You
In this step I
want people, you know watch this this tape carefully because
Every single information is important and it's valuable and this is a
Good test and this one is this is one of the tests. I highly recommend it
Hi, my name is Carter diamond
And you are about to watch the part two section of my introductory video workshop
The material in part two hinges on your understanding the information in the part one series
So if you have not personally attended one of my introductory classes, then it would be important for you to watch the part one first
In this part two you will learn some of the deeper meanings behind the trigrams and how to perform a beginner's
calculation of your house type based on orientation and yearly cycles
Then you'll be able to apply your beginner's knowledge of the five elements to remedy some of the imbalances in your personal environment
Again, take lots of notes writing is one of the best ways to learn and solidify the information in your mind
Okay
So what we're going to do now is cover the personal trigram formula so that you can figure out
What trigram your friends or family members are when you don't have your chart with you
The male formula is that you add up the individual digits of the year somebody is born
Such as 1957 for a man comes to the number 22. That's X
Then you divide X
By 9 so we get 2 as the number we divide it by but the remainder is the number that we're looking at
The remainder equals 4 and then 11 minus 4 equals 7 so a man born in
1957 is the 7 or Dewey trigram and
Keep in mind. This is somebody born after February 5th if they were born in January or February 1 2 3
then
Consider them born the year before and start your formula that way
Then for a woman born in 1957 we do something a little different
Initially we add up all of the numbers the individual digits and we come to 22
Same thing divided by 9 and we get blank then the remainder which is 4
Here's the different part for a woman you add 4 and then you get 8 so a woman born in
1957 is the Ken trigram
There are some books on Japanese astrology, which is sometimes referred to as the key and
They don't differentiate between male or female everybody's the male trigram
Chauvinistic, but just to let you know if you encounter
Forms like that you may be looking up and thinking. Oh, they say I'm something different than what I know I am so this is
correct a
Reminder if you end up with a remainder of zero just consider it nine
So that's Lee if you wind up with a remainder of five
You've got Kuhn
I shouldn't say remainders, but if the trigram finally resolve to five and you're doing a male
Formula it's the Kuhn trigram, and if you finally resolve to five for a woman it is Ken
Automatically and there are complicated theories that explain how that works, but we won't get into that right now
Okay
Now let's explain these trigrams in greater detail
You have the chart in your notes actually well. I'm just going to prop this up here
you
See that okay
These trigrams are loaded with meaning and you're going to get a head full of stuff in this part, too
We switch back and forth between the variety of meeting of meanings, and you will want to have a comfortable
Recollection of this in order to do the remedies properly. Let's talk about the symbology
Chien
Chien Chien is three solid lines
We have solid lines and broken lines one is yang one is yin
One is masculine one is feminine, so what do you think three solid lines means?
It's all that male yang energy and so the chien trigram actually represents the father figure
Also the head of the company
someone in a position of power
Maybe the military
symbolically
Self-defense it goes on and on but basically we say that's the father figure the authority
People who are the chien trigram is their personal trigram are often leaders they accept that responsibility
Well, they like to be in charge. It's comfortable for them
The image from the I Ching is of the heavens
heavens and
the body parts
Associated with chien are the head that makes sense right head in charge and the lungs
She and people sometimes have head and or lung problems. Maybe it's somebody who gets a lot of headaches
Maybe it's somebody who smokes so they have a certain
Karma with the lungs
These ailments that I'm about to list can be minor to severe
And when you're diagnosing somebody's house if the chien energy is out of balance
That's the body part or area that's going to be affected
So let's say the chien energy in your house is being dominated
Anybody living there could have a problem with the head of the lungs
Then if you happen to be a chien person on top of it
You're more likely than somebody else to have that problem, so we're stacking the variables here
Chien is associated with the direction of Northwest
It's the number six and
It's the element hard metal
Then just below is chien chien
When we look at these trigrams we read them from the bottom to the top. This is line one and two and three
So when we're trying to discover what is different from one trigram from the next we look at the line
That's different from the other two
In this case, it's the bottom line right
You've got two broken lines now. We have a solid line, so that's the one we pay attention to
So we're paying attention to a solid gang line. It's masculine and it happens to be in the first position
So who in the family do you think it is?
Well she and was the father who's next in line
It's masculine it's the eldest son
Okay
Right because we're looking at the line. That's different which is a masculine line
So chen represents the eldest son and also famous people or a prince
There's a certain regality to it chen people are often extroverts or in the entertainment industry
They like to be standing in front of a group of people
Jen it's hard wood. It's the direction of east
It's the image of thunder chen makes a lot of noise just like the eldest son
stomping around and
The body parts that are associated with chen are the feet
the throat and the nervous system a
Chen person might work too hard burn themselves out workaholic
Or they might have feet problems
Right and it's the number three
So fairly soon we'll get into this whole number system, and you just go back to the trigrams
Now we have con KAN. What's the different line?
The middle line is the different one, and it's yang it's masculine still and it's in the second position
so who in the family is
It's the middle the middle son or it can represent middle-aged men in general
a con
Con is water
It's the direction inherently north
Inherently north
The image is of a deep body of water
Master Sang's book. I think they call it an abyss deep deep water
What body parts do you think are associated with con?
Think of water
a
circulation blood kidneys
Circulation and also the ears we have a little bit of water in the inner ear
Yeah, so when the con energy is being dominated in somebody's bedroom
They might have ear problems, or they might have blood or circulation problems
It's the number one
and
We have ken
Top line is the different line. It's yang it's masculine and who in the family is this
It's yang it's masculine
It's the youngest son
represents youth in general young boys
now
Some things don't take too literally if you're a woman, and you're the ken trigram. It doesn't mean you're a tomboy
Okay, because some that you'll just start thinking. Oh, well. She's described. These is all masculine, but I'm a woman does that mean this or that
We don't go that far, okay
Now ken is the direction of northeast
It's the image of a mountain
Ken people can be very stubborn
Ken people can be very stubborn or have strong convictions. They're solid
Ken Mountain
And it's it's the element harder
and
The body parts associated with ken are the bones in general
but specifically the hands and fingers
so a ken person might
Break their bones. They might have deformities. They might have carpal tunnel syndrome things like that the hands
Now on this side pardon oh the number eight
Con is north ken is northeast
Okay
Now over here. We have the kun trigram, which is three yen lines three feminine lines
So who do you think this is in the family? Oh?
