Xuan Kong Feng Shui Part 16 - The Floor Layout

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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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Xuan Kong Feng Shui Part 16 - Common Combinations of Stars

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Xuan Kong Feng Shui Part 15 - The Unconditional Reactions of Stars

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Part 15
Interpreting the number combinations in flying star chart
Finally we are ready to read the star charts. The method discuss here is mainly on the interactions among the water, mountain and ruling stars in each palace. It is also when we study the difference between the water and mountain stars. I would like to present the technique to recognize the differences between the stars. Refer to the diagram below for pictorial explanations.



The possible interactions between the three stars in each palace are;

The water star reacts with the mountain star.
The mountain star reacts with the water Star.
The water star reacts with the ruling star.
The ruling star reacts with the water star.
The mountain star reacts with the ruling star.
The ruling star reacts with the mountain star.

Of the six possible reactions, you might be asking what is the difference between reaction 1 is and reaction 2. The list could be abundant but the general concept is that the water star denotes the wealth factors while the mountain star denotes domestic factors. Just to list some more examples of affiliations, the water star can also mean careers or opportunities while the mountain star can represent health and human harmony. In reaction 1, our primary concern is on domestic affairs. The mountain star is the host and the water star is the guest. The guest can support the host, destroy the host or ignore the host. In reaction 2, the opposite is true. Based on the example above, we will be analyzing the possible results base on the timeliness of the stars and the cycles of five elements.



First we identified the favorable and unfavorable stars base on the current age. We are in age 8 (2004-2023); the timely stars will be 1, 6, 8 and 9. The untimely stars for period 8 are 2,3,4,5 and 7. In the above example, the water star is the only star deem as favorable.

Secondly, we check for any chart formations as described in earlier sections. We have identified this combination as the one of the Combinations of 3 (1, 4, and 7), which is excellent, however it is untimely. The only star that is timely is the water star no.1. As this is a prosperous combination, it did not have much ill effects even though it is untimely. It will be timely again and perform it best after February 2064.

Now we check for the possible reactions base on the production cycle and destroying cycle of the five elements.

Mountain Star
1. The water star no.1 supports mountain stars no.4. (Water produces Wood)
2. The ruling star no.7 destroys mountain star no.4. (Metal destroy Wood)
Analyzing the interactions between the stars, star no.4 is neutral with both supporters and destroyer. However star no.4 is untimely thus it is generally not good indications for health or domestic related issues.

Water Star
3. The mountain star no.4 ignores water star no.1. (No direct reaction)
4. The ruling star no.7 supports water star no.1. (Metal produces Water)
This is a good sign as the water star no.1 is timely with supporters. This will be a good combination for financial related issues.

Ruling Star
5. The water star no.1 ignores ruling star no. 7. (No direct reaction)
6. The mountain star no. 4 ignores ruling star no. 7. (No direct reaction)
The ruling star no.7 is untimely and unfavorable however it does not have any supporters to boost its strength.

Triggers
The combinations of these numbers in flying star chart tells us information and stories, we still need to identify the 'triggers' to activate (or deactivate) the effects. In later sections, the triggers will be cover in more details. Hope in this section, you could have a understanding on the menaing of the stars in each palace.

You might have guessed by now, there will be 81 possible combinations to the reactions of stars. However, there are practically lesser than 81 combinations, as some combinations do not make any differences in their order. E.g. Combination 2 – 5 and 5 – 2, both are as bad. I am still compiling an E-book to describe more in depths on each of the combinations.

Meanwhile, you can download the free references on the 81 Possible Combinations of Flying Star with the courtesy of heluo.nl from the external link below; (It is malware and virus free)

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Xuan Kong Feng Shui Part 14 - The Stars and Five Elements

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Part 14
The 9 stars and its elements
Earlier on we have discussed on the timeliness factors of the stars and the five elements. This section will tag the stars into their respective elements. For the ease of later sections, I would urge you to remember the elements associated with the stars. Refer to the diagram below.



