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Thomas Coxon
(M Phil, BSc, FSSA, Fellow BCS)
Who is this course aimed at ?
I've been practising feng shui professionally now for over a decade. I often get asked by email and phone for
advice. Some people are after a quick bit of guidance on something they are unsure of, others want to find
out more before booking a consultation. But there is a third group, those who for whatever reason would like
to have a go themselves. It is with this group primarily in mind that I have created this course. It's aim is to
help someone who has gained a bit of basic knowledge of feng shui, by reading books, or attending a one or
two day workshop, to take the next step and apply flying star analyses to their own house.
It's the course on flying star techniques which I would have loved to have had available to me when I was
just starting out. It introduces the basics, and tells you how to create the charts and analyse them in a step by
step fashion. It even has a fully worked example for you to follow and check that youre doing it right. It
also explains the special cases such as replacement stars and contains several appendices of detailed
information. It even tells you how to fly the daily and hourly stars as well as the yearly and monthly ones. It
contains practical tips and information gained during my fifteen years of professional practice, so although
it's aimed at the person who from choice or necessity must do their own feng shui, it contains more flying
star information in one place than any one book, course or teacher that I have encountered.
Acknowledgements
It's traditional in a paper book to acknowledge those who have in some way contributed to it's creation, so it
seems appropriate to do the same in this eCourse.
My teachers; Masters, Harrison Kyng, Chan Kun Wah, Peter Leung and Tuan Anh Diep and the 1,000 plus
people who have graciously invited me into their homes and businesses over the years have all helped me
get to the level of knowledge and practical experience which have been put into the creation of this course. I
must also mention the very valuable inputs of ideas and knowledge from the many and sometimes
anonymous people who participate in the internet chat groups on this subject, which have challenged and
inspired me and helped me to deepen my understanding.
It's also appropriate to mention a very special teacher of who I am often only vaguely aware (but whose
existence has been confirmed over the years by several people each unknown to the others) who has been
patiently guiding and setting up learning experiences for me for at least two decades. And lastly it seems
appropriate that I mention my daughters and partner who have all put up with Dad disappearing into the
office for several thousand hours over the last couple of decades to study and research.
It is their knowledge, patience, understanding and support which has enabled me to create this course.
About the Author

Thomas Coxon became interested in feng shui over 25 years ago and has been a professional consultant
since 1995, having studied extensively with some of the worlds top Masters. He holds Bachelors and
Masters degrees from the University of Nottingham and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, as well
as being a practitioner member of the British Feng Shui Society.
Further Information
If you would like further information about any aspect of feng shui (including eCourses on other topics), or
you would like my assistance in a more direct way such as a consultation, you can contact me (Thomas
Coxon) by any of the methods below:-
Email fengshui@webleicester.co.uk Website http://www.fengshui-consultants.co.uk.
Tel from within the UK 07973 618 986 or 0116 283 6777
or from overseas +44 7973 618 986 or +44 116 283 6777
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1
Introduction
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San Yuan Flying Star Course Flowing Energy Page 4
Introduction
We in the West talk about our luck. Sometimes we have good luck, some-
times we have bad luck. Yet how often do we think about why our luck is
good or bad at any particular location and point in time ? Still less often
does it occur to us that we might be able to do something to change it.
Feng Shui gives us a set of tools not only to find out what our luck is going to
be like, but also to change it if we want to. There are many different parts to
Feng Shui, some more powerful than others. The Pakua, much covered in the
many books about the subject is amongst the weakest and doesn't really address
the time aspect. The Flying Star Feng Shui covered in this course, is the next
stage on from there, and is one of the simpler systems that examines the effects
of the energetic interactions between time, our surroundings and ourselves.
Properly applied it can bring about some quite powerful changes in our lives.
Energy
Feng Shui, ALL feng shui, is about how energy flows around in the
landscape, how it flows around our buildings, and how both of those
affect us. Like any fluid, energy flows and it accumulates. Learning to
identify and read those flows and accumulations is what Form School is
about, and it takes years to learn and decades to perfect, but the basics can
be learned quite quickly, and will greatly improve your analysis of the
flying stars.
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Form, please purchase the full course at
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Form
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2
Plans and
Measurements
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Plans and Measurements
Successful application of feng shui is all about preparation and attention to

