Luo Shu Considerations

The Luo Shu system of astrology and divination (also referred to as 9 Ki, 9 Star Ki, 9 Palace Fate Calculation, 9 House Astrology, and other names), when used properly and responsibly will reveal a wealth of information to the diviner. There are, however, many discrepancies that can create considerable problems. Today we'll discuss the issue of 'house occupation', or in other words, which house a person occupies at a certain time period. In Luo Shu Astrology the chart is sectioned off into various segments and a person will find their natal energy 'residing' in one of those segments, which is called a House. The chart segmentation occures for any time period, depending on which particular period the diviner is focusing on. The time periods range from very large time units to very small ones. One can work with Eras (360 year units) or Generations (30 year units) down to Minutes or Seconds. Many believe that the Yearly number of a person's birth carries the strongest and most influencial weight, and to an extent this could be true, but it is far from the complete picture. To calculate the yearly number is an easy procedure. :



1) Add Together all the numbers of the year

2) Reduce the numbers to a single digit

3) Subtract the single digit number by 11



As an example, the year 2007 would be considered a 2 Year. That is.......2 + 0 + 0 + 7 = 9. The single digit number subtracted by 11 = 2. Another example would be 1997. 1 + 9 + 9 + 7 = 26. 26 reduced to a single digit would be 2 + 6 = 8. Then 11 - 8 = 3, making 1997 a 3 year. This method will work for the years 1924 through 2104. The other years require a modification, but that is beyond the scope of this post and can be discussed at another time.





HOUSE ASSESSMENT

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Pick up or look at any book on this subject or search the internet and you will discover that every single source uses what I believe to be a very inconsistent way of analyzing house assessment. I think what happened is that one person wrote their views about it and everyone throughout the years followed suit without taking the time to analyze it deeper. I am shocked that even the so-called masters have not realized the dilemma. The problem is that today (and in the past) everyone is using the YEAR number to fit the slot of every other time period segment to make their predictions. In my opinion, this will eventually cause distorted readings. I have mentioned this to a few 'high level' teachers and they very much agreed with me, but had to confess that they could not reveal this to their students because the students would feel that they have been given misguided information for the money they've paid in the past. So the teachers kept lecturing the same outdated information and they do so to this very day. ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE !!!

I have mentioned that the procedure being used today is based on evaluating only the year to the rest of the time periods. That is, Year to Year...Year to Month...Year to Day...Year to Hour. I strongly suggest that the proper procedure should be Year to Year...Month to Month...Day to Day...Hour to Hour. I could give many reasons and explanations why this method is more balanced and makes sense, however this post would then run quite long. But you don't need me to prove it to you as you can surely do your own analyzing and see the beauty of it. If you mention this post to your teacher or master and ask them why they have not mentioned this concept before, they will probably pause a moment and say that they knew about it but it is too complicated for the average student, or that they've heard of it but there hasn't been enough research, or some other lame excuse. They will not admit that they didn't know about it because it would make them look incompetent........and this, they want to avoid at all costs.

THE SOLUTION
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We now know one of the problems of House Assessment, so let us look at a solution. The first thing to know is your four Luo Shu numbers...not just the year, as we have been told for so long, but ALL your numbers. Even this in itself can be a problem because everyone uses different techniques for attaining the numbers, and believe me when I say that some of the methods being proposed today border on the rediculous. This in itself is quite another topic that I'm sure we will eventually explore on this blog. If you don't know your 4 Luo Shu numbers you can respond to this post and I'll provide them for you according to the methods I work with. If you are analyzing a certain Day and would like to know which Luo Shu House you are in for that specific day, you look at the Luo Shu day number chart and look at your own DAY number (not year number) and see where it falls in the chart.......that is the house you occupy for that day. If your numbers are 4 year -3 month -1 day and the Luo Shu number for the day is 1, you will see that you occupy the 5 House for the day. Your teacher will tell you that you occupy the 8 house for the day because your year number is 4. But we know better.

An advanced way to look at the Luo Shu is to take a time period's numbers from year to hour and then look at your own year to hour numbers. In other words, look at any time down to the double-hour (down to the minute or second causes severe headaches ha ha ha) and convert them to Luo Shu numbers and note your year to the Times year, your month to the Times month, etc. You will then have a true rendering of your natal energy to the atmospheric flow of energy for that particular time. There are ways where you can then take all this data and form a numerical rating from a range of -20 through +20 and analyze just how potent the qi (chi, energy) is for you at that time. If the rating is highly positive you can expect fortunate results, if the rating is negative you can expect less favorable results. The techniques are limitless, for instance, you can factor in stems and branches alongside the Luo Shu numbers, or you can incorporate the I Ching (Yi Jing) hexagrams with the numbers to get a more refined rating. It is basically up to how deep you can go with your imagination. Joseph Yu has written that 9 Ki astrology is not as accurate as some of the other methods and will reveal much less because it produces only 9 stages of energies to analyze. This is not completly shocking comming from Joseph as his understanding of the subject is quite lacking in depth. He may not understand yet that the 9 stages can be transformed into 81 stages, 729 stages, and beyond to provide very detailed information. His comment was very irresponsible. Be careful if you purchase his $30 book, I have seen it after someone sent it to me for my opinion and the book's lack of adequate explanations causes confusion and the ideas in it are poorly presented and unsatisfactory. The second portion of the book containing the day star numbers are severly erroneous and downright inaccurate. It is amazing that a man who calls himself a master and charges thousands of dollars for his services has such little knowledge on a subject he has written a book about.

If you would like to know the numbers for any time period you may be interested in, just leave the longitude and time period and I'll post the numbers correlated with that time. Example format would be : June 12, 2001 1:20 PM 75 degrees. If you don't know the degrees you can leave the town. If you want just an estimation you don't even need to leave the longitude or town.