[Cai is one of my name - how 2 generate wealth?]

Dear Anon,

Anonymous wrote:
I heard from my friend that since i have a Chye, 'cai ', in my name, i should display the word 'cai ' at home. I was told that the 'cai' is to be placed upside down, paste on the wall. Then put a vaseor container with some coins inside and place iton the floor under the 'cai '. This will help to generate wealth for me? Is it true? Please advise me on my wealth location. Thanks.

Frankly, this isn't correct. Whatever meaning your name has, can't be activated by placing something in your home. The meaning in your name is only so call 'activated' when people call your name. It is not activated by any other means.

That is why when most people choose names, they want to have certain meaning so that when people call it, it is like blessing that person with the meaning. So the more people call you by your name, the more luck you get from that name. There is really no other ways to activate it.

In terms of feng shui luck, a person's luck is influenced by 3 factors:-

1. Heaven Luck - Luck that you are supposed to be born with.

2. Earth Luck - Luck from your home and surrounding environment.

3. Human Luck - Luck from your relationship with other people and your own hard work.

These are the ways a person luck is affected. There is really nothing about luck that is activated by your existing name. Of course, if you have cai in your name, the more people call you more wealth you are blessed with. That is about all. The rest depends on the luck of your home etc.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[fountain in the northwest sector]

Dear Johannes Nugroho,

Johannes Nugroho wrote:
I am currently having a house built. The house will probably be finished by the end of the year. It faces northwest. I plan to have a fountain to the right of the main door, with the main statue in the fountain facing southwest, which is supposed to be one of my good directions. But then I read somewhere that the northwest sector is bad for any water feature. Is this true? I am a snake born in 1977. Thank you.

Frankly, never just follow an advise or tip that you read elsewhere, unless you understand and/or applied the various tools available to personalised the analysis to your home. I mean why a certain say NW should not have any water can be due to so many factors. Different house facing will have different flying star for each sector. One reason why NW may not be good to have water, if there are bad stars there that may be enhanced by water.

For installing water feature in your home, you should always make sure you have assess your home with the flying star chart. Ensure that the frontage is the right sector that contains the auspicious water star. For a period 8 house for example, if your front of the house contains a star8 (current prosperity) /9 (future prosperity) /1 (future future prosperity), then it is advantages tohave a water feature there.

It does not mean that just because sayyour front of the housefalls in your Eight House prosperity sector or that the house element is auspicious, then you just simplyput a water feature in hope to activate thewealth luck.

So you need to reallyneed to know that it is the correctsectorthen you activate that sector. Otherwise, it won't help. In this case, you need to ensure that there is an auspicious star at the front of the house with the flying star chart, then you activate it. You can make use of the free report in our member area to check it:-

URL: http://login.geomancy.net

If you are not sure, then you better get someone professional to assess your home and then they can tell you whether or not is is good to place water feature there. Never depend on what you read as what is mentioned may not be the same as your home.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[Ba Zi Premium Report - Demo]

Dear Anon,

Anonymous wrote:
1) Under the section on Summary of Elements (ie Elements Weighting), no weighting was given to WATER whereas the 4 Pillar chart shows that there is ONE WATER element.. Also, I think there should be3 EARTH elements (per chart) and not 4 per Summary.. Is there an error in the demo report or have I misunderstood something?

Determining the true element, means you have to also consider the combinations and clashes. Some pillars combine to form different elements. So sometimes even if your original chart have the water, but after combining with another element, it may lose the original element.

In the case of this chart, the Water element was converted to Earth element. So the original water is no longer present. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with the report. It is just that there were much more factors considered then just a basic count of the five elements.

Anonymous wrote:
2) As a separate question,IF this Demo Male has no Water element shownon the face of his 4 pillar chart,but if there isHIDDEN element, eg Water element formed by the combination of Yang Fire+ Yin Metal,will this hidden Water element be counted and weighted as much as if it is clearly indicated in the chart? In another words,if this hidden Water elementcanbeincluded to"balance" his chart, can we sayhis chartis no longer lacking in WATER (though weighting needs to be increased to achieve better balance)?

Hidden elements are often not considered as part of the original element. As it is, it is already sometimes difficult to count all the main elements. To add in the hidden element changes would make it even more complicated and often, the hidden element only are present when certain factors occurs. So normally we do not include the hidden element as part of the tabulation of the original five element percentage. It is used more in the luck pillars analysis.