detail.
So the first stage in the actual analysis is to create an accurate scale plan of your
home if you don't already have one. You can get someone to draw it for you, but
with a little care and diligence you can create one yourself, that's accurate
enough for a flying star analysis.
If you draw your plan at a scale of 1:100 (1 metre on the ground = 1cm on the
paper), most houses will fit on a single A4 sheet.
In most houses and flats the walls are at right angles to each other and straight,
so you can work on squared graph paper if you don't have a drawing board.
Just start in one corner of your home and measure that room. Then draw a
rectangle of the corresponding size (e.g. for a room measuring 4 metres by 3
meters, you'd draw a rectangle on the paper which was 4cm by 3cm). Now mark
in the doors, windows, fireplaces, cooker, sink, bath, toilet etc. Then move to an
adjacent room, measure that and draw a rectangle of the appropriate size next to
the first (remembering to allow for the thickness of the wall). Continue working
your way round that floor and pretty soon you'll have a plan of your home. Then
move to the next floor and repeat the process.
You should end up with something like this for each floor.
Garden
ROAD
The form of this one is not perfect - see if you can spot the problems as you go
through the course and think about different ways in which you could improve
things if it were your house.
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You can usually figure out where things are on the outside from those plans and
what you can see, but if you can get a large scale map of your plot and its
surroundings, it can be helpful. In the UK, HM Land Registry plans are usually
to the right scale. Heres an example based on the sample from their website
(http://www.landregisteronline.gov.uk).
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Another potential source of information about the location of objects in your

locality is Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/), which in some areas gives
extremely detailed arial photos, with the ability to overlay other useful
information such as road names.
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Compass Direction
For a Flying Star analysis you need just one measurement the Site reading.
Use the plan of your house to find where the centre of the back wall is.
Garden Measure here
Then standing outside measure the compass direction
from there looking outwards.
Hold the Lopan at about waist height against the

wall and take the reading thats pointing towards
you.
If youre using an orienteering compass (like those

below) and the wall is uneven, you can improve the
accuracy of your reading by placing a flat piece of
wood about 0.75M long against the wall and hold
your compass against it to take your reading.
ROAD
If you don't have access to a Chinese Lopan, a good quality orienteering

compass is plenty good enough for this calculation, providing it meets two
criteria;
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Star analyses, which ones cant and why, please purchase the full
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Dealing with Magnetic Anomalies
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Anomalies, please purchase the full course at
Finding the Front and Back
I've glibly said find the centre of the back wall - for most buildings where
the back is and where the front is, is pretty obvious, but not always. So I
thought it worth saying a few words about how to find out when it's not so
obvious.
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3
Flying Star
Analysis
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Flying Star Analysis
Actually there are several flying star methods and it's useful to at least know
that the others exist.
The ones which I know about and know how to use are:-
San Yuan (or 20 years) flying star this is the one you're going to find
out how to use in this course
Yuan Hom (or Mystery of the Void) flying star
Sam Hap House flying star
Yuan Hom Kwa flying star (which flies the hexagrams).
There many well be some others.
The first one the San Yuan flying star system is the one that's in the books and
is the only one that most people know exists, let alone how to calculate and use.
So how do you use it? Well, first you need a basic understanding of how it
works and what it can tell you.
Time Cycles
All flying star systems are examining some aspect of the interaction between
space and time. The San Yuan system is looking primarily at the energy within
the Earth.
As the time cycle moves on the energy changes.
Both the San Yuan and the Yuan Hom systems repeat every 180 years and their
180 year cycles are synchronised, but they differ in how that 180 years is
subdivided. The San Yuan system divides the 180 years into three periods,
Upper, Middle & Lower, and each of those into three, so that you end up with 9
periods of 20 years each. The Yuan Hom system divides the 180 years into
Upper and Lower fates of 90 years each. Those are then subdivided into 4
periods of differing lengths, giving 8 periods ranging from 27 years for the
First Fate Period
longest to 18 years for the shortest. They also differ in exactly when in the year
Year
they change. The Yuan Hom system works with Heaven energy so it changes at
Dung Gee (Winter Solstice to us Westerners). The San Yuan system works with 1864 Upper 1
Earth energy so it changes at Chinese New Year (which occurs on the first day 1884 Upper 2
of the new moon following one complete new moon to new moon - moon 1904 Upper 3
cycle after Dung Gee, or put more simply, the second new moon after Dung Gee
1924 Middle 4
- Winter Solstice) which is in January or February. So the Yuan Hom 180 year
cycle runs from approximately December 21st 1863 to December 21st 2043, 1944 Middle 5
and the San Yuan 180 year cycle runs from Chinese New Year in 1864 to 1964 Middle 6
Chinese New Year in 2044. This lag effect is because the Heaven energy drives 1984 Lower 7
the Earth energy, which in turn drives the Human energy (which changes it's
2004 Lower 8
year at the Spring Festival - 4th or 5th of February) Hamlets Mill.
2024 Lower 9
Now familiarise yourself with when each of the San Yuan periods start by
referring to the table.
Before we leave this topic I'd like to say a bit more about the periods. There is a
commonly held rule of thumb that from period 5 to period 8, during the
second half of the period you should look also at the chart for the next period;
e.g. during the second half of period 7 (1994 to 2004) you should also look at
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the chart for period 8. This is actually a fallacy, but it's interesting to look at
how this comes about. Both the San Yuan & Yuan Hom systems generate
similar, but not identical charts given the same inputs. During periods 1 4 on
the San Yuan system, the Yuan Hom periods are roughly synchronised, and
both systems give similar influences in their respective charts. From period 5
onwards, the synchronisation slips such that the Yuan Hom periods change
roughly in the middle of the San Yuan periods. So for the first half of the period
both charts are similar, but from the middle, the Yuan Hom period (and chart)
changes. My advice is to stick with the San Yuan periods and work with those
charts, and if you want to work with the Yuan Hom flying star charts during the
second half of the period, learn that system as well.
Which Period to Use ?
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What to do if the Period Needs Changing
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4
Calculating
the Chart
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San Yuan Flying Star Course Calculating the Chart Page 18
Calculating the Chart
Now we can start to assemble the pieces and create the chart, but first there is
one more piece that you need.
The Template
Take a moment or two to study the

