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Lillian Too's Flying Star Feng Shui for the Master Practitioner: The Ultimate Guide to Advanced Practice Feng Shui: Stage II (Lillian Too's Feng Shui in Small Doses)

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I think this book is well written and gives good explanations of the complicated astrology/numerology aspects of Feng Shui. But part of it seems to contradict Ms. Too's earlier book, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Feng Shui (1996). In that one, the facing direction of the back door determines good and bad areas (the eight locations). A house with back door facing NW is a West-group Chien house with its good and bad areas matching those of West-group people. But in this newer book the facing direction of the front door is used and a SE-facing house is labelled "West-group" but its good and bad areas match those of East-group people (see page 184). I feel very frustrated because I thought I understood this -- but now, not. I wonder if it's a mistake, because I've found mistakes in other books by this author, specifically in the drawings and diagrams. In The Complete Illustrated guide, I think the diagram on page 96 has mixed up "good" and "bad" locations, they conflict with the text. In Smart Feng Shui for the Home, the East trigram on yang pa kua is wrong (page 31). In the new book Flying Star Feng Shui for Period 8, the mountain and water star numbers are switched in the NW sector (page 67). The books are fascinating to me and have lots of information. I feel they need to be more careful in the proofreading stage.

For those who are used to Lillian Toos Feng Shui books, this will come as something as a shock. With great respect to Lillian, her books to date are very "pop culture" just dusting the top of the simplest Feng Shui for the mass market.

This is vastly different and shows she really does know her stuff! In depth detail of Flying Star and Eight Mansions with details on loss lines, Castle Gates, the Luo Pan rings and more. However, this would be for the more advanced reader as it really assumes you are familiar with the concepts of qi, five elements etc.

I am not an expert, but it is definitely what is known as "Classical Feng Shui". I can't vouch for her interpretation of Flying Star, but I am happy to add it to my collection!

I admire Lillian Too's writing skills and I'm glad she finnaly starts writing the more serious feng shui stuff.

I have great interest in learning classical feng shui and I have collected the works of other well known and authoritative classical feng shui teachers. But most these books are advanced and may too complicated for a beginner. Ms Lillian Too has been able to borrow and extract the formulae out of these authors and cleverly rearranged them in her own abridged style.

A good book must always have an acknowledgement of the author's original source of reference. Unfortunately, Ms Lillian Too has not shared with us her sources of reference and has not given due credit to those authors from which her information for this book is derived. I'm sure there are many eager learners like me out there who would like to for more substance by buying not just her books but also others who created the originals.

I disagree with most of the reviews here. I am a huge fan of Ms. Too's and have no doubt this author knows her stuff! (by the way she graduated from Harvard Business school - very smart lady) This book is perfect for those interested in extending their skill levels in flying star feng shui. I found it most helpful and saw no contradictions from previous books. I would caution those without a good grasp of basic flying star or compass school feng shui not to purchase this book until they are "ready". It can be confusing for those who haven't studied this science extensively.

Indeed, as a biased Lillian Too fan, I love this Feng Shui book of hers. I have been reading and studying Feng Shui, indeed, reading many of highly prolific Feng Shui author, Lillian Too's books, as well as other authors now for over 2 years. Ms. Too, having received her MBA from Harvard University, while herself being Asian, combines her Chinese and Malaysian cultures to present Feng Shui so well to an international audience, including many, many Westerners like myself.

This Flying Star book certainly is for the Advanced Feng Shui student, as the title would suggest. For those who are interested in Flying Star Feng Shui, start with a few of her "168 Feng Shui Ways to...." books, i.e. LILLIAN TOO'S FENG SHUI: 168 Ways to Success, or Lillian Too's 168 Feng Shui Ways to Declutter Your Home, and then add and read her Flying Star book geared more for Flying Star beginners, Flying Star Feng Shui Made Easy. Please know and understand that even the concept of Flying Star Feng Shui is essentially an Advanced Beginner - Advanced Topic of Feng Shui. Essentially, you are adding the dimension of TIME to the Feng Shui formulas and concepts. So, you will first want to build your comfort level and agility with Elements and Space.

Because Flying Star Feng Shui is a Advanced Topic, I highly recommend that you simply read through the whole book, letting it do a first wash over your brain, and don't worry if you don't grasp every single nuance right away the first time you read it. Then go back and reread sections of it. Ms. Too provides quite a number of very helpful tools to specifically calculate the Flying Stars yourself to become adept at that.

For any serious student of Feng Shui, wanting to grow in their knowledge and ability in Feng Shui, I highly recommend this book for your Feng Shui library. You will want to refer to it repeatedly.

Not quite what I have expected. She should stick to what she writes best - all about superstitions and buying feng shui stuffs. Classical feng shui are for the classical feng shui writers. Would rather read Eva Wong's books. I think she got most of the originals from other classical feng shui writers. It's disgraceful!

Another very thorough book from Lilian Too. I compared this book to another one that was translated directly from a Chinese book written about 100 years ago. Lilian Too's book contains all the essentials and is much, much easier to understand. There is one relatively minor difference between the two books: Lilian Too says that the monthly flying stars fly in the positive direction while the other book states that they fly in the negative direction. Overall, it's an excellent book for serious Feng Shui practitioners.