Flying Star Map – Feng Shui DIY

Flying Star Feng Shui Case Studies (3) – Health Matters [Master Class 31]

It’s another week, we are back to the Feng Shui Master Class. In the last two lessons, we have gone through five cases related to wealth and fame/job promotion. After reading these cases, you should have realized that Feng Shui is much more than memorizing the rules. You really need to match the external environment, interior layout and the status/need of the client to come up with a tailor-made solution. There is really no such thing as universal Feng Shui setting that is applicable to all buildings.

This week, we’ll come back to a very commonly sought for Feng Shui goal, health. We shall read two cases that illustrate how Feng Shui could affect the health of the occupants. Although you probably would not live in a house with exactly the same situation, you would definitely be able to learn some ass-kicking Feng Shui techniques from these cases.

Case (1) – Double Sickness Star and Double Stars to Water

This is a typical case of how wealth and health may not co-exist in some Feng Shui cases. The subject house was owned by an entrepreneur in Hong Kong whose last name is Ho. The house was built in 2006, which was during the Eighth Period. It was a detached house of three storeys, the whole house was owned by him and occupied by his family.

Below is the Flying Star Map of Mr. Ho’s house:

Let me first explain the external environment. The house’s entrance door opens into West. In front of the door was a garden with a large fish pond. Mr. Ho loved keeping Koi (a kind of ornamental fish which is very expensive and popular in Japan and China). There were eight fishes in that pond.

Mr. Ho has a son who was 16 years old when the Feng Shui analysis was done. He lived in the Southeast corner on the first floor. He loved this room because the windows open into Southeast for plenty of sunshine and cool wind. (In Hong Kong, from micro-climate point of view the best direction to face is South because it is where the winds comes in Summer while the sun light would be adequate while not too much. In winter, such orientation is also good because the cold wind comes from North, having no windows facing North helps to retain warmth in the room.)

Mr. Ho’s bedroom was located on the second floor of the house in the Northern corner. The head of the bed was in North and the tail of the bed was pointing towards South. He said that the fish pond and the orientation of the bed was suggested by a Feng Shui master. The fish pond was designed for bringing wealth, while the bed should face South to resemble the orientation of the palace of ancient Chinese Emperors, so as to strengthen his power in the company he found.

Dear Master Class member, do you see any problem in the Feng Shui design? Do you agree with the Feng Shui master that fish pond and bed orientation could help to achieve the goals?

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Flying Star Feng Shui Case Studies (2) – Feng Shui for Fame [Master Class 30]

Last week we have seen two cases of the use of Flying Star Feng Shui to hit wealth generation goals. The Feng Shui masters behind these two cases were very smart, they not only found the best locations for entrances of the shops, but also make very good use of the external environment such as road intersections. Read these cases carefully if you haven’t, I’m sure that you could learn a great deal of of them.

This week we gonna learn from some new cases. Instead of making money, could Feng Shui help people to achieve other goals? From the cases reviewed below you will know what else Feng Shui could do to bring fame and popularity.

Case 1 – Feng Shui for Fame for a Religion Center

This is a very special case. It does not concern money but fame, which is not the most wanted goal that people would use Feng Shui to achieve. And more interestingly, the subject building was occupied by a non-profit-making organization. It’s a Buddhism education canter in Shanghai, China.

The building was built in the Fourth Period. The occupier was a Buddhism education center operated by Mr. Lin who was a “Householder”, i.e. non-monastic. The center located in a busy region in Shanghai, near a street named Xin Min Road. It was one of the most popular Buddhism education center at that time. The seminars held by Mr. Lin was always full. After analyzing the Feng Shui of this center, we would know what contributed to the popularity of it.

Below is the Flying Star Map of this center.

Geographically, there was a main entrance in the Southeast and one side entrance in the North of the center. These entrances played very significant role in the Feng Shui of the center.

Firstly, the main entrance. It was located in Southeast, a location where there are two Flying Star 4 in the same direction. Flying Star 4 is a very good star for fame, study and job promotion. In this case, the existence of two Flying Star 4 doubles the positive effects, so the education became very famous and popular.

Secondly, the side entrance. It was located in North where we could find a Flying Star 1 as the Mountain Star. Flying Star 1 is related to relationship. With a Flying Star 1 in the entrance, the positive energy of this Star could flow into the education center. The end result was high popularity of the center (because people liked this center, consider it kind of customer relationship).