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For those who would like to know more about the stars. I have embedded a gadget from localhealers.com that describes the affiliates of the nine stars. Refer to gadget below. Feng Shui practitioners and consultants do need to remember all the associations of the 9 flying stars, however there is no need to remember all the associations if you are auditing for your personal space. You can refer back to this gadget or simply source for the tagging online as the information are widely available.

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Xuan Kong Feng Shui Part 13 - The Five Elements

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Part 13
Understand the Five Elements in Xuan Kong Feng Shui.
The ancient Taoist master had studied the occurrences of all nature for few hundreds decade. They have narrowed down the principle cosmic forces that eradicate this phenomenon into 3 cycles and channel by 5 elements. The 5 elements are Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth, the 3 cycles namely the Sheng, Ke and Wu cycle. Practitioners adopt these chains of cycles as an analogy to perform remedies and cures to unfavorable situations or to amplify a favorable situation.

The most important cycles are the Sheng (Production) and Ke (Destroying) Cycle. When studying the interactions between these elements and their effects in your property. Some practitioner only considered the interaction of these two cycles. The Wu (Controlling) cycles is mainly adopted as alternate approach to remedy or enhance on a particular situation. Now you need to remember in heart the flow of these three cycles as they will come in handy during later parts. Do not fret out as I will summarize a technique to memorize them. You will only need to memorize the production cycle.

‘Kuo Jue’ (Formulae) of the production cycle
When we burn in Woods, this will produce more Fire.
With the burning, it produces ashes, thus building the Earth.
The Earth is the ground for the production of Metal.
When the metal nourish, it will liquefied into Water.
Water is the essential life source for more Woods.
The cycle will repeat itself again and again.

The formula is illustrated into a diagram below;



Below is a diagram showing the destroying cycle. You only need to remember the activity between fire and water and take notes on how the additional set of arrows flow.



The third diagram below describe the controlling cycle. Notice that the arrows are pointing in anti clockwise direction.



Combining the three diagrams into one, you will recognize patterns. This will help to memorize all the cycles. Refer to the combine diagram as below;



Summary

Production cycle is the cycle that gives life.
Wood produces Fire.
Fire produces Earth.
Earth produces Metal.
Metal produces Water.
Water produces wood.

Destroying cycle is the cycle that takes away life.
Wood destroys Earth.
Earth destroys Water.
Water destroys Fire.
Fire destroys Metal.
Metal destroy Wood.

Controlling cycle is the cycle that drains life.
Wood drains Water.
Water drains Metal.
Metal drains Earth.
Earth drains Fire.
Fire drains Wood.

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Xuan kong Feng Shui Part 12 - The Pearl Sting Formation

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Xuan Kong Feng Shui and the various chart formations (Cont.)

The Pearl String Formation

Formation 14 - The Pearl String Formation
The 3 stars in each palace are running in a sequential manner;

(1, 2, 3)
(2, 3, 4)
(3, 4, 5)
(4, 5, 6)
(5, 6, 7)
(6, 7, 8)
(7, 8, 9)
(8, 9, 1)
(9, 1, 2)

The interpretation on this kind of formation will depend on the conditions that are met. Below summarize the various configurations.

The setting is deem as very auspicious if the ruling star in the center palace is the same as the current age and with external features like a mountain in the front and water in the back to enforce this setting.

The setting is deem as neutral if the ruling star in the center palace is the same as the current age but without external features like a mountain in the front and water in the back to support the setting.

The setting is deem as inauspicious if the ruling star in the center palace is different from the current age but with external features like a mountain in the front and water in the back to support the setting.

The setting is deem as very inauspicious if the ruling star in the central palace is different from the current age and without external features like a mountain in the front and water in the back to support the setting.

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Xuan Kong Feng Shui Part 11 - Fu Yin and Fan Yin

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Part 11
Xuan Kong Feng Shui and the various chart formations (Cont.)

