《一粒粟》
One Grain Millet 《一粒粟》 is a rare classics on Land Form FengShui, claimed to have been the true transmission of YangGong. Why it is titled as One Grain Millet is everyone guesses but as what we understood a single grain of millet could well be the pinhole size of a meridian spot and it is that difficult to come to find one. There is a saying, it takes 3 years to walk the dragon 三年寻龙 and 10 years to dot the meridian spot 十年点穴, see HERE for details. So this classic is supposed to be telling you how to locate a meridian spot. Some classify this as a summary of HanLong Jing 《撼龍經》, another classics that looks like a dictionary for land form. Collectively they are the integral part of the study of LongMen BaDa Ju / QianKun GuoBao 龍門八大局 / 乾坤國寶. Another question is who wrote this? Could it be YangGong? Here is the clue, 纯阴纯阳,天乙太乙。Pure Yin and pure Yang, TianYi and TaiYi. Yet, this sentence tells you that the author is using the Human Plate (RenPan) to measure embrace because these 2 stars TianYi and TaiYi are the celestial pole where the RenPan is aligned to. Therefore it cannot be the work of YangGong. In this short classics, you will term with strange jargons such as: -
And Human body parts as reference such as: -
No explanation offered and such is to be taken as oral transmission by a true master. Without a throughout understanding of these terms, any form of translation as found in the internet may not necessary reflect the actual meanings of the text such as described as the followings: - 阳落有窝,阴落有脊。“Yang seated on usefulness, Yin seated on thriving.”, as translated by someone. It means differently if it is to be translated as – Yang drops (vein) have meridian (sunken), Yin drops (vein) have meridian (protruding). The second translation described the types of the meridian spot. 入首星辰,从顶而立。“To protect the auspicious dragon, start from the stems next on the branches” could have been translated as – Incoming Dragon 入首 star forms 星辰 from the peak here establish. The meanings absolutely changes as the second translation tell you to identify the incoming dragon by observing the peak. 阳来阴受,阴来阳作。“When Yin received Yang it holds power, when Yang received Yin it rise and act” could have been translated as – Yang incoming, Yin embrace. Yin incoming, Yang adorn. Embrace and adorn means almost the same thing. Yet the connotation changes compared to the earlier translation. The second translation simple means – when Qi flows from the Yang direction, collect it by embracing the Yin. This is a typical concept of Reclining Mountain Extending Sha, ShouShan ChuSha 收山出煞. 上有三分,下有三合。“The stems must be differentiate by combine, control, compliment and the branches comes with three combine”, could have been translated as – On top there come 3 division, downward come 3 combination. Notice the totally different ideas convey by different translation? The second translation explain the idea of 3 divide 3 combinations, SanFen SanHe 三分三合. 个字三丫,要知端的。“Every branch comes with its own energy, one must understand what is termed auspicious and inauspicious”, could have been translated verbatim as – the Chinese character Ge 个 and three Ya丫 meaning fork, must know to observe this. The character Ge 个 is pictorially telling you the drop of vein from the peak and the character Ya丫is pictorially telling you how the rivers join together to form what is probably known as the water mouth. These have nothing to do with the first translation. 大小八字,贴身蝉翼。“The formation of our environment whether it is big or small will follow and stick closely to us just like the wings of the cicada”, could have been translated as – Big or small the Chinese character Eight 八 close to the body embrace liked a Cicada’s wings 蝉翼. This passage tells about the embrace protecting the Xue and could come in multi layers huge or small. 股明股暗,有缓有急。“The leader can be upright, the leader can be despicable, some are patient and some are impatient”, could have been translated as – Partially exposed partially concealed, have sentimental have rapid. The first translation totally off tangent as what has it got to do with a leader? Partially exposed partially concealed denotes how these embraces are, with channel the rivers to be flowing sentimentally or rapid. 上耸明肩,下开暗翼。“The stems rise and look upright, the branches operate in secret”, could have been translated as – Up rise exposed over the shoulder, down opens concealed. Continue from the explanation of the embrace, the human figure is used to measure the correct height and width of the embrace and in this instance the shoulder height. 球檐虬髯,人中难识。“Is this the dragon or a chameleon, it will be difficult to differentiate for the untrained eye”, could have been translated as – QiuYan (spherical eves) and QiuRan (young dragon’s whiskers) the RenZhong 人中 (meridian spot) difficult to know. QiuYan and QiuRan are all metaphorical jargon of land form FengShui to denote a certain landform characteristic. These are liked the marker to denote where the veins and meridians are. RenZhong 人中 may have been translated as within the masses, but in this case it may also mean RenZhong 人中 Xue – the acupuncture meridian of the Philtrum. In face reading, this point denotes the meridian spot of landform FengShui. 纯阴纯阳,天乙太乙。“Pure Yin and pure Yang, useful god or noble god”, could have been translated as – Pure Yin and pure Yang, TianYi and TaiYi. This single scrip only say Pure Yin and pure Yang, TianYi and TaiYi but did not go further. What has Pure Yin and pure Yang 纯阴纯阳 have to do with land form? This is a top secret, cannot reveal. What has TianYi and TaiYi have to do with land form? Yet, this sentence tells you that the author is using the Human Plate (RenPan) to measure embrace because these 2 stars TianYi and TaiYi are the celestial pole where the RenPan is aligned to. Therefore it cannot be the work of YangGong. 界水虾须,微茫交揖。“In the boundary of the vast ocean the dragon awaits, if the transformation can take place it will be boundless”, could have been translated as – Boundary water liked a prawn’s whiskers, trifling boundless must cross bow. The book of burial state, Qi rides the wind and scatters, but is retained when boundary by water, can this boundary of water relates to ZhangShu? Prawn’s whiskers are another form of land form jargon denoting how the vein drops. 左右金鱼,罗纹土缩。“To search for the golden fish, the legendary earth must process”, could have been translated as – Left right have Goldfish. LuoWen 罗纹 has earth tighten. Luo 罗 refers to spiral Wen 纹 refers to pattern. So this landform jargon means spiral pattern within where earth are tighten at its rim to form another landform jargon – Goldfish 金鱼, a shape of the water bodies. We shall not continue to discuss about how it should have been translated, instead herewith are our attempt to translate the remaining parts of the classics:-
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DISCLAIMER NOTES In this series we are exploring Yang abode (modify to be a Yin abode instead) of Tycoons in Bolehland. We will not mention who they are by names but roughly you are able to guess the rest. Many of the photos had been blurred on purpose even with the locations of these lavish mansions befitting the Emperors, will not be shown for reason of privacy and safety. These articles only reflect on some studies we had made, just liked with Yin FengShui. We knew who are his FengShui masters but we shall not disclose here. This article is written with a heavy intonation of the application of FengShui as an art and not the person or the Yang abode itself. It does not in any way whatsoever reflect the FengShui analysis of the place in totality but a mere fragments sufficient enough to spur provocative discourse among the learned practitioners and connoisseurs as well. If you find this writing disturbing, please refrain from reading. The blogger reserve the rights to change any parts of this writing accordingly, if there is any factual error, as and may be required, from time to time. Continue from Tycoon Li’s FengShui story, we are proud to also tell a tale of his Yin FengShui story… As you can see, designing an ancestral shrine is also part of our forte. We designed his ancestral shrine based on a set of FengShui criteria sets by his FengShui master that we shall not disclose. We did the architectural part of it notwithstanding the fact that our fee was not paid in full, just liked how it was claimed that Donald Trump did not pay his Architect as well. The good thing is as what people say, since this ancestral shrine is occupied by his entire clan, his ancestral now, owe us big time… A debt that his entire ancestral needs to pay! That we will leave it to the karmic debt collectors to do their work… ANCESTRAL SHRINE 祠堂 The Wikipedia define an ancestral shrine, hall or temple 祠堂, also called lineage temple, is a Chinese temple dedicated to deified ancestors and progenitors of surname lineages or families in the Chinese traditional religion. Ancestral temples are closely linked to Confucian culture and the emphasis that it places on filial piety. A common central feature of the ancestral temples are the ancestral tablets that embody the ancestral spirits. The ancestral tablets are typically arranged by seniority of the ancestors. Altars and other ritual objects such as incense burners are also common fixtures. Ancestors and gods can also be represented by statues. The temples are used for collective rituals and festivals in honor of the ancestors but also for other family- and community-related functions such as weddings and funerals. Sometimes, they serve wider community functions such as meetings and local elections. Unlike the traditional type that you may find in China, as those that was designed and FengShui(ed) by Yang YunSong in GanZhou, this one is a rather modern interpretation. Gone are the intricate ornaments in lieu of just post and beam concrete and mortar construction. However, the spatial planning still remain as a Si HeYuan 四合院 configuration very similar to Tycoon Li’s house. It has only a single courtyard not conforming to the technique of Three Gods Water Method 三神水法. This is an up most important consideration dealing with the FengShui design of the internal water courses within the ancestral shrine. It is almost similar to how the water management within the internal burial chamber. If you Google Three Gods Water Method 三神水法, you will come to term with many interpretations… In this Bolehland case, the Ancestral Temple was built in a pretext of an up sized Mansion within the housing neighborhood. So, planning and building permit is very difficult to get if it was done so as an Ancestral Temple per se. This is called, Creative Advocacy. THREE GODS WATER METHOD 三神水法 According to one HongKong practitioner Master Jiang JingChuan 江靜川, through his travelogue to SanLiau 三僚 investigating Guan Clan Ancestral Shrine 管氏宗祠, he has demonstrated with impeccable Cantonese explanation, the application of a technique called Three Gods Water Method 三神水法 (3GWM). The 3 Gods referred to as Big God 大神, Middle God 中神 and Small God 小神. These God terminology referred to the point of water exiting. Therefore you have the term – Small God exiting Middle God 小神出中神 then Middle God exiting Big God 中神出大神. These 2 terms are basically referring to the correlation of water flow between the inner court 内堂 to the outer court 外堂. In the common Si HeYuan 四合院 configuration, the two inner court 内堂 and the outer court 外堂 punctuated the interior spaces into three approaches that are called Jin 進. The ancestral tablets are usually located at the 3rd approaches. The common configuration shall be Small God exiting Middle God 小神出中神 then Middle God exiting Big God 中神出大神. However, in this instances of Guan Clan Ancestral Shrine 管氏宗祠, because it was measured siting Xun 巽 facing Qian 乾, according to the Three Gods Water Method 三神水法 (3GWM), it states that it shall be Big God Facing 大神向. Therefore water shall be discharged from the Big God exiting Middle God 大神出中神, through the water release valve within the inner court 内堂 located at Ren 壬 (中神) connect to the outer court 外堂. From this outer court 外堂, water shall be discharged from the Middle God exiting Small God 中神出小神 and the water release valve within the outer court 外堂 located at Shen 申 (小神). From Shen 申 water shall be discharged through the Main Door location at Qian 乾, connecting to the external land form. This is termed Water from the 4 directions returned to its source 四水回归. As to why these Qian 乾 (大神) Ren 壬 (中神) 申 (小神) are interconnected, it shall be for us to know and you to find out. The late Li DingXin, the grandmaster of YangGong GuFa FengShui has this to say…
THE LANDFORM This ancestral shrine is located at a good landform embraced from all sides facing a table mountain. Water exiting throughout Si 巳, Wu 午 and Wei 未. Landform wise is above average. However, a turn of event happened that Tycoon Li and his FengShui master were in sour term due largely to unpaid FengShui fees that he owed the FengShui master. Not only did he owed his architect, he also owed his FengShui master, big time. As a result, he is of the opinion that since his house has been FengShui(ed) it is only logical to set up the same structure as his house! Meaning you don’t have to pay twice for the same FengShui formation. What a brilliant idea! As a result this ancestral shrine sits fire structure. Exactly the same brief given to his architect to design this very ancestral shrine. How the FengShui of this shrine is everyone guesses… You let us know. IN CONCLUSION Not every Tycoon conduct their business fairly and generously. Notwithstanding their shrewd natures, would you want to be the FengShui master for the Tycoon just to earn some quick bucks? Why not? Just give him some shitty stuff and you are laughing your way to the banks.
I read somewhere that you have no right to muddle in someone else karma or else you will suffer the consequences. FengShui masters are not exclusive to this cardinal rule. This sorts of warnings has been lambasted by many people who feels that they know the working mechanism of karma better than others. Some go to profess some kind of method called – the equilibrium exchange that simply means you sin and you neutralize your sin by doing something noble. Very interesting to find all kinds of people in this industry… Speaking about karmic retribution, especially for the FengShui master, why do you see most of the famous one ended up doing spiritual healing instead, with many ended up to adorn the monk’s robe or rather pretend to be adorning the monk’s robe? Years ago, we did highlight that there are the following outcomes for FengShui practitioners. What are these outcomes?