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Interpretation of Double Stars (3) [Master Class 25]

After learning how to interpret the meanings of 45 double star combinations in the last two lessons, we come to the final week of double star interpretation. In this lesson we will learn how to read the combinations beginning with Flying Stars 6, 7, 8 and 9.

We have 36 combinations to go through in this single lesson, so this will be a busy week. But before we go into the details of these combinations, I shall address an issue raised by a student. He asked whether these double star combinations could only be used to interpret the Mountain and Water Stars.

Double Stars in a Box

Usually when Feng Shui masters teach Double Stars Interpretation, they simply tell the students to use the interpretations on Mountain and Water Stars. In fact, these interpretation are not confined to these two Stars.

I came across many cases when we use these interpretations to find out the relationship of the current month/year’s Flying Star in a box and the Mountain/Water Star in the same box. It is quite usual that, due to the coming of a bad Monthly Flying Star, the Mountain Star is adversely affected and consequently the occupiers’ health is also affected. We find out these relationships by applying these interpretations to any two Stars in a box.

So, the answer to this question is no, you do not limit yourself to the Mountain and Water Stars. However, in the early stage we usually do not encourage students to go too far. As your experience grows you would be able to apply all the techniques freely like a master. For now, let’s just assume the method of interpreting double stars is used for the Mountain/Water combo only.

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Interpretation of Double Stars (2) [Master Class 24]

Welcome back to Feng Shui Master Class, this is the second lesson for the interpretation of double stars. Last week, we have covered two groups of double star combinations, i.e. those beginning with Flying Stars 1 and 2.

From last week’s content, you could probably find out that there are some common features in different combinations. For example, all combinations beginning with Flying Star 1 are more or less related to study, job promotion and fame. Those beginning with Flying Star 2 have something related to real estate and female in the family.

These are not coincidences. Each Flying Star has its own properties and effects. Flying Star 2 really relate to real estate. By studying its relationship of the other Flying Star in the combination, we could predict what effects would be generated.

One typical example is the combination of 2 – 5, which means the Mountain Star is 2 and Water Star is 5. Since both stars are sickness stars, when both stars are present we could easily tell how serious the bad effect to health could be.

After all, Flying Star Feng Shui is a kind of mathematics. It is not a religion, there are principles and rules governing it. Next time, if somebody questions Feng Shui, you can tell him how serious the calculation is!

Now, let’s go back to this week’s content. We shall learn the effects of some other combinations.

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Interpretation of Double Stars (1) [Master Class 23]

Welcome back to Feng Shui Master Class, in this week we shall begin to learn the interpretation of double stars. Here, the term “double stars” carries a different meaning from the one we have seen in the last two lessons about “Double Stars to Mountain/Water”. The “double stars” here simply means any two stars in a given direction in a Flying Star Map.

In Flying Star Feng Shui, there are some typical scenarios with special effects. We have covered the most common four cases, namely the Jewelry Line, the opposite to Jewelry Line, Double Stars to Water and Double Stars to Mountain. In the real world, these case are only a fraction of all possible situations. There are many more cases not falling into any one of these four. How do we interpret the Feng Shui in these cases?

The tips I gave at the end of the last lesson are the basic steps all Feng Shui masters take but they are not exhaustive. Starting this lesson we shall learn the other ways to interpret a Flying Star Map, even it does not fall into any one of the special categories.

Interpreting the Double Stars

Remember there are three stars in every box in Flying Star Map? There are two on top, which are the Mountain and Water Stars, and one at the bottom which is the Period (Yun) Star. Below is a typical Flying Star Map.

When interpreting a Flying Star Map, we examine the interactions between the stars in the same box, and sometimes across different boxes (we may also add a fourth star, the current year’s Star, but let’s talk about this later). “Double Stars Interpretation” is the way we analyse the relationship between any two of the three stars in a box. For most of the time, this method is used to interpret the Mountain and Water Stars (the two stars on top), but occasionally we apply the same principles between the Period Star and either one of the two stars on the top.

The rationale behind the analysis is the interactions of the five elements. For example, if the Mountain Star has a “Fire” characteristic and the Water Star is of “Earth”, we say that the Mountain Star is good for the Water Star (“Fire” generates “Earth”). So the Water Star is benefited. The effects of the Water Star would be magnified.

On the other hand, if the two stars are in conflict, we shall see which one is being attacked by which. For example, if the Mountain Star is weaker in a given situation, and that Mountain Star represents the eyes, blood vessel and heart in this situation, then it may mean that the occupiers of this house may suffer from problems in these parts of the body.

