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Feng Shui Portal – Glossary

Welcome to our Feng Shui Glossary – your curated guide to essential concepts, methods, and tools in the art of Feng Shui. Each term includes a clear explanation and practical benefits for professionals and enthusiasts alike.

Explore, learn, and apply these insights to enhance your expertise and guide your clients effectively.

BaZi (八字) – also called Four Pillars of Destiny

Explanation

BaZi is a Chinese system that analyzes a person’s life using their birth year, month, day, and hour. Each pillar contains elements and energies that describe personality, strengths, challenges, and life cycles.

Practical Benefit

Helps people understand themselves better, make informed career and relationship decisions, and plan important life phases.

BaZi (八字) – also called Four Pillars of Destiny in FS Portal

BaZhai (八宅)

Explanation

BaZhai divides people and houses into East and West life groups. It evaluates directions such as sleeping, working, and entrances to improve personal harmony.

Practical Benefit

Improves daily well-being by aligning people with supportive directions in their home.

Date Selection (Ze Ri 擇日)

Explanation

Date Selection chooses the most favorable dates for important activities like weddings, business openings, or moving house, based on Chinese metaphysics.

Practical Benefit

Increases success and reduces obstacles by starting events at the right time.

Flying Stars Feng Shui (Xuan Kong Fei Xing 玄空飛星)

Explanation

Flying Stars analyzes how time-based energies move through a building. Each star affects wealth, health, and relationships differently.

Practical Benefit

Allows precise Feng Shui adjustments to improve luck year by year.

Flying Stars Feng Shui (Xuan Kong Fei Xing 玄空飛星) in FS Portall

Five Ghosts Carry Treasure (Wu Gui Yun Cai 五鬼運財)

Explanation

An advanced Feng Shui method that uses unconventional energy pathways to activate wealth, often requiring expert application.

Practical Benefit

Can generate strong financial opportunities when applied correctly.

Five Ghosts Carry Treasure (Wu Gui Yun Cai 五鬼運財) Five Ghosts Carry Treasure (Wu Gui Yun Cai 五鬼運財) in FS Portal

He Luo Li Shu (河洛理数)

Explanation

He Luo Li Shu is a classical Chinese numerology system based on the He Tu and Luo Shu diagrams.
It interprets numbers as expressions of cosmic order, cycles, and natural laws.

Practical Benefit

Helps understand life patterns, timing, and personal tendencies through numerical relationships and cosmic structure.

Hong Men Shui Fa (洪門水法)

Explanation

A classical water-based Feng Shui method focusing on how water flow influences wealth, power, and success.

Practical Benefit

Optimizes financial luck by correctly managing water features and landforms.

I Ching (Yi Jing 易經)

Explanation

The I Ching is an ancient Chinese wisdom text based on 64 hexagrams. It explains change and helps answer life questions through symbolic insight.

Practical Benefit

Provides guidance and clarity for decision-making and personal reflection.

Imperial Feng Shui (皇家风水 / 宫廷风水)

Explanation

Imperial Feng Shui refers to the advanced Feng Shui knowledge historically used for emperors, royal families, and important state buildings in ancient China.
It combines high-level landform analysis, directional systems, and time-based methods to support power, stability, and long-term prosperity.

Practical Benefit

Provides a holistic and strategic approach for creating environments that support authority, success, longevity, and sustained wealth.

Luopan link: Imperial Luopan

Imperial Feng Shui (皇家风水 / 宫廷风水) for Feng Shui Portal

Jiu Gong Ming Li (九宮命理)

Explanation

A destiny system based on the Nine Palaces that connects personal fate with spatial and directional energies.

Practical Benefit

Helps align personal decisions with favorable directions and timing.

Landform Feng Shui (巒頭風水)

Explanation

Landform Feng Shui focuses on the physical shapes of mountains, hills, rivers, roads, and surrounding environments. It studies how natural and man-made forms influence the flow of Qi.

Practical Benefit

Helps identify supportive environments that promote health, stability, prosperity, and harmonious living.

Luopan (羅盤)

Explanation

The Luopan is the traditional Feng Shui compass. It contains multiple rings of formulas used to analyze direction, time, and energy.

Practical Benefit

Essential for accurate Feng Shui measurements and professional analysis.

Luopan Link: Luopan

Na Jia Eight Mansions (納甲八宅)

Explanation

A hybrid system linking Eight Mansions with I Ching hexagrams through Na Jia theory.

Practical Benefit

Deepens directional analysis with symbolic precision.

Na Jia Eight Mansions (納甲八宅) in FS Portal

Nine Star Ki (Kyūsei Kigaku 九星気学)

Explanation

A Japanese system derived from Chinese metaphysics that uses nine stars to analyze personality and life cycles.

Practical Benefit

Supports personal development and relationship understanding.

Nine Star Ki (Kyūsei Kigaku 九星気学) in FS Portal

Qi Men Dun Jia (奇門遁甲)

Explanation

Qi Men Dun Jia is an advanced strategic system used for decision-making, timing, and planning actions.

Practical Benefit

Helps choose the best moment and strategy for success.

San He Feng Shui (三合)

Explanation

San He focuses on landforms, mountains, and water flow, emphasizing harmony with nature.

Practical Benefit

Creates long-term stability and prosperity through environmental alignment.

Luopan link: San He Luopan

San Yuan Feng Shui (三元)

Explanation

San Yuan Feng Shui is a time-based system dividing history into cycles and periods that influence buildings and people.

Practical Benefit

Allows Feng Shui to adapt to changing time energies.

Luopan link: San Yuan Luopan

Tan Lang (貪狼)

Explanation

Tan Lang, also known as the “Greedy Wolf Star,” is one of the important stars used in classical Feng Shui and Chinese metaphysics. It is associated with intelligence, ambition, communication, attraction, and wealth opportunities.

Practical Benefit

Helps practitioners identify energies connected to success, personal growth, relationships, and financial potential.

Water Dragons (水龍)

Explanation

Water Dragons refer to the movement and pathways of water in Feng Shui, including rivers, roads, and flowing Qi patterns. They are used to analyze how energy travels through a landscape.

Practical Benefit

Helps practitioners identify locations and directions that support wealth accumulation, opportunity, and harmonious Qi flow.

Xuan Kong Da Gua (玄空大卦)

Explanation

An advanced Feng Shui system combining I Ching hexagrams with spatial directions.

Practical Benefit

Offers precise analysis for wealth, health, and major life themes.

Luopan link: Xuan Kong Da Gua Luopan

Yang Gong Feng Shui (楊公風水)

Explanation

A classical Feng Shui tradition attributed to Master Yang Yun Song, emphasizing landforms and natural Qi.

Practical Benefit

Builds lasting prosperity through correct site selection.

Yue Shu Ming Li (月書命理)

Explanation

A lesser-known destiny system emphasizing monthly Qi influences on fate.

Practical Benefit

Adds refined timing insights to personal destiny analysis.

Zi Wei Dou Shu Astrology (紫微斗数)

Explanation

Zi Wei Dou Shu is a traditional Chinese astrology system that analyzes a person’s destiny using a detailed star chart based on their birth data.
It focuses on the influence of major and minor stars across different life palaces.

Practical Benefit

Provides deep insights into personality, career potential, relationships, health, and long-term life direction.