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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.
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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?
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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.
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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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