Extract the Yao Change the Image 抽爻换象 - Part 1

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I have been hesitating for quite a while whether I should talk about this topic in a public domain because again I might be ruffling some feathers. Many chinese books out there wrote about it but I just find that few people have contributed articles written in English to share this very advance and intriguing concept. There is this shade of mystery that I hope to unveil and discuss openly about it.

The enigma is further compounded when many people start to associate this method with Xie Zi Fa. Some masters firmly believe that this is the closely guarded secret of Xie Zi Fa. True or not? Only Zeng's son will know.

In my own humble opinion, I find that this 抽爻换象 or Chou Yao Huan Xiang secret is over-hyped. It gives an impression to many enthusiasts that this is such a powerful trick that will create prosperity overnight. No, I am NOT condemning this concept. I believe it is effective too.

I also practise and research on Xuan Kong Da Gua. So, how can I go against something that I breathe and live and see it working for me. What I am trying to say is that in the study of Xuan Kong Da Gua Feng Shui, please appreciate other sister techniques as well. If you are just focusing on this in your entire pursuit of Feng Shui, then I am afraid you are missing the big picture.

The purpose of this blog post is for me to share a bit more about the meaning of Chou Yao Huan Xiang and how it is applied. I will break this up into 2 parts so that it is more digestible.

A hexagram is made up of 2 trigrams. There are 6 lines (solid or broken) altogether and each line is also known as a Yao. Chou Yao Huan Xiang simply means you select one of the yaos (example solid line) and replace it with broken line. By doing this, the hexagram image will transform. Why do we want to do this? Basically, we want to create a very prosperous fengshui set-up or in technical term 一卦纯清格局 (One-Gua Pure Formation).

Take a look at the example below.

The dragon (龙) and water (水) position cannot be changed. So, we have to change our house or grave sitting to suit the landform. Therefore, just by extracting the 3rd yao of the sitting (山) hexagram, it gives you your desired hexagram (as shown below). The question to ask is "how do we know what is the desired hexagram?". I will talk about this later. This is normally not disclosed.

This is the first step. The reason why we want to chou yao huan xiang is to make sure yin and yang gua must make love all the time.

You will notice that there are 2 numbers in red attached to each hexagram. They play an important role in making sure we achieve the One-gua Pure Formation.

10 October 2010 - Good to get wed?

In today's Sunday Time, it was reported that more than 700 couples are planning to get married on this Perfect 10 day. Is 10.10.10 really a good date? What about the hour? Must it be at 10 am too?

What is so big deal about number 10. I only know that Sum of 10 in fengshui study is auspicious as it signifies a balance between the yin and yang. Xuan Kong Da Gua practitioners like myself would favour such formation because the pairing of hexagrams will result in good outcome.

However, the Perfect 10 combination here is merely based on the gregorian calendar. In terms of chinese astrological calculation based on the qi of that day, is it suitable for a couple to tie the knot? In my opinion, which is guided by the classical chinese system that deals with wedding affairs, this day is quite a good day. But you need to choose a good hour so that the positive energies of that day will not be neutralised by bad hour. And as a matter of fact, people with certain animal signs will not be able to benefit from this good day simply because the day energy clashes into them. Let me go into some technicalities here.

To begin, we plot the bazi of the day. This day is known as 阴阳不将日 - a very ideal day (only 12 such days in that month) for getting wed due to the balance in yin and yang energy. This term comes from the classic 嫁娶碎金赋. While the Tong Shu indicates that this is a "Danger Day" and nobody is to do anything too major in his/her life, I think it does not matter because the Chinese Almanac is too generalised.

Knowing that this is a good date, we will now come to the hour. I would recommend 辰 hour in the early morning as it contains positive stars like 天官贵人，司命 and the star that we all like to have for wedding which is 喜神. During this hour, go to the Registry of Marriage and sign on the wedding certificate. The positive stars up in the sky will give you all the blessings for a wonderful and blissful marriage life forever.

So, who are the people that have a conflict with 10.10.10? It will be those who are born in the year of Pig which has the strongest impact. Besides, groom who belongs to animal sign of rabbit or rooster, and bride who is born in year of dragon will not really benefit from the good energies.

On the other hand, those who will receive the blessings from this good day will be ladies who are born in tiger, horse and dog years.

This is just to give you a flavour of what entails in professional wedding date selection. The entire process is rigorous and more complex as the system will need to address issues like:

- compatibility of the date with the couple's bazi

- compatibility of the date with the in-laws (especially mother-in-laws :P)

- compatibility of the date with the couple's child star

- hour to be compatible to the day (make sure there are good stars around)

- day to be compatible to the month

- month to be compatible to the year

- the bazi of the selected day and hour must overall contain good energies as not all days are created equally

Make sure your consultant do his or her due diligence to select a good date for you and not just read from the Tong Shu - which is meant for lay person.