The Fu Yin and Fan Yin Formations



Formation 12 - Fu Yin
The number 5 star is in the center palace either as the mountain or water stars and flies in a forward sequence eg. 5,6,7,8,9,1,2,3,4. This is a very inauspicious setting in terms of wealth and health.



Formation 13 - Fan Yin
The number 5 star is in the center palace either as the mountain or water stars and flies in a reverse sequence eg. 5,4,3,2,1,9,8,7,6. This is a very inauspicious setting in terms of wealth and health.

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Xuan Kong Feng Shui Part 10 - Imprisonment Formations

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Part 10
Xuan Kong Feng Shui and the various chart formations (Cont.)

Imprisonment Formations



Formation 10 - Imprisonment of Mountain Star
The mountain star in the center palace is the same number with the current ruling age. Currently we are in the age of 8 (2004 - 2023), if a particular flying star chart with a mountain star of number 8 is in the center palace, it is considered a imprisonment of mountain star. This is a very inauspicious setting for health and human harmony.



Formation 11 - Imprisonment of Water Star
The water star in the center palace is the same number with the current ruling age. Currently we are in the age of 8 (2004 - 2023), if a particular flying star chart with a water star of number 8 is in the center palace, it is considered a imprisonment of water star. This is a very inauspicious setting for career and wealth.

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Xuan Kong Feng Shui Part 9 - Combinations of Threes

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Part 9
Xuan Kong Feng Shui and the various chart formations (Cont.)

Combination of 3s Formation



Formation 9 - Combination of 3
There are 3 define sets of number combinations; first set of 1, 4 and 7, second set of 2, 5 and 8, third set of 3, 6 and 9. All the palaces must contain number combination from either 1 of the 3 combinations. The placement eg.1, 4, 7 or 4, 7, 1 is not so important. This is an auspicious setting in terms of fortune and health. The occupants of this house will enjoy the luck for 3 time periods which complete the 180 years time cycle. Some practitioners do not require the number combinations to exist in all palaces.

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Xuan Kong Feng Shui Part 8 - Combinations of 10s

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Xuan Kong Feng Shui and the various chart formations (Cont.)

Combination of 10s Formations



Formation 5 - Mountain and Ruling Star Combination (Single Palace)
The addition of the mountain star with the corresponding ruling star is equal to 10 in specific palace. This is an auspicious combination that takes away the negative effects of that particular palace.



Formation 6 - Water and Ruling Star Combination (Single Palace)
The addition of the water star with the corresponding ruling star is equal to 10 in specific palace. This is an auspicious combination that takes away the negative effects of that particular palace.



Formation 7 - Mountain and Ruling Star Combination (All Palace)
The addition of the mountain star with the corresponding ruling star is equal to 10 in every palace. This is a very auspicious setting in terms of health, relationship and human harmony. This setting does not cause any damage or any significant improvement in terms of wealth or career.



Formation 8 - Water and Ruling Star combination (All Palace)
The addition of the water star with the corresponding ruling star is equal to 10 in every palace. This is a very auspicious setting in terms of wealth, career and achievements. This setting does not cause any damage or any significant improvement in terms of health or human harmony.

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Xuan Kong Feng Shui Part 7 - The Basic Formations

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Part 7
Xuan Kong Feng Shui and the various chart formations
Previously we have understood the construction of flying stars chart and the basic nature of these stars in term of timeliness factor. In this session, we begin on the interpretation of these flying stars charts. I believe that the more systematic approach is to look at the overall picture of your property, and then narrow our focus to each locations/sectors of your property.

Statistically speaking, recall that we have the 24 mountains so we can have 24 possible sets of facing and seating directions. There are a total of 9 age periods in a single time cycle. Therefore we will have a total of 216 different combinations of flying stars charts. There are some charts which are similar to one another as they share the same polarity according to the San Yuan table. Strictly speaking, there will only be 144 different combinations of flying stars charts. There are 14 main types of formations derived by Feng Shui masters among the 144 different combinations of flying star charts.

