9 Stars govern organs; organs produce emotions
Still quite commonly in our field, it would be perceived Japanese Nine Star Ki 九星命理 and Chinese Four Pillars of Destiny Bazi 八字算命 as systems for astrology.
Now that this will have a leading impact on our overall practice, I would like to expand on that for a bit more, to get to the physiology of that rather, while may then first we take an adventurous look into the wondrous Chinese characters for Dao 道 and Ki 氣.
Above all, no worries, now that Ki (Chinese: Qi) is just as inscrutable and unnameable as Dao: while innumerable figures with and before us, would have already burned their fingers attempting to typify either one.
Now that mostly in our practice of Oriental Metaphysics the notion of Ki is our fundamental tool, it is no mean feat to try and describe it, now that – once landed in our atmospheric world – there are numerous (in)distinguishable types of manifested Ki, until even the state of being in which you find yourself reading this would have taken on a certain variable of Ki
Now that for the most part 9 Stars and Luoshu constitute my field of work and understanding, I will put forward my approach, now that I mainly apply Ki in 9 Stars and Luoshu events forecasting as done by the hand of 9 Ki Divination.
Everything in the realm of 9 Stars will be covered by one and the same – indivisible – Ki, albeit in its various seeming manifestations, from which it follows, that not only were 9 Stars not to denote asterisms or numbers, but 9 Stars refer only to the most primal Ki as it has formed – then maintained – by our universe, while from a certain point onward, it had been referred as 9 types metaphorically, or the 9 archetypes and manifestations by which universal Ki can present itself, then how it is maintained, until everything in our cosmos passes through recurring (logarithmic) patterns of nines.
However, there seems to have existed a rather widespread tendency within the various application systems of Oriental metaphysics, where it is suspected, as if not only were Ki divisible, but 9 Stars in particular were to answer to factors of timeliness – put a bit more simplistically, as if Ki were reliant on dynamics of rise and fall – until each one of 9 Stars may be at one time captured in its moment of splendor, then next moment, such Star would have diminished in strength, meaning and effectiveness, until Stars would Wuxing-wise also support each other to bode auspiciousness, then control each other, until along the latter, it would be anticipated on less favorable aspects.
However, so as in order to establish a profound understanding of metaphysics, emphasis will be on the Three Powers – Sāncái 三才 – which encompass and merge the domains of Heaven (Tiān Yuán – 天元), Man (Rén Yuán – 人元) and Earth (Dì Yuán – 地元).
Whether you study Feng Shui, 9 Star Ki, Four Pillars of Destiny or in fact whichever other Oriental Metaphysical system you may practice, it is a matter of conjoining Heaven Qi, Man Qi and Earth Qi, or time-action-space, while it each time distinguished.
9 Stars once as taken for purpose of events forecasting in 9 Ki grab back on Tian Yuan – Time.
I can attest – having studied this type of hierarchy and seniority, while at the time of writing I would have been with annual- and monthly Luoshu in front of my media news day in day out for un unceasing 36 years – that, if only at least for minimum purpose of 9 Stars and Luoshu events forecasting, that is, Luoshu wouldn’t be showing any (dis)favor for individual Stars.
But let’s indeed look at the only stunningly beautiful Chinese characters script for Dao and Ki, as at least I understand it in my own romantic view – in the category ain’t that spectacular? -, while if you like to see it either one animated, you enter the character for 道 and 氣 here.
All in Chinese characters is there for a purpose
If we extend Sāncái 三才, or the unification of Heaven, Man and Earth, you will enjoy how the Chinese characters of Qi and Dao become an adventure in itself, as it is quite harmonious to store a special message.
The two top strokes (1) may be taken to say: ‘When Yin and Yang…”, then continued in the horizontal stroke (2) as “come together to join in unity..”, then 目(3) “and follow (or keep to) a certain order”, then the ideogram indicating movement and progression 辶 (4) “everything will be progressive”.
We can relate this to several walks of life:
“when husband and wife come together to join in unity and keep to certain order, the marriage will be prosperous”.
Our human form, its proportions, mirrors dynamics going on between Sun and earth. The human form is decided by the earth magnetosphere, following a 1:7 ratio.
To that respect, I like to think that, should the distance between Sun and earth have been this bit smaller or bigger, or should the diameter of earth have been smaller or bigger, this would have given a different ratio in appearance of the human form.
To this respect then also, I’d like to think the character of 道 along with its intrinsic message can be viewed in close relation to what’s in Yi Jing Hexagram #37, which you may look up if you will.
