Feng Shui and the Lo-Shu Grid 7-9

Continuing on with numbers and elements around the compass from seven to nine.

Remember all odd numbers represent yang energies and all even numbers represent yin energies even when the area itself may be the opposite. 

When energising locations around the compass you can be imaginative when using symbolic Feng Shui.  Use the number of the area to decide the number of enhancers you place there.  For example; 1 water feature, 2 crystal hearts, 3 plants.  Whether you live in a traditional, modern or contemporary home; whether you like lots of trinkets on display or a minimalist design you can still incorporate symbolic enhancements for each area with careful thought and planning.  These do not have to be oriental, they can be western symbols associated with each aspiration.  

  

Number Seven (7) – The number of the west and the youngest daughter (Tui) this is the small metal area.  The number 7 Red Star in the practice of Flying Star Feng Shui is currently an inauspicious number connected to violence and robbery; anything connected with metal.  However, particularly in the western world it is historically a lucky number.  It is also a lucky number for anyone who has it as their Kua number.  7 is said to be a number relating to wisdom.  Seeing it on a regular basis is an indication that you should be focusing on your goals and not be diverted from your ultimate aim.  Doing this will ensure you will succeed.  The west is also the area relating to the family, to descendants luck.  

Number Eight (8) – The auspicious number 8 is an indicator of wealth and prosperity coming in to the home when it is correctly enhanced.  Its location is the small earth area of the northeast, the area of Ken (the youngest son of the family.)  It is the education and study luck location.  Because of its similarity with the infinity symbol, or interlinking rings, the number 8 is a cyclical number indicating a recurrence of positive experiences.  It will also bring good fortune to the youngest son of the home as well as any member of the family undertaking further education or learning of any kind in college, university or in a work situation.  

Number Nine (9) – Nine is a number which signifies completion.  It is a magnifying number and this suggests that a double 9 will multiply the good fortune associated with this auspicious number.  Its home is the south, a part of the home that represents fame and recognition.  It is the area of the middle daughter (Li) and when properly enhanced the south will bring good fortune to all the family but more specifically, the daughters, the females of the family.  When the number 9 appears on a regular basis it is an indicator to be confident in your ventures with assurance of their ultimate success.  The fire element is associated with the south as is the majestic horse. You can also introduce plants into the area to feed the fire of success.  Take care of this important number, a number that can neither be destroyed or changed to bring your desires to ultimate fruition.   

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Feng Shui and the Lo-Shu Grid

There is much to discover about the nine numbers of Feng Shui synonymous with the original Lo-Shu Grid or the Magic Square as it is also known.  When Feng Shui was first conceived the Lo-Shu Grid numbers were placed in different locations around the grid.  For example the 2 and the 6 were placed south and north respectively.  This was known as the Early Heaven Arrangement or Yin Feng Shui and the grid was, and still is in some cases, primarily used to determine burial sites.  The ancient Chinese believed that ensuring an auspicious burial site would bring good fortune to future generations of the family.  The Early Heaven Arrangement is used in Flying Star Feng Shui, a Formula which deals with the dimension of time.

 

However the Lo-Shu Grid now more commonly used is known as the Later Heaven Arrangement or Yang Feng Shui; Feng Shui of the living.  

As mentioned in an earlier post each line in the Lo-Shu Grid, straight or diagonal, adds up to 15 which is the number of days it takes for the moon to wax and then to wane.  The total of all the numbers adds up to 45 which when divided by 3 brings us back to 15. The 3 x 3 grid gives us the nine numbers of Feng Shui the odd numbers of which are Yang and the even numbers are Yin.

When the Yin/Yang symbol is superimposed over the Lo-Shu Grid we begin to see more of the balance and interaction of Yin and Yang. 

Adding the numbers opposite each other excluding the centre number 5, both in a straight line and diagonally, on the above grid the total is always 10.  They also combine Yin and Yang.  For example 8, is located in a Yang area and its opposite number, 2, is located in a Yin area.  

The number 8 is also a Yin number resulting in an element of Yang within the Yin.

10 is said to signify completion of a cycle and when we reduce this to a single number it begins a new cycle.  It also represents the basis of all computer code, the binary system.

 

The number 5 in the centre has an equal balance of Yin and Yang.

The Yin/Yang symbol is cyclical moving as it does from winter in the north (1) to late winter/early spring (8), spring (3), early summer (4), midsummer (9), early autumn (2), autumn (7), to late autumn/early winter (6.) 

