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Sun Tzu Art of War was an ancient text that every scholar, high ranking official and emperor would study because it contained sophisticated strategies that could be used to win in wars during ancient times. Later it was also realized that the text was also useful for success in politics, corporate world and businesses. Through this text, emperors learnt to defeat their opponents. It was also through this text that many dynasties have been defeated by laymen who read it and became emperors later.

The Sun Tzu Art of War touched based on Feng Shui and described in detail about how the legendary Yellow Emperor (Huang Di) during 2500BC defeated four other emperors from four cardinal directions, namely north (Black Emperor), south (Red Emperor), east (Green Emperor) and west (White Emperor). He later conquered all of China. The Yellow Emperor was also reputed to have discovered the magic square. He was also the first emperor who studied in depth about land contours, built cities that successfully avoided flood and established building rules.

Lady of Nine Heavens (also known as Lady Ba) came into picture during a critical war by the Yellow Emperor against his rebel field marshall Chih Yue. Lady of Nine Heavens was said to be the daughter of the Yellow Emperor. She was sent by the heaven to help the Yellow Emperor discover the luopan (chinese compass).

The rebel Chih Yue used many dirty tactics to supplant the Yellow Emperor. One of the most threatening tactics was the "black storm" to blind the Yellow Emperor's forces. They lost many settlements because of lost in directions. It was during this critical period that the Lady of Nine Heavens brought the luopan to successfully defeat Chih Yue. Besides, the Lady of Nine Heavens was also known to be a close advisor to the Yellow Emperor in paving way to the invention of the Magic Square, feng shui of the city and agriculture of the country.

The Lady of Nine Heavens later became known to be the heavenly guardian of feng shui or simply the Feng Shui Goddess. Her role is to bless one with good feng shui luck and drawing good energy from the earth for mankind. She has powerful control over all manner of feng shui on earth. She has been popularly worshipped in Chinese temples for over 4500 years till today to usher in good feng shui luck. Mediums today even claimed that the Lady of Nine Heavens now had attained higher enlightenment as a Pu'sa. Her statues are normally shown to be holding the luopan, the wulou or a flying whisk.

The presence of her image can bring many wonders to ones life and promises correction for many feng shui problems. Feng Shui masters and practitioners will consider her image compulsory to guide them on continuous improvement and attaining higher acquisition in mastering feng shui knowledge. Feng shui masters will normally have her image in their office or home for protection against any harm due to their work that provoke forces of nature. Not everyone belongs to the energy world, therefore spiritual support and blessings is most of the time required. Beginners who are starting to practise feng shui will also benefit with her presence. Houses that have hard-to-remedy feng shui problems will definitely need her image to cure those problems. Houses that have poor external landscape, complex interiors, odd shaped buildings, improper orientation, lousy directions, poor ventilation, polluted "chi" and bad flying stars will need her assistance. Her image should appear in prominent areas such as the living room and facing towards the maindoor to protect the household against bad feng shui. In essence, her presence will solve ones worries and frustrations about their bad feng shui. Meanwhile, those who specifically like to increase their feng shui knowledge can display her at the "fu wei" location according to ones kua number, the literary star#4 location or the universal NE knowledge corner of the house. Next, to increase ones matriarch's luck, one can choose to display her at the matriarch's personal sheng chi location or the universal SW matriarch corner. Since she is quite highly ranked in the heaven now, respect is required where one has to properly frame her image and display her high up on prominent walls, and not in storage rooms, toilets, dark alleys etc.

It is also worth taking note that houses that have their facing direction or maindoor facing in the directions of LINES OF EMPTINESS would in particular require to invite the Lady of Nine Heavens to correct the problem. Display Her image facing the maindoor or the facing direction. Lines of emptiness are actually transitional middle point between a cardinal direction and secondary direction. Such type of houses normally project a major problem according to the Flying Stars theory. The directions of lines of emptiness are as follows:
1. Transition between south to southwest: 202.5 degrees
2. Transition between southwest to west: 247.5 degrees
3. Transition between west to northwest: 292.5 degrees
4. Transition between northwest to north: 337.5 degrees
5. Transition between north to northeast: 22.5 degrees
6. Transition between northeast to east: 67.5 degrees
7. Transition between east to southeast: 112.5 degrees
8. Transition between southeast to south: 157.5 degrees

Beautiful artwork showing the Lady of Nine Heavens successfully bringing auspicious chi with the magical presence of wind, water, mountain, sunshine, colorful plants and flourishing flowers.