Anonymous wrote:
3)Resulting from the abovequestion, ifheis no longer lacking in Water,can Waterbe stillconsidered his Most favourite element?

This will depend on the percentage. We normally go by firstly what element you are. For example, Strong water would mean:-

A person generally have too much metal and water. Thus, he is strong. So anything that helps to keep him in check is favourable. So Wood, Fire and Earth are generally the more favourable elements. After that, we use the percentage to determine which is more important. Say Wood 10%, Fire 5% and Earth 33%. This means that the most favourable is Fire, followed by Wood. Earth which is 33% is too much so a person won't benefit if he adds more Earth compared to Fire and Wood. However, adding Earth is still the favourable element, just that won't benefit as much compared to Fire or Wood.

Thus, whether or not the water is favourable, depends on the percentage available.

Anonymous wrote:
4) As a general question, are hidden elements morepowerful than the obvious ones?

Not really. We use the hidden element usually more for the characteristic analysis rather then for the element itself. That is why we normally do not consider hidden element as part of the five element percentage.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[Bazi - Birthday and Daylight Savings]

Dear C L,

c l wrote:
I didn't think daylight savings is the same as timezone. So are you advising me that I should use daylight savings time?

If you are referring to daylight savings, then yes it would probably be slightly different from timezone. Given that whenbazi was first invented, there isn't any such issues. So really, there is no one who can also say for sure what would be right or wrong. I have done research on the timezone portion but not on the daylight savings. So not able to comment much on this as well.

But in my opinion, the localtime that you use should be the one you should attempt to assess your ba zi with. So if your country in general uses daylight savings as the default timing, then just use that without any modification. This has been what we have been practising so far.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[house near railways good or bad feng shui]

Dear Fong Li,

Fong Li wrote:
i would like to know that if the apartment balcony side view is railways is it good or bad feng shui?last time i stayed in house near railways and i think the feng shui not so good but that previous house also have many bad feng shui thing.therefore i not sure whether railways do have anything to do with feng shui.

Generally, railways can pretty much be a sha qi depending on how the track cuts into the house. Even if it does not cut into the house, the common sense approach is that trains tend to be noisy. So noise is also another form of sha qi.

So either way, if a railway track is too closed, then yes it isn't that ideal. Especially if you are staying in flats that are low floor (which will be closest to the track and noise. Higher floor may still not be as bad.

However, generally it isn't too great to have a railway too close. Especially, if there are many trains pasting though.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[Back of Study desk facing wall w/ toilet on others]

Dear Anon,

Anonymous wrote:
I would like to know if there's a cureI can use in my daughter's room. The back of her study desk is against a wall which has a toilet on the other side(her bathroom is on the room next door). I cannot place her desk any where else in the room. Can I place something on or behind her desk to help with this. I want her to get the most energy to help her study and not feel drained out.

Given that you can't place the desk elsewhere, there is nothing much you can really do to remove the draining effect. The most impact is when the toilet bowl is at the opposite side of the wall. Otherwise, the impact won't be as bad.

So I would suggest these few things to do:-

1. Normally, when there is a toilet at the center of the house for example where wealth is drain, a solution is to buy a bottle gourd to attempt to suck the wealth before it leaks out. This may help to retain some of her energy other then attempting to make sure that the toilet bowl is covered when not in used.

2. The other is to make the room more suitable to her element she lack. For example, a weak wood person would like water (blue/black/gray). So if the room has more of these decor colour. This will also improve her luck to reduce the problem. For more information about five element and colour you can make use of this link:-

URL: htttp://talk.geomancy.net

Otherwise, nothing much you can do given you can't change the position of the desk.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[BUSINESS]

NOTE: In future, please avoid typing in all UPPERCASE, as it is likeshouting and is significantly harder to read.

Dear Chris,

CHRIS TAYLOR wrote:
MY PARTNER AND I ARE STARTING A NEW CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS. MY BIRTHDATE IS 5-13-53 AND HIS IS 1-6-60....WE NEED TO NAME OUR VENTURE....ANY ADVICE, PLEASE???

There is only a name analysis for Chinese Name / Chinese Business Name. There is no real system of analysis for english name analysis. As such can't really assist you here. Even that, ultimately whether or not a business succeed or not does not really depend on the name, but rather the services offered by it.