Yes
the mother figure the mother image
Okay, who and it's the direction of Southwest. It's the number two
Kun is the earth element soft earth and so the image might be of land shallow soil
The body parts associated with kun is the entire abdominal area
Kun people might have delicate digestion they might women they might have menstrual problems or
reproductive
setbacks I
Have a friend who has very hearty digestion is kun trigram
But he's actually been shot in the stomach so sometimes just either injury or illness to that area
Yes, it just reflects some mother energy nurturing
question
for the kun
They don't seem to have quite as defined
personality traits as some of the others like I do encounter over and over again the chien person liking to be a leader and
the chin person liking to be
On stage very you know extroverted the con the water is often a really creative person
artistic ken people are
Rather stubborn
That's you right
No, who's ken Jenny? Oh your daughter, okay?
I hate to stereotype these though because there's so much more, but there are there are some some truth to this the kun
Okay, it couldn't
That's the one try them that I couldn't say so much about because I with men and women it plays itself out real differently
I
Chien is strong. It's hard metal the leader
Chen is more of the social and extroverted type person and
Ken which is strong and stubborn solid like a mountain
Con con is more fluid. It's water
Sometimes people ask well what about the compatibility between different trigrams if you have
Two chien people you have two hard metal people like clashing swords
They might argue as their style of communication
If you have two ken people they may not want to budge because they're like two mountains. I don't want to move
To con people that's water. Maybe they flow really well together
But maybe it's also hard to make a decision come to a conclusion about something everybody's like to Gemini's right all kind of
spacey
Soon su n what's the different line?
The first line is the different one it happens to be broken. It's yen, so it's the eldest daughter
It's also the image of a traveler or the wind
Soon is associated with the direction of southeast
It's the element softwood
Mm-hmm
number four
And the body part
the hips low back thighs buttocks legs and
Initially the way I remembered that was I thought well the eldest daughter. She's traveling. She's moving. What's moving. It's the legs
Soon people sometimes hurt themselves in the low back area or the legs and as well. They're often very athletic
They have developed that area. Maybe they're a martial artist or they're just very athletic
Candy
Lee we have the different line in the center. It's yen
So we have the representation of the middle daughter
or the middle-aged
woman
Lee is fire, and it's also just the image of fire
It's the number nine. It's the direction of south
Soon as southeast
And you have your chart also that goes over all the directions for you
Lee is associated with the eyes and the heart and the way I remembered that but I thought well fire
Passion comes through the eyes and the heart
Then lastly we have Dewey sometimes it's pronounced toey or Dewey depending on what part of the world you're from
The top line is the yen line
So it represents young girls
You want to build an all-girls school make it a Dewey building, right?
Cater to what's going to be going on there Dewey is the direction of West. It's the number seven
It's the image of a lake
In Master Sang's book. I think he says happiness
marshlands shallow water as opposed to con which is the deep water and
The body parts associated with Dewey are the mouth
mouth region including the teeth and the chest
And we have obviously left a lot of body parts out
They don't fall in this a trigram system, but they can still come out and be identified in different different number combinations
question
Which trigram am I pointing to Chi in
Well in the case of Chi in they're all yang, so it's not the different line. It's seen
But it's different from these two
Oh
Within the trigram itself. It's different and some of you know in the I Ching we take these two trigrams
Together they form a hexagram as it's called and people need some inspiring
Oracle kind of information when they throw the coins and we double up on the
symbology
It's very interesting in fact if you take the Kuhn trigram and the con trigram
We have basically earth and water
Now we learned in part one that earth dominates water. That's not a good set up and
Specifically we'll learn even more now is that two and one the cat combination
means easy to get a divorce
in the each end you put Kuhn and con together and they
Speak very loftily about the battlefields and the warring states
So the battlefield can be in your house
question
There are debates about that in fact I have a link on my website
Dr.. Stephen field has done research where he thinks feng shui came first and
Each and afterwards usually people say we we extracted from teaching the feng shui
Some people say this is early Chinese mathematics these symbols I
had a actually a
student who went to the University of Michigan after studying a little bit in
California and she sent me an article that was comparing the trigrams with DNA
And I could hardly read the article is very dense
These are some of the associations
Okay question
Do you have any very difficult personalities that would be suitable for some energy?
Or Sun?
