Arguments on both sides

Notice how both sides in the hemispheres debate build their arguments and theories around the Five Elements as observed through seasons and the progression of seasons, instead of taking earth magnetism as the starting point of Feng Shui.

Fire to the South in the Luo Shu is to show that Fire Qi (+) originates in the North, but is stopped by a wall in the South.
Water to the North in Luo Shu is to show that Water Qi (-) originates in the South, but accumulates in the North.

Advisors to the Chinese emperor were not new age oriented, nor were they hippies or did they belong to any other alternative movement. These people were scholars, highly educated in astronomy and mathematics.

Only after King Wen adopted the Chinese geographical situation and showed it into his Later Heaven Ba Gua – were we taught the Ba Gua shows mountain to the Northeast because Northeast is where we find most mountains in China and showing woods to the East because East is where we find most woods in China.

The ancient masters knew all along the Ba Gua was to show geomagnetic and astronomical realities.

The Five Elements – or Wu Xing – were to show the several points the earth passed on its orbit around the sun, as shown earlier, and Fire energy showed the earth’s plus pole, while Water showed the earth’s minus pole.

These scholars found that microcosmos and macrocosmos had a definite synchronism to them and Huang Di, the first Chinese emperor, found that the rice plant showed a life stage of twelve distinct phases. Later, similar studies where done for the human body and thus the meridians were found, as well as – again later - the life stages of built structures were found which we incorporate in Xuan Kong Feng Shui.

As Master Joseph Yu explains:
(http://chinese-fengshui.freeservers.com/south-h.htm)
 

“As we move towards the tropical area, heat energy dominates throughout the year.
If we move towards the North pole, the water energy dominates.
The same map is used, but the strengths of the various energies vary.
As we move to the Southern hemisphere the situation is reversed.
It is just natural to design the map in the following way.

For areas on and near the equator it is the Fire energy that dominates. Fire energy comes from all directions in addition to the other energies. The fact that in the tropical areas diseases can spread more easily is because the Fire energy strengthens the Number 2 and Number 5 Evil Stars”.

Master Yu further explains how the Ba Gua is a superficial energy map that can take into consideration the strength of the Five Elements in the eight directions according to latitude of a place, considering climatic conditions, but that the Luo Shu is the energy map of a confined area defined by the positions of the mountain and water and should not be modified.

In the early seventies the authors Sherrill and Chu, in one of their titles suddenly suggested that there should be a difference in assessing Qi for the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

These authors had a mere academic interest in Chinese metaphysics, they were not practitioners, but the ink of their rationalization had been hardly dried up, or this idea was quickly adopted and furthered by some practitioners.

Their rational was that the Chinese had not been aware of the Southern hemisphere, but they should have understood that it were the Chinese who had discovered the earth magnetic field and the magnetic compass.

The rationale of the Chinese not having been aware of the Southern hemisphere, and thus taking this exact reasoning as a justification for the later ‘difference’ doctrine, has been one of the strongest and ever re-occurring arguments used by the Southern school, and one of the strongest persisting demonstrations of hippie reasoning still in use today, but let us go back as far as primary school and we can easily dismiss this masquerade.

We all know that civilization started in Africa, as we must go back as far as Mesopotamia, Alexandria, arriving to countries like the old Persia – today Iran -, Iraq, Egypt.
History of humanity, history of civilization, is one endless tale of migrations, into all winds.

Now, we also know that the Chinese people did not originate from Asia, but had migrated from Mesopotamia. That is Africa in itself, so the question is ‘had the Chinese been unaware of the Southern hemisphere’, or – Africa being spread over both Northern hemisphere and Southern hemisphere – ‘would it have been a lot of trouble to travel to the South, being on the African continent anyway, to reach the Southern hemisphere’.

Let us not assume that the Chinese had been on the Southern hemisphere, because they had been of course, but show this with just one example.

In an article by Brigitte Maurey it is not just shown how Asians peoples had been to Polynesia, which is just to the Northeast of Australia, but how they even found the Star Compass [http://pvs.hawaii.org/rapanui/compass.gif], which was by the way used for cartographic or navigational purposes, not to measure Qi.

The article shows how peoples from Southeast-Asia, more accurately Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines migrated to the area somewhere around 1600 BC.
This positions Asian peoples having been aware of the Southern hemisphere, long before the Chinese even invented the magnetic needle, let alone the Chinese compass.

The Chinese not having been aware of the existence of the Southern hemisphere is a non-assumption, thus this having to be the rational behind us having to adapt our Feng Shui practise for the Southern hemisphere, has been now declared a non-argument.

When I stand in my country taking a compass reading, I get magnetic North.
Even if I am not aware of any country to the North or South of my country, people in these countries to my North or South measure the same magnetic North when they take a compass reading in their countries.

When I take a compass reading on the Northern hemisphere, I get magnetic North.
When I take a compass reading on the Southern hemisphere, I get magnetic North.

It is not just earth magnetic field or earth magnetosphere we are interested in.
Sun physics should be an important part of your studies when you seek to become proficient in Four Pillars, Feng Shui or Nine Star Ki.
The same is true for your Yi Jing studies.

The sun produces Solar Wind, caused by the Corona and said to be the origin of the human form and shape.
Here is a graphic illustration of the relationship between the sun’s solar wind and the earth’s magnetosphere.

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