As such, usually geomancy services if any for business are applied more to like the logo colour and design rather than the specific business name. Such as whether the logo shape/colourshould be in favourable elementsof the business partner etc.

So not much to advise you here.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[Car numbers]

Dear Anon,

Anonymous wrote:
Recently I buy a new car with 9984 as the number plate and White as the car colour. Just want to enquire is this set of numbers and car colour both favourable for me?

White colour is normally defined as Metal element. As a weak waer person, metalis a favourable colour for you.

As for the car number question, there isn't a feng shui analysis for car number. Under feng shui, normally two methods are used:-

1.While there are numerous way to determine how auspicious a number. For example, most will go by sounding of the number 9984 (jiu jiu fa si - longevity longevity prosperty death). Theother numbers all would be ok except for maybe the 4 which sounds like death in cantonese.

2. Others is to determine whether this si an auspicious gua number or not.

http://www.geomancy.net/reports/reports-list/perlist-eight-gua-number.htm

ie 9984 = 9+9+8+4 = 30 = 3+0 = 3

If your gua is 3, then this is considered a favourable number for you.

Of course there are probably other methods. So really depends on how you assess the number.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[Element weightings calculations]

Dear Anon,

Anonymous wrote:
1) how to calculateweightings and strengths (in %) of the 5 elements from the 4 pillar chart so that one knows which element is required more than the others in order to achieve a good balance?

You need to consider how manyelements are present in the chart after you consider all the combinations and changes (whichis permanent which is not), the element strength weightage factor, and the total five elements available. With that, you should be able to calculate a percentage breakdown. As these are not easy to tabulate, we already provided them in oout paid ba zi reports so there is no need to waste time to calculate it manually.

So the simple way iscount all the number of elements present and total element. Then divide it so that you get a percentage. Of course, it won't be as accurate if you do not factor in the element strengthen and the combinations and clashes occuring. So if there are 4 earth out of 12 elements. It should be about 33%.

Anonymous wrote:
2) When analysing the relationship of the self element with other elements in the 4 pillar chart, does one always take into account the Strength or Weakness of the self element?

Anonymous wrote:
eg. If self element is Strong Fire, and the Day pillar branch isWood (spouse), does this mean that the spouse is destructive to self because self element is already Strong? Or do weignorethe strength or weakness of the elements and just look at the normal relationshipcycle ie, Woodis good for fire as it produces fire here?

We normally take the final element strengthen then relate the relationship pillar to that. So like you gave Strong Fire person, the day pillar is Wood. Wood will make Strong fire too strong. Therefore, it is more likely the relationship with the Spouse may not be as smooth as one hope to be.

Other factor such as horoscope of two persons to compare as well as ba zi comparison between two pillars. That will give more information about a relationship. The rest will be the human luck factor.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[staying near the sea]

Dear John,

john lee wrote:
What's your advice for residences near the sea. For eg, Jalan Loyang Besar (across Pasir Ris Park)? Fengshui wise and 'common sense' viewpoint in light of a possible big quake/tsunami? Thanks

Generally, under feng shui four symoblic animal concept. A house is always good to have water or clear space at the frontage. While the back of the house should be supported by a mountain.

So if you do not consider any other factors (such as flying star, or house facing suitability etc). Then any house that you can have water frontage is always deemed a good choice.

However, as you mentioned, recently the problem of a sea frontage is possibility of natural disasters. Given that it is hard to predict when natural disaster will happen. So if you want to avoid earthquakes, then choose a non-reclaimed land or land where thesoil is much harder. Or if you want to avoid tsunami, then avoid sea front property that isn't sheltered by islands or anything that can act as a barrier between the open seas and your property. Or simply ensure that there arediasasterprevention to minimise it.

If you considered all the factors, then a sea front property isn't all an issue.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[Bazi - Birthday and Daylight Savings]

Dear C L,

c l wrote:

If you were born on a day with daylight savings applied (+1 hour), do I need to minus 1 hour when entering my birth date so that it is removed?

E.g if I was born at 12.30am on 2 Nov with daylight savings on. Do I enter my birth date to be 1 Nov or 2 Nov?

This is a topic that we have covered many times already.

