Flying Star Feng Shui - 81 Star Combinations
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Have you wondered why at all 9 Stars can be alternately ‘timely’ and ‘untimely’ in Fei Xing? Is it due to Fei Xing or San Yuan? Have you been working with 81 Star Combinations in Flying Star Feng Shui while disregarding Mountain and Water Principle that says that we
either allow pathway for Qi (open) or disallow pathway for Qi (close)? San Yuan is a calendar division and Fei Xing could have used any other mirror to measure vibrancy of 9 Stars, such as 12 Life Stages. Have you
been still referring to 9 Stars as ‘timely and auspicious’ and ‘untimely and inauspicious’? Those tables with 81 Star Combinations under review.
Full revision of article first published in 1999 as a chapter out of Heluo’s class manual Xuan Kong Flying Star Feng Shui spread freely over www for your learning.
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WHAT’S FEI XING, WHAT THEN SAN YUAN?
Besides 9 Stars are not timely but Inside Yun, not untimely but Outside Yun, any remote notion of ‘timely a n d auspicious’ and ‘untimely a n d inauspicious’ is misplaced and as such not due to Flying Star Feng Shui, but due only to San Yuan Jiu Yun. Yet, such notions will have culminated in a table with 81 Star Combinations – commonly in use – with stunning connotation of illness, accident or disaster glued onto Star combinations. Most Flying Star Feng Shui practitioners would use ‘Fei Xing’ and ‘San Yuan’ in same breath. As a 9 Stars artist, you must really see San Yuan for what it is. Saying, we must first of all solve that, using those 9 Stars for purpose of Fei Xing Feng Shui is one, then any ‘pulled in’ categorizations – would they be called Wuxing or 12 Life Stages or San Yuan - are notional. Which made me decide that, if at all a discourse on 81 Star Combinations, it should only come with yet again assemblence of fundamentals, pertinent to our at all employing Xuan Kong Fei Xing Feng Shui 玄空飛星風水 in any responsible way. A table such as the one presented here and where it gives enumeration of what 81 Star Combinations would bode, could and should be seen only in light of basics pertaining Xuan Kong Flying Star Feng Shui. In fact, once those basic Xuan Kong Fei Xing prescriptions in place, this would render any 81 Star Combinations table entirely obsolete, if only because, as it is, you’d be no more than minding the Mountain and Water Principle onto Stars in Fei Xing, then at no point would you consider such a table. So, let’s look into certain basics, before at all we resorted to the more ‘popular’ – only evidently fabricated - 81 Star Combinations table. As a Feng Shui practitioner or even as a professional, the last thing we want is, become spokesperson to anyone that had at any time earlier proclaimed all kinds of nonsense, while even worse is, if not we would have noticed it was gibberish in the first place and still we took it as teaching. You like to decide for yourself, based in technique and sound judgment. Thing is, outside wishing to own a Chinese Compass Luopan, the table with 81 Star Combinations and what they portent may soon become the most sought after ‘thing’ for any practitioner. Question becoming, upon your first seeing such table, did you see goings on there and able to denounce right away? Or, is there anything in that table that you thought was justifiable? However, to fully grasp what we will discuss, we should first distinguish Xuan Kong Flying Star Feng Shui on the one hand, then San Yuan Jiu Yun on the other hand. San Yuan in itself is not Feng Shui and it does not handle 9 Stars, whereas it just no more than said that, each one of 9 Stars will be alternately ‘Inside Yun’ or ‘Outside Yun’, once held against a range of 9 x 20-year periods, such totalling 180 years, full stop. As such, 9 Stars could have just as well been mirrored against 12 Stages of Life.
It will take you some time to conquer this article, as it contains a step by step ‘first things first’ approach into certain established ‘truths’, such as you must know what San Yuan exactly bodes, while to begin with, no-one knows where such terms as ‘timely’ or ‘untimely’ had come from, as in fact, the very terms are wrong and not faithful to any Chinese verbatim.
You’re a Xuan Kong Fei Xing – then rather not a San Yuan – practitioner, so that, Sān Yuán Jiǔ Yùn 三元九運 is not ‘Feng Shui’, it just only means ‘Three Cycles, Nine Periods’, as what San Yuan does along an a r i t h m e t i c a l e x e r c i s e is, first divide a period of 180 years into 3 x 60 years, then 9 x 20 years. Once then pulled in by Fei Xing Feng Shui, it can provide Fei Xing with ‘a’ take on waxing and waning along the course of larger time cycles. Time division proposed by San Yuan is then employed for purpose of Fei Xing, whereas you will see that, as such, San Yuan ‘timeliness’ finds no seat in any of the other standing 9 Stars and Luoshu systems of applications, or any other metaphysical system for that matter.
Saying, things in perspective, San Yuan (no more than) supplies Xuan Kong Fei Xing with ‘a’ notion of timing and not only could Fei Xing have just as well adopted a good number of other notions on timing, this is as far as we should allow San Yuan to infringe at the realm of 9 Stars and 8 Trigrams. Therefore, within context and at best, it may be correct to say that:
Mirrored against San Yuan timing – and only then -, 9 Stars as employed for Fei Xing can be alternately Inside Yun or Outside Yun.
So, that is same as in noting, where at any given time on a recurrent pattern ‘a’ Star is, but it is totally wrong to even so much as suggest that:
Mirrored against San Yuan timing, 9 Stars could be then also deemed auspicious or inauspicious, if it means that their such auspiciousness or inauspiciousness was based in a Star being ‘timely’ or ‘untimely’.
As such, there is no such thing as San Yuan at all able to decide auspiciousness or inauspiciousness, for very reason that San Yuan only handles the timely or untimely. San Yuan only supplies Xuan Kong Fei Xing with ‘a’ notion of timeliness, but mandate for deciding the auspiciousness or inauspiciousness is and will always remain with Xuan Kong Fei Xing Feng Shui, to be more precise, the way in which Fei Xing’s intrinsic Mountain and
Water Principle is handled, the way Form, Qi and Use are being handled.
San Yuan is a calendar division and to that respect, it’s not Feng Shui. It doesn’t supply Mountain and Water Principle, Form, Qi, Use. Consequently, we should stop using the following ludicrous contraction in same breath:
‘Timely and auspicious Star’ and ‘untimely and inauspicious Star’.
Because this would produce same friction as we keep seeing in Wuxing Five Transformations where most would still reason along following paradigm:
Are we Fei Xing experts or actually 9 Stars and Luoshu experts?
Now, to really see that San Yuan is actually no more than just ‘a’ proposal for ‘a’ calendar division and that Fei Xing Feng Shui could have just as well ‘pulled in’ 12 Stages of Life to take 9 Stars to vibrancy and thus ‘behavior’ - and no matter how long you’d have been involved in Fei Xing Feng Shui -, let’s get really technical and see what it actually is we are doing.
Surely, at the end of the day, we’d be actually no more than working along 9 Stars and Luoshu. Only after we’d have gathered a clear overall
cosmological view onto 9 Stars, would it be soon enough to step into any of
9 Star’s systems of application, which would be of later concern and could well be Flying Star Feng Shui, Nine Star Ki Astrology or 9 Ki Divination. Start from scratch, as it is, there would be first our categorizing all tangible and intangible phenomena in our cosmos, with at such point ‘a’ system of application not anywhere in sight. It’s just that, still at this point, if we see a thing as ‘knife’, we would like to know into which bucket out of a series of 9 it should go. While ‘knife’ goes into bucket #7 for Dui Gua, it just sits there, then not would it be a ‘timely’ or ‘untimely’, an ‘auspicious’ or ‘inauspicious’ knife. A thing as ‘womb’ to end up in bucket #2 for Kun Gua, would not be a ‘healthy’ or ‘sick’ womb, because at this stage it is on to just 9 Stars and Trigram attributes, with no further connotation, for reason that not would we have pulled in any whatsoever ‘mirror’ to be weighing 9 Stars for their behavior. It’s utterly important that not you skipped this phase of classifying phenomena along just their Trigram attributes.
