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Introduction

Feng Shui is a study of the physical environment to determine the auspicious and inauspicious elements that may have an impact on people. This includes the study of both the internal environment of a house or building, as well as location and land forms.

In Yang Feng Shui, the study would be on dwellings or other buildings to be inhabited by people. In Yin Feng Shui, the object is to select a suitable burial site, so that the descendants of the deceased may benefit from the good or favorable qi or "energy" of the site.

Methods Of Feng Shui

There are many methods or practices in Feng Shui that are used to help the practitioner determine favorable locations for a house or burial site. The methods of Feng Shui include Flying Star and Xuan Kong Da Gua.

Constructing A Geomantic Chart

A Geomantic Chart is also known as the Nine Palaces Chart. A Geomantic Chart consists of the Earth Base, the Mountain Stars, and the Facing Stars. Each set of 3 stars will be located in each Palace of the Geomantic Chart.

Direction Of Flight

The stars may fly in a forward or reverse direction. In either direction, the flight of the stars always follow a fixed pattern, starting from the center of the 3 X 3 grid, moving on to the second position at the bottom-right palace, and finally ending in the top-left palace.

The 24 Mountains

The 24 Mountains are directions or locations that are used to identify or locate auspicious or inauspicious "Qi" or energy in an area. The 24 Mountains may be classified under the following 8 directions:

The above arrangement of the 8 trigrams is known as the Later Heaven Arrangement in I Ching. When put into a grid, a magic square is formed, where the sum of the numbers, whether horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, adds up to 15. The basis for the flight of the flying stars may be obtained from this magic square as follows:

1. Add 1 to the center of the grid, which houses the number 5. The result is 6, which is the next position of a flying star.
2. Add 1 to 6 (the North West position). The result is 7, which is the next location of the flying star (West)
3. Add 1 to 7 (the West position). The result is 8, which is the next location of the flying star (North East)
4. This process is repeated to obtain the complete flight of the flying stars in the grid. (When 1 is added to 9, the next number is 1, since the number of squares in the grid is 9.)

The table of 24 Mountains is given below:

Notes:

1. The columns "Name (Pinyin)" and "Name (Wade-Giles)" are the Chinese names for the directions that are transliterated/romanized differently by different authors. For example, for direction South 1, the Chinese character is 丙, and this is romanized as "bing" in pinyin and "ping" in Wade-Giles.
2. The directions South 1, South 2 and South 3 are all classified under South. Similarly, the directions South West 1, South West 2 and South West 3 are all classified under South West, etc.

Aquarium Feng Shui

Aquarium Feng Shui

Substitute Star

Substitute Star

Ref: Wong, Eva. A Master Course in Feng-Shui. Shambala. Boston & London. 2001.