Killing Yellow Spring Sha UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland

KEdgar Lok Tin Yung explains Killing Yellow Spring Sha and provides a case study of the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland

Killing Yellow Spring Sha, or Shārén huángquán shā (殺人黃泉煞), is it from the Sanhe (三合) school, is it from the Najia (納甲) school, or is it from the Sanyuan (三元) school?  Well, each of these schools has their own explanation to this technique. It is a pity that the modern Xuankong flying star and other Feng Shui methods such Eight Mansions make little mention of the Killing Yellow Spring Sha formula.

As one of the 39th generation Yang Gong San Yuan Yuan Gua Feng Shui holders, I learnt that the Killing Yellow Spring Sha Formula is one the many feng shui techniques taught by Great Grand Master Yang Yunsong.

The Killing Yellow Spring Sha formula is important and is engraved on many Feng Shui Luopans. 

Killing Yellow Spring Sha (殺人黃泉煞) Formula comes with an example. The Killing Yellow Spring Sha is engraved on most Feng Shui Compasses or Luo pans.

Feng Shui Luopan or Feng Shui Compass is one of the most important tools for any Feng Shui Consultant.

A Feng Shui compass is engraved with at least one Feng Shui formula in each ring. The number of rings on a Luo pan varies from one Feng Shui Shui school or different Luopan manufacturer to another.

A decent Luopan should contain about 28 rings. Among those rings, there is a ring called “Killing Yellow Spring Sha” Ring<<殺人黃泉煞>>.

The Killing Yellow Spring Sha formula is written into eight sentences.  This is also called the Stems’ Yellow Spring Sha. There is a formula for the Earthly Branch Killing Yellow Spring Sha too but it is not engraved on the LuoPan, so not discussed here.

The Stems Killing Yellow Spring Sha Formula

庚丁坤上是黃泉，坤向庚丁不可言:

Sitting or facing Geng or Ding, Kun water* is the Yellow Spring Sha Qi.
Sitting or facing Kun, Geng or Ding water is the Yellow Spring Sha Qi.

乙丙須防巽水先，巽向乙丙流不吉:

Sitting or facing Yi or Bing, Xun Water is the Yellow Spring Sha Qi,
Sitting or facing Xun, Yi or Bing Water is the Yellow Spring Sha Qi,

甲癸向中憂見艮，艮逢甲癸禍綿綿:

Sitting or Facing Jia or Gui, the Gen water is the Yellow Spring Sha Qi,
Sitting or Facing Jia or Gui, the Gen water is the Yellow Spring Sha Qi,

辛壬水路怕當乾，乾向辛壬行不得:

Sitting or Facing Xin or Ren, the Qian Water is the Yellow Spring Sha Qi.
Sitting or Facing Qian, the Xin or Ren Water is the Yellow Spring Sha Qi.

*Water can be real water or a street.

Yellow Spring Sha

“Yellow Spring Sha”is a term borrowed from traditional Chinese culture.

Yellow Spring (黃泉), In Chinese traditional culture, means the land of the dead. The place we all go after death.  When a well is bored deep down into the ground, initially yellow water flows out.  It becomes a yellow spring.

When someone passed away, they were buried underground. Yellow Spring is used to describe the land of the dead or Hell.

The main effect of the Killing Yellow Spring Sha relates to health, accidents, life and death issues.  Depending on the location and its element of the Yellow Spring Sha Qi, it can be mapped with the five elements of our body. In addition, it also relates to certain animal signs of the occupants of a household.

The Yellow Spring Sha formula, engraved on a Luo pan.

Let’s look at how it works from the Luo pan point of view.

The Earth ring is for measuring direction.  The Earth Ring Xin (辛) and Ren (壬) directions are shown in purple. These correspond on the Yellow Spring Sha ring, to Qian (乾) in green circles, in both cases.

This reminds us that “Sitting or Facing Xin or Ren, the Qian Water is the Yellow Spring Sha Qi.”

On the other hand, look at the Earth Ring Qian (marked in Blue), its Yellow Spring Sha ring shows Xin and Ren together marked in Green. This reminds us that “Sitting or Facing Qian, the Xin or Ren Water is the Yellow Spring Sha Qi.”

The other sectors in this formula follow the same principle in explanation and application.

Let’s look at an example of Yellow Spring Sha

I was visiting the UN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland in June 2019 to check out its Feng Shui configurations.  I discovered there is a Stem Killing Yellow Spring Sha configuration.

This configuration is: Sitting or facing Geng or Ding, Kun water is the Yellow Spring Sha Qi. 庚丁坤上是黃泉.

The facing of the UN headquarters is measured by where the 193 flags are. It faces Ding at 201 Degrees. There is also a road coming and going at the Kun sector, marked in Blue.

Based on this information, we need to find out the years it may trigger tragedy. In the “Heaven Jade Classic” by楊筠松 (Yang Yunsong 834－906) it says:

 “但看太歲是何神，立地見分明, 成敗定斷何公位，三合年中是”

In English it merely means: The years to trigger the feng shui configuration good and bad are the Tai Sui year, the clash year and the triple combination years.

The years trigger feng shui configuration will be: Pig(亥), Rabbit(卯), Goat(未), and Ox(丑) in this case.

The Stems are also important. The Stems Ding (丁), Gui(癸), Yi(乙) and Xin(辛) also should add to the equation.

Then, we verify what happened in those years in the past, whether it is coincident or it is bad feng shui. you be the judge. However, we are talking about major accidents.

Here is the list of incidents which happened in those years:

• 1961 (辛 丑), a plane crashed, a total of 16 people died, one of them, the secretary-general of the UN Dag Hammarskjöld. The cause of the crash has not yet been explained and several theories surround this mystery.
• 2003 (癸未) In the Canal hotel bombing in Baghdad, 22 United Nations personnel were killed.
• 2007 (丁亥) In Algiers, Algeria, 17 United Nations workers were killed.
• In January 2010, before 4th  Feb 2010 (立春Lìchūn the Start_of_Spring It was still in Ox year (丑). The UN rescue team was destroyed by the mud in the Haiti earthquake and 102 people of the UN team were buried.
• In 2011 (辛卯), a plane crashed in Congo, and 20 out the 33 people died were UN staff.
• 2019 (己亥) March (卯), 21 UN Staff were among the 157 died in the plane crash in Ethiopia.

In a nutshell, these accidents all happened in the: Pig(亥), Rabbit(卯), Goat(未), and Ox(丑). Ding (丁), Gui (癸), Yi (乙) and Xin (辛) years.  

(Not included in the research for this article is a recent report by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, which highlights road crashes as the leading cause of death and serious injury to United Nations personnel all over the world.   The report lists over 600 fatalities and injuries of U.N. personnel related to road crashes between 2013 and 2017.)

Feng Shui is about Yin and Yang, so there are techniques to change the Killing Yellow Spring Sha to Savings the poor Yellow Spring Sha and Yellow Spring Sha for Speed up one’s career. If the Feng Shui Yellow Spring Sheng Qi is implemented correctly, it can bring wealth and promotion into a house for the occupants in a very short time. These techniques are only passed on one on one in my Australian Feng Shui course.

In our lineage, the San Yuan Yuan Gua System, there is also the Branch Yellow Spring Sha Qi formula. If there are Branch and Stem Yellow Spring Sha overlap together, it creates DOUBLE Killing Yellow Spring Sha Qi.  This can be extremely bad for the occupants of the house or an organization if they have such Feng Shui configurations.

The above example of the UN headquarters also has the configuration of the Branch Killing Yellow Spring Sha.