Of which category do you falls into? No worry, you only need to answer sincerely to yourself. Not us… and stop pretending one knows the inner working of karma. For details check this term called Acinteyya - Acintita Sutta, Anguttara Nikaya 4.77. DISCLAIMER NOTES In this series we are exploring Yang abode of Tycoons in Bolehland. We will not mention who they are by names but roughly you are able to guess the rest. Many of the photos had been blurred on purpose even with the locations of these lavish mansions befitting the Emperors, will not be shown for reason of privacy and safety. These articles only reflect on some studies we had made, just liked with Yin FengShui. We knew who are his FengShui masters but we shall not disclose here. This article is written with a heavy intonation of the application of FengShui as an art and not the person or the Yang abode itself. It does not in any way whatsoever reflect the FengShui analysis of the place in totality but a mere fragments sufficient enough to spur provocative discourse among the learned practitioners and connoisseurs as well. If you find this writing disturbing, please refrain from reading. The blogger reserve the rights to change any parts of this writing accordingly, if there is any factual error, as and may be required, from time to time. HongKong FeiXing Master Li Kui-Ming (李居明) needs very little introduction. He hits some sense in most of our FengShui discourse especially so to the layman. One statement that he made was that – do you know why most of the poor remains poor and the rich remains rich? If you ask the poor to shift out from their current home due to bad FengShui, they most likely not able to do it. Therefore they are poor. But, when you ask the rich to move out of the current house for a better FengShui house somewhere, they would do it without giving a second thought! Therefore, they are rich! So, really don’t even think of doing FengShui or even engaging FengShui master for an advice, if you are poor. Don’t even think of spending your hard earned money in courses liked – Millionaire mind through FengShui or Getting rich with FengShui if you are poor! It simply cannot make magic for the poor… but for the rich and about to be wealthy, yes indeed – Good FengShui complements you because you will make the changes for the sake of getting richer… well, not necessary greedier. That include the magic techniques of ShengJi and the other bullshit stuffs. Master Li has also a secret to share that, if you desperately needs to know what a good FengShui for the rich, go and live with the rich people… Their luck cannot be that bad after all and even how bad their FengShui could turn out to be, they can never be worse off than those poor people living in poor and low cost neighborhood. By the same token, even if you need to pay hefty rent to stay in a “dog house” within the rich neighborhood, do so and that is his secret of getting rich and famous, as can be witnessed today. Better, don’t even think of becoming a FengShui master if you cannot afford to live lavishly, as your lifestyles portray your competency of your skills. This is the epitome of what they called, charity begins at home… prosper thyself before others. Because of this paradigm that sounds so true, some Bolehland Conmasters take the opportunity to bring students to measure old graves, especially old rich man’s graves including their homes, believing it is Great FengShui! Well, Master Li is not alone in such thinking. In some time ago when YCH is still kicking, the junior FengShui celebrity also did that with a company of his good buddies. See, what they are today, with the exception of a few that couldn’t made it up to the bar! Super rich with abundant opportunities to “advice” property developers… Imagine, how poor could their clientele be? With rich client instead of the poor, they always have good track records to showcase that their FengShui works! That is because, If you ask the poor to shift out from their current home, they most likely not able to do it. Therefore they are poor. But, when you ask the rich to move out of the current house for a better FengShui house somewhere, they would do it without giving a second thought! Therefore, they are rich! Therefore, it is really an idiot to think that Yang YunSong is also known as the savior of the poor. This is blasphemy! He should be known as the savior of the rich! By the way, the junior FengShui celebrity proud and arrogantly reflect such of his masters that they are a bunch of theorists who can quote anything offhand but when come to use FengShui to prosper themselves, see they still live like wage earners… Assuming this logic is correct, let’s look at a case in Bolehland… TYCOON LI’S FENGSHUI STORY (First published in Yifengshui 20092012) Tycoon Li has an illustrated lifestyle. He does not need any of the royal decorum such as Dato, Tansri, Tun and so forth. He employs people with such decorum to run his work. He has not even an O-level education. His life is liked a modern day emperor which will put any of the “cow-gate” minister into envy. Strangely, he is also a strong believer of FengShui. He spent a fortune to engage a master from the mainland. Besides traveling in first class, Tycoon Li displayed his baroque connections with mayors and other politically connected good friends, to have their pictures taken while the master's stay in Bolehland. [Postscript: Tycoon Li is known of the following characteristics. He owns 2 public listed companies and counting. He was declared a bankrupt but a very hardworking chap. He loves sports and luxury cars, by same token, he has many mistresses to his collection. He has about 21 children, many of them are grownups professionals and still counting... He shuns limelight and only work behind the veil. He is quite a notorious businessman of all trades and he preferred the term, shrewd businessman instead.] Of all his advises, one became prominent. He said, Tycoon Li would only be prosperous if his empire is managed by people with surname Li. As a result, he uses his family to run his business. But Tycoon, liked him, needs proxies to do his camouflage in Bolehland. True blood to the idea of One Bolehland, he has Indian lawyers and Malay administrators to run his business, but none of them are Li. This is a problem. One good friend of his suggested to him, well that is not the problem at all. All is needed is to use their Chinese Name instead. So, the next morning, we see Dato MangGa Li Singh and Dato Li-zal Abihla clocking-in. The moral of the story is name selections beside BaZi, plays a significant role in one’s destiny. Why not change your name and see how true it is? Besides that let’s also look at his background… THE WEALTHY CHINAMAN’S HOUSE (First published in Yifengshui 18042010) Lately was invited to audit a typical wealthy China man's House. It was designed with the SanFen SanHe 三分三合 principles in mind and a SiHeYuan house 四合院 typology [for detail read davidyek.com/critics/traditional-chinese-architecture-modular-house. It has an internal court opens up to the sky. Where would the centre of the house be? The internal courts will open up to another 3 sided entrances with three different doors. How would a Flying Star chart be? The more challenging piece is the water flow which are so diverse and subtle. So, is the location of the water via its aquarium in relation to the house proper? The external pose some physically challenging Sha with the green dragon holdings sword 青龍論劍, as above the telecommunication structure with water falls features at the bottom, located at GenYin double mountain. House sitting Fire Structure with incoming at Yin and water exiting at Wu. That is significantly enough to tell the story as to why this wealthy China man has unresolved issues, the moment he shifted to this very new house, inclusive of the demised of his beloved mother whom was a healthy woman at the age of 80+ prior of moving into this mansion, in the month of Xu, year of Zi. On a XuanKong level, although it is still considered a new house, there are apparently structural cracks at the skylights directly at the main door at the Qian sector. What does it means? If divination is done at the month of Chen, what does it portends? We will reserve more for the Private Blog, meanwhile as pointer, all of the sudden, we were told that XuanKong FlyingStar, of which the method expounded by Shen JuReng is a flawed methodology based on the following conclusions: -
Even with these above hypothesis, it is cumbersome to even superimpose the FlyingStar chart into the house plan of a huge mansion with multiple rooms and doors. Thus, it is a shame to learn that in the West, such methodology is still taught as a valid FengShui methodology as one dilemma is when we apply FlyingStar as an application, we forgot that, as with all valid system of FengShui, it has a body as principle to start with, but where is the body for FlyingStar? [Postscript: Coincidentally, Tycoon Li’s mansion was designed to fulfil the SiHeYuan house 四合院 typology. In contrast of popular believe a SiHeYuan house 四合院 typology may not necessary means good FengShui… and we have another case as in Bolehland, read davidyek.com/yifengshui/-the-death-and-emptiness-of-zhang-bishis-mansion] CONCLUSION
6. Unfortunately, this master from China that Tycoon Li has engaged is a Shen's WuChang Pai Flying Star practitioner.
TAKE NOTICE This is an article written about FengShui case study. It is based on observation and information derived from all the open sources from the internet. No personal insult is intended. If there is any factual error, we stand to correct it accordingly. Refrain from reading if you find this disturbing. FENGSHUI CANOPY 天篷 A FengShui canopy In Sydney, the Star City Casino has made headlines when the project commenced with designing and relocating the new glazed facade ‘front door’, the entrance of the Casino reoriented to face the harbour as well as the construction of a 48 metre glass façade. This was followed by work on enhanced gaming areas, refurbishment and extension of the retail arcade and a new five-star hotel -The Darling. The 12 level, 171 room The Darling, the first five Star hotel to be built in Sydney in the past 10 years. In Sydney, the Star City Casino has added a "FengShui canopy" as part of a $760 million redevelopment. In another article, it states that “Justin Brooks says the project's engineers and designers, Yuanda, employed a FengShui expert to sign off on the canopy before it was built at TripleNine’s purpose-hired workshop”. It costs, $1.4 million and a tagline – “While the elements of FengShui can’t be guaranteed to produce financial fortune in The Star’s casinos, the stainless steel canopy is certain to maintain its appeal for decades to come.”, as quoted by Australian Stainless, issue 52. Guess who is the FengShui expert? In howardchoy.wordpress.com it states that "Harbour-side facade of the new Star Hotel and Casino in Sydney Australia, open in September 2011. We (ar-qi-tektur Berlin) worked as the FengShui consultants for this project". Congratulation Howard… How is the Star Casino been doing lately? It was reported that, “VIP Asian gamblers playing their favoured game of baccarat and placing bets of up to $500,000 a hand, beat the house in the first half of 2016, stripping The Star of nearly $80 million in profits. Chief executive Matt Bekier said it was simply bad luck for the casino operator and he was confident the house would get back to winning ways.”, quoted smh.com.au. Wealth leakages? How can that be with the FengShui canopy? Simply mind boggling after spending $1.4 million with a FengShui expert to sign off… WEALTH LEAKING SHA FORMATION 漏財煞 The building is tapping into a Yang formation – simply a Big Mistake. The newly minted glass façade in nine stars formation of water star, representing wealth simply do not means anything. With a huge lobby and the escalators that simply escalates the draining of wealth into the bay. That is the most significant Qi leakages you can find. It is a simple landform 101 theory, nothing complicated. Just don’t quite understand how a FengShui expert would sign off such as his masterpiece? Simply mind boggling after spending $1.4 million with a FengShui expert to sign off… By the way, can anyone explain how the FengShui canopy helps to contain Qi in this instances would? Any “Hua Jie” 化解, “lioajie” 了解, “fenjie” 分解 or correlative thinking apply to such? WITHOUT THE BLACK TURTLE - 29022012 Knew of a Mall in KL which used to suffer from low traffic. The owner flew in a master from HongKong with the fee of USD100,000. Yes, not only Taiwanese master can do the trick. All that he has suggested was to locate a retail unit in front of the main entrance facing the huge car park. The rest was history. The anchor tenant changes hand with a big name. Traffic increased by many folds. New extension was required for the new wing as the current threshold is maximized. What a miracle! A closer investigation revealed that the YinYang is in order. The spirits have arrived at the correct location. Speaking in terms of DaGua, it is said to be YiGua ChunChing 一卦純清, minus the door tilting and fighting SanSha, definitely. Want to know more? Postscript: Where is the Green Dragon, White Tiger and more importantly, Black Turtle? Is it a fallacy that all building must have a solid mountain as its back to fulfil the 4 guardians paying attention principles? Think about it... THIS MALL FAILS BIG TIME, WHY? - 22012014 Award winning architecture. Big time FengShui failure. Why? Observations: - 1. Cutting Feet 2. Wrong Entrance 3. Pulling Nose Need XKDG or YangGong Fa to verify? No need la..... TROPIKA MENIFESTO - 22052012 This is a Mall straddle between the NKVE highways, designed to be a stop over whenever commuters are stuck in the peak hour traffic jam. Good in theory but since its inception, it suffers from lack of human traffic just like the other case of Re-Publika. Undergone some makeover especially on the main entrance. Nothing extraordinary, besides crafting of the entrance, a row of water features were added and believed it, it gets better by the day, although Qi distributions on the internal still far from ideal compared to the suburb Mall, we talked about previously. Yes blame it to the strong ShaQi emitting from the highways. Imagine, the entire fate of the mall depends on the main door but in many cases, the corrective measures does not involve door tilting. Just a rectification of the immediate bright hall would do justice. REFLECTIONS Whoever master that come to tell you that there is such thing called LuanTou 巒頭 school and LiQi 理氣 school, they confirmed to know nuts about FengShui. Both SanHe and SanYuan have their very own unique method for LuanTou 巒頭 and LiQi 理氣. This very phrase is taken from the preface of Snow Heart Classic 《雪心赋》. A typical doctrine under the lineage of 蝨母仙. Think about it...
One FengShui connoisseur from Vietnam shared a murder case as his basis of XuanKong analysis based on the school of WuChang Pai 無常派. With unfortunate cases like this, it is highly unlikely to do a prediction based on whatever LoShu chart we have. The most we could only do a post-diction, see if it does correspond to the numbers in the LoShu chart, the WuChang 無常 way… FAN FUYIN 反伏吟According to the treatise of WuChang Pai 無常派, a sudden death event occurred in a family is highlighted via what is probably known as FuYin 伏吟 and FanYin 反吟 within the LoShu chart. Yin 吟 is siren, ought to have sounded in giving a life and death warning to the inhabitants. FuYin can be understood as Repeated Siren, it is liken to someone repeating the same warning to you again and again in an annoying manner and it is considered to be greatly inauspicious. That happens when the mountain or facing star in the middle is the 5 Yellow. The numbers may repeat the flying pattern of the LuoShu numbers in any palace. FanYin 反吟 is short for Fan FuYin 反伏吟 or Opposite to Repeated Siren. Some teacher takes this as auspicious because it is supposed to be the reverse of FuYin. However, it is truly inauspicious because in any palace the numbers (Mountain or Facing number with the Luoshu number) added up to 10 and this happens when the Mountain or Facing star in the middle is the 5 Yellow. Beyond a superficial level, you will also see that it don’t make sense at all, as a combination of 10 should always be beneficial, but why not for this instances? What is the catch? The caveat is in this term - Fan FuYin 反伏吟 whereby when a FuYin occurred, it may also come together with its reversal, thus its double whammy. It doesn’t really make sense in terms of the stars but it truly make sense in terms of DaGua. FuYin 伏吟 and FanYin 反吟 usually denotes deathly events and if the structure is not timely or broken and does in any manner conform to the natal chart, its malignant effects are great. In many books on this subject, the most fear after FuYin 伏吟 and FanYin 反吟 is the facing, because the Qi mouth of a house is usually located at the facing. However, as the saying goes, water governs wealth, mountain governs health, it cannot deny that an occurrence of FuYin 伏吟 or FanYin 反吟 at the sitting instead of facing, gives the more detrimental effects to the inhabitants in terms of health matter. FAN FUYIN APPLICATION
THE LITMUS TEST - CASE FACT A murder case, happened in North Vietnam at early morning 24th September 2016. The house was built and moved-in in 2015. The house measured sitting Yin facing Shen - 243 degrees. Upon moving in: -
LANDFORM Googlemaps revealed that the location is far from superior as it is located within the basin known in geography as the island of the ox-bow. Landform liked this has very little Qi, thus a broken structure. Its location having rivers at both sides, with the rear river closest indicating the front may have been higher with the back low. In XuanKong 4 structures this is known as backward riding the dragon or up the mountain down the water structure, where the sitting star may not be that strong after all. PAILONG AIXING 排龍挨星 The house was built and moved-in period 8. A period 8 chart with sitting Yin and facing Shen is constructed. The facing palace comprises of the period star 5, facing star 2# and sitting star 8#. 2#-8# combination 10 at facing. Wouldn’t such be great? Unfortunately, this natal chart of the house also called, arranging the dragon 排龍 of the house has nothing to reveal as it has no FuYin. Better still, sitting star 8# that is timely meeting facing star 2# that is untimely will violate the entire benevolent of the timely star? Mind boggling… Perhaps, the sitting timely star 8# arriving at the facing violate the cardinal rule that the “mountain dragon god shall not go down the river, 山上龍神不下水,水里龍神不上山, 青囊序,Mountain on top Dragon God don’t come down to water, Water within Dragon God don’t go up the mountain, (QingNan Xu). Therefore, the timely 8# sitting star has been violated and rendered useless… When we plot in the annual 2016 star - #2 arriving at the centre, appear before us is a FuYin 伏吟 chart. The annual star and sitting star are in FuYin 伏吟 formation for all the 9 palaces. We shall check if indeed it is a FuYin 伏吟 formation at the facing. There is a second test to see if indeed it is a real FanYin 反吟. This is through AiXing 挨星. Facing has 8#-8# Gen WeiShan 艮为山 Gua. Based on Gen WeiShan 艮为山 Gua, we have Dui WeiZe Gua 兑为泽 Gua as its FanYin Gua and Zhen WeiLei Gua 震为雷 as its FuYin Gua. Given house measured sitting Yin facing Shen - 243 degrees, none of the AiXing 挨星 falls within the FanYin nor FuYin. Yet, there are people killed! The above said description failed the litmus test… miserably. ONE ROOM ONE TAIJI 一物一太極Perhaps, we may look at the individual room itself before we come to any conclusion…
ON THE OTHER HANDThe house measured sitting Yin facing Shen - 243 degrees are very close to a small DE under the 72D rings based on YangGong methodology. It already foretell issues related to bloodshed. A good theory, must consistently without failed proved to show result even by the method of reverse engineering. In this instances, it has showcased that FanFu Yin can only be applied to one room, one TaiJi applications. Beyond that it seems that the theory faulted in many areas. This is only one attempt based on a popular known so called WuChang Pai 無常派 applications. How about the rest of the XuanKong derivatives such as MiaoPai 妙派 and so forth?