Sun well it can be a very independent person it implies independence movement energy
Li people since it is fire they can be very quick mentally sharp
fiery
And Dewey which is the image of the young girl
That one also, I don't see anything really
Overwhelmingly concrete about the personality of Dewey. It's soft metal, and it plays itself out differently in men and women
It is it is the image of a lake, but it's the element soft metal yeah some of these are very
Easy to understand and some of them are not in fact
Sun is also associated with rheumatism. I don't know where that comes from, but that's just one of the
ailments or disorders that assume soon energy can carry with it
Okay
So now that you that you have your list of what these trigrams mean
we're also going to move on to another list of
number symbology when it comes to annual energy and
I think let's see you
Don't have that exact
form
Maybe you do yes, you do okay. We'll go over it
It's on your handout one
Okay
So now we have a whole other set of numbers to deal with
And once we get through this list, then we're going to start looking at the houses and putting all the information together
Every year annual energy moves through your house some people have described that annual energy as a visiting guest
It could be something that you like a relative is very pleasant
It doesn't take up a lot of your time or it could be a real nasty
Person who you're obligated to have with you for however long and this person can really change your whole household
The yearly cycle we call it the annual energy and it clicks in every February 5th
So in fact here we are in January of 99
We're still operating under 98 energy for a few more weeks
We will learn how to move or float as we say at the Institute the numbers from one section of your house to the next
But let's define them first
When the one number and it is con it is that con trigram that when it comes to your house
Whatever position it takes one is associated with money
Okay, it's a it's generally a good number one
Powerful position and money so if that is the energy that you're going to figure out is the energy in your bedroom this year
That could work for you
If it's at your front door could be also positive
To means pain loneliness
We say bleeding or sickness can mean a miscarriage I
Had a miscarriage the year that the two energy was in my bedroom back in 1990
I did not know about annual energy back then had I known I would have done a remedy
Or I would have moved the bed to another location in the room because our room split was split between two different quadrants
This does not mean that a two person a Kuhn person is a lonely person
Okay, now we're talking specifically about annual energy
Three is associated with arguments
Lawsuits kind of like the e in the eight house
Theory you had the e quadrant three is like that gossip scandal
Really like that gossip scandal I
Had a client who I didn't know what he did for a living I went to his house
He had the three of energy around his desk
And I said ooh, this is gossip and scandal and let's move you over to another area
that's better for writing which happens to be the number four and
He said well, I work for the National Enquirer
So okay, well, let's keep you where you are then that's appropriate the gossip and all that the articles you need to write
And he said but I don't want to do that anymore
I want to get out of working for that tabloid
So we went ahead and moved his office desk and he actually he left about a month later
Okay, so the number four which is associated with career advancement
promotion scholastic achievement writing reading creativity
Generally four is called a good star sometimes these numbers are called stars like constellation
Four is also associated with romance
So when the four comes to your bedroom you could have a boyfriend that year or a girlfriend or
an outside affair
Four energy, it's very flirtatious
It's creative. It's both people often want to separate the two
Right you want to you want to have the creativity, but we don't want to break up our marriage
Sometimes both things happen that year
Five is associated with setbacks and delays and arguments
And remember earlier we were saying that five doesn't have a trigram
and
My friend Lorraine at the Institute very aptly described that five doesn't have a trigram, so he's mad
So wherever the five happens to be there can be problems
Six is annual energy can mean money
And I think that's a typo six implies power and authority so correct that in your notes
Yeah, it's it's power somebody might be promoted, but they don't necessarily make more money when the six comes
Seven is normally considered a negative number
It happens to be in a positive cycle right now, but as yearly energy it can mean a betrayal bleeding accident
Robbery as well slander very heavy number
I
Had a client who had the seven energy in her bedroom the year I went up to visit her and
she had found out that her
live-in boyfriend who was in
Canada at the time she found out that he was paying his share of the rent for money. He was stealing from her stock portfolio
portfolio
That's a betrayal
Eight we like eight fame name fortune
Eight is an inherently good number, and it actually is getting more and more positive as time goes by
Now and for the next 25 years eight is going to be an extremely positive number
That's why I like to help people design or find
Locations where there's this eight energy in the bedroom or at the front door
This is why?
Some Asian people in the San Gabriel area were upset that they lost the eight one eight area code
Became six to six because the symbology of eight is so strong as being powerful I
Have some friends who have a function way consulting company that and they call themselves the one six eight advisors
Those are the good numbers
They were contacted by a function way practitioner on their website. What does one six eight mean?
My friend Chris said you don't know
Basic this is now we're into our fourth hour
Nine remember, it's Lee. It's fire. It will intensify whatever. It's with it lights it up so when
Nine joins already positive energies it makes it more so
You learned in part one that there's an a quadrant if the nine comes in it would make it more egg
If it was an F quadrant it might make it more F
But we're building we're learning more to add to the mix now
Okay, so this is just a reminder of the element associated with the number
And we're about to discuss how you would use the elements to either enhance an already good number or diminish
reduce the negative
Numbers are always in some combination and the annual number acts as a trigger for something to happen
Let's say you have the H
Quadrant as your front door which means a potential for robbery when the nine comes in that intensifies it
So that might be the year that it happens or when the seven comes in especially that it also means robbery unto itself
If you have an e quadrant which can mean the arguments or lawsuits and then the three annual comes in
That's the year that you're getting sued
The annual energy makes things happen
There are also monthly cycles, but that's not really relevant until you know more of the basic material I
Had a client call me over the holidays, and she said my mom is finally starting to
Believe in feng shui. It's really why she said well
We looked at your notes from last February, and you said that in August it would be easy for me to conceive a boy
and
She did I did now my mom is starting to think well. Maybe there's something to it
The cycles make things happen
Here are some reminders about orientation the kitchen usually means the back of the house the sitting position
The sitting position is the name of the house once you've determined that
the living room or views indicate the facing the front and
In fact we could say let's say you have like this room. There's no windows. What do you do?