This clockwise cyclical movement also refers to the path of the sun from its lowest point during the night (1), early morning (8), sunrise (3), late morning (4), midday (9), afternoon (2), early evening (7), to late evening/early night (6.)

This creates yin (waxing) and yang (waning.)

The central number 5 is the Tai Chi (the centre) of the grid and it represents the heart of the home when it is superimposed over a house plan.  Add any of the other numbers to 5, reduce them to a single number where necessary and the Lo Shu grid is complete.  And it is this grid that forms the basis of the Eight Mansions (Eight Houses or Eight Palaces) Formula of Feng Shui; the personalised formula based on the birth date of an individual.

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Feng Shui Auspicious Numbers

The numbers one to nine in Feng Shui are identified by colours, one of the Five Elements and individual meanings.  As well as appearing around the points of the compass as determined by the original Lo Shu Grid, they also reside in the constellation of the Big Dipper; Ursa Major.

The most auspicious numbers in Feng Shui are always the White Stars 1, 6 and 8.  This indicates a link between the Magic Ratio of 1:1.618 and the White Stars.

White Stars

Number Eight (8) We are currently in period eight of Flying Star Feng Shui and this means the number eight star is shining at its brightest from 2004-2024.  Always a lucky number much sought after in the Far East, its strength increases during this current period and when activated correctly has the potential to invite great good fortune.

The original compass location for this white star is the northeast which is also the location of the youngest son of the family.  Your youngest son can benefit greatly from activating this number.

To take full advantage of this earth element number, which is located in the centre of the period eight Lo Shu Grid; the centre of your home; infuse your home with light (which enhances earth,) sound and movement. Enhance your home, especially the centre, with the earth colours of ochre, pale yellow and shades of brown to infuse your space with the strength of this most auspicious of stars.

Avoid an excess of the metal element in the northeast and the centre as metal weakens the element of earth.

 Number One (1) Represents water and water means money, or wealth gained from your career

This star is second behind the number 8 because in Flying Star Feng Shui it will return to the centre from 2044-2064 when it will become a powerful and auspicious star to activate.

As it appears at the beginning of the 180-year Flying Star cycle the number one is said to represent new beginnings and new opportunities.

The original compass location for the number one white star is the north.  This is the location of the middle son.  When this star appears in its original location of the north the middle son will benefit and when he is working may well result in increased income coming from his chosen career.

Enhancing the north with water or metallic objects is auspicious (metal creates water in the Five Elements.)  Avoid placing earth element objects in the north as earth destroys water in the Five Elements.

Number Six (6) Is a metal element star and its original location in the Lo Shu Grid is the northwest.  In Flying Stars Feng Shui this number is furthest away from where we are now so its effects are weakened.  However the northwest is the area of the trigram Chien, the male, Heaven and Mentor. 

Chien and the metal element of the area signifies gold, riches and prosperity.  When this number ‘flies’ into its northwest home it represents good fortune for the man of the house. 

Enhancing this area with big metal, the big metal of our modern day technology such as televisions, games consoles, music systems, creates sound and movement and keeping the area light and bright will activate the power of this important star.  Just a word of caution, while the area should be bright, excessive bright lights or worse still, fire, are to be avoided.  Fire destroys metal in the Five Elements and this would cause any good fortune to go up in smoke.

The northwest of your home will also benefit from being painted white which is the ultimate Yang colour incorporating as it does all the other colours of the spectrum.  White is also one of the colours of the area along with grey, gold and bronze, metallic colours that will activate the positive features of the area.

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LynC

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Period Eight in FENG SHUI

In a more advanced practice of Feng Shui known as Flying Stars, the numbers in the original Lo Shu Grid as shown below ‘fly’ around the grid in a set pattern and create what is known as ‘Time Dimension Feng Shui.’

                                    S

4	9	2
3	5	6
8	1	7

                                               

                          

                                   N

The numbers in the grid move in the same set sequence regardless of the period, therefore the number 1 (North) flies to the Southwest, the number 2 (Southwest) flies to East, the number 3 (East) flies to the Southeast and so on.

This current period of eight places the number ‘8’ in the centre grid and it runs from 2004 to 2023.