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Once in a Life Time

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I am going to ruffle some feathers today. Some people may not find it palatable.

Some customers asked me if they need to engage me every year to re-assess their house feng shui since the energy changes every year.

When I threw the question back to them to ask them why did they think that feng shui must be re-audited every year, they told me this is what they had been advised previously. And every year, without fail, their consultant will suggest to them to buy new items to place at different locations to counter whatever lousy energy or killing forces. And without fail, the customer will part some money with the consultant as a form of annual maintenance fee. It will go on and on until one day when the earth comes to a stop.

I cursed myself. Why didn't I go by this business model? I could have made alot of money. Why must I fix everything upfront at one go?

Well, it is true that energy is cyclical. However, if you are able to design a good fengshui structure for the house at the onset, then it will last you for quite a while - at least 20 years. Good enough? Yes, just 10 years of solid luck and it can turn a pauper into a prince.

In feng shui, there is this term known as San Yuan Bu Bai or 3 Cycles Indestructible. 3 Cycles last you 180 years. With good landform and correct arrangement of Long, Shan, Xiang and Shui, you will deserve the good luck at least for as long as you live.

Do I follow up with customers every year? Yes I do. But it is usually a friendly phone call or over a cup of coffee to find out their ahievement and their next milestone. If they need my help, I will sit down with them to find out what they hope to achieve, and then recommend a specific fengshui solution for them.

It is purely a on-demand basis. Feng Shui talks about achieving specific outcome. Nothing wolly.

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Grasshopper

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I met a friend and had a long chat at a coffeeshop near his house. He invited me to this coffeeshop at within Ang Mo Kio HDB estate because he thought it might be a good case study for my fengshui class. Not a single coffee shop owner can operate for more than 1 year ever since more than 10 years ago. Some pack up and go in 3 months. It was 1230 pm. There were so many empty tables. But i like it because it was quiet and I did not feel any pressure not to order any food. We talked for more than 3 hours.

What I am going to blog about now is not the fengshui of the coffeeshop, which I will share it when it is timely, it was what my friend had shared that intrigued me. It is a topic about karma.

I requested that this photographer friend of mine emailed me his story. Below is a blow-by-blow personal experience of his.

"I went to Little India to shop for some daily necessities. While I was crossing the road, something strange happened! Both my knees just gave way. I heard a “cracking” sound and both knees went off like jelly. I literally had to hobble to the side of the road to flag a cab to get home. I called my mom to meet me at the Chinese physician as I had to get my knees treated right away.

OK, so to cut a long story short, my knees were “treated” but they did not recover fully. So I went overseas and stayed at my friend's place. As my friend was preparing to be a monk, he brought me along for some meditation lessons as well. I also did some volunteer work at the temple.

One day, I was strolling in the compound of the temple with a monk and chanced upon a grasshopper with only one leg. (Picture attached)

The monk then commented that I did not walk too well (cause my knees were on their way to recovery and quite obvious that I could not walk as fast) and told me that the grasshopper was trying to tell me something I did in the past that brought me to my present state of injured knee.

I could not really figure out what he meant.

Then suddenly, out of nowhere, I had flashback. I saw what I did as a kid. Living in kampung areas, I loved to go around hunting for grasshoppers and pull out their legs so I could tie a string around their bodies and play with them. Although this act was done without ill intention, the karma somehow caught up with me.

So I asked the monk what I should do to avert my current sufferings? He told me that I should sincerely repent my mistakes. Now, repenting our mistakes sincerely does not neutralise the negative karma. However, by realising and repenting our mistakes and asking for forgiveness, we will be more at peace to receive whatever “punishment” our karma brings us. The thing about karma is, you don't have to believe in it for it to work on you. We can all deny that the sun does not rise from the east or the moon is not a satellite, but does our denial discredit or change the facts? "

Repair and Despair

Permission has been sought from my client to publish this case study.

A family portrait that hangs on the wall of the living room captured my attention when I first stepped into the house. It is a typical picture taken in the studio with the parents seated and the 3 siblings standing behind them – all smiling. My client, the only son of the family and one of his sisters specially donned their graduation gowns for the shooting.

Nevertheless, the atmosphere in the house is in stark contrast with the portrait. The house is gloomy and you can sense that the air is filled with a shade of melancholy. What makes me more uncomfortable is the unbearable noise that comes from the construction site which is just stone-throw away from this HDB unit.