template. You'll see that it divides the
circle into 8 known as Gua's (the same
8 sectors as the Pakua, with which you
may be familiar), and that each of
those 8 are further divided into 3
giving 24 sectors in total. These are San Yuan
known as the 24 Mountains. I've given Flying Star
the Chinese character for each (in case Template
you want to cross refer to other texts
which use that system & to help me as
I prepared this course) and I've
labelled them Na, Nb, Nc, NEa, NEb,
NEc etc. - which is the system we'll
use in this course, to avoid you
needing to learn Chinese. Each
Mountain is also labelled Yin or
Yang - we'll come to the
significance of that in a moment. And
you'll also notice that each of the 8
sectors has a number in it.
Marking up the Plan
First you need to take the scale plan of your house, find the centre and mark
North on it.
If you have a perfectly rectangular house, finding the centre is easy
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First lets talk about what is and is not part of your house as far as Flying Star
feng shui is concerned. Once you've gone through the front door, if you can
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Garden
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isnt part of a building, please purchase the full course at
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No
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Finding the Site and Facing Mountain
Finding the Period
SE S SW
E W
NE N NW
By convention the charts are

laid out like this with South
at the top.
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Creating the Base Plate
2 7 9
1 3 5
6 8 4
e.g. For our period 3 example

N you should get a chart like
this.
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Finding the Mountain and Water Stars