XUANKONG 3 SCRIPTS 玄空三诀XuanKong Three Scripts 玄空三诀 summarize the three important factors of doing FengShui based on XuanKong 玄空. Different schools may call these scripts differently, but ultimately they are pointing to the same aspect of doing FengShui. It is used to be known as the three ancient oral transmitted scripts 三個古訣. There are many interpretation to these scripts, many beholding such as the top secrets. In some schools, these had been further expended to six, giving birth to the Six Methods of XuanKong or LiuFa. These scripts also generally shared among schools outside SanYuan such as SanHe. Generally the Three Scripts are: -
WHERE IT COMES FROM?These scripts are made known by the so-called lineage holder of ZhongZhou Pai 中州派. Please do not get confused with SuZhou Pai 蘇州派. They are entirely different thing (read HERE for details). ZhongZhou Pai 中州派 was claimed to be a less known school of XuanKong based on its principle of One Teacher, One Student, 一师一徒. It was only made known by Wang TingZhi 王亭之 via his writing ZhongZhou Pai XuanKong School 中州派玄空学. He claimed that as he has made enough fortune to retire into “Shangrila”, he no longer needs to practice this exoteric knowledge thus he decided to disclose them via his writing. It may also mean, this method may not be really reliable and therefore can be disclosed to others… Being a renaissance man, Wang TingZhi 王亭之 professed many talents ranging from FengShui, ZiWei DouShu, food critiques, linguist, tea connoisseur to Tibetan Buddhist Master. Having such illustrious profile also made him an outspoken provocateur to many areas of Chinese Metaphysics especially FengShui, with equal amounts of brickbats as well. He owes such knowledge to his lineage master from Taiwan, famed for his skill in ZiWei DouShu, having also to say that without ZiWei, there is no ZhongZhou Pai 中州派. ZHONGZHOU PAI 中州派
THE FIRST SCRIPTHARBORING STAR SCRIPT 安星訣
COMMENTARY ON HARBORING STAR The term 下卦 is aptly more appropriate to mean Placing Gua instead of Lower Gua, as in a game of chess, 下 means to place. By the same token, before one can be Placing Gua 下卦 or making the first move, one has to lift a Gua or called Lifting Gua 兼卦. Analogically speaking, it is like lifting a chess piece and placing it in the appropriate grid thus first to lift a Gua 兼卦 then to place a Gua 下卦. Both these processes of to lift a Gua 兼卦 then to place a Gua 下卦, by some other terminology means, a star is taking a vector flight with a point of departure and another point of arrival. Collectively, it can also be construed as a number of origination and a number of completion, one Yin and one Yang. Postulations of these sorts may lead to various interpretations and applications. The term Harboring Star 安星 analogically speaking may means to find a home (palace) for the star to reside, just like a boat that may need to be harbored 安. Collectively Harboring Star 安星 means the natal chart of the Flying Star or the LoShu grid. Basically there are 2 ways to harbor the star, one being the conventional Placing Gua 下卦 while the other unconventional Replacement Gua 替卦. In a more general terms, Harboring Star 安星 is a mean to identify the Qi Map of a given location. By the same token it is to identify areas of growth, prosperous, weakening, death and killing based on the structure and formation of the land. Such include identifying incoming and outgoing of water. REPLACEMENT STAR 替卦
COMMENTARYThis replacement star poem is the VERSION 17 of the earlier write-up on AiXing Jue, Leaning Star Script (detail read HERE) APPLICATION OF REPLACEMENT STAR 替星用法歸納
THE SECOND SCRIPTARRANGING THE DRAGON SCRIPT 排龍訣ARRANGING DRAGON SITTING FACING - 排龍與山、向
ARRANGING DRAGON ORAL TRANSMISSION METHOD OF ARRANGEMENT 排龍口訣及推排法
ARRANGING THE DRAGON 24 MOUNTAINS YINYANG 排龍二十四山陰陽
SIMPLE ARRANGING THE DRAGON AND WATER MOUTH 淺談排龍與水口
ARRANGING THE DRAGON SCRIPT ORAL TRANSMISSION 排龍訣口訣
ARRANGING DRAGON SCRIPTS APPLICATIONS 排龍訣之應用
THE THIRD SCRIPTRECEIVING YIN PUSHING SHA SCRIPT 收山出煞訣
A LuoPan is beyond just a tool to pinpoint location and direction. It is also a tool that is supposed to protect the practitioner in the event of danger and harm. Beyond that it is also a barometer to trace and track the unseen being usually loitering around in places with ShaQi or Killing Qi such as haunted houses. Some LuoPan such as those sanctioned by a certain FengShui school or sects contained special formulas that only people of such school would understood. Some LuoPan are so delicately handcrafted such as the produce of WuLu Hang, fit as a decorative or collective pieces and not for heavy duty usage. For more obvious information of the LuoPan, please refer to a LuoPan compendium, beautifully written and researched by Stephen Skinner based on the corpus of work by the late grandmaster Li DingXin entitled The 49 Rings of The Chinese LuoPan Explained. Yet, it has been every FengShui master’s dream to create its own LuoPan. Now a day, you can approach LuoPan maker liked Thomson House in HongKong or TongTing in Taiwan to have it made according to a standard LuoPan template or even to add in some of your “fancy built to suit” rings according to your school and preferences. LINEAGE LUOPANHowever, a LuoPan made in the name of a school and a lineage holder is somewhat different. It is a living document of how the lineage knowledge are engraved into the LuoPan, that only the applications are made known to their students and disciples through various degree. Some were designed to look so obvious liked any standard template, but only a true master would know how to “correct” them accordingly. These are lineage secrets passed down orally especially so with regard to YinYang annotations of the different layers or dimensions of the LuoPan. That is why when one inherited a used LuoPan from a master as a gesture of lineage transmission, such worn out LuoPan is usually tainted with red dots and markings, usually hand painted. These are the so called “corrected” LuoPan only a lineage holder would understand. The YuChe Tang LuoPan sanctioned by the late grandmaster Li DingXin is one of them ARE YOU KIDDING?Grandmaster Li DingXin, knew his stuff well when he designed his LuoPan. He maintained that the needle has to be fine and the aperture of the Heaven Pool has to be large enough to contain a stable needle that are able to swivel swiftly in tracing the 8 phenomenon known as Strange Needle 8 Methods 奇針八法 and what are these? STRANGE NEEDLE 8 METHODS 奇針八法Strange Needle 8 Methods 奇針八法 are:
The Bolehland Conmaster LuoPan is made of western precision compass that is thick and submerged in liquid. All the 8 phenomenon known as Strange Needle 8 Methods 奇針八法 are all untraceable. This is the problem of the half cooked conmaster trying to outdo the true lineage holder. It is really not about the quality of the compass but the consistency and the adaptability of the compass to detect things beyond the three dimensional spaces. Strange, he speaks loudly about Qi and yet know so little about the tool he is using. That tells you why he placed LuoPan on the floor – a true insult to the lineage he claimed to hold. FOOLS OF COLOUR…A traditional guide string is RED, liked that of YuChe Tang, is for a reason, especially so when one does Yin FengShui. Any capable FengShui master knows this. However, when it comes in multi-colours liked white, yellow and so forth, one question remains – do you also mourn for your client’s mishaps and are willing to bring such mishaps back to your family? This is the problem with Bolehland Conmaster LuoPan… SEE LI DINGXIN EXPLAINED ABOUT THE LUOPAN HERE COPYING AND STEALING…The late grandmaster Li DingXin is well known for not mincing his words in debunking others that he claimed to be of JiangHu Master, very similar but have a greater dignity compared to the Bolehland Conmaster. He also claimed that LuoPan post Tang Dynasty are all corrupted. He demonstrated a simple fact that the Early Heaven North or Kan Gua should not be aligned to the magnetic north for a simple fact that at that time, the magnetic compass has not been invented. It shall follow the sun path. Therefore Early Heaven of Kan Gua shall be tilted to be aligned with the Heaven Plate, being the plate following the sun path. There you go, YuChe Tang LuoPan was the only LuoPan first designed to have its Early Heaven Kan Gua aligned to the Heaven Plate instead of the commonly known Earth Plate. Do you also notice that the Later Heaven BaGua was omitted? Only half cooked conmaster put in the Later Heaven BaGua into the LuoPan. That is a GREAT MISTAKE! The Bolehland Conmaster LuoPan stole and copied the proprietary knowledge of the late grandmaster Li DingXin! Shame on you and especially so when the late master has disowned the Bolehland Conmaster NOTHING NEW…The 3 Earth, Human and Heaven Plates are nothing new. The 72 Dragons Ring attached to the Earth Plate is nothing new. The 60 Dragons Rings are nothing new. These are all similar to the common template you will find in the SanHe LuoPan. SOMETHING STUPID…The late grandmaster Li DingXin’s did not put everything into his LuoPan. He kept many secrets and one of them is the application of River East and West Gua. Why should he expose that in the first place? There you go… the half cooked conmaster actually created a ring for that matter as though YangGong school students do not know how to use the 72D ring? Pathetic and stupid… GREATER STUPIDITY…Every ring in the LuoPan has a significant role in applying the theory of a certain school. If one has to put in all the rings, you will end up having more than 49 rings altogether and you will be expected to carry a humongous LuoPan everywhere you go. Unnecessary rings are removed and replaced with a more practical one. Such is referring to the 240 Dragon Rings has been replaced by only 120 Dragon ring – that is found so neatly spaced in the LuoPan by The late grandmaster Li DingXin. Furthermore, 120D rings of Heaven and Human Plates are overlapping one another, what so pathetically stupid is to display all the 240D rings into a LuoPan. This is what is known as Greater Stupidity of the half cooked conmaster. THE POLITICS OF LUOPANWe quote a statement by Master Han of France as he confessed, “Not only the Bolehland Conmaster plagiarized books and teachings of his master, but his team also plagiarized our LuoPan, with the help of the former collaborator of the WuJi Academy, mandated for the development (entirely financed by the WuJi Academy from 2010) and mounting our LuoPan and who wanted, in 2015, misappropriate a full stock of 45 pieces. They now even claim that this LuoPan is their exclusivity and that we are copiers! It's the world turned upside down! But whatever the actions of those who tried and are trying to harm us. Here we have the proof that their school is neither official nor accredited by the masters of their lineage, but indeed built on betrayal, incompetence and lies, as Grandmaster LiDing Xin clearly stated in this letter which is a compelling evidence. We have the proof that they are absolutely not trustworthy, as well as everything they say or write, especially regarding the Bolehland Conmaster and his minion but also our former collaborator who partnered with them.” Details HERE. VERY OLD CRAPS I WROTE ABOUT LUOPANEarthquake and the Abnormally of My LuoPan - 13032011I will always remember March 11 for 2 reasons. One, the Earthquake that hits Japan that has trigger the Tsunami. Second, exactly that very moment, while measuring and setting the alignment for one of my FengShui audit, the South and North orientation of my brand new LuoPan went haywire, instead of pointing South, it pointed North. All my readings did not conform to my earlier record, saving me the embarrassment and it makes me wonder what has gone so very wrong without realizing that there is a major disaster over in Japan. That is the very first time I use this brand new LuoPan and it may also be the very last time of using it as it is no longer operational. It makes me realize a point which I had overlooked. Have you ever wonder why olden day master uses one and only ONE LuoPan for their audits even though the conditions may have been aged and worn out? Next, wonder why a good LuoPan, made under ISO9000 can also be faulty upon measuring at the exact time when an earthquake measuring 8.9 equivalent to 340 megaton or 24,000 times the Hiroshima A-Bomb hits Japan? This is mind boggling. I have no answer. One thing I know, I will be using my old trusty LuoPan again. Saying thus, I have not heard much about others talking about the quake in Japan caused by someone digging a hole somewhere eastern part of Japan (where it responses to China as the center of the Chinese Universe) causing a Quake in Japan which happened to be at the 5 yellow sector in XinMao year. Better, this is one old pal of mine has to say: - "... The immediate following question for FengShui addicts should be: WHO DUG and WHERE and how deep and strongly to cause such havoc? If we consider the Center of the LoShu in Beijing as the point of reference, groundbreaking in the east of this point must have occur according to the common FS theory. Now most digging activities includes : gardening, burying, building, mining, road engineering also. I suppose that to cause such an earth quake, all these activities are needed ! So the assertion that 5 Yellow struck Japan leads us to assert that everybody who dug earth, in anyway and for any reason , in a 45° sector originated in Beijing are responsible for the earth quake in Japan! So what could China do: plead that the point of reference should be elsewhere: why not the crossing of Greenwich meridian and equator for this meridian partakes the world in two slices and this parting is used by everybody. So now the responsibility could be passed to all the people digging ground east of this line, mainly Khadaffi perhaps, which includes the oil producing countries, and that is quite interesting for they have quite a lot of money!" His point is simple, I must say. Instead of grieving over the lost of lives and praying for the departed ones, some FengShui addicts sensationalize the entire episode as the effect of the 5 yellow and brought us to think, who is the culprit? Again, I may look upon the event of my LuoPan gone haywire has nothing to do with the Quake in Japan. I may also say that the quake has caused the sudden Qi fluctuation that directly hits my LuoPan causing it to change its polarity. For whatever reason, the sino-centric world views proven to be otherwise, accurate. As to the question, who dug the ground, I leave it to you for an answer. Another Not To Miss Book On The FengShui Compass - 13032009Title: Guide To The FengShui Compass
