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Lesson 8: Astrology and Feng Shui


Chinese astrology and Feng Shui are intertwined in many ways - a person's astrological characteristics are used in many schools of Feng Shui to determine optimal placement of home furnishings and decorations
specifically for that individual. This lesson will discuss the major schools of thought in Feng Shui with an emphasis on the ones that use astrology.


The Major Feng Shui Schools of Thought

Before we begin our discussion of Feng Shui, let me first say that a great deal of the information we get in the West is "faux" or Westernized Feng Shui rather than "real" Feng Shui. True Feng Shui follows one of roughly nine different schools of thought, with many variants. These schools of thought are taken very seriously and proficiency requires many years to develop. Our lesson will serve as merely an introduction to this vast and complex topic, but should serve to steer the interested student in the right direction.

These schools of thought are:

1. 1)
   San He or Harmony school: This is a basic form school and teaches the
   use of mountains and dragon veins to draw in chi, plus water dragon
   formulas to retain it
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2. Pa Kua school: This relates the 8 trigrams to the 5 elements and 8 directions
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3. Wu Hsing school: This uses the productive and destructive cycle of elements as the basis for its analysis
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4. Chi Men Tun Chia school: This is based on the 8 gates and 9 palace method
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5. Hsuan Kung Ta Kua school: This uses the 64 hexagrams and the 9 flying stars
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6. Hsuan Kung Fei Hsing school: Also called Flying Star Feng Shu, it uses the stars of Zi Wei Do Shu
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7. Pa Chai school: Also called the 8 Mansion school, it was popularized by Lillian Too. It allocates fixed sectors to a house according to compass directions
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8. Black Hat Sect: This is a more simplified version of #7
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9. Fan Kua school: Looks at mountain/water relationships and transforms one kua to another by line changes.
   

In this lesson, we will primarily focus on 6,7 and 8, but it is good to know that there is more than one way to approach Feng Shui!

The Basics - Achieving Balance

The basic philosophy of Chinese life is to strive for balance in all things - this is also the basis of Feng Shui. Therefore, if you immediately want to get some benefits in your life from the study of Chinese
astrology, I first suggest that you look again at your 4 Pillars analysis and see what you are lacking. Is your day stem element well supported? Try to bring balance into your life by adding representations of the missing elements into your surroundings. If you have a day stem element of wood but no supporting water, then add an aquarium or pictures of bodies of water. If you lack fire, add candles or red objects in your decor.

Next, look for balance in the overall surroundings. Are all the elements well represented and in
balance (except of course, for the ones you just added more of to address any internal imbalances)? If you have too much of any one element, you will feel its effect in your life. Too much fire will mean
many arguments or fiery exchanges with others. Too much earth can bog you down, making it difficult to enjoy life or take risks.

Last but not least, the hardest part of Feng Shui for most of us is the one universal truth that applies across all schools of thought - clutter impedes the flow of chi. Eliminate clutter - change your life! This holds true for hidden clutter as well as obvious clutter - just because the clutter is swept under the rug doesn't mean that the balance of chi is not negatively affected.
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Lesson 8: Astrology and Feng Shui


Nine Star Ki and Feng Shui


Recently, I came across an article written by a Feng Shui consultant who had a client who came to her puzzled. She had a well designed house that followed all of the "pop" Feng Shui rules, but would immediately lose energy and become lethargic when returning to her home. She had no clutter, and was an interior designer by trade.

Looking at her Nine Star Ki numbers, which were 5-2-2, the consultant asked what colors the rooms were. Her house was all shades of beige, white and light blue - with ALL earth signs in her Nine Star Ki, she
was sadly lacking fire which symbolizes energy. The consultant recommended repainting in shades of peach, red, and orange - bringing in fire energy. This happily fixed the problem.

Many Feng Shui issues are not as simply fixed! One technique that uses Nine Star Ki is called the Chi Men Tun Chia school which uses the 9 palaces of the Lo Shu. This technique is first described on pages 78- 83 of the book Flying Star Feng Shui; the order of placement of the stars in the Lo Shu is described in Chapter 9. The familiar Lo Shu is set up and superimposed on your home; next, you calculate the positions of the stars NOT for the year, but for a 20 year period, called the period star. We are entering period 8, which has the 8 white star as its ruling star. The period star used for your house is from the period in which it was built. Each palace also has a Mountain star and a Water star - the combination of the three together give the auspiciousness or inauspiciousness of the room.

To choose a bedroom, for example, that is best for YOU personally, it is important to choose a location that blends well with your Nine Star Ki numbers. For instance, if you are a number 3 bright green tree star, a bedroom with 1 white water star would be auspicious as water nourishes wood, but one with the 7 metal star would be inauspicious as metal cuts wood.

In general, the rooms that contain the earth stars 2 and 5 are inauspicious. The combination is double trouble, and can spell serious health issues or financial issues if occupied a lot. It is better to use these rooms as closets! If any of these rooms are bathrooms, this is lucky as the negative energy goes down the drain.

The 9 purple fire star is an augmenting star - it adds to the energy of any star it combines with. This is great if another auspicious star is in the room, but a problem if the star is a 2 or 5. The Mountain star governs health, and the Water star, wealth. The 8 star is a good omen of wealth, and is a great star for an office or bedroom.

The analysis of the three stars in each room is quite a complex study, but provides a much more "real" Feng Shui analysis, especially when combined with the individual Nine Star Ki numbers of the occupants to personalize it.
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Lesson 8: Astrology and Feng Shui


Purple- White Flying Stars Feng Shui


The key difference between the 9 mansions technique and Purple-White Flying Stars is that the basic Lo Shu technique assumes that the stars are fixed in each palace, and the Flying Stars school believes that the stars "fly" through each palace in different configurations depending on the point in time we currently occupy.

There are period stars, year stars, month stars and daily stars. A very powerful program for calculating the individual Feng Shui of each house is available from www.******.com called Lu Qi 2004. This is shareware, and also gives the names of our Nine stars as referenced to our Zi Wei Dou Shu stars. This way, once again we can personalize our analysis to suit the individual astrology chart of the occupants.A detailed analysis of this highly complex study is out of the scope of this course and could well be a course of its own! Some key points to remember:

1. Feng Shui based on
   generalities is not accurate - Feng Shui that takes into account your
   unique astrological configurations is much more powerful and results in
   life changes
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2. The Feng Shui of each year, day, month and period changes.
   What worked in one period or year will NOT necessarily work in another.
   A good software program OR using the Chinese almanac to see the daily
   Lo Shu is in order to make sure one is in alignment with the prevailing
   energies
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