• Directionology.
• Qi at Birth.
• Finding Your Nine Star Ki Number.
• Month Squares 2000, Nine Star Ki Day Number.
• Basic Luo Shu Setting.
• General And Personified Directionology, Basic Directionology.
• Positioning Yourself In Space.
• Number 5.
• Your Own Number, Number Opposite Its Own House,
  Home Is Where My Food Is.
  
• Physical And Metaphysical Yin-Yang Classification.
• Travelling In Ancient Times, Contra-measures.
• Impact Travelling.
• Dealing With Jetlag, Chinese Zodiac Directionology,
  Twelve Earthly Branches, Cosmograph And Jupiter,
  Miscellaneuos.

Basic Luo Shu setting

      This is the basic Luo Shu setting. It has 5 in the center. Because all Numbers can occupy the center, there are nine different squares. Starting from the center, the Numbers fly Norhtwest – West – Northeast – South – North – Southwest – Southeast and East. This is known as the ‘path of Saturn’ and the Luo Shu is sometimes referred to as ‘Saturn square’. It may show the natural waxing and waning of Qi on our planet. The sun rises in the East, bringing Spring, growth and warmth. The seasons can be followed in a clock-wise order going from Early Spring (3), Later Spring (4), Summer (9), Late Summer (2), Early Autumn (7), Autumn (6), Winter (1) and midwinter (8).

      Each direction has its distinct basic Qi of expansion and contraction and therefore its specific attributes.

      When you were born, your Number was in the center, or 5 Earth House of the square. Each year you occupy a different House, completing a whole cycle each nine years. Let us take the example of September 2001 and a person born under 9 Fire.

      Tom is a 9 Fire and has to fly North in September 2001 to have a meeting. After several negotiations a contract can be signed. A contract is a document and a document falls under 4 Wood. 4 Wood is in the 1 Water House and the Water House shows Qi in its lowest possible point. The contract is not signed, because the airplane has a delay and has to remain at the airport. First look at Number 4 in the Water House of the Luo Shu. Besided documents, 4 Wood is also airplanes. Airplanes and documents are under low energy. 9 Fire does not seem to be travelling against the 5 for the year but as we look at the month square, there is more.

      September 2001 is a 4 Wood month, so 4 Wood joins 8 Earth at the center of the Luo Shu. 8 Earth is a built structure, in this case maybe the airport. 4 Wood (airplane) is hooked to the airport. Tom is a 9 Fire and in the 1 Water House, joining the 4 Wood in its lowest energy for the month. If we were to advice Tom beforehand and have to choose between ‘contract’ or ‘airplane’ in distinguishing what may cause problems here, it is easy to see it is the airplane. If you look at the Water House you will see 4 and 9 there.

      You could say: ‘9 Fire visiting a contract, but the contract is in its lowest possible point, so there must be something wrong with the contract”.

      This square shows month Numbers to the right of the year Numbers. If you want to add day Numbers, the day Numbers go to the left of the year Numbers.

      There is probably nothing wrong with the contract.

      Look at the 4 Wood as airplane now and 8 Earth as a built structure. Look at the Numbers in the center and again see there is an airplane linked to a building. Now look at the House opposite the 1 Water House.

      Here, in the 9 Fire House again there is an 8 Earth. If your Number is in any House of the Luo Shu and you expect ‘X’ to happen there, you can look at the opposite House to reflect on the type of experience ‘X’ will most probably be. So, using crossreferences and somewhat in order, this is what you do:

- 9 Fire is in the 1 Water House.
- 9 Fire visits 4 Wood in the 1 Water House.
- Both 9 Fire and 4 Wood must be in the lowest point
   because 1 Water is dissipating energy.
- I know 9 Fire is the person, what does 4 Wood mean
   (contract, airplane or any other 4 Wood attribute).
- Central House of the square show another 4, this also could    be contract, but also airplane.
- Central House of the square shows an 8 Earth which is a
   built structure.
- It could be that the problem will arrise in the building in
   which the contract is supposed to be signed.
- To determine this I look at the opposite Numbers.
- Opposite the 1 Water House is the 9 Fire House.
- In the 9 Fire House is another 8 Wood, confirming that I
   have to anticipate loss related to a building.
- Also in the 9 Fire House is 3 Wood, one of its properties
   being computers or electricity.
- The most probable event here is that there is some
   electricity problem related to a building, not the airplane
   itself, causing the airplane to stay grounded.

      We will keep it simple here, otherwise we could make other cross references, like – having seen so many references to the Numbers 8 and 4 – checking the Numbers in the 4 Wood and 8 Earth Houses. However, if you like to look beyond where a certain Number is in the Luo Shu and explore this type of advanced cross referencing, check out the book of Simon Brown at the end of this article.

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