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San Yuan Fei Xing(Three Periods Flying Star)

byThomas Coxon

(M Phil, BSc, FSSA, Fellow BCS)

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Who is this course aimed at ?I've been practising feng shui professionally now for over a decade. I often get asked by email and phone foradvice. Some people are after a quick bit of guidance on something they are unsure of, others want to findout more before booking a consultation. But there is a third group, those who for whatever reason would liketo have a go themselves. It is with this group primarily in mind that I have created this course. It's aim is tohelp someone who has gained a bit of basic knowledge of feng shui, by reading books, or attending a one ortwo day workshop, to take the next step and apply flying star analyses to their own house.It's the course on flying star techniques which I would have loved to have had available to me when I wasjust starting out. It introduces the basics, and tells you how to create the charts and analyse them in a step bystep fashion. It even has a fully worked example for you to follow and check that you’re doing it right. Italso explains the “special cases” such as replacement stars and contains several appendices of detailedinformation. It even tells you how to fly the daily and hourly stars as well as the yearly and monthly ones. Itcontains practical tips and information gained during my fifteen years of professional practice, so althoughit's aimed at the person who from choice or necessity must do their own feng shui, it contains more flyingstar information in one place than any one book, course or teacher that I have encountered.

AcknowledgementsIt's traditional in a paper book to acknowledge those who have in some way contributed to it's creation, so itseems appropriate to do the same in this eCourse.My teachers; Masters, Harrison Kyng, Chan Kun Wah, Peter Leung and Tuan Anh Diep and the 1,000 pluspeople who have graciously invited me into their homes and businesses over the years have all helped meget to the level of knowledge and practical experience which have been put into the creation of this course. Imust also mention the very valuable inputs of ideas and knowledge from the many and sometimesanonymous people who participate in the internet chat groups on this subject, which have challenged andinspired me and helped me to deepen my understanding.It's also appropriate to mention a very special teacher of who I am often only vaguely aware (but whoseexistence has been confirmed over the years by several people each unknown to the others) who has beenpatiently guiding and setting up learning experiences for me for at least two decades. And lastly it seemsappropriate that I mention my daughters and partner who have all put up with “Dad” disappearing into theoffice for several thousand hours over the last couple of decades to study and research.It is their knowledge, patience, understanding and support which has enabled me to create this course.

About the AuthorThomas Coxon became interested in feng shui over 25 years ago and has been a professional consultantsince 1995, having studied extensively with some of the worlds top Masters. He holds Bachelors andMasters degrees from the University of Nottingham and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, as wellas being a practitioner member of the British Feng Shui Society.

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Introduction

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© Thomas Coxon 2009

San Yuan Flying Star Course


Flowing Energy

Introduction

We in the West talk about “our luck”. Sometimes we have “good” luck, some-times we have “bad” luck. Yet how often do we think about why our luck is“good” or “bad” at any particular location and point in time ? Still less oftendoes it occur to us that we might be able to do something to change it.

Feng Shui gives us a set of tools not only to find out what our luck is going tobe like, but also to change it if we want to. There are many different parts toFeng Shui, some more powerful than others. The Pakua, much covered in themany books about the subject is amongst the weakest and doesn't really addressthe time aspect. The Flying Star Feng Shui covered in this course, is the nextstage on from there, and is one of the simpler systems that examines the effectsof the energetic interactions between time, our surroundings and ourselves.Properly applied it can bring about some quite powerful changes in our lives.

Energy

Feng Shui, ALL feng shui, is about how energy flows around in thelandscape, how it flows around our buildings, and how both of thoseaffect us. Like any fluid, energy flows and it accumulates. Learning toidentify and “read” those flows and accumulations is what Form School isabout, and it takes years to learn and decades to perfect, but the basics canbe learned quite quickly, and will greatly improve your analysis of theflying stars.

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Flowing Energy





Form

Flowing Energy



Plans andMeasurements

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Plans and Measurements

Successful application of feng shui is all about preparation and attention todetail.

So the first stage in the actual analysis is to create an accurate scale plan of yourhome if you don't already have one. You can get someone to draw it for you, butwith a little care and diligence you can create one yourself, that's accurateenough for a flying star analysis.

If you draw your plan at a scale of 1:100 (1 metre on the ground = 1cm on thepaper), most houses will fit on a single A4 sheet.