1. The only true way to apply the timezone factor is through applying the long. and lat. of birth into the ba zi analysis. However, realistically, how many people really record the exact long. and lat. of birth? Very few, i am afraid.

2. GMT timezone difference is a very bad way to apply location factor, as it only considers one of the factor. Furthermore, GMT timezone has been simplified. So again, this makes using adjusting GMT time different less accurate.

3. Also, even a degree of error in your place of birth will likely make your chart less accurate than without this information. For examaple, even if one knows the hospital he/she was born in. The exact room in which he/she is born also gives different long. and lat. So how is one going to be sure the place where you are born is correct?

4. Furthermore, if you know how ba zi chart really works, the hour pillar really does not affect much of your luck forecast. As the luck forecast is comes more from the month pillar/year pillar. So essentially, even if your hour pillar is removed, the fundamental analysis still won't differ a great deal. It does help in determining your five element percentage and house of life pillar.So any differences is usually because your element was determined to be weak or strong. Fundamentally, the luck forecast won't change that significantly. That is why even if you do not provide the hour, a fairly accurate forecast can still be deduced.

5. Ba Zi is only meant to deduced the type of heaven luck (given luck) that you are supposed to have. When is up and downs for you. It does not really give you an accurate prediction of what had happened. This is because a person's luck is influenced by 3 types of luck:-

a) Heaven Luck - Luck that you are born with.

b) Earth Luck - Luck from your home and surrounding

c) Human Luck - Luck from your relationship with other people and your own hard work.

So even if a chart shows that your luck is very good for a year, but because your earth luck and human luck is bad for you, your luck would not be as good as what was predicted. So really, the ba zi only helps to show you in a very formatted why how your chart is balanced and how you can try to adjust your life to maximise the luck. The rest depends on your earth and human luck influence.

6. Feng Shui is designed in such a way that it has many fail safe and ways to counter check each theories flaws. As long as you apply all the available feng shui tools, each analysis will accurate help to re-enforce the other analysis and reduce any of the flaws of each concept. That is why is is more important to apply as many theories to give you a complete assessment rather than just depend on one concept.

That is why because of all the reasons above we normally advise users to just make use of your localtime. No adjustment of timezone is necessary. If really unsure, leaving it hour unknown is sometimes a better choice than trying to adjust the time which is more likely to create additional factor of inaccuracy.

So just use your localtime do not make any changes for any of our website tools.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[Toilet location]

Dear Aaron,

Aaron Ng wrote:
I noticed that one of your Earth Luck articles says that a common leak is due to the toilet being near the centre of the flat.

This is a rather common now-a-days unfortunately. However, what you should also consider is that this is just one of the flaws available. A house is likely to have some flaws as it is almost difficult to find one without a single flaw (even if you build it yourself).

So as long as:-

1. The toilet is not directly at the center point, it should still be ok.If this is the case, try to keep the toilet seat cover and toilet door closed when not in use. Also, another way is try to trap the wealth before it leaks buy hanging a chinese luhu (bottle gourd) to attempt to symoblically trap the wealth before it leaks out.

2. There should not be other critical flaws available to add to your negative aspect when evaluating a house. Usually a bad feng shui house is where there are many major flaws present. Many major flaws together will normally create problems. If only one flaw, and other areas are still good. Then not a major issue.

So as long as there isn't too many other major flaws, and you follow the advise in point 1, should still be ok especially if there is no other choices available.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Le
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[Office SItting position]

Dear Din Lee,

Din Lee wrote:
Need to know if my office sitting position is facing the six killing ie "liu sha" position and i cannot possible change my sitting arrangement. What can i do to minimise the bad impact..

Generally, unless a personis holding a key position in the company, it is most unlikely that you will be able to have the flexibility to choose a sitting position. So there is very little you can do even if you are stting facing your inauspicious direction.

However, what we always advise is that there are still many areas in your life that you can improve. As long as, you can improve your ba zi luck, even if you work in an inauspicious direction, your luck will still be improved. So check out what element you belong to under the feng shui from this link:-

URL: http://www.geomancy.net/reports/free-report/freerpt-element.htm

Then try to have more of your favourable elements you lack in your ba zi. For example, a weak wood, would normally need more wood/water. So that means you can choose to ensure that:-

• your house is facing North (water for example);


• or wear clothing that is of these colours schemes blue/black/gray (water) or green/brown (wood),


• or having career that falls under the water/wood elements;


• or work with people with favourable elements etc.