Author: Stephen Skinner Link: www.SSkinner.com I have not been updating my blog as often as I wished as I am, on one hand, making hays while the sun is bright and on the other hand, just completed reading the above said book on Luopan. I must admit that was indeed a single notable effort from a serious researcher of FengShui from not a Chinese origin, although I was informed he reads and speaks Chinese and is practicing FengShui for many years. This book was a commendable effort both in terms of scholastic works and research on a single piece of Chinese invention called the Luopan. The depth of information was par excellent as compared to many of the literature written in the same subject in the English language in both with lucid renditions of the subject matters in clear and precise English and clear, beautifully crafted figures and plates illustrating the same subject matters. Definitely, worth its price. No doubt, that I am a little let down on the rendition of his other works notably the SanHe classics of Zhang BingLing, also by the same author, this book on Luopan is entirely different and worth collecting as it also provides a better framework for research works to come, on the same subject. For the serious readers, the title could have been called or implied, The initial Guide To The FengShui Compass, for the following reasons that worth contemplating: - Firstly, the study of Luopan is a science by its own accord. It is not just a compass but compressed information on formulae and applications in a plate. The information contains within the rings meant nothing unless it is annexed to its application of formulae and landform. The arrangement of the rings largely display the preference of its designer and the knowledge he had pertaining to the applications of the formulae within the rings via a structural logic of what comes before the others and not at a random and unknown basis. Comparatively with another similar book on the same subject matter by Li DingXin, notably the lineage holder of YangGong GuFa of Ganzhou, the approach to the subject matter is matched against the classics and what the author’s believed to be of the pure pedigree renouncing the others as XinFa. For such reason, many practitioners shy away from actually writing the book about Luopan without dishing out too much secret, unknowingly also reflecting on their limited knowledge on the same subject matter. Secondly, researching into the classical Luopan is never an easy task especially by someone who does not belong to the FengShui lineage or are called the “outsider”. One cannot just visit museum or pick up samples of Ming and Qing Dynasty Luopan and start putting a comparative description on the rings, retrospectively, at a superficial level without knowing the actual Luopan designed by the founder of the school in question. Loosing sight of the first principles means the collective information is somewhat incomplete and compensated. Thirdly, I believed, there are much more information under the sleeves as that the author reluctant to disclose as it will double up the pages from the current 400 plus, worthy to be classified as a PhD dissertation. With these omissions, the book will not make one an adept user of the Luopan or a FengShui practitioner and the most to the uninitiated, after reading the book, will just be able to gauge direction in accordance to the 24 mountains ring. On these three reasons, strictly speaking, the book reflect its noble effort to seam up all the, otherwise, fragmented information about the Luopan currently available from the mainstream sources without reaching it to its marrow of the subject matter leaving the reader to taste the wine without reaching the throat. However, it is still a good book; all English speaking practitioners should have in their shelves. If time permits I shall discuss the contents in greater details, in the more private discussion blog of Yifengshui (Inner Teachings). As its name suggested, it comprises of 6 factors of XuanKong. Some says, XuanKong LiuFa or also known as XuanKong 6 Methodologies was once a mysterious FengShui system that was strongly advocated by the late Grandmaster Tan YangWu (淡養吾). In 1929, Tan met a Daoist by the name of Li QianXu (李虔虛道長), who later imparted XuanKong LiuFa to him. Another theory state that XuanKong LiuFa is the genuine transmission by the founder Wu JingLuan and It has a shroud of mysticism around it because those who know it do not share the method openly and claim that it is the only true XuanKong teaching and knowledge. Moreover they tend to use strange words and terminology which nobody seem to understand unless you have some foundation knowledge on the subject. XKLF consists of 6 key components - that is why it is called 6 Methods. Actually the translation is a bit misleading because they are not individual methods by its own but key concepts or principles that need to be applied in a holistic way in order to realize its full FengShui potential. The 6 methods of XKLF are:
1) MYSTERIOUS SUBTLETIES 玄空XKLF’s fundamentals are from the YiJing and it places the importance to the concept of Taiji. Unlike XuanKong FeiXing XKFX school that emphasized one room as one TaiJi, meaning there must be within an enclosure, XKLF TaiJi stems from the very human as a reference point against the Qi mouth, be it incoming Qi or outgoing Qi. XKLF believes that human is always concerned about the effects of FengShui. Therefore it places human as the centre point of focus. For building, TaiJi is established at the centre of the building. XKLF considers the bed, workplace as the central datum to establish its TaiJi to take measurements, in addition to placing the TaiJi on the building or the rooms. It gives great flexibility in tapping into the Qi map at any given place by just tilting the desk, bed and so forth. On a larger scale, with the same set of TaiJi and the Early Heaven BaGua one is able to determine the luck of the building based on its facing direction in relation to the nearest Qi mouths such as junctions and road intersections. It is an absolute versatile tool to employ from all types of building to push cart hawker stalls. XKLF uses the 2 Yuan 8 Yun or 2 Cycles and 8 Period instead of the 3 Cycles 9 Period of XKFX. The period 1, 2, 3 and 4 belongs to Upper Yuan while Period 6, 7, 8, 9 belongs to the Lower Yuan. There is no Period 5. The length of each is not fixed like XKFX but it varies according to the Yao of the Gua it represents. A Yin Yao represents 6 years while a Yang Yao represents 9 years. For our current period, it is period 8 starting from 1996 lasting for 21 years. Period 9 begins in 2017. The fundamental theories on this method is derived from QingNan Xu 青囊序. 2) MALE AND FEMALE 雌雄It is about the interaction and union of the male Qian and female Kun, as represented by Yin and Yang, producing offspring of different gender. Without male, female cannot produce. Without female, male cannot grow. Therefore there is always inter-dependency between the male and female and the need for each other to coexist. One cannot survive without the other. Unlike the notion of XuanKong 玄空 which is non-physical, CiXiong 雌雄 is physical manifestation of Male and Female. This concept is extended to Water vs Mountain, Moving vs Stillness, Building vs Road Junctions, Heavy Furniture vs Doorways, etc. The origin of this principle stems from the Early Heaven BaGua where any two opposite Trigrams are always opposite and complementary to each other. Such became its basis to analyse land form. Unlike XKFX, it requires the water mouth as a central reference point for its analysis. 3) LEANING STAR 挨星These stars are the 9 stars of the Great Dipper. They are: -
These 9 stars are mapped to the 9 LuoShu numbers based on the trigram it is associated with. Unlike XKFX that uses the concept of Flying Star within the LoShu, XKLF uses the concept of Leaning Star that means the star lean one against another based on the principle of flipping Yao to change the Gua Imagery 抽爻換象. Unlike XKFX that uses the 45 degree influence of an entire Gua, XKLF uses the 15 degree influence of an entire mountain itself. A trigram is assigned to each of the 24 mountains with a Leaning Star associated to each mountain. When the flipping Yao to change the Gua Imagery 抽爻換象 sets in, an addition of 8 trigrams are produced and these are positioned to the 24 mountains with an additional 2 trigrams attached to these 8 mountains. Altogether it becomes 32 mountains instead. For each period, the configuration of the 32 mountains differ. The core theories of this method vested in Parent SanBan Gua as in TianYu Jing 天玉经. 4) GOLDEN DRAGON 金龍JinLong or Golden Dragon is actually the #5 Yellow LianZhen Aixing star. There are a total of 9 numbers and these numbers are mapped a 9-palace grid. Based on the period number and the way the stars fly forward for Odd number or backward for Even number in the LuoShu 9-palace grid, the location where the #5 lands is the location of JinLong. The JinLong location is also known as the LingShen (Indirect Spirit) location. As the trigrams are group into two groups of male and female (CiXiong principle) gender, the locations where these trigrams lands are termed as LingShen or ZhenShen (Direct Spirit) locations. Therefore are multiple ZhenShen and LingShen directions in each period. ZhenShen locations like to see mountain while LingShen locations like to see water. Think of LingShen as the golden dragon that needs water to survive. Therefore, XKFX notion of ZhenShen represents the current timely star must therefore see mountain and the notion of LingShen represents the current untimely star must therefore see water are quite similar to XKLF. However because in XKFX the Period number always fly forward, XKLF ZhenShen and LingShen may takes the reverse path. Therefore in XKFX, LingShen sector in period 8 is 1234 but in XKLF is 6789. Timeliness is therefore being measured differently. 5) GRAND DUKE 太歲XKLF practitioners are very good a seizing up the fortune of a house or a place fast and accurately based on a predictive method called TaiSui that uses extensively the stems and branches combinations just liked its BaZi counterparts – 3 combo, clashes, penalty and destruction. XKFX will use the annual purple white stars with its daily and monthly stars through its 81 combinations to foretell the fate of a building, XKLF uses mainly the TaiSui replacement method of stems and branches. Besides prediction, XKLF also uses this method for date selections and activation. 6) CASTLE GATE 城門Castle Gate is almost the same as Receiving Yin Pushing Sha Script 收山出煞訣 of the Zhong ZhouPai or the Eliminating Embrace Receiving Water 消砂纳水 of the GuFa Pai 古法派, if it is not the form at the entirety but the essence may be of the same. Cheng Men or Castle Gate is classified as the topmost secret among the 6 methods. It is only taught to the most trusted students. The simple reason is that it is the application of the entire XKLF curriculum. You can master the other 5 techniques but without this Castle Gate, you don’t know how to apply XKLF. It can be construed as a simple technique to position the door or house facing/sitting based on the incoming mountain dragon and outgoing water. Unlike XKFX that require one to know the move in date and sitting/facing of the property, XKLF required the location of the water mouth. This technique is quite similar to the XKDG or the 5GCT formulas that is closed to Dragon, Mountain, Facing and Water structure thus the 2 parts to this formula, Mountain Dragon Castle Gate and Water Dragon Castle Gate. Put it bluntly, the incoming and the outgoing Castle Gate. Kindly also aware that this XKLF Castle Gate has nothing to do with XKFX Castle Gate that tap into the 45 degree auspicious star sector based on HeTu connection. The key principle of Incoming Castle Gate is the HeTu. Very similar to QKGB or LMBDJ methodology the sitting trigram and the incoming dragon trigram must form a HeTu combination in order to be considered auspicious. Facing is the opposite of sitting. By applying this technique, you can match door location to the incoming dragon. The key principle of Outgoing water Castle Gate vested in the Incoming Dragon trigram in Early Heaven sequence and the door facing trigram in Later Heaven sequence must be the same. It is simply a matter of matching correctly the Early Heaven and Later Heaven trigrams between the door facing and incoming dragon to put the structure in order. You will require to master this modus operandi to design tombstone and house facing based on the core principle of "A Thousand Buddha" Character Script 万佛字诀 vested in QingNan AoYou 青囊奥语, unlike XKFX that only can be applied to Yang House FengShui prediction. CRITIQUESIf you were to take 2 practitioners for a field trip, one being a XKFX junkies while the other a XKLF junkies you would find that the XKFX fellow will be totally lost in transition trying to figure out the stars running across a piece of paper with 9 grids and thereafter trying to talk his way through house divination based on the 81 stars combination with total disregard of the environment. XKLF practitioners on the other hand would be versatile in screening the entire formation to not only predict the outcome of a given structure but to also suggest the proper locations of the Main Door and the Tombstone to best tap into the most current auspicious Qi, all without the need to even draw the 9 grids and to fly the stars. They are among the closest and the best XuanKong methods available in the market today. GIBBERISH OLD CRAPSYUAN KONG 6 1/2 METHODS - 26102008YUAN KONG Three Affinity Obtaining Void and Emptiness (SanYuan De KongMang) is YuanKong. WuJi born TaiJi, TaiJi obtain 2 slices, 2 slices beget 4 images, 4 images formulate 8 Gua, 8 Gua separate to 64 Gua, 64 Gua flip 384 Yao, the birth of a myriad things come from the great Void, WuJi. This is YuanKong. Think again, we were so afraid of the so called Death and Emptiness (DE). However, where is mother of all nature if it is not from Emptiness? If it is from here the myriad things are born, it is of here that the myriad things should return. This is the true reflection on Death and Emptiness. It is said that DE should not sit and face. True enough. The Qi is too pure and some extend may be too strong. Why would it said that way? If one mastered the use of the 6 Jia, DE is insignificant. SanYuan is the affinity of Heaven Earth and Man in obtaining another SanYuan of Health, Wealth and Family. This is the purpose of the Great SanYuan, fundamental of all human endeavors beneath Heaven. This is not the art of the gods, but an art of the mundane human being. Wars are fought, based on this reason. Empires are built based on this reason. Longevity is also gain on this reason. Heaven has 9 stars, Earth has 8 Gua and Human has 8 doors. Know how to use this, SanYuan is obtained. Combining the art of SanYuan, with the understanding of void and emptiness, this is YuanKong. CIXIONG Intercourses of the Yin essence with the Yang essence. Failure of comprehending Early Heaven as principle, Later Heaven as application, CiXiong will not materialize. When it is said, pure Yin, pure Yang, would one assume, how would Growing Qi be born when the Yin remains Yin and Yang remains Yang? This is the modern misconception. Whereas, what is use of Qi if it wasn’t pure? The Yin Yang dragons of the 24 mountain plate arraying the SanHe and SanYuan Luopan are varied based on what? When was it said, the mountain is Yang, water is Yin? Finally, who said the mountain is Yin and water is Yang? Not knowing this is not knowing CiXiong and not knowing CiXiong is not knowing how to use the 24 mountains. What is use of the Luopan then, be it SanHe or SanYuan? AIXING If we equate Leaning Star as AiXing, we are taking a tree instead of a forest. The principle of AiXing is the map? The application is the book? How naïve this could be? Master of the old said, arrange the 6 Jia and move the 9 dragons. What does this mean? If one fails to understand the meaning of RuGong PaiLong or entering palace, arranging dragon, save it, be it 24 mountain or 32 mountains, these are all Fei! Worst, if the debate is centralize in defining sitting star versus mountain star and water star versus facing star, absolute rubbish in discourse! JINLONG From where it comes, to where it goes, this is the golden dragon. The root verse comes from the following script of Qing Ran AoYou: - “…Dian dian dao, 24 Mountains have Treasure;Dao dao dian, 24 Mountains have Fire Pit.The Golden Dragon, Longitude and Latitude even though come with different meaning, Does it move or does it not move, all depend on the Master of Fengshui to apply…” First, one has to understand what is this dragon is all about? Why is it golden? Is it because the script is talking about Qian, being metal and being the head of the dragon? When we said a missing sector in Qian palace, does it also means to say the star AIXING would not takes it LoShu flight path and all that is to say about flying star FeiXing, would not work? Absolute rubbish! What does longitude and latitude mean? The book and the map, woven in longitude and latitude? Before it goes beyond paranoia, it simply says the use of the LuoPan to measures the 6 Jia. Knowing the 6 Jia is grossly insufficient, knowing how to use it is the treasure. Does it mean the Ling and Zhen Shen? Think about it! CHENGMEN This is the best kept secret. The magical door that required the keyword – Open Sesame, to activate? Consider, if ShengQi needs to ride, where would it be ride? Heaven has 9 stars, Earth has 8 Gua and Human has 8 gates, where are these gates and what is his castle? Mountain as principle, water as application, how does one use it? Be it 6 Jia, 64 Gua or 384 Yao, not knowing the nature of the gates of Man, Castle Gate is just another mouse trap. Think again! TAISUI The ruling Qi for the year or the guardian deity of the year? One has to understand who the host is and who the guest is. What is to be replaced and how it is to be replaced. The governing of the 20 years cycle, 10 years cycle all determined the locations of the 8 doors, opening and closing of the 8 doors. Most importantly the luck of the mansion. In conclusion, this is just a scribble of fictions and facts called, YuanKong 6 and a half method, anyone interested to learn out there? LIUFA AND FEIXING TURMOIL - SOME CONSIDERATION PLEASE - 20062008A fellow FengShui practitioner from France brought to my attention an article about the saga between flying star FengShui and the LiuFa FengShui. I read with interest unto the so called facts that had been placed forward as argument for argument sake. In the first instance these facts are beyond validation, only disciple of a certain lineage or schools could verify. So, I place my bet with these 10 arguments in mind for hopes that it may throw some new light, if any, to whom ever who read this blog, intellectually or casually.
