• 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.

Positioning yourself in space

       What is meant by ‘facing’ a certain direction or travelling into a certain direction depends on the position your body is in. It is also important to have a good perception of what ‘center’ means. Your body is like the armchair setting in Form School Feng Shui, where your spine functions as the Black Turtle, your left and right side as your Green Dragon and White Tiger respectively and the front part of your body as your Ming Tang.

Passive Directionology	Active Directionology

       Although omnipresent, for practical application consider Qi travelling towards a center from all directions. Always consider yourself to be in the exact center of the world taking in Qi from all directions. You are surrounded by all eight directions, taking in energy from Heaven and Earth and the eight directions. You are also sending out energy into all these directions, maintaining a dynamic interaction between your own magnetism and the ever changing magnetism of everything surrounding you. If you are travelling South your starting point is the center. Once you arrived South and want to travel into any other direction, again you position yourself as being in the center. Qi needs a reference point. One of the properties of Qi is that it – by laws of gravity - travels towards a center. For any built structure the center is the physical center. The human body is another reference point for Qi, irrespective of where you are, inside or outside a building, you are always in the center.

       Directionology for sleeping is not as clear cut as for activity, because virtually no-one will sleep on their backs and maintain that position during sleep. The headboard of your bed is the deciding factor.

       Also, how two people position themselves in space when interacting, determines how much Qi is emitted between them. If you are in love and sitting right in front of each other, your solar plexus will be connected, whereas when you are walking a beach, any interaction between you will be much less.

       Generally, we like to face our auspicious directions and avoid facing or travelling into inauspicious directions. One source claims that we should face our inauspicious direction, the reasoning behind this being that it is better to face your enemy, than to sit with your back to the enemy.

       However, this is not how the armchair setting of our body was designed and it may stem from Yin Zhai Feng Shui i.e. Feng Shui for gravesites, where the deceased person is positioned with feet towards their auspicious direction. Then, when the person wakes up from the dead and sits up, his solar plexus will be readily positioned towards his auspicious direction.

       Also, the technique of facing your enemy may have stemmed from martial arts strategies, but following this reasoning would not only mean we have to face the enemy, but also that we are supposed to travel into our inauspicious directions. This does not make sense.

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