Cecil Lee

Dear Hoa Luong, Please use the free "Comparison report" in the reports section of this website. It will help you to determine the bining element between u and your bf. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Miriam, As a last resort, if one really (really) unable to obtain a 6 rod hollow windchime, then, no choice, one can still use other windchimes especially if they are metallic e.g. hollow brass rod or hollow aliminium rods. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Please see below:- Congratulations on your new home! In general, it is always prudent to look at `weaknessess' if any of a new home. Prior to making enhancements. This is usually the key success factor. Try to make sure that your main entrance door is protected. (Usually, there is no threats to the main entrance). But, there is no harm doing a `preventive audit'. Such as looking out of the main door and from all windows of the home. Check for poison arrows e.g. lamp posting slicing thru the main door or window(s) or other threats. Is there a direct path of `air flow' from the main door directly out at the opposite end? As mentioned, there is really no harm looking at `threats' or `weakness' of your home (if any). If this common place in your area/county/country, then this is fine. A pair of lion statues can be used. Most common is to use stone ones either white or granite. But they have to face out. They should also be in a proprotionate size (not too skinny looking). They should preferably tbe smiling as opposed to being fierce looking. Paragoda is genrally fine. As in the past, it is used in Feng Shui both to neutralise `bad vapours' or underground water. If it is also used or placed on a child's study table - for scholaristic achievement. Searh for pagoda in this forum for more on it's placement. For a lawn statue of 'Kwan-Yin' hmmm.... frankly, this is not common place. Worse still if it is easily accessible by dogs. Imagine, a dog, bringing up its hind leg and peeing on the figurine....... There are many rulesets and it is difficult to let you know all in one go. Try to understand more about the strengths and weakness of each FS concept. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. In the past, a butcher is a butcher, a merchant is a merchant. 2. But nowadays, due to multi-skilling, one person may perform various (varied) tasks, it may be much harder to identify the exact element of an occupation. 3. For example, a doctor can be involved in part research. This part of his work can be considered as `wood' element. 4. What can generally be classified under the Wood element? 4.1 Well, think or imagine a tree. For the most part of it's life, it is continously growing (unless of course it is diseased or eaten by termites). 4.2 Therefore, a wood element suggests anything to do with new projects, new technology or growth. Developing new medicine can be considered as wood instead of the water element (as explained below). 5. The traditional way of looking at medicine is simply " BLOOD " or blood letting. Thus, what does blood resembles? Water. In addition, anethetics or use of vapour e.g. laughing gase etc.. prior to an operation has to do with Water element or vapour. 5.1 It is also interesting to note that METAL always goes with WATER BEST. Under the Productive cycle of Five Elements concept, Metal supports water. 5.2 Thus, one notice that gas needs to be contained preferably in a metal canister. 5.3 Perhaps, other than to give doctors a clean look, WHITE or the common white coat / dress worn in hospitals by doctors and (traditional nurses is also white). White = Metal element. 5.4 Therefore, if you ask me, I personally feel at the base of the medicial profession, is in general considered as the Water element. 6. The idea of the Five Elements concept can actually be applied to human beings. 7. In fact, it is best to have an occupation that have at least two or more of the elements. One rationale is, then one does lesser monotonous work. 8. An sample of a life of a modern Geomancer: 8.1 Take for example, would'nt it be more enriching to have a career that e.g. does some paper work, moves around the field? 8.2 For example, I find my occupation interesting. I hope you find yours equally interesting:- 8.2.1 General Computing: As a modern day geomancer: I get to use the computer such as replying forum messages or attending to clients messages. 8.2.2 Graphic Drawings: And also the computer to draw illustrations. 8.2.3 Photographer: I also have to take photos for the forum etc... 8.2.4 Consultations / Audit travels: Meeting clients at their premises, discussing on findings etc... 9. Contrast this to a Geomancer of the past. There was no internet, no bulletin boards in the early 70's and before this date. And, perhaps the geomancer does less `multi-skilling jobs. Do count how many skills you use in your office. Some of us, represent our company and in fact, even Customer Care or support staff, perform Public Relations and even Sales. There are so many varied skills in each of our occupation. And some may belong to any of the Five elements. The more the better for job enrichment. Even in further studies like post graduate studies, the person (in order to have the skill sets) learn or study subjects such as:- Accounting Operations Management Law Human Resource Strategic Planning The idea here is that in order for one to be a CEO, it is believed that a CEO, should understand all key areas of his business functions. To allow him to better appreciate or have an all round grounding of his company. Furthermore, there is simply no RIGHT or WRONG answers to which element e.g. medicine belongs. IT DEPENDS... on how one put forth the argument or reasoning as to how one derive `medicine' is. