In the study of Feng Shui compass has a much more complex structure than the usual tourist compass, and it is called Luo Pan. In order to become a good specialist in feng shui, you must learn how to use Luo Pan, and for this you need to study carefully all of its rings.
Luo Pan, compass feng shui: value
"Lo" means "all", and "pan" in the translation "bad." Therefore, the main meaning of Luo Pan is "the storage of all directions and angles on the earth."
Note that Luo Pan includes 36 rings, on the rim of each of which you can find 24 marks. All of them are used by experts in feng shui to study various aspects.
Modern analogues of Luo Pan are greatly simplified, they contain from four to seventeen rings. Note that these rings are only needed to determine the location for the cemetery. But to find places for a house or a garden is quite enough external rim, which is located 24 marks.
Compass Luo Pan can be used not only for practical purposes. He also personifies the Taoist universe - its meaning is enclosed in three rings: the ring of the former heavens, the ring of the future heavens and the rim with twenty-four marks on it.
Circles compass Luo Pan and their meaning
A circle of twenty-four directions. Otherwise this circle is called a mountain circle. Most often it is used to determine a more favorable place for the arrangement of a garden, the construction of a house or another building, that is, to work with land. This circle shows the accumulation and stagnation of the energy of Qi. It is divided into 8 main parts, each of which is divided into three more. These parts belong to yin and yang.
The circle of the next heavens. This circle helps to detect the energy that exists outside the space-time frame. It can not be used by masters. It can only be accepted or rejected by man. It depends on the person's desires and goals in life.
The circle of the subsequent heavens has different trigrams that correspond to one or another element and are located in certain parts of the world. For example, the trigram dui, personifying a body of water, is in the southwest compass. Using these trigrams, you can determine the location for the fountain or garden.
Another use of the circle of the next heavens is the selection of the right color scheme for different rooms.
Here, each trigram has its own color. Trigram kan, as well as qian and gen, is white, while kun is the reverse, black, trigrams of zhen and sun symbolize different shades of green, red color symbolizes a trigram of duy, and purple is a trigram li.
But modern Feng Shui benefits teach us a slightly different approach to determining color in the circle of the next heavens. Here, each trigram is associated with the five elements of the Feng Shui theory: water, earth, fire, metal and wood. And they have colors corresponding to their elements. The water here is dark blue or black, and the trigram, which symbolizes it, is the cane. The trigram gen belongs to the earth and has a yellow color. Trigrams tsyan and duy are tied to metal and have silvery and gold colors, respectively. Fire, as always, appears in shades of red. To him is bound the trigram.
Circle of the former heavens. Which is also called the pre-Heavenly ba-gua. This compass circle is used to detect the Tao energy that exists everywhere and always. It does not obey the laws of time or space and can be found both in space itself and in things. Masters and Feng Shui experts use this energy in order to control the energy flows of the earth.
Also, the circle of the past heavens can tell us a lot about the state of things in the universe. Here, every element of feng shui has its own strict place, connected with a certain side of the world. So the sky, or trigram qian, is located in the south, trigram kun or earth - in the north, trigram, fire, can be found in the East, and the mountain (gen) is in the northwest, water you can find in the West. Trigram thunder (zhen) can be found in the northeast, and in the southeast there is a trigram of duy - a pond and in the southwest is a trigram sun-wind-tree. All these trigrams are located strictly opposite to each other, thus achieving equilibrium in our world and in the universe as a whole. And each pair has exactly three features from yin and yang, which means harmony and well-being.
We can understand the order of things precisely with the help of the circle of the former heavens, if we move from the trigram of thunder in the direction of the clockwise movement. We will see how the yin and yang reach their peak, and then decrease. Yang peak activity will be in the south. Three vertical features will tell us about this. But the yin energy will reach its peak in the north, as indicated by the three dotted lines of the trigram of the earth.
Here it is clear that at the birth of one energy the second inevitably weakens. These are the laws of the world. The emergence of new energy and the disappearance of the old is considered the beginning of a new cycle.