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| The Feng Shui of World Trade Centre, New York and the Pentagon | ||
| The attack on USA on 11th Sept. 2001 is the most horrible disaster in human history. Being a keen researcher and practitioner of Chinese metaphysics, I firmly believe that we should be able to understand such significant event by metaphysical means. In my previous article, I have already explained how the system of Four Pillars of Destiny reflected the disaster on that day. Now let us examine the event with another instrument - Flying star Feng Shui. Flying Star Feng Shui is the system of Chinese classical feng shui that studies how our environment and fortune are affected by various energies, which are changing over time and space. In this system, we focus our attention on 9 different kinds of energies, identified by numbers 1 to 9. We also understand each energy has special properties, some will bring prosperity and some will bring misfortune. These energies are dynamic and moving constantly over time in a fix pattern. As such, their position and impact at a certain moment of time is predictable. Take for example, the worst energy is number 5 which means misfortune and it is present in the SW location in the current year of the Snake. The South west location refers to the South west of a house, an apartment, a building, a city, or a country. There are also different levels of Flying Stars. Besides the year star which affects us for one whole year, like number 5 in the Southwest during the entire year of the Snake, we also have month stars and day stars which will have influence on our lives for a month, or a day respectively. As such, at a certain day in a certain location, there are 3 stars present. If they are all bad stars, then misfortune may happen in such location on such day. The following chart is called a nine square chart. Each square shows a direction, and the number in the centre shows the year star, month star, and day star present in a direction on a certain day. The nine square chart for the day 11th Sept. 2001 is as follows:  This is an energy chart showing what kind of Flying star was present in different directions on the day of 11th Sept. To a trained eye, we will pay attention to the 5 first, as it is a star of misfortune. The first important location is NE, where there is concentration of 2, 7, 5. What does this mean. 5 is misfortune, 2 and 7 come together means fire, and 2 and 5 come together means death and disaster. So on this day, bad things will occur in the NE of a country. If we look at the map, New York city, Washington, Pittsburg are all in the NE of USA The American Airline Flight 11 crash into the North Tower of World Trade Centre from the NE. Another direction to look at is SW - the year star 5 is present the whole year round, 5 is an earth element, and on that day, another star 8 is also present in the SW, 8 is also earth, so it reinforces the 5. So Southwest has significance too. Like the Pentagon is in the SW of the White House, and it get hit from the SW direction. World Trade Centres are in the SW of Manhattan, and the United Airline Flight 175 crash into the South Tower from the SW. Then there are accumulations of bad stars 9, 5, 3 in the Northwest also. 9 is fire, 3 is conflict and 5 is misfortune. If you look at the map of New York City, the World Trade centre is actually in the NW of the city. Why this occurred to the USA but not in another countries? Of course there are many historical and social factors, also human factors such as the destiny of President George W Bush. But purely looking from the Feng Shui angle, we usually use the Feng Shui of the White house as reference for the fortune of USA. The building is facing North, and on 11th Sept. 2001, the stars in the North are 4, 7, 9. The pair of stars 7 and 9 symbolise fire disaster, and the remaining number 4 is wood, which stimulates fire as well. Hence the stars at the front door of the White house spelled Fire disaster on that day. But why White House itself escaped the burn? Of course, the feng shui of the White House is still prosperous. Besides this, I think the Flying stars combination also saved her. It is a combination of 4, 7 and 9. When stars go in pairs, they have special meaning also, like 7 and 9 means fire, but 4 and 9 means metal. And this metal very much help to reduce the power of fire. For students who already have a fair understand of Flying Star feng shui, we can also say we are in Age of 7, so 7 mean current prosperity, and it is a metal number, so the 4 and 9 metal combination reinforce the good fortune of 7. So the White House itself can escape this disaster. We have examined the over all feng shui on that day and how they stimulate the disaster. However, the strength of feng shui is to evaluate the buildings. So we cannot fully understand the events without a careful examination of the feng shui of the buildings involved, the Pentagon and the World Trade Centre. The Pentagon  The Pentagon is built in 1942 which in Feng Shui terms is an "Age of 4 " building. From the pictures and drawings, the building appears to face South. The following is a Flying Star Chart of the building. This is an energy map constructed on basis of the age and the direction of the building. The numbers show the distribution of energies in different directions of this building:  How to read such chart? The emphasis is more on the pair of numbers on top of each square. They represents 2 types of energies in each location. The number on the right is called "Water star" representing money prosperity. The number on the left is called "Mountain Star", representing human harmony. In Flying Star feng shui, time is divided into 20 year