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There are two different "schools" that you can use to analyze
your environment: the Form school and the Compass school. While
it is technically possible to use both, we're gonna stick with
the Compass school because it's much easier. But to be fair,
here's a little background on the Form school:
The Form school of feng shui
The Form school of
feng shui suggests that you use the physical environment of
your land to determine where to live. The ancient Chinese
noticed that people who lived on the south side of a mountain
surrounded by rolling hills to break up the wind had good,
prosperous lives. They also saw that certain land formations
looked like animals (much like how clouds can look like
animals).
In the perfect feng shui location (called "The dragon protecting
the pearl"), green dragon hills lie to the east and form a
horse-shoe shape with the slightly lower white tiger hills in
the west, black tortoise hills are to the north, and low red
phoenix hills are in the south. Moreover, a meandering river
tops off this most fortunate site (remember, swift waters carry
away ch'i and the good fortune associated with it). In such a
site, the ch'i will pool where the loins of the dragon and tiger
meet in intercourse- the male dragon provides the yang energy
and the female tiger provides the yin energy. That's where your
house should go! If you can't get the prime
real estate of the loin area, go for the dragon's heart or
stomach.
But many of us live in apartments in the city - totally far from
any chance of finding dragons, tigers, meandering streams, and
loins. Fear not. Feng shui principles still hold true, no matter
where you live. If you're moving to an apartment in a big city,
a Form school master can analyze the height of the buildings
surrounding your potential apartment, and help you find an
apartment with good ch'i.
Let us give you a piece of advice now: don't worry about the
Form school. It's interesting, and it's useful if you are going
to build a house on a plot of land, but chances are that you're
not going to use feng shui to determine where you decide to
live. You're probably more interested in how you should arrange
your furniture within your house. That's where the Compass
school comes in.
The Compass school of feng shui
The Compass school of feng shui deals with the compatibility
between an individual's energy and the celestial energy from
his/her environment. Basically, it uses Chinese astrology.
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Li
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Sun
Chen
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The Pa-Kua
What you see above is called the Pa-Kua (pronounced
par-kwar), a Taoist symbol of the universe. The eight
trigrams depict the points of a compass, and make up the
octagonal Pa-Kua. Each trigram is a different house: Li,
K'un, Tui, Chien, K'an, Ken, Chen, and Sun.
So what you need to do is get a floorplan of your home (or dorm,
or studio, or whatever you want to apply feng shui magic to),
and put the Pa-Kua (or picture of a Pa-Kua) over it. If you need
to sketch your floorplan on the back of a dirty napkin, that's
OK too. You just need a picture of the layout of your domicile
so that you can put the compass on top of it. Be very careful
about direction. The North part of the Pa-Kua should point to
the north of your house, not necessarily toward the top like a
normal compass.
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