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Dear Christa,

1. I am really not sure, what you mean by the Bagua map.

2. I hope you are not referring to the Ba Gua template used by Black Hat Tantric Sect or commonly known as `BTB' as this is a modern invention.

3. However, in traditional Feng Shui, accessment is done with a combination of:-

Shapes and Forms
Compass School (Eight House and Flying Star)

4. Under the Flying Star Compass School, a chart can be drawn either as:-

9 grids or pie chart.

5. For those drawing a 9-grid chart, should normally use it more for an interior of the home.

6. While those using a pie chart, can use it not only to look at the interior but also extend out the pie in the same direction to look at the exterior.

7. For example, if the frontage of a house has this Flying Star formation:-

Period 7 house

#7 mountain #7 water
Base 1

or

Period 6 house

#6 mountain #6 water
with Base 1

For information #7 is weak metal while #6 is strong metal

8. If one refers to the Productive Cyle under the Five Elements concept, one will notice that METAL supports WATER.

"How nice therefore, if we can add water at this location especially outside the house if METAL has been detected.

9. In Traditional Feng Shui, either Shapes and Forms is used and/or Flying Star is used to analyse a sector. This sector can be inside or outside of the house.

10. And if a sector e.g. has a mountain star found inside the house, it can be extended or looked at using Flying Star at the exterior of the house and a `mountain' can be placed at that location.

11. Whether it is Ba Zi (Pillars of Destiny) or Flying Star, the common lowest denominator is based on the Five Elements Concept.

12. Contrast this with what you had mentioned below:-

>In case of the latter my whole
>love and marriage trigram
>would be outside of my house.
>The latter source suggest to
>bury a quartz crystal in the
>bordering corner.

This is really not proper Feng Shui. But as mentioned earlier, it is all a MARKETING PLOY to get people to buy products (under the pretense of Feng Shui mystic).

Frankly, all one gets is a big hole in the pocket.

It is better in such a situation to believe in one's intuition than such a Marketing Ploy.

Warmest Regards,
Cecil

On 10/29/2002 5:06:00 PM, Christa C wrote:
>I have read two books that
>make contradicting statements
>as to defining the outline of
>the house to draw the Bagua
>map.
>One says that only the portion
>of the house covered by a roof
>should be part of the Bagua
>map, the other says to include
>patio areas with railing.
>In case of the latter my whole
>love and marriage trigram
>would be outside of my house.
>The latter source suggest to
>bury a quartz crystal in the
>bordering corner.
>Would you have any
>clarification on this?
>Thanks for your help.