Hello everyone,
In traditional bazi practice we do not read a baby bazi if the child is below 7 years old.
To those who do not know this rule, please refrain from reading baby's bazi.
Baby below 7 years old, it's 运还没齐.

If don't understand this, please go and ask those knowledge.

Thank you Dharma.
I am editing the lesson contents to include more details.
Should be ready for posting soon.

SECRETS OF BAGUA FENGSHUI

LESSON CONTENTS

1.   Professional YangZhai Fengshui foundation – 12 lessons (173 pages)

2.   Soft Skills
i.   Bazi and how it affects a person
ii.   Host and Guest
iii.   How to integrate Chinese Metaphysics into your life?
iv.   Personal practices to build up spiritual energy
v.   Planning your life
vi.   Shamatha meditation
vii.   What are the characteristics a good master should have?

3.   Bagua Fengshui theories and practice
i.   Appendix I: Bazhai Palm method
ii.   What is Bagua Fengshui?
iii.   Left palm trigrams
iv.   Clearing some doubts about BaGua fengshui

4.   Charts – Shensha and others
i.   Five element Qi phase
ii.   Twelve growth Qi phase
iii.   Lushen 禄神 (Salary Officer)
iv.   TianYi Guiren 天乙贵人 (Nobleman)
v.   YiMa 驿马 (Relay horse).

5.   Landform Lessons
i.   YangZhai landform – all lessons
ii.   Five houses with missing corners
iii.   Bed position

6.   Qi
i.   How to borrow ShengQi?
ii.   How to see Qi?
iii.   The concept and theory of Qi
iv.   YiJing on Qi

7. Audit procedure
i.   Square and pie chart – what is the difference?
ii.   24 mountains template for fengshui audit
iii.   24 mountains 72 dragons chart
iv.   Bagua fengshui auditing procedure
v.   Essential onservation skills
vi.   House deduction skill
vii.   How to apply Bagua fengshui
viii.   Luban ruler
ix.   ShengQi suppress WuGui

 8. YangZhai LiQi sha
i.   WuJi DuTian Sha (戊己都天煞)
ii.   Eight Roads Hell Spring Sha (Ba Lu Huang Quan八路黄泉)
iii.   Eight Luminaries Sha (Ba Yao Sha八曜煞)
iv.   Twelve Yinsha (十二阴煞)
v.   Taisui, SuiPo & SanSha (太岁，岁破，三杀)
vi.   Xuan Kong Flying stars #2 & #5 Sha

9. Remedies
i.   5 GCT fangua method
ii.   9 star water remedy
iii.   Bagua direction and 24 mountains
iv.   Crystals and precious stones in fengshui
v.   Luban ruler
vi.   Peach blossom water
vii.   Remedies in Bagua fengshui
viii.   Remedy – how to borrow ShengQi

10. Advanced Date selection
Lesson 1: Essential Know how
Lesson 2: Master Killing days
Lesson 3: Yellow path auspicious days
Lesson 4: Purple White date selection
Lesson 5: GongGong Date Selection
Lesson 6: More essential Know-how
Lesson 7: DongGong Date selection Shensha

Appendix I – ShuoGua Zhuan -- translation and commentaries
Appendix II -- YuNian Jing lesson – translation and commentaries

I posted this article in my FB and a few other FB Fengshui forums, before, and today reposted again to the same FB forums.

Here, I wish to share this with you all.

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XUAN TIAN MEN FENGSHUI SCHOOL

WHY DO YOU NEED TO USE A PERSON’S BAZI WHEN DOING FENGSHUI?
In Chinese metaphysics, there is a phrase called, “Tian Di Ren San Cai” (天地人三才).

There are many different explanations or interpretations of this phrase coming from the different branches of Chinese Metaphysics.  Here I shall write only in the context of Fengshui.

Before I go further, let me quote from ancient classics.

