SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE AND UNIVERSAL QI
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Defining a year

How we define years and months in Chinese metaphysical systems is through observing the earth orbit around the sun. The distance between earth and the sun is so great, that whatever is true for the Northern hemisphere, must be true for the Southern hemisphere, where it concerns magnetic field.

  • Why should there be a difference for either hemisphere.
    Can we say that, when Northern hemisphere is to be found to one side of the sun, we need to look for the Southern hemisphere but at the other side of the sun?

  • Why should there be Rat for the Northern hemisphere, but Sheep for the Southern hemisphere, in the same year. Time may be an oddity, but it would be still valid for the entire globe.
    I am sure, time being measured by Longitude, conditions for the Southern hemisphere must be the same.

  • If Feng Shui bases its compass needle findings on magnetic North and magnetic energy originates from within the earth inner core, how many earth inner cores are there to produce how many magnetic fields. Would the earth inner core produce two types of magnetism, one for each hemisphere?

A year is measured by the Sun's apparent movement through 360 degree arc in the zodiac and this apparent movement is the same for both Northern and Southern hemisphere.

Time aspects in Four Pillars of Destiny, Feng Shui and Nine Star Ki are found and defined by following and marking the exact position of earth on the ecliptic path around the sun.

Tropical Zodiac
A Zodiac defines the apparent path of the sun and moon through the sky and divides this path into prescribed divisions or degrees.

We measure time using Tropical Zodiac, being an even circle anchored on the Equinoxes and Solstices, rather than the constellations they once presented.
The Tropical Zodiac is a circle, divided into 30 degrees divisions along the ecliptic, starting at the Vernal Equinox, which is 0 degrees in the sign of Aries.

Sidereal Zodiac
The Sidereal Zodiac is a circle, divided into 30 degrees divisions along the same ecliptic, starting at 0 degrees Aries, but because of the precession phenomenon, the sun no longer passes this degree on the day of the Vernal Equinox.

The start of a year is a global event, and is taken from astronomical realities, rather than observation of local climatic or seasonal conditions.

The start of a year is taken as 45 Zodiacal degrees or 45 days before 21 March of any year.
Local conditions like climate, season, temperature, weather or moisture do not play any role here.
Another way of saying is that the start of a year was taken to be when the sun was halfway between the shortest day – Winter Solstice on the Northern hemisphere – and the day on which day and night are even – Vernal Equinox.

The Chinese divide a Solar year into 24 parts of approximately 15 days each.
These periods vary somewhat in time because the sun completes its apparent 360° path in 365.25 days and this path is elliptical, rather than circular, causing for the sun’s apparent motion to be sometimes one degree, sometimes less than one degree, sometimes more than one degree.

These are called the 24 Solar Terms and these mark the times when the sun reaches 0° and 15° in any given Zodiacal sign.
As an example we can take the Zodiacal sign of Aquarius and say that a Solar year starts when the sun reaches 15° Aquarius.

The common denominator for both hemispheres to find the start of a year is 45 days before the sun crosses the ecliptic from South to North, which is the same for either hemisphere.
That crossing of the ecliptic from South to North coincides with the Spring Equinox on the Northern hemisphere and with the Autumn Equinox on the Southern hemisphere.

We have a non-issue when we try to link the start of a year in Four Pillars of Destiny, Feng Shui and Nine Star Ki to local conditions on the Northern and Southern hemisphere, because how would we build a chart for a person born on the equator? Will a year start at 4 February or 7 August on the equator?


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