If you stop the clock, you’d now have each bucket filled with tens of Trigram attributes. If then bucket #3 had ‘train’ or ‘uniformed personnel’, but not did we know ‘operator’, we wouldn’t be able to tell if it is a ‘good’ train or a ‘bad’ train, a ‘good’ or a ‘bad’ police man. In order to at all have 9 Stars perform, we first need domain, then platform, then context. Such platform for 9 Stars could be Fei Xing, it could be 9 Star Ki, each one with its own ‘operator’ to take 9 Stars to ‘behavior’. Even then, 9 Stars mirrored against Wuxing as an ‘operator’ would give different performance and behavior than once with 9 Stars along the ruler of 12 Stages of Life, or a threefold (3 x 60 = 180 years) calendar division as proposed by San Yuan.
How San Yuan Jiu Yun is just only to divide 180 years into portions
Whereas 25,920 years for Great Year could divide along whichever variety of segments, we may have such range organized around 144 portions of 180 years. Which is where San Yuan comes in as, once then arrived at ‘a’ certain portion of 180 years, San Yuan further divides it into 3 x 60 years, then once more into 9 x 20 years, that’s all. In our times, the then most relevant and manageable such portion of 180 years runs from 1864-2044. What we do in Oriental metaphysics is, we use such stretch of 180 years to give out Jiazi, or the 60 combinations there are to 10 Heavenly Stems and 12 Earthly Branches, such that the first Stem-Branch combination of Yang Wood-Rat coincides with 1864, the last in the range Yin Water-Pig with 2043. However, at no point did we adhere connotation, performance or behavior onto any of the Ganzhi, as we’re here still on to only cartography. San Yuan means ‘3 Cycles’, so that, for that matter, those 180 years could have been divided by 2 cycles, 8 cycles or 19¾ cycles just the same. But it just so comes out that ‘San’ means 3, just as ‘Jiu’ as in Jiu Yun means ‘9’.
Where then any range of 180 years could be divided into 10 or 12, it just so happens that San Yuan then takes same span of 180 years, equally started at 1864, then first divide by 3, then another time by 9. Note however, that at no point San Yuan was dividing by ‘9 Stars’ or even concerned with ‘9 Stars’. Now, what does Jiu Yun mean in Chinese, 9 Periods or 9 Stars? It says San Yuan Jiu Yun, rather not San Yuan, Jiu Xing (Stars).
Once divided 180 years into 3 segments of 60 years, we may squeeze in 3 rows of 60 Stems and 3 rows of 60 Branches. Such calendrical division holds no information as to temperament and behavior of Stems and Branches (Ganzhi), because the division into 3 supplies just that, a division into 3, whereas not did this image supply ‘operator’. In order to at all have Ganzhi come into behavior, we still need pull in a mirror, which could be Wuxing or 12 Life Stages.
Let’s take 60 Jiazi and 9 Stars into behavior
Fundamentally, 9 Stars behavior actually varies each time with changing domain, platform and context. We cannot make general claims as to 9 Stars behavior, until after we decided how such seemingly ‘same’ 9 Stars would yet perform in Fei Xing due to its ‘operators’, then in Nine Star Ki Astrology or 9 Ki Divination, given different ‘operators’ there. Once Fei Xing our platform for Stars to come into behavior, we say Forms govern Stars, but, still at this point, we only just have our building blocks, which could be 60 Jiazi or 9 Stars, but not had we pulled in a ‘mirror’ to be weighing Ganzhi and 9 Stars qualitatively. We’d have the segmentation into neatly organized parts, then not did we have a board for waxing and waning, the vibrancy, only then eventually the behavior, performance of Stars.
Translated in terms of Fei Xing, we now know how to divide a portion of 180 years into 3, then into 9, but we are still not sure about the behavior of Star 2 ‘womb’ or Star 7 ‘knife’, simply because, for that, we would need something that could supply waxing and waning, such as 12 Stages of Life, or Wuxing. We still need ‘adopt’ some type of progression to take 9 Stars to performance. If Fei Xing means to ‘fly Stars’, but we would like to know each Star’s behavior at any given time, we’d first need ‘pull in’ a ‘mirror’, so let’s capture certain those eligible mirrors by their respective tables, catalogues. Now, there are several ways by which we may take 9 Stars to perform, but by themselves, 9 Stars do not so much as ‘perform’. 9 Stars are just electromagnetism and to ‘capture’ the single tangible or intangible phenomenon by certain Trigram attributes. 9 Stars need a weighing board to supply waxing and waning, thus vibrancy, but perhaps through San Yuan such ‘vibrancy’ then inappropriately nicknamed ‘timely’ and ‘untimely’. Fei Xing Feng Shui could have then ‘pulled in’ the table titled ‘12 Stages of Life’, just as Fei Xing and so as to let 9 Stars ride on the wave of 5 Elements could have pulled in the catalogue titled ‘Wuxing’. Only once then Fei Xing had invited in ‘a progression’ – and only then -, could 9 Stars be said to come under then adopted notion to account of vibrancy, for example as in our then saying that at any time ‘a’ Star would be Life Stage 1, Life Stage 6, Life Stage 12.
While, only thenafter, would come in designations such as those pertaining connotation, such as ‘this Star would momentarily have its attributes supported’ or ‘this Star would momentarily have its attributes hampered’.
For what it’s worth, 180 years are one lot, Wuxing are another lot, 12 Stages of Life yet another, so that we’d have an amalgamation of gypsy families otherwise not related by DNA. We could invite one family over, while next day and for other purpose we could ‘pull in’ the other family.
Wuxing Five Transformations 12 Stages of Life San Yuan Other DIFFERENT CATALOGUES TO WEIGH 9STARS
9 Stars are just that, they are 9 Stars
If you are a Fei Xing Feng Shui artist, then, before anything, you are actually a specialist in 9 Stars and Luoshu. Saying, first 9 Stars, only then system of application. Your expertise in 9 Stars and Luoshu is then in your knowing exactly for what circumstances you could be tapping into which table to then momentarily operate 9 Stars. With already your sitting on ultimate knowledge to concern of cosmological classifications for all phenomena, your student or client could just ‘ask away’ and at one time have you explain what 9 Stars behavior to expect once pulled in Wuxing, another time 12 Stages of Life, then again, could be any other ‘mirror’.
9 Stars are just that, they are 9 Stars. Still at the cosmological domain, they appear after we decided to take all (in)tangible phenomena in our universe along a division of ‘9’. There is no information at this point as to ‘vibrancy’ of Stars, thus consequently not ‘behavior’.
Said differently, there’d be the automatic equation ‘Star+Trigram attribute’, then not robotically a ‘Star+San Yuan’ or a ‘Star+Wuxing’, which would give a wrong image as if there existed ‘a’ symbiosis between 9 Stars and their eventual operators. Any connotation, therefore, is uncalled for. Wuxing is but one such agreed upon division of an in itself enclosed circuit, which such in itself enclosed circuit could be a 24-hour day, seasons to a Solar year, the organ and meridian system. If then Kidney is governed by Star 1, and once we decided to glue on to the table titled ‘Wuxing’, a such Wuxing could be assigned an organ. But Star 1 is what governs the organ, the Wuxing is not what governs the organ. Yet, once having been shown ‘Star+Wuxing’, most would find it hard, if not undoable, to go back to still just saying Star 1, then not Star 1 Water, just Star 2, not Star 2 Earth. Once ‘Star+Wuxing’ served its purpose, we can do away with the table titled ‘Wuxing’, then back once more to just only 9 Stars and Trigram attributes, we may reach out for the table titled ‘San Yuan’, for example. Even above examples alone amply demonstrate that we’d be into Fei Xing Feng Shui, for purpose of which we’d be employing 9 Stars, while not would we say ‘Wuxing Feng Shui’ only because Wuxing momentarily pulled in to give 9 Stars hands ‘n’ feet to account of ‘vibrancy’. Granted, we may see ‘San Yuan Feng Shui School’ (三元風水派) being used as an umbrella term to host certain Feng Shui disciplines, but within here context San Yuan Jiu Yun just arithmetically says that we had divided 180 years into 3, then 9 segments, just as we would see the same range of 180 years divide by Two Cycles, Eight Periods, only then called Er Yuan Ba Yun 二元八運.