First, a quote from ShuoGua Zhuan of the Yijing:
昔者圣人之作《易》也，将以顺性命之理。是以立天之道曰阴与阳，立地之道曰柔与刚，立人之道曰仁与义。兼三才而两之，故《易》六画而成卦。分阴分阳，迭用柔刚，故《易》六位而成章。

Translation:
When the ancient sages composed the ‘Yi’, by it comply with the principles of life and fate. With this principle establishing Heaven’s way to describe Yin and Yang; Establishing Earth’s path to obtain the supple and the robust; establishing the way of Man to describe benevolence and righteousness.  Simultaneously combining these three qualities and double it, thus ‘Yi’ six lines becomes a hexagram.  Discerning between Yin and Yang, alternating the use of robust and supple, thus ‘Yi’ six lines formed a chapter.

Secondly, may I quote from MengZi, a philosopher, military strategist, YiJing scholar who wrote about this to describe a military essential……
孟子:
天时不如地利，地利不如人和。
Translation:
Even if you get the right timing and right season, it does not compare to getting the right landform.
Even if you get the right landform, it does not compare to getting the people’s heart and mind.

What MengZi is pointing out is actually telling the reader that three factors coming together is the only way to get things done successfully.
Lastly, a quote from SunZi, the military strategist.

(孫臏兵法) :
天時，地利，人和，三者不得，雖勝有殃
Translation:
Time, space and people, if we cannot get all three, even if victorious, it could still become unfortunate.

MengZi and SunZi, are both military strategists.  When they made these quotes, they had this in mind:
• Tian Shi 天時as in Timing and season;
• DiLi 地利 as in the landform that is beneficial to fighting a battle;
• RenHe 人和 as in getting the support of the united people. (soldiers).

So, when we see this phrase coming from the military angle, we know that it still need to have the three ingredients in perfect unison to get the desired results.

Now let us go into the Tian Di Ren of Fengshui practice. 
• Tian is Time,
• Di is space, and
• Ren is people.

Tian Di Ren in Fengshui can also be explained in many different aspects.
One example is, in the LuoPan – the DiPan Earth Plate.  Each trigram governs three mountains. The mountains are Tian, Ren and Di.

In the real time practice of Fengshui, when we talk about Tian Di Ren, we must know that we are in fact using the three main ingredients to manage Qi for use by someone or by group of people. 

If we do not have this three ingredients in unison and in used in harmony, then we could be like what SunZi said, “…..雖勝有殃 even if victorious, it could still become unfortunate.”

Fengshui Tian Di Ren:
The three main ingredients when doing Fengshui  -- Tian Di Ren means;
• Tian as in Time…… Luck periods, seasons, climate, date and time
• Di as in landform… dragons, meridians, Xue, etc……
• Ren as in People… the person doing the Fengshui and people being affected

So, ultimately what does this mean? 

It means to use the Fengshui LiQi (compass) methods combined with the Landform (forms and features), and including the Bazi of the person (client) involved, that contains information of the favored and abhorred elements.
Bazi, in plain words, is the life fate structure of a person, and in it has crucial information of what the person needs and what the person must avoid.
The element that a person needs is called the YongShen 用神.

The element that a person fears and must avoid is the JiShen 忌神.
Why the need to know the Yongshen and Jishen of a person before doing his Fengshui?

The answer is very simple and logical:
try to give him what he needs and try to prevent what he fears from affecting him.

You might say, Fengshui and Bazi are two different things.

Yes, they are two different subjects, but, Fengshui affects people. 
Even though they are different subjects within Chinese Metaphysics, together they have a common philosophical basis from the YiJing.  Both need and rely on one most crucial and essential ingredient -- Qi.

Qi is something that is very difficult to explain and understand.  Those who had read my lesson on Qi, would know what I am talking about.

Everything on Earth relies on Qi.  This reliance on Qi makes it imperative for Fengshui practitioners to understand that when you perform an audit and recommend remedies, you cannot run away from using Tian Di Ren and the three mandatory ingredients in your work.

Here are two examples on why Bazi is crucial in Fengshui work.

Example 1:
A Fengshui master, using Flying Stars Fengshui to do Fengshui for a client. 
The Fengshui master did not see the clients Bazi and did not know the person does not like to have Fire qi come into his life in any way.

Assuming it is period 7.  The Fengshui master chose a south facing house N3N3/S2S3, for him, even recommended the main door to be in the center façade with stars 7, 7 and 2.

All these are Fire stars and are the client’s most feared element………
do you suppose the client can live comfortably in that house?