It is not necessary to remember all of them, diagrams with tabulated tables are widely available online, books and in Feng Shui Trader.com. To start off, you would need some sketching materials from now onwards as you will need to jog down the details, analysis and draw your own conclusions base on different factors to determine the ‘Qi’ of each locations/sectors of your property. Below are diagrams showing the various formations. For the ease of illustration purposes, 'F' will denote the facing direction and 'S' will denote the seating direction. Also note that all the formations as describe below are interpret in it most original forms. If a particular formation is deem auspicious or inauspicious, it still needs the appropriate trigger to activate them. The trigger can be natural landforms, man made buildings/structures or human developed factors.

The reader is assumed to already understand the basic methodology in constructing flying chart. If not you could return to Part 1 of the series to read more about building flying star chart.

The Basic Formations



Formation 1 - On Mountain On Water
The water star in the facing palace and the mountain star in the seating palace are the same with the ruling star in the center palace. This is a very auspicious setting. It means that the appropriate stars are visiting the appropriate locations at the right time. The occupants of this property will enjoy both in terms of wealth and health.



Formation 2 - Up Mountain Down Water
The mountain star in the facing palace and the water star in the seating palace are the same with the ruling star in the center palace. This is a very inauspicious setting. It means that the appropriate stars visit your property at the right time but both the mountain star and water star end up in the wrong locations. The occupants of this property will suffer from poor health and poverty.



Formation 3 - Double Stars Facing Front
The mountain and the water stars in the facing palace are the same with the ruling star in the center palace. This is a very auspicious setting in term of wealth or career. It means that the appropriate star is renewing positive ‘Qi’ for you. However, this formation lack supports from the seating palace as the timely mountain star visit the wrong palace.



Formation 4 - Double Stars Seating Back
The mountain and the water stars in the seating palace are the same with the ruling star in the center palace. This is a very auspicious setting in term of health and human harmony. This formation lack drives and energy as the timely water star arrive in the inappropriate palace.

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Xuan Kong Feng Shui Part 6 - Introductions on Flying Stars

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Part 6
Interpretation of flying star chart
Welcome to the second session of Xuan Kong Feng Shui tutorials, this series will discuss the techniques to interpret flying star chart. While I was writing on these articles, I was considering to ‘cheat’ more by discussing on the numbers combination itself. However, I couldn’t skip the session which you are going to read below. I need to start off by describing the basic nature and characteristics of these stars. As for now, keep the flying star chart of your property in your pocket, it will be awhile before we start to get back to it.

Timeliness of Flying Stars
We can classify flying stars into two broad category base on time factor; the timely and untimely stars. All the stars have a basic nature, some star will be more favorable or unfavorable then their peers. When a star is timely and at its prime, the star can be favorable even if it is the worst star. In their basic nature, star number 2,3,4,5 and 7 are classify as unfavorable stars while star number 1,6,8 and 9 is consider favorable. The most calamitous stars are star number 7 and 5. In the current age of number 8 (year 2004-2023), star 8, 9 and 1 is favorable while the rest is unfavorable. To simplify things, we can say that any star will be timely during their ruling period and so will be the 2 immediate following stars. The remaining stars will be classified as untimely. It is best illustrated below with a table.



In Xuan Kong Feng Shui, we will also rank a star’s merit in terms of magnitudes. There are some stars that required more attentions than its peers. Refer to the diagram below; we compare both unfavorable stars of numbers 3 with number 5 during the age number 8. The number 3 star is less malicious than star number 5 in terms of its magnitude. The star number 3 will be ineffective in stirring troubles for you unless you feed ‘them with patrol’. Below diagram describe the merits in term of magnitude. You may want to print out this page on the timeliness of stars.



