Generalities on Feng Shui
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Definition
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Introduction
Feng Shui is not a
religion, and it is not magic. It is not the
solution to everything but it allows to live in
harmony with our environnement.
The oldest Feng Shui
School seems to date back to the Song Dynasty
(960-1279 AD). In the beginning, the purpose of Feng
Shui was to correctly orient the
graves of ancestors. . . for the very practical
reason that descendants would not be importuned
but rather favored.
Feng Shui deals with Qi or Chi...
This is the Universal Cosmic Energy that bathes
us.It is this same energy that yogis call prana,
that ancient alchemists tried to capture, that
Acupuncture regulate and that Eastern gymnastic
or martial arts (Karate, Tai-Chi-Chuan, Qi-Gong)
use.
It's also the same cosmic energy
that is used in Holistic Medicines (Reiki . . .
). And it probably can be compared to the
Holy-Spirit that falls in tongues of flame during
the Pentecost.
There is good Qi (Sheng Qi) and
bad Qi (Sha Qi).
This Cosmic Energy, is also
called Earth Luck, different from Heaven Luck
(which is the Destiny, readable in the different
astrological charts) and from Man Luck (what we
make of our life).
Living in a malefic House may
provoke, if we believe old Chinese masters, one
or several catastrophs of the following list:
injuries, fires, accidents, robberies,
adulteries, divorces, illness, bankruptcies. Even
if our astrological chart is auspicious, there
are always periods of weakness where Misfortune
may overwhelm us if the House allows it. . .
On the other hand, if our
astrological Chart (our destiny) is bad, we can
nevertheless try to live in a harmonious house.
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Warning
Feng Shui is the Art of Mastering the Qi,
the Breath of the Dragon, the Cosmic Energy.
Our LuQi
program will help you but please remain careful
and humble, don't open a Pandora's box by
changing everything in your house at the same
time.
Proceed by slight modifications
and don't touch sectors already in harmony.
After a modification, carefully
check the next events in your life.
Old alchemists used to say:
"It's forbidden to enter into the King's
Palace without having been announced".
It's a long way to control the Qi,
but it's easy to upset it, specially when playing
with the Fire element or when activating stars
N°2 and N°5.
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Définition
Feng means Wind and Shui
means Water: these are the two basic tools of the
Feng Shui practitioner.
Basically, we must stop the cosmic energy carried
by Wind and capture it with Water (oceans,
rivers, lakes, streams but also ponds, basins,
bowls and fish tanks. . .).
Water or Wind must not run too
fast, they would otherwise take away the good
energy. On the contrary, they must flow calmly,
along mild meanders, with serenity. Water must be
limpid, crystal clear. Neither stagnant nor
putrid.
Feng Shui
is sometimes translated as "Chinese
Geomancy", that is divination thanks to the
Earth. It is partly true, since one can forecast
the status of a house at a given date and
therefore imagine the corresponding climate in
which will live its residents.
Finally, Feng Shui is
the Art of Directions: how to find the bad or the
good directions, to orient the House, the entry
door, the beds, the desk, the eating-table...
It is also used for travelling: some experts
carefully plan their journey, in function of Time
and Space, leaning on the basic data of their
astrological chart, of their main residence and
of hotels. It's like sailing into an opposite
wind.
Feng Shui
finally diagnoses the status of a house and
proposes possible solutions to improve the
situation (cures).
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Different
schools of Feng Shui
The School of the Form
consists in a careful observation of the
surroundings of a house: hills, brooks and pools,
buildings, orientation, dominant winds. We must
then find the underground or air streams of
energy (the Chi ).
Ancient Chinese call the Earth Currents
"Veins of the Dragon" and compare them
to the Acupuncture Channels that subtly cover the
human body.
The jet streams were called the "Breath of
the Dragon".
It is also the school of common sense and
intuition: we should look after harmonious houses
and avoid too much noise, draughts, bad odors and
electricity high-tension. And also views on
disgraceful buildings, aggressive pylons,
mutilated tree, rapid ways, industrial zones,
cemeteries. . .
The School of the Compass
allows to refine this first and indispensable
stage: according to the orientation of the house
(measured with the help of a compass) and the
building date, we establish an "Astrological
(or Numerological) Chart" of the house, that
allocates three numbers to each of the nine
sectors of the house (called Palaces).
Remark:
Chinese Feng Shui Masters use a special
compass, called a Luo Pan,
that is a compass with a number of
supplementary rings and inscriptions: a
Luo Pan is to our program LuQi
what is an abacus to a computer: one can
make everything with it. . . after thirty
years of training.