In most houses and flats the walls are at right angles to each other and straight,so you can work on “squared” graph paper if you don't have a drawing board.Just start in one corner of your home and measure that room. Then draw arectangle of the corresponding size (e.g. for a room measuring 4 metres by 3meters, you'd draw a rectangle on the paper which was 4cm by 3cm). Now markin the doors, windows, fireplaces, cooker, sink, bath, toilet etc. Then move to anadjacent room, measure that and draw a rectangle of the appropriate size next tothe first (remembering to allow for the thickness of the wall). Continue workingyour way round that floor and pretty soon you'll have a plan of your home. Thenmove to the next floor and repeat the process.

You should end up with something like this for each floor.

The form of this one is not perfect - see if you can spot the problems as you gothrough the course and think about different ways in which you could improvethings if it were your house.


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You can usually figure out where things are on the outside from those plans andwhat you can see, but if you can get a large scale map of your plot and itssurroundings, it can be helpful. In the UK, HM Land Registry plans are usuallyto the right scale. Here’s an example based on the sample from their website(http://www.landregisteronline.gov.uk).


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Another potential source of information about the location of objects in yourlocality is Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/), which in some areas givesextremely detailed arial photos, with the ability to overlay other usefulinformation such as road names.


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Compass Direction

For a Flying Star analysis you need just one measurement – the Site reading.

Use the plan of your house to find where the centre of the back wall is.

Then standing outside measure the compass directionfrom there looking outwards.

If you don't have access to a Chinese Lopan, a good quality orienteeringcompass is plenty good enough for this calculation, providing it meets twocriteria;


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Hold the Lopan at about waist height against thewall and take the reading that’s pointing towardsyou.

If you’re using an orienteering compass (like thosebelow) and the wall is uneven, you can improve theaccuracy of your reading by placing a flat piece ofwood about 0.75M long against the wall and holdyour compass against it to take your reading.

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Dealing with Magnetic Anomalies

Finding the “Front” and “Back”

I've glibly said “find the centre of the back wall” - for most buildings wherethe back is and where the front is, is pretty obvious, but not always. So Ithought it worth saying a few words about how to find out when it's not soobvious.


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Flying StarAnalysis

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Flying Star Analysis

Actually there are several “flying star” methods and it's useful to at least knowthat the others exist.

The ones which I know about and know how to use are:-· San Yuan (or “20 years”) flying star – this is the one you're going to find

out how to use in this course· Yuan Hom (or “Mystery of the Void”) flying star· Sam Hap House flying star· Yuan Hom Kwa flying star (which “flies” the hexagrams).There many well be some others.

The first one – the San Yuan flying star system is the one that's in the books andis the only one that most people know exists, let alone how to calculate and use.So how do you use it? Well, first you need a basic understanding of how itworks and what it can tell you.

Time Cycles

All flying star systems are examining some aspect of the interaction betweenspace and time. The San Yuan system is looking primarily at the energy withinthe Earth.

As the time cycle moves on the energy changes.

Both the San Yuan and the Yuan Hom systems repeat every 180 years and their180 year cycles are synchronised, but they differ in how that 180 years issubdivided. The San Yuan system divides the 180 years into three periods,Upper, Middle & Lower, and each of those into three, so that you end up with 9periods of 20 years each. The Yuan Hom system divides the 180 years intoUpper and Lower fates of 90 years each. Those are then subdivided into 4periods of differing lengths, giving 8 periods ranging from 27 years for thelongest to 18 years for the shortest. They also differ in exactly when in the yearthey change. The Yuan Hom system works with Heaven energy so it changes atDung Gee (Winter Solstice to us Westerners). The San Yuan system works withEarth energy so it changes at Chinese New Year (which occurs on the first dayof the new moon following one complete – new moon to new moon - mooncycle after Dung Gee, or put more simply, the second new moon after Dung Gee- Winter Solstice) which is in January or February. So the Yuan Hom 180 yearcycle runs from approximately December 21st 1863 to December 21st 2043,and the San Yuan 180 year cycle runs from Chinese New Year in 1864 toChinese New Year in 2044. This lag effect is because the Heaven energy drivesthe Earth energy, which in turn drives the Human energy (which changes it'syear at the Spring Festival - 4th or 5th of February) – “Hamlets Mill”.

Now familiarise yourself with when each of the San Yuan periods start byreferring to the table.