Originally there is only 1 school. It will be quite whimsical to classify a method as time based such as SanYuan or three periods simply because time is of the essence to such a methodology. In fact, SanHe, three harmonies, the so called oldies also has their own time dimension. It will be just a folly to say BaZhai as a SanYuan methodology. It could have been a SanHe school. So, the history of FengShui must first be re-written. There is no SanHe or SanYuan. There are many lineages and sub lineages, all to their very specific purpose and use. In fact, BaZhai could have read as a macro of XuanKong DaGua, so where is the disdain fallacy? Flying Star is a relatively new method at most born out of writings from Tang Yang Wu and Shen Ju Ren. These masters may have quoted from the classics notably DiLiBianZhen to offer their views as in XuanKong BenYi and Shen Si XuanKong Xue, could these masters interpreted the classics correctly given the fact that they may not inherit the transmission from the proper lineage? Same goes with the LiuFa, where the emphasis is on the 6 method of Zhen and Ling Shen, CiXiong, Chen Men, TaiSui, AiXing and others. My question is why 6? Could have been more considerations? Magnetic North versus True North controversy. The evolution of the Chinese compass was from the sundial having the 24 mountain plate created by YangGong. Those from YangGong traditions will immediately know that the Sun is the factor. Similarly in deciding the actual timing in hour’s selection for FengShui. Food for thought. Rotation of earth moves in one direction. Rotation of Earth moves in one orbital direction. Time moves forward and never backward. How possible could a period, Yun, sometimes move forward and sometimes move backward in accordance to the Gua Yao of the particular period in question? The YangGong GuFa lineage does not recognize Yi Long Jing and Han Long Jing as written by YangGong himself. So, how could we rationalized based on these 2 classics? If bright hall should be big, then why is there a saying that to consume by the bright hall? Meaning to be drawn by the bright hall? There is a big different between the Yin dwelling and a Yang dwelling. The Yin has 1 compartment, the Yang has many. Flying star 9 palaces cannot fly in 1 compartment. So how to deal with this? Bright hall must have South Facing, meaning all South facing houses and graves must be prosperous and is that so in the practical sense? 3 elegance and 6 auspicious has many definitions. In terms of regulating water courses, there is no such a thing as many incoming but single outgoing. The notion of the incoming and outgoing water mouth must first be investigated. The constellation or asterism inclusion unto the 24 mountain plate called the seam needle in the SanHe Luopan, sometime called human plate were based on astronomical considerations invented by Lai BuYi. The old school of YangGong does not use this ring, although to some extent Lai BuYi were known to have received YangGong’s transmission from his father whom had learnt the art from YangGong’s senior disciple. Lai BuYi improvises on the system to make it for his own. The XuanKong proponent further improvises on these and called it by different terms such as XuanKong Dawuxing. So, one do not necessary need a heavenly sign to do FengShui. These points are not meant to debunk any fallacy nor a sales gimmick that may arise, but to intellectually provoke readers whom had happened to come across an article about the saga between LiuFa and Feixing. Perhaps one may drop me an email for me to direct them to the source article found in the WWW. Fibonacci Golden Ratio is also known as the Rule of Third. It is a concept that mimic the natural patterns of nature such as Sea Shell. Fibonacci attempted to put it into a mathematical model and it is known as the Fibonacci numbers. This golden ratio is a standard proportion, underlies the arrangement of the human form, the construction of the more beautiful animals, the construction of plants, namely in the form of their leaf-arrangement, the forms of various crystals, the arrangement of the planets, the proportions of architectural and sculptural works recognized as being the most beautiful, the most satisfying chords in musical harmony, as well as many other things in nature and art. Now, we have Fibonacci Golden Ratio in FengShui? You guys must be crazy… Another con job in the making? BOLEHLAND INSTITUTE OF GEOMANCY SCIENCESFlashed back a little, the application of Fibonacci Golden Ratio in FengShui was publicly mooted by an old timer in the field of Chinese Metaphysics, whom is known for his uniqueness in converting Chinese Metaphysics into physical sciences that he coined – Environmentology. This has really nothing to do with Environmental Bluffology, trust me, I know! He has on his own accord converted YiJing Gua into binaries and propagating his brand of BaGua FengShui using scientific indicators. Even for BaZi, he rebranded it as CSR, a total unique way of reading BaZi using the lunar month as the indicator instead of the solar month. Saying such, he is well known to be a well sought after BaZi master in his prime and later on, his maturity has brought him to be a lesser known hermit of QiMen DunJia that he called the X-Factor. For him, the X-Factor shall be the pinnacle of the achievement that he only willing to share within his indoor disciples. FIBONACCI GOLDEN RATIO AND YIJING GUA The YiJing numerals open up a significant resemblance to Fibonacci Golden Ratio such as the followings: -
QI MAP AND YOUR HEAVENLY HEART The emphasis on the structures of incoming and outgoing Qi underlay the very fundamental of FengShui. This is almost everything that the three textbooks of FengShui namely, QingNan AoYou, TianYu Jing and YuChe Jing amplified. This is common for both SanHe and SanYuan schools. The incoming and outgoing Qi define the boundary of this Qi map be it literally the embrace or otherwise, something else such as the enclosure of four walls. Next, where is the Heavenly Heart? Some define it as the centre of this boundary. While others said it is metaphysically somewhere within the centre of this boundary offset in accordance to the Fibonacci Golden Ratio that was drawn superimposed into this very boundary. This is where the Heavenly Heart resides and it is the reference point of which you establish your LuoPan reading – LiPan. By the same token, the Heavenly Heart is the main meridian point of a given boundary – the mother of all Xue. The arc of the Fibonacci Golden Ratio that was drawn superimposed into this very boundary is a representation of how Qi flow be it forward or reverse. Whichever dots that fall within the spiral of Qi represented in this Golden Section is also called the meridian, but of a lesser intensity. Therefore, it is paramount important to define usable rooms or partitions according to this Fibonacci Golden Ratio. The 3 most important aspect of human dwelling such as the Main Door, Bed and Stove must conform to such principle. THE ACID TEST People say, the real test of the pudding is in the eating… so one may do a reverse engineering to see if the theses of the arc of the Fibonacci Golden Ratio that was drawn superimposed into this very boundary is a representation of how Qi flow and whichever dots that fall within the spiral of Qi represented in this Golden Section is also called the meridian. In a larger landform, between the so called incoming dragon and water mouth, you would be able to trace that all the town centres and city centres of any place shall be found along the spiral of the Golden Section. Similarly so, you would able to trace that all rich people houses of any given location shall have the main door, main bed and kitchen stove to be found along the spiral of the Golden Section. How it turns will be determined by its location in relation to the Coriolis Effect, northern hemisphere having left to right – Yang and southern hemisphere having right to left – Yin. In reality, do you see such things happening? THE CORIOLIS EFFECT The Coriolis Effect is caused by the rotation of the Earth and the inertia of the mass (water) experiencing the effect. GuoPu’s ZangShu 葬书 stated, “Earth is Qi’s mother, have earth will have Qi, Qi is water’s mother, have Qi will have water. 土为气之母, 有土斯有气, 气为水之母, 有气斯有水.” By the same context, when Qi moves, water moves and when Qi stops, water coagulates. In this context, your Qi flow is also governed by such Coriolis Effect. So, knowing which direction your Fibonacci Golden Ratio turns are very important in FengShui, both applied to SanHe and SanYuan. THE ANALEMMA EFFECTIn reality, you do not see that all the town centres and city centres of any place shall be found along the spiral of the Golden Ratio. Similarly so, you would able to trace that all rich people houses of any given location shall have the main door, main bed and kitchen stove to be found along the spiral of the Golden Ratio. This is largely due to the Analemma Effect. In astronomy, Analemma Effect is a diagram showing the deviation of the Sun from its mean motion in the sky, as viewed from a fixed location on the Earth. Due to the Earth's axial tilt and orbital eccentricity, the Sun will not be in the same position in the sky at the same time every day. The north–south component of the analemma is the Sun's declination, and the east–west component is the equation of time. This diagram has the form of a slender figure-eight, and can often be found on globes of the Earth. In FengShui, this is termed a “Reversal Universe” reflected in how the eight trigrams are arranged in the Early Heaven sequence and by the same token, how the DaGua are arranged. Both these Analemma and Coriolis Effects may have impact on the Fibonacci Golden Ratio, thus you will never have a consistent result of the town centres and city centres of any place shall be found along the spiral of the Golden Ratio. Similarly so, all rich people houses of any given location shall have the main door, main bed and kitchen stove to be found along the spiral of the Golden Ratio. This will never happen… IN REALITY… Architects, Town Planners and Urban Designers spent donkey years researching the birth and death of cities and human habitats. Traditionalist view will see major towns and cities grow along the river banks, having the rivers as the major mode of transportation. That means to say, riverside economic activities will drive the building of storage houses, naturally locking the water mouth. This is the birth of an initial village centre. A plaza and a market place will naturally take place further away from the water mouth or the port and important administrative building will be built on higher grounds within the vicinity of the plaza or market place. The village will grow to become a town centre and houses and shops will be built radiating from here. Complex roads and networks of transportation will sprawl inward and a town will eventually grow into a city. This is a typical evolution of town, matching perfectly into the theory of YangGong’s three classics. There is no need to do any acrobatic stunt with Fibonacci Golden Ratio and the sort… Keep it sweet and simple!
Furthermore, for argument sake, just take a peep at the humble house of the patriarch of Kiasuland… It has its main door aligning just right with the back door – a typical piercing heart FengShui killing formation and yet, his family owns Kiasuland although not literary. Thus, do we really need to revisit our FengShui fundamentals or what we knew for so long as YangGong FengShui are all crap?