The 9 Palaces of a House are
found by mapping 9 equal square boxes on it.
You can also trace a small central circle, with 8
equal portions (pie chart). With the small
central circle, we have 9 sectors too.
The School of the Compass is an attempt to put
the Chi in equation and to describe it: this
description is function of the Yin and the Yang
and the five elements (Fire, Earth, Metal, Water,
Wood) that are different aspects the Chi. The Yi-King
theory, specially its 8 Basic Trigrams, is
fundamental.
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Different
Feng Shuis
The Xuan Kong
Feng Shui, or the art of making the stars
fly (each star is in fact a number
between 1 to 9).
One makes the stars fly according to
Space (orientation) and Time (building
date), thus building a Flying Stars
Chart, that can be interpreted.
There is also the East/West
Method (or Method of the Eight
Houses).
A Trigram is allocated to
each House, according to its orientation.
The House is also divided into Sectors, each
being associated with a star, Favorable or
Unfavorable.
We can then interpret these combinations.
The personal Gua
number.
Schools examined hereabove
deal with a building. Its energy will affect
all the residents (but with differences
according to their personal destiny).
But some methods allow to calculate
Favorable/Unfavorable Directions, specific to
the residents:
their year of birth is associated with a
Trigram number (the Gua
number).
Each Trigram is associated to a set of
unfavorable and favorable directions.
There is a Gua per person plus one for the
House. . . it is sometimes difficult to
conciliate them all!
In fact, the Gua number
method seems less effective than a Flying
Stars Chart: it implies that all persons born
the same year would have the same directions.
But we can use it as a
complement: first select the favorable zones
of the house with the Flying Stars Chart,
then, inside a zone, choose your best
directions…
Zi Wei Dou Shu
Astrology
An other way to obtain your own directions,
and in a far more personalized way, is to use
your natal chart, specially the Zi
Wei Dou Shu Chart.
This chart consists in 12 boxes, each
associated to a direction.
If a box (for example the Rat box, which
corresponds to the North) is mainly occupied
by favorable energies (they are 109 stars),
then the Northern direction is favorable to
the owner of the chart.
Concerning Zi Wei
Dou Shu, you can try the
Chinese module of our program King
of the Stars that you can
download and try on our Web Site: http://www.delemme.com/etel.htm
Four Pillars
Astrology
There is an other Chinese astrology,
the "Four Pillars of the Destiny"
or Ba Zi or Zi
Ping. It is available inside
our LuQi program:
just click on the "Astro Analysis"
button and you will be able to build and
analyze your Chart.
The main interest of this astrology is to
determine your elemental qualities (i.e. the
percentage of the different elements in you,
your forces and your weaknesses).
This can be useful for Feng Shui cures: if
you lack the Wood elemental quality, may be
it could be interesting to increase the Wood
element in your house. We say perhaps,
because in some cases, this would a very bad
idea: too much Wood in a Palace could
increase existing problems.
9 Star Ki Astrology.
It is based on the magical square of Saturn,
as the Flying Stars
Feng Shui.
Our program LuQi
allows you to determine 9 Star Ki
charts associated to the
Period, Year, Month, Day and Hour.
The "Astro Analysis" button,
together with the Four Pillars chart, will
calculate your 9 Star Ki
characteristics ( Main, Personnal and
Energetic Numbers for instance).
Easy Feng Shuis
They are to authentic Feng Shui what
horoscopes in some newspapers are to a
personalized astrological analysis:
they are rid of complicated notions, they
have eliminated all subtleties, and they
love generalities. . .
They often tell you to suspend a chime to
your door, to paint your entry door in
red (this can be dramatic, if this door
is placed under a violent configuration).
. .
They have however the merit to make
people think about their habitat.
Other non-Chinese Feng
Shuis:
- Bresilian Sanjia,
which is a local adaptation of the
Chinese Feng Shui.
- Indian Vaastu Shastra
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Lunar
and Solar Chinese Calendar
Please click here for more
details.
The Chinese Calendar is also very
used by Acupuncture, at least by
Chrono-Acupuncture.
You can get an idea of this field by downloading
our Chronos
software.
Remark: it is a software aimed at professional
Acupuncture practitioners: it computes the
AcuPoints which are opened, depending of the Day
and Hour, thanks to several ancestral methods: (Zi
Wu Liu Zhu and Ling Gui
Ba Fa).
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