Finding the Flying Star chart

Now, draw the horoscope of the house. A house facing South is a ‘North’ house, a house facing North is a ‘South’ house.

As an example, let’s take a Period 7 house that is facing the third 15 degrees mountain of South.
This is how we communicate the style of this house: Period 7: N3-S3.

As you can see, we first mention the Sitting side – here N3 – and then the Facing side – here S3.

Here is a method for beginners. It will have you take in the Stars inside the interior walls, a method that may require adaptation later on in your studies, see next page.

• Take in the Period Star in the center of your floorplan. All other Numbers fly in the following sequence seen from the central Number: Center - Northwest - West - Northeast - South - North - Southwest – East - Southeast. Or, Number 7 in the Center and then Number 8 in the Northwest and so on.
  You have now found the Time chart, or Heaven chart – Tian Pan.

• Find the Star that is in the Facing Palace. It is called the Facing Star. Take the Facing Star to the right of the Period Star in the center.
  From hereon this Facing Star is called Water Dragon, governing the Water Dragon chart.

• Find the Star that is in the Sitting Palace. It is called the Sitting Star. Take the Sitting Star to the left of the Period Star in the center.
  From hereon this Sitting Star is called Mountain Dragon, governing the Mountain Dragon chart.

• Either run the Mountain and Water Dragons in a descending or ascending order through the Luo Shu. Whether the Mountain or Water Dragons count upward or downward depends on technique that is beyond the scope of this article. Consult your teacher, refer to the Feng Shui Calculator or e-mail the author.

A complete Flying Star chart combines the Heaven chart, the Mountain chart and the Water chart and is known as Man chart or Ren Pan.

Please realize that any Numbers shown in the center – or Heaven’s Palace – are not really residing in the center. They are put there for convenience, not to show that Water or Mountain Dragons actually occupy the center, because this would not be possible. We cannot manipulate these central Numbers by taking all kinds of adjustments to the physical center of a built structure.

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