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Mastering The 9 Ki Stars

Ascending and descending Qi

Years and months have been currently moving in a Yang or descending order.

According to Michio Kushi, this movement will continue until 4 February 2104; from then years and months will proceed in a Yin - ascending - order. However, we must accept that the last thing has not been said on the account of time cycles - be that for year, month, day or hour - so we suggest you meanwhile keep your mind ready to unlearn some of the methods that you may have practiced and consider new approaches anywhere in the near future.

The movement of Time follows the centrifugal and centripetal motion of Qi.

Notice the basic configuration of the Luo Shu when you project it over the Luo Pan.

Luo Shu hosts the Earth Stars on an axis coinciding with "Spring Begins" and "Autumn Begins", or the Northeast-Southwest axis, which axis I like to call "arrow".

It divides the warmer and colder sections of a year and therefore it signifies the starting points for certain Yang or Yin types of people born in those seasons and certain Yin and Yang types of food consumed during those periods. If the atmosphere (environmental factors such as - but not limited to - season, climate, weather and considerations of geography and Latitude) becomes more Yang and in order to maintain equilibrium, one should include more Yang foods and vice versa.

It is another indication coming to us from Luo Shu and Luopan for the importance of our digestive system and it may again hint how food intake, external treatments such as acupuncture, breathing exercise and chewing may be incorporated in order to keep Heaven Luck (Time), Earth Luck (Space) and Human Luck (personal magnetism) in phase.

This way, the quality of your blood becomes the central focus in all of your studies of Feng Shui, Nine Star Ki, Four Pillars of Destiny or any other Oriental Metaphysical system that you practice in order to reach good fate. Your blood is the antenna as it will be functional in your channeling of Heaven and Earth forces.

Between Heaven Luck, Man Luck and Earth Luck studies, dietary implications may have been our missing link and need to be restored back in our practise.

The significance of 5 Yellow

Much ado also about 5 Yellow, both in Chinese Feng Shui and in Nine Star Ki.

Most often Feng Shui and Nine Star Ki would still caution against 5 Yellow. It is said to be the Star of disaster. Not only would this be unreasonable, it would be against the Law of Nature "Everything that has a front has a back, the greater the front the greater the back" and it is therefore only natural that Star 5 must be just as noble as it may be easily aggravated to bite you as a vicious tiger.

Yet, modern teaching continues to install anxiety in the minds and hearts of the public where it is still suggested not to travel towards or away from Star 5, for example in directionology where we may find Star 5 in the South and it is therefore claimed best not to travel on the North-South axis. This is mere empty teaching and actually false. I will be the last telling you you should indiscriminately run into Star 5 as a young dog, but there is more to 5 Yellow than has surfaced so far.

You should keep a healthy distance towards active statements always, because more often than not they are one liners pertaining to a much wider context, such that if you would stretch the one liner you would end up with several paragraphs of more actual teaching. So, yes, accidents can be caused by 5 Yellow, but accidents can be caused by any other Star, and even if any Star can invoke mishap, the mishap that got included in the active statement may be the most extreme out of an entire string of events related to that Star and that would need happen before the mishap that was projected on the Star can at all occur. In other words, before 5 Yellow can instigate undesirable events, certain conditions must be met first.

It is easy to unlock the true face of 5 Yellow and find what it pertains to once we distinguish between its heliocentric, geocentric or egocentric (from the perspective of man) nature.

Heliocentrically 5 Yellow can be our sun. Geocentrically 5 Yellow can be gravity, the center of our planet still hosting heat from the sun and egocentrically 5 is ego.

• If you regard the center as our sun, the Yellow Path then becomes the earth orbit around the sun, or how planet earth in a heliocentric sense proceeds on its annual orbit around the sun
• The center can become our planet, and now directional currents fall into place.
• The center may be our ego, and whether we are noble will be revealed because 5 Yellow (as would be true for the other Stars) will merely bring out what was innate lready.

Stars are Spirits, and as much as they can be personified, Qi is undemocratic, it is impartial. Just how one relates to the Stars and the directional energies does not rely on the Stars. The Stars may not have a particular agenda of their own. It is your personal Qi magnetism that sets the Stars into motion to then bring you either good or ill fate.

The only party benefiting from keeping you from traveling into the direction of 5 Yellow would be the emperor, whom wanted to secure all riches and authority to himself and needed his people to remain quiet, at work and - above all perhaps - in one location. If you then also feed the public their so-called auspicious and inauspicious directions, you will have assured that they will regard certain directions inappropriate - while you of course would have made sure that it is exactly into these directions they would encounter fortune - and in the process the emperor would know exactly when to collect taxes, i.e. on such dates where his almanac returns a "non-travel" day for all.

If you keep to a sound judgment, a certain overall readiness, if you are explorative, organized and amazed, all the more if you are benevolent, healthy, you can deal with 5 Yellow and it may bring you autonomy and authority. If you follow world events, you will find that 5 Yellow may bring about what was already innate.

If you are susceptible to any of the fear teachings, soon the Luopan will have become your effective jail, rather than a compass.