Status of the Stars

Another factor that influences the result of the interpretation is whether the stars are prevailing. For example, if both stars are 8 then the situation is good during the Eighth Period. However, the same 8-8 combination would be bad in the First Period, because in the First Period Flying Star 8 has already losen its positive power.

So when you read the interpretations below, you could see in many cases I tell you the effects in both the prevailing and non-prevailing situations. Depending on the current Period, the same Flying Star combination may result in totally different interpretations.

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Double Stars to Water – Good Wealth Bad Health [Master Class 22]

Last week we studied a scenario, Double Stars to Mountain, it follows naturally we learn the opposite of it, the Double Stars to Water scenario. If you understand the Double Stars to Mountain case well enough, you should not have any difficulty to understand Double Stars to Water and what effects it brings.

Double Stars to Water, same as Double Stars to Mountain, is an important concept to know when studying Flying Star Feng Shui. Not only because you may come across these orientations easily when doing Feng Shui, but also since the principle behind is applicable to other orientations as well. In the last part of this lesson, I will explain in more detail how you could use the prevailing water and mountain stars for all kinds of Flying Star Maps. Even for a house not having Jewelry Orientation, the opposite to Jewelry, Double Stars to Mountain or Double Stars to Water orientations, the same principles could be used.

Double Stars to Water, What is It?

So, what the xxx is Double Stars to Water?

Below is the Flying Star Map I took out last week to explain what Double Stars to Mountain is.

And below is an example of Double Stars to Water. Do you see the difference?

Try to compare the Stars in the blue and red circle and the location of the blue arrow and the red “T”. Could you find anything special?

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Double Stars to Mountain – Good Health Bad Wealth [Master Class 21]

Welcome back to the Feng Shui Master Class, this time we shall study another Flying Star combination, the Double Stars to Mountain scenario.

In the last two weeks we have examined two combinations, the Jewelry Orientations and the opposite, which are extremely good and bad orientations. After studying the two extremes, let us talk about things in the middle, i.e. orientations that are not bad but not to be called excellent. These are orientations with advantages as well as drawbacks.

And the end of this lesson, I’ll also provide the Flying Star Maps for all 24 orientations x 2 Periods, the 3rd and 4th Periods, totally 48 Flying Star Maps. Again, they are exclusively available to Master Class members only. Join now if you haven’t to enjoy many exclusive contents!

What is “Double Stars to Mountain”?

In the last two lessons we have seen scenarios in where the prevailing Mountain Star and prevailing Water (Facing) Star are in opposite boxes (directions). Such as in the below case, the red and blue circles denote the prevailing Mountain Star and prevailing Water Star respectively.

“Double Stars” scenarios are cases where both the prevailing Mountain Star and prevailing Water Star are in the same box. The two stars are co-located in the same direction. Below is a Flying Star Map of such case for a building built in the 7th Period. Two Flying Star 7 are in the Mountain direction.

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The Opposite to Jewelry Orientations [Master Class 20]

Last time we introduced the Jewelry Orientations, the best Feng Shui orientations that bring health and wealth. In this lesson we shall look at some orientations which are the opposite to the Jewelry Orientations.

If Jewelry Orientations are good, these opposite orientations should naturally be bad, right? Yes, they are bad according to traditional Feng Shui theories. I will tell you exactly what these bad orientations are and why they are bad.

Mountain Star Sank in the Water

Last time we mentioned that the Jewelry Orientations are good because the prevailing Mountain Star is in the Mountain Direction and the prevailing Facing Star is in the Facing Direction. The advantage is that the Mountain is in the Mountain and the Water is in the Water, i.e. things are at their best places. The following is an example of Jewelry Orientation.

Now consider the following Flying Star Map, do you see any differences from the Jewelry Orientations?

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The Best Feng Shui Setting – Jewelry Orientations [Master Class 19]

In the last lesson we have discussed how to assign the Mountain Stars and Facing Stars to the nine boxes of a Flying Star Map. Trust that you have practiced and memorized the procedures. It is not easy to memorize them all, but it is a critical requirement for all people who want to learn Flying Star Feng Shui.

Despite this, from time to time I am being asked by students on whether there is any simple solutions. Can we skip the difficult Flying Star allocation process and all the things to remember while still could do Flying Star Feng Shui?

In the past, Feng Shui masters all calculate the Flying Star Maps by themselves. Nowadays, we think there are simply easier methods to do so. One of them is to do it by computer. There are computer softwares in the market that do the maths for you, you simply need to input the year the building was built and the facing and mountain directions, the software could generate the Flying Star Maps for you immediately.