The three top strokes (3) in the Chinese character for Qi are very dynamic and may in a way be understood as Shui, or water, thereby to denote ever moving mist, vapor, fog, Dragon’s breath or steam coming from a cooker.
The body (2) of the character may be taken as a depiction for mountain or a cooker to contain rice and it can be taken for its ability to block or contain energy.
Traditionally and for solid reason mi, the ideogram for uncooked rice 米 (1) or whole grains is right at the Heart of the Chinese character for Qi. Ancient societies well understood the equation food equals fate and life was perceived to be good and prosperous if the land duly minded, knowing when to sow, how to appropriately prepare food and otherwise keep to dietary principles that would take into account Yin and Yang, Wuxing, season, gender, latitude, topography and a number of other magnitudes such as which plants (not) to sow in what year, the medicinal use of food and herbs.
To say that most of that is in the past would be an understatement and perhaps best reflected by the ideogram for rice having been omitted in the Simplified version of the character which may now read 气 instead, which omission I would say is not just regrettable, but strikes as rather serious, certainly as it may be taken to reflect the characteristic of modern society to go into privatization, individualization, then massive production and consumption of processed foods and radiation.
Astrology or physiology
The cycle of transmutation that says ‘the quality of our food produces the quality of our blood, the quality of our blood produces the quality of our organs’, while then “9 Stars govern organs; organs produce emotions”, could be extended right up to where we’d once more accepted how ultimately the quality of our blood designates the choices we make and our fate.
It is for a reason that the ancients said ‘organs produce emotions’ and this phrase alone should do something for you on account of your understanding organ induced behavior as next time you’d assess the elements in your Bazi horoscope or your 9 Ki birth map.
Everything that lies innate, must externalize, as then here may be a good a time as any to extend a bit on the physiology of it all.
That’s what I like about those ‘astrologies’ of Japanese Nine Star Ki and Chinese Four Pillars of Destiny, as it would be reasoned there more from physiology, or organ induced behavior.
If at one point in our lives we would have experienced ‘fear’, this will be processed by the Kidney. The Kidney has ‘no eyes’ to check if the incidence was a) factual, or b) imagined, while also c) it seems to have a poor capacity to decide that the fear-invoking-incidence had already long vanished.
One actor playing a yelling part, he’s the aggressive archetype. His fellow actor playing a sobbing role, night after night after night. They are just playing, it is their job and the audience enjoys.
Now, the Liver of the yelling guy has no eyes, thereby no first clue as to how to distinguish between what would be factual and what presumed experience, the Lung of the sobbing guy now equally trying to appeal to the brain pharmacy to please undo the debacle and take back the physiology to equilibrium, but it does not happen, on the contrary, the Liver keeps being battered and so is the Lung.
Now of course the Liver would be equipped with exactly the capacity to handle a certain dose of aggression, just as the Lung would be having a certain in itself astounding tolerance for grief alright, but chances are that the first actor may eventually develop a Liver condition, the latter a Lung condition, all this notwithstanding either 9 Ki or Bazi and if the yelling guy is a 6 Metal, the sobbing guy a 3 Wood or whatever Daymaster as per Bazi.
Just some years ago I was pleasantly struck, therefore, to see actor Anthony Hopkins in an interview with Oprah Winfrey and he was telling about a certain movie where he was supposed to play a heart attack. As he had initially declined the role, he then later told the director that he would go ahead and play the heart attack, but no more than three times.
The director asking him ‘but why, it is fake anyway’, then he said ‘yes, I know that, but does my heart know it’.
Splendid.
- Human interaction, all transactions, are just another form of ‘acupuncture’.
- If I tell you ‘I am angry’, it would be best to leave the “I” out as any of my behavior will have gone through – and would have been filtered by – meridians and organs before it even externalizes to reach ‘you’.
- If I yell at you from my Liver, I’ll be affecting your Liver. Once repeated and sustained for over longer periods, while as then uncorrected, you may develop a Liver problem, while with this example alone, and while moving away from apparent human interaction, it is a matter of my radar being equipped to ‘sonar’ the environment so as to then locate a suitable host to transmit, for then my chance to discharge excess Liver Qi all my own.
- If I yell at you, but I tell you this time it was from grief (Lung) or fear (Kidney), rather not from anger (Liver), it’s easy to verify whether or not I am lying. If it is true, in the first instance you may simply actually feel your Lungs affected, as now you sat there in melancholy, in latter case you would actually feel your Kidneys, while it is as straightforward as that, and this notion alone would affect all of human sciences.
