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What are form and compass school?

 

Compass school and form school are often used to discriminate the methods used by a Feng Shui master, or practitioner. This distinction has some historic ground but his usage nowadays is more than often a sign that people do not know what they are talking about…Here is why:

 

• Historically the “form methods”, also known as Xingshi Pai were first developed, centuries before the invention of any form of compass. They relied of the observation of the landscape; the “forms” are indeed the shapes of the natural formations

 

• The Chinese compass, or Luo Pan, was then developed and adopted by classical Feng Shui. Liqi Pai is the name used for the compass methods.

 

• As a result all traditional schools of Feng Shui nowadays use both form and compass methods.

 

• A Feng Shui master, or expert, will define himself by is lineage, not by the usage or form or compass techniques. For example I follow the Han Wu San Yuan lineage.

 

 

So should I be wary l when I see someone advertising himself using either “form” or “compass” school?

 

Indeed! By now you understand that this difference has currently no place to be. An authentic expert will speak about his lineage – lineage that uses both form and compass systems. Very often nowadays a consultant using only “form” school is:

 

• Someone whom doesn’t know how to read a Chinese compass, the Luo Pan

 

• A practitioner that only uses “intuitive”, “symbolic”, or “Tibetan ” Feng Shui. This method is NOT based on the historical forms methods, it is modern symbolic mumbo-jumbo

 

• An “expert” whom has not learned from a real lineage, cannot name any, doesn’t even know what a Feng Shui lineage is. In all those mentioned cases: run away!