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How to Use the Feng Shui Compass if You Are a Beginner
The Feng Shui compass is traditionally called a lo pan. This means roughly, a bowl with which you are allowed to access the universal mysteries. A simple lo pan has three rings each will provide a different type of information through the electromagnetic needle. The information which is most important and which can be obtained when using your Feng Shui compass is the direction your building faces, and the way in which the energy or chi moves in the different environments within the spaces in your building.
Types of Feng Shui Compass
There are different types of the Feng Shui compass or lo pan. The lo pan can have as few as three rings or as many as 24. The amount of rings you choose should be low for the beginner, no more than three rings. Only those who have a detailed knowledge of Feng Shui should purchase lo pans with a higher ring number. There are few masters of Feng Shui who can understand the readings on a lo pan which has higher than 10 rings.
How to Read Your Feng Shui Compass
Your simple Feng Shui compass will typically have three rings as mentioned before. The third ring, which is called the 24 directions ring, tells you which direction your building faces. The pre-celestial or center ring tells you which direction the chi or energy flows in the environments within your building. These two rings are the most important when just beginning to learn how to use your Feng Shui compass.
How to Apply Your Knowledge
Applying the knowledge you get from reading your lo pan means a further understanding of the concepts of Feng Shui. Basically you can use the information of the direction your building is facing and the direction the chi is flowing within that space to decide what objects need to be placed within the space to balance it harmoniously. Since beginners traditionally use the five elements method, you would then use this knowledge to figure out what elements need to be added to your space, which will balance the chi so you are in harmony with the universe.
Of course there is far more than just the use of the lo pan to Feng Shui, but understanding its use in conjunction with other tenets in this discipline make it a very useful tool for the beginning practitioner. Contrary to what some may think, Feng Shui is a very exact science and is not just based on what some might term mumbo jumbo. The use of a Feng Shui compass, the understanding of the Chinese concepts of yin and yang, as well as the five elements method, allow us to learn to live in harmony with our surroundings.