Example 2:
Given fact 1: Owners A and B are very good and successful business people who had made money elsewhere. So, assuming business prowess is their forte, managing a business successfully is a done deal.

Given fact 2: one shop called shop X, same Fengshui, no changes done.

Owner A after losing money in a shop X, sold this shop to owner B. 
After sometime, owner B started making money comfortably.

Does this mean the Fengshui of shop X is not suitable to Bazi of owner A and is more suitable to Bazi of owner B?

Or is it something else?

Ends

Copyright Moon L. Chin 2022

”That's a relief. I understand I do need wood but it's such a surprise to learn I also need fire... I was told it's one of my unfavorable elements. Could you please enlighten me on that?”

You cannot use fire. And wood is the last of your useful elements. What you need is metal and water.

When I first started learning from my first Sifu, at the beginning, as he was teaching me hard skills, he also taught me soft skills.

Soft skills are very important in the skill-set of a Metaphysics consultant.

When I taught a course in Singapore, I only found out that most Fengshui academies either do not teach important soft skills or maybe just touch superficially on certain types of soft skills,

Here is how it happened:
Many years ago, I taught a course of GuiGuZi card divination in Singapore, and, at the beginning of the course, I talked about the important soft skills that a diviner should possess.

During the tea break two Singaporean students came up to me and told me that they were never taught these soft skills by the fengshui school that they been to.

This surprised me a bit because I thought that all fengshui masters who teach fengshui, bazi or divination, should have the knowledge of soft skills and should impart these skills to his/her students.

Anyway, fast forward to when I started to teach professionally.  In every course that I teach, I would mention these soft skills  -- that all metaphysicians should have.

What my first Sifu taught me was:
A Chinese metaphysician should have integrity, be honest, have ethics and morals, and must use his skills to help others.

That is why, until today, I followed his advice, and had done many Pro Bono jobs, especially for the poor and the unfortunate.

Having said all these, may I make another post -- a teaching on the type of soft skill mentioned here, and was taught to my students.

thank you.





 

 

Yes, one of the basic requirements in fengshui practice is to know and understand Yin and Yang.

Every Fengshui method has its pros and cons, but in modern days, some fengshui methods, when it comes to application of fundamentals such as Yin and Yang Qi, are not objective enough.  Most are quite subjective in their application.

Having said that, I wish to point out that the original XuanKong Flying Stars fengshui as propagated by Jiang Da Hong and probably one or two generations of his students and grand-students were quite complete and comprehensive, in the sense that they place great importance on LuanTou (landform and forms and features of the surrounding).

When Sheng Ju Ren copied Zhang Zhong San's XuanKong flying stars practice notes, many important teachings and secret practices were not recorded in that note book. Zhang Zhong San is not stupid. He would not have given away his lineage secrets for a few taels of gold.

In my research into fengshui history, methods and practices, I dug out many important and 'damning' information (LoL) -- some are very interesting.

For example, the an important information that I researched and found out is that Yang Jun Song did not propagate XuanKong fengshui. 

And XuanKong DaGua fengshui is only a few hundred years old!!!

I might write about this in future.

MoonChin.

Dear forumers,

I had translated this article for a Taiwan master couple of years back who posted in his website, and I had it posted in my blog for my followers to read:
www.moonchin.com.my

I am sharing it here with those who like Fengshui and landform.


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以河川長短論中國建都及朝代興衰
A DISCUSSION BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE MAJOR RIVERS, ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CAPITAL CITIES AND THE RISE AND FALL OF CHINA’S ANCIENT DYNASTIES.

--- by Master Guo Fen Ling (Taiwan)
---translation by Moon L. Chin


摘要 ABSTRACT

This article is a research on the effects of landform on the duration of ancient dynasties in China.
China’s mountainous landscape is huge and vast.  Its mountainous region in West is divided into 3 major ranges: the northern range, the central range and the southern range.

Among the three the central range is the largest, followed by the north range and lastly by the south range.  Historically, many of China’s dynasties that established their capitals in cities within the central range region can last longer.

Those that established their capitals in the northern range had middling length of duration.  Lastly those that established in the southern range had the shortest duration, some dynasties ended almost as soon as it had started.