- Everyone seriously interested in effective communication should attempt to communicate (externalize) only after it were established Sheng Qi cycle between internal organs and meridians, or, because this is an impossibility as per definition, at least filter their communications before it were catapulted into open space, to involve the other. Then there will be communication. In any other instance, the person may still have you believe as if he were communicating, while now it is just a matter of discharge of excess energy, his nervous system not capable of internally handling to process the situation and simply needing another satellite to handle the burden, which may be you there just still only instrumentally.
- The Kidney is quite capable to handle fluids. However, from a certain point onward, it will not be able to assimilate any excess fluids, so it will go look for an ally. The Kidney then finds the skin within its own family and it will first assign duty onto the skin. Once then this exceeds the capacity of the skin even, chances are that the body will find another physiological unit (the body of the other person) to do the work and rid of the excess.
- This is why typically, any excess inside a ‘living tissue’ wasn’t transmitted to a dead object, such as a wall, but over the line ‘tissue-tissue’. In psychological terms this may first seem to appear as psychological projection, but can easily reach as far as parasitism, vampirism, hostage taking and it may not look funny at all, because one physiology can easily suck out the other on behalf of itself, neither unit aware, so quarrels may continue indefinitely.
- A healthy person will not (feel) control(led), until ecologies mutually benefit, no harm.
- Any discharge – which may come as just a slight remark, mind you – as per definition would then start advance over the minus emotions produced by the belonging organ. Metal energy will not externalize as leadership, but as rigidity or grief rather, you can extend this.
- Any minus emotion of any organ could incapacitate any of the plus emotions produced by the other organs. Negative Metal such as sorrow will now fail to engender plus Water such as wisdom or communication. Rather, when this remains uncorrected, negative Metal may instigate the Wuxing controlling cycle and the system will first compromise itself, then involve the other physiological unit – that was still the other person -, into battle, into physiologic warfare, but which for the onlooker could still present as a ‘regular argument’. Both people (vessels) may fall ill and be rendered unsuccessful eventually.
- A master diviner – provided that he or she is aware about ´organ induced behavior´ – should be able to see through the apparent birth chart, so as to lay bare agenda of the sperm head nucleus which may come to act against the person, while it was read into such ‘unobvious’ patterns, then helped to release True Shen in the person.
- It is exactly why in 9 Ki we can no longer uphold ‘9 Fire controls 6 Metal’ if this were extended to mean that ‘astrologically’ a 9 Fire and a 6 Metal are not compatible. This has been one of gravest at all misunderstandings, but we may not be able to correct it, as it has probably spread too massively over the last couple of decades. However, the controlling cycle never happens over ‘people’ – as such -, as it happens internally, it is entirely physiological, i.e. all interactions occur over the line organ-organ. Two healthy ‘otherwise Wuxing controlling’ characters, may go ultimately well together, whereas two ‘affected supporting’ characters may go into interaction and transaction along more ill portended styles.
How many couples would still just over the line of active statements or ‘teacher said…’ be assuming that ‘the other….’. They will be fighting, divorcing, blaming one another, proceeding from complete ignorance.
So, by 9 Ki we generally and typically proclaim fear to belong to the Star 1 person, but since we all have Kidneys, all of our Kidneys may go to discharge any excess through fear. We don’t need to be born Star 1 for that.
If a Star 1 person is primarily Kidney motivated, then any other person – native to any other Star – may be equally suffering from affected Kidney, from this the Kidney will then only naturally attempt to survive (remember, Kidney was a personality, an archetype, a unit in itself) and now the ‘person’ may have originally been a Star 9 but may now gradually become a Kidney motivated person just the same, to the point that this would – once not recognized – render our faulted fate readings eventually.
So much for Nine Star Ki and Four Pillars of Destiny being ‘astrologies’.
We have accustomed to working with Nine Star Ki as if it was astrology.
We can continue to doing so, in that we can still forecast character and perform in the field of divination, however we must note that any generalized active statements done on behalf of Nine Star Ki was provided then personal health and provided there are no dominant survival mechanisms at play.
Ill health or uncorrected behavioral structures may then account for those cases where we find that, although a person with his Star resides in a certain Luoshu Palace for a year, events are not up to expectations.
Then again, what has become of metaphysics and the question what is astrology?
