Now days when people talk about Feng Shui, they only refer
to the terrestrial elements and they have ignored the celestial portions which
is of equal importance.
Many people still are ignorant about the use of these
heavenly bodies and they thought all of the stars referred in traditional
Chinese Feng Shui are real stars in the sky. So there were some efforts to make
sure modern computers are used to calculate positions of stars to seconds of an
arc precision. There were also some efforts to combine the Western astrology
with traditional Chinese astrology in the hope to get more precise predictions.
Although some of those efforts might be fruitful, such as with
the use of modern computational methods; time can be calculated to greatest
precisions; which honestly speaking indeed added to more accurate predictions.
However, the more precision one seeks; somehow Feng Shui and astrology became
more inaccurate too.
Why is it so?
It of my humble opinion that most of the ancient Chinese
scholars have understood the fact that it is futile to keep changing accuracy
by constant updating of ever changing planetary and star moments in the sky.
Instead, they opted to use many symbolic stars in lieu with the real stars in
the sky. As the saying goes:
“动者恒动，静者恒静·”
“All things are in
their constant state of motion or stationary.”
So most of the stars that we understand in Chinese Feng Shui
and astrology are in fact half real and half true. Perhaps let me just draw
your attention to the use of 28 Houses or Nakshatras in Indian astrology. The
difference between the two is that the Indian system uses only 27 constellation
houses instead of 28.
Basically there are three major uses of Nakshatras in Feng
Shui:
- 28 House System is used to determine if a location and timing is auspicious for certain matters. For example, stars that belonged to fire element should ideally be used in summer and not winter.
- 28 House System is used in conjunction with flying star chart to determine the severity of an incident and when an incident would most probable to occur.
- 28 houses are used in conjunction with planetary positions to determine the peak and low energy of a planet and hence the effect of these heavenly bodies on the house of tomb.
In order to illustrate what I have meant so far, let me draw
your attention to a real Feng Shui case happened during 2008 where a household
had committed suicide because the master failed to settle his debt.
Referring to the below diagram:
The position of 28 Houses and flying star of a suicidal house.
The direction of the ill house faces the ‘Ji’ and backed by
the ‘Jing’ (井) which belongs to wood element.
In 2008, the ruling house is `Ji’ (箕) which
belongs to water element. The equivalent of Indian house is perhaps the ‘Purvashadha’
in Dhanus (Sagittarius).
As shown in the diagram, the flying star for the said house
is nowhere near good because it falls into ‘up hill and down water’ (上山下水)
group. In this group of houses, the dwellers would be poor and seriously sick.
Since number 2 is found from front to back, the negative energy is pretty
straight forward.
The question now is: why does the unfortunate incident
happened in 2008?
The yearly flying star of 2008 in front of the said house is
4 and it belongs to wood element. The water element was very strong in 2008
because element group of both the house direction and ruling house is the same.
The wood is empowered by strong water hence the ill effects of 5 and 2 were
stirred up in spring of that year.
So, we have strong woods in front and at the back of the
house; and the yearly star 7 (earth) at the back sealed the family’s fate. It
is obvious from the flying star and astrology stand point that whoever lived in
the house was besieged and trapped in their house. They really had nowhere to
go…
Since the star arrangements of a few hundred years old can
still be used to explain an incident, perhaps we shouldn’t just concentrate on
the accuracy of calculations alone. After all, there are still many things we,
the human need to learn.
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