2 7 9
Site
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6 8 4
Facing

you should get a chart like
Flying the Mountain and Water Stars this.
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2 7 9
1 5 5 1 3 3
1 3 5
2 4 9 6 7 8
6 8 4
6 9 4 2 8 7
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2 7 9
Site
1 3 5
9 6
6 8 4
Facing
Replacement Stars you would replace the 9 with
2 and the 6 with 7. Then fly
them in the same directions
as the 9 and the 6.
2 7 9
3 6 7 2 5 4
1 3 5
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8 1 6 3 1 8
Mountain Replacement
Star
Na
Nb
Nc
NEa B 7
Effect of Form NEb
NEc
Ea
Eb
Ec
SEa
SEb
SEc
Sa
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SWa H 2
SWb
SWc
Wa
Wb
Wc
NWa
NWb
NWc
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5
Analysing
the Chart
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Analysing the Chart
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Who Gets Affected ?
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The geography of the house
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Some Areas are More Important than Others
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The people
People connect to the flying star influences by
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6
Remedies
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If it Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It
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So how do you remedy things?
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Help
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7
Enhancements
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Enhancements
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Timeliness
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8
Special Cases
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In Prison (or Locked) Stars
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7 Star Robbery
7 Star Robbery is a technique to help you pinch energy from a future period, to
help you in the present. Some people say that it's a bit like having some
investments stashed away, but instead of leaving them to grow for your
retirement, you spend them now. There are circumstances which are so
desperate as to justify such measures, but although they may help you now, they
will create a problem for you in the future.
Usually this method is used only for grave sites, so rather than using this method
for your home it is far better to first explore the many other methods which are
available in other aspects of the feng shui, that an experienced practitioner can
use to help you without incurring these very serious side effects.
Combination of 10
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Visiting Stars
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Directions
In this course Ive taught you how to do the Flying Star analysis using the
methods which I have been taught, plus what Ive learned from my own
observations gained whilst carrying out over 1,000 consultations, mostly here in
the UK.
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9
Worked Example
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Now we can create the Base Plate for our Flying Star chart, by placing 3 in the
middle and flying it round the other squares, to give a chart like this:-
2 7 9
1 3 5
6 8 4
Now we can mark on the Site and Facing directions and put the Mountain and
Facing stars in the centre as follows:-
Site
(SWa)
2 7 9
1 3 5
9 6
6 8 4
Facing
(NEa)
Next we need to decide which way to fly each star. (see chapter 4 for details, but
heres a quick reminder)
Now we can fly the stars and create the chart:-
2 7 9
1 5 5 1 3 3
1 3 5
2 4 9 6 7 8
6 8 4
6 9 4 2 8 7
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Before we start analysing there are a couple of additional things to do which will
make it easier to relate the chart to the building.
First well add in the LoShu numbers and note down the compass directions as
follows:-
2 7 9
1 5 5 1 3 3
SE 4 S 9 SW 2
1 3 5
2 4 9 6 7 8
E3 W7
6 8 4
6 9 4 2 8 7
NE 8 N 1 NW6
Now well rewrite the chart so that it lines up with the house like this:-
7 9 5
5 1 3 3 7 8
S 9 SW 2 W 7
2 3 4
1 5 9 6 8 7
SE 4 NW6
1 6 8
2 4 6 9 4 2
E 3 NE 8 N 1
Now that we have Site at the top centre and Facing at the bottom centre we can
see at a glance where everything is as we start to analyse.
But before we start to analyse lets create a family for our fictitious house and
work out where they connect to.
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Also lets look at the surrounding forms (in this case via an aerial photo
take from Google Earth).
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Both the front door and this

area predispose to involving
the mother and her daughter
in conflicts and arguments
(with each other in the case
of the front door and with
anyone in the case of this
area)
If you want the mother and

her daughter to have peaceful
lives you will need to fix
both areas.
Over the years Ive found

that its quite common to
have multiple aspects of the
feng shui all contributing
similar influences like this,
and the more you fix, the
better the result.
Sometimes the influences are

all in the flying star chart, but
often they are spread across
Flying Star, Ba Chap, Sam
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The good news is that if you