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Further to what I had mentioned:- Flying Star Feng Shui is used in particular to look at the frontage (water star - if any) of a landed property or locations where there can reasonably be a mountain star. Thus, as mentioned earlier, if Metal elements or Water elements are detected, water or flat level areas can be enhanced - especially if Metal stars are present. For mountain stars, it can be located at the side of the house (next to main entrance) or at the back of the house - if a mountain star is found at that specific sector). The above together with Shapes and Forms MUST be taken under consideration, TOGETHER and should not be viewed separately. Other than the above, or if one is really not into Feng Shui, go for the " FREE FOR ALL " or relying on one's intutition. This is better than relying on a Modern Invention: Black Hat Sect Ba Gua Template. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Additional information: Attached please find a sample analysis using the PIE CHART method of Flying Star Feng Shui. One can notice that in this example, I have extended the lines of the pie chart for SW to look at the frontage of the house. In fact, all the lines of this pie can be extended over to the entire boundary of the house for evaluation using Flying Star Feng Shui. Overall, between the Pie Chart method or the 9 grid (9 equal squares); the Pie Chart chart is (in my opinion) a better one than the 9 grid chart. Although, both can still be used in an interior of a house. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Christa, 1. I am really not sure, what you mean by the Bagua map. 2. I hope you are not referring to the Ba Gua template used by Black Hat Tantric Sect or commonly known as `BTB' as this is a modern invention. 3. However, in traditional Feng Shui, accessment is done with a combination of:- Shapes and Forms Compass School (Eight House and Flying Star) 4. Under the Flying Star Compass School, a chart can be drawn either as:- 9 grids or pie chart. 5. For those drawing a 9-grid chart, should normally use it more for an interior of the home. 6. While those using a pie chart, can use it not only to look at the interior but also extend out the pie in the same direction to look at the exterior. 7. For example, if the frontage of a house has this Flying Star formation:- Period 7 house #7 mountain #7 water Base 1 or Period 6 house #6 mountain #6 water with Base 1 For information #7 is weak metal while #6 is strong metal 8. If one refers to the Productive Cyle under the Five Elements concept, one will notice that METAL supports WATER. "How nice therefore, if we can add water at this location especially outside the house if METAL has been detected. 9. In Traditional Feng Shui, either Shapes and Forms is used and/or Flying Star is used to analyse a sector. This sector can be inside or outside of the house. 10. And if a sector e.g. has a mountain star found inside the house, it can be extended or looked at using Flying Star at the exterior of the house and a `mountain' can be placed at that location. 11. Whether it is Ba Zi (Pillars of Destiny) or Flying Star, the common lowest denominator is based on the Five Elements Concept. 12. Contrast this with what you had mentioned below:- This is really not proper Feng Shui. But as mentioned earlier, it is all a MARKETING PLOY to get people to buy products (under the pretense of Feng Shui mystic). Frankly, all one gets is a big hole in the pocket. It is better in such a situation to believe in one's intuition than such a Marketing Ploy. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Jonathan, In Feng Shui, one can either access one's unit or the entire facing of the unit's block (or frontage). Usually, for a unit such as yours, it is best to look at your main door only and not the building's main entrance. Please see below:- But, if your balcony forms part or is " within " the house, then it should be taken into the 9 grid. You can do a search for the word " condo " and there are many case studies especially under the conference: Photo Tours of Interest (with pictures). You should be able to find several resources on condos. Do use the SEARCH feature in this forum to narrow down your search field. If you have any layout plan that you want to upload; feel free to do so. The resources on condos, is also based on questions posted to this forum. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Doctor Z, It is best to give a sketch else, with a top down perspective. I really do not like to second guess or run thru line by line description. Which I feel can lead to miscommunication. Warmest Regards, Cecil

The new kid on the block. An european designed building. Fortunately, with its frontage facing away from The Gateway. Pictures taken with a Sony DV camcorder with 20x optical zoom...

