to “Ha Gee”) Zi, Mao, Wu, You Chou, Chen, Wei, Xu Yin, Si, Shen, Hai
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e.g. 04:30 (hour number 3) on 7 th July 2009 (Chou day Branch) has a Gua number of 6. If the date is between the first use this table.
and
Day Branch
Hour Number 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11 11
12 12
Hours Gua Number (for “Dung Gee” to “Dung Gee”) Zi, Mao, Wu, You
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San Yuan Flying Star Course Worked Example of calculating the Gua Numbers
It’s all straightforward once you’ve had a bit of practice, so here’s an example of calculating the Gua’s for the Year, Month, Day and Hour to help you get started. Lets take 12th October 2009 at 09:03 British Summer time at Longitude 1 degree West. We’ll change that into Local Solar Time
So the actual date and time that we’re going to use in our calculation is 12 th October 2009 at 07:59. Now we can calculate the Gua Number for the year. First Subtract 1900; 2009 - 1900 gives 109 Next add the digits together 1 + 0 + 9 gives 10, and 1 + 0 gives 1 Now subtract that from 10; 10 - 1 give 9 So the Gua Number for 2009 is 9 Now we’ll calculate the Gua Number for the Month Looking up 12 th October 2009 in my 10,000 year calendar I can see that it’s in the 8th Lunar Month, but lets work that out from the new moons in case you don’t have one.
So the 12th October 2009 was in month 8 Now we can look up month 8 for a “9” year in the table on Page 69. This tells us that the Gua Number for the month is 7 . © Thomas Coxon 2009
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We can count out the Day Gua by hand, but it’s a whole lot quicker (& probably more accurate) to use the “MG Calc” spreadsheet. If we fill in the Blue fields and the date we’re interested in (12th October 2009), we can read the Gua Number for the day . From this we can see that the Gua Number for 12 th October 2009 is 4 . Now we need to work out the Gua Number Number for the hour. First we need to find the branch for the day.
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So now we have the Gua Numbers for 12 th October 2009 at 07:59 as follows:the Gua Number for 2009 is 9 the Gua Number for the month is 7 the Gua Number for the day is 4 the Gua Number for the hour is 8
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Now we can create the charts for the visiting time stars as follows; Year
Month
8
4
6
6
2
4
7
9
2
5
7
9
3
5
1
1
3
8
Day
Hour
3
8
1
7
3
5
2
4
6
6
8
1
7
9
5
2
4
9
From this we can see that, for instance, the 4 star is visiting in the South for the whole year. It’s joined by the 2 star for a month and the 8 star for the day. The 3 star is only present for the double hour of 07:00 - 09:00 Local Sun time, which adding back in the longitude correction and the hour of daylight saving time means that it will be present from 08:04 to 10:04 by the clock. Now you can analyse the effects which these will have on the main charts for the building and the interaction with the surrounding shapes. It can be both fun and instructive to begin to look at why things happen both where and when they do.
How do I KNOW that these methods work ? The only way that any of us can know anything for certain - I’ve used them and checked the theory against reality enough times to be sure.
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