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by Master Thomas Coxon
Authentic Feng Shui
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What are “Personal Directions” and why is it important for you to know where your good and bad ones are ?
We all know that our planet has a North pole at one end and a South pole at the other, with magnetic energy flowing between them. What’s less well known is that as you rotate slowly round (starting at North going round through East, through South,
through West and back to North again), the magnetic energy flowing around you has different effects on you as you face each different direction. What’s even less well known is that the same directions affect people differently.
So why is that important?
As each direction gets activated, by you facing it, or sleeping with your feet pointing that way, or because the main entry door to your house is there, or you’re in the corresponding part of the building, you get strongly influenced. How you get influenced depends on you (or to be exact, when and in some cases where, you were born) so some influences will be beneficial whilst others are likely to be harmful.
The benefit of a lifelong Personal Direction Chart is that it tells you what influences you personally have available to use throughout your life and more importantly where they are. For example, if you have extremely beneficial influences for Income, or Luck, or Business in your chart, wouldn’t you like to know where they are so that you can benefit from them? Or if you have influences which can make you ill, or destroy your marriage or your career, wouldn’t you like to know where they are so that you can minimise your exposure to them?
Think that directions affecting you is a bit far fetched? For about a decade one of our business clients has been routinely allocating desks to their staff so that the staff members can each face a personally beneficial direction whilst they work (as well as normal business considerations like being with the rest of their team). It started as an experiment, but they’ve carried on doing it because they’ve found that it benefits the performance of the business.
Principles are nearly always easy, practice can sometimes get a bit more complicated, and in this case it does.
There are three main ways of calculating lifelong direction charts for a person, each yields different information, and it’s not at all unusual to have a beneficial influence from one chart in the same direction as a less than useful, or even harmful one on a chart calculated by one of the other methods (In some ways that’s useful as the beneficial influences on one chart can help to mitigate the harmful effects from another, but knowing where the harmful ones are and avoiding them when possible is best of all).
So here is a summary of the three principle methods of calculating life long personal
direction charts:-
- First there is the method based on the 9 count (often referred to as the LoShu Number,
East Group/West Group, 9 Star Ki etc.)
It’s very popular with authors and many books and websites explain how to use it. Some practitioners charge for calculating it, others (such as this website) provide a free calculator. Although the influences it describes are very much weaker than the other two methods, it’s advantage is that it’s easy to use -at its simplest you just have to remember your four good directions - the rest are bad ones! Although the influences are weak, over a long period the benefits do accumulate. It’s the method used by our client to position their staff for the last 10 years. - At the other extreme of power and influence are the methods based on the hexagrams.
Using them will often succeed when everything else has failed, and they were much beloved by the Chinese emperors because of it. However, unlike the 9 count method, which divides the circle into 8 segments, the hexagram methods divide the circle into 64 segments, and further subdivide each of those into 6 parts. Some of the hexagram methods need several things to be simultaneously located in several related sectors for them to work.
So the 9 count method uses 8 sectors each 45 degrees wide, compared to the hexagram methods 384 sectors each less than 1 degree wide, which makes the hexagram methods very demanding on accuracy and very susceptible to fluctuations in the Earth’s magnetic field. For the Chinese emperors that was fine -they just employed practitioners full time to keep check on everything every day! But for general everyday use for those of us who are not emperors they’re not usually suitable. - In the middle are the methods based on a persons Chinese Horoscope (so you need to
know your time & place, as well as date of birth).
These methods divide the circle into 12 segments each 30 degrees wide, so it’s pretty easy to know where everything is, and they are far more influential that the 9 count influences -not quite as influential as the hexagram methods but almost.
There are 144 main influences out of which your horoscope will have 12, plus another 30-40 secondary influences which might also be present.
In short, it’s like having the best of both of the first two methods -ease of use, combined with powerful influences. Calculating the chart is not so easy though, but once you have the chart, using it is, and the chart lasts for your lifetime.
The chart is useful for knowing where your beneficial influences are for use in everyday life. But if you are seeking a new home or business premises it is particularly important to find one which activates one of your beneficial influences, or at the very least, avoids activating a harmful one.
It’s the chart for this third method that we are offering to calculate for you.
So what do we provide ?
We provide you with a circular chart showing the 12 main lifelong influences which you have in your own horoscope together with a tick and cross system appraisal of each direction taking into account the secondary influences as well, to indicate how good or bad each direction is. We also provide you with explanation sheets of how to use the chart and if you have a specific application in mind, we can also advise you specifically about using the chart for that purpose.
Our Personal Direction Chart service is designed to be affordable, so please contact us with details for a no obligation quotation.
If there is anything you would like to know, please feel free to ask us.
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If you could benefit your income, career, marriage or children, just by facing the right way, or using the right bedroom wouldn’t you like to know where that was ?
