Robert Lee

Dear Anon, Frankly, there is more reaons as to why you face problems. It is not just because of the car purchase. I am pretty sure there are other issues ie very bad ba zi luck as well as some bad feng shui stars that are working against you. As far as I could tell from your ba zi is that 2005 is a bad year for you with five-yearly luck (2003-2007) containing Harm and self-punishment which makes it a year to look out for potential troubles. Especially, so in the later half of 2005 where you enter into a Metal influence. In addition, this year you have nearly all the clashes ie 2 clashes (in Heaven & Earth Branch), Harm and Self-Punishment. So you have to be extra careful. [2005] yi-you - Luck against you but Very Bad - [1st 6 months] yi - is a little auspicious. Heavenly Stem Clash: yi-xin [2nd 6 months] you - is a little inauspicious. Earthly Branch Clash: mao-you Earthly Branch Harm: you-shu Earthly Branch Self Punishment: you As far as your element is concerned you are considered a Strong Metal person, which means that Water/Wood/Fire will be generally good for you. Of which you lack Wood (0%) so that means that even though Fire and Water are good for you, Wood is more needed for you to attain better balance. Thus, wood colour (green/brown) is more preferred than Water (blue/black/gray) or even Fire (red). So Wood (green/brown) would be a much preferred colour for your car as well as to boost up your luck in general. Followed by Water and last by Fire. This is because that is the element you lack most in your entire chart is Wood element. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert

Dear Mick Bartam, mick bartam wrote: my front door faces my back door. how can i fix this as i believe this can let energy flow out, i have had bad luck in this house. Basically, you should be having a problem similiar to this diagram:- URL: http://www.geomancy.net/resources/theories/fs-breath.htm If so, you will need to have a partition as shown somewhere in between the two doors to help prevent a Qi leak. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Users, We have prepared the 2006 Forecast which is based on the highly successful 2005 format. Ba Zi2006 Forecast with2006 Monthly Chart 2006 Flying Star Chart Grand Duke & Location in conflict Individual Chinese Horoscope with all Five Different Birth Element & Strength (ie weak/Strong Rat etc) So find out what is installed for 2006 The Dog Year (between 29 Jan 2006 to 17 Feb 2007):- URL: http://www.geomancy.net/resources/yearly-forecast/fortunes-2006.htm This forecast is done with a our Yearly Forecast v1.0that assisted us to generate most of the analysis for all possible variation of the different animal sign for that particular year. The graphical illustrated forecast will be availableonce the image is ready. Hope you enjoy our yearly forecast. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Users, We are please to announce to all users, that we have an Mobile version of our website (especially for the free online tools and reading forum messagesthat you can access from your mobile phone). This website was designed to work on Starhub (i-mode), where should you have an i-mode phone, you will be able to access our freeeight house, free ba zi reports anytime you need. It will also work for non-imode phones by entering thebelow url into most of your WAP/GPRS/3G phones. URL: http://imode.geomancy.net The current version as it has to conform to 2G i-mode, thus havelimited resources due to filesize limit 10K. However, most users should find using the free report or reading form message quite useful. Later on, we will provide more content for 3G enabled phones which does not have a limitation on the filesize. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Lisa, Lisa Pirkkala wrote: My confusion started when I read two books--one of which had someone standing outside the house, looking toward the front door and holding the compass toward the front door (that would put the compass direction in direct opposition to the formula holding compass inside, standing facing out the front door) then in another book had house trigram formula and compass formula opposite, as the sitting and facing directions were opposite. The book said to use the trigram formula to apply flying star feng shui. Lisa Pirkkala wrote: Is it safe to simply just stand inside the house, looking out, to apply both methods, then? If so, I will throw those books away! You should take note that a Chinese Compass (Luo Pan) is South to North orientation, whereas a normal compass is North to South. So if you are using a Luo Pan because it is 180 degrees opposite, then the instructions you read in the book is not wrong.As the analysis, will also have to be properly re-orientated to the house in order to be able to give a proper assessment. As most people can only access to a normal compass, our website has everything orientated North-South just as normal compass. So you will not be wrong by taking the reading by standing ie at your main door looking outwards. This will work for all the reports on our website. