W E L C OME TO TH E F ORT UN E C OM PAS S P ROFES SION AL

1. Introduction 5. Ba Zhai (Eight Mansions) Compass

Your Professional Fortune Compass (model The Ba Zhai (8-Mansion)
168-8) has enhanced software that adds an compass uses the Ba Gua
advanced operating mode choice. When set map and house
to advanced mode, new capabilities include orientation (direction) to
functions to help analyze homes and buildings indicate which rooms of a
(Flying Star and Ba Zhai (Eight Mansions) dwelling are most suitable
compass), and to calculate Four Pillars of f o r b e d r o o m s , s t u d y,
Destiny (Ba Zi). kitchen, etc. You then use the Min Gua (8-
direction compass) to orient desks and beds
This model can store 10 within the favorable room.
"Family & Associates"
plus you (the owner), Start by measuring the Facing Direction of the
and a temporary door. Each building is identified as a "West
"guest" (up to 12 total House" or "East House". Ideally a person's
people). East or West grouping (shown on the Gua Info
screen) will with that of their House grouping.
There are many good web resources with
The Fortune Compass information on Ba Zhai. Here is one good
Professional includes article.
Chinese, Japanese and
Korean languages, in This compass, like the
addition to English, Flying Stars described
French, Spanish, Italian below, can be viewed in
and German. facing or rotated view
(see "Orientation of
Charts"), as set in
2. Chinese transliterations Preferences. Pressing the
5-way switch (◉) 'freezes' or 'unfreezes' the
In Advanced mode you can choose traditional
Chinese Feng Shui terms (such as Shengqi compass heading but may rotate the Ba Zhai
instead of Success). Press the 5-way switch chart if in rotated view.
(◉) to alternate between Chinese and your
chosen language when in the Eight Directions,
Focus Compass or Choose Focus screens. 6. Introduction to Flying Star Feng Shui
Flying Star Feng Shui can be used to assess
the auspicious and inauspicious influences on
3. Element display a building during varying periods or cycles of
time.
The current person's
element with icon is T h e S a m Yu e n F l y i n g S t a r m e t h o d
shown in the lower left programmed into your Fortune Compass is
corner of the Eight based on 20 year “Periods” and generates
Direction compass. charts that show the three primary stars (base
year in the center of each square, mountain or
sitting star in the upper left, and water or
4. Birth Time facing star in the upper right.
13. Date entry adds a Each of the nine squares is a “Palace” which
double hour (time of birth corresponds to a room of the house or building
within a 2-hour window being analyzed.
using the 24-hour clock)
entry field. The sequence in which these stars change
from one square to the next is called the Flying
Star sequence.

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 Interpreting combinations of stars in each displays the period as “P7”, P8, etc.
square requires considerable study and skill. corresponding to the following years:
Several books and web links for your P9 2024–2044
consideration are given on our web site. P8 2004–2024
P7 1984–2004 “Upper Era”
P6 1964–1984
7. Flying Stars on the Fortune Compass P5 1944–1964
P4 1924–1944 “Middle Era”
This function is available when the operating P3 1904–1924
mode is advanced. (Change operating mode P2 1884–1904
from the EXTRAS screen.) P1 1864–1884 “Lower Era”

The Flying Stars and Ba Zhai compass

screens follow after the Eight Directions (Ming 10. “Storing” the Facing Direction
Gua) compass in the screen sequence. compass reading
Use ▲, ▼, and ◉ operations of the 5-way Once you have the compass properly aligned
switch to set the Year of construction and to with the Facing direction (standing inside the
store the facing direction (details below). house facing the front door or major windows
for example), you can ‘store’ or ‘freeze’ the
The "Flying Stars" compass screen displays compass reading by pressing (◉) the 5-way
lots of information, including:
switch until the compass reading is shaded
• Year of construction (“2005”) (see below).
• Period number (“P8”) Stored Normal
• Compass direction (199)
• Mountain (“S3”)
• Mountain name (“ting”)
• Nine “Palaces” with their star numbers
• Chart configuration interpretation
• If compass is 'live' or 'stored' When the compass reading is ‘frozen’ or
stored, the compass information is drawn
shaded, as shown in the SW1 example above.