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Xuan Kong Feng Shui Part 5 - Flying the Stars

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Part 5
Completing the flying star chart of your property
Recall that we have collected 2 pieces of information. First is the age group of your house and second is the facing direction of your house. You are ready to construct the complete flying star chart of your house base on the 2 information. Every number of the age chart is associated with a direction; you need to know which number of your age chart is associated with which direction. Below is the age chart of your house and the default Lo Shu diagram showing on the directions. The default Lo Shu diagram describing the directions is fixed no matter what age group your house belongs to. Feng Shui traditionally places the north at the bottom. This is not to be confused when taking the reading of your house. You do not need to do any conversion or swapping of any sort. The Feng Shui Luo Pan is read the same way as normal compass. They will both point to the same north. From the two diagrams below, just to list a few example, the number 6 will be associated with southeast (SE) direction, the number 9 is associated with west(W) direction and the number 8 is associated with northwest direction. We know that your house is facing 45 degree northeast and seating 225 degree southwest. The numbers which is associated with this 2 direction will be 1 and 4. The number 1 in this example is call the facing or water star while the number 4 is call the seating or mountain star.



Age chart of property age 7



Default Lo Shu diagram

Refer to the diagram in below; we introduce the first set of water and mountain star into the age chart. There are still 8 other squares remaining that we need to fill up as well.

Let’s get start with the water stars first; we have to refer back to the San Yuan table. For those of you, who have printed out the San Yuan table, take out the table from your pocket. There are steps to follow closely. First step is to check under angle column for 45 degree NE and the corresponding San Yuan which in this example belong to the heaven group (highlight in yellow). Now go back to the table again, check under the number column for number 1 and check the San Yuan under the heaven group (highlight in blue). The corresponding polarity is negative and it tell us that we need to fill in the squares in descending order, eg 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1. The flow sequences you remember earlier on are still the same. Below is the diagram showing the age chart completely filled with water stars.



Note:
If you have notice, the flying star no. 5 is missing from the San Yuan Chart. Traditionally if you are facing or seating with the no. 5 ruling star, you have to replace it with the ruling star in your center palace.

After filling in the water stars, our next step is to complete the flying star chart by filling up the mountain stars. Go back to San Yuan table, check under the number column for number 4 and check the San Yuan under the heaven group (highlight in green). The corresponding polarity is positive and it tell us that we need to fill in the squares in ascending order, eg 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. The flow sequences remain the same. Below is the diagram showing the complete flying star chart with all the elements filled in.



Congratulations, you have come to the end of the tutorials on building flying star charts, thank you for reading. We hope that by now, you are able to draw the flying stars chart of your property. The next thing you need to know is to interpret the chart. There is a flying star calculator in this page below on the courtesy of fourpillars.net, or you can click to open a new tab to an external calculator.

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Flying Star Calculator


After you have key in the information of your property into the calculator, remember to check for any substitution stars. These substitution stars are to solve the problems between polarities. Do keep both the charts with substitution and without substitution. At times, one will be more accurate then its peers.

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Xuan Kong Feng Shui Part 4 - San Yuan

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Part 4
Understand the San Yuan and the 24 Mountains
A compass has a total of 360 degree. It is commonly divided into 8 sections of 45 degree each, describing the eight directions. In a Feng Shui Luo Pan, each of the 8 sections is further break down into 3 sections of 15 degree each. We name the 3 sections as heaven, earth and men thus it is the ‘San Yuan’ (three cycles). In total we have break down a compass of 360 degree into 24 sections of 15 degree each, call as the 24 mountains. The Luo Pan will have all the information displayed at a glance. Below is the table on the classifications, the table will also come in handy if you don’t have a traditional Feng Shui Luo Pan. I will describe on how to use the table in later session. I advise you to print the table out now as it will get a bit fuzzy later on. Notice the number 5 is missing because in the default Lo Shu diagram, the number 5 is suppose to be in the middle, it is associate with ‘Wu’ (formless).