However, this kind of software is usually not cheap and most of them have Chinese user interface only. To help you all to get through the difficulties, I have prepared a special gift. It is a compilation of all Flying Star Maps of the 24 Mountains in all 9 Periods!!!

With this information, you will never need to memorize the principles or use any computer software. The 24 Flying Star Maps x 9 Periods = 216 combinations are all ready for use!

I’ll release the Flying Star Maps progressively, this week you can download those for the most commonly used Periods – the 7th and 8th Periods. Usually when we do Feng Shui nowadays the subject houses were built in either one of these two Periods. So I have chosen them to be the first batch of Maps to release. In the coming weeks you will see other Flying Star Maps of the remaining Periods.

>>Download the Flying Star Maps for 7th and 8th Periods (Master Class Members Only)<<

This is how you read the Flying Star Map:

In each box (direction) there are three numbers. The two on the top are Mountain and Facing Stars. The one at the bottom is the Period Star. Please note that in a Flying Star Map North is always at the bottom, which is 180 degrees rotated when compared with the traditional “scientific” view.

The Best Feng Shui Orientations

Now, let’s go back to the main theme of this lesson. Now you have the power to draw out a Flying Star Map, shouldn’t you also have the ability to interpret it? You definitely should. Let’s learn how to do so in this and the coming lessons.

A frequently asked question is whether there is a “best” Feng Shui direction? To know the answer of this question, let’s learn what is a good Mountain Star and what is a good Facing Star.

In a given Period, the best Flying Star is the Star of the corresponding Period’s number, so in the 1st Period the best Flying Star is 1. In the 7th Period, the best thing you could get is Flying Star 7.

It follows naturally that if a direction (i.e. one of the nine boxes on the Flying Star Map) has the current Period’s best Flying Star, it is a good direction.

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24 Mountains, Trigram, Yin and Yang [Master Class 18]

Last week we had an overview of the constitution of the full Flying Star Map, which comprises of the Mountain Star, Facing (Water) Star and the Period (Yun) Star. In particular I taught you how to find out the Period Stars. This week, I’ll equip you with the necessary knowledge to find out the Mountain Stars and Facing Stars.

To do this, we need to have the 24 Mountains concept in mind. It is the way we Feng Shui masters use the measure the orientation of a house. Most of you learnt the four directions, i.e. North, East, South and West when you were very young. When you grew older, you would learn the other four directions in between, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast and Southwest. These eight directions are pretty enough in daily life to differentiate different directions.

Now I’m telling you that there are 24 directions according to Chinese Feng Shui theories, that we called the 24 Mountains. If you divide 360 degrees into 24 portions, each will be merely 15 degrees. The narrow width of each portion means that there is not much toleration for error. (And in fact if you study Feng Shui in advanced level, you will know that each 15-degree portion is further divided into 3 sub-portions, in a 3-9-3 degrees manner. Isn’t it crazy? In a way yes, but such complicated calculation could also be seen as a signal of how advanced Feng Shui is.

For now, we’ll just focus on the 24 Mountains.

24 Mountains: Using Compass to Find Out

There are eight directions and in each direction there are three smaller portions. Each portion is called a Mountain, three portions in each of the eight directions, i.e. 3 x 8 = 24 Mountains. Here I list out the degrees of all 24 Mountains.

North

Ren (壬) – 337.6 to 352.5
Zi (子) – 352.6 to 7.5
Gui (癸) – 7.6 to 22.5

Northeast

Chou (丑) – 22.6 to 37.5
Gen (艮) – 37.6 to 52.5
Yin (寅) – 52.6 to 67.5

East

Jia (甲) – 67.6 to 82.5
Mao (卯) – 82.6 to 97.5
Yi (乙) – 97.6 to 112.5

Southeast

Chen (辰) – 112.6 to 127.5
Xun (巽) – 127.6 to 142.5
Si (巳) – 142.6 to 157.5

South

Bing (丙) – 157.6 to 172.5
Wu (午) – 172.6 to 187.5
Ding (丁) – 187.6 to 202.5

Southwest

Wei (未) – 202.6 to 217.5
Kun (坤) – 217. to 232.5
Shen (申) – 232.6 to 247.5

West

Geng (庚) – 247.6 to 262.5
You (酉) – 262.6 to 277.5
Xin (辛) – 277.6 to 292.5

Northwest

Xu (戌) – 292.6 to 307.5
Qian (乾) – 307.6 to 322.5
Hai (亥) – 322.6 to 337.5

If we write down the 24 mountains around the circumvent of a compass, you would get something like this:

Image Courtesy: Ray Langley (via this site)

The best tool to measure a house’s orientation is certainly a Chinese Feng Shui compass, which usually looks like the following photo. The advantage of using Feng Shui compass is that the 24 Mountains are already printed around the compass, so you don’t need to refer to the above list. There is another advantage that I’ll cover later when we talk about assigning the Stars in ascending or descending order.

