What is Xuan Kong Feng Shui?
A popular school of Feng Shui being practiced by majority of Feng Shui Masters in SEA.
Xuan Kong are 2 Chinese characters, which had been largely translated into time and space respectively. However to the many Chinese residing in SEA, Xuan Kong are also not common words used in everyday life. So it is quite mysterious to the native people as well.
The underlying principles of Xuan Kong is however easy to understand. Basically there are Feng Shui energies generated by VISIBLE landforms (mountains, water or objects of the external environment), then there is Xuan Kong - the time-based Feng Shui energies which are INVISIBLE, dynamic and not affected by physical environment.
Therefore, you can appreciate why good or bad Feng Shui does not last forever. Simply because even if the landforms does not change dramatically, the time factor will alter the quality of the energies in the same spot over time.
Begging the next question, since we cannot see or feel the energies, how do we measure it?
Fortunately, Xuan Kong had been practiced for a very long time. Particularly, this school of Feng Shui was popularised and documented properly by a notable Grandmaster Shen in the Qing Dynasty.
Since then, the Xuan Kong energies formulas had passed down successfully from one generation to the next. As such for now, we are also aware precisely what Xuan Kong Energies are visiting at a particular year, month, day and even hour. Hopefully this knowledge will endure the passage of time after our generation as well.
Briefly, a cycle of Xuan Kong will last for 180 years. The 180 cycle is chopped up and classified into “Three Ages & Nine Periods”. Each of the 9 periods will last for 20 years, then a cluster of 3 periods will form an Age.
For the ease of dissemination of knowledge, the periods are numerically classified from 1 to 9. However you might want to note that every number represents the position of a Star in the Big Dipper (which has 7 main stars & 2 supporting stars). Every star has a name, carried different energies (different element) and has the power to affect the calculations of Feng Shui Masters for a particular 20 years at one time.
The main 7 stars are:
The main 7 stars are:
Tien Shu
Tien Shuen
Tien Ji
Tien Chuen
Yu Heng
Kai Yang
Yau Kwang
However the stars are not all powerful and benevolent at the same time.
For now in 2015, the star 8, 9 and 1 are considered prosperous, in effect or “dated”. While the rest of the stars are considered as “out-dated”.
There are 2 particularly hated stars causing sickness and misfortune - 2 & 5 respectively.
So all these stars are included into a Feng Shui Calculation and it is our mission to “cure” the bad stars to downplay the misfortune and “energise” the good stars to bring about human prosperity.
There are 2 particularly hated stars causing sickness and misfortune - 2 & 5 respectively.
So all these stars are included into a Feng Shui Calculation and it is our mission to “cure” the bad stars to downplay the misfortune and “energise” the good stars to bring about human prosperity.
One example:
In Xuan Kong terms, we are now in Period of 8 (from 2004-2023). All the houses which are built from 2004 - 2023 will carry the prosperous energy of 8.
It is believed that if key human structures in a Yang House e.g. living room, bed room. main door etc are built in alignment with the Xuan Kong of the Period 8 energies, its occupants will enjoy prosperity in almost all important human aspects of life e.g. good health, good wealth and no difficulty in producing descendants to carry on the family lineage.
Throughout our life, a human being of lifespan 80 will experience roughly 3.5 to 4 cycles of Xuan Kong Feng Shui. Therefore we can also observe humans “high” and “low” in the lifetime.