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Xuan Kong Feng Shui Part 3 - Facing and Seating

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Finding the facing and seating positions of your property



Every property will have its own facing and seating positions. There can only be one facing and one seating for each property. Take note that a building has a facing direction and that direction may not be the same facing direction of the units inside the building. As one of the occupant, you can’t change much to the entire building even if your office is residing in the ‘Yin’ area of the building unless you plan to move your office to a different location. So if you are going to audit a particular office in a building, it is more important to take the facing of your office as the primary considerations for the audit. In that way, you could perform remedies within your reach. Many people without considering various factors will just take the main door as the facing direction and that is wrong. The main door or front door is not always the facing direction of your property. It is unlike drawing the age chart of your house which is totally mechanical. It requires patience and observations to determine the best possible direction as which your house may be facing. There is totally no any sort of mechanical formula involve. It is better to consult a reputable Feng Shui practitioner to determine the facing and seating directions of your house. In simple, the facing direction of your house is the direction where there is ‘max’ Yang and the seating direction is the direction with ‘max’ Ying. They are both opposite to each other at 180 degree apart. Here I can offer some guild lines on the characteristics of facing and seating directions. Here how I do it.

Imagine yourself standing in the middle of your house, slowly turning your body while remaining on the same position. As you slowly turn, what you would have see afar from your position. The view that is most beautiful to you is likely the facing direction and the opposite of it will be the seating. There are other things to look for beside scenery, the facing will be abundant of live or lively activities. Associate this with a flowing river full of lives as the first thing you would see when stepping out of the house. Examples are busy road, foot path or running tracks and children playgrounds. Note that, the busy road or the foot path must not be parallel or facing towards you as this is one of the ‘Sha’ (kill). How can a sha be the facing direction for you? It must be perpendicular to you. Alternatively you could start first by searching for the most unpleasant view to determine your seating direction and the opposite will automatically be your facing direction. There are also some features you can look for when searching for seating direction. Examples are an old forks home, car park, remote buildings, forest, tall trees and higher buildings. There is no right or wrong answer to the different approaches. I prefer the first approach to find my facing and manually build the backing (seating direction). You have to experience it yourself in Xuan Kong. In my later articles will address other Feng Shui studies that will aid in locating the facing and seating directions. Once you have determined the facing direction, check the direction on a compass and record down the reading. Also when taking a compass reading, switch off electronics items and move away all magnetic objects. This is to minimize the interference from these things as you will like to have a reading as accurate as possible.

Be patience in searching the best facing and seating directions. Take a walk along the perimeter of your house while taking as many photographs as you could. Keep this photograph as references for your bed time read. Ask your property agent for additional photos and talk to him regarding the facing direction. Your agent may not know Feng Shui but he or she could offer a lot of additional information which may help you gains some insight. Below is a diagram is an example showing the facing direction of your house. The facing direction is at 45 degree northeast. We will be using this example to complete the flying star chart.



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Xuan Kong Feng Shui Part 2 - Age of Your Property

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Part 2
Determine the birthday of your property
Next is of course to know what you want to audit, it could be your house, office or simply a piece of landscape. After you have chosen the property you are going to audit, the next step is to dig out the histories of the property. The reason is to find the age group of the property and sketch out its age chart based on the year which it is completed. When we say completed, it does not however mean complete. There could be renovations, major repairing where most of the original exterior or interior design is change. Consider the following example; the property which you plan to audit was your house that is built on 1974 and it was completed in 1975. After some stormy weather in 1976, the roof of the house collapsed, you hired some contractor to fix the roof and the fixing is completed in 1977. Later after 20 years, you decided its time to give your living space a brand new look and feel, so you hired interior designers to help you renovate the interiors. The project started in 1997 and ended in 2001. Based on Xuan Kong for the above example, there were three milestones of the house in year 1975, 1977 and 2001. We always take the latest date of completion where major adjustment is made to the property and that is year 2001. Unless specified stated otherwise, we will be taking this example for elaborations throughout the coming lessons.

