TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction...9 FENG SHUI The entry point...13 From Kan Yu to Feng Shui...14 What is Feng Shui...14 Luan Tou and Li Qi...16 Feng Shui schools...16 The Great Feng Shui masters...18 The concept of Qi...19 Qi stages...20 Yin and Yang...22 The Five Elements or Wu Xing...24 Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water...25 Generation or Birth cycle...26 Destruction or Controlling cycle...26 The Cosmic Trinity...27 The Four Images...28 The Eight Trigrams...29 Basic qualities of the Eight Trigrams...30 Trigram arrangements: Xian Tian versus Hou Tian...31 He Tu and Luo Shu...34 Chapter 1 Summary...37 OUTSIDE YOUR HOME The music of the landscape...39 Qi creates the music of natural landforms...41 The influence of the landscape...42 Finding the perfect site...42 The importance of mountains in Feng Shui...45 Five Elements five types of mountains...47 The Four Celestial Creatures...49 The Dragons...51 The importance of water in Feng Shui...54 Creating a Water Dragon...57 The influence of the wind...58 Chapter 2 Summary...59 CLOSE TO YOUR HOME The Music of the Surroundings...61 The music of the cityscape...63 Forms in the urban environment...63 Where we want to live and what we want to see...66 Where we don t want to live and what we don t want to see...67 Poisoned Arrows and Dead Qi...69 Chapter 3 Summary...71 INSIDE YOUR HOME Let the Qi flow in...73 The importance of the interior...75 Elements that affect the flow of Qi...77 Missing spaces and extensions...79 Missing sectors...79 Extensions...82 Internal Sha...86 The main entrance...86 Basic guidelines for room allocation...88 Basic guidelines for furniture arrangement...88 Qi flow: Room by room...89
Living room...89 Bedroom...89 Kitchen...91 Dining room...92 The study and home office...92 Bathrooms, staircases and utility rooms...93 Chapter 4 Summary...94 MAPPING THE PROPERTY The groundwork...97 What you need to know before you can get ahead...99 The facing and sitting of the property...100 No compass, no Feng Shui: the importance of reading direction...102 Maps and declination...105 The floor plan...107 How to find the center of the property...108 The pie or the grid...108 From Eight Directions to Twenty-four Mountains...112 24 Mountains...113 Beware of the Void Line...114 Locations versus directions...116 Personalization: Your Life Gua...117 Life Gua and the four personal favorable directions...119 Life Gua and the four personal unfavorable directions...121 Chapter 5 Summary...123 EIGHT HOUSES Eight ways to let your home shine...125 Eight Houses or Ba Zhai...127 How to find favorable and unfavorable locations...128 Assessing the strength of locations...130 The Eight Houses Diagrams...131 The four favorable locations in detail...133 The four unfavorable locations in detail...134 Placement of doors, hallways, bedrooms, living rooms and studies...135 The kitchen, bathroom, utility room and wardrobes...137 Person versus house...138 Chapter 6 Summary...141 FLYING STARS When the Stars twinkle for you...143 Xuan Kong Fei Xing (Flying Stars)...145 The Nine Stars - basic qualities...147 The Nine Stars in depth...148 Favorable and unfavorable Stars...151 Basic Stars combinations...151 Nine Stars in three Periods and eight Palaces...153 Special combinations...154 How the Stars fly, degrees, sub-directions and polarities...155 Three Cycles, Nine Periods...157 The Flying Stars chart...159 How to make a Flying Stars chart...160 The Facing and Sitting Stars in the Central Palace...162 The Replacement Charts...164 The Earth Base, the Facing and Sitting Stars...166 The three most important Palaces...168 Four types of the Flying Stars charts...169 Special auspicious charts...176 Special inauspicious charts...180 The path to great wealth: Seven Stars Robbery...184 Opening the door to prosperity: The Castle Gate secret...185 Activation of Stars...189
How to strengthen or weaken the Stars with the Five Elements...191 Allocating rooms and furniture; choosing directions with Flying Stars...193 The coming of Period 9...195 Flying Stars Activations in Period 8...197 Flying Stars Activations in Period 9...198 Annual and monthly Flying Stars...199 Chapter 7 Summary...200 ONCE A YEAR Let the year dance for you...207 Annual assessment: avoiding problems, inviting opportunities...209 Annual Afflictions: how to detect, avoid and lessen their influence...210 Tai Sui...210 Sui Po...211 San Sha...212 Wu Huang...214 Star 2 and health issues...216 The Four Noble Stars...217 Flying Stars activations...218 More about Activations...219 Chapter 8 Summary...220 THE FOUR PILLARS The celestial arc of your life...223 The Four Pillars...225 Ten Stems, Twelve Branches...226 The Four Pillars Chart...229 Twelve Branches, three main categories...231 Combinations, Clashes, Harms, Punishments and Destructions...232 The Luck Cycles...236 Annual Luck...238 Three special stars...240 Activating the Special Stars...242 The Four Pillars: revealing the celestial arc of your life...243 Chapter 9 Summary...245 DATE SELECTION The structure of the fruitful action...247 The importance of Date Selection...249 Good dates, bad dates...250 What days to avoid...251 The Twelve Day Governors in Date Selection...256 Personal Date Selection: the ground rules for selecting the best dates...258 Date Selection for business success...259 Feng Shui and Date Selection...260 Xuan Kong Da Gua Date Selection...260 Chapter 10 Summary...261 A FENG SHUI GOODIE BAG Nine Flying Stars grids and Annual Flying Stars 2017-2030...265 Nine Stars, 81 combinations...271 Flying Stars Charts for the Period 7, 8, 9...283 Flying Stars Chars for the Period 7...284 Flying Stars Chars for the Period 8...286 Flying Stars Chars for the Period 9...288 Four Noble Locations and Annual Afflictions 2017-2030...291 Date Selection calendar with 12 Day Governors 2017-2030...295 24 Mountains ring...325 Feng Shui Glossary...329 About the Author...333
About the Author Althea is an author, consultant, and practitioner of Feng Shui and Four Pillars Astrology. Her formal studies began three decades ago, and carried her through south-east Asia studying with masters, and learning her craft. She worked tirelessly to unpack the ancient knowledge of these systems, which had for so many centuries been carefully concealed. All this time, she put her theory into practice in her own life. One reason the arts of Feng Shui and Four Pillars Astrology were so appealing to the author is their practical functionality in everyday life. These are not philosophical ideals (though in the highest forms they approach such). These are ways to understand and interact with the living world all around us. Currently, Althea lives in Europe; she writes daily, and consults both for individuals and corporations, and enjoys many long term clients. Althea is an experienced full time consultant and lecturer at Althea S.T. Consultants and the founder of Four Pillars, Feng Shui, Yi Jing & Xuan Kong Da Gua comprehensive study programs. Her professional approach across all fields remains open and giving, and her study program is carefully designed to give plenty of practical, useful and authentic information, and to equip her students with everything they might need to establish their own quality practice. After 3 decades of growth, practice, and experience, she offers the personalized approach to understanding the ways of Feng Shui and Four Pillars Astrology in her books: A Course in Feng Shui: Make Your Property Work for You, at All Times and A Course in Chinese Astrology: Reveal Your Destiny, Harness Your Luck. However, make no mistake, her texts offer far more than mere philosophy, because these ancient healing arts might become a guiding light on your path to a richer and more fulfilling life here on Earth. Althea is currently busy completing The Sixty Personality Types of Chinese Astrology series of books. To Write to the Author For additional information and resources, please visit author s website at www.altheafengshui.com. If you wish to contact the author or would like more information about her books, services or courses, please write to: info@altheafengshui.com. 339