Title:
"Flying Star" Feng Shui Made Easy
Author: David Twicken, Ph.D., L.Ac.
ISBN: 0-595-09966-1
Price: $11.95 U.S. / $19.95 Canada
Author contact: www.ChineseAstrologyNow.com
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Review
by Ray Langley, September 2000.
The
author is a member of the Chinese Astrology list.
This
paperback book contains 144 pages. The book is loaded with
charts and diagrams, but there are no photographs or actual
drawings.
There
are 21 chapters:
Yin-Yang
Five Elements
Eight Trigrams
Ba Gua
Lo Pan Compass
Mountain-Water Positions
Nine Stars
Nine Star Timeliness
Mountain and Water Stars
Evaluating Mountain and Water Stars
General Principles of Flying Stars
Five Element Remedies
Nine Star Combinations
Five Types of Flying Star Charts
Favorable Nine Star Structures
Forms and Feng Shui
Ba Gua Applications
Annual Flying Stars
Stars and Palaces
Personal Trigram
Feng Shui Examples
David
states in the Introduction: "The desire to learn Asian Philosophy
and energy practices has led to more ancient esoteric knowledge
being released in the last two decades than has been revealed
in the previous 3,000 years."
One
thing that might be a little confusing to some beginners
is the fact that all of the Flying Star charts in the Appendix
are shown with South at the top (which is also the convention
on this list). But the Ba Gua diagram (Table 3a) is drawn
with North at the top.
David
states in the Ba Gua chapter: "It is important to develop
the ability to interpret the chart in any form. The orientation
may change, but the information located in each direction
remains the same."
The
above statement is true, but I prefer to be consistent in
doing everything the same way, every time, until the student
is comfortable with the idea. Then, show how the charts
can be redrawn with any facing direction at the top. Just
a small point, no big deal.
The
author briefly discusses how the charts can be depicted
using either 9 boxes or 8 pie-shaped wedges.
Replacement
Stars are mentioned, but their use is not described.
A
cure is described for the "In Prison/Lock" situation.
Charts
are provided for what is commonly called Holy 1 and Holy
0, and the Secondary Wealth Area/Second Fortunate Palace.
The
chapter on Forms and Feng Shui only contains 3 scant pages.
I hope to see this expanded in a future, more advanced,
book. The Forms should be considered for every palace, not
just for the facing and sitting palaces.
In
the Feng Shui Examples chapter, there are 2 examples of
readings.
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