Before we leave this topic I'd like to say a bit more about the periods. There is acommonly held “rule of thumb” that from period 5 to period 8, during thesecond half of the period you should look also at the chart for the next period;e.g. during the second half of period 7 (1994 to 2004) you should also look at

FirstYear

Fate Period

1864 Upper 11884 Upper 21904 Upper 31924 Middle 41944 Middle 51964 Middle 61984 Lower 72004 Lower 82024 Lower 9




the chart for period 8. This is actually a fallacy, but it's interesting to look athow this comes about. Both the San Yuan & Yuan Hom systems generatesimilar, but not identical charts given the same inputs. During periods 1 – 4 onthe San Yuan system, the Yuan Hom periods are roughly synchronised, andboth systems give similar influences in their respective charts. From period 5onwards, the synchronisation slips such that the Yuan Hom periods changeroughly in the middle of the San Yuan periods. So for the first half of the periodboth charts are similar, but from the middle, the Yuan Hom period (and chart)changes. My advice is to stick with the San Yuan periods and work with thosecharts, and if you want to work with the Yuan Hom flying star charts during thesecond half of the period, learn that system as well.

Which Period to Use ?

What to do if the Period Needs Changing


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Calculatingthe Chart

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Calculating the Chart

Now we can start to assemble the pieces and create the chart, but first there isone more piece that you need.

The Template

Take a moment or two to study thetemplate. You'll see that it divides thecircle into 8 known as Gua's (the same8 sectors as the Pakua, with which youmay be familiar), and that each ofthose 8 are further divided into 3 –giving 24 sectors in total. These areknown as the 24 Mountains. I've giventhe Chinese character for each (in caseyou want to cross refer to other textswhich use that system & to help me asI prepared this course) and I'velabelled them Na, Nb, Nc, NEa, NEb,NEc etc. - which is the system we'lluse in this course, to avoid youneeding to learn Chinese. EachMountain is also labelled “Yin” or“Yang” - we'll come to thesignificance of that in a moment. Andyou'll also notice that each of the 8sectors has a number in it.

Marking up the Plan

First you need to take the scale plan of your house, find the centre and markNorth on it.

If you have a perfectly rectangular house, finding the centre is easy

First lets talk about what is and is not part of your house as far as Flying Starfeng shui is concerned. Once you've gone through the front door, if you can

San YuanFlying StarTemplate


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North


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Finding the Site and Facing Mountain

Finding the Period

Creating the Base Plate

N

2 7 9

1 3 5

6 8 4

e.g. For our period 3 exampleyou should get a chart likethis.

SE S SW

E W

NE N NW

By convention the charts arelaid out like this with Southat the top.


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Finding the Mountain and Water Stars

Flying the Mountain and Water Stars

e.g. For our period 3 exampleyou should get a chart likethis.

2 7 9

1 39 6

5

6 8 4

Site

Facing

21 5

75 1

93 3

12 4

39 6

57 8

66 9

84 2

48 7








Replacement Stars

Effect of Form

e.g. For our period 3 exampleyou would replace the 9 with2 and the 6 with 7. Then flythem in the same directionsas the 9 and the 6.

2 7 9

1 39 6

5

6 8 4

Site

Facing

23 6

77 2

95 4

14 5

32 7

59 9

68 1

86 3

41 8


Mountain ReplacementStar

NaNbNcNEa B 7NEbNEcEaEbEcSEaSEbSEcSaSbScSWa H 2SWbSWcWaWbWcNWaNWbNWc


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Analysingthe Chart

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Analysing the Chart

Analyzing the Chart

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Analyzing the Chart





Who Gets Affected ?

The geography of the house

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Analyzing the Chart





Some Areas are More Important than Others

Analyzing the Chart







The people

People connect to the flying star influences by

Analyzing the Chart





Remedies

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“If it Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It”

“If it is Broke ....”

So how do you remedy things?

Remedies

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2Help

Remedies





Remedies



Enhancements

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Enhancements

Timeliness

Enhancements

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Special Cases

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In Prison (or Locked) Stars

7 Star Robbery

7 Star Robbery is a technique to help you pinch energy from a future period, tohelp you in the present. Some people say that it's a bit like having someinvestments stashed away, but instead of leaving them to grow for yourretirement, you spend them now. There are circumstances which are sodesperate as to justify such measures, but although they may help you now, theywill create a problem for you in the future.