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Mark, Mark lyden wrote: I currently have a fish tank in my living room(living room in west of house.) I also have red sofas. How can I arrang the furniture to improve my proserity. I am currently loosing money. If you are facing issues, then you will need to troubleshoot your home before anyone can tell you what are the problems for your home. Only when you know what are the problems can you attempt to correct your situation. ie. Is your home unsuitable to you based on your eight house or ba zi? ie. Is the living room sector a bad position to put water feature under the flying star. ie. What is your best sitting position so that you can arrange your furniture to sit and face in a suitable direction. ie. Are there any other major leaks from the external shapes and form ie posion arrow from a building across your home. As you can see, there are so many many questions that need find out. I would suggest you get someone to assess your home professional and advise you on the what are the leaks and then attempt to correct the leaks. If you want some do-it-yourself guide. I would recommend you check out his talk notes which can help you attempt to do some simple troubleshooting:- URL: http://talk.geomancy.net Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Marilyn, Marilyn Ong wrote: We love each other very much and there's no problem with our relationship but everything else is going bad. Our house was bulgarized (all my wedding and dowry jewelries were stolen), I miscarried 2x, and although we have good income, it seems that we can't save. There's always something bad happen and we have to spend. Frankly, it sounds more like a house feng shui problem, than anything else. As your relationship is ok, it would seem more like maybe there is just a bad robbery star in your house feng shui or very bad suitability to the house. This also can happen for houses located in an area where there isn't adequate security. If other houses also face the same problem fequently, then probably you should do something to see if you can improve the security ie. I had seen people engaging security guard for the entire houses in that street. Might want to consider that if this happens fequently to many of the houses there. Or spend a little money on some security system that is linked to police etc. (In Singapore ie CISCO security system.) Marilyn Ong wrote: can you help me where should i start on checking our couple'sfengshui? Im so depressed and losing hope in having a smooth life. Probably, you should start by checking if the house is suitable to both of you using the free eight house report in our member area:- URL: http://login.geomancy.net Then check your house flying star, see if the main door and bedroom sector has star 7 (which is considered a robbery star), especially now that we are in period 8. If these star 7 is present and it is not a period 7 (1984-2003) house, then you need to neutralise it to reduce the robbery star inauspicious influence. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: West is Longevity, Noth is Spook, East is Irritation, South is Disaster. Anonymous wrote: Qu 1: Which is worse off,Spook or irritration? These two are actually about the same. But at least they are not as bad as Death or Disaster sector. So you might want to check, whether which bedroom location is more suitable to all family members etc. That can then help you decide which is generall more suitable to your entire family. Anonymous wrote: House 1: Door facing West, living hall balcony & window facing North. Master bed room and a common room face North. Kitchen and one common room face South. (does it matter if the balcony oversee the electric house and rubbish house?) Anonymous wrote: House 2: Door facing North, living hallbalcony& window facing East. Master bed room and a common room face East.Kitchen and one of the commonroom face West.(Looking out fromthe balcony is lot of trees directly infront) Anonymous wrote: Qu 2: Base on the information above, which unit seem to be better for us? Frankly, the two houses doesn't sound the most suitable in all aspect. House 1, at least have main door favourable to you but bedroom doesn't seem to be so favourale in the North. Furthermore, the electric house and rubbish house close to the balcony doesn't sound good. House 2, the suitability isn't that good, with bedroom again not really in the good sector of the house. But at least it does not face the electic house or rubbish. So if there is no choice, I would think that house 2 sounds better at least from whatever information you provided so far. If you ask me, I would say that both houses doesn't really seems to suit both of you so you should seriously consider looking for other house unless there is no other better choice. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: Usually we talk about locations / directionsfor Father, mother, son and daughter. How about if thecouple (the son and his wife) stays with the parents?Will the daughter-in-law's location at Southwest? Anonymous wrote: My friend has been very bad luck (sport injury androbbery)after she got married and stayed with her parents-in-law. I wonder if it is the fengshui that affecting her. Usually, when we assess whether a room or a house is suitable to a person, we check the individual'seight house. ie. Breadwinner of the house should have the main door suitable to him or her. This will ensure that everyone else staying in the house will also have better luck since he/she provides for the entire family. ie. Other family members within the house. It is more important for them to have a bedroom located in a sector of house that is good for them. Also, the sleeping position will also impact them. In this case, you need to check what is SW sector to her's eight house. It might be that it is her death or disaster sector. Also, check out her ba zi element, sometimes even though the eight house is suitable, if the ba zi is like a Strong Earth personor a weak fire person, stayingin SW (earth sector). Or that the sector has lots of str 5 and 2, these may be the reason for her bad luck since she move into the house. Unless you check out what is the possible issues as shown above, it is anyone's guess as to why this happen. However, since it happens to her after she move in, it does tell me she is probably not suitable to that house or bedroom. That is why she has encountered so many bad luck. