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Оглавление10. THE LO SHU SQUARE AND HO TU NUMBERS
In attempting to unlock the secrets of the compass, ancient and latter-day scholars have focused attention on the mysterious Lo Shu magic square of nine numbers.
It is believed that around the year 2205 BC a noble tortoise emerged from the legendary Lo river, carrying on its huge back nine numbers arranged in a grid pattern. The Lo Shu square of numbers had the number five in the center, with the rest of the numbers distributed around the grid as shown in the illustration here. Learning this pattern of numbers is very important in understanding feng shui. It is what gives the greatest potency to feng shui’s many formulas. This is because this Lo Shu arrangement of numbers contains the secret key to unlocking countless ways of using directions to manipulate the chi of the environment. This is done through the interpretation of flying star natal charts.
The Lo Shu Numbers
The numbers of the Lo Shu are arranged in such a way that adding them up in whatever direction along any three points in a straight line (whether horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) gives a total of 15. This coincides with the number of days in each of the 24 phases of the solar year. The Lo Shu sequence of numbers is crucial to unlocking the auspicious and inauspicious days of the Almanac. It is also the Lo Shu numbers of the Chinese Hsia calendar which enable those who know how, to calculate good and bad days for undertaking a variety of life rituals – getting married, celebrating birthdays, launching projects, and so forth.
Feng shui masters also came to realize that the Lo Shu numbers held the secrets to understanding time feng shui as it applied to space. Thus the Lo Shu numbers and their sequence of movement around the grids of the square became the basis of formulating the flying star natal chart. In fact the flying star natal chart is expressed in exactly the same way as the Lo Shu chart (see diagram above). How the numbers are placed as stars in a series of natal charts makes up the formula of Flying Star feng shui.
All the most crucial aspects of this formula are condensed into the flying star rings of the Luo Pan. Knowing how to use flying star enables anyone to unlock all the most potent secrets of the Luo Pan. The pattern of numbers of the Lo Shu is thus irretrievably connected with the trigrams of the Later Heaven Pa Kua. We shall be looking at the many permutations and transformations of the Lo Shu numbers throughout the course of this book.
The Ho Tu numbers
The Lo Shu was by no means the first pattern of significant numbers. Chinese myths claim that around 2943 BC Fu Hsi himself received a formation of numbers which, according to legend, was brought to him on the back of a dragon horse that emerged out of the Yellow river. These particular numbers, referred to as the Ho Tu pattern of numbers, (shown in the diagram here) was arranged such that all the odd numbers (except five) added up to 20, as did all the even numbers. More significant in the Ho Tu combination is the way the numbers have been combined: 1 with 6, 3 with 8, 2 with 7, and 4 with 9. Notice that these combinations are pairs of Yin and Yang, odd and even, male and female numbers. All odd numbers are Yang and male while all even numbers are Yin and female.
When they occur the Ho Tu combinations indicate very auspicious circumstances. Thus later on, when you see them as combinations in the flying star natal charts, learn to recognize them because they indicate good fortune. I will reveal how to find out if your house has any of these combinations of numbers when we look at Flying Star feng shui. Also, when you start to compute your Kua numbers under the Eight Mansions of east/west directions, take note that couples who have Kua numbers that reflect the Ho Tu combinations are likely to have a brilliant and happy marriage.
The combination of 1 and 6 signifies wealth as it is placed in the north, which is water. The number 1 prevails here as it is a Yang number. The number 6 is metal which produces water. When this combination is present in your flying star chart activate it with a water feature such as a water lily bowl or a fish pond.
The Ho Tu Numbers
The combination of 8 and 3 signifies wood and is placed in the east. Here the number 3 prevails as it is wood. Combined with earth, wood prevails. In the period of eight this combination is most auspicious as it means growth and expansion. If you have this combination in your natal chart activate it with a healthy, lush plant.
The combination of 7 and 2 signifies fire and it is placed in the south. Here the elements combined are earth and metal thereby creating earth. This combination is brilliant when it is near mountains so if you see it in your natal chart create a mountain with stones and crystals in the part of the home that has this combination.
The combination of 4 and 9 signifies metal or gold. It is placed in the west. Here the combination is of wood and fire, which produces the element of fire. But the element here is gold. This indicates a pairing between two people who become famous and powerful. If this combination appears in the natal chart activate with lots of activity and residents will enjoy extremely powerful success luck.
The mystical attributes of the Lo Shu grid have occupied religious and philosophical scholars through the ages and it survives today as an acknowledged mystery, still potent, and still guarding it secrets. In reality, however, the Ho Tu is more mysterious and one reason it is not more famous is probably because the Ho Tu numbers are applied more in Yin feng shui and only rarely in Yang feng shui – except in advanced interpretations of flying star natal charts.