The first phrase is borrowed from the YiJing whereby it was stated that the WuJi gave birth to the TaiJi, which in turn gave birth to the 2 Appearances, which then transformed into the 4 Phenomena that developed into the 8 Trigrams. This is the most basic of knowledge and is directly related to Yin and Yang qi. The TaiJi, in ancient Chinese metaphysics correlative thinking is everything that encompass the universe, and the qi that pervades the universe is chaotic in nature, and dualistic in the sense that it comprises both yin and yang. Yang qi is pure, light and floats above, thus it is equated to heaven. It revolves from left to right, east to west, in clockwise forward motion; forward motion means revolving in accord with earth’s rotation. Yin qi is turbid, dense and sinks down to earth. It revolves from right to left, west to east, in anti-clockwise reverse motion. Reverse motion means revolving counter to earth’s rotation. This left and right turning of qi is all about mountain dragon qi and it also related to the water flow direction of -- left turn as yang and right turn as yin. Wherever the mountain turns, so does the water. Geographically, rivers hug the valleys and follow the contours of the mountain valleys. Therefore when the mountain turns left, the river also turn left. When it turns right the river also turns right.
Mountain ranges coils, twists and turns, and sometimes it turns left sometimes right. That’s why the text says dragon moves in two ways. The original source of yin yang qi goes all the way back to the TaiJi. That’s why the text says qi basically comes from the same source. Talking about earth dragons, when the mountain turns from right to left, it is Yang dragon. When it turns left to right, it is Yin dragon. Similarly, rivers are also called dragons albeit water dragons. When the Yang earth dragon turns left, its accompanying river also flows left, thus it is called Yang turning water dragon. When the earth dragon turns right, its accompanying river turns right and is called Yin turning water dragon.
This is akin to the law of attraction whereby opposites attract. It is very natural for yang to tend towards yin and vice versa. When these two comes together and interact, the text likened it to husband and wife union, which is perfectly normal. In fengshui, phrase 4 & 5 means that the yin yang interaction of mountain and water, yang mountain qi bears down on yin water qi which submits agreeably.
This phrase, Heaven root and Moon grotto, according to some experts, originally appeared in this text, and next appeared in ShaoYong’s works. Some fengshui experts regard this phrase as representation of two YiJing hexagrams: Fu Gua 复卦and Hou Gua 后卦. Fu gua has only one yang line in the 1st line and progressively all yin lines till the 6th; while Hou gua has only one yin line at the 1st line and progressively all yang lines till the 6th. One is progressive yin and another is progressive yang. Yin and Yang interacting within the profound aperture. In this classic, it should mean Yin Yang qi interacting; or mountain (dragon) and water mating in XuanKong.
Four Major water exits of YangGong Fengshui and Sanhe fengshui. Other fengshui methods do not utilize the Four Major Water Exits in their audits. Bing is the Fire Dragon, while Yi is its wife, its accompanying water that exits Xin Xu sector, as the Fire formation; Ren is the Water Dragon, and Xin as the accompanying water that exits Chen, as the Water formation; Geng is the Metal Dragon, and Ding as accompanying water that exits to Xu, as the Metal formation; Jia is the Wood Dragon, and Gui as the accompanying water that exits Wei, as the Wood formation. These four formations are combinations of mountain and water – mountain as Yang, as the husband, and water as Yin, as the wife. Four true and perfect combinations of male and female, or Yin Yang aspects of Qi interaction.
Line 9 and 10 are description of technical term Yang Cha and Yin Cho. Yang Cha (Yang difference) occurs when The Xue spot and Water Exit is of same polarity, but the in-coming Dragon (Ru Shou Long) is of different polarity; or, In-coming Dragon (Ru Shou Long) is of different polarity to the Xue spot. Yin Cho (Yin Error) occurs when Water Exit has different polarity with theXue spot. Yang Cha example: Water Exit is Wei, and is of the Wood formation. The river (water following dragon) is Gui, therefore the incoming Dragon should be Jia to complete the formation. But unfortunately, the in-coming Dragon is Bing Ren of Geng, which is NOT the husband of the Gui water. Therefore this is called Yang Cha. Yin Cho example: In-coming Dragon is Bing, and its accompanying water Yi did not flow out to Xin-Xu sector, but instead flowed out to Gui-Chou, Yi-Chen or Ding Wei sector. Therefore this is called Yin Cho.
These two lines has two meanings: A. Even though the Incoming Dragon (husband) did not get its accompanying water (wife), but some other water, and this water hastens towards the correct water exit, then this is called a ‘forced union’. Although this is not a perfect union that is strong, still it is a workable relationship that can produce some degree of auspiciousness. B. If the Incoming Dragon gets its own accompanying water and flows out the correct water exit, then, it is as one complete family. But unfortunately, the water is short and water murky, therefore, the internal and external Qi is weak and trifling. Still, it is workable and can produce some degree of auspiciousness. Example: Bing incoming Dragon did not get Yi water as perfect match, but gets some other water, then, it becomes a ‘forced union’. The combination is not perfect, but still it is workable.
These two lines are talking about mountains (Dragon) and rivers (water). Two females, refers to water. Two males refer to mountain (Dragon). Two females mean there are two rivers in the same MingTang. Even though one flows out the correct Water Exit, the auspiciousness is reduced by the other river (female) that flows out another exit. This is what is meant by ‘two females live together’. Two males refer to two Incoming Dragons going to the same MingTang, or, to only one Incoming Dragon but the dragon moves further downhill, there appeared a split in the meridian at almost near the end of its running. This is what is meant by ‘two maqles joined in one place, lone Yang cannot produce’.
These two lines means that in any Water Exit formation, if the river flows past the correct exit, then it has overshot so it is ‘excessive’; If it flows out at a sector before the correct exit, then it exits too early and is termed ‘insufficient’. Example: Ren mountain meets Xin water that sup[posedly should exit at Chen but the river overshot and exited at Wei. This situation becomes inauspicious. Or same ren mountain Xin Water, but flows out at Chou, and thus became useless.
This line is about LuanTou – The majesty of a Dragon, its shape and contours. Majestic looking mountains and hills (Dragons) that have sentimental flowing shapes and contours can bring ShengQi.
Left turning is all about the Dragon’s 12 Qi phase: Mu Jue Tai Yang ChangSheng MuYu GuanDai LinGuan DiWang Shuai Bing Si. These two lines’ example starts from HaiZi, is about – (A) the Dragon’s Fire formation that turns left, clockwise and starts its phase from XinXu double mountain as Mu (grave), and Qian Hai as Jue, Ren Zi as Tai, Gui Chou as Yang, Gen Yin as ChangSheng, Jia Mao as MuYu, Yi Chen as GuanDai, Xun Si as LinGuan, Bing Wu as DiWang, Ding Wei as Shuai, Kun Shen as Bing, Geng You as Si; and (B) Water’s 12 Qi phase that is reverse, right turning, counter clockwise. Starting from Zi Hai -- XinXu as Mu, Geng You as Jue, Kun Shen as Tai, Ding Wei as Yang, Bing Wu as Changsheng, Xun Si as MuYu, Yi Chen as Guandai, Jia Mao as LinGuan, Geng Yin as DiWang, Gui Chou as Shuai, Ren Zi as Bing and lastly Qian Hai as Si. Dragon left turning ChangSheng at Gen Yin and DiWang at BingWu, while Water accompanying Dragon turns right, ChangSheng at BingWu and DiWang at Gen Yin. Dragon is XuanWu (The Profound Warrior) and Water exit is the Aperture. Dragon and Water of same Gua, meeting at both points, is what is meant by ‘the profound aperture interconnects’
Successful mating means: Yi water as wife follows Bing Dragon husband; Xin water as wife follows Ren Dragon husband; Ding water as wife follows Geng Dragon husband; and Gui water as wife follows Jia dragon husband, all these formations water exits the Grave exit as the ‘successful mating’. Combining as brother and sister means for example: Bing Dragon gets Ding water; Geng Dragon gets Xin water; Ren Dragon gets Gui water and Jia dragon gets Yi water; these are brother and sister combinations.
Line 21 is a parable that only emphasizes the criteria for successful generation of ShengQi via correct mating of Yin and Yang. It was said that the Duke of Zhou was the one who drew up rules, regulations and rituals that clearly defined the hierarchy of the family. Line 22 is self-explanatory.
The two terms ‘Gates of Heaven’ and ‘Earth’s Axis’ are just a cryptic way of plainly saying – Heaven and Earth. It is a cryptic description of the interaction of Heaven and Earth as the ‘pivot point’ that decides auspiciousness or disaster. Man depends on Heaven Grace to live and prosper, while man, plants and animal life depends on Earth to live. In FengShui, as long as one can gather the forces of Heaven and Earth in the right combination, one will be able to enjoy prosperity and long life. This is what is meant by ‘…….manifests in the XuanKong’ and ‘……unfathomable magical effects’.
This line refers to the 72 Dragons of the DiPan. These 72 Dragons each have its own element. The criterion is to match the sitting element (of then 72 Dragons) with the Xue and Water Exit. The correct Water Exit will bring fortune while the incorrect Water Exit will bring disaster.
These three lines are about the sentimentality of the river -- whether the river is sentimentally meandering, sometimes turning back making a curve like hugging the land before turning outwards again to hasten to its exit; this is likened to an official who cares for his subjects or a father who cares for his offsprings, with feelings; or, flowing straight away without ‘looking back’, unsentimental, without feelings. Line 28 生入克出(born in control in), I think is not correct. It should be Born In, Control Out. Born in as when meeting ShengWang water that creates inward shengqi; and control out is when even when the river looks like ‘feeling going away’, still it has sentimentality to return.
The line, ‘Observe heaven and earth, creation and growth’, means to observe Nature, and to harness Nature’s endowments. Nature’s endowments are the Mountain dragons, and the water dragons. The only way, is to harness mountain and water to create the magical effects within the profound voidness; to change life-fate. Only the wise ones who had learnt and perfected the skills can manipulate the profound subtleties, and only the broadminded and far-sighted can understand perceive the workings of the Profound Voidness.
These last two lines are self explanatory. YangJunSong was a Daoist and Buddhist wise man, and naturally he would pen his thoughts according to the rules of Karma.
Section II delves into the practice of observing Dragon and water, and into the formula of analysis and audit of formations. The method of observing dragon is clearly described in the ZangShu. One only needs to read the ZangShu in detail to understand what is ShengQi, and how the generation of ShengQi occurs when Dragon and water meets. The advance and retreat of Dragons means, one needs to observe the twisting and coiling of mountain ranges and to see how the Dragon moves. Sometimes the dragon seem to advance but suddenly recoils back; or sometimes it looks like it is turning back, but then make a sudden backtrack to advance. The possibilities are endless. One only needs to train to observe the movement of these dragons and see if the dragon qi is advancing or retreating. One also needs to observe the strength of the dragon, whether it is towering and magnificent or low lying and weak looking. Next is to learn how to differentiate between auspicious or inauspicious water. The water itself has no Good or Bad, but its position and flow in relation to the dragon and the Xue determine whether the water is auspicious or inauspicious. Another point to consider is to observe the sentiment between the Dragon, Xue and water. Whenever the formation has good sentiments-- dragon, Xue and water are in mutually enhancing relationship, then auspiciousness will be generated. Whenever the formation does not have good sentiments -- dragon, Xue and water are not in mutually enhancing relationship, then inauspiciousness will be generated. The Yin and Yang of facing and distant features also refers to the yonder distant hills that can be seen from the site. These yonder hills called Chao Yingfeng 朝应峰 in Chinese, also has resonance with the dragon and xue site. The effects can be substantial too.
Sheng Wang Mu refers to ChangSheng (Growth), DiWang (Thriving) and Mu (Grave) of the 12 Growth Qi phase. This describes the standard SanHe formation of Sheng Wang Mu where: In Fire formation, fire ChangSheng in Yin; Diwang in Wu and Mu in Xu. Yin Wu Xu is the SanHe formation, and in the double mountain of the TianPan, Gen and Yin are of same palace; Bing Wu of same palace; and Xin Xu of same palace. The same goes for the other three formations. Meng 孟Zhong 仲and Ji 季, are the classic chinese words used to describe First, Middle and Third. In this context, it refers to the Eldest Son, Second son and Third son. Eldest son is correlated to ChangSheng, Second son is correlated to Diwang, and Third son refers to Mu (grave). The 12 palaces refers to the Luopan’s DiPan (earth plate) 12 Earth Branches. ‘The 12 Earth Branches matches with the 5 elements’ means the 72 dragons beneath the 12 Earth Branches of the DiPan. Tan Wu Po means the 9 Stars that are matched to the 12 Growth Phase. Mu matches with PoJun; Jue & Tai matches with LuCun; Yang & ChangSheng matches with TanLang; MuYu & GuanDai matches with WenQu; LinGuan and DiWang matches with WuQu; Shuai matches with JuMen; Bing & Si matches with LianZhen. This line should not be misunderstood as similar to 9 stars fengshui methodology. The matching is only namesake and has no special meaning to it. It does not feature in YGFS methodology at all.
ChangSheng relates to Man’s luck, while LinGuan and DiWang relates to Wealth. So when sees ChangSheng water cross MingTang, means auspiciousness for man’s luck, and potentially enjoy many offsprings. If LinGuan and DiWang water cross MingTang, means that onje can enjoy wealth and prosperity.
ChangSheng water can only bring good to people’s luck, therefore if desire to obtain wealth luck one needs to face DiWang water; To get good offspring, then face ChangSheng Water. TianGang, here, refers to Mu (Grave palace). If Mu water crashes through Yang or ChangSheng palace, then it will hurt people’s luck and if got children, could be detrimental to their safety. If do not have children yet, then, chances of having one is slim. If both ChangSheng and DiWang water converges in the MingTang, then will not only have intelligent and capable children, but also get wealth and prosperity. This condition has to be: the ChangSheng water is longer and comes first cross MingTang, then converges with DiWang water which is shorter, and the flows out Grave palace. If DiWang water cross MingTang and crash thru ChangSheng palace exit, then, even though can obtain wealth, but not have descendants. If DiWang water is long and cross MingTang to converge with the shorter ChangSheng water and then exit out Grave Palace, then, will enjoy sudden wealth and descendants will be intelligent and capable. If ChangSheng water cross MingTang and crashes through DiWang palace exit, even though got children, but they are not intelligent or capable.
