Choose your Feng Shui School -
Compass, Eight Mansion, House, Nine Star Key, Form, Black Hat Sect, Flying Star,
Four Pillars
Live in accordance with Tao - join a Feng Shui school
and make some order out of chaos
Feng Shui is a Mandarin phrase meaning - Force of Wind, Flow of Water. As old
as Chinese culture itself, the name originated around 6000 BC. Feng Shui is
described in classical texts as “Auspicious heavenly influence, beneficial
topography, and harmonious human actions.” In essence, it’s a means of
superimposing divine, archetypal order on the earth, and living in accordance
with the Tao, or
Way
of Heaven. Ultimately, it aims at maximizing the positive environmental
forces, or Qi, molding the landscape if necessary to enhance the flow thereof.
Its other purpose is to divert, and neutralize the negative Sha Qi forces.
Chinese alchemy, especially as outlined in the Secret of the Golden Flower, when
applied to Feng Shui, aims to ultimately transcend the inter-death state by
building the imperishable diamond body.
More mundanely, Feng Shui considers our residences to be a direct extension of
ourselves. It provides the means of living in harmony with nature, and how to
benefit from the positive energy, or Qi, in our living environment.
Many
Feng Shui Schools
have developed over the millennia, reflecting the multi-faceted nature of the
discipline, however, most are a combination of the Form, and Compass Schools.
Feng Shui Schools
The Compass School based on the 8 trigrams of the I Ching, known as the Pa Kua,
which, in turn, is based on the eight compass directions. Each direction being
associated with a season, and a specific energy or ‘element’, (more correctly, 5
stages of change).
The Form School, is based on the morphology of the landscape: topographical
features, soil quality, and watercourses. The “Regulating the Qi” school was
concerned with finding the “the Feng Shui spot”, and made detailed studies of
the land, and watercourses, and concerned itself with locating the “dragon
pathways”, the “Dimai” or arteries , and veins of the earth.
Eight Mansion/ House Feng Shui, is based upon an individual’s Kua number.
Initially, the male householder’s Kua number is utilized to bring the house into
harmonic balance. Each person has auspicious and inauspicious directions,
discoverable from the birth-date. The auspicious directions relate to success,
health, romance, and development, while the inauspicious directions relate to
bad luck, obstacles, illness, and destruction.
Nine Star Key uses the stars to establish lucky, and unlucky days. Astrology
dictates when, and whom to marry. Each year, the Nine Star Key reveals what
astrological house holds sway, and how best to live in accordance with its
principles.
Black Hat Sect, relies on the Ba Gua diagram, which is an orientation device. It
allows one to pinpoint the 9 areas of the home: prosperity, fame, relationships,
family, health, children, knowledge, career, and patrons.
Flying Star is based on a combination of numerology, and astrology. It allows
one to avoid continuing sickness, arguments, bankruptcy, legal problems, loss of
wealth, relationship problems, health problems, and accidents.
Four Pillars, based on Chinese astrology, delineates the individual relationship
with the zodiacal animals relating to the year, month, day, and hour.
There is much interchange of concept, and methodology between each of these
schools. The best way is to experiment personally to find the most
temperamentally suitable.
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