You can refer to this link for more info about five elements and relationship:-

URL: http://talk.geomancy.net

The more areas that favours you in your ba zi, the better your overall luck. So even if the sitting position isn't the best for you, you still can get luck from other areas.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[Element of career]

Dear Aaron,

Aaron Ng wrote:
I intend to pursue a career in academia (i.e. being a university professor). I noticed that the element of this career is not listed in your free talk notes. Can I seek your opinion on what element does academia represent?

University professor is considered teaching/training so it is Wood element.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[Bakery/Confectionery Business]

Dear Anon,

Anonymous wrote:
I've checked the Earth % in my and my husband's bazhi. It is 12% and 8% respectively - quite little. In that case, going into a bakery business may be considered OK right?

It is still best to go with the favourable elements you lack first, rather than unfavourable elements that you lack. As you still need to have your favourable elements before you can benefit from adding more Earth element.

So even though your earth element is generally lacking, you can still consider bakery business, but this would also mean that you need to ensure that your house or other areas in your life belongs your favourable element to make adding Earth ok for you.

Anonymous wrote:
I also understand thata cafe business belongs to the water element. How about a cafe cumbakery business, just like any McCafe or Coffee Bean, etc? Will this suit us better?

Cafe is Wood element actually. So if Cafe cum bakery would be mixed Earth+Wood element. If wood is one of your favourable element. Then this is better than just having earth element.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[pillars comparison report]

Dear Anon,

Anonymous wrote:

Hi, I've always thought fire destroys metal. Why would it bea binding element? Could you explain what the report below means in terms of compatibility? How would I reduce conflicts? And are the clashes significant? Any clarification would be appreciated. Thanks so much!

Comparing Birth Elements-

	VS

The binding elements to get the two parties to be compatible or reduce conflict is Fire.

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Analysis of Earthly Branches Clashes for the two charts:-

• Earthly Branch Clash between day pillar (si) & hour pillar (hai).

Yes, you are correct that fire destroy metal.

Every element has two state. ie a weak and strong. If a weak Metal, fire will make weak metal weaker. However, as a Strong Metal, it means that you have too much Earth and Metal which is why you are strong.

So Fire is one of the element to exhaust the excess metal so that you become more balanced. Water is also another way to exhaust the excess Strong Metal.

Given, it is compatibility between two persons, to the element must be common to both person. Water may be good for Strong Metal, but it will weaken weak Fire person. Thus, Fire is the recommended binding element to help smoothen relation in this case.

In general, if you based only on the five element compatibility. Weak Fire and Strong Metal is a particularly good for the Strong Metal person. To make the relationship even more harmonious, additional Fire will help. Wood is also another possible element good for both person.

There is a clash between the two chart, but it is considered minor clash. So that just means that there may still be some occassional conflicts between the two. However, as long as you adopt a give an take approach, you should be able to minimise any major conflicts.

The other compatibility to check is the horoscope sign. If there is no further incompatibility between the horoscope, the comparison is deemed to be pretty compatible with minor conflicts.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[North West Cut - plot of land]

Dear Anon,

Anonymous wrote:
I got a plot with cut on North West Side.

What could be the remedy for that?

For a house, you still can correct with mirrors or creating a rock or garden feature to symoblically cover the missing corner. That is when you view it from the top view, it looks like the missing corner is covered.

Generally, you can't correct a missing plot of land. Anyway, even if the plot of land is odd, as long as your house isn't odd shaped or missing, it should be fine.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[Some of my Queries on the Real Feng Shui]

Dear Sarosh,

Sarosh B wrote:
1)Do I have to calculate FS room wise ordirectly of the entire home.If I have to do FSdirectly of entire home then I have a problem because my Kitchen is outside.From our Building entry, we have a Common passage leading to stairs.On the left hand side of the passage, we have our Home Main door and on the right hand side of passage the Kitchen.What to do in this situation...?

Sorry, I don't understand one point here. You mean the kitchen is located apart from your house layout? Is there any other apartment sharing the same passage way?This is quite an odd setup or layout.