I f y o u c a n r e a l l y a p p r e c i a t e t h a t – s t i l l j u s t t a k e n o n i t s o w n - a t h i n g s u c h a s a n y p r o j e c t e d t i m e l i n e s s o f a S t a r a n d s u c h a t a n y p o i n t d e r i v e d f r o m ‘ a ’ c a t a l o g u e c o u l d n o t d e c i d e ( i n ) a u s p i c i o u s n e s s , y o u ’ r e d o n e , a s i t t h e n i m m e d i a t e l y f o l l o w s t h a t n o p r e c o o k e d t a b l e s w i t h c o n n o t a t i o n s c o u l d h a v e c o m e i n t o e x i s t e n c e .
If you think about it, why then would a table with 81 Star Combinations be obsolete? Simply because of common sense and for reason that, as it is, our sole concern would be with just those 9 Stars in our Flying Star chart, then those Stars mirrored directly against environmental features, and Use, such that, never at any point in our assessment or our adjusting, would any prefabricated table with connotations have come into play. Then comes in how we would perceive 9 Stars to behave, but again here mirrored
then only against environmental Mountain and Water, those either
appropriately present or absent in their respective location and direction. W e a l r e a d y a g r e e t h a t , w i t h i n c o n t e x t o f j u s t F e i X i n g , 9 S t a r s f o r t h e i r e v e n t u a l b e h a v i o r s t r i c t l y o n l y r e l y o n h o w t h e n e a c h S t a r a p p r o p r i a t e l y o r i n a p p r o p r i a t e l y m e e t s e n v i r o n m e n t a l f e a t u r e s , a n d h o w t h e n M o u n t a i n a n d W a t e r P r i n c i p l e w i l l b e f u r t h e r e m p l o y e d , s o t h a t b e h a v i o r a n d p e r f o r m a n c e o f 9 S t a r s d i r e c t l y r e l a t e t o F o r m , Q i a n d U s e. I t s a i d n o w h e r e , t h a t w e c a n j u s t s k i p t h o s e , t h e n u n d e r s t a n d b e h a v i o r o f S t a r s a s b e i n g a t a l l d e p e n d e n t o n a n y a c c o m p a n y i n g S t a r , o r S t a r b e h a v i o r a n d e v e n t s r e a d s q u a r e l y f r o m a t a b l e .
Never could a table with 81 Star Combinations with all the ready portents and connotations there, take the place of Mountain and Water Principle, all we know about Form, Qi and Use. We know that, it is ultimately not a Star being ‘timely’ or ‘untimely’ to decide ‘auspiciousness’ or ‘auspiciousness’. That’s it. We know that any whatsoever Star once having been handled appropriately along just basic Fei Xing prescriptions could be made to bring out its most beneficial nature. We also know that it is rather of no concern, if then such beneficial behavior came from a ‘timely’ Star or an ‘untimely’ Star, if only because we know that under circumstances the untimely Star could be lured into favorable behavior and – more importantly –, if compromised, the timely Star could be still made to exert its ill portents.
D e f i n i t i o n s i m p l y h a s i t , t h a t F e i X i n g c a n s t i l l m a k e a u s p i c i o u s, w h a t S a n Y u a n h a d d e e m e d u n t i m e l y, w h i l e e q u a l l y , F e i X i n g w o u l d b e a b l e t o m a k e i n a u s p i c i o u s, w h a t w a s d e e m e d t i m e l y. A s a c a l e n d a r , S a n Y u a n m a y p e r h a p s d e e m S t a r s t i m e l y o r u n t i m e l y , w h e r e a s i t i s ‘ o u t ’ a s a p l a y e r t o a c c o u n t o f w h a t e v e r t h e n f o l l o w s , s t a r t i n g w i t h w h a t w o u l d b e a u s p i c i o u s o r i n a u s p i c i o u s w h i c h i s o f c o u r s e a t t h e s o l e d i s c r e t i o n o f F e i X i n g .
What then makes for the better Fei Xing artist?
Not wishing to step into persiflage in any way, but practically, let’s have a Flying Star Feng Shui consultant to come visit our house and to keep it straightforward and within the framework of ‘you catch my drift‘, let’s paint just two crude scenarios. Say, we have ‘a’ particular Star combination somewhere in our Flying Star chart, which could be Star ‘x-y’.
Scenario one – using table with 81 Star Combinations
Consultant once stumbled upon such Stars ‘x-y’, then tells you ‘oh, but, that actually bodes sickness in that and that organ’, while then ‘this and that marriage will fail’ or ‘your child bound to break his leg’. He doesn’t seem to be bothered with either present or absent Mountain and Water, then upon your further enquiring, he just points to his table with 81 Star Combinations that ‘says so’. Or, in the odd case that he would actually install appropriate Mountain and Water, we can ask if this was an improvement if still he would be talking about setbacks, sickness, all types of disaster, then of course indiscriminately extended into this or that ‘celebration’ or ‘superb exams’, just the same. As a side note – but admittedly, that could be just me – I would not be amused once invited anyone over for just an energetic screening, then be taken all hostage for having to hear all these (exaggeration intended for the purpose) psychiatric ‘goodies’, not to speak of having to endure all the gesticulation and the facial expression that should then underscore the ‘message’. Rather, then also, I would decide for myself if at all there was to be a ‘celebration’, or if even I’d wish to pass exams.
Scenario two – using just Fei Xing prescriptions
The other consultant in noting the exact same Stars ‘x-y’, tells me to best open this door to create a pathway for Qi onto such and such Star, then perhaps close another door to dissalow pathway for Qi onto such and such Star, while he may tell me one or two things to account of Qi transportation, Qi distribution, Form and Use. He wasn’t carrying a table. Many in Fei Xing - and as such cancelling Fei Xing prescriptions, the environment and even the very person involved -, would be actually expecting ‘good’ to come from a ‘timely’ Star, then mishap to come with an ‘untimely’ Star, that is, such from just only having noted ‘a’ Star.
Comparatively, it said nowhere that, if relying on directionology, and if you thought to avoid breaking a bone by not traveling into the direction of an ‘untimely and inauspicious’ Star, such that you would be then ‘smart enough’ to travel into the direction of a more ‘timely and auspicious’ Star, that not could you be breaking a bone or two, just the same, only now thanks exactly to such ‘timely’ and ‘favorable’ Star. It is just that, now that you traveled towards the ‘favorable’ Star, to avoid breaking a bone
associated with the ‘unfavorable’ Star, you may break a bone now associated with the other Star. If anyone asks you why could that be, you
It is safe to say that the greater bulk of consultants and to account of directionology, would be no more than pointing out auspiciousness and inauspiciousness of Stars, as if it was a done deal. All the more happy – initially and thinking at least that was an improvement over the former bunch – would we be in seeing consultants to tell their clients, if they have to travel into an inauspicious direction, they should make sure to be at least well nourished, well rested, well prepared and leaving home along a readiness towards events, so that they can swiftly adapt and adjust.
O n l y , I h o p e I ’ m m a k i n g s e n s e , b u t I w o u l d a c t u a l l y a d v i s e a n y o n e t o b e w e l l n o u r i s h e d, w e l l r e s t e d, w e l l p r e p a r e d a n d k e e p i n g t o a r e a d i n e s s t o w a r d s e v e n t s, s o t h a t t h e y c a n s w i f t l y a d a p t a n d a d j u s t, r e g a r d l e s s o f w h o m y c l i e n t i s , a n d i n t o w h i c h e v e r d i r e c t i o n - w h a t e v e r S t a r - h e w a s t r a v e l i n g , o r e v e n i f h e w a s j u s t r e m a i n i n g i n h i s c h a i r t o g o n o p l a c e s a t a l l .