Attached please find a picture showing an `inauspicious' shop house...

Dear Evelyn, Thanks for your sketch. From the look of it, it seems that your main door opens directly to the balcony. Can I confirm whether is there a straight path of `air' flowing from the main door directly out to the balcony? Or do you have a screen or partition. If this is the case, it is more important to get a screen rather than to get a dragon. Even if one wants to use a dragon figurine, it should be on a wall, facing out of the house e.g. thru an opening such as a window. It must not be allowed to faced a blank wall. Yes, a dragon figurine can help improve on yang qi in the house but, caution about where to place it. It should preferably not also be placed inside a showcase or the show case be below knee height (low level). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Frankly, there is not much that can be done via Kua (Eight House). For example, if a house is unsuitable, it is unsuitable for the breadwinner. The only cure(s) are usually physical. For example, either changing of rooms that suit us to even relocating the main entrance to face a favourable angle of the owner. In many of the previous postings, I mentioned that Feng Shui is all about improving one's luck. Thus, you may like to further explore your home: Learn whether your home has good or not so good Shapes and Forms. If possible, try to apply Shapes and Forms. You may also like to look at Flying Star Feng Shui. As mentioned above, taking such steps is like trying to improve all luck in all quarters. Contrast this to paying homage to a corner which may not yield improvements unless one looks at all areas. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Miriam, Traditionally, the `proven' method is the use of 6 ancient Chinese coins with square holes at the centre. Sometimes, (modern) we try or tested using local one dollar coins e.g. with a ba gua (Pa Kua) outline on it and that is has a percentage of nickel / bronze making it golden in colour much like the ancient Chinese coin colour. Try to find coins that are not `silver' in colour but golden in colour. Frankly, I am not too sure if the coins you mention works but, if you really cannot find the ancient Chinese coins, then you may try your own currency. Locally, I seen shops selling these `ancient' Chinese coins for less than US$1 per piece. Some shops were selling it for S 0.50 cents or close to US 0.35 cents a piece. For those who may not have seen a Singapore $1 coin, please refer to this link http://www.geomancy.net/mypictures/cgi-bin/mypictures.cgi?img=0&search=6+coin&cat=all&bool=and&x=7&y=10 Warmest Regards Cecil

Dear Anon, Usually, if there is a gap between the two buildings, there would be as you had mentioned there can be Sha Qi. However, as your description is not too clear, I can't really provide advise:- 1. When u mentioned your relative's house, is it a landed property? Or an apartment with window or gap in the master bedroom or main door entrance or otherwise? 2. When you mentioned a gap of 50cm of two near by buidings, currently cannot visualise what are their position in relation to your relative's home. Perhaps, you can provide a sketch to this. 3. However, if one stands at the gap and find gushes of air `forced' thru this into your relatives' home, then this can be sha qi. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Steffi, 1. Thanks for bring this interesting question. 2. In fact, I had previously posted some information on this issue. 3. In 1986, when I first developed my Chinese Horoscope site:- http://www.lovesigns.net 4. I was trying to find an appropriate information for the first page of this site. 4.1 I found this quote:- " If we want to be loved we must disclose ourselves to the other person. If we want to love someone they must permit us to know them. " Dr. Sidney M. Jourard 4.2 When young many of us have either being told or discovered our personal English zodiac signs. E.g. Gemini, Libra, Cancer etc... And there were (are) untold number of such books describing our characters and compatibiliy. 4.3 This is similar with Chinese Astrology books (by the dozen) that show us e.g. born as a `Rat', `Horse' etc... 4.4 Some of us may pick up a book or read on the website, that e.g. a Rat is a Horse's "enemy" etc... The DANGER here is auto suggestion. Or should there be a quarrel, we sometimes ponder? Are we in a right relationship? 