fix only one it improves
things a bit. If you fix two it
improves them more and so
on.
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burning/melting the Metal of the 6 Star. The Body number here is 6 so that
doesnt help us any. The reverse in fact because it
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excess of Metal with the 7 giving rise to some stress creating influences. The
body number is 4, which has a beneficial financial interaction with both the 8
and the 7, but because its in the NW it will tend to create stress. We also need
to remember that inside the house we have the stairs and outside the house we
have a short open space and then another house.
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So all in all this is not a particularly good area for the Daughter (or the Mother
for that matter).
So what do we do ?
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Lastly we need to take a look at the in prison stars.
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Well thats pretty much all I want to say about San Yuan Flying Star methods.
The final chapter tells you about some of more advanced methods that are
available, which will help you put your flying star knowledge into context. But
please remember that at the end of the day there is only one measure which is
worth anything and that is how effective your interventions are at helping
people.
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10
Advanced
Feng Shui
Methods
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Advanced Feng Shui Methods
Up to now I've been pretty selective in the feng shui that I've told you about.
Flying Star is quite complicated to get to grips with when you're starting out, so
I've deliberately only mentioned other aspects of feng shui as and when relevant
to using the San Yuan Flying Star methods to keep your learning load to the
minimum. But if you start using Flying Star thinking that it will tell you
everything, and let you fix everything, you're going to get a surprise!! It will
help you to do a lot, but not everything.
Feng Shui is such a vast subject that you could literally fill a library with books
on it's various aspects and nuances. So in this chapter I want to introduce you to
some of those wider aspects so that you can better use the Flying Star methods
in context, and be better aware of when you're getting out of your depth and
need to call in professional assistance.
First I'd like you to turn back to the title page for this chapter and compare it
with the title page for the other chapters. What do you notice ?
With the other chapters, the figure in the top left corner of the page is part of the
PaKua with which you were probably familiar from other studies and reading
books. The figure in the bottom right takes the PaKua and expands it out into a
simplified version of the 24 Mountains and 64 Hexagrams. It's from my masters
teaching notes and I chose it to begin to subconsciously awaken you to the
deeper levels of feng shui to help you as you learned Flying Star.
In the header page for this chapter, that diagram has migrated to the top left (the
starting from position) and it has been replaced in the bottom right (the this
is where we're heading position) with a photo of part of the LoPan which I use
on consultations (again designed by my master). You'll notice that it expands the
diagram in the top left into far more depth.
To give you a rough comparison; the diagram in the top left has 15 rings, and
the LoPan has 35. That's not quite a true comparison though, because 5 of the
rings on the diagram get compressed into 2 on the LoPan, so it's more like an 11
to 35 ratio. But even that is a simplification, it's more like an n to the power of
11 to n to the power of 35 ratio.
Also please bear in mind that Flying Star is only part of what we can do with
the information in the diagram in the top left. Now I hope you're beginning to
understand my comments about filling a library.
OK thats set the scene, now lets start scratching the surface a little deeper.
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BaZi and other Horoscopes
Lets take a brief look at BaZi, or rather, lets take a brief look at horoscopes, of
which BaZi is one method.
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More Feng Shui Methods
So let's now take a look at Feng Shui methods.
Lets start with Eight House or Ba Chap as it translates from Chinese.
We all know all about Eight House dont we, or do we?
It's in all the books about Feng Shui, it's about the PaKua. It's about your
personal directions (four good and four bad), it's about East Group and West
Group. You can find out how to use it for free on many websites, mine included.
You can go on courses to learn how to use it. So you know all about it dont
you? Or do you?
Lets take a more in depth look.
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Lets start with the PaKua, which gets asked to do so many things by so many
people which are usually well beyond its capabilities.
For starters there are TWO of them, the one on everyone's website and in
everyone's books is based on the so called Late Heaven sequence and applies to
indoors. The other one, of which this might be the first you've ever heard, is
based on the Early Heaven sequence and applies to OUTDOORS. So everyone
of those garden feng shui books which talk about tweaking the southeast of your
garden for wealth, southwest for relationship and north for career is using the
wrong one!! I was even in class alongside one such author as a Chinese Master
told us that. That author went off and published the book knowing it to be based
on wrong information! The rest of us went off and did our research, individually
and in small groups to find out if the Master was correct he was.
So you at least, now know that there are two PaKuas, one which applies to
outside (and leaks inside a bit via doors and windows) and the other which
applies to inside.
So is that it ? No, it's barely scratching the surface.
To tell you about it all and how to use it would require another ebook the size of
this one, probably more, since it's more complex than Flying Star and most of
the calculations need to be repeated twice to teach you the indoor version and
the outdoor version.
Like Flying Star it has its interactions with Form, except in much greater detail
and in my experience much more powerful in the effects. Like Flying Star it has
Mountain stars and Water stars, but these can be created by the land forms,
as well as the building and the compass directions. It interacts with time and
people, in similar ways to Flying star.
So this is just one reason why your Flying Star interventions will sometimes
spring surprises on you they interact with all of the Feng Shui present at their
location, whether or not you know about it in advance, including the BaChap
charts.
Even more Feng Shui Methods
Ba Chap and Flying Star are the simple stuff.
We can also divide each of those eight divisions of the PaKua into eight parts
each, giving us 64 in total the 64 Hexagrams.
I was taught this aspect of feng shui under the umbrella term of Yuan Hom or
Mystery of the Void, but aspects of it are also know as Xuan Kong Da Gua.
Each hexagram has many attributes including, two Guas (or trigrams), a stem
and a branch, star number and period number, an element and six lines (each of
which can give rise to a new hexagram, with its attributes and lines).
Using these methods you can examine the interaction between space, time and
people, and the Chinese Masters say that with it you can create just about
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anything. Certainly I've used it to good effect on occasion to help peoples

finances when nothing else would.
So why don't we just use this feng shui magic bullet and nothing else?
Well a Hexagram is about 5 degrees wide and an individual line just under a
degree. That should just need a high degree of proficiency with a Lopan, if the
Earth's magnetic field was completely stable but it's not, it sometimes
wobbles a bit. I did a job in western Ireland a few years ago, where I had the
opportunity to observe the building over several days. On the second day I
thought that Id got the reading wrong the day before. But on the third day the
reading had moved by a further degree. All in all during the week I tracked
those readings as they wandered away from the original reading by about 5
degrees and back again to only one degree away from the original. Over the
years Ive come across other buildings like that. So because of this it is
sometimes better to use other more robust methods.
So are there some other ways in which we can subdivide the PaKua?
Yes is the answer, which brings us to the other main subdivision of compass
formulas.
We can subdivide each of the eight Guas as they're known, into three which
gives us the 24 Mountains.
There are many many calculations based on these - San Yuan Flying Star being
one. Another is a version of the Ba Chap, but using 24 divisions of the compass
instead of 8. Other methods are based on pairs of mountains, or Double
Mountain formulas as they're known. Others still combine information from the
Hexagrams with information from the Double Mountains and from the land
forms and these can get extremely powerful.
If I want to very quickly get an idea of the strengths and weaknesses of a