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Maria, Maria Lourdes Sinahan wrote: How can I (yi) reduce the harm inflicted on me by wei person. What does it mean "To reduce tension between wei and yi, one should arm oneself with yi?". Frankly, it is harder to reduce any harm that between two person by using yi. This is because, in terms of ba zi, a harm is where two animal signs conflict. And to neturalise such an effect, it is said you need a 3rd animal sign that helps to resolve the conflict. This is really hard to always have a 3rd party animal sign in order to create harmony. Thus, a better way is based on the two element of the ba zi. ie one is weak water another is strong wood. Therefore the binding element or element to improve or reduce conflict is metal element. Having more of this element ie in the decoration (ie metal=white/gold), will help to reduce and improve the relationship between the two person. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Elmo, elmo boy wrote: I have read that most HDB "main door" is actually not at the living room door of the HDB apartment. It is actually where the most light and wind come in. I just got a apartment and the living room door face anotherapartment unit's door. While the other direction of my flat is my balcony where most wind and light come in. This depends on the whether the layout. Some layout is such that the facing of the house is better taken from where most like comes into the house. We have actually written an article on this subject:- 3. Landed property, best to take the facing of the house. So based on that to define your home should be ok. Only under very unqiue situation then for those staying in houses (1), then you might have to take the balcony or living room direction. elmo boy wrote: 2) There is another blk of flat( 12 storey high) which isopposite my apartment (16 floor)as shown in the pic. Thecornerof the blkfacemy balcony and the other 2 bedrooms. Is this consider a posion arrow even if i am not on actualsame level as this blk??? Given that yours is 4 storey higher floor, it is still a posion arrow, but will have lesser impact to your home as you are higher. elmo boy wrote: 3) My best direction (West)is my wife worst direction..which i intend to place our bed..What can i do to solve this?? Firstly, check if there is a direction that is like spook/irritation. If not, then you should try to position where both of you do not sleep closer to your death or disaster sector. Usually, you are considered the breadwinner, therefore priority goes to having a suitable house. Then your spouse will get a more suitable bedroom. After which, just find a direction where you avoid the Death or Disaster facing. Or sleep closer to side of the bed, clsoer your good sector. elmo boy wrote: 4) Thanks for advices and by the way what is yr charges for 5 room HDB audit?? Generally, our fees for 5-room HDB is a fixed fee of $688. You can find all the information about our services from this link:- http://www.geomancy.net/consultation/consult-home/home-onsite-audit.htm Should you have any queries on our paid services, best that you contact us at 6100-9600 or via e-mail. As we may take a while to attend to queries in the forum due to the number of post. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: We bought a new house. The main door is facing NW. Heard the 'wu-huang-sha' (5-yellow-sha) is on NW this year 2005 so it is not good to renovate. Is that ok if we start the renovation now but only move in next year (2006) after Lunar New Year? Firstly, is this a period 7 (1984-2003) house or period 8 (2004-2023) house. The reason I ask this is because, if it is a period 7 house or earlier, then any major renovation work done will change the house period. So the luck of the entire house might change for the better or worst depending on the charts. Generally, if you have a star 5 in the main door this year, of course, the worry would be that if the NW sector star is not balanced enough, it might activate the yearly star. This may the main door sector less auspicious for this year. However, this will impact your house luck if you are staying there this year. So it should not be a major issue to start work on it this year. But you should at least choose a good date to begin work. And it will pass away after the start of the Chinese New Year, then move in to stay. What most people will want to avoid is actually offending the Grand Duke ie West 270 degree should avoid any major renvoations. If work is really necessary, then at least perform a small prayer to seek forgiveness before you start. And choose a good date to begin the renovation to minimise any impact. Anonymous wrote: Besides, in front of the main door, if I stand facing outside, on my right top about 100m, I can see thesharp corner roof of my neighbour house. Is changing the main door direction the only way, or any other ways to exhaust the 'cha qi'? Thanks a lot! Usually, for most external Sha Qi such as this. If you can have either some plants in between the Sha Qi and your door. Or have some kind of partition in your house just before you enter into the house, these two can help to block the Sha Qi that you are mentioning. If the above two methods are not possible, then you may have no choice but to place a circular mirror or a bagua to help deflect the Sha Qi. