Feng Shui History - How Feng Shui Started - Feng Shui Roots - Part II

In time, almost a hundred years later, another feng shui school of thought - the Compass Feng Shui School - gained strength and popularity. The main influence in this feng shui school was a Feng Shui Master by the name Wang Chih who developed his teachings during the Song Dynasty.

The Compass Feng Shui School calculations are based on the compass directions and the I-Ching trigrams arranged in the octagonal symbol of the BaGua.

Other feng shui theories employed by the Compass Feng Shui School of Thought are the Yin-Yang Theory, The Theory of Five Elements, the Lo-Shu Square, and other. The time dimension was first introduced by the Compass School Practitioners, thus calculations can be done to define the best timing for best energies in specific places.

Furthermore, the concept of the Kua number was introduced as a way to calculate the directions of most auspicious energies based on the client's date of birth.

In late nineteenth century, after a period of existence as two separate schools, the two feng shui schools of thought - the Landscape, or Form Feng Shui School, and the Compass Feng Shui School - merged, thus providing for a body of knowledge of unique depth and wisdom in reading the environmental energy patterns.