You're in an office space. There's no windows then the side where there's the door that'll be the facing side
When the kitchen and living room are on the same side of the house and usually the bedrooms are the back and that indicates
sitting side
Okay, so any questions
Pardon
When they're together
No, when they're together. It's the facing yeah, and then the bed the bedrooms and bathroom or bathrooms will be the sitting side
Okay now in part one we had this east-west trigram chart
Actually let me add to it numbers
you
Okay
Remember I said the center is neutral in part one well now we already have a number
Associated with this house type and from here on out. It will be called the house trigram number
Do you see the correlation do you know why I've put the numbers where they are
This is where you would need to eventually memorize the number associated with the trigrams that we just listed for instance
Lee is the number nine so we put a number nine in the center of a Lee house
If we have a con house
Con is one so we put one in the center
So Jim your house is Chen, so it's three you put three in the center
Anybody confused about what to do with their house
Your house is a Dewey house right it sits west faces east okay
So if it sits west and it's the Dewey house Dewey is the number seven
I've provided the number for you right here
But that's where it comes from
No
Right this is the house
The house is number. I'm glad you mentioned that because I've seen people
Try to float their own personal trigram number throughout the house, and you do not do that
Okay
Okay, now. There's a certain way a certain pattern that we float these numbers
Floating means moving actually in the most advanced form of feng shui that I practice we call it flying star
Whether it's flying or floating it's moving okay
The
Pattern is the same for every single house. It's just that you're starting with a different number
The pattern is that we start in the center
And whatever number we've started with after that we move to the direction of Northwest we ascend our numbers
So
For instance if we have a Dewey house, and we've started with seven in the center, then we plug in an eight in Northwest
If somebody has a con house where one is in the center, and they move to the Northwest
That makes sense whatever number you start with you started with six you'd move to seven
Okay
After Northwest we ascend to West
After West we go to Northeast
Yep, then we go to South
Yeah, it's going to make a kind of a zigzag star pattern
After South we go to North
Then we go to Southwest and then we go to East and then to Southeast
Swing your partner, do-si-do and you're back in the center again actually in the charts that you have
The original pattern is here for you in the Roman numerals five
Actually since there is no five house since it doesn't have a trigram
This is truly just the original formula. You'd never really float it this way. There's no five house
five six seven eight nine one two three four
You just repeat that pattern
Okay, if you can memorize that pattern it's going to come easy to learn all the more advanced number flows
In
The olden days don't ask me what year, but I've read in Feng Shui books that cover more of the historical aspect
It's written that the Feng Shui master would actually start from the center of the house
And he might move in this lo-shu pattern sometimes called the magic lo-shu square grid
To bless the house walk in that pattern
I know nothing about the Kabbalah
But I thumbed through a book that had the Hebrew letters written in a certain format that was exactly this flow
Numerologically, so there's a certain universal nature to this flow
And I don't know if any of you noticed some of the perfection of this
Six plus five is 11 plus four is 15
Two plus nine is 11 plus four is 15
Two plus five is seven plus eight is 15 no matter which way you go you wind up with 15
This by the way is also called the later heaven sequence
Sometimes you'll see the Feng Shui trigrams in a different pattern and probably 99% of the time
It's showing a grid that used to be called the pre heaven sequence
This is really advanced Feng Shui, but you'll see you'll see it
And I don't want you to be confused that they're in the wrong order
They're just describing a different reality pre heaven is the stuff that you
Come into the world with your karma if it's your karma or destiny to be a billionaire
That's your pre heaven situation then the post heaven the later heaven sequence is what you do with your life
Whether you realize your potential or not so this is the this is what we use nowadays
for your house
So in memorizing this pattern we would go for the Dewey house
Seven eight nine one two three four five six
Hey, we've just got nine numbers
This clear
But he knows if you started your house with a two in the center you'd move three to northwest four to west five to northeast
Seven eight nine back to one
Okay, that's the house trigram number
Mm-hmm, I will just return to one
Okay
now
We have to add the annual energy
The house trigram is a semi-permanent number because it's based on orientation
All right, we came up with four for the Sun house because it's sitting in suan southeast
So that's what we put in the center, but now we're going to deal with the annual energy which clicks every 12 months
in
1998 the number two was in the center
After February in 1999 we're going to have a one in the center
In the year 2000 we will have a nine in the center
In this case we can say that the numbers
descend as the years scroll forward I
Don't have a chart for this you can
Quickly do this and I recommend doing this as practice
For your house you can think oh yeah back in such-and-such year
I got that promotion and the four was at my front door
Or in this year we had that fire and boy that fire number was right there where the fire started
You can see certain things
Okay
For another few weeks
Every house will have one in the center every house
No, that's just the energy in the center
Yeah, if you enter your house from the center
Let's say you live in a condo and you come up to the garage and actually enter through the center of your house and yes
If your office is in the center of the house yes
In a lot of houses the center ends up being a hallway or not really a room that's used although not all the time
So it implies
We're just about ready to see what is it paired with it depends on what the house trigram number goes along with it
And we're going to learn some definition
The annual
We compare them
This is the annual number
And this is the annual number
We compare them
This is why
And just to kind of address bonnie and erin's concerns when people say they practice the compass school of feng shui
I've discovered that often they don't
Even when they show up with a compass
They may be discerning that you know, this is east and this is west and then they go. Okay
Put water in the north section of the house
Oh put fire in the south section
wrong
Everything moves it moves yearly and plus we have these eight basic house types, so that's not compass school
It is true that east is inherently associated with wood
And if you studied feng shui further you would glean more and more information from that
But that doesn't mean that in the east section of your house. You always put a plant not at all
Okay
Actually a friend of mine was talking on the phone with a woman who's she's been on oprah
She's very famous feng shui person. She has no idea what compass school feng shui is. What numbers?
Okay
Let's do a house type and we'll see what we come up with
Let's say we have a chen house
Chen is three in the center. That means it sits in the east faces west
Right
Okay
And we have to float our numbers in that specific pattern
So after three we do four
And we move to the west five
To the northeast six to the south seven north eight
southwest nine
Yes, one and two
Okay, everybody get that
Yes
Right i'm doing um remember aerial view, here's the street
It sits east so it's a chen house and chen is three so we start with three
Okay
Now put the annual energy for 1999
in
The black so in 1999 we start with one in the center
right
And then we move two over to northwest three to west
Four
Five six seven eight nine
nine
I've the black the black numbers are 1999 annual numbers
And the red are the house trigram numbers for a chen house
Yes
Yeah, that for 1998
Eight it was a five in the northeast and it will become a four fairly soon for 99
Okay, everybody get how I got these numbers, okay have to cater to all levels of
speed and comprehension
Now we have something to work with we could plug in the letters too, but just to look at the numbers now
When we have six and four together what elements are six and four?
Yeah
Well six is metal correct and four is wood
Metal is destroying wood
Here we have a potential since four is this good number associated with promotion and creative writing
But the house trigram number is destroying metals destroying wood
So what do we do? How do we fix that?