The number eight is an Earth number and the central grid is an Earth area.  The number 8 in the original grid is situated in the Northeast and that is an Earth area signifying the mountain.  The mountain implies solidarity and stability rather than change and that is the prevailing energy for this 20-year period.

As well as flying stars for each of nine 20-year periods, there are also annual and monthly flying star changes occurring.

All of these changes have an influence on the energy of a space, therefore affecting the balance of the energy in your home and work.

As an example, in the current 20-year period the centre grid is currently housing the strong number 8 star, which is the ultimate auspicious star in Feng Shui, also known as one of the three ‘white’ stars, so enhancing the centre of your home with earth items such as crystals or pebbles is beneficial.  

In the 2012 Flying Star chart the number 6 star also an auspicious ‘white’ star is in the central grid. 

This is a metal star which also represents heaven luck.   This is auspicious for the whole family as it invites powerfully auspicious heaven energy into the home.

In the exhaustive cycle of the Five Elements Metal exhausts Earth so this does have the effect of weakening the powerful number 8 star.  It therefore makes it doubly important to enhance the centre with earth elements to maintain its strength. 

By introducing the Fire element in the form of light into the centre, the Fire is enhancing the Earth and therefore strengthening it.  The most auspicious combination to create this strength is a crystal chandelier, which represents the best of Fire and Earth through light and crystals.

At the same time as enhancing the element of Earth in the centre the Fire is also ‘destroying’ the Metal of the number 6 star.

The Five Elements is a fundamental part of all Feng Shui practice as it is necessary to analyse the effect each number or ‘star’ has on each point of the compass.

Each of the twelve lunar months will also have an effect on the energy in any area so by having a good working knowledge of the Five Elements it is possible to make the most of the very strong central star ‘8’ in this current 20-year period.

Your home has its own Lo Shu Grid based on when it was built or last renovated.  To retain positive Yang Energy in your home it is recommended that homes be updated to bring them into the current period of new positive energy.  Any home built since 2004 or renovated by changing the flooring, the roof and the front door will benefit from the energies of this current period of eight.

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Maximise FENG SHUI with Numbers

Numbers play a very important part in the practice of Feng Shui.

There are nine numbers, 1-9 and each of them are allocated a primary and secondary location around the compass, the final number takes the central position in the original grid, known as the Lo Shu Grid, and it was set out as follows:

                                    S

4	9	2
3	5	6
8	1	7

                       

These nine numbers, among many other things, have an impact on the location they occupy, on each person based on their personal Kua number, on their animal signs at birth, the seasons of the year, the annual animal signs and on enhancing or exhausting particular areas to maximise personal Feng Shui practice.

The numbers and the points of the compass are as follows:

1 – North – Water - Career

2 – Southwest – Earth – Love and Relationships

3 – East – Wood - Health

4 – Southeast – Wood - Wealth

5 – Centre - Earth

6 – Northwest – Metal - Mentor

7 – West – Metal – Family Harmony

8 – Northeast – Earth – Education and Study

9 – South – Fire – Fame and Recognition

Personal Kua numbers first of all identify whether you are an East or a West group person and secondly show which four of the compass directions are auspicious for you and which four are inauspicious for you.

One thing to remember is that individual auspicious locations will likely have a different meaning to those listed above.  The above list represents what is known in Feng Shui as the Eight Aspirations Formula.  The exciting thing is however that the above locations, together with your own individual auspicious directions can both be enhanced to activate for any desired aspiration.

In the more advanced practice of Flying Star Feng Shui the nine numbers ‘fly’ around the compass points in a set sequence during a particular 20-year time period (the current period being from 2004-2023, which is period 8 and sees the number eight in the central position on the grid); on an annual basis (the central Flying Star number for 2012 is 6 and this joins the number eight star in the central position); and on a monthly lunar basis.  Each of these numbers take the element associated with it to the square it enters.  This changes the energy in each of the locations, enhancing, exhausting or destroying the resident element of an area each year.

Once you have a good working knowledge of the Five Elements (check them out at www.abundance-chi.com) you can use the numbers associated with your Kua number to maximise the aspirations important to you and suppress the negative energies of the numbers inauspicious for you.

The four auspicious locations based on your Kua number refer to your overall wealth and good fortune, your health, your love life and your education and personal growth.

In the basic practice of Feng Shui, to allow you to maximise the use of these auspicious directions it is important to discover the ‘resident’ number of each of your auspicious directions and the element relating to that area.

Next time – O-Office

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