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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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“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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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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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:-
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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)
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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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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:-
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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:-
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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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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
Site
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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 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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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 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 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
For details about how to find the Gua number for the Hour please purchase the full course from http://www.fengshui-consultants.co.uk/feng_shui_courses.htm .
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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:-
For details about how to find the Gua number for the Hour please purchase the full course from http://www.fengshui-consultants.co.uk/feng_shui_courses.htm .
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
For details about how to find the Gua number for the Hour please purchase the full course from http://www.fengshui-consultants.co.uk/feng_shui_courses.htm .
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
For details about how to find the Gua number for the Hour please purchase the Chou, Chen, Wei, Xu full course from http://www.fengshui-consultants.co.uk/feng_shui_courses.htm . Yin, Si, Shen, Hai e.g. 04:30 (hour number 3) on 5 th September 2009 (also a Chou day Branch) has a Gua number of 4. © Thomas Coxon 2009
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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San Yuan Flying Star Course Next we need to work out the Gua Number Number for the day.
For details about how to find the Gua number for the Day please purchase the full course from http://www.fengshui-consultants.co.uk/feng_shui_courses.htm .
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.
For details about how to find the Gua number for the Hour please purchase the full course from http://www.fengshui-consultants.co.uk/feng_shui_courses.htm .
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.
© Thomas Coxon 2009