9 Stars do not keep to a preset agenda and 9 Stars are not able to cause sickness or accident. In order to come into behavior, 9 Stars need an ‘operator’, which in Fei Xing comes as Mountain and Water Principle, Form, Qi and Use. That’s so basic, that it becomes funny having to even mention it, but it also means, you may see the 81 Star Combinations in perspective and in sofar you had not done so already, decide to denounce such tables. Think of it like this. If already along tested Fei Xing prescriptions, it becomes so-so to see 9 Stars classified not along ‘Inside Yun’, but ‘timely’, not along ‘Outside Yun’, but ‘untimely’, alas, but it is immediately then also how far we would ‘allow’ San Yuan to infringe. Saying, if for purpose of Fei Xing – and only there – San Yuan says ‘a’ Star is timely or untimely, that’s as far as it should go. Unfortunately, we will have seen massive employment of its then inopportune ‘connotation’, where soon things would extend into ‘timely and auspicious’ and ‘untimely and inauspicious’.
That’s one bridge too far. Remember, it is about 9 Stars and to promote the best performance for any Star, with Fei Xing - and along just its basic prescriptions - then well able to handle both a ‘timely’ and ‘untimely’ Star. To that respect, San Yuan is like an infantry scout coming to report to Xuan Kong Fei Xing Feng Shui about momentary timeliness for Stars. It will be then probably decorated for splendid services rendered, but it hasn’t entered into the higher ranks where auspiciousness or inauspiciousness would be decided, much less would he sit at the table with the officers where strategies are decided. Which is only good, because if we would let this particular scout, we’d soon see reports about sickness, divorce, lawsuit, disaster, death, then undoubtedly recommendations for surrender. Of course, the mere occurrence of a Star or even a Star combination, is not enough to reach claims to concern of sickness or mishap. This is squarely
against teaching, against life, while actually, it is factually setting aside all Xuan Kong Fei Xing Feng Shui is about and would otherwise have to offer. San Yuan is a bit same as in saying that, along any range of 24 hours, we’d have a ‘colder’ part during night time and a ‘warmer’ part during day time, while it’s just that then someone started saying that, one part of the day is
timely, the other untimely, then, to make things worse, one is auspicious,
the other inauspicious. There you have it, and you wouldn’t accept that. For once and for all see that, we are into practicing Flying Star Feng Shui, we did not practice San Yuan Feng Shui or even Wuxing Feng Shui. San Yuan is no more than a proposal to cling on to ‘a’ calendar, just as Wuxing Five Transformations was to give you a better notion on the earth orbit around the sun, so that we’d have some neat cartography there and we can ‘make soup’ of waxing and waning terrestrial forces during any Solar year. We should trust that, anything added to Fei Xing Feng Shui should then come as a true contribution to Fei Xing Feng Shui. San Yuan is not to take its place and it didn’t even become one of Fei Xing’s operators, which would still be with Mountain and Water and the other basics in place always. You may appreciate that it follows from this that, where we would ‘allow’ San Yuan to rain down on 9 Stars for purpose of house divination in Fei Xing, then designate one Star ‘timely’, another Star ‘untimely’, that’s just notional and it is as far as it should go.
Saying, we could at the most look at ‘a’ Star and say that it is ‘timely’ or ‘untimely’ as per San Yuan, but we have no way of knowing if Star is untimely, then also ‘inauspicious’ or timely, then also ‘auspicious’. Auspicious or not, this will be decided not by the Star as such – then least of all the Star combination - but Mountain and Water, Form, Qi and Use. What the table with 81 Star Combinations didn’t take into account, you may just check - and impermissible by any standards -, is exactly that.
W o u l d y o u b e a b l e t o t e l l t i m e l y o r u n t i m e l y o n c e I n o m o r e t h a n p i c k e d e i t h e r o n e o f 9 S t a r s , s a y S t a r 1 o r 6 ? Y o u c o u l d o n l y t e l l t i m e l y o r u n t i m e l y o n c e b e i n g s h o w n t h e n p r e v a l e n t 2 0 y e a r F e n g S h u i P e r i o d . I f t h e n n e x t , y o u ’ r e b e i n g s h o w n a ‘ t im e l y ’ S t a r , c o u l d y o u f o r e t e l l s u c h S t a r ’ s b e h a v i o r , o r w o u l d y o u t e l l m e , n o t q u i t e , a s a l l o f t h a t d e p e n d s o n M o u n t a i n a n d W a t e r P r i n c i p l e i n p l a c e o r n o t , b u t w h i c h w o u l d b e u n k n o w n a t t h a t t i m e . F i n a l l y , i n a n y S t a r c o m b i n a t i o n a n d j u s t u p o n s e e i n g i t , l e t ’ s t a k e S t a r c o m b o 1 - 6 , c o u l d y o u g i v e m e w h a t s i c k n e s s , w h a t d i s a s t e r , o r e v e n , i f t h e n w e s u p p o s e d a t l e a s t o u r S t a r 1 f o u n d a p p r o p r i a t e M o u n t a i n a n d W a t e r , w a s t h e r e o n l y s t i l l m i s h a p t o c o m e f r o m S t a r 6 ? I t ’ s a l l a p a t h o f n o r e t u r n .
If you followed this line of reasoning, one would only wish there was a table showing just 81 Star Combinations, period. That would have us gaze onto just the range 1-1, 1-2, 1-3 right up to 9-9, without designations or further connotation. Not. By far most combinations would be packed with images of disaster that not we would wish to come upon our enemies.
I f y o u ’ r e r e a d y f o r a m o u t h f u l l , l e t ’ s t a k e S t a r c o m b i n a t i o n x - y a n d l e t ’ s s a y , i f t h e n y o u w e r e t o l o o k u p S t a r c o m b i n a t i o n x - y i n t h e t a b l e w i t h 8 1 S t a r C o n n o t a t i o n s – b e c a u s e t h a t ’ s w h a t i t e f f e c t i v e l y i s - i t w o u l d s a y ‘ n o s t r i l i m p l o s i o n ’ . S a i d d i f f e r e n t l y , w h e r e e x a c t l y i n a n y S t a r c o m b i n a t i o n i s t h e s i c k n e s s o r t h e a c c i d e n t , i s i t w i t h S t a r x , S t a r y , o r w a s i t t h e p a r t i c u l a r c o m b i n a t i o n ? I f S t a r c o m b i n a t i o n a u s p i c io u s o r i n a u s p i c i o u s , t h e n w h a t e x a c t l y h a d i n d u c e d t h a t ? W a s i t t h e n o t i o n o f t i m e l y o r u n t i m e l y , t h e W u x i n g s u p p o r t o r p e r h a p s t h e W u x i n g c o n t r o l , o r w a s i t i n j u s t t h a t c o m b i n a t i o n i n p a r t i c u l a r ? I f a n y o n e a t o n e p o i n t w o u l d h a v e a d d e d ‘ s u c h a n d s u c h c a n c e r i n s u c h a n d s u c h o r g a n ’ w i t h t h e S t a r c o m b i n a t i o n x - y a n d t h e c o n s u l t a n t l o c a t e d t h e e x a c t c o m b i n a t i o n o v e r a d e s k o r b e d , w o u l d h e a c t u a l l y t e l l h i s c l i e n t h e ’ d b e l o o k i n g o n t o c a n c e r ? W h a t i f S t a r c o m b i n a t i o n x - y s a i d ‘ n o s t r i l i m p l o s i o n ’ , w o u l d t h e n w e ’ d h a v e b e e n a b l e t o i n s t a n t l y s e e t h e n o n s e n s e , t h e n c o n s e q u e n t l y d e c i d e n o t t o c o m m u n i c a t e s u c h p a r t i c u l a r s t o c l i e n t ? W e w o u l d n o t t e l l o u r c l i e n t , b e c a u s e t h e l a t t e r w a s n o t f e a s i b l e , b u t t h e ‘ c a n c e r ’ – b y w h a t e v e r t w i s t - w o u l d b e ?