If water cross MingTang crashes thru Tai palace exit, then unborn foetus may die in the womb; If water cross MingTang flows out ChangSheng palace exit, then baby may die soon after birth; If water crash thru GuanDai palace exit, then may lose young boy of about 10 years old; If water crashes thru LinGuan palace exit, an adult below 30 in the house may pass away; TanLang is Yang and ChangSheng water. If these two waters cross mingtang and flows out Grave palace exit, people in the house may enjoy wealth, good health and long life; If Grave water cross MingTang and crash thru ChangSheng palace exit, then people in the house will meet with grave calamity; Four Failures means MuYu palace. Water failure in You; Wood failure in Zi, Fire failure in Mao; and lastly Metal failure in Wu. If MuYu water cross MingTang and exits ChangSheng palace, then Woman in house may have child not from own husband. If DiWang water flows out MuYu palace, even if one is a high official, one cannot escape from character failing of promiscuity.
In YGFS, Jia Geng Bing Ren (Yang Stems) are the Male Dragons, and Yi Ding Xin Gui (Yin Stems) are the Female Water. Dragon as Yang as husband, Water as Yin as wife. Therefore there is the 4 major water exits pairings of Jia marries Gui, Geng marries Ding, Bing marries Yi, and Ren marries Xin, are all considered as real husband and wife pairings. Yang Cha means: got real follow Dragon water as wife marries Real RuShou Long (Dragon) husband, but the Xue spot is of a totally different element. Or, The real follow Dragon water exits the correct water exit, and matches with Xue spot element, but the RuShouLong is of a different element. For example: If Yi water follows Dragon flows out XinXu fire exit, and RuShouLong is not Bing Dragon, then it is Yang Cha. It will hurt husband. Yin Cho means that RuShouLong and Xue spot is of same element but water follows Dragon is of different element and exits a totally different water ex it, or there is totally no water follow Dragon. For example: Bing Dragon, Fire Xue, but water follow dragon is not Yi water, but Ding water and exits Wei, is Yin Cho. It will hurt wife.
Ci Xiong means Yang and Yin, or Male and Female. Here it means right to left turning water is Yang, is Xiong, as Male, and left to right turning water is Yin, as Ci, as female. Right to left ChangSheng water as Xiong meets with left to right DiWang water as Ci, and flows out Grave exit, resonate fame and fortune.
‘Feelings overly high wait 80 years for luck to change..’ This line is about the river flows out to the Jue and Tai water exit that is one or two palace further than the perfect Grave exit. If this happens, the auspiciousness will happen only when one grows old. For example, in the fire formation, Bing dragon meets Yi water that supposedly should flow out to Xin Xu as the perfect fire formation water exit. But it overshot and flows out thru Qian Hai, which is the Jue palace of the Fire formation, or it flowed out to Ren Zi, which is the Tai palace of the fire formation. ‘Converge but not sufficient, face death before 30…..’ This line is about the difference between Xue and water exit. Example, Incoming dragon is of Water element, and water exit is in Xun Si, which is Jue palace of water formation, but the Xue spot is of Fire element. If we us 12 growth phase to deduce Fire element water exit sequence, Xun si belongs to LinGuan palace. Therefore the water crash thru LinGuan palace which resonates early death for adult. Six Elegants are: Tai, Yang, ChangSheng, GuanDai, LinGuan and DiWang. If any or a few of the six elegant water cross mingtang and crash thru DiWang palace water exit, then people may become high official or hold power of authority, but may suffer dying while still on duty.
Verses 19 & 20 are about division of family members using the 9 Stars and the 12 Qi phases, to describe their fortunes or misfortunes. In the 12 qi phases, Chang Sheng equates to First son; DiWang equates to second son; and Mu equates to third son. The division system also relies of the HeTu numerical system: 1, 4 & 7; 2, 5 & 8; and 3, 6 & 9. Therefore if 1 son is affected, 4th and 7th also affected. The same goes for the rest. Tan Lang equates to first son, while Tai, MuYu, Yang and ChangSheng of 12 qi phase also same. WuQu relates to second son, while GuanDai, LinGuan, Shuai and DiWang of 12 qi phase also same. Bing, Si, Mu and Jue relates to third son. If long meandering ChangSheng water cross MingTang and passes thru Chen, (which is the Grave exit of Water Ju), then although 1st son will prosper, the other sons will also benefit. If winding and meandering DiWang water cross MingTang and exits its correct grave exit, then second son will prosper. Not only that other sons will also prosper. Reverse situation, if water crash thru ChangSheng exit, then 1st, 4th, and 7th sons will be afflicted with disaster; If water crashes thru DiWang exit, then 2nd, 5th and 8th sons will be afflicted; If water cross from ChangSheng and DiWang don’t flow out its proper grave exit, but flow elsewhere, then first to be affected would be 3rd, 6th and 9th sons. Distant hills, can also affect the family’s fortune. If in ChangSheng direction, hills are lofty, majestic, green and beautiful, and DiWang direction hills are less beautiful, then fortune will come to the 1st, 4th and 7th sons. If in DiWang direction, hills are lofty, majestic, green and beautiful, while ChangSheng direction hills are less beautiful, then 2nd, 5th and 8th sons will benefit.
If ChangSheng and DiWang water cross and converges in front in the MingTang, and then flows out the proper grave exit, then it will bring both good fortune and great wealth to every son. And if these two waters originated from the 6 elegant directions viz, Sheng Wang, GuanDai, LinGuan, Yai and Yang, then whole family will enjoy great fortune. Zhu and Purple in the verse means wearing QiBao (traditional Chinese silk dress) of Red and Purple auspicious colors. If water, although it comes from the 6 elegant directions, but cross MingTang is Grave palace (Yao Sha), it will bring calamity to the family. In YGFS, the criterion is for the Incoming Dragon Gua to match with the Water exit Gua for auspiciousness. As such, observing Incoming Dragon’s direction and the water origination also plays important part in the auspiciousness of the formation. If the water comes from Sheng Wang direction is auspicious. Especially auspicious when it also flows out Mu Jue Tai exits. The text says it is better for water to come in from the Stems sector and flow out thru Branch sector. However, since YGFS ancient method uses TianPan double mountains (to audit water and distant hills), which comprises one Stem paired with a Branch or Gua, , it does not really matters whether the water flows out via stem or branch.
“Small pardon” equates to GuanDai, while “Big Pardon” equates to LingGuan and DiWang. The word ‘文进’ although literally translated as scholarly advance, should actually mean ‘beautiful and elegant’. GuanDai example: Metal Dragon’s DingWei water, Water Dragon’s XinXu water, Wood Dragon’s GuiChou water and Fire Dragon’s YiChen water are all GuanDai water and if it is clear and beautiful and meandering across MingTang, will bring auspiciousness to the youngest son; LinGuan and DiWang example: Metal Dragon’s KunShen and GengYou water, Water Dragon’s QianHai and RenZi water, Wood Dragon’s GenYin and JiaMao water, and Fire Dragon’s XunSi and BingWu water, clear and beautiful, and meandering cross MingTang, will bring auspiciousness to the second son; ‘Four Pillars sentimental’ means the ChangSheng water if sentimentally cross MingTang, will be auspicious for eldest son. ‘Yin Shen water’is referring to Mu Jue water. This line means if Metal Dragon gets GenYin water, Wood Dragon gets KunShen Water (hence Yin Shen water), and, similarly for water dragon to get XunSui water, Fire Dragon to get Qianhai water, are all considered as Mu inauspicious Sha water.
In classical Chinese, Purple Dress, Waist Belt and Gold seal are all description of official status and auspiciousness. GengJia cross MingTang means DiWang water cross mingtang. BingRen arrive in formation also means DiWang water. In Metal Dragon, GengYou is DiWang; In Wood Dragon JiaMao is DiWang; In Water Dragon RenZi is DiWang; In Fire Dragon BingWu is DiWang. In the TianPan double mountains, Stems and Gua comes first, and are considered as Initial Qi. Therefore this verse only mentioned the Stems Geng Jia Ren Bing meaning that these DiWang water cross MingTang are all Initial Qi of DiWang thriving qi.
This line describes the LinGuan and DiWang waters. YinJia means GenYin and JiaMao, both LinGuan and DiWang palaces of Wood Dragon; ShenGeng means KunShen and GengYou, both LinGuan and DiWang palaces of Metal Dragon; HaiRen means QianHai and RenZi, both LinGuan and DiWang palaces of Metal Dragon; SiBing means XunSi and BingWu, both LinGuan and DiWang palaces of Metal Dragon; This verse, as opposed to the previous line described both the Stems or Gua and Branch of the double mountains in totality, meaning that it does not matter if the water cross MingTang comes from Stem, Gua or Branch.
These verses are about 6 elegant water. You Xun means GengYou and XunSi. In Metal Dragon, XunSi is ChangSheng water and GengYou is DiWang water. Both Guas relate to females, therefore females will benefit from the auspiciousness. Zhen is Gua palace that means Jia Mao; Geng means Geng You. In metal Dragon JiaMao is Tai palace and GengYou is DiWang palace. Both are Yang in nature, therefore benefit males. If both waters cross MingTang converge in front of Xue will produce heroic and authoritative males. GenYin, BingWu, XunSi means Fire Dragon’s ChangSheng LinGuan and Wang waters converge and flow out XinXu Grave exit. This can produce great leaders in the family, and can bring great prosperity too. Hai means sitting mountain (Xue) at XinHai (of 72 dragons) Metal Dragon. JiaMao is Tai water, XunSi is ChangSheng water, GengYou is DiWang water. If all three converge in MingTang and flows out GenYin Jue exit, then family will produce member who can achieve status of a minister. Yuan Chen (original spirit) water means that the water is DiWang water. Example Metal Dragon – Geng Chen Metal Xue sees GengYou DiWang water, is as Yuan Chen water. One can enjoy the auspiciousness, fame and fortune till old. ‘Wall star enter formation, become feudal lord or queen.’ This Wall Star 垣星(Yuan Xing), refers to Chinese system of Heavenly stars that comprise the 28 constellations. Yuan Xing comprises several clusters of stars grouped and named as Yuan Xing, among which are ZiWei YuanXing, Tian Bu YuanXing and Tai Wei YuanXing (stars). In this heavenly stars system, they also categorise stars into 3 Auspicious and 6 Elegant, which is similar to the 12 Qi phase system. Therefore, ‘wall star enter formation’ means Elegant waters, Guandai, LinGuan and Diwang enter into MingTang. It can produce warlords as well as queens.
Zhen Geng refers to Jia Mao and Geng You. JiaMao water is DiWang of Wood Dragon; and GengYou water is DiWang of Metal Dragon. Both are TianGan water, which is the InitialQi of DiWang and is very powerful. It can produce wealth beyond one’s dreams, even matching the wealth of a country. Si Bing means XunSi and BingWu, both LinGuan and DiWang palace of Fire Dragon. Because it is Fire Ju, and have ‘power’ sort of, will produce warriors and heroes. Xu Qian means XinXu and QianHai two double mountain. XinXu is Mu palace and QianHai is Jue palace of Fire Dragon. If water cross MingTang at these two places will suffer ‘Drum Basin’ sha. The word Drum Basin, came about, according to history, is when ZhuangZi lost his wife, he beat a drum to show his grief. Therefore this Drum Basin sha could mean one may suffer loss of wife. Kun is KunShen and is Jue palace of Wood Dragon. Kun is TaiYin, is Female. Females will suffer loneliness in old age. Mao is JiaMao and you is GengYou. JiaMao is MuYu palace of Fire Dragon, while gengYou is MuYu palace of Water Dragon. MuYu corresponds to Peach Blossom sha. Females suffer promiscuity. However if the water is clean, clear and slowly meandering, then may not suffer promiscuity. Could reverse and produce loyal, able and virtuous women. Zi is RenZi, MuYu palace of Wood Dragon; Wu is BingWu, MuYu palace of Metal Dragon. If muddy and dirty water flows past these two places, one will suffer robbery. But if the origination of the water source is not clear or too many, then may produce military officer. Yi Chen water is Mu (grave) water of Water Dragon. If this water cross MingTang, one may suffer death by drowning. Bing is BingWu, Ding is DingWei. BingWu water is DiWang of Fire Dragon.
Petition 赦文, is a cryptic word that denotes GuanDai, LinGuan and DiWang waters, 3 of 6 elegant waters. If these waters cross MingTang and meets up with MuYu water, will cause sexual promiscuity (hence peach blossom). “difficult to ride on purity wind” means men and women will be sex indulgent, hence immoral. “6 Elegant” waters are Tai, Yang, ChangSheng, GuanDai, LinGuan and DiWang. “malefic qi” means Bing, Si, Mu and Jue waters. If the 6 Elegant waters meets up with Bing, Si, Mu and Jue waters (malefic qi), then become males can become thieve or burglars.
Yin is Dragon’s Bing (Sick) palace; Shen is Fire Dragon’s Bing palace; Si is Wood Dragon’s Bing palace and Hai is Metal Dragon’s Bing palace. Bing water cross MingTang can cause various medical problems such as miscarriage, TB or communicable disease. Xu Qian is XinXu and Qian Hai -- Mu (Grave) and Jue (Extinct) palace of Fire Dragon; Chen Xun is Yi Chen and Xun Si – Mu Jue palace of Water Dragon; If Mu and Jue water cross MingTang, will cause blindness or deaf and dumb. Yin Jia is Gen Yin and Jia Mao – are Bing and Si water of the Water Dragon. If these waters cross MingTang can cause stroke. “Excessively entwined” point to the aforesaid bad waters, if coiling across the MingTang is likened to ‘grasping a knife to slit the throat’. Yin Hai are Gen Yin and Qian Hai. Gen Yin is ChangSheng water of Fire Dragon, while Qian Hai is ChangSheng water of Wood Dragon. Wood born Fire. If both waters meet, could happen fire calamity. Shen Kun Ren Zi Chen, means Kun Shen, Ren Zi and Yi Chen – Shen Zi Chen, Sheng Wang Mu of water formation. If these three waters cross MingTang and meets with Hai water will become excessive water. This can cause people to become drifters with no roots and no achievement of any kind. The last line sums up this section. If sitting and facing meets with correct waters cross MingTang and correct water exits, then will experience auspiciousness. If otherwise, will experience inauspiciousness.
