Feng Shui Software

A brief introduction to Feng Shui

Generalities on Feng Shui

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.

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.

Definition
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).

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.

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.

• Personalized Feng Shui

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 PC program Izi Wai that you can download and try on our Web Site: http://www.delemme.com/etelchin.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

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 for PC.

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).

Download and Try our Software for PC "LuQi"

Or try our "Zi Wei Dou Shu" program (Chinese Astrology program).