When metals destroying wood you add yeah, you add water to wood water feeds wood
And so we have to have all of this at our recollection four is promotion creativity. It's writing
It's the sun trigram. So it also means the low back the legs the thighs
Is
So we want to protect four we don't want someone to have a low back injury this year
We also don't want their creativity to be suppressed this year. So however, it's going to affect somebody we want to help the four
Right, I mean because you've been clients and I know the advanced numbers
I think it's fine. No matter what to have water in your room. Normally don't need it
But this year it can enhance
things, yes
No
only in a house where the four comes to
their important area
And you have to be careful because remember four is very flirtatious
Maybe you don't want to add four. I mean add water to feed all that sexual energy basically what it is
Okay
Yeah
Pardon
It usually means outside we'll talk about the more
Yeah, yeah
You're single it's great
I I think cycles are
Totally
Fascinating to me, obviously that's why i'm standing here. I have an inherent four house trigram number in my bedroom
It's always there the house trigram number and I had the annual four last year also in my bedroom
and in the months of
February and november I had monthly four and those happened to be the two months out of the year that some men showed some interest
In me just a natural cycle and I put a fountain up there also
But just for the monthly cycle, but it's right in sync things happen
Yes
Because it really doesn't matter whether you have six four or four six metal which is six will always destroy wood
And in a while we're going to do a rundown of all the 81 different possible number combinations
But it's true that one eight and eight one mean almost the same thing
Nine seven seven nine, but you know that one of them is a permanent energy and one of them
Passes I wouldn't say oh i'm not going to rent that house because there's a two annual energy there this year
If you're planning on living there for 10 years because every house has some negative cycles
The key in feng shui is to know when they're coming and neutralize them
So that they don't come into full force or happen at all
We say cancel it out
That's what you do
Remember nine intensifies whatever it's with so since two is negative nine makes it more so
Is that
You
Well, that's an odd one because it's a productive cycle fire does feed earth so nothing's out of sync
But as a general rule and a master seng's book, I think he emphasizes it wherever you see a two
Or a five add metal
And you can figure out why because even though
So
You might have two and five together double earth energy
There's no domination cycle going on but we just describe two as being loneliness bleeding accident
Five arguments delays pain when the two of them come together
This is actually one of the most notorious number combinations. You have to add a lot of metal to neutralize it
two five
Um
Alyssa you remember that house that I got referred to look at in nickels canyon
There was a house that a realtor brought me in to look at the previous
Occupant had killed himself
And so the prospective new buyer wanted to know if the house had anything to do with it
And sure enough the front door was two five
Extremely accident prone then we found out, you know what year it happened in the month and everything
There were more twos more fives it all stacked up
Well this this over any house floor plan could you can have a room that's like this
In your house that it can come with parts of two and maybe parts of another two trigrams
Right like this two rooms
Right, that's what happens in a real floor plan. You see that
These numbers go over several rooms
when a house
That part of one room that part of another room
Yeah, see where it falls for instance
Let's say you were sleeping in the two nine section of your room, which isn't real positive
But then you were able to switch your bedroom over to the one eight section of the same room
Then you get a different result a better experience
Well, it's part it's part of two different rooms
Yeah
What i've noticed in houses that are or apartments that are under a thousand square feet
There's going to be a lot of this overlapping
In a house that's roughly around 1200 1500 square feet
It almost seems a lot of the time like each room takes on the space of one quadrant
Then when you get in really large homes, there might be two or three rooms all inside of one quadrant
So it depends on the shape stretching all of this out. We'll do some examples with some real floor plans also
Um, maybe I should do one right now
Yeah, I mean you having your beginner's handout. Oh, this would be perfect to show
Let's see
Okay, see a rectangular shaped house why am I not this way that way
Okay, so we've divided up the quadrants equally
But you see how well this house is an example of somebody walking in
Their front door is between two different quadrants that in general is bad news
We call that out of trigram like out of sync
It's like walking into a room and it might be 80 degrees on one side and 65 on another and you feel uncomfortable
So a house should be designed so that the door is specifically in one quadrant not split between the two
But you see the breakfast nook
Let's say this was southwest. We've got part of the southwest and part of the west for the breakfast nook
the real floor plan
This bathroom and foyer takes up one quadrant this bedroom five and the stairs are in another quadrant
So
Does that make it more clear?
Right, right
Of the house
Yeah, try to have as close to accurate a floor plan as possible
The more accurate is that you can be exactly accurate within inches
No, just the exterior walls don't include decks or patios. Yeah
Yeah
Let me grab that same example because we were going to do this as well today
Okay
Let's say that bedroom number
Five down here. Let's say this happens to be the east section of the whole house
If that were true, let's see. This would be
southeast south
Southwest west northwest north
East
Okay
Now this room itself
Can be divided up into its own quadrants as a mini version of the whole house where we could say this is the east
southeast
south
Southwest west so we can do a littler version on the room
But generally what you try to do is put a remedy in the correct section of the house
And then within the room try to just at least be in a positive area within the room
But you don't put remedies and elements in every single section of every single room
They would cancel each other out
Yes
Yeah, like if I put that in this house, let's say I called that six four
And then over here one eight
Part of the living room would be in six four and part of the living room and most of the family room would be in
one eight
Just goes over that way
This is why in feng shui when people
Move their bed three feet knowingly or unknowingly
Dabbling in feng shui something might happen because they may have shifted themselves out of a certain quadrant. They're still in the same room
But it's a different energy field. Maybe it's got maybe it's a all in one fell swoop
It might be a better quadrant of the house better annual energy better sleeping position for the person and then something dramatic happens
So that works
Okay, let's see. Let me draw another example
Oh
Yeah
Yeah, that's why it's called the flying star. It's it's
The house as it's being built
And once the roof goes on it's captured some time in space
So it's both earthly energies coming from below and the stars the constellations from above
people and buildings are sandwiched in between and
We are affected by the movement of the stars. Maybe women more than men. I don't know but
People have historically planted crops according to the cycles of the moon and
As much as we try to alienate ourselves or detach ourselves from nature
We are still a part of it
So it is it's a natural
natural physical laws
And I call it a magnetic field. It's not the same as electromagnetic fields, but is a type of magnetic field
Right and
Just as a little
Footnote in case anybody gets this video and they're in the southern hemisphere. We don't change a thing
there's a whole controversy going on right now about whether you
Move everything around because it's hot in the winter and cold in the summer in the southern hemisphere. No, no
This is this is a blueprint for the whole world
Let's see, let's do another house example
Let's say we have
A house that sits northeast and faces southwest
What's the name of the house
Right because we look to the sitting position
Northeast equals can can equals eight
Nine
Okay, where do we move nine
Remember that pattern you got to memorize it nine goes to northwest and then where do we put one two
Three
North four jumping ahead five goes to
Six seven
Okay
And you want to add this year's annual energy or last year
somebody's house
1999 energy we'll say
Okay. Remember everybody's got a one in the center for 1999
So then we move two to northwest
Oh, it's interesting. Yeah, the number combinations in different locations, but similar number combination
So let's do another year just to see if I can get some other examples of other number combinations
You want to go back to 1995?