Historical facts:
•   There were 11 dynasties established in the central range with a total duration of 2553 years
•   There were 4 dynasties established in the northern range with a total duration of 1023 years
•   There were 8 dynasties established in the northern range with a total duration of 528 years
•   The Shang dynasty established its capital in what is present day Guide city of Henan province totaling 644 years
•   The Eastern Zhou dynasty established its capital in what is present day Luoyang city of Henan province with a length of 523 years, much longer than the Xia dynasty’s 440 years.

Other than this, cities such as Fenggao, Xian, Luoyang, Chengdu, Yedu, Kaifeng were also capitals of different dynasties, all of these were in the central range region.  Especially Xian and Chengdu were used as a capital the many times, with durations of up to hundreds of years.

Capital cities that were established in the northern range are Anyi and Beijing.  Among them the Xia dynasty capital in Anyi is the longest with duration of 440 years.

In the southern range there were Nanjing and Hangzhou.  There were quite a number of dynasties that established their capitals in this region but most of their duration were short, only in the tens of years.   The only exceptions were the Eastern Jin dynasty that lasted for 104 years and the Southern Song dynasty that lasted 153 years.  These two were the only exceptional lengthy dynasties in the southern range.
A DISCUSSION BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE MAJOR RIVERS, ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CAPITAL CITIES AND THE RISE AND FALL OF CHINA’S ANCIENT DYNASTIES.


In conclusion, the longer the mountain range the further the fortune of the dynasty can last, and the shorter the mountain range the dynasty’s fortune becomes shorter.

關鍵字Crucial words: rise and fall of dynasties; length of rivers; Tie Dan Zi

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绪论  CONCLUDING REMARKS

This article’s main discussion point is on a dynasty’s rise and fall, its prosperity and decline, and the connection with the length of the mountain range and the accompanying rivers.

Yang JunSong said: “before observing the mountains, first observe the rivers”.

Water is the manifestation of Dragon Qi.  By judging the volume of incoming water you can guess the dragon qi.  Wherever there is water, there shall be dragon qi.  Abundance of water equals abundance of qi, lack of water means qi is in decline.

The volume of water can tell whether the dragon is a main range or a branch range.  If the water is long thus the dragon is also long.  If the water is short, the dragon is also short.

Main ranges normally have large rivers accompanying.  For example mainland China’s Yangtze and Yellow river had its origin in the Qinghai plateau’s Tanggula mountain, Gelandandong mountain and Bayan Har mountain.

Both rivers flow east into the sea. Since both river has similar origin, the water volume is also similar.  Thus Yangtze has total length of 6380 meters is China’s longest river and Yellow river at 5464 meters long is the second longest.

Sandwiched between these two rivers is the largest and longest of the 3 main ranges – the central range.  Historically, from Xia dynasty to Qing dynasty, kingdoms that established capitals in this central region had a total duration of 2553 years.

The Yalu river, originating in the south eastern part of JiLin province in the north, exits into the Yellow sea via Liaoning prefecture’s Dandong port city, is the northern most shore line of China. 

Its total length is 795 meters.  Sandwiched between the Yalu river and the Yellow river is the northern range.  Historically, dynasties that established their capitals here had a total duration of 1023 years.

Guangdong province’s Zhujiang river has total length of 2400 meters, is China’s third longest river.  The southern range is sandwiched between the Yangtze and Zhujiang rivers, and dynasties established here lasted a total of 528 years.
A DISCUSSION BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE MAJOR RIVERS, ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CAPITAL CITIES AND THE RISE AND FALL OF CHINA’S ANCIENT DYNASTIES.


Considering the Zhujiang is longer than the Yalu river and the southern range supposedly should be second only to the central range, so why was it that since the Qin dynasty, most of the kingdoms established in the south are shortlived?

Take Nanjing as an example: its ancient name was Jinling and was also called Jianye.  It was in close proximity to the Yangtze that flows thousands of kilometers, so Nanjing’s position geographically should be thick with ‘heavenly son’ qi because of the thousands of kilometer mountain range.