If you want to buy a Feng Shui compass, you can easily get one at an affordable price from Amazon. Just click this link to search for one you like.

But if you do not have a Feng Shui compass, you still could an ordinary compass to do Feng Shui. Simply refer to the above list after you measured the directions.

Sitting and Facing Directions

We have learnt a bit about finding out the sitting (backing) direction and facing direction of a house. Let’s re-cap and see how we could do it for finding out which of the 24 Mountains the house belongs to.

Firstly, you need to find the center point of the house. It is usually the point where the diagonal lines intersect if the house is a simple square or rectangle. The image below shows the center points of common shapes of houses.

But usually modern houses would not be such regular, the shapes of modern houses usually look like the combination of a few rectangles, sometimes with triangles and circles as well. In these cases, we find out the center points by cutting out small projections and filling up small recessions, so that the overall shapes become more regular.

Then, we measure the directions when standing in the center point of the house. The direction where the entrance door locates is the facing direction. For example, if the entrance door is in the Zi (子) direction, we call this house facing Zi. We call this the Facing Direction.

In Chinese Feng Shui we do not only use the facing direction to name a house, we also use the direction where the house “backs”. How to find out the backing direction? Easy. Just find out the direction opposite to the facing direction on the compass. So if the facing direction is Zi, the backing direction must be Wu (午). We call the backing direction as the Mountain direction.

This is a hard rule, we always use the opposite of the Facing Direction as the Mountain Direction, and vice versa. When Feng Shui masters talk to each other, they 100% use this system of nomenclature, there is no exception. We always combine the Facing and Mountain Directions and say a house is Wu Mountain Zi Facing (午山子向). The direct translation is grammatically wrong, but let’s just live with it for now.

Knowing the Mountain and Facing directions are important, because we need these two directions to find out the Mountain and Facing Flying Stars in the nine boxes of the Flying Star Map.

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Mountain, Facing and Period Stars [Master Class 17]

In the last lesson we learnt how to determine the Period (Yun) of a house, this time let’s begin going deeper into Flying Star Feng Shui.

Do you remember the image I showed you last time? In this image you can find a Flying Star Map. There are nine boxes in this map aligned in 3 x 3 grid. In each box there are three numbers, two on top and one at the bottom. This is the typical Flying Star Map that most Feng Shui masters deal with everyday.

At first this kind of Flying Star Maps may seem difficult to understand, but as your skills grow you will find them easy to read and draw. There will be a few lessons spent on how to “draw” a Flying Star Map like this, followed by a few more lessons on interpreting the Map.

Why do you need to learn this complicated Flying Star Map? After 16 lessons, you should now understand Feng Shui is much much more than putting which color in which direction, or which zodiac sign likes which shape of house. In Feng Shui there involves a lot of calculations. You must know which three Flying Stars are in which direction, then know the chemistry (interaction) among the three, before interpreting the good and bad of the directions. So, knowing how to draw the map is the first step of learning Flying Star Feng Shui.

The Period Star (a.k.a. Yun Star)

Among the three stars in each box, the bottom star is the easiest to understand. It is called the Period Star, or Yun Star in which “Yun” means 運 in Chinese. Remember there are nine Periods (Yuns) in three cycles and they repeat endlessly?

Yes, the Period (Yun) referred to here is the Period of the “nine Periods”. I said the Period Star is the simplest to understand, because it is very simple to determine. As long as you know the Period (Yun) of a house, you can find out all nine Period Stars in the Flying Star Map.

For a house built in the first Period, Flying Star 1 will occupy the central box as the Period Star. For a house built in the second Period, the central Period Star is 2. It follows naturally that 3 is the Period Star in the central box for a house build in the third Period, and so on. Finally, Flying Star 9 is the Period Star in the center of houses built in the ninth Period.