Put a five in the center
Let's try that
Okay, so we go five six seven
Eight nine one two. Uh-oh
three four
What if that's their front door?
What's the letter by the way for a ken house for southwest it's pretty pretty good. It's probably a I think
We'll add that on
I think it's a it's good
But we've got two lousy numbers here
Five and two accident prone
White is metal so you can absolutely have complementary colors. No problem with that
But what's more effective than the color is the object made out of copper bronze steel iron
That'll help although we've asked this question a lot of times if you have a metal gate or
Metal bars
Is it going to influence what's inside? Yes, but it's not enough. So add more inside
If you park your car, you know right up
Right up near the area where you need metal. Yeah, it would flow into that space but still go inside the house
What's a red car
A red car hot quiz if the overwhelming color catches you. Yeah
Okay
Yeah, you can find a way to inconspicuously
That being the key word underline it to the interiors
Have a wrought iron entry table have some
Silver picture frames hang a clock that has metal moving parts back and forth
Okay, don't hang a wind chime though
In the five to master sang explains in his book and we know it through dance studies that the wind chime represents
the number six
And when you throw a six towards five and two you can make the house haunted
I've had validation from clients. This is what they did unknowingly hanging a nice wind chime
Something about that. It creates that atmosphere
The number six
And when you put those together six with five and two
It attracts yin type energy which can be a ghost
Oh, it was come
Oh the eight eight yeah
That's an advanced case study class at the american feng shui institute
We call it the moneymaker year
When it's nine nine, yeah or the north four four make a baby
Yeah, oh there's so this goes so deep
It's frustrating for me to only have a couple hours with me because
You get more and more information out of this when you really study the trigrams and all their intricate
Combinations because right now you have a house trigram number
And an annual number there's three more important numbers and when you have them all
And you add the letter on top and then you add
The personal trigrams of the people who live there. That's how we can say. Oh
Your husband cruises bars next year. He's going to get a sex-related disease. Oh, how can you be so specific?
It's because over and over again
These patterns have established a predictable outcome
When we have two and five and seven nine all come together
means a fire
You know
so
So when you see a negative number coming up you try to cancel it out so that it isn't going to act like the trigger of the
gun
Waiting for something to happen
Okay
Now in this case we have one four
It's likely that that might be a back bedroom in a house, right?
One is water four is wood water nurtures wood
The office
Do what to the office
Occasionally I might recommend somebody use one room over another in a particular year if it's really going to make a huge difference
Or use a different door
One year over the other maybe maybe one year you've got
A side door that's four and a front door. That's two so maybe for the year you should go with the positive door
This is what people do historically also
Changing doorways completely to allow for good chi to enter the house
The energy once you open up the front door it activates the dormant energy
Here we have a mixed message
To eight two is earth eight is earth. There's no domination cycle going on right double earth
But we know two has these negative attributes
Eight has the positive
What are you going to do if you add metal to reduce the two you've also reduced the eight
If you add fire you have increased the negative as well as the positive
So you have to ask people we know what's more important to you your health or money?
Not everybody not everybody
Everybody
Usually we try to take care of the health if you don't have your health the money is eventually going to fall apart, too
Doorway bedroom if this if your two eight quadrant is two closets between two rooms, you're not going to experience it
It's just where it falls in the house
Okay
For two eight
Usually we would leave it alone because if you add metal you reduce the loneliness and the accident from nature of two
You've also reduced the money potential because earth wants to go towards metal
If you add fire then you increase the money, but maybe now you've got stomach problems
So it's a mixed message sometimes we're stuck sometimes we can't do certain things
So
To use your back door
That's a tough one, too
Because I know the advance numbers for your house and can't say the front door is better than the back patio door anyway
You have good annual energy coming to the bedroom though
We'll see what else we can do with that
No, what i'm teaching now is the house trigram number along with the annual because
Well your your case is classic and we don't know for sure when the house was built. We're reduced to using these
Numbers that aren't reliant on when the house was built
When master sang travels around and maybe he goes to some places
In asia where there's no record of when the structure was built
Then we go back to this beginner's formula so that at least on a yearly cycle
You can enhance the good and diminish the bad, but this isn't the whole picture
I would say well people have been calling me now in january asking me whether they should change anything
Starting in february and some people i've said no keep everything the same other people it's some little shift
One or two changes
So you're not reinventing your house every year
The really critical numbers don't come to those spaces every single year
Okay, sometimes you leave it alone
I use all the numbers now
Hmm
A break. Yeah, what time do we have here?