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: My husband and I are trying to have a baby and we realized that if I were to conceive in Nov05/Dec05/Jan06. The baby will most likely be deliveredduring the Chinese 7th month next year. Should we avoid this? We are worried thatour baby'sdestiny will be affected if he/she is born in aninauspicious month. Please kindly advise. Generally, a child's birth date is often less impact by the fact the month is Chinese 7th month or Qing Ming or etc. Each day will create a different luck for the baby. It is very hard to tell you how the luck will be unless you check the ba zi for every day within next year to see which day is better. Even that, different hours will also influence his luck. Most people would normally worry more like whether the year is good or bad rather than whether the baby will be good or bad based on the a specific month. However, if you are really concerned, of then you might want to consider conceiving a little later just to avoid that month. However, as far as Chinese 7th month or any events is concerned, this is considered a minor issue for a Ba Zi of a child. It does not mean that those born in Chinese 7th month will have more bad luck than others. It is the day and time that is born that will influence the baby luck. Since conceiving a child is really something very special. I would rather you just leave it up to nature. It does not mean that you plan for it and it will just happen. Sometimes it might not go exactly as you plan as well. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research.

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: My friends & my aunt have a same Feng Shui problem in their house. Which is a bedroom's door facing another door opposite. Under feng shui, when two doors faces it each other, there will be a higher tendency for the people staying in the house or room to have more quarrels/conflicts. Anonymous wrote: I heard that when 2 doors facing each other, the person who is sleeping in the 2 bedrooms will have a lack of communication or will have quarrels. Is that true? This is especially so of the doors are very close to one and another. In most homes, this is quite common now-a-days due to the small availablility of space. However, if it is a problem between one bedroom and another. This will usually not be as great as a problem compared to neighbour to neighbour. No matter what, family members will usually be able to tolerate each other, thus less likely to have as much conflicts compared to a neighbour. Anonymous wrote: Is there any wayto solve this problem? I would really like to know it. The most practical way, is to keep the door close when not in use. This will reduce the potential conflict of such a door to door configuration in most homes. For family room to room issue, another way is to find out the common binding element between the persons staying in the room. Then painting the rooms in an element common to the person so as to attempt to bring harmony. This will also help to reduce potential confilcts. For neighbour to neighbour, such an layout will be harder to resolve. Most consultant might recommend putting a bagua or mirror to reflect the Qi. However, I would find that this will create more conflicts then good. So I would rather you work on improving your Human Luck, ie creating better relationship with your neighbour by a friendly greeting or inviting them for some gathering you have. The better you can improve relationship, the less conflicts there will be. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Jessie, Anonymous wrote: I'm sorry if this has been asked b4 as i am fairly new to this website. I'm in the process of buying a house and the house I really like happens to be number 4. Now we all know most Chinese don't like it especially the Cantonese. If I'm not mistaken I read somewhere in your report the number 4 is quite auspicious but I can never find it again. Canyou pls confirm it one more time for me? Thanks and regards, - Jessie. Whether a house number is auspicious or not is really an individual preference. 4 in cantonese sounds like the word die. So to most Chinese, they would probably avoid it as fair as possible. This might have some future implications especially when you do later want to sell the home. However, again there are also lots of people who do not bother about it and/or to them 4 is their lucky number. So to these people, it doesn't matter to them at all. ie 4 leave clover is considered lucky. It contains 4 also but not really bad for this case. Ultimately, whether or not a home is really auspicious depends on the layout and external environment of the house. The house number is good to have if it is a nice number, but won't really directly affect your home luck except for when it comes to selling it later. As there will be certainly a number of people who will be put off by the number 4. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Since a house may have different facing direction (be it main door or living room/balcony). It really depends firstly on what you are assessing. ie. Assesment of interior of the feng shui can be taken from the centerpoint of the house to the main door. This way is good because the facing and sector of the main door will be same. However, this assesment is limited to assesing the feng shui only within the 4 walls of the house. ie. Assessment of the main door facing direction (ie standing at the main door looking out.) This is the for apartment level 2-7th level. This is where the main door may be facing North, but can be located in a different sector of the house. ie. Assessment of living room/balcony direction (ie standing at your living room looking out). This is for apartment level 8th level and u. This is where the facing of the house is taken from where most light enter into the house. Or where there is consdered virtual water at the frontage due to the height and unobstructed view. This is again, where the facing may be facing North, but the location of main door/frontageof the can be in a different sector of the house. ie. Assessment of the landed property or building (ie. the facing of the house is based on the direction of the building). This is where the facing may be North, but the location of the main door/frontage may be at a different sector of the house. So essentially, they are all correct. In terms of feng shui, what is most important is for the suitability assesment of breadwinner. Where the main door/frontage is suitable.For finding rooms or assessing the feng shui of the flying star, is based on the location of each sector. