Flying Star Feng Shui : Change Your Energy ; Change Your Luck.

387 Pages·2012·1.65 MB·English

Flying Star
Feng Shui
OTHER FENG SHUI BOOKS BY STEPHEN SKINNER
The Living Earth Manual of Feng Shui: Chinese Geomancy (1976)
Feng Shui: The Traditional Oriental Way to Enhance Your Life (1997)
Feng Shui for Modern Living (2000)
Feng Shui Before and After:
Practical Room-by-Room Makeovers for Your House (2001)
K.I.S.S. Guide to Feng Shui (2001)
Flying Star
Feng Shui
Stephen Skinner
T U T T L E P U B L I S H I N G
Tokyo • Rutland, Vermont • Singapore
First published in 2003 by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd., with editorial
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Copyright © 2003 Stephen Skinner
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Skinner, Stephen, 1948–
Flying star feng shui / by Stephen Skinner.—1st ed.
xv, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index.
ISBN: 978-1-4629-0673-4 (ebook)
1. Feng shui. I. Title.
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Acknowledgments
Some years ago I casually suggested to Joey Yap that he and I collaborate
on a book on Flying Star feng shui. If that collaboration had happened, this
present book might have been that much richer. Perhaps the most thorough and
practical work specifically on Flying Star currently available is Joey’s excellent
Xuan Kong home study course, available through www.dragon-gate.com.
I also owe a debt of gratitude to Derek Walters, whose seminal work,
Chinese Astrology (which has just been reprinted in 2002), provides the most
complete English language source for much of the Chinese astronomical and
astrological background to the Flying Star system.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
A Note on Transliteration xi
Introduction xiii
Chapter 1: Theory of Feng Shui 1
Chapter 2: Time Dimension 15
Chapter 3: Space Dimension 28
Chapter 4: Flying Stars 43
Chapter 5: Star-by-Star 60
Chapter 6: Analyzing the Floor Plan 72
Chapter 7: Room-by-Room Analyst 84
Chapter 8: Landscape Effects 96
Chapter 9: Flying the Stars 101
Chapter 10: Interpreting the Stars 113
Chapter 11: Combinations of Stars 119
Chapter 12: Visiting Stars 134
Chapter 13: Special Star Patterns 148
Chapter 14: Wild Stars 163
Chapter 15: Remedies 170
Appendices:
1. Table for Generating Instant Flying Star Charts 187
2. The 24 Mountain Ring of the Lo P'an with the Flying Stars 197
3. Table of the 9 Periods 200
4: The Lo Shu in Each Period 201
5. Mountain Forms and the 9 Flying Stars 202
6. An Alternative Method of Dividing the Great Cycle 205
7. Main Schools of Chinese Feng Shui 207
8. Chinese Dynasties and Feng Shui Chronology 209
9 Chinese and Western Calendar Concordance 212
10. The Water Form: of the 9 Flying Stars 214
11. Feng Shui Practice 215
12. Typical Analysis Sequence 216
Glossary 219
Bibliography 227
Index 231
List of Figures
1.1 The Four Directions with Corresponding Elements and Celestial 5
Animals
1.2 The Production Cycle of the Elements 6
1.3 The Destruction Cycle of the Elements 6
1.4 The Reduction Cycle of the Element 6
1.5 The 4 Cardinal and 4 Intercardinal Directions 7
1.6 Former Heaven Sequence of the Trigrams 9
1.7 Later Heaven Sequence of the Trigrams 10
1.8 The Lo Shu Turtle As Seen by the Great Yu 11
1.9 The Relationship between the Lo Shu, 12
the 8 Trigrams and the Compass Directions
1.10 The Colors, Directions, and Trigrams of the Lo Shu 13
3.1 A Complete Lo P'an from the Ch'ing Dynasty 29
3.2 The Lo Shu with the Directions and 4 of the Trigrams 30
3.3 The Lo Shu Expressed in a Circular Fashion 31
3.4 The Lo Shu with Each Direction Divided into 3 Subsections 31
3.5 The Full 24 Mountains 32
3.6 Cut-out Card Adapted to Make a Home Made Lo P'an 35
3.7 The Needle "Well" 37
3.8 Look at the House As If It Were a Sitting Person 40
4.1 The Northern Ladle As a Celestial Clock 45
4.2 The Northern Ladle As Seen by the Ancient Chinese 46
4.3 The Nine Stars of the Northern Ladle 47
4.4 A Taoist Magical Sword, Drawing its Power from the Northern Ladle 48
4.5 The Spring Cow Page of the T'ung Shu for 2002 49
4.6 The Flying Stars and Other Fate Stars Shown in the 2002 Chinese 49
Almanac
4.7 The Generation of the Trigrams One from Another with 53
Their Corresponding Flying Stars
6.1 Growth of a Typical Chinese House 74
6.2 Ways of Determining the True Center of Gravity of Any Building 76
6.3 The "Pie Wedge" Technique of Dividing Up the Building 78
6.4 Treatment of a House with Slightly Irregular Structure 79
6.5 The 2 Possible Lo Shu Orientations in Relation to the House 80
6.6 The Finished 9-Palace Division in Both These Cases 80
6.7 The Finished 9-Palace Division with Period 7 Stars Inserted to 81
Show Different Orientations
6.8 An Abbreviated Lo Shu Applied to a Terrace or Link House 82
7.1 The Use of the Lo Shu at the Macro Level (Apartment Building), 90
Home Level (Apartment), and Micro Level (Room)
7.2 Room with a Micro Lo Shu Placed Over It 92
9.1 The 9 Lo Shu Palaces Are Usually Named by Their Associated 102
Trigrams.
9.2 The Pathway of the Stars Superimposed on the Lo Shu 103
9.3 Basic Lo Shu Diagram 103
9.4 The Basic Lo Shu with Directions, for Your Use in Flying Star 104
(Calculations
9.5 Basic Chart Showing Period Star in Central Palace 108
9.6 Time Period Stars Placed in Each Palace 109
9.7 Inserting the Mountain Stars 109
9.8 Example Flying Star Chart for a Cottage Built in 1989, 110
Facing 345 Degrees
9.9 The Flying Star Chart in Relation to the Plan of the Cottage 111
10.1 Key Palaces in a Chart for a Cottage Built in 1989 Facing N1 115
12.1 The Base Period 6 Chart 140
12.2 East-2 Slitting Period 6 House Chart 141
12.3 Monthly Stars for the First (Solar) Month of 2002 142
12.4 Monthly Stars for the Second (Solar) Month of 2002 142
12.5 Summary of the Different Types of Star Charts and 144
How They Relate to Each Other
13.1 Favorable for Wealth and Health, or Wang Shan Wang Shui Chart 150
13.2 Reversed, or Shang Shan Hsia Shui Chart 150
13.3 Double Facing, or Shuang Hsing Tao Hsiang Chart 152