Okay, what we'll do is we'll take a little bath and break and then when we come back
We're going to practice doing a compass reading outside this conference center
So you can get real experience holding a compass
We'll do that. So let's take a little break
Thanks
We're going to do a practice compass reading in front of this is a restaurant a bar, okay
You would use the same principles if you were standing in front of a house
Now if I was actually hired to do a feng shui reading for this cafe
I wouldn't be standing this close
Or I may do one compass reading from where we are
But i'd also go out to the street because you may have noticed that we are hanging out around a lot of metal
These kind of things can throw off the compass and the very building itself has a lot of metal
But theoretically we're going to pretend that we're not standing near any metal and we don't have any metal jewelry on our wrists
And we're going to hold our compass level
Don't tilt it forward or back because that will throw your reading off
And whether you're using a low pan the chinese compass or whether you're reading
From a regular western compass
You want to hold it so that it's parallel?
To the whole front facade of the building
Now I have my back to the building right now and some people feel comfortable
Facing the same direction that they think the building is facing
I personally
Like to face the building I feel like i'm going to position myself so that my hip and my body is better in alignment
Some people like to walk away from the building and make sure that they're really great
The chinese compass will point to south
Okay, some of you are wondering 180 degrees south. That's where the arrow is going with a western compass
It's going to automatically point to north
North is north zero degrees south is south 180 degrees
Okay now with the low pan you have this dial that you can turn
What you're trying to do once once the compass has settled down and it has established where is south
Then you move the dial so that the red line in the center is directly under the arrow
You want the arrow to cover?
The line and you see those two little red dots
you want the
feathers of the arrow
To be touching those dots ideally
okay
So you have to move your dial around
Have it point towards 180 degrees south
And then you know where you are in relation to south
These cross wires will cut across one of the sectors
So for instance i'm looking at my compass now and this red wire is cutting
Through northeast so that direction is northeast
What's behind me over here is southwest that away?
So we could say this cafe is sitting southwest. It's a kun building. It's a kun store
If I turn around and face it I just have to move my dial
Again lining up the feathers with the dots
The arrow still points to south. So what's over there that away is southwest and what's over here is northeast
So it doesn't matter whether you face the building or face away from it so long as you're not confused when you look at your compass
The facing is the front and since that's northeast yes it faces northeast
Southwest is
Right right the sitting position
And just to show the the regular western compass is going to give you the same information
It's going to point to south 180 degrees north that away zero degrees
And then what's actually in front at about 40 degrees. That's northeast
And this shows how critical it is to make sure that you're using a compass
Because it's very easy for people to think oh that's south that's east it's not northeast
If you hold your compass
you see
That you have to rotate
That so the feathers of the air
And you line up that arrow with south and then you see what's over there northeast is that away towards your tummy is southwest that's behind you
So it's
Yeah facing northeast
Okay
So one thing that some of you are not doing is you're not moving the dial around
Make sure that the dial is turned
So that you're if you're using a chinese compass that the arrow is pointing towards 180 degrees south
And then what's in front of you?
Is the true direction for facing the opposite will be the sitting?
Right
Because on this western compass we have north southeast and west but we don't have the division it doesn't show you clearly
That northeast ends at 37 and a half degrees this is showing 40 degrees
Could be between north northeast and dead on northeast
so
Okay
Well in some ways they're easier they're bigger to read bigger print
And for the future when you get into advanced feng shui, it makes a huge difference whether the building's facing
Northeast or north northeast or east northeast
Every 15 degree increment matters for now. We just have eight basic house cuts
Well, the facing will be the opposite of the sitting
You know either one you want
Well, what's behind her is the front side of the building that's northeast what's ahead of her is southwest that away
That's the back of the building
Either way
Right
Right, we would say this is o to c as opposed to p to d
And there are chinese names maintained, you know, it's very complicated in chinese
But these 15 degrees sectors are called mountains and there's 24 of them so the sitting the mountain side is critical
Okay
So what else?
Yeah, disregard the name part you just want to turn this compass so that those feathers are touching the little red dots
And the tip of the arrow is pointing to south
And then you know where you are that's northwest that away that's southeast that away
So the store on olympic the stores on olympic for this whole complex face southeast they sit northwest
So they're tn stores this whole row of stores are cohen because they sit southwest
Up here. We've got
Um, we also have the tn
building
You are right right that's the name, okay
It does happen but it's not so much the case with this neighborhood
Again, you have to turn this all around again holding it level making sure one side is level or parallel to the building
Right that would be the case if let's say the building faced northeast
At exactly 37 and a half degrees then we have a problem
Yeah
Right. Yeah, you don't want to do that
Okay, so we could do we could even do a close-up if a building faced between one of the major
House types right on one of these major lines
It's called out of trigram, which is not a good way to start a building
That doesn't happen very often
But once we move this around
We'll have a more clear picture
of the alignment
And again, don't stand near metal if you were actually looking at a big complex like this
You may even want to go to a neighborhood on a parallel street to get away from all this metal
And with cars and cell phones and everything whizzing by it can throw the compass off
But we're doing this theoretically and if you were looking at a house
You get your reading from the front and then also go to the back
And if there was any discrepancy between the front and back go with the back the spine that's the sitting
It's more important
Okay
So I think this is good enough unless anybody has any other questions about how they're supposed to stand
Remember parallel to the whole front facade
Look down don't put your compass in your car for three years. That'll ruin it
Okay
Okay, so we can talk more inside
Okay, so now we've done our outside compass reading I just want to say before I forget so I don't forget
What you've learned in the part one class and what you're learning now in the part two
Is based on master sang's book. This is a text
So if you want to have a backup review
If you don't want to watch this video umpteen times and want to flip through a book
We're basically using master sang's beginners number system teaching now
The principles of feng shui now. It's a self-published book. So unfortunately as of today, it's not
Found easily let's say at barnes and noble, but you can order it. You can order it through the institute
You can get it from me
We have plenty of copies. Okay, it's one of the best books out there
And i've created for those of you just coming in a little cheat sheet
of the house trigram number
Planted in every single of the eight house types
I want you to learn it but
Just so you're not doing things haphazardly from the beginning. That's the proper flow
Has everybody written this in
Yes, no
Okay, because I want to remove it fairly soon and get to all these number combinations and go down the list and
And
Okay, does anybody have a question generally about how to do the compass reading anything that was still confusing
No
You don't have to but you just want to make sure you're parallel like as I was doing outside
If let's say this is a house if i'm standing like this, i'm pretty much parallel
But if i'm standing like this, do you see how sloppy that is?