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Sophia, Sophia Chia wrote: I would like to know what kind of business suitable forme. According to my BaZi I'm born the year of Metal Ox.Day pillar is Earth. Gua No. 3 Chen an East Group.The location of the shopNorth and its one off 4 auspicious location. The best business type suitable for you should be assessed from your ba zi. ie a weak Metal would mean that like Earth and Metal business/career would be most favourable. ie. a Strong Metal would mean that like Water or Fire or Wood buisness/career would be most favourable. You can check out this five element and career chart as a basic reference. URL: http://talk.geomancy.net Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Sophia, Sophia Chia wrote: The Death/Disaster location is inauspicious to the breadwinner. I would like to clarify. Let said, eg.by taking the compass readingthe direction of the housein North which symbolise three inauspicious segments according toEight Mansions (Na Jia Ba Zhai) (2 death and 1 spooky) and not suitable to the occupant unless by taking the breadwinner direction SW somehow the 3 segments of the Eight Mansions shown 1 excellent, 1 death and 1 disaster. Does that mean theoccupant have the options to stay the house or to move. The occupant have been staying the North house for 10 years. Frankly, as long as a house is considered Death or Disaster under the eight house suitability it is often considered not the most ideal house. If at least the ba zi suitability is favourable, then it may slightly offset the death or disaster sector under the eight house. As long as the flying star of the house (ie feng shui of the house), isn't too bad, then even if the house isn't the most suitable, but of the house has good feng shui, these will also help to offset the unsuitability. So overall, one has to consider the overall feng shui influence. Then determine how bad is the house. Usually, when a house is unfavourable, it means that the breadwinner may not be able to get the maximum amount of luck from the house. So in the long run, of course it would be better to move out to a more suitable house to get a quantum leap in feng shui luck. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Gray Thay, Gary Thay wrote: I brought HDB unit in period 7 and I painted all the Ceiling in 2004, does that put my unit into Period 8 ? The problem here is that painting all the ceiling is only a symbolic action in order to attempt to emulate a major renovation of removing the roof of a house. So itisn't truly a major renovation. So it will take time (sometimes 1 year) for your house Qito convert to the period 8. Usually, if you want to expedite the change, you may need to have a few major celebrations in the house to attempt to quicken the change over to the new period. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Sophie, sophie corcoran wrote: me and my boyfriend are both west/metal group people but i have recently realised the house we are having built is a fire house (front door faces north/northwest). sophie corcoran wrote: will this be a problem? Firstly, you have to determine the facing of the house. A Fire house is a house that facese South actually. North facing house is Water house, while North-West is Metal house. Whether or not it is big issue depends on the suitability based onyou and your boyfriend'sthe Eight House and Ba Zi. ie. for Eight House as long as the facing direction is not Death or Disaster especially for the breadwinner, then it is ok. Spook or Irritation though also not as good but not as bad. ie. for the Ba Zi as long as the direction is one of your favourable element. Even if this is not so favourable, a person can enhance his or her ba zi by other method (ie career, colour etc). ie. Of course the best direction is one where both eight house and ba zi direction are favourable. It is often not possible to have the house both suitable to breadwinner and spouse simply unless both have similiar eight house suitability. So priority is the breadwinner must be suitable to the house. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Mei Yee, mei yee wrote: I am a single owner of a flat and my litchen in the flat is in the SE ans S which are my favarable directions, including N. However, i learned that the stove should be located in one of the bad directions of the 'spouse' and face the good direction. Before answering your questions, I would just like to point out a few issues. Ideally, it is nice if everything can be perfect. However, in reality, not everything can be placed in such a way that everything is auspicious under the various feng shui concepts. This is virtually impossible unless you custom build your home from scratch. Thus, you must understand that that in feng shui there are major and minor issues. What is important is to correct and fix up all major issues. The rest which is termed as minor issues, there is no real issue if you place it