Usually this method is used only for grave sites, so rather than using this methodfor your home it is far better to first explore the many other methods which areavailable in other aspects of the feng shui, that an experienced practitioner canuse to help you without incurring these very serious side effects.

Combination of 10

Visiting Stars

Directions

In this course I’ve taught you how to do the Flying Star analysis using themethods which I have been taught, plus what I’ve learned from my ownobservations gained whilst carrying out over 1,000 consultations, mostly here inthe UK.

Special Cases

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Special Cases

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Worked Example

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Worked Example

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Now we can create the Base Plate for our Flying Star chart, by placing 3 in themiddle and “flying” it round the other squares, to give a chart like this:-

Now we can mark on the Site and Facing directions and put the Mountain andFacing stars in the centre as follows:-

Next we need to decide which way to fly each star. (see chapter 4 for details, buthere’s a quick reminder)

Now we can fly the stars and create the chart:-

2 7 9

1 3 5

6 8 4

2 7 9

1 39 6

5

6 8 4

Facing(NEa)

Site(SWa)

21 5

75 1

93 3

12 4

39 6

57 8

66 9

84 2

48 7

Worked Example





Before we start analysing there are a couple of additional things to do which willmake it easier to relate the chart to the building.

First well add in the LoShu numbers and note down the compass directions asfollows:-

Now we’ll rewrite the chart so that it lines up with the house like this:-

Now that we have Site at the top centre and Facing at the bottom centre we cansee 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 andwork out where they connect to.

21 5SE 4

75 1S 9

93 3SW 2

12 4E 3

39 6

57 8W 7

66 9NE 8

84 2N 1

48 7NW6

75 1S 9

93 3SW 2

57 8W 7

21 5SE 4

39 6

48 7NW6

12 4E 3

66 9NE 8

84 2N 1

Worked Example





Also lets look at the surrounding forms (in this case via an aerial phototake from Google Earth).

Worked Example





Both the front door and thisarea predispose to involvingthe mother and her daughterin conflicts and arguments(with each other in the caseof the front door and withanyone in the case of thisarea)

If you want the mother andher daughter to have peacefullives you will need to fixboth areas.

Over the years I’ve foundthat it’s quite common tohave multiple aspects of thefeng shui all contributingsimilar influences like this,and the more you fix, thebetter the result.

Sometimes the influences areall in the flying star chart, butoften they are spread acrossFlying Star, Ba Chap, SamHap, Hexagrams, Form .....

The good news is that if youfix only one it improvesthings a bit. If you fix two itimproves them more and soon.

Worked Example





burning/melting the Metal of the 6 Star. The Body number here is 6 so thatdoesn’t help us any. The reverse in fact because it

Worked Example





excess of Metal with the 7 giving rise to some stress creating influences. Thebody number is 4, which has a beneficial financial interaction with both the 8and the 7, but because it’s in the NW it will tend to create stress. We also needto remember that inside the house we have the stairs and outside the house wehave a short open space and then another house.

Worked Example





So all in all this is not a particularly good area for the Daughter (or the Motherfor that matter).

So what do we do ?

Worked Example





Lastly we need to take a look at the in prison stars.

Worked Example





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 areavailable, which will help you put your flying star knowledge into context. Butplease remember that at the end of the day there is only one measure which isworth anything and that is how effective your interventions are at helpingpeople.

Worked Example



AdvancedFeng ShuiMethods

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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, soI've deliberately only mentioned other aspects of feng shui as and when relevantto using the San Yuan Flying Star methods to keep your learning load to theminimum. But if you start using Flying Star thinking that it will tell youeverything, and let you fix everything, you're going to get a surprise!! It willhelp you to do a lot, but not everything.

Feng Shui is such a vast subject that you could literally fill a library with bookson it's various aspects and nuances. So in this chapter I want to introduce you tosome of those wider aspects so that you can better use the Flying Star methodsin context, and be better aware of when you're getting out of your depth andneed to call in professional assistance.

First I'd like you to turn back to the title page for this chapter and compare itwith 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 thePaKua with which you were probably familiar from other studies and readingbooks. The figure in the bottom right takes the PaKua and expands it out into asimplified version of the 24 Mountains and 64 Hexagrams. It's from my mastersteaching notes and I chose it to begin to subconsciously awaken you to thedeeper 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 “thisis where we're heading” position) with a photo of part of the LoPan which I useon consultations (again designed by my master). You'll notice that it expands thediagram in the top left into far more depth.