Building the age chart of your property
Now you have the birthday of your house, based on this you can determine the age of the house. Here not to confuse you with the birth and age of the house. While the birthday of your house is in 2001, the age of the house is 7. I will refer you to a table on finding the age based on the birthday of your house later in below. Now you need to know the fundamental system for time dimensions in Feng Shui. Time is divided into cycles of 180 years each. A cycle is divided into 3 periods of 60 years each. Each period is divided into 3 ages of 20 years. So working out the mathematics we have a total of 9 ages for a single time cycle. A number from 1 to 9 is assigned to each of the 9 ages. Here I bring you the table below for 2 full cycles so as for you to see why the year 2001 is under the age group of 7. You will just have to do your own simple additions and subtractions for other year range not included in the table.

Xuan Kong flying star chart look like a box with 9 squares arrange in arrays of 3 by 3. In Xuan Kong, each square of the chart will represent certain locations in your house. Later on, when all the numbers is filled into the chart, the placement and combinations of these numbers will reflect information about the different locations in your house. First, you will need to remember a flow sequences before you can build any charts. I will illustrate the flow sequence in a diagram as below. Follow the sequence base on number flow starting on number 1 follow by number 2 and then 3 and until the number 9.Finding the facing and seating positions of your property.

The above chart is not the age chart of your house or does it signify anything. It is just an illustration of the flow sequence to build any chart. When you remember the flow sequence, we are ready to build the actual age chart. Recall on the example that your house belong to the age group 7. We replace the number 1 with number 7 in the middle square and continue to fill the remaining squares based on the flow sequence. Your age chart will look like the below diagram. The chart is not completed yet as you will still need to fill in the water and mountain stars into the chart. The water and mountain stars will varies base on the directions of your house.



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Xuan Kong Feng Shui Part 1 - Introductions

Xuan Kong Flying Star Feng Shui free tutorials

Part 1
How to draw the Flying Star Chart of your Property (San Yuan Method)
Xuan Kong Feng Shui or the Flying Star Feng Shui is one of the most popular among Feng Shui studies. In this session, I will be covering on the practical aspect of Xuan Kong which is to apply the science of Xuan Kong to your living space or property. You will learn how to chart out the flying stars chart of your property. The methods describe here are the same methods as applied by trained practitioners. You are encouraged to read some introductions on basic Feng Shui before proceeding to the tutorials.



Introductions to Xuan Kong Feng Shui
Xuan Kong is part of land form Feng Shui and makes lots of senses in it approach. The study of Xuan Kong is based on three dimensions namely time, space and directions. Every property will have its birth date which is fixed just like you and me. Time is always moving and this will have different influence on us in our daily life. Example, a lot of us tend not to worry so much on career stability when we were at our early 20s. When age settles, we have turned to become more worried as we are starting to build a family. Time will keep moving forward and we will keep on moving forward to catch up with it.

Another example is that when we are younger, we would look for our live partners with more preference place on physical attributes. When we get older, most of us would look for a mental connection between our partners rather then just placing emphasis on physical appearances. The list can go on and on how time will influence on our live. When we talk about space, we are talking about the environment. Let just say if you were looking for a live time partner, you would go outside and join social party, play social games and so on. It is natural that if you do not create this environment for yourself and choose to stay at home and wait for that special person to just appear. Then the chances of you finding a lifetime partner is almost equal to zero. This is just to illustrate that Xuan kong Feng Shui had taken various factors into considerations and put it into practice. So let get started. Please read them in chronology order as it is written in a way to teach the steps by steps.

Tools
You need to have some sketching stationeries, a normal calculator not necessary scientific and of course a working compass. In Xuan Kong, we are looking at more than just the eight primary directions as we usually do. The working compass might not necessary be a Feng Shui Luo Pan but makes sure it has all the directions and angles spell out clearly.

The Chinese Sage - Fuxi observed the balance between the positive and negative forces in the universe.

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