here or there. Especially smaller everyday used items. These you should place wherever is most practical for you to use, rather than based on feng shui placement. You should always attempt to position or place furnitures to the best of what you can do. When it is impossible or no choice, then you just have to make with the best and most practical arrangement. mei yee wrote: I have a problem, when i place the stove against the wall to movecloser to the NW and the mouth of the stove faces SE, behind the wall is mybed and i cant put it anywhere else because that's the best position since my bedroom is in the NW / Nof the flat and the head points SE. Like you mentioned, since there is no other way, then it will have to do. Anyway, the most important thing in a home is:- A.Suitability of the house to the breadwinner. B. Favourable Bedroom for the breadwinner, spouse and other family members. C. Kitchen and other key rooms like Study or Office room. As long as the house is favourable to the breadwinner, and the bedroom is also suitable to the family members, the rest of the room even not so suitable or favourable is perfectly ok. You need to focus on what is important and prioritise what should be given the best. Of course it is ideal if your kitchen can be located in the best sector especially for the main person who cooks there, but sometimes this is not possible. There are only a few good and bad sectors for every person. So as long as the key areas are given best suitability, it is perfectly ok that the other rooms are less auspicious etc. In most apartment especially in Singapore, a stove and sink are two areas not possible to be corrected or moved due the position of the piping etc. But as mentioned, these areas in the home where if you can have it in the better direction of course it will be better, but if not it will not create too much of a problem as well. Otherwise, everyone in singapore who has a bad stove position will be facing problems. So place it the most practical sector for use. What is more important would then be like where you place the moveable objects(ie. fridgeshould not face the stove directly if possible else there is a clash between water and stove etc). mei yee wrote: If i create an island stove so that it's mouth can still face the SE, is it sitting closer to NW? Please advice, im really lost. Frankly, in most kitchen layout, the better layout is always to avoid island type of design. For two practical reasons. If you have an island type of design, the likelyhood is the sink will be located on the opposite side of the island. One danger is where you have kids, and often you need to bring a hot pan over to the kitchen sink which is 180 degree behind. You may bumb into your kids and scale them. In addition, you will have a scenario where the sink is located opposite of the stove and that is like water and fire clashing. Thus, the most practical is always have the stove and sink at 90 degrees of each other for small kitchen especially. mei yee wrote: What about rice cooker or electrical appliances, where is the 'mouth'? mei yee wrote: i hears that the mouth for electrical appliances like rice cooker, microwave, conventional oven, electric multi cooker, even toaster are at the plug of the gadget is that right? As mentioned, these have small impact towards you whether you place it in this direction or another. So really, better to place them where it is easy & practical for you to use. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Lisa, Lisa Pirkkala wrote: I am really enjoying your site and use it frequently, even for friends. I need some information to clear up confusion. I use the east/west system and take my compass readings from the inside looking out. I have been drawing up different charts, as I think my real facing direction is actually east as that is where my big picture window and deck face, whereas in my condo complex my front door is actually 270 d west and enter into a small hallway above a staircase...should I try both templates? or do I use just the direction my front door faces, with me standing inside my condo looking out? Or do I stand in my sliding glass door in the back of my condo facing east that overlooks my most unencumbered view? Firstly, you should attempt to determine which is your house facing direction. 1. For landed property (ie bungalow/semi-bungalow/terrace), it is best to take the facing direction of your home itself. 2. For Apartment (2nd-7th Level), take the main door direction. ie stand inside your house at the main door looking outwards. 3. For Apartment (8th level and up), take the balcony or living room. ie inside your home looking outside the balcony. Since yours is a condo. Therefore, determine whether it falls under 2 or 3. Any thing above 7th level is considered to have unblock view from the balcony as such we always considered having clear space or virtual water. Lisa Pirkkala wrote: The other confusion is this: I have several books on Feng Shui, (Lillian Too, Larry Sang, etc. Ido not use any BTBFeng Shui)and there are conflicting views on where exactly to take compass readings. Some show that you should be outside, facing your front door for the reading. That would put the compass shot directly opposite. Also, the House Trigram formula...shows sitting direction and facing directions in direct conflict with compass east/west sitting and facing direction. How do I know if I have a Dui house as opposed to a Chen house? And is the compass east/west system just for my personal directions, or is it for my home too? Could you please explain the difference. I want to start applying Flying Star Feng Shui to my home, and I want to make sure I have the right formula to use mountain and water stars in different sectors. Frankly, there are many types of facing and direction so I cansay that most method are essentially correct. 