Generally, we normally will take the main door given you are staying in am apartment with other people occupying other units. But if say the entry of the door and passage way leading to your main door does not contain entrance to other house, then you can consider then entry building as your main door to have the kichen included in your flying star assessment.

Otherwise, if there are still other appartment sharing the passage, then you will have to exclude the kitchen from being part your partment as it appears to be separated from the house.

Sarosh B wrote:
2) From the Home map attached, can you pleas tell me which is Home Facing direction as per FS...?

Given it is am apartment, the norm is to take the main door facing. As mentioned, if the passage contains entrance to other units, then you have to exclude the kitchen from any flying star assessment.

Sarosh B wrote:
3) I wanted to keep an aquarium in my living room and after seeing your reply to earlier postsI know that I have to calculate and interpret the Flying star theory, but does this mean I will have to change the location of my aquarium every Chinese Year....?Also my Building was built in period 3 so do I have to use that period...?

Generally, the flying star chart is worked using the 20-year chart. So the water position we try to identify is the more long term water position. So there is no need to change the location every year. This is not practical.

As for your building period. Generally, for a building that old, the chance of luck flying over to more recent period due to renovation is very high. So probably the best advise is to try to fly the house to new luck period irregardless so that you can better take advantage of the period 8 chart without worries that the chart was oritginally in what period.

A symbolic flying star change over is done with symoblically painting the entire house (especially the ceiling all in one go). Then having at least 3 major celebrations in the house. This fly over will change slower than a major renovation, but at least you do not need to worry too much about which older period the house is based on. So you can focus on welcoming the new period 8 Qi and activating the current wealth luck positions.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[can southwest people live in north facing houses?]

Dear Ana,

Ana Prillaman wrote:
my question for you is: I am a southwest person, so does this mean when I puta chart on a blueprint I should use the chart for the southwest house - so that the north for me would still be in the death position, the northwest longevity and so on? this is not where my main door is facing, so should I use a north house chart instead? once I know which directions are best for me in my house, I can decide where to arrange my furniture and pick the right colors to use(wood and earth colors, I think)and also if the bathroom being in the west is a problem!

For the Eight House / Flying Starchart, orientate the North position of the house to the North of yoru Eight House chart. This means, that if your main door is North then North will fall under your Death sector.

Only difference is that for Flying Star chart, the chart will be different depending on what is the actual house facing direction. So if your frontage of the house is North, then you generate the North (depending on N1/N2/N3 direction), then orientate the chart based on the North position.

You cannot use another direction of chart etc. Once you have these properly done, then you use the chart to assess if the house is suitable, whether there are necessary corrections etc.

It does not mean that you are South-West person, means you use a South-West Flying Star chart to match the house. The house chart is based on the frontage of the house. So if the house is North facing, then you use a North facing flying star chart.

But based on your main door facing it lookslike this house won't be suitable for you. In fact, as a West Group person, you would benefit most if your house is NE/SW Facing especially if the house is built after 2004 (Period 8).

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[House NO]

Dear Vijay,

Vijay kumar Malik wrote:
Please advice me: My kua no is 3. Now I am living in a rented house no 24 facing SW direction.

Vijay kumar Malik wrote:
I likely to shift to a new house bearing no 60 ( SW ) or 29 ( SE ).Can you please advice me to opt for which one. I do not have any other option to shift.

If you are a Gua (Kua) 3, then South-East is better as it is your longevity, compared to South-West (Disaster). Given, there is no other option, then South-East would be the more suitable of the two directions given an East group person.

Generally, for East facing group person, the best houses especially if the house is built after 2004 (Period 8), would be a South/East facing house. If for house built between 1984-2003 (Period 7), would be a North/South facing house in general. These direction have the best feng shui qi for the flying star chart as well as being suitable to your eight house direction.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[House Owner]

Dear Daniel,

Daniel Davis wrote:
Currently I'm staying in a house which is belong to my wife. The house title is in her name. Is it to say, that what ever we do on the house, it should be base on my wife ???

The more important question you should be asking, is who is actually paying for the house? You see a house may be registered under your wife, but if you are paying for the house and you are staying there. You are more likely the breadwinner for the house.

But if your wife is paying for the house, then it would be your wife as the breadwinner.

Hope that helps to clarify.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[Place suitable for tattoo according to feng shui?!]

