Almost no one has heard of Nine Star Ki, even in my circles, especially if we compare it to how mainstream Feng Shui has become over the last few decades. People who know very little about Feng Shui have some inkling about how a fortunate interior arrangement or design can benefit the occupant. But when it comes to Nine Star Ki: crickets.
My own mentor has ruminated that there might be just a handful of practitioners on the planet who are using Nine Star Ki analysis at a high level which no conventionally published author has written about. And yet, we do see Nine Star Ki practitioners on the internet with varying ranges of knowledge.
What version of Nine Star Ki are they teaching? We know about some who understand certain baseline concepts and others who have mistakenly projected Feng Shui principles onto Nine Star Ki, partly because we track Annual and Monthly Stars in the same pattern of flow. But that is where the similarities end.
One morning, my mentor Heluo directed me to a Facebook page he came upon and for a minute I was very excited to discover another Nine Star Ki practitioner across the globe. Like stumbling upon a long lost relative, I couldn’t wait to see what this person was all about and reach out to them as kindred spirits practicing an almost lost Art.
Scrolling through his Facebook entries, it became immediately apparent he was blending Western Numerology with Nine Star Ki. How inventive, you say? Well, we don’t do that. Is this person a genius for uncovering something significant that no one else ever considered? Is this just some marketing ploy or a way to ride on the Nine Star Ki bandwagon without really studying it?
I didn’t stick around long enough to figure out WHY he is doing this, but the HOW part was really stunning. Let me elaborate: In the practice of Nine Star Ki, we track atmospheric and changing energies which impact people, potentially in all areas of their life. Annual, monthly, and daily cycles can be calculated and the specific energy of the moment is given numerical coding.
With daily cycles as an example, the numbers (called stars) repeat in order perpetually with a “9” day star followed by an “8” star the next day, and a continuous descending order from the June Solstice to the December Solstice, such as 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2,1 and starting over with 9. From the December Solstice to the June Solstice, the pattern switches with the daily stars into an ascending order of 1, 2,3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. This alternating order of the daily stars is unique, compared to Annual and Monthly stars which always descend in order of the center star.
And when we refer to a “daily” star, it is the numerical coding we use to identify a “center” star, which is surrounded by eight non-literal directional “palaces” having their own pattern of related annual, monthly and daily stars. It’s not numerology, but out of convenience and lack of a Western equivalent, I’ll excuse someone who makes the analogy.
And yet, what this so-called Nine Star Ki expert was espousing on his Facebook page, is a completely nonsensical association between the days on the western calendar with Nine Star Ki meaning. For example, if it is the 24th of the month, this person notes that 2 + 4 = 6 and therefore it is a 6 Metal Nine Star Ki day! If it is the 31st of the month, he adds 3 + 1=4 to label it a 4 Wood Star day. But what happens when the next day is the 1st of the month?
This person announces that, oh well, it’s a 1 Water star day: dismissing that the sequential order of the stars just got skipped over. This is cockamamie! I know that in Western Numerology, the days of the month resolve to a single digit, but they have their distinct meaning, completely unrelated to Nine Star Ki. Just as one example, this article was written on March 3, 2026. According to this Facebook man, it is a 3 Wood Star day. But in Nine Star Ki, it is actually a 1 Water Star day.
As a theoretical comparison, should we trust a Chinese astrologer who takes the 12 zodiac signs and arbitrarily assigns seven of the twelve signs to each day of the week and tosses out the other five signs?
Promoting this foundational misunderstanding, and abuse of the Nine Star Ki system, one cannot trust that he understands or applies anything else correctly, just as he erroneously refers to Nine Star Ki as “Eastern Numerology.”
Author: Kartar Diamond
Company: Feng Shui Solutions ®
From the Nine Star Ki Blog Series