1. Taking the main door from the centerpoint to main door. This kind of assessment is practical for assessing the flying star for the interior of the house only. The good thing about this is the sector of the main door falls the same as the facing direction. 2. Taking the main door direction standing at the main door. This assesment is good for apartment, but mostly for lower floors or where the door isn't located at odd directions (of which balcony or living room direction would be better). 3. Taking the balcony/living room direction standing at the balcony. This assesment is good in general for most apartment especially on higher floor where the Qi flow will be unblocked from the balcony direction. 4. Taking the facing direction from the main entrance of the building. This assessment is for assessing the feng shui luck for the entire building. 5. Taking the facing direction from the entrance of a plot of land. This assessment is for assessing the feng shui luck for the entire plot of land that the entire development is built on. So you see, there can be different facings depending on what is needed to be assess. There can be micro assessment only within the room within an apartment, apartment within a building. Macro assessment is for like the block of building within a development, plot of land within an area, or North sector of a country, or a country withinthe world. Often, the most important luck from a home comes more from the External shapes and form. How good or bad a feng shui of the house depends a lot from the external surrounding.So that is often the most important. When assessing the flying star of a home itself, it is just to balance up the sector especially the inauspicious sector, and attempting to activate the wealth luck to boost up your luck. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Maria, maria cutrona wrote: Thanks For the information! My kua number is 7. Does it make a difference if the lot # is 7? Since this is my address and I am a West person, and my house door will be facing the West. I am now planning to pick out a house plan using the feng shui and the information that is given to me by geomancy. As mentioned, one way to check suitability is whether is is your Kua number. If 7 is also your kua number, then I would say that it is a suitable number. Of course, there can be many other ways to determine auspicious number. I often, find that house number is nice to have a good one, but more importantly is the house that has to be good feng shui. Reason for this is because for example 4 is bad to most chinese because it is like Die in cantonese. But to others it may be their luck number ie a four leave clover. So auspicious number is really subjective to the individual. No real right or wrong for a number. Anyway, 7 isn't considered any inauspicious nor have significant inauspicious meaning in general. So should be not a major issue. maria cutrona wrote: I thank you for the information. How long does it take for you to do a house plan? Thanks mtc This will depend on the urgency of work.Urgent reviewmay cost more as we need to put aside less urgent cases to attend to your first. Otherwise, typically analysis willtake about 7-14 days to review and prepare our comments and analysis. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Mei Yee, mei yee wrote: yeah i was also about to ask this question.. i have limited number pf leave and they are unpaid so i can only paint my resale flat at night and possibly stayover. i am da only owner so can i and some friends stay iver before the move in ritual day itself? It is best you perform the move-in ritual first, before letting anyone stay in the house. Else it will be symbolic ofmoving in the day your fiends stay over. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research.

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: 1. Before I perform themoving tonew houseritual , canI or some relativestay overnight at the house ? No. As long as someone stays in the house overnight, that will be considered as move-in already. So best you do the move-in ritual first before anyone moves into stay. URL: www.geomancy.net/temp/user/move-in.doc Anonymous wrote: 2. Can I perform themoving to new houseritual first , then at a later date only install built-in kitchen cabinet and wardrobe ? Yes, this should not be a problem. Only thing to take note here for doing renovation or works after you move in is:- 1. If the house is built in period 8 (2004-2023), then no issue. 2. If the house is built before in period 7 (1984-2003), then be careful that it is not a major renovation otherwise, you might accidentally change the house luck. 3. Remember to check where is the Grand Duke (Tai Sui) so as not to offend it if the works is conducted. Best to select a good date if any. Anonymous wrote: 3. On the day of performingmoving to new houseritual , must the ownersleep in thenew house that night ? I heard that they also must cook their first meal on the same day. Is this true ? Actually, once you do the move in ritual, ie bring in the rice and charcoal, those are already symbolic of moving in. It is providing the necessary food items to be able to cook in the house. This is suppose to seed the house with luck as well as essential food stuff for owners to be able to cook food. So whether or not the owner actually move in on the same night is not really necessary. The symbolic action is good enough. However, if you can do so it will be better. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research.