Then we need to allocate the remaining eight Flying Stars to the remaining eight boxes as the Period Stars in these eight boxes. The method is again very simple. You only need to follow the Flying Star Sequence you learnt in Lesson 14. Can’t remember? Here you go:

Simply put, you should assign the Flying Stars in ascending order following the arrows above, starting from the center box. In the above example, Flying Star 6 occupies the central box as the Period Star, so it should be the Flying Star Map of a house built in the sixth Period (Yun).

For example, for a house built in the seventh Period, Flying Star 7 will be the central Period Star. The Period Star of the Northwest box will be 8, 9 in West, 1 in Northeast, 2 in South, 3in North, 4 in Southwest, 5 in East and 6 in Southeast.

Try practicing the above sequence until you can remember and do it by yourself.

The Mountain and Facing Stars

Mountain Star, 山星 in Chinese, carries exactly the literal meaning. It is the “mountain” in a particular box.

In Chinese Feng Shui, we need to check the directions of a house. We do this by finding out the center point of the house, then find out the locations of the eight directions. We especially concern the direction where the house backs and the direction where the house faces. The direction that a house has at the back is the “mountain direction”. The direction the house’s door faces is the “facing direction”.

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How to Determine the Period (Yun) of a House [Master Class 16]

Welcome back to Feng Shui Master Class, this is the 16th lesson. This time I am going to teach you how to determine the period, a.k.a. (運), of a house or flat. This is an important step in doing Flying Star Feng Shui.

The following is a typical Flying Star Map of a house. You can see that there are 3 numbers in each box instead of 1 that you find in the Yearly Flying Star Map or Monthly Flying Star Map. The yearly and monthly maps are just the first level of usage of Flying Star Feng Shui. Ultimately you need to draw out a Flying Star Map like the one below in order to do Feng Shui for a house. And to do this, determining the period (Yun) is the first step.

You will learn how to draw out a Flying Star Map like this in the coming weeks, but for today lets first get to know how to find out the exact Yun when a house was built.

9 Periods (Yun’s)

In Lesson 12 I have explained the basic concepts of the three Yuan’s and nine Yun’s (三元九運). Some people like to use the direct translation of the Chinese 運 as Yun, some other people prefer saying the meaning, i.e. Period. Some members told me that they’d rather know the meaning than the pronunciation, so in this lesson I shall use the term ‘Period’, which is the same as the ‘Yun’ explained in Lesson 12.

A Period Lasts for 20 Years

The 9 Periods repeat the cycle endlessly. The current Period is the eighth, which began in 2004 and will end in 2023. So the last Period, the seventh, began in 1984 and ended in 2003. It follows naturally that the sixth Period commenced in 1964 and ended in 1983; and the fifth Period commenced in 1944 and ended in 1963.

Usually for doing Feng Shui for modern buildings, we only need to know the timing of the fifth to the eighth Periods, because most modern buildings were built during these Periods. Especially in places affected by the Second World War, most pre-War buildings were already gone. However, if the building you want to examine was built before the fifth Period, you could do the calculation yourself because each Period lasts for 20 years. So you can easily find out in which Period the building was built by counting how many multiples of 20 years the building was built before the current year.

A Period Does Not Begin on 1 January

I think most followers of this blog knows that for Feng Shui purpose a year does not begin on 1 January. And it does not begin on the first day of the Chinese new year. It begins in Spring, which for most of the time happens on 4 February.

The same applies to the beginning of a Period. When we say the eighth Period began in 2004, we mean it began on 4 February 2004. If a building was built on 7 January 2004, it was not built in the eighth Period but the Seventh. Even if the building was built on 28 January 2004, which is the seventh day of the Chinese New Year, it was still not considered as a eighth Period building. The reason is that the Gregorian Calendar, Chinese Calendar and ‘Feng Shui Calendar’ are three sets of systems.

As I said, Spring ‘usually’ comes on 4 February but not always. Sometimes it comes on the 5th and sometimes the 3rd. For example, in 2017 spring will begin on 3rd February. You can rely on the internet to find out the exact date (and hour and second) of Spring in a particular year. In Chinese we call Sping as ‘Li Chun’, you can search for phrases like ‘Li chun in 1978’ in search engine to find out the date of Li Chun in that year.

To help you to determine the beginning time of the last few Periods, I listed them out below:

Fifth Period – 06:22, 5 February 1944
Sixth Period – 03:05, 5 February 1964
Seventh Period – 11:19, 4 February 1984
Eighth Period – 19:58, 4 February 2004

When was a Building Built?

The real problem that deserves a whole lesson to discuss is how to determine the time when a building was built. There are several schools of theories, let me explain one by one.

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