To give you a rough comparison; the diagram in the top left has 15 rings, andthe LoPan has 35. That's not quite a true comparison though, because 5 of therings on the diagram get compressed into 2 on the LoPan, so it's more like an 11to 35 ratio. But even that is a simplification, it's more like an “n” to the power of11 to “n” to the power of 35 ratio.

Also please bear in mind that Flying Star is only part of what we can do withthe information in the diagram in the top left. Now I hope you're beginning tounderstand my comments about “filling a library”.

OK that’s set the scene, now lets start scratching the surface a little deeper.

More on form


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BaZi and other Horoscopes

Lets take a brief look at BaZi, or rather, lets take a brief look at horoscopes, ofwhich 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 yourpersonal directions (four good and four bad), it's about East Group and WestGroup. 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’tyou? Or do you?

Lets take a more in depth look.


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Lets start with the PaKua, which gets asked to do so many things by so manypeople which are usually well beyond its capabilities.

For starters there are TWO of them, the one on everyone's website and ineveryone's books is based on the so called Late Heaven sequence and applies toindoors. The other one, of which this might be the first you've ever heard, isbased on the Early Heaven sequence and applies to OUTDOORS. So everyoneof those garden feng shui books which talk about tweaking the southeast of yourgarden for wealth, southwest for relationship and north for career is using thewrong one!! I was even in class alongside one such author as a Chinese Mastertold us that. That author went off and published the book knowing it to be basedon wrong information! The rest of us went off and did our research, individuallyand 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 tooutside (and leaks inside a bit via doors and windows) and the other whichapplies 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 ofthis one, probably more, since it's more complex than Flying Star and most ofthe calculations need to be repeated twice to teach you the indoor version andthe outdoor version.

Like Flying Star it has its interactions with Form, except in much greater detailand 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 andpeople, in similar ways to Flying star.

So this is just one reason why your Flying Star interventions will sometimesspring surprises on you – they interact with all of the Feng Shui present at theirlocation, whether or not you know about it in advance, including the BaChapcharts.

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 partseach, giving us 64 in total – the 64 Hexagrams.

I was taught this aspect of feng shui under the umbrella term of Yuan Hom orMystery 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 stemand a branch, star number and period number, an element and six lines (each ofwhich can give rise to a new hexagram, with its attributes and lines).

Using these methods you can examine the interaction between space, time andpeople, and the Chinese Masters say that with it you can create just about




anything. Certainly I've used it to good effect on occasion to help peoplesfinances 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 adegree. That should just need a high degree of proficiency with a Lopan, if theEarth'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 theopportunity to observe the building over several days. On the second day Ithought that I’d got the reading wrong the day before. But on the third day thereading had moved by a further degree. All in all during the week I trackedthose readings as they wandered away from the original reading by about 5degrees and back again to only one degree away from the original. Over theyears I’ve come across other buildings like that. So because of this it issometimes 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 compassformulas.

We can subdivide each of the eight “Guas” as they're known, into three whichgives us the 24 “Mountains”.

There are many many calculations based on these - San Yuan Flying Star beingone. Another is a version of the Ba Chap, but using 24 divisions of the compassinstead of 8. Other methods are based on pairs of mountains, or DoubleMountain formulas as they're known. Others still combine information from theHexagrams with information from the Double Mountains and from the landforms – and these can get extremely powerful.

If I want to very quickly get an idea of the strengths and weaknesses of aproperty without spending hours analysing it, I use one of these formulas, with afew other key readings from the Lopan.

If you look carefully at the photo of my Lopan on the header page for thischapter you may notice that there are actually three 24 Mountain rings, eachoffset a little from the others (7.5 degrees clockwise and 7.5 degreesanticlockwise to be exact). The ring you used in the San Yuan Flying Starcalculations is know as the Earth Plate and is used for measuring buildings. Theother two are used for measuring water and hills.

Each of these “Mountains” is also subdivided into three – the 72 Dragons asthey're know, and into 5 – the 120 Fin Kam. These latter can also be dividedinto two giving the 240 divisions of gold. So you can see that it can all get quitecomplicated.

Although as a general rule the formulas based on the 24 Mountains are not sopowerful as those based on the hexagrams, they are generally much moretolerant of minor instabilities in the Earth's magnetic field.

