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Schools of Feng Shui

Feng Shui has been around for more than two thousand years, and over many centuries different schools of Feng Shui have developed. Each school has a slightly different approach to the subject, although the basic principles are the same. The following outlines the two main approaches to Feng Shui:

Form School

This school focuses on the landscape contours, along with the shapes of hills and watercourses. It is concerned with the auspicious positioning of buildings and burial sites, which require the hills to provide protection from the wind (Feng), and for the provision of a good water (Shui) supply without flooding.

The main concerns within the Form School are to find auspicious landforms, especially the hseuh embraced by hills called the Tiger and the Dragon. These are found by looking at the contours of the hills surrounding a site, and determing whether their form will bring good or bad luck.

Compass School

This style of Feng Shui uses the Eight Trigrams of the I Ching and relates them to the eight points of the Compass. These are laid out to form the eight-sided Pa Kua which is used to interpret the Auspicious and Inauspicious locations for Buildings, House Floor Plans and even Room Layouts.

Black Hat Sect School

There is a modern version of Feng Shui developed in the USA called Black Hat Sect which claims to be a hybrid of Tibetan Buddhism, Taoism and traditional Feng Shui. In this version Ba Gua is used, but it is based solely on the direction of the Front Door, rather than real Compass directions. The House or Room is divided into eight sectors, each one having a bearing on one aspect of life that might need enhancing.

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