I am engaged by my client to take a look at this 4-room flat, located in an old estate, which he has spent his last 34 years there. So much sentimental values attached and yet so many heart-wrenching moments for him especially over the last few years.

Life was normal until the public housing department decided to call for a major upgrading to add a small utility room at the rear of all units. Well, in Singapore, most of the old flats will be slated for such Repair and Redecoration (R&R) exercise in time to come.

After the work had been completed for the entire building, strange things began to happen. The negative energy kicked in less than a couple of years and when it came, a series of unfortunate events unfolded just like the falling dominoes and hit them real hard.

The father was first diagnosed with pancreas cancer and within the same year he passed on. My client suffered from a strange illness in the subsequent year and that had him bedridden for a few months. Fortunately, he recovered.

On the surface, things were quiet for the next 2 years but something malevolent was probably brewing. The next wave of shocks arrived when his sister was diagnosed with uterus cancer. That was also the year (2008) the new condominium construction work commenced in the north direction. In the following year, the mom was discovered to have lymphoma cancer and within the next 6 months she succumbed to the illness. The construction is now only half completed.

The family is now left with my client and his 2 sisters. One of the sisters got married and moved out. My client is now holding the fort and he has to shoulder the emotional and financial burden as a result of his cancer-stricken sister.

I believed the main reason that he has approached me was not to hope that I could turn the situation around, but rather for me to help him find an answer for what had happened. I did my calculation and as what I have expected, the unfortunate events were a result of untimely renovation and construction work carried out at sectors that were plagued with negative annual afflictions like Tai Sui, Sui Po, 3-Killings and Earth sha. Who in the family gets it first depends on their birth year hexagram or the one who resonates at the same frequency with the bad vibes, scientifically put.

I am quite sure that his family is not the only one having such issues. True enough, I was told that the neighbours staying in the same block are also suffering from health and money problems.

Had the commencement of the construction work been pushed to another year, things will be different. Unfortunately, it is a pity that such things are beyond our control.

Moving to another house will be the best solution for my client but it is going to take some time. I have prescribed some fengshui solutions with the aim to mitigate the sister's condition. I just hope that she can walk out of her depression and fight a good battle with the illness. I cannot do miracle but I can lend her some strength through divine means.

I will continue to assist her with all my means.

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Out of Gua

What is the highest form of feng shui?

Most masters would consider Xuan Kong Da Gua (64 Heagrams) as the ultimate feng shui in the San Yuan system. This method of feng shui can create miracle sometime as fast as within 2 hours. It is a complete system coupled with its proprietary date selection system.

It is applicable to both yang and yin feng shui and basically very much revolved around the use of hexagrams to create results. However, to fully comprehend this powerful divine art, one needs to have a good command of the concept of yin and yang which is often sidelined by some practitioners. Once you understand the intricacies of how the individual hexagram line or yao (爻) changes and the hexagrams associate with one another, you have already grasped the essence of it.

In Xuan Kong Da Gua, we always focus on Kinship. It values the importance of family. It believes that things cannot be too effective if they are done by distant relatives. Once the feng shui formation is created based on the same family members, preferably between 2 heterosexual members, a pauper can become a prince overnight.

You can even determine the gender of the baby for a couple.

Anyway, in this posting, I am going to share a case or in fact a technique in this system on how to turn the feng shui around. Just to give you a flavor.

The main door of this house is facing a T-junction – a very well-known sha qi or killing force. Most practitioners will instantaneously tell you to move house otherwise the occupants inside will suffer mishaps in time to come.

This house sits on hexagram Tong Ren hexagram which is expressed as Qian over Li trigram. The Xuan Kong 5 Elements for this hexagram is 9 and the Xuan Kong Period number is 7. Please see picture. In terms of 24 mountains, it sits on Mao and faces You (坐卯向酉).

If you would have based your calculation on Da Gua, you can safely assure the occupants that nothing is wrong with this T-junction.

Why? The secret is in the hexagram that the house is sitting on. The sha qi (junction) is coming from Dui Trigram and in relation with the sitting hexagram, it is known as Out of Gua. This means that any other form of sha qi like pylon has no effect on this house as long as it comes from Dui (or Kun or Zhen).

How do we apply this to save people's life? For instance, if this house is sitting on another hexagram and the T-junction is now a real hazard, we can tilt the main door by a few degrees to change the hexagram of the house and make the sha qi "out of gua".

Word of caution: If you do not do it properly, you can accidentally void your prosperous energy that you have been receiving from a nearby water or mountain.