The area covered by each mountain is also about three times the size of the areacovered by a Hexagram (six times the size in the case of double mountainformulas), so it's much easier for people to place remedial objects accurately.




All in all these methods are much easier to work with, and much more likely tokeep working after someone upsets the local magnetic field whilst fixing asewer. Don't laugh or think I made it up!! I actually know a case first handwhere exactly that happened. Granted it was an unusual combination ofcircumstances, but it happened. A major energy line (Ley Line in Westernterminology) flowed under a nearby church, across a major road with a sewerunderneath it, then the energy fanned out. Every time a truck went over mainline down stream from the road, the compass (about 100 metres away downstream from the truck) wobbled by a few degrees. But then it returned to normaland all was well. Over a period of about 9 months the local sewer authorityburrowed away underground replacing and enlarging the sewer. After they’dfinished, the reading at the original compass location had moved by a full 5degrees and had become much less stable, wobbling every time a car crossed theline, never mind a truck!

The Moon

There's just one more thing I'd like to tell you about before we move on from thecompass. If you take yet another look at the photo of my Lopan on the headerpage for this chapter, right at the outer edge. Right at the outside is a thin blackring with a couple of gold and black rings inside that. Just inside those is thedegree scale (just like a regular compass), and just inside that are three narrowrings, one with large and variable length divisions and two with very narrowdivisions just inside that. Those help you work out what effect the Moon ishaving!

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'tunderestimate the value of that, there's a world of difference between doingsomething that you've done a hundred times before and doing it for the firsttime).

You can also expect them to know a lot of different compass methods, and howto relate form, horoscopes and timing to those formulas – basically the morethey know, the more complete the picture they can build up and the more likelythey 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 notlost. It’s very very likely that with professional assistance you will still be ableto achieve your objectives.


Tools and Tables(Appendices)

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Appendix A - San Yuan Flying Star Template

Appendix A - San Yuan Flying Star Template



San Yuen Flying StarAnalysis Grid


SE 4 Wood S 9 Fire SW 2 Earth

E 3 Wood 5 Earth W 7 Metal

NE 8 Earth N 1 Water NW 6 Metal

Appendix B - Replacement Star Chart

Appendix B - Analysis Chart

You can use any 3 x 3 grid, but the one below has the direction, base LoShunumber and element pre filled in to make your job a bit easier. There is alsosome space round the outside for you to make a notes (such as the effect offorms) round the outside, and there’s a spare blank chart so that you can moveeverything round to match your house.

San Yuen Flying StarAnalysis Grid


Site

Facing



Appendix C - Meaning of the Mountain and WaterStar combinations.

These pairings are given in the order of Site Star followed by Facing Star e.g. 12 below means that the Site (or Mountain) Star is 1 and the Facing (or Water)Star is 2

Appendix C - Meaning of the Mountain and Water Star combinations.

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, Woman - stomach or gynaecologicalproblems, also Pregnancy.

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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

The positive influences are exhibited when

The negative influences are most likely to be 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 thenext one round in the sequence, e.g. Wood generates Fire

As it does so the generating element gets weakened e.g. Woodis weakened as the Fire gets stronger

Looking at this example in one of its physicalmanifestations, you burn real wood to get a real fire and in doingso you use up the wood.

In the other (the Control cycle) each element controls (or attempts to) thenext 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.

If the controlling element it too weak to do the job, it can get destroyed inthe process e.g. If the (real) Earth attempts to hold back the (real) Water butisn’t strong enough and fails it gets washed away.

That’s the simple relationship and it will work well enough for your Flying Starinterventions, 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 fromnature.

The Sun (Yang Fire) if it’s not too strong warms the soil (Yin Earth). With somerain (Yang Water) if there’s not too much, the plants (Wood) grow and hold thesoil in place. The soil held in place by the plants can then withstand the rainwhen there’s a lot of it and channel (control) it into rivers and streams. If thatsystem 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 abulldozer (Metal) and removes the plants) , the soil isn’t held in place by theplants 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!!

Appendix E – The 5 Element Cycle

Earth

Fire Metal

Wood

Water

Controls

Earth

Fire Metal

Wood

Water

Generates



To introduce an element into an area all you need to do is

Appendix E – The 5 Element Cycle

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Appendix F - Strength of each star in differentperiods

The strength of each star varies with time.

