Article :: Eight House, Flying Star & Ba Zi FS

[Robert Lee]

Eight House (Ba Zhai Yun) and Flying Star (Xuan Kong Feng Shui) are two of the compass schools.
The compass school is one of the two major component for evaluation a home.
In order to effectively evaluate your Home Luck you need to refer to:-
1. Shapes and Forms
The surrounding of the building and the surrounding of the interior
2. Compass Schools
2a. Eight House / Eight Trigram is used as a way to personalise a person based solely on the Year of Birth to the environment. Thus, it's sole purpose if any is to provide you with some understanding as to which of the 4 directions are favourable for you and which are unfavourable for you. Thus, we have Eight Directions just as in the compass direction.
Each of the Trigram direction is related to the Flying Star 3 sector sub-division of the Trigram. There is a total of 8 Trigram while Flying Star has 24 direction or 24 mountain direction.
2b. Flying Star (Xuan Kong) is used as a way to calculate the Earth luck influences and changes through the movement of the Water and Mountain Star. This allows a practitioner who cannot feel or see the Qi properly, to use such tools to calculate exactly how the influence shifts at any one time.
Thus, this theory can calculate the movement for every 20-year, yearly, monthly, daily and even every chinese hour. And hence was called the Time Dimension School. As it is the only theory capable of such a task.
This theory expands upon the weakness of the Eight House by allowing each 24 different sectors to more accurate determine the influence of the house. This 24 mountain is derived from the Eight House direction.
3. Ba Zi Feng Shui
There is also another school which is called the Ba Zi Feng shui. This uses your Ba Zi to accurately determine the date and time of birth, and then allowing you to relate your environment with the same 24 mountain as the Flying Star. Thus, it is often used together with the Flying Star, and thus called Ba Zi Feng Shui.
Ba Zi Feng Shui allows a person to personalised his or her heavenly luck to the earth luck. Thus allowing you not only to see how the house luck is but also whether or not how suitable is the house to you.
It also so happens that it is based on 24 direction thus you can more accurately use the combinations and clashes to determine which of the 24 different directions.
4. Each theory has its uses and weakness
4a. Eight House is for suitable direction (at least it is much better than using the static Eight Aspiration which is fixed for all person).
However, despite it's simplicity, just 8 different variations, allows a person to tell whether a house generally suit them or not.
From our many years of experience, those who often have a house based on their death or disaster, often faces problems. So it is a quick yet effective solution for determining such influence.
4b. Flying Star is suitable for charting out the Birth chart of a Home. Just like how Ba Zi chart out your own Birth Chart. This gives you a feel of how your house luck is at any particular time.
NOTE: A house with excellent Xuan Kong Feng Shui does not necessary mean it will be suitable to you. Thus, a house which is good for one person may not benefit another if he does not suit the house.
4c. Ba Zi Feng Shui is the way to personalised the environment to your Heaven Luck. Understanding things like what colours are good or bad for you, will allow you to choose the colour scheme of the your Home decoration so as to improve your Earth Luck.
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So each theory has it's uses and limitations.
Feng Shui is not Mircle cure, but rather to improve the overall luck of a person and his environment so that he or she will be able to feel comfortable in his environment.
So the way to attain success with Feng Shui is:-
1. Identify all major Feng Shui leaks in your life or home. Fix whatever you can to minimise the impact.
2. Improve luck in all areas so boost up your overall Heaven Luck, Earth Luck and Human Luck.
3. Work hard to meet your goals (ie don't just depend on Feng Shui, but you have to work in order to be able to reap the rewards)