The calamity 5 Yellow Sha Star and the Sickness Star for the year 2010

The No. 5 Yellow Sha Star is visiting the SW sector and the No. 2 Sickness Star is visiting the NE sector this year. The 5 Yellow Sha is considered as one of the most dangerous visiting star in Xuan Kong Feng Flying Star Shui. So just do some checkings on your premise...

Element for both Stars: Earth
Nature: Unfriendly

Effects for Yellow Sha:
Accident, injuries or even death.

Effects for Sickness Star:
Betrayal, gossip, illness and obstacles in personal life and work.

Avoid:
Check if there is any items in both the NE and SW sector, that is either triangular in shape or red, purple, brown or orange in colors. (Don't paranoid) I mean items that look relatively big and significant, that usually a is a display item.

Cures:

Metal; metal is associate the colors gold, metallic, white, bronze and the number 6. Metal is also associate with round or dome shape.

I am blogging on a DIY Feng Shui Blog and I believe that a good Feng Shui cure should not cost anything so the most effective and practical cures for both the annual Yellow Sha and sickness star is to keep the area tidy and quiet. Minimize the usage of electronics items, (e.g. radios) in the NE and SW sector. In fact it is best to totally remove the electronics gadgets away from the NE and SW sector. It is not necessary to shift your room to another room if you are already occupying them in the NE or SW sectors. Don’t occupy the NE or SW sector and make it your bedroom or make any major constructions in that sector after the Chinese New Year. Do everything you need to do before the Chinese New Year. (Base on the Chinese Solar Calendar)

There is also items for sales in the market to counter the two calamity stars and the more common and popular one is the calabash and the 6 Chinese bronze round coins. Just go shopping in Chinatown and get some beautiful Feng Shui calabash and display them in the NE and SW sector.

One the most popular cure for this star is to place water with 6 bronze Chinese coins in the sector. As suggested by practitioners, the water is stagnant in this manner, thus by adding salt into the water will bring live into it. I have heard that (but I am not certain) the more the water turn yellow color the better it is the benefits. This is because if the water turn yellow it means that it is ‘absorbing the Sha’ for you.

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Xuan Kong Feng Shui Part 16 - The Floor Layout

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Part 16

Flying star chart and the floor layout

There are two methods to impose the flying star chart which you have just created onto the actual floor layout of a property. The traditional method is to divide your floor plan into 9 squares of 3 rows times’ 3 columns square. The more modernize and westernize method is to divide your floor plan into 8 equal sectors resembling a pie chart. There is no method that is more superior to the others; both methods have its pros and cons. If you have watched some Kung Fu movies, you would have realized that the traditional Chinese house is very squarish in design with its rooms separated into squarish cubicles. That, I believe is the reasons why the traditional method of imposing the flying star chart had came along.

The 8 Pie Sector Method

I want to describe only the 8 pie sector method because I prefer this method over the other and the reason is because this method is more scientifically satisfying. This method also eliminates a lot of debating question mark. The 8 sector method does have its cons but I would personally classify them as very minimal.

Center of the property

First of all, you will need to determine the center of your property. If the layout of the property to be audit is squarish, we would just draw two lines from across the corners of the layout and take the intersections of the lines as the center. As the architects and designers all have ideas of their own and wanted to distinguish them from each another, we have many irregular floor plans today. Many people including me have pondered over the question of ‘what do you mean center?’ My preferred method is simple; the center of the property is the gravitational center. Here is how I do it.

You need your floor plan of course, for those who doesn’t have a ready floor plan, get yourself a measuring tape, pencils, and some papers and do the sketching yourself. The precision of the measuring tape is measured in centimeters, which is good enough. Some practitioner use laser meter and there are some very sophisticated practitioners using very advanced equipments like total station and theodolite. (They are not primary designed for Feng Shui) Well, do people have all this equipments in the past? So just get to work with a measuring tape and a compass. If you are sketching for your own floor plan, just be sure that it is drawn to scale.

After you obtain an architect drawing or a self sketch floor plan, cut them out following the perimeter of your floor plan. Glue your floor plan cut out onto a cardboard. Cut the cardboard to shape by following the shape of your floor plan. (Or simply just sketch the floor plan onto the cardboard itself and cut it to shape.) Suspend your cardboard with a plum line (a string tie with a weight on one end) on each corner or edge of the cut out. (Or at least with two corners) There will only be one intersection where these lines meet and that is your gravitational center. Refer to the diagrams below.

Aligning with the Magnetic North

Now you have located your center of your floor plan, you will need to divide them into 8 equal sectors. What we have just done is only to locate the center of your property. We now step away from the paper craft that you have just created. Physically, you need to locate that center of your property. There are a few methods, usually a traditional Feng Shui compass will have a square base, and practitioners can directly align the compass against the walls or doors to locate their directions. Assuming that you are using a normal compass, so one method is to locate a datum corner with some references corner and tape that corner to the center or your property. Refer to diagram below.

After you have physically crawl the floor plan, now we come back to the paper cut out, place your compass on the center of the paper cut out that was derived earlier on and align them with the datum angle. (The reference angle is for counter checking) Divide them into 8 sectors of 45 degrees equally. Fill the numbers of the flying star chart into the floor plan. Here you go, it’s done. Refer to the diagram below.

Some common thoughts on the 8 pie method

This 8 pie method is more popular in Western countries and also in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. Many practitioners are also starting to adopt this method. This method marks out the exact sector evenly base on angles thus is seem more logical in thoughts.

The most problematic thing about this method is that it usually divides an area of a property into 3 or 4 pieces, making it very hard arrange the furniture. This method cannot, or make it unrealistic to perform small ‘Taiji’ (a micro view on each room) on each sector. This method creates 8 sectors rather then the traditional 9 squares, thus making the amount of the covered area in the center palace inconsistent.

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