This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
A flying star entry records one of the nine numbered stars of Xuan Kong, or Flying Star feng shui, a system that assigns each star to one of the nine sectors of a building's own grid according to the building's construction period and its facing direction, distinct from the fixed twenty four mountain compass directions the atlas records under their own separate type. The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui presents this system as a working measurement method, read from a real physical compass instrument, rather than as a fixed symbolic chart.
An entry records a star's documented number, the quality or domain of life the tradition assigns it, favorable, inauspicious, mixed, and the conditions, period and facing, under which that assigned quality actually applies to a given building, since a flying star's reading is inherently conditional rather than fixed for every use.
Where different documented feng shui schools weigh a flying star's placement differently, an entry records that documented divergence honestly rather than presenting one school's method as the whole system's single settled answer. An entry also records, where Skinner's manual specifies it, whether a star's documented influence is understood as affecting a whole building, one room, or a specific direction within it, since the system's own practitioners apply a flying star reading at more than one distinct scale.