See, if I were to show you any Star or combination in isolation, then ask you to give me the forecast, you would kindly request that not should I ask you any such questions, without giving you the whole story, starting with, which Star had Mountain, which Star Water. Even with Mountain and Water all wrong, you would ask me not to come up with all kinds of ‘events’. Star x would bode a lot of attributes before at all it would be also ‘nostril’, Star y would bode a lot of positive outcomes before anything would ‘implode’. Saying, anyone working directly from the table of 81 Star Combinations, chances being, he would have bypassed Mountain and Water Principle. Once Mountain and Water bypassed, it is not Xuan Kong Fei Xing.
I f y o u h a v e b e e n a p r a c t i t i o n e r o f F e i X i n g , a s k y o u r s e l f , w h a t i s i t y o u a r e s p e c i a l i z i n g i n . W h a t i s r e a l l y i n y o u r t o o l b o x ?
You are not specializing in Flying Star Feng Shui, in fact, you were actually specializing in just 9 Stars and Luoshu. Saying, you would be interested in 9 Stars for two reasons, in that, you want to know any and all 9 Stars
and Trigram attributes, then followed by your wish to pick either one of 9 Stars applications of which Fei Xing is but one. Could have been 9 Star Divination for news events or Nine Star Ki Astrology. Thing is, each these systems come with ‘operators’ of their own, then timeliness as proposed by San Yuan, as it is, exclusively made applicable for Fei Xing Feng Shui.
The main purpose of your training and practice in 9 Stars and Luoshu is, to know just those cosmological 9 Stars and Trigram attributes, without at all 9 Stars having yet rained down on any specific system of application. Only once then we had gathered a clear take on what 9 Stars bode and such still one stage before any application on our left hand side would tell us the 9 Stars would ‘behave like this’, while the other application would tell us the 9 Stars would ‘behave like that’, could we be stepping into responsible practice.
As it is, you’d know how to mirror any Star combination against what’s in your Fei Xing tool box, so that you would be busy enough minding all those techniques derived from the Mountain and Water Principle, Form and Qi,
distribution of energy. Rather not would you have lost sight of those, then
walk around a house, table of 81 Star Combinations in hand, then seeing combo x-y to land on anyone’s desk, then start proclaiming all kinds of mishap and diseases. No other profession would do that.
F e n g S h u i i s t o P r o m o t e S h e n g Q i a n d A v o i d S h a Q i a n d i f y o u a r e a c o n s u l t a n t , i t p r o b a b l y s a i d s o i n y o u r p r o m o t i o n , w h i c h w a s t h e v e r y r e a s o n y o u g o t i n vi t e d i n t o y o u r c l i e n t ’ s h o m e . C o n s u l t a n t c a n ’ t l e a v e w i t h t h e n c l i e n t b r e a k i n g d o w n f r o m b o t h h i s a n k l e s i n d e s p a i r . A t t h e s a m e t i m e , n o t o n l y w o u l d w e b e s e e i n g c o n s u l t a n t s w h o w o u l d h a n d s o m e l y c o m m u n i c a t e w h a t e v e r m i s h a p t h e r e w a s i n t h e t a b l e w i t h S t a r c o m b i n a t i o n s , s o m e c h a r a c t e r s a r e k n o w n t o a c t u a l l y l e a v e s u c h l i s t i n g s b e h i n d , f o r l a t e r s c r u t i n y n o d o u b t . Not just would 81 Star Combinations as they are commonly in use distract from what really matters in our handling Mountain Dragons and Water Dragons in our Flying Star chart, we’d be better off without at all such tables and we should be disconcerted to see such then rather massive and uncritical employment of tables such as the one discussed here. While in itself, at first, it could seem an interesting enough table – virtually everyone wants to have it - it must be said that, by very nature of 81 Star Combinations, the subject requires our rather lengthy inspection, if only to avoid common misperception and grave mistake.
We will work towards presenting the table with 81 Star Combinations here, but not after listing what should come before at all we’d consider using it.
9 STARS
Each of the 9 Stars – Jiǔ Xīng 九星 – may be linked to one of Five Elements - Wǔ Xíng 五行. By association, each Star also receives a color and a planet. STAR CHINESE WU XING CHINESE PLANET CHINESE
1 White Yī Bái
一白 Water Shuǐ
水 Mercury Shuǐ Xīng
水星
2 Black Èr Hēi二黑
Earth Tǔ土
Saturn Tǔ Xīng土星
3 Jade Sān Bì三碧 Wood Mù
木 Jupiter Mù Xīng
木星
4 Green Sì Lǜ四綠 Wood Mù
木 Jupiter Mù Xīng
木星
5 Yellow Wǔ Huáng五黃 Earth Tǔ
土 Saturn Tǔ Xīng
土星
6 White Liù Bái六白 Metal Jīn
金 Venus Jīn Xīng
金星
7 Red Qī Chì七赤
Metal Jīn金 Venus Jīn Xīng
金星
8 White Bā Bái八白
Earth Tǔ土
Saturn Tǔ Xīng土星
9 Purple Jiǔ Zǐ九紫 Fire Huǒ
火 Mars Huǒ Xīng
火星
Fire phase also includes the sun, Water phase the moon. Please note that any table you will come across is just always a representation of moving energy but given in static position. We typically link 3 Wood and Jupiter to the East. However, you will easily grasp how such energies will yet obtain movement and change direction and portents. One widely employed approach in Xuan Kong Fei Xing Feng Shui, as we assess the floor plan of a built structure, is to focus on combinations formed between Mountain Dragon and Water Dragon, such as here 6-T-8.Practically - once divided a floor plan into eight 45 degrees sectors -, any 45 degrees sector may typically receive 3 Stars, here sample given as 6-T-8, where ‘T’ denotes the Time Star. Star 6 is here Mountain Dragon 6, Star 8 is Water Dragon 8, then communicated as 6-8. Whereas yet other similar Star alliances can be formed between Mountain Dragon and Time Star or between Water Dragon and Annual Star, we use Mountain Dragon and Water Dragon predominantly, for reason that we wish to be able to appropriately apply the all important Mountain and Water Principle in Fei Xing, where – importantly - Mountain may not be just elevations, but to ‘close’ or disallow pathway for Qi, Water not just H2O,
but to ‘open’ and allow pathway for Qi.
U p o n o u r a t a n y p o i n t n o m o r e t h a n n o t i n g h e r e S t a r c o m b i n a t i o n f o r 6 - 8 , c o u l d y o u t e l l d i r e c t i o n , o r i f t h e r e w a s p r e s e n c e o r a b s e n c e o f e x t e r i o r e l e v a t i o n s o r H2O f o r t h e b u i l t s t r u c t u r e i n q u e s t i o n ? W o u l d i t b e k n o w n – w i t h o n l y s o m u c h a s s u c h S t a r c o m b i n a t i o n t o a p p e a r i n a n y t a b l e – i f 6 - 8 f i n d s a d o o r a n d i f t h i s d o o r i s b e i n g u s e d , i n t e r i o r p a t h w a y s , d i s t r i b u t i o n o f e n e r g y ? F i n a l l y , f a i l i n g a l l t h i s , p r e d i c t i o n s a s t o b e h a v i o r o f S t a r s , ( o u t c o m e o f ) e v e n t s , a n y o n e ? 6
T
8In itself, once you know your 9 Stars and Trigram attributes, you could take such attribute and transport it to any of the 9 Stars and Luoshu systems. If Star 2 is ‘Womb’, it is that in Fei Xing, it is that in 9 Ki. What you can’t do is, transport one type of behavior you saw in one application to the other application, because operators remain fixed with the systems, said differently, what triggered a Star’s behavior in one system, is not what would bring out behavior of the Star in the other system. It’s fundamental. Therefore, where on the one hand you would see Fei Xing designate combinations such as 1-4, 2-3 and 6-7 as ‘good for exams’, ‘Bullfight Sha’ or ‘Clashing Swords’ respectively, same could not transport to Nine Star Ki or 9 Ki Divination, or, if you did, your 9 Ki practice would plunge into fault. If you have been a Flying Star Feng Shui practitioner, most Star portents will be known to you, but before we proceed, I would like to still make sure that we offered some fundamental considerations that should be minded before at all we committed the knowledge of these 81 Star Combinations to actual practice. What I am saying is, you would still work with the 81 Star Combinations as such, then not along such tables as presented here.
