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Mastering The 9 Ki Stars
Dealing with Nine Star Ki Monthly Stars
This article assumes that you are familiar with the way in which the annual Stars are derived for Nine Star Ki and Feng Shui. You will then also know that where we may rely on a formula to find the annual Stars, there does not seem to be a clear cut formula by which to obtain monthly Stars. This article finally offers a short-cut to find the month Stars. Finally, because most may still be carrying around a table for monthly Stars such as the one shown here, or they will have committed the table to memory, which is fine but I will try make this into a much smoother endeavor.
This table for month Stars first assumes that you know your annual Star. Your annual Star can be then located in the top row in either of the columns showing Stars 1,4,7 - 2,5,8 or 3,6,9. Crossing the column belonging to your annual Star with your month of birth will then give your Nine Star Ki month (second) Star. Of course you need to still check exactly in which Solar month you are born according to the Qi (Ki), because you may need to assume the Star of the previous month if you are born between the first up to the ninth of a month: find table at the end).
Example birthdate: born March 1973. Nine Star Ki annual Star is 9 Fire, which you locate in the second column (3,6,9). Go down until you find March: month Star 4.
Unlike for annual Stars, there seems to be no formula to calculate the monthly Stars. Not satisfied with this, I once asked a mathematician to find a month formula, but he came back with a formula that was more complicated than everything combined so far. If you are aware of any month formula, please contact me so that future readers may benefit. So, at long last I then found my own "trick song" that I want you to have - as well as a neat calculation that you will find here also - because it will help you get rid of the month table altogether. Then, we will also show you how to find monthly Stars using your fingers and how you can use your fingers to locate the Earthly Branches, more popularly the Chinese zodiac animals, and how to project the Luo Shu on your fingers.
As you can see from the table, February will be always either 8 Earth, 2 Earth or 5 Earth, depending on the annual Star. Later on in the article we hope to then also share with you what must be one of the lost applications for these Earth months.
The monthly Star for February relies on the annual Star. In other words, the cycle of month Stars fits into the cycle of year Stars, or the smaller bucket fits into the bigger bucket.
Also, note that the Star for February will be repeated for the November month and you will further note affinity between Stars 1,4,7 - 2,5,8 and 3,6,9. If you are a sports instructor and you want to divide your team of nine players into three smaller teams you would ask numbers 1,2 and 3 to step forward and then ask number 4 to join number 1, you would ask number 5 to join number 2 and so on until you have your three sub-groups. In other words, certain months form a smaller Qi cycle of affinity within a larger year cycle of related Qi. When we want to determine Nine Star Ki month Stars, we first relate to the Nine Star Ki year Star.
However, even the above table is but a reflection of a yet larger depiction that shows us the significance of the month Stars. We will show this diagram a little further down, by which you will see how the monthly Stars table used here is in fact a spiral and you will once more appreciate how Nine Star Ki time cycles eventually coincide with Chinese time cycles.
Why start this table in February, rather than have this table start with January? The month of January may have significance in Gregorian timing and calendric principles, but it is to again signify how the month of January in itself does not carry any weight in the annual waxing and waning of energy and we are of course interested in how Celestial and Terrestrial energies evolve throughout any year.
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