Hello,

I have recently come across a Luopan from the American Feng Shui Institute. I noticed that the trigrams are in different places, but the attributes the same (E=Wood, S=Fire, etc.)and the birth info is also different. According to Diamond Feng Shui I am an Earth Snake, and according to the American version, I am a Water sign. I tried to research some of this and found that most of what I found had the trigrams placed the same as Diamond Feng Shui but the attributes were different (E=Fire, S=Heaven).

Some things are the same and some are very different. I am basically trying to understand why different schools have different attributes and is there a way to reconcile them?

Thank you,
Michelle