master chan 曾 feng shui numbers

Media outlets often look for dramatic explanations when accidents happen. When a local Chinese newspaper interview me over the phone about an accident at unit 44. The reporter asked if certain numbers carry bad luck.

I politely asked her to consider the bigger picture:

“If the number 44 brings bad luck, does every person on Earth living in unit 4 or 44 suffer constant tragedy?” When framed this way, the superstition collapses under its own absurdity.

Authentic Feng Shui is an environmental science based on real landforms and spatial energy. It has nothing to do with door numbers or wordplay. My goal is simple: steer clients away from irrational fears and focus on real, validated results. That is why most people do not believed in feng shui.

master chan 曾 application of numbers 

If one is to use xuan kong flying star principle, 4 is not death but honours in education.

As a starter, one should understand how numbers is being applied than the numbers itself. Feng shui energy is activated is dependent on which classical feng shui school that you are using with the number.

Some of the popular metaphysics schools that numbers can be applied are: gua no 易经八卦, ba zhai 八宅法, xuan kong flying star 玄空飞星 or bazi 八字 or qi men dun jia 奇门遁甲 and many others. It is absolutely has got nothing to with how it sounds 谐音. 

During my feng shui visits i came across numbers and alphabets added to the unit number to align with feng shui? Usually number “4” is paired with “8”? Some feng shui masters stress the importance of number pronunciation 数字谐音, to convey abundance.

So for a multi-racial Singapore society, the choice of dialect can be confusing; Hokkien or Teochew or Cantonese? How about language, to choose from English or Mandarin pronounciation? Therefore in metaphysics how the number is pronounce is irrelevant but it’s symbolism.

today’s creative ideas of auspicious numbers

Finding an auspicious number for yourself such as mobile number, car, password is only possibe if we combine an individual bazi, Gua meaning , QMDJ fate analysis and ZiWei. Not some generalisation which number is bad.

Some masters recommends bidding for numbers like 8888 or 3838 for mobile or car plates. Since such items not even existed when feng shui started around Zhou Dynasty 770-221 BC, Bazi around Tang Dynasty, Qi Men Dun Jia known to be 5,000 years ago, the reasoning behind are modern creations.

Another trending rationale is using 八宅明镜 BaZhai Gua Ming formula. E.g. a East family 震卦 individual 绝命 is 兑卦 West number is 7 and  天医坎卦 number 1 欺 絕命 is the solution. So some masters used the combination of 7 and 1 as wealth creation for mobile numbers 9717 1711? The list goes on…

Yet another narrative is using flying star number combination for prosperity e.g.  8 and 9 紫白訣: “八逢紫曜(means 9)，婚喜重來” 玄機賦: “輔(rep 8)臨丙丁(rep 9), 位列朝班”

Some even use it for fortune telling using NRIC or Birth cert numbers. Thousand of years ago when feng shui originates from China, NRIC or Birth cert does not even exist!

floor levels are redundant

Feng shui floor levels uses 河圖洛書 Luo Shu formula to represent the 5 elements. Most feng shui masters will then choose the floor level to match your Gua Number 卦命 OR Bazi 八字. They are:

一六共宗水，二七同道火、三八為朋木、四九為友金、五十共守土
1,6 storey or floor level is water element e.g. 11th, 16th, 21st
2,7 storey or floor level is fire element e.g.  12th, 17th
3,8 storey or floor level is wood element e.g. 38th floor 
4,9 storey or floor level is metal element e.g. 14th floor, 19th floor 
5,0 storey or floor level is earth element e.g. 5th floor 20th floor 

Is floor level relevant today? Singapore high rise buildings have basement carpark, so to calculate your home or office floor level should you add or subtract the carpark levels?

auspicious baby naming numbers

For Chinese auspicious Name reading 1,2 are wood, 3,4 fire, 5,6 earth, 7,8 are metal and 9,0 water. Odd number are “yang” element and even “ying” element. The number of stroke in auspicious name calculation is to supplement a person’s five elements imbalance or avoid certain elements. The 10 numbers also represent heavenly Stem 天干 in Bazi study 甲 jia wood 1乙 yi wood 2 丙bing fire 3 丁 ding fire 4 戊wu earth 5 己ji earth 6 庚geng metal 7 辛xin metal 8 壬ren water 9 癸gui water 10.

In addition the “sum of numbers” is also used to determine auspicious or unlucky.

Number 4 death, 8 prosperity belief

Due to the mandarin and cantonese pronunciation, number 4 四 (si) sounds like death 死 (si). There is no basis to use 谐音 tone syllable in feng shui nor bazi.

San Yuan 三元玄空飞星 feng shui numbers representations

Gua numbers 卦 or flying star numbers are used in feng shui home or business calculations. The representations from 洛书紫白九星 feng shui formula are:

1 白 is water element represent 桃 花 官星 romance and status 坎卦

2 黑 is earth element 病 符 sickness 坤卦

3 碧 is wood element  事非 bad-mouthing and quarrelsome star 震卦

4 绿 is wood 文 昌 education 巽卦 academic pursue, mental clarity

5 黄廉贞星 戊己大煞 都天大煞 earth element the worst of the flying star which represents death, disaster, cancer, poison, any bad things that you can even imagine!

6 白 武 曲 權威、正義 is metal element career authority some interpret as windfall wealth 乾 (qian) 卦

7 赤 破军星 is metal element represent lawsuits and burglary 兑卦

8 is earth 財 星 wealth because of the current period and also because 1,6,8 in flying stars are consider to be auspicious 艮卦

9 is fire element 喜 慶 星 it represents celebrations, 姻缘 marriage relationship, good events like promotion, which is also the forthcoming auspicious energies 离卦

While it is important to pay attention to minor details to improve home or business feng shui, it is equally important to stay objective dealing with these misrepresented feng shui concepts. To believe house numbers can create havoc in your life such as sicknesses, disaster or death is far-fetch. If this is true nobody will stay on the 4th, 14th or 24th floor in the world.

Western numerology study

For example, if your house number is 14, which adds up to single digit 5 and tendencies of this number is change, resourcefulness and adventure.

These are numbers and what it represents:
• 0 – nothingness, potential, empty
• 1 – unobstructed, new beginnings
• 2 – balance, choice, cooperation
• 3 – creativity, family, self-expression
• 4 – stability, grounding, security
• 5 – change, resourcefulness, adventure
• 6 – calm, patience
• 7 – contemplation, self-evaluation, solitude
• 8 – infinity, abundance, success in business
• 9 – highest number, accomplishment, attainment.

Numbers in conclusion is used for calculations.

xuan kong period 8 9 1

In Luck era 8, the number 8 is considered highly auspicious in feng shui. An entrance aligned with your home’s water star or placed in the North-East (Gen) sector is beneficial. In Luck Cycle 9, main door in the South Sector represented as 9 is ideal and number 4，1 or 6 are related.

Therefore “8” itself is meaningless if you use it for your mobile number because it is taken out of context. Don’t even believe that numbers used on your mobile will bring you better luck, then many will be the next Elon Musk. The richest man on earth does not even utilise auspicious sounding numbers. Instead he uses common beliefs that are bad “52 misfortune” or “0 is void”.

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