Imperative in our fully appreciating 9 Stars is that, 9 Stars a t t r i b u t e s would not alter with changing system of application, but along changing operator, Star b e h a v i o r would.
If Kun Trigram ☷ for Star 2 is to denote Womb, provision, agriculture,
homestead, studies, mother, spouse, mob, inmate, labor mine, zoo, surface we rely on for protection and submerged hollow space in one system of
application (where did it say sickness?), it follows same such designation for other 9 Stars and Luoshu applications.
Yet, once employed 9 Stars for purpose of Fei Xing Feng Shui – and as such this would be restricted to just that system of application -, you may see sudden connotation linked to Stars and Star combinations, such that we’d see undertone to alternate between ‘favorable Star’ and ‘unbeneficial Star’. However, this will be due not to Fei Xing Feng Shui, as much as it is thanks to S a n Y u a n J i u Y u n (Three Cycles, Nine Periods), that would have each of the 9 Stars span a specific 20-year period, so that for any given time period certain Stars are deemed ‘timely and auspicious’, with other Stars ‘untimely and inauspicious’. San Yuan may be the umbrella under which Xuan Kong Flying Star Feng Shui functions for i t s timing, then not 9 Ki.
FEI XING FENG SHUI AND 9 KI ARE PERFECTLY UNRELATED
Then, i m p e r a t i v e for any of us in the field of Fei Xing Feng Shui, if already in Flying Star Feng Shui the eventual auspiciousness of any Star wasn’t solely determined by its ‘timeliness’, only grave mistake could be committed if equally, annual- and monthly Stars as they derive from the autonomous 9 S t a r K i would be deemed timely or untimely. Saying, where already we would be utterly conservative as to our at all employing such connoted table with 81 Star Combinations for purpose of Fei Xing, any connotation there would not apply outside just Fei Xing Feng Shui, certainly not were we to involve from 9 Ki derived annual- and monthly Stars for purpose of Fei Xing, or in our forecasting news event along the stunning art of 9 Ki Divination. Whereas Fei Xing would, then 9 Ki simply wouldn’t borrow from San Yuan. 9 Ki o t h e r w i s e p e r f e c t l y u n r e l a t e d t o F e i X i n g F e n g S h u i, then certainly 9 Ki not answering to San Yuan timing. Annual and monthly Stars in 9 Ki are a l w a y s t i m e l y, so, if those 81 Star connotations employed irrespective of Form and Use in Fei Xing, or if indiscriminately transported what would be ‘Feng Shui’ notions to from 9 Ki derived annual- and monthly Stars, either way your practice will be stalled.
I t ’ s s u b t l e a n d y o u m a y p o n d e r , b u t w h e r e S a n Y u a n p e r f o r m s 1 8 0 : 9 = 2 0 , t h e ‘ 9 ’ t h e r e i s n o t e n e r g y , i t ’ s 9 s e g m e n t s . W h i l e r e c o g n i z i n g s a m e r a n g e o f 1 8 0 y e a r s , 9 K i k e e p s t o r e c u r r e n t c yc l e s o f i t s o w n , i . e . e r a s o f 9 y e a r s . W e t h u s m e e t G a n z h i a n d 9 K i S t a r s d i s t r i b u t e d a l o n g s a m e r a n g e o f 1 8 0 y e a r s . O b j e c t i v e i n S a n Y u a n i s t o s p l i t u p a l a r g e r c a k e i n t o b i t a b l e p i e c e s , w h e r e a s ‘ 9 ’ i n 9 S t a r K i i s t o h a n d l e 9 S t a r s.
As practitioners of Classical Chinese Feng Shui, specifically so in the Xuan Kong Flying Star Feng Shui style, we practice our ability to r e a d t h e S t a r s a n d b u i l d t h e s t o r y. We must however approach any implications suggested in the table - and even so much as present the 81 Star Combinations -, with ample reservation, because, as always, lists and tables could only just quantify energy and are in no way to be taken rigidly.
If you took a moment to oversee connotations glued onto 9 Stars in the Flying Star chart due to San Yuan’s take on ‘timely’ and ‘untimely’, then ‘auspicious’ and ‘inauspicious’, while at the same time you realize that same 9 Stars would always be t im e l y , pure and indivisible in 9 Star Ki, then furthermore you realize that from 9 Ki derived annual- and monthly Stars are not Fei Xing Feng Shui or relating in any way to San Yuan, but could so much as be employed for purpose of house divination in Feng Shui, then, in mind such distinguishment, you would be interested to go on a web search and take in e.g. annual Star 5, see what’s being said to account of the a l w a y s t i m e l y annual- and monthly Stars.
Sample one
Before we proceed, we could ask a question while using the example of a door with 3-7, which would be Mountain Dragon 3 along a Water Dragon 7, while noting that San Yuan would deem both Star 3 and Star 7 ‘untimely and inauspicious’ during Period 8. Which, as a Feng Shui consultant, that would be back to either one of two scenarios, in mind then also that, because it has the door and all else being equal, Water Dragon 7 would be Host, Mountain Dragon 3 would be Guest.
One approach is in ‘Mountain Dragon doesn’t go Down Water; Water Dragon doesn’t go Up Mountain’ and in telling your client to open the door onto the Water Dragon 7, so that it gets admitted into the house, while in the process this would nullify Mountain Dragon 3. Even that is still a bit crude, but at least this approach oversees that, ‘a’ designated ‘untimely and inauspicious’ Star could still be made to exert its beneficial properties. If in seeing these Stars, you’d say “yes, but either one is untimely”, then, by all means, I know where you’re coming from, but to say ‘untimely and inauspicious’ would be one ‘inauspicious’ too many.
W e g i v e a p p r o p r i a t e M o u n t a i n a n d W a t e r , i r r e s p e c t i v e o f S t a r t h e n t i m e l y o r u n t i m e l y , w h i c h , a n y w a y , s u c h d e s i g n a t i o n c a m e f r o m S a n Y u a n . W e g i v e t h e u n t i m e l y S t a r M o u n t a i n a n d W a t e r a s s o p r e s c r i b e d , t h e n h a n d l e a l l a t t h e r e a l m o f F o r m a n d Q i t o b r i n g o u t i t s b e n e f i c i a l t r a i t s , s o t h a t , n o l o n g e r w o u l d w e s a y ‘ u n t i m e l y a n d i n a u s p i c i o u s ’ . U p o n n o t i n g a n y S t a r , w e r e s o r t t o F e i X i n g p r e s c r i p t i o n s t o c o n c e r n o f M o u n t a i n a n d W a t e r P r i n c i p l e , s a y i n g , i t i s i m p e r m i s s i b l e t o r e a d p o r t e n t s d i r e c t l y f r o m a t a b l e w i t h 8 1 S t a r C o m b i n a t i o n s , t h e n t h r o w i n u n r e l a t e d F e n g S h u i c u r e s . Now, as you scroll to the table at 3-7 and in disregard of Mountain and Water, you will see that the other approach would be in telling client he’d be crippled, looking at armed robbery, burglary, lawsuit, sickness, betrayal and scams, some then once more leaving Mountain and Water for what it is, then probably asking client to work with colors and physical objects, chosen for their Wuxing properties, all in an attempt to ward off disaster. If only we made sure to be working with just basic Fei Xing prescriptions and not even tempted to refer to any calamities, this could leave our client to still belief he was living in a house – and that we were employing a real profession -, while the other approach would soon make client feel like he was living in a sure battle field. In other words, using or not using 81 Star Combinations is one thing, minding Feng Shui vocabulary another.