property without spending hours analysing it, I use one of these formulas, with a
few other key readings from the Lopan.
If you look carefully at the photo of my Lopan on the header page for this
chapter you may notice that there are actually three 24 Mountain rings, each
offset a little from the others (7.5 degrees clockwise and 7.5 degrees
anticlockwise to be exact). The ring you used in the San Yuan Flying Star
calculations is know as the Earth Plate and is used for measuring buildings. The
other two are used for measuring water and hills.
Each of these Mountains is also subdivided into three the 72 Dragons as

they're know, and into 5 the 120 Fin Kam. These latter can also be divided
into two giving the 240 divisions of gold. So you can see that it can all get quite
complicated.
Although as a general rule the formulas based on the 24 Mountains are not so
powerful as those based on the hexagrams, they are generally much more
tolerant of minor instabilities in the Earth's magnetic field.
The area covered by each mountain is also about three times the size of the area
covered by a Hexagram (six times the size in the case of double mountain
formulas), so it's much easier for people to place remedial objects accurately.
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All in all these methods are much easier to work with, and much more likely to
keep working after someone upsets the local magnetic field whilst fixing a
sewer. Don't laugh or think I made it up!! I actually know a case first hand
where exactly that happened. Granted it was an unusual combination of
circumstances, but it happened. A major energy line (Ley Line in Western
terminology) flowed under a nearby church, across a major road with a sewer
underneath it, then the energy fanned out. Every time a truck went over main
line down stream from the road, the compass (about 100 metres away down
stream from the truck) wobbled by a few degrees. But then it returned to normal
and all was well. Over a period of about 9 months the local sewer authority
burrowed away underground replacing and enlarging the sewer. After theyd
finished, the reading at the original compass location had moved by a full 5
degrees and had become much less stable, wobbling every time a car crossed the
line, never mind a truck!
The Moon
There's just one more thing I'd like to tell you about before we move on from the
compass. If you take yet another look at the photo of my Lopan on the header
page for this chapter, right at the outer edge. Right at the outside is a thin black
ring with a couple of gold and black rings inside that. Just inside those is the
degree scale (just like a regular compass), and just inside that are three narrow
rings, one with large and variable length divisions and two with very narrow
divisions just inside that. Those help you work out what effect the Moon is
having!
Professional Feng Shui
So what you can expect from professionals that you can't do for yourself ?
You can expect them to have a lot more experience for starters (don't
underestimate the value of that, there's a world of difference between doing
something that you've done a hundred times before and doing it for the first
time).
You can also expect them to know a lot of different compass methods, and how
to relate form, horoscopes and timing to those formulas basically the more
they know, the more complete the picture they can build up and the more likely
they are to be able to find effective ways of helping you.
In summary if your DIY feng shui didnt work as well as you hoped, all is not
lost. Its very very likely that with professional assistance you will still be able
to achieve your objectives.
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11
Tools and Tables

(Appendices)
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San Yuan Flying Star Course Appendix A - San Yuan Flying Star Template Page 57
Appendix A - San Yuan Flying Star Template
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San Yuan Flying Star Course Appendix B - Replacement Star Chart Page 58
Appendix B - Analysis Chart

You can use any 3 x 3 grid, but the one below has the direction, base LoShu
number and element pre filled in to make your job a bit easier. There is also
some space round the outside for you to make a notes (such as the effect of
forms) round the outside, and theres a spare blank chart so that you can move
everything round to match your house.
SE 4 Wood S 9 Fire SW 2 Earth

San Yuen Flying Star
Analysis Grid
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E 3 Wood 5 Earth W 7 Metal
NE 8 Earth N 1 Water NW 6 Metal
Site
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Analysis Grid
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Facing
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San Yuan Flying Star Course Appendix C - Meaning of the Mountain and Water Star combinations. Page 59
Appendix C - Meaning of the Mountain and Water