The first two lines affirm the fact that whenever in a formation there are towering and beautiful mountains that emits an air of majesty and magnificence, as distant hills, surely can cause great men to be born in that area. Fortune and prosperity can be gained from beautiful and elegant mountains. Therefore there is a difference between auspicious incoming dragon from ShengWang directions and inauspicious incoming dead dragons coming from waning (Shuai) directions. Whether the dragon is situated in the 4 Ordinal points of Qian Kun Gen Xun or in the 6 Elegant directions, as long as there are towering beautiful and elegant mountains, surely can experience auspiciousness of achieving official status or gaining prosperity.
Horse (马) means Wu (午) and is the DiWang palace of the Fire Dragon. Salary (禄) is the LinGuan positions of the Dragons. Fire Dragon – LinGuan in XunSi and DiWang in BingWu; Metal Dragon – LinGuan in KunShen and DiWang in GengYou; Water and Earth Dragon – LinGuan in QianHai and DiWang in RenZi; Wood Dragon – LinGuan in GenYin and DiWang in JiaMao. Whenever distant hills are low and ugly, will surely experience false fame and false gain. This line means that even if the distant hi lls are of DiWang and LinGuan, but the hills are low, ugly and unappealing, then there is nothing to be gained from the Qi emitted from these hills. ‘GenBing cross peak’ – Gen as ChangSheng palace of Fire Dragon and Bing as DiWang palace of Fire Dragon. If both peaks are in front of the site, and both are tall and majestic, then will sure cause to achieve scholarly excellence.
This line talks about the 4 Zheng Guas 四正卦 of Kan, Zhen, Li, and Dui. Bing, Wu, Ding are the 3 mountains of Li Gua. Geng, You, Shen are the 3 mountains of Dui Gua; Ren, Zi, Gui are the 3 mountains of Kan Gua; Jia, Mao, Yi are the 3 mountains of Zhen Gua. Bing Wu Ding 3 mountains is the DiWang sector of the Fire Dragon; Geng, You, Shen 3 mountains is the DiWang sector of the Metal Dragon; Ren, Zi, Gui 3 mountains is the DiWang sector of the Water Dragon; Jia, Mao, Yi 3 mountains is the DiWang sector of the Wood Dragon. If the hills in the DiWang sector are tall lofty and majestic are auspiciousness and one can gain the best of everything.
Kun mountain is Metal Dragon’s LinGuan palace. Similarly, Water Dragon’s LinGuan is in Qian, Wood Dragon’s LinGuan is in Gen, and Fire Dragon’s LinGuan is in Xun. These 4 Gua positions, even though are LinGuan palace of thei respective Dragons, but if the mountains there are low, ugly and inelegant, then there shall be no auspiciousness. Even if one strives laboriously to succeed in scholarly pursuits, one may still be at the bottom of the list.
Tian Tai is a cryptic phrase that refers to 24 TianXingXue (studies of 24 celestial stars). Tian is TianYi and Tai is TaiYi. Translated into plain words, it simply means the Green Dragon and White Tiger embraces of a site. If theses two, Green Dragon and White Tiger peaks don’t rise up, but are low and inconspicuous, then one will not receive help from mentors or noble people. One may not even receive help or assistance from friends. 荐元means GuanDai palace; 官贵means LinGuan palace. This verse is referring to the double mountains’ Stems and Guas of the TianPan Seam Needle. Fire Dragon – Yi and Xun two mountains; Metal Dragon – Ding and Kun two mountains; Water Dragon – Xin and Qian two mountains Wood Dragon – Gui and gen two mountains. If the hills in these sectors are low, ugly and inelegant, then even if one is highly capable, one cannot enjoy promotion or be chosen for official status. But if reverse, hills are tall beautiful and elegant, then one can enjoy promotion to high official status.
This verse borrowed the from ZhouYi, the correlation between Gua and other phenomena such as animals: Qian is correlated to Horse; Kun is correlated to Ox; Zhen is correlated to Dragon; Xun is correlated to Rooster; Kan is correlated to Boar; Li is correlated to Pheasant; Gen is correlated to Dog; and Dui is correlated to Ram. Qian horse means Qian palace is heavenly Horse mountain; Kun Ox means Kun palace is heavenly ox mountain peak; Gen Dog means Gen Palace is heavenly Dog water exit and Xun Rooster means Xun palace is heavenly rooster mountain peak. These are the 4 Ordinal Guas. The phrases “clamor towards heaven”, “looking at the Moon”, “follow the market” and “mistakenly crow” are all cryptic words that mean the mountain peaks in these 4 Gua sectors are tall, beautiful and elegant. These tall beautiful elegant hills will bring easy achievements of fame and fortune. “Tai Wei” and “Southern Dipper” are derived from the 24 TianXingXue (studies of 24 celestial stars). TaiWei is referring to Bing mountain and Southern Dipper is Ding mountain. “Golden steps” is referring to Geng mountain and Jade Palace is referring to Xin mountain. This verse is about the Metal incoming Dragon and Metal Xue, and the water exit is at Gen palace. Distant hills are found in XunSi ChangSheng palace, BingWu MuYu palace, DingWei at GuanDai palace, KunShen LinGuan palace, GengYou DiWang palace, and XinXu Shuai palace. Between XunSi to XinXu, are found some of the 6 Elegant mountains. Therefore, the verse—“3rd grade official hasten to Six Elegant official and red stage all to oneself”, means that even a lowly officer can elevate to a higher position within the Imperial Palace.
Here, Xun is referring to Xun Gua, and the 72 dragon referred here is the JiSi Wood Dragon. Xin means XinXu mountain, which is the Yang palace of the Wood Dragon. If the hills at XinXu are towering like a pen, beautiful and elegant, then it can produce a scholarly person. Qian is wood Dragon’s ChangSheng palace. Gen is Wood Dragon’s LinGuan palace. If JiSi Wood Dragon incoming and Xue spot, and water exit to DingWei Grave exit, and other than XinXu mountain peak, also have QianHai ChangSheng and GenYin LinGuan peaks towering, beautiful and elegant, not only can get scholarly offspring, can also get great prosperity. If we look at the other Dragons we may also find similar situations: Metal Dragon, incoming at GengXu, water exit at GuiChou Grave palace, beautiful mountain peaks at Yi, Xun and Kun; Fire Dragon, incoming at BingYin, water exit at XinXu Grave palace, beautiful mountain peaks at Gui, gen and Xun; JiaShen or BingZi water Dragon incoming, water exit at YiChen grave palace, beautiful mountain peaks at Ding, Kun and Qian.
This phrase is about Wood Dragon incoming. BingWu palace has RenWu Wood Dragon (72 dragon), and Gen is LinGuan palace. LinGuan mountains can bring good fortune in business profits. If this Wood Dragon, other than seeing Gen LinGuan mountain, also sees Qian ChangSheng mountain and DiWang mountain at JiaMao (Zhen Gua), then not only can prosper with unlimited income, but also can enjoy fame and recognition much like being awarded the imperial emperor.
This verse is still touching on the Wood Dragon formation. Xun means JiSi Wood Dragon; while Hai means JiHai Wood Dragon. Geng Zhen means Wood Formation’s Tai and DiWang palaces. This means that Geng and Zhen mountains rise up high, towering, majestic, beautiful and elegant, and seemingly in the stance of paying homage. “north south, facing Kan Li” means JiSi dragon sits on Southeast and face Northwest. JiHai sits Northwest very inclined towards North, and facing Soiutheast inclined towards South.
This line affirms the crucial status and relationship of water exits and embrace with the Xue spot. In FengShui, landform, Dragon and water exits are the most crucial of factors that determines the auspiciousness or inauspiciousness of a site. If there are 3 auspicious or 6 elegant water cross MingTang, even if the embraces are inauspicious and have sha, these auspicious waters will mitigate the inauspiciousness and transform it to become auspicious. This underscores the power of water in any fengshui formation. If incoming Dragon is weak and bad waters cross MingTang, even if embraces are good and strong, will not be able to cover for the inadequacies.
Gen is Fire Dragon’s ChangSheng palace, Bing is Fire Dragon’s DiWang palace. If in these two sectors are JuMen shaped mountains (Earth shaped) that looks like a storage vault, and are high and majestic, then will bring untold riches, so much that it can match a country’s wealth. Xun is Fire Dragon’s LinGuan palace. If in this sector have a beautiful mountain that looks like the eyebrows of a goose, then ladies will be born beautiful.
Xun is Water Dragon’s Jue (Extinct) palace. Xin is water Dragon’s GuanDai Palace. Kun Shen means Jia Shen Water Dragon in Kun sector. If mountain peaks at Xun and Xin mountains although pointed and narrow, looking like a pen, but does not look beautiful, are rocky or are too low, and Xun being Jue palace, will experience legal disasters. This applies to the other Dragons. Zhen means Wood Dragon; Geng means Metal Dragon. In Wood Dragon, Zi is MuYu failure palace; In metal Dragon, Wu is MuYu failure palace. If in these palaces have embraces are mountain peaks that looks like a raised flag and are low, ugly and inelegant, then can suffer being robbed.
Six Elegant palaces are: Tai, Yang, ChangSheng, GuanDai, LinGuan and DiWang. The Six Elegant palaces of each dragon are: Metal Dragon: JiaMao, YiChen, XunSi, DingWei, KunShen and GengYou; Water Dragon: BingWu, DingWei, KunShen, XinXu, QianHai and renZi; Wood Dragon: GengYou, XinXu, QianHai, GuiChou, GenYin and JiaMao; Fire Dragon: RenZi, GuiChou, GenYin, YiChen, XunSi and BingWu. (Note: in YGFS, auditing distant hills, primary consideration is given to Stems and Guas of the double mountains of the Heaven Plate Seam Needle). If in these palaces have mountains tall lofty and beautiful, and looks like drawn swords are halberds, then can experience great nobility, power and authority. If these sword halberd or tooth-blade shaped mountains are found in the Mu and Jue directions, then will experience being killed violently.
Three Auspicious palaces are: ChangSheng, LinGuan and DiWang, Metal Dragon: Xun, Kun and Geng; Water Dragon: Kun, Qian and Ren; Wood Dragon: Qian, Gen and Jia; Fire Dragon: Gen, Xun and Bing. If mountains these three are tall beautiful and elegant and looks like tortoise, crane, lute or sword, will produce scholarly gentlemen. Chou is the Mu palace of metal Dragon; Wei is the Mu palace of the wood Dragon. Similarly Chen is Mu palace of water Dragon and Xu is Mu palace of Fire Dragon. KunShen is the LinGuan palace of Metal Dragon. This line also hints at the other Dragon’s LinGuan palaces. If in these places can find nice looking tall mountain peaks, then the result could be a generation of religious and pious holy men.
The MuYu palaces of the Dragons are correlated to peach blossom. If in these palaces find moungtains that looks like women lifting up their skirts while dancing, then possibly the women could become wanton and promiscuous.
Hell Spring in the 12 Growth palaces system is the Death palace. If in this sector finds mountains that resembles a reclining moon or corpse lying down, the potential disaster can befall the young and adolescent in the family.
8 Planets means BaSha direction. The BaSha of the 4 Dragons are situated in Mu and Jue palaces. If in these palaces finds tall mountains that looks like a blade, then potential disaster of being killed. YiChen is the Grave palace of the water Dragon. This line also mean the other Grave palaces. If Grave water cross MingTang, and in the 8 Killing direction also have blade like mountains, then potential death by drowning.
KunShen is Fire Dragon’s Sick palace; QianHai is Metal Dragon’s sick palace; GenYin is Water Dragon’s sick palace; XunSi is Wood Dragon’s Sick palace. If in these places have mountains that looks like a water ladle or earthen bowl, then the people could be inclined to leave home for a medicant life as monks, nuns or beggars. Ghost Ox Yin Jia means Shuai, Sick and Death palaces. If in these palaces have mountain that looks like a gourd, then potential disaster of craziness, handicapped or suffer recurring chronic illness.
South Li means BingWu. It is Wood Dragon’s death Palace. This also denotes the other Dragon’s death palaces. If in this palace finds high lofty and solitary mountain, potentially could meet with fire disaster. Seal Star means mountain that looks like seal (official seal or stamp as used in ancient China). Day Horse means Wu. More specifically it means wu hour, Noon or height of day. If in Death Palace have a mountain that looks like an official’s seal, towering so high that it can block off the noon day sun, then potential disaster of blindness or eye disease.
This line actually means that whenever there is 3 auspicious or 6 Elegant mountain peaks tall and towering, beautiful and elegant, then it dioes not matter how far it is from the Xue spot. Distance is not a matter of concern. It can be 10 miles away or several hundred meters away, the auspiciousness i s the same.
These two lines concludes the whole classic text. In FengShui audit, the main criteria is to have a good MingTang that includes beautiful and clean meandering water exiting the Grave exit, and embraces and distant hills tall lofty beautiful and elegant. The distinction between Host and Guest is clear. Yin and Yang compliments each other. The embraces are not domineering and the water does not ‘betray or snub’ the Xue. Everything is sentimental. Then only can the formation bring good fortune, prosperity and nobleness. Distant hills should be beautiful and lush with greenery. The landform shapes are proper and eye pleasing. Distant hills that look stealthy, creepy, ugly and are displeasing to the eye, can cause dishonesty, craftiness, wickedness, immoral and unethical and sexual promiscuity. Hills that look away or are like playing hide and seek; sometimes seeing sometimes hiding, stealthily. These types of distant hills can cause thieves and robbers and dishonest people to be born. Hills clustered in one sector and do not look distinct, or does not have a distinct peak, are also non auspicious distant hills. Therefore, in conclusion, embraces, waters and distant hills, must be beautiful, elegant, clear and sentimental to bring auspiciousness. One can analyse auspiciousness or in-auspiciousness just by determining the condition of these Embraces, water and distant hills. CREDIT - Written by Li DingXin, translated by MoonChin.
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