Sample two
If this much you ‘dig’, you may go to table to see what would befall this family. Saying, for the moment, forget Mountain and Water Principle, all you had ever gathered on Host-Guest or Form and Qi and just apply table.
It is a Period 8 house, Facing North, with a door in the Northeast location of the house, but such that it receives Water Dragon 9 from out of North direction. If you work from the table with the 81 Star Combinations, then not counting Heaven’s Heart, you’d be looking at 16 Star combinations for Mountain and Water. It becomes clear that, if at all, it be best to share any such table with 81 Star Combinations only after we had secured anyone’s firm foundation in Oriental cosmology, because even after we would have emphasized here that we could not just look at 9 Stars or the 81 Star Combinations without first our having secured so many other persistent dynamics into play, experience shows that people tend to say ‘yes, I understand’, and the next thing you know is, you’d still see the table squarely applied.
Much as in drag ‘n’ drop, we could see the Star portent from table with 81 Star Combinations pulled along the floor plan until it ends up over the bed, the furnace or our desk without further looking at Fei Xing prescriptions. Problem is, the table hosts so many diseases and mishap, that soon, only just 2 combos would suffice to take a n y Flying Star chart to checkmate.
J u s t y o u r k n o w i n g y o u r 9 S t a r s a n d T r i g r a m a t t r i b u t e s , w o u l d h a v e t o l d y o u w h i c h S t a r g o v e r n s w h i c h o r g a n . I f t h e n M o u n t a i n D r a g o n a n d W a t e r D r a g o n m i n d e d a lo n g j u s t b a s i c F e i X i n g W a t e r a n d M o u n t a i n P r i n c i p l e s , t h i s i s w h a t w i l l g e a r u p t h e S t a r j u s t a p p r o p r i a t e l y . Y o u d o n ’ t n e e d t h e t a b l e w i t h t h e 8 1 St a r C o m b i n a t i o n s . I f i t h e l p s , I n e v e r l o o k e d a t i t , n o t e v e n f o r s a k e o f r e f e r e n c e . I t i s l u d i c r o u s , s q u a r el y a g a i n s t t e a c h i n g , b u t s o w i d e s p r e a d , i t i s n o t f u n n y a n y m o r e .
At the same time, this cannot be a reason not to share the Star portents, if only for academic reasons, but I would point out to you that the information shared in such tables will be of course strongly out of context, and it would require yet endured formal training in order to actually learn to apply the information in an appropriate way.
What such table actually suggest is that, in itself, the information would already be in no more than just seeing ‘a’ Star or Star combination, certainly where you’d see such Star combination followed by ‘a’ connotation, boding whichever auspicious or inauspicious event. Go figure.
9
2
7 74
9 29
5 47
3 83
8 65
1 56
2 11
6We know that, as such, there is no information at all in a combination such as 9-4 or 3-6, so that, just knowing the portents for the Bullfight Sha combo of 2-3, the Clashing Swords of 6-7 or those so-called Stars of illness 2-5 is not sufficient without knowing how to handle it. Just employing those without further discrimination would be highly emblematic and mechanical. What lays bare in such combinations will be revealed only after we filtered the combination through what will be collectively called F o r m a n d Q i, beginning with the factor time in Flying Star Feng Shui - which again, is only so because it hangs from the San Yuan doctrine -, then such combination mirrored against either present or absent environmental Mountain and Water, as well as direction, location, magnitude, proportion, transportation, distribution, frequency, intensity, context and so on, until each one of these could further alter Star behavior.
So, before at all you would think to resort to ‘a’ table, there’s plenty of work ahead. I mean, with client central, and in an attempt to ward off sickness, what to think of minding diet and food intake. Keep in mind that, before we can decide what a combination may actually portent or which Feng Shui adjustments would apply, we need factor in a vast string of considerations, all simultaneously and this of course takes experience.
Your such experience will be based in:
“ M o u n t a i n a n d W a t e r P r i n c i p l e i n p l a c e , a n y S t a r – w h e t h e r d e e m e d t i m e l y o r u n t i m e l y b y S a n Y u a n – c a n b e m a d e t o e x e r t i t s b e n e f i c i a l t e m p e r a m e n t ” .
Which is little more than your solid practice in saying:
• A Star deemed auspicious by notion of timeliness in San Yuan would need little effort to bring out its favorable portents, while with ill Form and Qi, it can be still made to exert its unfavorable portents; • A Star deemed inauspicious by notion of San Yuan timeliness would
need little effort to bring out its unfavorable portents, while with appropriate Form and Qi, it can be still made to exert its favorable properties.
This alone suggests that actually, such lists as we will here discuss for 81 Star Combinations would be pretty redundant. As you will see, one after the other Star combination would lure you into supposition, then active statement, then ultimately – if not you’re on guard – mechanical practice. As you may do just a quick scroll to the table with the 81 Star Combinations, you will see how the table actually becomes a ‘we know things’ and ‘anyone’s guess’ sum up of such and such disorder in such and such organ with such and such Star combination, which we’d have already established, could not possibly be coming from any Star or Star combination as such. It is all arbitrary and clearly fabricated.
If it were for this table, soon your house would be a battle zone, all impeded by sickness, unfaithfulness, failed exams, divorce, accident, mishap, disaster and that couldn’t be the purpose of Feng Shui. For exact reason that Fei Xing Feng Shui would be able to note, then adjust any occurrence, you can easily see how this table is actually against Fei Xing. If Star 2 and besides a whole listing of other things, denotes Womb, then we can look up Star 2 in the table, see where it locates in our Flying Star chart, then take ‘Womb’ as a road sign, a first proposition. If your desk is having a Star 2, you wouldn’t say ‘Womb on my desk’, much less would you transport the ‘sickness’ suggested by the table to where your desk is, until, actually, such Star 2 could be doing just fine – due to all Form and Qi in place – and Star 2 could come as just studies, or your actively lecturing. Then again and with neither one Star portent intended to be more than a first proposition, before long, such propositions became gospel. Teaching has it that, in order to have the auspiciousness for the ‘favorable’ Star, we would still need all Fei Xing prescriptions in place, just as in order to have the inauspiciousness for the ‘unfavorable’ Star, all ‘wrongs’ should be in place, which in fact, in order to achieve the latter, wouldn’t be e a s y. Note that, already before we even got to the 81 Star Combinations of it, we have been summing up certain ‘buts’, which we do not mention to discourage you, but rather of course to further empower you.
You will note how combinations as suggested by the table, may or may in most cases not even take the timeliness of Stars into account. While we are in Feng Shui Period 8 (2004-2024), you may see just copy/paste from the table that had been in use already for Feng Shui Period 7 (1984-2004). It would help to have a working knowledge of the Twelve Stages of Life as employed for purpose of Four Pillars of Destiny Bazi, the derived from there phases of Sheng, Wang, Tui and Si (ascending energy, prime energy, retreating energy, dead energy) during different Feng Shui Periods before you even attempted to apply the subject in actual practice.
T e c h n i c a l l y , a s i t i s , t h e p h a s e s o f S h e n g u p c o m i n g e n e r g y , t h e n W a n g f o r p r i m e e n e r g y , T u i ( o r S h u a i ) f o r r e t r e a t i n g e n e r g y a n d l a s t l y S i f o r ‘ d e a d ’ e n e r g y a r e j u s t o n l y 4 o u t o f 1 2 s u c h p h a s e s o f w a x i n g a n d w a n i n g , w h i c h i s p u l l i n g t h e n o t i o n o f w a x i n g a n d w a n i n g i n t o a n o t h e r w i s e b a s e - 1 2 ( d o z e n a l ) v i s i o n o n e n e r g y . 9 S t a r K i d o e s n o t e n g a g e i n t o a n y r e l a t i o n s h i p w i t h S a n Y u a n a s i t w o u l d h a v e i t s o w n v i s i o n o n S t a r s b e i n g s t r o n g e r a n d m o r e v i b r a n t , o r w e a k e r a n d l e s s v i b r a n t d u r i n g t h e c o u r s e o f a S o l a r y e a r .
