Numbers have a profound significance in Feng Shui. Just as Chinese scholars could trace the progression of changes from the unity of Wu Chi to the multiplicity that flows from the hexagrams of the I Ching, so their flows from the hexagrams of the I Ching, so their unfolding understanding of the natural world led them to a closer study of numbers and their significance. Their analysis and conclusions are today generally embraced by the term "numerology" - a field of study essential for the Feng Shui practitioner.
Numerology has its origins in the legendary past, when much of China was submerged by a great flood. Stricken villagers reported seeing a horse with a dragon's head emeging from the flood waters. Then came a second flood, said by some to have taken place about 6000 years ago. A tortoise with distinctive markings on its shell was seen in the River Lo. The markings on both the fabled dragon-horse and the tortoise were held to represent universal principles that govern all the manifestations of the universe.
The numbers and their positions
Study of the marking on the dragon-horse and tortoise reveals certain common features: the number three is on the left, the number five is at the centre and so forth. In Chinese numbers to each other has a significance which is used to analyze or predict a wide range of phenomena: a person's health, job, marriage, and finances as well as their future and the web of their human relationships. In Feng Shui. each number denotes a point on the compass: the bottom centre (number 1) is North; the top center is South (number 9).
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