SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE AND UNIVERSAL QI
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The Five Elements (Wu Xing) analogy

Chinese compass and Luo Shu

Most Chinese metaphysics pivot around the Chinese compass or Luo Pan, no matter if we look at acupuncture, martial arts, Feng Shui, Nine Star Ki, Four Pillars of Destiny or Chinese medicine.

Furthermore, these systems take the Yi Jing trigrams and codify trigram properties, e.g. through Numbers or Stars.

Because trigrams occupy directions, Feng Shui will translate trigrams into Stars.
For reason that the Chinese compass is oriented South, its
derivation, the Luo Shu or Magic Square, shows South on top.

Nine Stars migrate through the Luo Shu in a fixed order, but in Feng Shui charts, Stars may follow an ascending – counting forward - or descending – counting backward - path.

This is the basic Luo Shu, referred to as the Earth chart (Di Pan) in our Feng Shui studies and carrying Number 5 in the center.

Shown are the Numbers in their basic sequence, starting at the center migrating through the Luo Shu in a fixed pattern: Northwest, West, Northeast, South, North, Southwest, East, Southeast.
In this example the Numbers fly in an ascending order, counting upward from the center, but in the Flying Star charts used in Feng Shui you will see Stars fly either forward or backward.

The Luo Shu is used to show Time dynamics in Feng Shui, e.g. the changing twenty year Periods used in Xuan Kong Feng Shui.
Each twenty years another Star migrates to the center, this Star then being the Prominent Dragon for a period of twenty years. It is regarded the emperor for that Period. Period 7 runs from 1984-2004, Period 8 runs from 2004-2024.

Also, each year the annual Number changes, following a nine year period of waxing and waning Qi.
Each 81 year period will be ruled by a particular Star and also each 9 year period will be ruled by one Star. Furthermore, we can find monthly and daily Qi Numbers and show them over the Luo Shu.

The Five Transformations in the Luo Shu sectors are fixed.
No matter what Star migrates to the South, South is and remains a Fire sector.
When the 4 Wood Star migrates to the South, the Wood of the Star will simply mix with the Fire of the Palace.
What came first rules, i.e. Qi in the Earth chart is Host to Qi of a visiting Star. Fire is Host in this example, Wood is Guest. Fire will be generated by Wood.

The trigram belonging to 4 Wood Star is Wind, the trigram belonging to 9 Fire House is the Fire trigram.
Attributes of the Wind and Fire trigram will now be combined and this may or may not lead to events.
One attribute of the Wind trigram is that is symbolizes the Eldest Daughter.
The Fire trigram symbolizes the Middle Daughter.
The He Tu combination of 4 and 9 is Metal, so these sisters may join forces to make money, because the Metal combination of these Stars are in the South and Fire controls Metal. In the East it is said: ‘Wealth is what you control’.

Also other properties of these trigrams may combine, e.g. organs, behavioural traits, body functions, objects and related events.

Proficiency in Feng Shui is not in knowing which trigram properties to combine in what Palaces. Just by looking at the Stars we cannot say what will happen or whether events will be beneficial. In itself this information is not so much in the Stars, as it is in the surrounding Forms and the Time aspect.

In itself any Star combination is just a portent.
Any event associated with a combination may not at all actually occur.
This depends on many factors, e.g. the timeliness of the Stars involved, the quality of any surrounding Form (Mountain and Water in their appropriate directions and whether Mountain and Water are beautiful or ugly), the astrological data of the people concerned as well as their physical and emotional conditions, and whether or not the sectors are used, i.e. do they show appropriate Mountain and Water, the right Active Line and are sectors used by Human Qi.

Usually the Five Transformations are shown around a circle.
We need to emphasize that, although the Five Phases are associated with the seasons, the Five Transformations are not seasons. Seasons are part of Qi, as we cannot say that seasons are Qi.

Looking at Wu Xing through seasonal change is just using an analogy – not so much giving the explanation - for dynamics that are actually astronomical but that farmers and commoners in the old days would have found hard to understand.

Please understand that Wu Xing in itself is non-existent as the only two elements in existence are Water and Fire and the Five Transformations are just an extension of certain astronomical realities.

Here, even Water and Fire do not point to H20 or actual physical Fire, as they point to earth magnetism.


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