The calabash is also known as the Ho Lu. It is a very powerful symbol of good fortune as well as longevity. The Calabash is shaped like a bottle gourd. It Calabash is shaped like abottle gourd. It symbolizes the union of Heaven and earth in miniature. The upper half is the heaven and the lower half is the earth. In fact, wealth vaes are also shaped like the Calabash. You can diaplay the real dried gourd in and around your home, which shows that your house is being blessed. The model of a Ho Lu can also be used but it should be made in brass only. It is mainly a cure for health realted problems caused by Flying Star afflictions. The Ho Lu should be placed near the bed of the sick person. Even the God of Logevity is shown to carry a staff with a bottle gourd containing the elixir of immortality hanging at its one end.

The Ho Lu / Calabash is an excellent way to remove/ reduce the effects of the sickness star numeral '2' in Flying Star Feng Shui. It is also used in pairs generally. The Ho Lu should certainly be kept in your bedrrom during the years when the Annual Flying Star '2' is in your bedroom location.

The location of the Annual Sickness Star '2' during a paritcular is shown by the following table.

A practical example demonstrating the use of the above table is as follows. If your bedroom is say, in the South Zone of your house then in the year 2002 the Annual Flying Star 2 which causes illness is in your room. Hence, to reduce its effect, your should palcea a pair of Ho Lu /calabash near your bed, all through the year 2002. During the year 2003, the annual Sickness Star '2' willlbe in the North rooom of your house, hence the pair fo ho Lu should be shifted to that room of your house, henace the pair of ho Lu should be shifted to that room in 2003. Please note that for Flying Star calculations, generally the Chinese Year period is considered form 5th Feb of that year to 4th Feb. of the subsequent year. E.g the year 2003 refers ot the period between 5th Feb 2002 up. 2002 up to 4th Feb. 2003 of the English calander.

During the years when the annual Sickness star '2' is in a location of yourhouse where there is a toilet or a store room, you need not worry and the use of the Ho Lo as a cure for the Annual Sickness Star '2' is only requreid whenever the Annual Sickness Star '2' comes to a sector of your house where there is a bedroom.