Dear Ivana,

Ivana Artemis wrote:
I wanted to get information, how should i choose a spot for placing tattoo. I wonder if there are some feng shui rules, advices, maybe some suitable tattoos also. I'm not informed about this at all, so i really want to learn more, where to place it, how should it look like, what might bring to me, cause I'll have it all of my life on my body. I thought of the possibility for placing rising phoenix on my back, that is the idea that a have it for know... Thank you in advance.

Frankly, tattoos are more commonly associated with gangsters especially in singapore during the 1950's, 1960's and 1970s. So it already have a negative image taggedtoit. You see just like why people have bad impression on number say 4 = die, when most think about tatoo it often relates to something bad or illegal.

In feng shui, you want to have more good influence than bad influence, so naturally, tattoo would also be viewed as having bad influence. Even though, recent tattoos are being viewed as a personalisedart form.

So if you ask my personal opinion, I would have to say that a tattoo is more likely to havea negative feng shui impact rather than positive one.So not advisable from feng shui point of view.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[Main door facing a split wall outside]

Dear Anon,

Anonymous wrote:
I'm looking atbuying a house and themain door opens out to a split door, is it "harmful" for the ones staying in the house? Is there a cure ?

Generally, if you open your door and anything that cuts or split in your house, this is considered inauspicious. As it is normally a form or sha qi or poison arrow. This means this wall/split will cut right into your house.

Typical way to resolve is try to block it. Probably like having at least gate with has half the height covered. Or even having some partition inside your house just after you enter into the door. Or last resort may be to use a ba gua to reflect the problem, but this may lead to bagua war as the other occupants may also put up one to counter yours.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[Grouping three Tall thin trees together]

Dear Tialen K,

tialen k wrote:
hello, I planted three tall thin trees together in a grouping, however I was told this was bad luck as typically incense is burned in groups of three for morning. thus the three trees symbolize the sticks of incense and therefore death.

tialen k wrote:
Is this correct?? I have seen groupings of three like this before as landscapers typically recommend this type of groupings.

Yes, when we pray using joss stick, we normally use 3 joss stick. So, if you plants 3 thin plants, it is likely to resemble this 3 joss stick. So it is not so auspicious in general.

How bad, really depends on how much far the 3 plants placed and how it looks from within the house. If it looks similiar to the 3 joss stick, then it is bad. If it does not, then it should be ok.

Either you add more so that it does not look so obvious or. At least add more supporting plants/bushes so that it looks more like a garden landscape rather than just 3 individual tall thin threes.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

[Bazi and birthdays-US time or other?]

Dear Reyla,

reyla faubion wrote:
Just wanted to know on the bazi analysis software, when you plug in your birthday is it your birthday US time, Singapore time or other? I'm confused bec. I could be born on the 12th in US time but it might be th 13th Singapore time.

In general, adjusting GMT time zone isn't the right or proper way to adjust location factor.

In fact, the only true way is to apply the long. and lat. of birth. However, even this if you add just 1 degree off, your chart can be even less accurate than if you do not consider this at all. Furthermore, who actually records the exact long. and lat. of birth when you are born. Even if you are born within a hospital, a different location within the hospital also will give you a different long. and lat. of birth.

Ba zi, was created such that even if you leave out the hour of birth, it will still be able to give you a pretty accurate forecast of what luck you are suppose to be born with. So really, there is no need to make any adjustment. It is best to just use your local time of birth for analysing the ba zi. This would be enough.

After all, a person luck is affected by 3 types of luck:-

1. Heaven Luck - luck you are supposed to be born with.

2. Earth Luck - luck from your home and surrounding.

3. Human Luck - luck from your own hard work and relationship with others.

Thus, a ba zi does isn't designed to predict accurately what you may have encountered (based on your history), but rather to assess what type of luck you are supposed to have, and when are the ups and downs to look out for. Even if a ba zi luck period shows you have good luck but if your earth luck influence is bad, your given luck will be affected.

So if you understand this, ba zi is more just to determine what element you belong to, how to harmonise yourself to the environment, and when best to take advantage of your luck. The rest depends a lot on the earth and human luck.

So to summarise, you just need to use your local time when generating any of the reports on our website. Each different tools you use will compensate the inaccuracy or flaws of each tool. That is why it is more important to use a variety of tools rather than just one assessment tool for a comprehensive feng shui assesment.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research