Also called: Traditional Feng Shui, Authentic Feng Shui
Origin: Ancient Chinese geomancy practices dating back thousands of years.

Key Characteristics Uses both Form and Compass Schools together

Classical Feng Shui incorporates:

• Form School (landforms, mountains, water, building shape)
• Compass School (Lo Pan compass readings + time-based formulas)

• Uses systems like Flying Stars (Xuan Kong Fei Xing), which change yearly, monthly, and in 20-year cycles.
• Time dimension is essential for determining auspicious and inauspicious energies.

• External environment is key: mountains, water, roads, land shapes.

• Flying Stars
• Eight Mansions (Ba Zhai)
• Xuan Kong Da Gua
• San He / San Yuan formulas

Also called: Modern Feng Shui, BTB-influenced Compass Feng Shui
Origin: Often a simplified, modernized version derived from classical compass ideas.
Key Characteristics:

1.) Relies primarily on compass directions

• Uses the eight cardinal directions and assigns meanings (e.g., North = career, South = fame).
• Often uses static direction-based bagua maps.

• Does not typically consider Flying Stars or time-based qi shifts.

• The same directional bagua is applied to many homes regardless of the environment.

• Direction-based Eight Aspirations Method (Life Areas Bagua)
• Simple compass reading to determine sectors

• Classical Feng Shui = complex, time-based, environment-dependent, formula-driven

• Compass Feng Shui = direction-based, simplified, modern adaptation