Capitals established here should last a long time, but since the Qin dynasty, kingdoms that established their capitals in Nanjing are mostly short-lived.  The researched reason is probably because of Qin Shi Huang ordered the dredging and opening up of the Huai river, thus causing the land luck to be changed.  Therefore Nanjing’s ‘heavenly son’ qi was lost resulting in capitals established here cannot last long.


圖 1(中國大陸三大幹龍)
Diagram 1.  Mainland China’s three main ranges.



A DISCUSSION BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE MAJOR RIVERS, ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CAPITAL CITIES AND THE RISE AND FALL OF CHINA’S ANCIENT DYNASTIES.


研究方法 THE RESEARCH METHOD

The research in this article, takes into consideration human factors or human influenced actions that changed the shape or features of the landform under discussion, thus changing the ‘land luck’.  As an example: cities such as Nanjing, Kaifeng, etc. these are specifically discussed separately. 

The rest of the ancient cities are discussed and categorized according to the mountain range it was located in.  The evidence to prove this article are all listed out in the charts provided, that provides that dates of the rise and fall of the various dynasties.

Southern Tang dynasty’s imperial master He LinTong wrote a FengShui book 鐵彈子地理元機 (Iron bullet secrets of landform), and during the Ming dynasty era, a master YouGao commented on the section 形氣章 (form and qi chapter) and said: “Qin dynasty imperial master divined JinLing have got heavenly son qi, thus dredged (Qin) Huai (river) to deplete it”. 

The meaning of this sentence is: during the reign of Qin Shi Huang, the imperial master in charge of astronomy and metaphysics, made a divination and found that JinLing (present day Nanjing) have got the power of very auspicious qi described as ‘heavenly son qi’, that is the suited as the abode of emperors, and surely can produce an extraordinary leader that can rule and unite the country.  Qin Shi Huang wanted to rule the country all by himself and his descendants forever, thus he ordered for the dredging of the Huai river to deplete the heavenly son qi of Nanjing.

Why is it that the dredging of Huai river can deplete the ‘heavenly son qi’ of Nanjing?  This is because the Huai river’s  ‘Qi power source’ comes from its flow from the south east crossing the south and then towards the southwest on towards the west of Nanjing, and then meeting with the Yangtze river .   

This conveniently cut off the qi meridian of the MaoShan, in the process it severed both of Nanjing’s embraces NiuTou mountain and Zhong mountain from its main qi meridian source MaoShan.  In the end causing Nanjing city, that had a ‘thousand mile dragon meridian’ that could provide endless qi, unable to receive the noble qi because the meridian was cut-off .

Thus, although the Yangtze and Huai river confluence is like a belt protecting Nanjing, and its landform features looks sentimental, it could only enjoy the fortune wealth qi but unable to enjoy the noble qi that could enhance a dynasty power and influence for long time.

Ever since the opening of the Huai river cutting off Nanjing’s power qi meridian source, among the dynasties that established capital here, only eastern Wu and Eastern Jin dynasties lasted a bit longer with a total of 104 years combined.


A DISCUSSION BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE MAJOR RIVERS, ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CAPITAL CITIES AND THE RISE AND FALL OF CHINA’S ANCIENT DYNASTIES.

Although ZhuGe Liang and the father of modern China Sun Yat Sen had both praised the beautiful landscape of Nanjing, it is because they only see the external beauty but did not know about its (landform qi) deficiency that changed Nanjing’s land luck.  Ever since, Nanjing could not be a country’s capital city that has the luck to last a long time.  Thus one can see that the changes in landform shape and features, whether it is man-made or natural, can cause the land luck to be changed too.

Kaifeng city in Henan province was one of the ancient capital cities.  Its ancient name was BianLiang, and was capital city for several dynasties: Warring states kingdoms Wei, Later Liang, Later Jin, Later Zhou, Northern Song and Jin dynasty.  The city is hugging the northern entrance of the Huai river and is an important location.  KaiFeng is located in the confluence of three rivers – Gulu river, Huiji river and Huai river.  It was once a thriving prosperous city, but later the silting and clogging up of Gulu river, its prosperity waned and disappeared with it.

We can know from the above two examples: the changes in landform, irrespective whether natural or man-made also can cause the changes in land luck, and if a country’s capital is situated there, inadvertently the country’s luck cannot escape its effects.

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