SOUTHERN
HEMISPHERE AND UNIVERSAL QI
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the definite angle -
Hidden origin of Five
Transformations
According to
Danny van den Berghe, the Five Transformations were found by astronomers observing the earth
orbit around the sun.

When earth moved closest to the sun, an astronomical reality known as
perihelion,
this
phase was called Water, the associated season only
much later becoming Winter.
When earth then moves away from the sun, this can be visualized as
expansive energy and it was then associated with Wood, only much later
with Spring season.
When earth is farthest away from the sun, an astronomical reality known as
aphelion, this was associated with centrifugal energy in its
ultimate state and this became associated with Fire or Summer season.
Then, earth once again on its way closer to the sun, this movement was
associated with condensation and its association being the Earth
phase.
Finally earth moved back towards the sun even more, this phase in the
earth orbit being associated with contraction, Metal energy or the
Autumn season.
This means that ancient astronomers and masters did not base the Five
Transformations on our environment or formulated any of the Laws of
Qi around seasons or the progression of seasons, but instead the Five
Transformations having their foundation in astronomical realities.
It also means that we cannot claim that ‘the Ba Gua is based on seasons’.
The Ba Gua is not ‘to represents energetic qualities of the seasons,
colours, directions’.
We cannot claim that ‘the Ba Gua symbolizes conditions valid only in the
North’.
It shows why and how there is no difference for Northern and
Southern hemispheres.
As Five Transformations are clearly defined around the earth orbit, and
whatever event surrounding the sun will be surely mirrored here on earth,
it could not be other than – ‘so above, so below’ – nature only
demonstrating movements quite similar to the ones just described -
expansion, condensation and withdrawal.
We can no longer focus on the Five Transformations in the way we were
taught in the West for so long, as keeping to the analogy of the Five
Transformations, rather than relying on the definition and explanation
will be misleading.
Hundreds of Feng Shui books serve tens and tens of thousands of readers,
still educating them in analogy. If masters teach their students in
analogy, what are the odds that these students will start teaching any
different from this and start touching on the definition.
It is like educating our children in adult matters. To teach a five year
old we would adjust to his level of understanding. It would be bad when we
would find our forty years old son telling his class the same story,
without the transition from analogy to definition.
This has deep consequence for our Feng Shui practise because it means
that:
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we cannot maintain that Feng Shui should be done differently for the
Southern hemisphere.
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we need to adjust our understanding of the elements projected on
objects, shapes and forms.
When we need to counter the detrimental energy of Earth 5, we need to
understand that this malign energy is energy coming from within the earth,
its frequency being enormous.
There is no way the frequency of any Metal object can counter this
ill energy, because compared to earth energy, the energy of Metal objects
is close to nothing.
In order to heal Qi, we need to counter sick Qi with its counterpart,
healthy Qi, in this case being sound in the frequency of Metal.
Since the theory of the Five Transformations was not based on our
environment or formulated around seasons or the progression of seasons,
but instead on astronomical realities, and also since Fire energy is
not the sun, but just the magnetic Fire pole of our planet, we cannot
uphold the difference for Feng Shui done for the Northern hemisphere or
done for the Southern hemisphere.
Exponents of the Southern hemisphere theory reasoned that, because the Luo
Shu shows Fire in the South and this Fire must be associated with the sun,
surely this meant that Southern hemisphere Five Phases theory should be
adapted to the fact that below the equator the sun is at its highest point
in the North and also the seasons are reversed.
This is from the exact wrong angle of reasoning and a false starting
point, where Fire energy shown in the Ba Gua was in the first place not
pointing to the sun but to earth magnetism.
We should therefore stay away from changing the trigrams in the original
Ba Gua.
Earth magnetism is the same for both hemispheres, therefore houses should
be diagnosed and treated the same for the Southern hemisphere as for their
Northern counterparts.
The same is true for astrology's as Nine Star Ki and Four Pillars of
Destiny.
Although temperature and moisture continue to play a vital
role of importance in our application, as such there is no
difference in the setting up of astrological charts between people
born on either hemisphere, as there is no difference in the way Flying
Star charts are built up in Feng Shui.
All our Oriental Time and Space systems are based on Longitude, rather
than Latitude.
Feng Shui, Pillars of Destiny and Nine Star Ki deal with Universal Qi,
and although part of it, temperature and moisture are not Universal Qi.
As long as we continue to keep in mind that the Five Transformations
theory as we came to know it is just an analogy, not an explanation, we
can now reflect on some of the practical applications of the Wu Xing
theory.

The circle used to show the Five Phases can be just any circuit.
This circuit can symbolize a full year, with its seasons.
It can show the closed circuit of our bodies, with its organs and
functions.
The circuit can show our character,
emotions and temperament.
The circuit of the Five Phases can show the five stages in which we
maintain a company.
The circuit of the Five Phases may show any Time duration, like a year, a
month, a day, an hour.
The basic idea is that the circle gives the idea of One Qi, but in several
stages of waxing and waning.
Qi moves in spirals, sometimes centrifugal or moving away from its center,
sometimes centripetal or moving towards its center.
We see a much colder atmosphere develop in a spiral that is moving away
from its center and this temperature will raise again once the spiral
moves towards its center.
Keeping the big picture in mind, we need to link contraction of energy to
its respective phase in the earth orbit, where we see the earth move back
closer to the sun.
This phases of contraction and expansion – or waxing and waning – may
appear before our eyes in rather small events, some taking a year, some a
second, but we are looking at a child only, not to the mother. The mother
of Five Transformations is the earth orbit.
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