Star combinations.
These pairings are given in the order of Site Star followed by Facing Star e.g. 1
2 below means that the Site (or Mountain) Star is 1 and the Facing (or Water)
Star is 2
1 Mountain Star
1 1 Romance. Can be true love or false love. Can also mean brothel.
Especially if at front door or centre palace. Diseases relating to Water
(loose bowels, kidney or bladder)
1 2 Male - stomach problems, Woman - stomach or gynaecological
problems, also Pregnancy.
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San Yuan Flying Star Course Appendix D - The Properties of the 9 stars Page 63
Appendix D - The Properties of the 9 stars
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The positive influences are exhibited when
The negative influences are most likely to be exhibited when
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San Yuan Flying Star Course Appendix E The 5 Element Cycle Page 64
Appendix E - The 5 Element Cycle

There are two cycles at work between the elements.
In one (the Generative cycle) each element enhances or strengthens the

next one round in the sequence, e.g. Wood generates Fire Earth
As it does so the generating element gets weakened e.g. Wood

is weakened as the Fire gets stronger Metal
Fire
Looking at this example in one of its physical Generates
manifestations, you burn real wood to get a real fire and in doing
so you use up the wood.
W
o
o Water
d
In the other (the Control cycle) each element controls (or attempts to) the Earth
next but one in the sequence, e.g. Wood controls Earth
As it does so the element being controlled is held in check e.g.

Wood (real plants) holds the Earth in place. Fire Metal
Controls
If the controlling element it too weak to do the job, it can get destroyed in
the process e.g. If the (real) Earth attempts to hold back the (real) Water but
isnt strong enough and fails it gets washed away.
W
o
o Water
d
Thats the simple relationship and it will work well enough for your Flying Star
interventions, but there are some subtleties which Id like to introduce to you.
As my Master says Its all about balance. Let me give you an example from
nature.
The Sun (Yang Fire) if its not too strong warms the soil (Yin Earth). With some
rain (Yang Water) if theres not too much, the plants (Wood) grow and hold the
soil in place. The soil held in place by the plants can then withstand the rain
when theres a lot of it and channel (control) it into rivers and streams. If that
system is thrown out of balance (e.g. The Sun gets too hot and kills the plants,
or there is not enough water and the plants die, or Man comes along with a
bulldozer (Metal) and removes the plants) , the soil isnt held in place by the
plants and gets washed away by the water - the whole system collapses.
Translating that across to your Flying Star interventions, just because one lot
of something produces a benefit, ten times as much may well not!!
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San Yuan Flying Star Course Appendix E The 5 Element Cycle Page 65
To introduce an element into an area all you need to do is
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San Yuan Flying Star Course Appendix F Strength of each star in different periods Page 66
Appendix F - Strength of each star in different

periods
The strength of each star varies with time.
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San Yuan Flying Star Course Appendix G In Prison Stars Page 67
Appendix G - In Prison Stars

The basic idea behind In Prison stars is quite simple. If the Mountain and/or
Water star who's number is equal to the current fate number is in
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So what are the effects if the star is in prison?
If its a Water star, your money is going to suffer and if its a Mountain star its
your health thats going to get the brunt of the effect.
So if they are in prison and youre suffering because of it, what can you do?
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San Yuan Flying Star Course Appendix G In Prison Stars Page 68
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San Yuan Flying Star Course Page 69
Appendix H - Annual, Monthly, Daily and Hourly

Visiting Stars
Ive already mentioned in the main text how to calculate the Yearly and
Monthly stars, but let me recap here.
To find the Gua Number for a Year
e.g. 1970
Subtract 1900 (e.g. Gives 70)
Keep adding the digits until you end up with a single digit
e.g. 7+0 gives 7
Now subtract that digit from 10 to give the Gua Number e.g. 10 - 7 gives
3
To find the Gua Number for a Month
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To find the Gua Number for a Day
This is easy in principle but difficult in practice,without access to my

spreadsheet!!
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To find the Jia Zi days, and also to do the counting for you, Ive created a spread
sheet SYFSGuaCalculator
There are two calculator sheets in the file related to finding the Gua Number for
the day; Jia Zi Days and MG Calc.
Jia Zi Days will work out the first Jia Zi day after the dates which you give it
for Dung Gee and Ha Gee ( you can get these
dates from the Months spreadsheet ).
This gives you the Jia Zi dates to input to MG Calc if you cant get them from
a Chinese 10,000 year calendar or its online equivalent.
MG Calc will work out the Ming Gua numbers for the date which you give it.
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To find the Gua Number for a Chinese Double Hour
Why a Double hour ?
We Westerners divide the day up into 24 hours starting at midnight.

