How to use the compass? Detailed explanation of how to use the compass to measure Feng Shui

Introduction: The compass is widely used in Feng Shui, and is often used to find auspicious and inauspicious positions. There are many types of compasses, the commonly used ones are Sanyuan compass, Sanhe compass, Sanyuan and Sanhe dual-purpose compass, Yi compass, Xuankong compass and the unique compasses used by various schools. But no matter which school or sect of compass it is, there must be a layer in the middle which is the twenty-four mountain directions. The compass may seem complicated but it also has its rules to follow. Learn to use the compass to read Feng Shui yourself. The compass plays a big role in Feng Shui, but there are also many things to pay attention to. Let us take a look at it below.

How to use the compass

From the shape of the compass, you can see that there is a circular Tianchi in the center of the compass (that is, the compass used for orientation). The outside is a movable turntable with a copper surface and black background with gold characters, called the inner plate or round plate. The plate is filled with words in circles, and usually one circle is called a layer. One of the layers is the twenty-four directions, and the outermost is a square plate, called the outer plate or square plate. The plate body is made of rosewood, which is the most durable, but it is heavier than ordinary wooden plates.

There are four small holes on the outer plate, and two fishing lines or rubber threads are passed through the small holes in the middle of the four sides in a cross shape. It is used to determine the orientation.

The main feature of the compass is the central magnetic needle. The inner disk outside the Tianchi is made of steel. The background color of the Tianchi is generally white, with a red straight line at the bottom. There are two red dots on one end on the left and right of the red line. The red line is positioned north and south. The side with red dots is the Zi direction (due north), and the other end is the Wu direction (due south). There is a very sensitive magnetic needle on it, and there is a small hole at one end of the magnetic needle.

When using a compass, hold the outer disk with both hands on the left and right sides, separate your feet slightly, and place the compass between your chest and abdomen. Keep the compass level, not higher on the left and lower on the right, or higher in the front and lower in the back. Then start setting the direction with your back as the sitting position and the face you face as the direction.

At this time, the cross fish line on the compass should coincide with the four cardinal positions of directly in front, directly behind, directly left and directly right of the house. If the direction of the cross line is inaccurate, then the measured orientation will be deviant.

After fixing the position of the cross fish thread, use the thumbs of both hands to move the inner disk. When the inner disk rotates, the Tianchi will rotate accordingly. Keep rotating the inner disk until the magnetic needle stops and overlaps with the red line in Tianchi.

One thing is very important, that is, the end of the magnetic needle with the small hole must coincide with the two small red dots on the red line, and their positions cannot be interchanged. At this time, the fishing line (the horizontal one) of the sitting direction intersects with each layer of the inner plate. The various data and information we are looking for are displayed in the area that this fishing line passes through and covers.

However, there are more than ten or twenty layers on the compass. Which layer is the orientation? It is the layer of twenty-four mountains. It is near Tianchi Lake. We use the "mountain" on the fishing line's upward direction to indicate direction, and the "mountain" on the fishing line's sitting direction to indicate sitting.

For example, if the facing mountain is Zi and the sitting mountain is Wu, we call it sitting at Wu and facing Zi. After knowing the orientation of your house, place the compass at the center of the house, and you can find the orientation (or palace position) of the whole house from the orientation.

The location of the house

A house that complements the owner's fate can help the people living in it to prosper and gain both wealth and fortune. Otherwise, each house type is divided into eight directions: due east, due south, due west, due north, southeast, southwest, northwest, and northeast.

It is divided into East Four Houses and West Four Houses.
The four eastern houses are: Zhen House, Xun House, Li House, and Kan House;

The four western houses are: Kun House, Dui House, Gan House, and Gen House.

People's fate is also divided into the East Four Fates and the West Four Fates. The most important thing for a home is that the internal layout should be reasonably distributed, and the house hexagram and the life hexagram should match each other.

There are many types of wealth positions: Nine Stars, Eight Houses, personal, annual, etc.

The Eight Houses Wealth Positioning Method is:

The wealth position of Ganzhai is in the southwest (Kun, Wei);

The wealth position of Kun house is in the northwest (Gan, Xu);

The wealth position of the Gen house is in the west (Dui, Geng);

The wealth position of Dui house is in the northeast (Chou, Gen);

The wealth position of Kun house is in the northwest (Gan and Xu); the wealth position of Gen house is in the west (Dui and Geng); the wealth position of Dui house is in the northeast (Chou and Gen); the wealth position of Kan house is in the south (Bing and Wu); the wealth position of Li house is in the north (Zi and Ren); the wealth position of Zhen house is in the southeast (Chen and Xun); and the wealth position of Xun house is in the east (Mao and Jia).