cycles. Each cycle carries a number. The current 20 year cycle is called "Age of 7" so the number 7 represents the most prosperous energy today. But "Age of 7" is going to expire by Feb. 2004. Thereafter "Age of 8" will take over, so the number 8 is even more important today as it represents the immediate in-coming energy. If we look at the Flying star chart of the Pentagon, the prosperous star 8 is in the centre, this is where the strongest good energy is present. Normally, a good star in the centre is called "Imprisonment" which is not good, as it is trapped and cannot come out to contact the outside world. But in the case of the Pentagon, the Centre is a large open yard, so the star 8 is "released from prison" and is very active, offering very strong prosperity. The next thing we will examine is the entrance, if it is in the South, we see the bad star 3, which is an outdated star means conflict and robbery. Having such bad star at the entrance is not good, but if such entrance can be directly linked up with the centre, then it is not too bad. The idea is 3 and 8 is a pair of related numbers like husband and wife (Hoto number). So if there is no separation between the entrance and the centre, the 3 can still bring prosperity. However, I cannot verify this as I have not found a detailed plan of the Pentagon. Now let us see what happened on 11th Sept. 2001, refering back to the Year, month and Day chart ( Fig. 1), the stars present at the South entrance are 3, 8, 6. So this year, there is an additional 3 present, meaning more conflict and robbery. Indeed, we have observed there are more conflicts in US foreign affairs this year. Like the 1st April air crash with China, at that time, we also see a pair of 3 and 5 at the South entrance to the Pentagon. The stars 3, 8, 6 present in the South gate on 11th Sept. can be interpreted as stimulating trouble.3 is wood element and means conflict and robbery, 3 and 8 is a pair of wood number, reinforcing the 3. 6 is legal problem and it is metal attacking the wood, hence further stimulate the bad energy of 3. So there is misfortune on that day. The attack happened to be at the weakest location of the Pentagon - the SW, the Flying star chart of the Pentagon shows the stars there are 3 and 5, both are bad numbers, and the year star 5 in the current year triggers the misfortune. The World Trade Center  The buildings are completed in the nineteen seventies, so it is classified as "Age of 6" building. It consists of two tall towers and other shorter buildings. From the site plan, I can see there is a big open space with something like a round shaped fountain between the two towers. I will consider this is the "Ming Tang" meaning the open lobby of the buildings. So I will put the North Tower as facing SE, back against the Hudson river in the NW, and the South Tower as facing NE, facing the fountain, back against the SW. It is not possible to measure the orientation of the buildings anymore. Measure from various maps, I will use NW1 - SW1 for North Tower, and SW1 - NE 1 for South Tower. On basis of this information, I drew up the Flying star charts for these 2 towers as below:  As the disaster is a human tragedy, the key to read these chart is to concentrate on the human aspects, which are the mountain stars on the left hand side of each box. Let us look at North Tower. When it is built in "Age of 6" ( 1964 to 1984), it has the most prosperous stars 6 at the front facing the fountain, it contributed a lot of success to the building. However, today we are in Age of 7, the front is not activating good energy anymore, the most prosperous number 8 is in the SW, as there are open space on that side, the building is still doing well in money terms. However, there is a serious drawback in human terms, at the back of the building in the NW, there is the Hudson river, and the chart shows mountain star 8 is there. Mountain star 8 is the most important star to support human aspect today. If it is in a water environment, this star will be drowned and it will cause misfortune in human aspects. So I think this is the most serious drawback that led to human tragedy to this building. The air liner hit the building from the NE, which is also the weak spot with bad stars 2, meaning sickness, and the year stars 2, 7, 5 on 11th September, meaning fire misfortune. Now let us look at the South Tower. The front is facing water star 3, activated by a big open space. This is a star of conflict and robbery. So the feng shui is not so good in the front in the NE. However, the building still has other prosperous stars 7 and 8 in the front in the E and SE respectively. So money aspect can still do well. However, we saw similar drawback in human aspects. The current prosperous mountain star 7 is in the South, where the building does not have any mountain support. So this configuration is "Mountain falling in water" again implying bad human aspects. The South Tower was hit by the UA airliner from the SW and W, where the stars are also bad. 6 is faded out energy, stimulated by the earth elements of year star 5 and day star 8, and 2 and 5 spells misfortune in the W. So this is a brief study on the feng shui aspects of the 911 incident on basis of scanty information collected from news media and the internet. However, accurate feng shui evaluation requires accurate assessment and measurement on site. Without such opportunity, most of the above analysis can only be based on assumptions which may be totally incorrect. As such, this article should only be treated as an academic study for people who are enthusiastic about researching into feng shui. I would welcome any constructive opinion and advice as to the actual design and orientation of these buildings. |