WUXING HAVE JOB, STARS DUTY: SOVEREIGNTY AND PREFECTURES In any Feng Shui Period, all 9 Stars remain fully functional. Due to San Yuan, it would almost seem as if all in Fei Xing revolves around timeliness. All in Fei Xing is about 9 Stars, then momentary sovereignty, so that in Period 8, Star 8 is Sovereign, to assign duty to all other Stars in the prefectures. Star 8 has no relation to ‘vibrancy’, as it is the Noble Qi descending from heaven. In Period 8, Star 8 is not ‘timely’, as it is just Inside Yun (Dé Yùn 得運), while other Stars are not ‘untimely’, but just Outside Yun (Shī Yùn 失運). During Period 8, Star 8 assigns duty to his ministers, such that a capable Star 7 Ministery of Finance is in Southeast province, a capable Star 2 Ministery of Education in Northeast province. Then, in itself, each minister on duty can hire a work force, one time hiring from Wuxing, another time from 12 Stages of Life, but job is not synonymous to duty. Timeliness, vibrancy rather, is with Wuxing or 12 Stages of Life, not with the Ruler or his ministers, which is about sovereignty, hierarchy at the realm of mandate, assigned duty. Whether people subscribe to their Ruler’s decree, or they come into rebellion, this remains outside the scope of the Ruler, so that, whether the Wuxing administrative personnel or the 12 Stages of Life mechanics handle their job well, lies outside the scope of ministers.
In all of 9 Stars and Luoshu syntax, 9 Stars are always subject, while any glued on notion can be taken for adjective at best. In ‘Star 9 Fire’, the ‘Fire’ is notional, in ‘Star x is timely’, the ‘timely’ is obsolete, in ‘Star y is inauspicious’, the ‘inauspicious’ there is indefensible.
If we stop the clock, all the above will be once more seeing 9 Stars through Fei Xing spectacles, whereas we would be interested in just those 9 Stars attributes, one stage before at all we selected any system of application. Next section, we will cover certain 9 Stars and Trigram attributes – in use largely for purpose of 9 K i D i v i n a t i o n in forecasting personal life progression and news events - while noting that not would ‘a’ phenomenon be just ‘a’ particular Star indefinitely, furthermore that, within a certain given context, ‘a’ phenomenon can be taken for ‘a’ Wuxing typically so for its function, its material, its manifested form, whereas ‘same’ would come under a different Wuxing once taken for a different context.
Also, we must yet importantly supersede those Shuō Guà Zhuán 説 卦 傳 projections, which may actually be still rudimentary, while first and foremost, before we designated anything, such designation should be confirmed of course by just Luoshu, i.e. by following news events along just annual-, monthly- and daily Luoshu. Ultimately, whatever ‘a’ Star bodes, just your annual-, monthly- and daily Luoshu wouldn’t lie about it.
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Time Star chart Period 89 STARS AND TRIGRAM ATTRIBUTES
All tangible and intangible phenomena can be brought under either one of 9 Stars and 8 Trigrams. At the first take, all 9 Stars and Luoshu systems of application rely on 9 Stars and Trigram attributes, but such still taken just
cosmologically. If we have 9 empty buckets, numbered from 1 to 9, one
attribute may go into bucket 3, another attribute into bucket 7. Saying, you would at this point not find any connotations, no disease, accident or disaster. Only thereafter would we pick ‘a’ system of application, a platform for 9 Stars to perform, then along its operators glue behavior onto 9 Stars. The following round up of 9 Stars attributes draws from our class manual ‘9 KI DIVINATION – PERSONAL AND NEWS EVENTS’ and it would be good if you
saw it before at all you resorted to the table with 81 Star Combinations used for purpose of Fei Xing Feng Shui, then heavily colored by San Yuan. Once you familiarized with single Star portents, you can move to reading Star combos, which becomes a true adventure once you start following news events, or your personal life progression, such that, where 5 Earth relates to compound, Star 3 to train or railway, the combination 5-3 may bode a railway station. If Star 4 is aeronautics or documents, the Star combination 5-4 may bode an airfield or post office. If Star 2 relates to labor mine, Star 3 to electricity, 2-3 may bode short circuit at a labor mine.
Here is annual- and monthly Luoshu for the Boston marathon, April 2013. If annual Star 2 is Host, while month Star 6 is Guest, this may show as 2-6 in Luoshu, so that Star 2 is comparatively more passive, Star 6 comparatively more active. Star 2 may associate with rucksack or a mob, Star 6 may associate with explosives or an assault, so that explosives6 may go into a bag2.
Star 8 may be built structures or mountains. If Star 6 is a horse, then 6-8 may be a mountain horse. Where Star 2 may be inmates, the Star combination 2-8 may be the prison building, 2-7 a prison stabbing.
If Star 1 is a fish, Star 4 the respiratory system and the ability to breath, Star combination 1-4 may bode a Dolphin or a Whale. Same Star combination can bode an airplane4 to plunge into water1.
If Star 9 relates to exposure, Star 7 to utensils, Star 2 to earthenware, Star 6 to skull, you may note excavations related to these Stars, whenever these Stars appear in the 9 Fire Luoshu Palace or in company of Star 9, which also works for personal life progression, so that, if your personal 9 Ki Star arrives the 9 Fire Luoshu Palace, you may be exposed, or if Star 4 visits your personal Star, you may receive a letter.
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1 Annual- and monthly Luoshu 9 Fire month in a 5 Earth yearStar 1 White
Star 1 governs Kidney, Bladder, reproductive system, libido, skin, hair, ear, blood, lymph, joints, lower part of body. It covers all of H2O and any of its
associations, aquatic life, liquids, liquefaction. Star 1 is inclined downward and dispersing, it bodes depth or fall into depth. Drowning, water related hazards. Contamination, infection, epidemic.
Taken from Trigram Kan ☵ – to suggest something soft outside, solid inside -, it can be a cable with a wire, such that, if you see a fire9, the underlying cause may be a damaged cable1.
Nautic industry, shipping. Sexual events. Asylum, grave, graveyard, art, beverage industry, floods, religious workers and religious events, writing, danger, stealthily, theft, burglary, robber, ravine, ditch, gutter, abyss, lowland, wet land, quicksand, sinkhole, place near water, bar, restaurant, pregnancy, trap, ambush, cement, place under cover, collapse, plunge.
Star 2 Black
Star 2 governs Stomach, Spleen, Pancreas – more in particular Stomach -, digestive system. Belly, womb, pregnant woman, embryo, flesh, muscle tissue, torso. Agriculture, farms, any supplies and the act of provision, cow, fruit, fruit producing fields (including coal or gold mines), but also sky (birds), sea, river and lake (fish), vegetables. Ocean floor. Submarine. Surface we rely on for safety and protection, such as a wall, dam or surface area (ship’s deck, landing strip, landing gear, balcony, stage). Homogeneous groups relying on central kitchen or organization: education industry, study, teacher, school, nursing, hospital, student flat, monastry, inmates, food shop, zoo, mob. (Grand)mother, spouse, relationship, homestead. Poisoning. Wagon, cavity, fecundity. Cloudy, rainy. Meadow, rural area, cellar, garage, place in shadow, submerged hollow space, labor mine, shelter, village, small house, trunk of a tree, suitcase, food, outfit.
Star 3 Jade
Star 3 governs Liver and Gallbladder, more predominantly Liver. It associates with muscle tissue, leg, foot, walking. Immediate and eruptive impulses, more notably upward bound outburst of energy, bite or first sudden start of growth, piercing, propulsion. Inventions, pioneering, electricity, electrically propelled machinery, computer, television. Eldest Son, husband. High rise building, a highway, heavy road haulage. Trains, trams, metro, railway industry. Uniformed personnel, police, fire fighters. Tree, lush, (bigger) woods, forest, jungle. Information technology, computer related, promotion, invention, altruism, gambling.
Star 4 Green
Star 4 governs Liver and Gallbladder, more predominantly Gallbladder, hair, upper arm, chest, pulmonary system (breathing and respiratory
