One of the people who receives my newsletter alerted me to the fact that the website of another practitioner disapproves of the practice of feng shui practitioners using compasses. In one of the pieces that she has published on her website, she makes the case that using a compass as a measuring tool cannot be reliable since the magnetic declination is in a state of constant flux. I happen to know that many feng shui practitioners try to advise against the use of a compass, despite the fact that this could not be further from the truth. They try to justify this by saying that the use of a compass is somehow archaic, not relevant in modern times, or this new pitch that since magnetic declinations are always changing, there is no point in using a compass. However, none of these explanations are accurate. Because there are still many consultants who do not know about magnetic declinations, and definitely those who don’t find a purpose to use a compass would seldom dive so thoroughly into the particulars of utilizing one, I was astonished that this author genuinely understood about magnetic declinations. On the other hand, her comments on the ever-shifting magnetic declination are not only incorrect but also myopic for a variety of reasons. Listen to me out: 1.although it is a reality that the local magnetic declination in any region of the planet may vary, the rate at which this can take place is very slow over the course of time. It’s possible that the magnetic declination shifts by little more than a few tenths of a degree per decade! My house is fifty years old, and when it was constructed, the magnetic north in my zip code was fifteen degrees east of true north. These days, magnetic north in my zip code is thirteen degrees east of true north, which represents a movement of just two degrees in fifty years. 2.secondly, when we take a compass reading for any building, we create a chart based on the magnetic declination that existed at the time the building was constructed. Even if it shifts progressively a few degrees to the east or west from its initial orientation, this shift is often unimportant for the production of a “flying star chart,” which provides us with twenty-four different directions that a building might face. There is a change in our orientation about every fifteen degrees. As an example, if a home was constructed with its orientation reading 250 degrees west when it was finished, but one hundred years later it now reads 260 degrees, the building is still facing the same first sector of west. There have been no modifications made to the flying star chart. This makes it easy to perform a compass reading all around since we seldom need to know the precise degree to produce a flying star chart. This makes compass reading much simpler. furthermore, this brings up even another issue. It has never been simpler than it is in today’s contemporary times to make use of a compass for the purposes of feng shui. To verify how much the magnetic declination has shifted (for anyplace in the globe) from the time of construction for whatever property I am evaluating, I frequently check the geophysical data center website. Although the magnetic declination changes extremely slowly over time, as I’ve indicated in a previous post, the difference between then and today might be significant for structures that are at least 80 years old. To summarize, putting out the idea that compass readings can never be reliable because the declination is continually changing is a false assumption from the very beginning, and it indicates a lack of knowledge in how the compass is intended to be utilized. This may be compared to the idea that an astrologer doesn’t need to know where you were born since the world rotates at such a high speed that no one is truly born in a certain location. Kartar Diamond is a practitioner who has been traditionally educated and has been assisting people all around the globe since 1992. feng shui for skeptics, the feng shui matrix, and the feng shui continuum are the titles of the three books written by kartar. In addition to that, she has a dvd that teaches one how to properly read a compass. Visit www.fengshuisolutions.net if you would like more information.
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