The Singapore Flyer

The Flyer is a rotating wheel equips with observation capsules in the Marina Bay area similar to the London Eye. It gives you a panoramic view of the island from west coast to the east coast. The Wheel sits on a beautifully designed shopping mall with a rainforest landscape under the Wheel.

There were complaints of bad businesses and was said to be due to the west to east rotation of the Wheel away from the business district centre. Upon the advice of some Feng Shui Masters, the Company spent a 6-figure sum to have the Wheel rotates from east to west so as to bring Qi into the business centre. This is to help create business for the shopping arcade in the Flyer Building. We shall await the result. I doubt you will see much changes.

Meanwhile let us examine the scenarios. Firstly, capsules do not carry Qi. If they do, then vehicles would do the same. The vehicles that leave the business district centre would be carrying Qi away on a daily basis. Secondly the centre of the building is not stable and Qi cannot settles down. Thirdly the Yin-Yang of the building is completely off balanced. Fourthly, the heart of the structure is not contained. Fifthly, the overhead bridge link with the car park is not beneficial to the complex.

The saving grace is that the entrance to the Wheel is located on a good sector of the Building. It helps maintain a balanced account for the Company. More needs to be done for profit.

Riding Sheng Qi

HeTu and Luo Shu are the Map and Book of Feng Shui practice. These are the fundamentals that are derived from the interaction of Yin-Yang. They are the horizontal and vertical expressions of Qi movement. These are the basis of Yang Gong Feng Shui.

Yang Gong Feng Shui simply equates authentic Feng Shui in the Chinese Metaphysic World. However, everyone now claims to be practising Yang Gong Feng Shui. True Yang Gong Feng Shui is about riding on Sheng Qi which is prosperous Qi. If Feng Shui is about Sheng Qi, it really has nothing to do with dead Qi. In order to ride, you have to sit on it, don’t you? That is why sitting is always more important than facing. So Feng Shui is about riding, not activating. When you ride on Sheng Qi, the effective results are immediate.

Xuan Kong Feng Shui talks about activation. It is based on the 3 cycles 9 periods and the 2 cycles 8 periods calculations. The art is to activate the active and current prosperity stars. It has nothing to do with riding Sheng Qi. Hence, it should be used as a date selection technique.

Unfortunately, both Yang Gong Feng Shui and Xuan Kong Feng Shui are so thoroughly abused that the original gists are kept so secret and can no longer found in books.

Crap Feng Shui?

Xuan Kong studies developed in the late Ming Dynasty and became prominent in the Qing Dynasty. It was the [Manchu] Qing period that Emperor Kang Xi compiled all the information on Feng Shui on the pretext of unifying the ancient knowledge. Could you believe that the Hans [Chinese] would gladly deliver the secret Feng Shui manuals to him on a silver platter? I doubt so. The Emperor later disseminated the manuals to the fellow countryman for prosperity. I would not be surprised that he had altered the manuals and released fake copies. Could you imagine the Manchu release the genuine Feng Shui books for the prosperity of the Chinese? It is highly impossible. The manuals were so badly watered down, so don’t be too happy if you have one.

What happened then to all the Feng Shui manuals? Of course, as commonly depicted in Chinese history, they have their way to perpetual their knowledge. The Knowledge is currently safe with the pact of the 13 families who escaped before the fall the Ming Dynasty. One thing for sure, the Qing Emperors received crap manuals, practising crap feng shui which is so common nowadays. Much ado about their grave for nothing.

Wise up.

Understanding Bazi Clashes

One of my clients was troubled because she has Chou earth clashing Wei earth in her Bazi chart. In traditional Bazi terms, it was always said to be a sign of cancerous cell and more likely the cancer of the stomach. She has this worry for some time now and she has also gone through checks to ensure that she can do something about it when it is discovered early. Till now, nothing was detected.

Looking at her chart, I could not find any indication that she would have cancer. I believe it is too generic to pin point an illness based strictly on a clash in the chart. Likewise for all the other five types of clashes. A Yin-Shen clash does not necessary mean a car accident as commonly taught. A Zi-Wu clash does not indicate heart attack. A Chen-Xu clash cannot always be an earthquake or stomach ache. A Mao-You clash is not necessarily related to cervical issues. A Si-Hai clash can be dangerous only if one of the two branches is your Useful Star. A Chou-Wei clash may not be cancerous after all.

My research cases on cancer patients do not reveal anything concrete about cancer associated to clashes. Most earth clashes look innocently normal. A combination can be the cause of all your troubles. What you must identify is whether the branches and stems involved are the Protective or Useful Stars. Clashes among the positive and negative stars are interpreted differently. Clashes can be for the better.

Bazi is a very practical art. It is not about creativity. It is the skill of understanding each of the stars and their characters, and the platform they operate on. There is no generic. The next time someone mentions ‘beware’, tell him to mind his own business first.

Four Seasons

The four seasons in Chinese Metaphysics is nothing more than a metaphor. Otherwise, you cannot really use it in equatorial places. There is no other season except summer. Whichever month you are born in, it is on assumption that there is a change of season. For example, if you are born in December, we cannot possibly say you are born in winter when it is really 'summer' here in Malaysia, Singapore and India.

The other question being the Northern and Southern Hemispheres as the seasons are reversed. It is also assumed that the current applications are based on the Northern Hemisphere because of the location of China. Should not a Bing Day Master born in July in the Southern Hemisphere be regarded as born in winter? How confusing. However the Chinese has always indicated that the south is above and should not the seasons follow the Southern Hemisphere? When we do not change the season of birth based on the Hemisphere, what qualify us to change time of birth based on the country of birth, let alone daylight saving and international dateline?

These scholarly arguments are basically intellectual in nature. They may not be the natural inclination of metaphysics. Just a thought.

Surviving the Forum

The purpose of a forum is for exchanging information and experiences and hopefully, in that process, everyone benefits. Unfortunately that is not the case in the open/public forum of most Chinese Metaphysical websites. Instead it is used to ‘bicker and insult with all due respect’. I understand the zealousness of these young protégés.

The greatest sin perhaps is to impose our ‘right theories’ unto others in the forum. No theory is correct until proven so through experiments and documentations. It is tedious but necessary. Whichever method or theory is fine as long as they yield results in a reasonable time frame of say, 3 months. When activating a wealth star 8 through water feature, wind chime or a symbolic ornament, we should rightfully demand to see at least some wealth creating opportunities and it should be the same effect each time the wealth star 8 is activated.

To be able to quote from the Chinese classical text is great but to interpret it is another matter altogether. We need to remember that the quote may be correct but the interpretation is just an assumption based on the interpreter’s understanding, not the original writer. Therefore the interpretation can be wrong unless otherwise, supported by empirical evidences.

There are those who used others’ thoughts and writings in forum to further their own agenda without due credit to those they copied and imitated. There are also those who insinuate and character-assassinate their way to popularity.

Respect and forum ethics are important. Otherwise, it becomes just other political game of power and money, status and fame, greed and self preservation. It is indeed the greatest irony of mankind to see a man of god killing another fellow human being in the Name of God and they all claim to be serving the same God, whatever or whoever that is in their heart. These have become a common observation in this modern world.