The Chinese divide the day into 12 periods starting at 23:00 - hence the term
Double Hours
First you need to convert the Western time into its Chinese Double Hour using
the table below
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The SYFSGuaCalculator also contains a third calculator sheet Day SB

which will work out the Stem and Branch number for the date which you give it.
Then look up the actual Stem and Branch name in the following Table:-
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Now you can find the Hours Gua Number as follows:-
If the date is between the first and

use this table.
Day Branch Hour Number

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Hours Gua Number (for Dung Gee to Ha Gee)
Zi, Mao, Wu, You
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e.g. 04:30 (hour number 3) on 7th July 2009 (Chou day Branch) has a Gua
number of 6.
If the date is between the first and

use this table.
Day Branch Hour Number

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Hours Gua Number (for Dung Gee to Dung Gee)
Zi, Mao, Wu, You
Chou, Chen, Wei, Xu full course from
Yin, Si, Shen, Hai http://www.fengshui-consultants.co.uk/feng_shui_courses.htm.
e.g. 04:30 (hour number 3) on 5th September 2009 (also a Chou day Branch) has
a Gua number of 4.
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Worked Example of calculating the Gua Numbers
Its all straightforward once youve had a bit of practice, so heres an example
of calculating the Guas for the Year, Month, Day and Hour to help you get
started.
Lets take 12th October 2009 at 09:03 British Summer time at Longitude 1 degree
West.
Well change that into Local Solar Time
So the actual date and time that were going to use in our calculation is 12th
October 2009 at 07:59.
Now we can calculate the Gua Number for the year.
First Subtract 1900; 2009 - 1900 gives 109

Next add the digits together 1 + 0 + 9 gives 10, and 1 + 0 gives 1
Now subtract that from 10; 10 - 1 give 9
So the Gua Number for 2009 is 9
Now well calculate the Gua Number for the Month
Looking up 12th October 2009 in my 10,000 year calendar I can see that its in
the 8th Lunar Month, but lets work that out from the new moons in case you
dont have one.
So the 12th October 2009 was in month 8
Now we can look up month 8 for a 9 year in the table on Page 69. This tells us
that the Gua Number for the month is 7.
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Next we need to work out the Gua Number for the day.
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We can count out the Day Gua by hand, but its a whole lot quicker (& probably
more accurate) to use the MG Calc spreadsheet. If we fill in the Blue fields
and the date were interested in (12th October 2009),

we can read the Gua Number for the day
. From this we can see that the Gua Number for 12th October 2009 is 4.
Now we need to work out the Gua Number for the hour.
First we need to find the branch for the day.
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So now we have the Gua Numbers for 12th October 2009 at 07:59 as follows:-
the Gua Number for 2009 is 9
the Gua Number for the month is 7
the Gua Number for the day is 4
the Gua Number for the hour is 8
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Now we can create the charts for the visiting time stars as follows;
Year Month
8 4 6 6 2 4
7 9 2 5 7 9
3 5 1 1 3 8
Day Hour
3 8 1 7 3 5
2 4 6 6 8 1
7 9 5 2 4 9
From this we can see that, for instance, the 4 star is visiting in the South for the
whole year. Its joined by the 2 star for a month and the 8 star for the day. The 3
star is only present for the double hour of 07:00 - 09:00 Local Sun time, which
adding back in the longitude correction and the hour of daylight saving time
means that it will be present from 08:04 to 10:04 by the clock.
Now you can analyse the effects which these will have on the main charts for
the building and the interaction with the surrounding shapes.
It can be both fun and instructive to begin to look at why things happen both
where and when they do.
How do I KNOW that these methods work ?
The only way that any of us can know anything for certain - Ive used them and
checked the theory against reality enough times to be sure.
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Plans and Measurements

Successful application of feng shui is all about preparation and attention to

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Another potential source of information about the location of objects in your

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Hold the Lopan at about waist height against the

If youre using an orienteering compass (like those

If you don't have access to a Chinese Lopan, a good quality orienteering

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Dealing with Magnetic Anomalies

Finding the Front and Back

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Flying Star Analysis

As the time cycle moves on the energy changes.

Which Period to Use ?

What to do if the Period Needs Changing

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Calculating the Chart

Take a moment or two to study the

Marking up the Plan

If you have a perfectly rectangular house, finding the centre is easy

For more information about how to identify what is and

For more information about how to apply the template to a

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Finding the Site and Facing Mountain

Finding the Period

By convention the charts are

e.g. For our period 3 example

Finding the Mountain and Water Stars

e.g. For our period 3 example

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Analysing the Chart

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Who Gets Affected ?

The geography of the house

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Some Areas are More Important than Others

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People connect to the flying star influences by

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If it Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It

So how do you remedy things?

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In Prison (or Locked) Stars