Appendix F – Strength of each star in different periods

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Appendix G - In Prison Stars

The basic idea behind “In Prison” stars is quite simple. If the Mountain and/orWater star who's number is equal to the current fate number is in

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’syour 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?

Appendix G – In Prison Stars

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Appendix G – In Prison Stars

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Appendix H - Annual, Monthly, Daily and HourlyVisiting Stars

I’ve already mentioned in the main text how to calculate the Yearly andMonthly stars, but let me recap here.

To find the Gua Number for a Year

e.g. 1970Subtract 1900 (e.g. Gives 70)Keep adding the digits until you end up with a single digite.g. 7+0 gives 7Now subtract that digit from 10 to give the Gua Number e.g. 10 - 7 gives3

To find the Gua Number for a Month

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To find the Gua Number for a Day

This is easy in principle but difficult in practice,without access to myspreadsheet!!

To find the Jia Zi days, and also to do the counting for you, I’ve created a spreadsheet “SYFSGuaCalculator”

There are two calculator sheets in the file related to finding the Gua Number forthe day; “Jia Zi Days” and “MG Calc”.

“Jia Zi Days” will work out the first Jia Zi day after the dates which you give itfor Dung Gee and Ha Gee ( you can get thesedates from the “Months” spreadsheet ).

This gives you the Jia Zi dates to input to “MG Calc” if you can’t get them froma 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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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 usingthe table below

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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:-

Now you can find the Hour’s Gua Number as follows:-

If the date is between the first and use this table.

e.g. 04:30 (hour number 3) on 7th July 2009 (Chou day Branch) has a Guanumber of 6.

If the date is between the first and use this table.

e.g. 04:30 (hour number 3) on 5th September 2009 (also a Chou day Branch) hasa Gua number of 4.

Day Branch Hour Number1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Hours Gua Number (for “Dung Gee” to “Ha Gee”)

Zi, Mao, Wu, YouChou, Chen, Wei, Xu

Yin, Si, Shen, Hai

Day Branch Hour Number1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Hours Gua Number (for “Dung Gee” to “Dung Gee”)

Zi, Mao, Wu, YouChou, Chen, Wei, Xu

Yin, Si, Shen, Hai









Worked Example of calculating the Gua Numbers

It’s all straightforward once you’ve had a bit of practice, so here’s an exampleof calculating the Gua’s for the Year, Month, Day and Hour to help you getstarted.

Lets take 12th October 2009 at 09:03 British Summer time at Longitude 1 degreeWest.

We’ll change that into Local Solar Time

So the actual date and time that we’re going to use in our calculation is 12th

October 2009 at 07:59.

Now we can calculate the Gua Number for the year.

First Subtract 1900; 2009 - 1900 gives 109Next add the digits together 1 + 0 + 9 gives 10, and 1 + 0 gives 1Now subtract that from 10; 10 - 1 give 9So the Gua Number for 2009 is 9

Now we’ll calculate the Gua Number for the Month

Looking up 12th October 2009 in my 10,000 year calendar I can see that it’s inthe 8th Lunar Month, but lets work that out from the new moons in case youdon’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 usthat the Gua Number for the month is 7.



Next we need to work out the Gua Number for the day.

We can count out the Day Gua by hand, but it’s a whole lot quicker (& probablymore 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 12th October 2009 is 4.

Now we need to work out the Gua Number for the hour.

First we need to find the branch for the day.

So now we have the Gua Numbers for 12th October 2009 at 07:59 as follows:-the Gua Number for 2009 is 9the Gua Number for the month is 7the Gua Number for the day is 4the Gua Number for the hour is 8

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Now we can create the charts for the visiting time stars as follows;

7 3 5

6 8 1

2 4 9

Hour

6 2 4

5 7 9

1 3 8

Month

3 8 1

2 4 6

7 9 5

Day

Year

8 4 6

7 9 2

3 5 1

From this we can see that, for instance, the 4 star is visiting in the South for thewhole year. It’s joined by the 2 star for a month and the 8 star for the day. The 3star is only present for the double hour of 07:00 - 09:00 Local Sun time, whichadding back in the longitude correction and the hour of daylight saving timemeans 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 forthe building and the interaction with the surrounding shapes.

It can be both fun and instructive to begin to look at why things happen bothwhere 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 andchecked the theory against reality enough times to be sure.

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