Read part 2/3 with outline on Heluo’s published Feng Shui articles, lessons and free online courses. Learn how to construct your Flying Star chart in Flying Star Feng Shui. Look upon your house and floor plan in new ways and see how Feng Shui is a bit more than interior design or moving around furniture. You may locate Heluo’s articles at www.heluo.nl
Finding the center of a built structure
There’s no way around it, as one of the first things you’ll learn as a beginner in Chinese Feng Shui – no matter if you engage into Flying Star Feng Shui, Xuan Kong Da Gua or even Black Hat – is how to determine the geometric center for any built structure. Heluo discusses some easy approaches. Once you established the geometric center, you’re ready to superimpose the Flying Star chart over the floor plan, something that you may repeat for each floor and each individual room and you’ll find an important note on geometric center and Qi center. Once you’d established the geometric center, well, there will be enough for you to ponder, like, do you use the pie shape or the square grid, but by far the most pressing subject is how to determine the facing side of a building, which will be discussed at length in the next article.
How to find Facing and Sitting in Feng Shui
Even if you asked the greatest Chinese Feng Shui master, you can be sure he would confide that finding the facing direction of a house will remain a task each time, so welcome to the club. We have not seen a more extensive deliberation anywhere on the subject, also as just knowing the rules and guidelines won’t do. You’d need your sound judgement. As there are no demarcation lines anywhere in Qi, it is not a matter of you’re throwing all pros and cons on a pile and come out with the most likely facing direction just because you found more arguments in its favor.
How to build your Flying Star chart
Step by step approach, showing you how to take a compass reading, then construct your Flying Star chart from the construction date of your house. This article by itself mounts up to a full Feng Shui workshop. You’ll read about the 24 Mountain Ring on the Chinese compass Luo Pan, while we’ll handle the Stars at the central Luo Shu Palace (Heaven’s Heart) and see if at all these Stars are there to be manipulated. As Flying Star Feng Shui handles magnetic directions, you’ll find information of the Twelve Earthly Branches, also known as the Chinese zodiac, Trigrams, some properties of the 9 Stars, the notion of Mountain Dragons and Water Dragons.
Why do shapes and form matter so much in Feng Shui and what comes before the shape. As seen from Wuxing Five Transformations, what is the underlying principle of expansive Wood and contractive Metal. Is it bad to have two Stars in the controlling cycle? Why do the 81 Star Combinations behave differently in the respective Feng Shui periods, be that Period 7 or currently Period 8. You may read about Yin and Yang, Sheng Qi and Sha Qi, the Binary Model of Creation, moon phases, seasonal Hexagrams and the origin of the five agents.
Xuan Kong Fei Xing 81 Star Combinations
One of our more popular articles as it is not just clarifying a wide range of topics, it seems to contain tables for people to just look up certain Star combinations and see ‘what it will do for my bedroom’ and that is exactly what this discourse doesn’t aim to do. In fact, you need stay clear from such approach as far as you can. If you find yourself squarely applying tables, you may be doing something but it is not Feng Shui. Nonetheless, we’d be discussing what you need to know to responsibly get to the Feng Shui of your house and we will be topping off this article with one or two words on the topic of tilted doors.
Feng Shui landscape and surroundings
This is another extensive article, telling you about Heaven Qi, Earth Qi, Mountain Stars and Water Stars, the influence of exterior landscape on the Feng Shui of your house. You’ll read about Dragon Lair, the Armchair setting, Ming Tang, Feng Shui for Yang Zhai, Feng Shui for cities, Holy I and Holy 0 and other topics to help shape your understanding and skill.
To be continued with articles on the Chinese astrology of Four Pillars of Destiny Ba Zi (3/3). You will find titles on Nine Star Ki and 9 Star Divination in 1/3.
賀洛
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Dear Annie, Danny,
Problem solved!
It is like when one can’t quite tell exactly which of three things had made one sick or better, so it could just be I had upgraded my version of Thesis that had solved it, but likely, I had a UTF-8 Converter plug-in active, but one that was there to do the exact reverse, i.e. change back any imaginable alien coding to UTF-8 English, so that cancelled out the Chinese. I feel a bit silly, cuz I wish I could tell you in the end I had to hire an expert whom finally solved some complicated technical issue, so it’s better I just tell my brain it was the upgrade, plus of course Santa had put the plug-in there :o)
Thank you both for helping out here and staying with this. I wish you happy holidays.
