I was distracted by a recent Feng-shui job in Braemar Hill Mansions, picking birthday for twin boys in Hong Kong, and a nomenclature job for a new born baby in Taiwan which of course I picked the date together with my Tudi, Anna. Sorry that I really can’t putting on a blog every day. Second thought, a blog a day in Chinese metaphysics actually is quite heavy for me. Anyway, will try to put up as many as I could.
Every turn of the year, we are curious to know what is good or bad for us in the coming year. Most people will just look into the Yearly Flying Stars to determine especially which directions would bring them fortune of career, money, health, and sometimes even just to look for way to improve people relationship. Most of them will look up through the Flying Star Chart for next year. But, let’s first look at where the Tai-sui (太歲, or Governing Emperor of the Year) is.
For the year of 2009, it is a Ji-Chou 己丑 in terms of Sexagenary Cycle, so the Tai-sui is located at the direction of Chou. Hence, the Three Yearly Evil Spirits (or 三煞 “San-Sha”) are located at the directions of 寅 Yin, 卯 Mao, and 辰 Chen. You may want to ask, what is San-Sha and how to determine the San-Sha?San-Sha in fact is a combination of 劫煞 “Jie-Sha”, 災煞 “Zai-Sha”, and 歲煞 “Sui-Sha”. Since they always show up in either the direction of East, South, West, or North every year, so people used to call them “San-Sha” rather than call their individual names. The directions of San-Sha is determined by the Year Branch. For the year of Chou, it’s part of the Trine of Metal 三合金局 (“Si-You-Chou” 巳酉丑). Metal is for the West, so the San-Sha has to be in the East which is represented by 寅 Yin, 卯 Mao, 辰 Chen.
According to 《協紀辨方》(“The Definition of Spirits”), 劫煞 “Jie-Sha” is considered as the negative “Qi” of Tai-sui and represents slaughter. No renovating nor building of house should be attempted in the direction of Jie-Sha. 災煞 “Zai-sha” is considered as the negative “Qi” of Wu-xing and represents illness and disease. No attempt of renovating nor building house should be carried out in this direction. Finally 歲煞 “Sui-Sha” is the negative “Qi” of the four seasons which is usually referred as 四季, the Four Ji and represents physical damage to children or husbandry. Again, no attempt for renovating nor building of house, immigration, or tunneling.
In terms of the 24 Sittings which normally used in Feng-shui, Yin, Mao, and Chen are interlaced with 甲 Jia and 乙Yi. Therefore, Jia and Yi are also not good for renovating and building of house as well.
Now, let’s us take a look at the Year Flying Star Chart for the Year 2009.
As the Winter Solstice of 2008 approaches, the Yearly Flying Star #9 for the year 2009 will be entering the centre chamber, and as such the Yearly Flying Star #1 which people normally relate to relationship with others will be in the chamber of Qian, and #6 which people normally relate to fortune of career will be in the chamber of Kun, and #8 which people normally relate to fortune of money will be in the chamber of Xun. Last but not the least, the most trouble maker Flying Star #5 which is considered as by most of the people, Flying Star #5 will be in the chamber of Kan.
4 comments:
Oh no, I was going to extend the house to the East next year. Would it be a no no then?
Oh yes, San-Sha could be nasty, but hey, there is San-Sha every year. We can't just sitting there without doing anything which needs to be done. So, don't worry too much about it. The work around is that you select a good day and start from the good direction and leave the direction of where the San-Sha is at the last stage. That would minimize the impact.
"...select a good day and start from the good direction..." <---QMDJ?
Don't necessarily be QMDJ. In Fengshui, we use sun's ecliptic longitude to determine if the date and direction are good for a specific sitting/facing.
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