The Original San Yuan School of thought refers to the Earth Yuan, Heaven Yuan and Man Yuan. These are the three sectors of each of the Eight Guas in the 24 mountain ring. We also read of ‘Yuan Kong’ which refers to the three Yuan and the Kong Wang commonly known as ‘Death and Emptiness Lines’. This School converts the information into the 64 hexagrams. They have San Yuan Land Formations, Date Selection and Divination, in the same manner as San He.

The commonly known San Yuan School refers to the ‘Three Cycles and Nine Periods’ which is very misleading as this is only a very minor subset of the ‘Xuan Kong’ school of thoughts. In our view, ‘Xuan Kong’ is a derived version of the original ‘Yuan Kong’. Many interpreters and translators assume that ‘Yuan Kong’ is written wrongly in the old classics, when it isn’t. It refers to the application of the three Yuan and the Kong Wang, as revealed in the ‘Dian Dian Dao’ theory of the ‘Qing Nang Au Yu’ Classic by Great Grand Master Yang Yun Song. In fact Yuan Kong is very much related to Great Grand Master Zheng Wen Di, the disciple of Great Grand Master Yang.

The Flying Star Method of the Xuan Kong School of thought was recorded in the journals of Grand Master Shen Zhu Ren. Grand Master Jiang Da Hong only spoke of the Leaning Stars [Ai Xing] and not the Flying Star [Fei Xing]. Technically, this relatively new art is used to read the ‘destiny of the house’, and the effects it might have on the residents, and is not a complete Feng Shui application in itself. The Flying Star Method is, perhaps, the most suitable method to ‘activate’ the Annual Prosperous Star that ‘flies’ to the main entrance of one’s property. But, any star can be used as a prosperous wealth star. The facing palace reveals the wealth capacity of the occupant while the sitting palace reveals the health condition.

The Flying Star Chart reads much like a Bazi Chart. One uses it to read the wealth, health, career and relationship aspects of a resident. Take a Gua 3 male as an example: The facing star 3 speaks of his wealth capacity while the sitting star 3 indicates his health condition, whichever palaces those stars may reside. The base star 3 refers to his intention, motives and emotions. His relationships are revealed through the stars 2, 5 and 8. We check the stars 6 and 7 to relate to his career matters. This may look like a one dimensional reading, but it becomes three dimensional when you convert it to the 64 hexagrams. It allows us to look into the ‘before and after’ of any event regarding that person.

The most basic understanding of the Flying Star Chart is the prosperity of the palaces. Where the palaces are prosperous, the stars can be made good – and good stars bring good tidings. The second concept is to use the arbitration technique to make good any palace that is not conducive. We can make use of all the palaces in the house without condemning a room as bad.

The Flying Star Chart is not about activating the stars in the chart for Feng Shui. Take a south facing 25-storey apartment, where all units have the same floor plan. They have the same main door location in the south sector, share the same flying star chart and would have the yellow 5 star at the main door in year of 2008. Does that mean every resident of said apartment will share the same fate? The limitation of the Flying Star method is quite apparent in this example.

There is also some controversy over the use of a Flying Star Chart based on a move-in date and a construction date. Supposedly the move-in date indicates “current and future events” while the construction date indicates “past events”. We can then choose between a chart based on the facing of the entire apartment (catering to the community at large), or just one particular unit (catering to one particular family). But there isn’t any need to choose: all charts can be used. It is about what you are going to use them for.

**Note: Zheng Wen Di and Zheng Wen San were two different persons, and should not be confused with each other.