Vintage Chinese luopan (Geomancer's Feng Shui Compass),

A Vintage Chinese luopan (Geomancer's Feng Shui Compass); On a carved, yellow, wooden disk with black ink inscriptions. Mid-20th century. luopan's are exceptional given their unique orientation to the South pole. Used by geomancers for Feng Shui practices; allowing geomancers to give physical directional guidance & analyze the "energy" of locations. Using these, geomancers could choose fortunate orientations for buildings, structures, or objects. Likewise, they were used to detect/change the auspicious as well. 

By taking into account optical Qi, and the balance of Yin and Yang, these were utilized during new construction of personal & communal spaces, determining burial sites, or reorienting ones surroundings in times of adversity. 

Diameter: 5 3/8" 

Height: 3/4"

Weight: 3.6 oz.