Pressing ◉ the 5-way switch a second time

removes the shading and returns to live
compass readings.
The period number (by definition) is always the
center number in the center square. As you 11. Chart Configuration
rotate the compass or change the period,
numbers on the chart instantly change. Charts are classified as having one of ten
configurations. The configuration name is
displayed at the bottom of the screen, indicating
8. Entering the Building’s Year favorable, unfavorable and mixed layouts.
The year that a building was completed is Analysis of a chart can reveal many aspects of a
shown at the top right of the screen. Toggle ▲ house or building. Here is a basic reference to
provide some information. We strongly suggest
to increase and ▼ to decrease the year. Hold
consulting a Feng Shui professional or reference
▲▼ to automatically scroll until the number
books for detailed interpretations, activators and
you want comes into view. As the year
cures.
changes, the Period (see below) is
automatically calculated.
12. Orientation of Charts
9. Periods The Fortune Compass offers three choices for
how it orients Flying Star charts. These three
Similar to how an individual has a Gua number
choices are South, Facing and Rotating. Your
based on their birth year, a building has a
choice is made from the Preferences screen
Period, based on the 20-year cycle in which it
(located in Extras).
was completed. The Fortune Compass

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 South draws charts with 14. Four Pillars of Destiny (Ba Zi)
South at the top of the
screen. This is the The Four Pillars screen comes after the North
traditional orientation for Compass in the screen rotation.
charts that you will find in
many Feng Shui books. The Four Pillars of Destiny or Ba Zi chart is
part of Chinese Astrology that enables a 'blue
print' of a person's life to be drawn up from
Facing draws charts with their exact birth date (year, month, day and
the Facing direction at the local time of birth).
top of the screen. This
makes it easier to overlay The complete birth chart
the chart on floor plan has four "pillars" that
drawings of the building consist of four Heaven
you are analyzing. Stems and four Earth
Branches.

Rotated acts the same as Notice that column order

Facing except that when depends on the date
frozen, the chart rotates format chosen (MDY vs.
with the compass so that DMY). Please take care
the chart remains oriented to read the year, month,
to the building. (e.g. the day and time columns
facing palace is always correctly.
drawn oriented toward the
building’s facing direction.) Hidden Elements and
Element Strength can
also be shown. To view
The South palace is always shaded in blue to element details, press
help keep you oriented and to see the effects the ◉ 5-way switch.
of these different orientations.
While showing the
Note that some Feng Shui books only draw element sub-screen,
charts with south at the top so take care to (note the menu at the top
understand the orientation being used. of the screen), toggle ▲
and ▼ to cycle through
the available calculation
13. Using "Rotated" chart orientation screens. To return to the
Four Pillars chart press
The Rotated chart orientation is difficult to ◉ again.
explain but very easy to use! To use this
orientation, start by pointing the compass in When viewing the Four
the building's facing direction and then 'storing' Pillars main screen, you
the compass reading by pressing the 5-way can switch between
switch. various people stored in
the compass (yourself,
When you have selected the Rotated chart possibly a guest, and as
orientation from the Preferences section of the many as 12 more stored "Family &
Extras screen, the charts will be drawn in Associates") by toggling ▲ and ▼.
'facing' orientation such that the facing palace
at the top center of the chart. Refer to the Fortune Compass User Manual
(pdf document) and our online tutorial videos
As you turn the compass the facing palace for how to add "Family & Associates" and
appears to move however the chart is actually temporary Guest birth dates.
redrawn such that it always remains 'pinned' to
the stored facing direction. The creation of a Four Pillars chart uses
extremely intricate mathematics, and requires
This is quite useful because as you rotate the accurate Solar and Lunar calendars as well as
compass the 'top' of the compass always calculating the Sexagenary cycle. But don't
shows the palace that you are looking at. worry! Your Professional Fortune Compass
does all this for you – instantly and accurately.

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15. Four Pillars operating mode
In the Operating Mode menu (in the Extras
screen) there is a choice labeled “Four Pillars”.
This mode remove all other Feng Shui screens
(Eight Directions, Focus Directions, Focus
Compass, Eight Mansions, Flying Stars) and
only has the Ba Zi Four Pillars screen.

This mode is useful for traditional medical

practitioners or astrologers that only wish to
use the Ba Zi.

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