Reading One White in a Chart

Every flying star chart layers three numbers into each of the nine grid positions: the period star, the year star and the mountain and facing stars fixed by the building's construction date and orientation, and One White's meaning shifts depending on which of these roles it is filling in a given reading. When One White appears as a visiting star in combination with certain other stars, practitioners read specific combined effects, for instance a favourable reading when it combines with Six White or Eight White, both metal or earth stars whose relationship to water is read as productive rather than draining.

The star's association with career and communication makes its annual position one of the more commonly consulted parts of a yearly flying star forecast, since a sector it occupies in a given year is often recommended as a favourable location for a home office, a desk, or the main entrance used for business purposes, while its combination with more difficult stars in the same year tempers that recommendation considerably.

Sources Chinese Mathematical Astrology: Reaching Out to the StarsHo Peng Yoke with The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui: Chinese GeomancyStephen Skinner