Be well,
Heluo
你好 賀洛,
Vreselijk! Sorry, I don’t know how to help you with this. I think the problem is in the settings of your website… I also cannot write in Chinese in my Hanlin Academy website (the older one that is in Bulgarian) and cannot deal with it.
As Danny suggested, wordpress.com is excellent for writing a blog. I am on blogspot.com and often use Chinese terms in my articles. Both wordpress.com and blogspot.com give high results in google search.
Greetings,
Annie
Hi Heluo,
Here is what you can do.
Try to set up an account and blog directly on Wordpress.com, it is free.
Then make a post and add Chinese characters in it.
Then preview or post it.
I guess the Chinese will be there.
If that’s the case then try to figure what is the difference in settings.
Danny
Dear Danny,
Thanks for minding this and for signalling Annie.
Yes, I am on own server and I have fully upgraded. If I am preparing a new post, Chinese
characters appear in my screen just fine, for as long as I won’t do ‘preview’ or ‘publish’, then everything dissapears.
To me, the whole idea of doing a blog, is to have yet another opportunity to share teachings and doing series, but for which I had then projected to be using Chinese characters. I like using the Chinese characters to those technical terms as it would allow readers to follow up on them on their www search for further learning and verification and be autonomous at the art. So, it seems for the time being we gotta do without that.
I appreciate your efforts and I wish you and all here happy holidays.
Be well,
Heluo
Hi Heluo,
I had asked Annie to look at your problem with the Chinese fonts.
Not exactly clear what is the problem.
Chinese text is appearing normally in your comment.
Do you mean you tried and cannot use Chinese in your original post, but in comments there is no problem with it?
Is your blog hosted on your own server, or directly at wordpress.com?
If it is on your own server, do you have latest version?
There are plenty blogs on Wordpress which are all Chinese language.
So normally it should not be any problem.
Danny
你好 Annie,
Thank you for coming in on this. Because of what you’re saying, I once more
did a test post and I think I can say in the plainest Chinese Bablefish could at
all provide 問題不是那么容易.
It must be in my Wordpress/Thesis configuration, but when asked upon
installing, I just gave it utf-8. Next thing I know, it doesn’t follow suit.
The weird thing being, I can see the Chinese characters in your comment,
but that’s probably unrelated.
Then I went to do a test post, didn’t work, but I have to say you couldn’t
project any computer knowledge on me. I am sure you would know one
or two things about this that I am overlooking.
On my computer I have the language bar fully functional, as I will be working
with Chinese font all the time, or even Cyrillic, so I am not sure the problem
is with that, unless of course you tell me differently.
I would be obliged if at all you can help out here, until then 谢谢我的朋友.
Be well,
賀洛
你好, Heluo!
你的blog真有意思!
The Chinese is working well on your blog, you just need to check the language setting for the keyboard.
Annie
Dear Vicky,
I so enjoy blogging, it is actually a revelation as I never thought I would
ever do one. If only I had known before, it’s so easy, so instant, no codes.
Anyway, now that I’m here, inspiration never stops and I intend to continue
doing series, on Oriental cosmology, of course some raw stuff on 9 Star Ki and Four Pillars of Destiny.
There is only two things that bother me a bit. First, for some reason I haven’t
been able to use Chinese characters – even though I told Thesis right from the start to use utf-8 -, which will affect the postings a great deal, then also, I think what I will be posting may be a task for the true beginner as I am assuming a
bit of knowledge on account of fundamentals.
Thanks for your endorsements, it’ll keep me on my toes. And of course, if you’d give me a hint on any topic for a new series you’d wish to see, just say so, it
gives me something to do and who knows what will come out.
Be well,
Heluo
http://www.heluo.nl
Welcome to the world of blogging Heluo. I am sure the world of feng shui and bloggisphere will be better off.
Your articles are always in depth and full of excellent information.
Regards
vicki sauvage