It depends. If we’re ready to take the original sound out of language, the original mi out of Qi, this much may be clarifying for how we have been treating life readings, Bazi horoscopes, 9 Star Ki birth maps and a thing like organ induced behavior.
Again, what in our Qi studies is external and what is internal? In other words, is your astrological sign to depict some sort of external – exogenous – influence, such as perhaps a Chinese animal, one of 9 Stars or a Trigram, or would these be figure of speech and metaphor for organs and your physiology?
Anyway, thinking along lines of food energetics and to be once more conjoining Feng Shui, Chinese astrology and our dietary habits would be in accord with Macrobiotics, were it not that most still perceive the system as a way of eating.
True, eating would be something we commit to several times a day, so if we cook and eat in mind Yin and Yang, Wuxing Five Elements, we’d soon say we’re on a Macrobiotic diet, but it is not remotely what the system is about. A thing like economics would become Macrobiotic as soon as the Yin and Yang – the Qi – of it was pulled back in. Same for any imaginable university study that, once the natural principles of our dynamic universe re-installed there, would become Macrobiotic sotosay.
This in unabated symbiotic coherence of course with the Binary Model of Creation, from which it emerges 19 basic Principles of One Infinite Universe, shared as you scroll.
In any case, then equally and soon at the very least for purpose of our 9 Stars and Luoshu events forecasting, while it then mirrored our annual- and monthly Luoshu against the news media, we see from news events, that there is no hierarchy between 9 Stars, or where one Star is aware of the seniority of the other, or where 9 Stars would have mutually agreed, that it is then assigned more articulateness to a choice of Stars.
That may go against in the mean time more widespread notions as where then would no longer 9 Stars abide by the Chinese Solar calendar for their autonomous and always current nature alone, but where mandate of single Stars would be variable pending each time changing time periods.
Regardless of where a Star moves in Luoshu, regardless of whether it acts as an annual-, monthly- or day Star, it would simply have moved its Trigram characteristics through Luoshu.
Until Star 2 oversees it food supplies unaffected, wherever in Luoshu it goes, just as Star 3 orchestrates train, wherever and whenever Star 3 is in Luoshu, while once Star 2 and Star 3 combined as 2-3 or 3-2, would it be exchanged their attributes unabated, until we observe a food train in the news, without ‘food’ being good, then train the lesser player, only now that one Star were controlling it the other Star.
That may well be also now that, a lot in Oriental metaphysics will evolve around (as such then equally beautiful, as much as it would make one squirm), metaphor and paradox, now that soon not many examples as so shown with here Chinese coin may top the visualization of this principle:
Not what it seems
As we will round off, there will be not much in metaphysics to give you exactly what it may seem. An example of this indeed rests in the Chinese coin, where we would tend to describe it as perhaps a ‘circular coin with a square hole in the middle’.
If practically alone, the hole in the Chinese coin was not entirely awkward, as one could have it a series of those stringed together by a cord, then worn under the mantle, so as for having it ensured a bit more of safety during travel. For that matter, you could so much as still wear it around your pink, now that there actually is no ‘hole’.
The coin is an intelligible design to represent the creation and unity of Heaven and Earth. Also, according to Wuxing Five Transformations, a circle represents Metal and a square represents Earth. Along the Wuxing supporting cycle, Earth will engender Metal, thereby monetary wealth.
The Chinese coin is designed to attain a perfect representation of matter and energy, tangible and intangible, Yin and Yang, solid and void, but there’s only a seeming void at a seeming center.
Some say, the circle represents Heaven, while the square represents China. Note that the Chinese character for ‘China’ (Zhōng Guó – 中國, or Middle Kingdom) includes a territorial square 囗 with walls and warriors 或 or (as in the Simplified version) a square holding 玉 (Yù – ‘jade’) in place of 或. There was a variant 囯 with 王 (Wáng) ‘King’ in the middle.
The joined circle and square then show the creation and unification of Heaven and Earth, even before the notion of Five Transformation.
The circle clarifies the domain of Time and to show this, the circle is divided into the degrees of a compass.
The circle may symbolize the Sun, or as that extended into supreme male energy. It depicts Heaven Qi, therefore the Chinese Compass shows Ten Heavenly Stems, one in each direction and two at the center.
The square can be there to represents the domain of Earth and to show this it divides space into 8 directions and eventually into the Eight Trigrams and Twelve Earthly Branches, associated with the Chinese zodiac.
Both cycles come together in the Chinese compass and, as a more simplified representation Luoshu.