Yeah, just so your back is parallel with the with the facade or if I turn around
I'm parallel with one wall. Once you know what one wall is then you can
Assume that it was built correctly
With parallel and perpendicular walls
For instance if somebody is trying to do a compass reading of their apartment
Within a building let's say this is the lobby and this is a big building
And you've established let's say that this is 90 degrees east
You're doing your reading outside, but then your apartment is over here in the back of the building
Maybe your door is over here
If this is 90 degrees east and the back of the building is west
Then we have this is a north wall and this is a south wall
So you've done your reading outside and then you can assume
That it was built properly. Well, this is a little west wall
north
East and south inside your own unit
You don't have to and should not stand in the hallway inside your building trying to do a compass reading
Or for that matter even out on the balcony because you're too close to the building
The metal of the building is going to throw your compass off
okay
so
I have been to apartments that had
Things were not
Parallel or perpendicular they're kind of crazy that happens too
Okay, so now does everybody have this written in I guess I should say if you don't then we'll look at it later
Okay
So these number combinations come up if there's nine numbers and they're paired we have 81
Nine times nine 81 different possibilities of translating these numbers
These are all printed in master sang's book
But I just want to use this as a reference because I like to add to some things that aren't written here
Okay
When one and one are joined together
One is an inherently good number. So it says you're good for academic achievement artistic creativity good for money
But because one is con the contrigram and it's associated with the ears and the kidneys and blood
We have to know what else is going on because maybe it could have a negative influence on the health
We need to have a part three and part four workshop in order to understand those ramifications
Whether it's one two or two one. We have earth destroying water two is earth
Water is the one so we want to add metal
Because we want to reduce the power of the two earth and feed the one water with the metal
So if somebody's bedroom, let's say was one two or two one
If they have a brass bed frame, that's a lot of metal. So they have more than enough metal
Okay
If they have a red bedspread in the room, what's happening?
Fire feeds earth they've made it worse
They're feeding the very element that's doing the dominating so you yank it out of there
So it says with the one two or the two one combination easy to get sick miscarriages involved in car accidents
One three
Now one is water and three is wood water feeds wood. So it is a productive cycle
Although look at the the meaning troubled by gossip lawsuits imprisonment and disasters
Because water's feeding the three it's activating the negative aspects of three
Maybe we would want to add fire to this room
maybe why
Because three wood is reduced by fire. So we're
Siphoning off its negative energy
Maybe we'll just leave it alone. Got to know more
One four or four one good for writing fame also good for male new male relationships or companionship
Or one affair if we already kind of talked about that flirtatious energy
If you wanted to increase it you add water
If you're in trouble in your marriage and you've got a one four bedroom and you want to decrease that
We want to stop that water from flowing over to the wood
So we block it with earth
Put a big stone under the bed around that area
You're trying to stop
the water from feeding the wood
One five or five one, it's still earth destroying water
So we can have problems associated with con one here. It says trouble by sickness food poisoning
That's a pretty specific definition for one five
Injuries caused by accidents because wherever the five is just remember that five
Called the evil emperor. He does damage wreaks havoc
One six
One and six is metal and water
Good for career advancements also good for money. But remember six is the head
For some people when they have a lot of six energy in the bedroom, they get a headache
So we would soften it with water because metal naturally wants to go towards water
So
If those happen to be the permanent numbers, which I haven't seen in a long time
But if that's the permanent numbers then the nature of the house might be that
Some of the six and the one energy comes out and influences people
One seven is also metal nurturing water
Good for money competitions at work hurt by knives easy to get a bleeding because number seven is metal metal objects
And seven is that energy of of bleeding and
scandal
Betrayal it's a dangerous kind of energy
One eight good for money one and eight are those two money numbers that we like career advancements
misunderstanding among siblings or business partners
That's another specific definition of one eight or eight one
That's not real obvious because it doesn't have anything to do with the elements
Influencing each other. It's just more meaning of the trigrams
One nine is water destroying fire fire is the eyes or heart so we could have eye problems or heart problems
Two two
Double that negative energy and yet master sang has written that it's good for the military and the police
Machine related type work easy to get sick though, especially the digestive system
Because two is the kun trigram the stomach area
These definitions by the way are slightly different than what we call the advanced number system
There's more in other words
Two three troubled by gossip lawsuits accents easy to get sick, especially for a female
Why a female because two kun represents the woman and three wood is dominating the two the earth
Oh
Where we left up to four four is good for writing academic achievements
But a malicious sexual encounter with a young girl or women diseases in the abdominal area
Four and two together can mean the man will control the woman the two
So it might be good for a man but not for a woman
Two five the infamous combination of critical stay dormant serious disease and accidents
sometimes people have
Equipment in a two five area of their house. It's always breaking down
Ghosts in the machine kind of thing. It's it's an accident prone area. It's better if it's your dining room or
An area that you're not using nearly as much as the bedroom
Some of you during the break have come up and said well look at all these domination cycles around my house
You don't have to fix every single area
Just focus in on where you're spending most of your time and the entrance that you're actually using
It's also pretty difficult to have a room
That's completely absent of any of the offending elements and only the good elements just in the natural way that we
Design and decorate our spaces look at what's the dominating feature of the room
I
had lots of metal
Because it's earth two and five are both a negative type of earth and earth wants to go towards metal
They put big metal pieces around
I have
And metal colors as a compliment gold white gray
Uh, I have a client who recently went out and she bought some some weights, you know
Like barbell weights and she put them under furniture in an area of her house
Where she needed a lot of metal because she didn't really want to buy another piece of furniture that anyone would have to
Step around or see but she wanted to anchor those areas
You