Introduction II

No-one can say for sure where the 9 Stars originated from. Origins are hidden in obscure stories telling us of tortoise shells having emerged from rivers, with distinct patterns of white and black dots on them. Of course this can only lead to mystification of systems like Nine Star Ki and Xuan Kong Feng Shui, that both extensively use the 9 Stars.

The ancients where far from hippies and we can rest assured that they did not come up with some alternative ideas of how our cosmos functions. The ancient masters where sages with specific knowledge of mathematics, physics, asterisms, sun physics, definite astronomical realities and geomagnetism and they possessed deep insight into many other exact sciences.

Mostly, the 9 Stars are said to have been subtracted from the Big Dipper (Bei Dou), but no-one will be able to convincingly tell us where the 9 Stars originated from. For the purpose of this discourse we will say that the 9 Stars are associated with the Stars in the Big Dipper.

Seven out of nine stars are located in the Big Dipper itself, two of them are called Assistant Stars and many light years away.

Although 9 Stars uses Numbers, Nine Star Ki and Xuan Kong Feng Shui are far from numerological systems. Numbers show quality, rather than quantity.

Numbers used are to codify Universal Qi in its ever changing dynamic of waxing and waning. Stars are further associated with the trigrams we find in the Yi Jing (Book of Changes).

The Big Dipper

Each year, month and day breaths a specific Qi, governed by either of these 9 Stars and your personal Nine Star Ki energy map gives you three Numbers, e.g. 9.4.1.

After getting you through some basic tables, we will show you your basic characteristics and how to do some basic divination using the Magic Square.

We will then give you some literature and weblink to the author’s NineStarKi mailing list community in which you will find more articles and can participate in ongoing discussions.

Once you found your way through its basics you will have entered a world of easy to digest - but accurate - character analysis and divination. You will have a tool to explore your relationships, health, decisions for initiative in an enjoyable way.

At the end of these essays you will have a pretty good idea how to handle this Japanese system of character and divination, be it in your Nine Star Ki studies or in your applications for Xuan Kong Feng Shui.

Now you want to of course first get to your personal Numbers.

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