4.5. Therefore the power of auto suggestion may be detrimental if - we were told that we are " totally " incompatible. 4.6. However, if what our astrology signs says is true or we may perhaps unconsciously act out the part. We should perhaps, try to understand more of our partner's characteristics and as the above quote says, we can try to understand the `good' or the characteristics of the person we love and by doing so, we can go for the good points instead of pointing out faults. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Please see below:- Feng Shui is all about maximizing one's luck. If one use it correctly or use a combination of the various tools / principles / concepts correctly, it would help to boost luck in majority of areas. Thus, reducing the percentage of `inauspiciousness' at the main door. Although a house has to fit the owners /breadwinner/tenant, if one has already stayed in it or made a commitment in it already, there is not much one can do here but as mentioned in the earlier paragrah to try and maximize luck in other areas. In authentic Feng Shui, there are two ways about placing a water feature outside of the house:- 1.1 Under the conference: Photo Tours of Interest (with Pictures), you can find many examples and some very recent on the placement of a water position in a landed property " to trap" wealth before it flows to neighbours. 1.2 In general, if one stand outside one's house (looking at it) and if one's house slopes e.g. a slope (gentle or gradient) to say the left side, then, besides other consideration, one can add a water feature to `trap' wealth before it flows out of the house. 1.3 For a water position, if it is outside the house, it is still ok for a person with weak fire element (where water may inadvertenly extinguish) the fire or for a strong water person. 1.4 In Compass School of Feng Shui, the Flying Star Feng Shui is used to locate sectors with `water stars'. A good example is this current period: Period 7. For example, if a house has #7 (mountain star) #7 (water star) with a base #1 then, it would be advantages for this sector to have a water feature. This is because #7 x 2 are of the `small metal' element. And if one looks closely at the Productive cycle of Five Elements concept: Metal helps Water 1.5 The other approach is if one is not using Feng Shui is by intuition. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Susan, Frankly, looking at one `idea' in Feng Shui or using it to audit a house may not provide the full picture. In your case, try to apply: 1. Shapes and Forms 2. Compass Schools: e.g. Eight House - not only the main door but bedrooms for each family members. There are more e.g. looking at one's Ba Zi to harmonise with the home e.g. for an individual such as a weak water person such as white walls. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Is it possible for you to sketch your layout plan using a paint program and attach as either e.g. .gif or .jpg as it is quite difficult to understand the text sketch although you had taken much time in drawing it. This was the reason, I opened your message several times, wanted to review your message but could not comprehen with the lack of a proper layout sketch. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Feleki, You may like to find out more about our service on Company Logo http://www.geomancy.net/consultation/consult-business/businessname-logorecommendatio.htm Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Hoa Luong, Please see below:- From your initial description, it seems not as auspicious. If this is an existing house; try to find out (probe) further, the reason for the existing owners wanting to sell it. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Here is a sample illustration of what is good or bad in the placement of a company logo when the main entrance is next to the safety railings. And if the logo can be seen from one level down....

Dear Carlos, 1. Usually, if one does not use Feng Shui, go with one's intution. 2. Under Feng Shui, there are considerations like e.g. the compass direction of the location to consider. 3 Here, this is usually referenced with the flying star influence of a specific sector. For example, if the ktichen so happens to have bad wood #4 with say additional #1 watercoupled with the location of the kitchen at the north. Too much green (wood) would not be beneficial as water helps fuel more of bad wood. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Soon Hoe, Yes, in my opinion, it is best not to place a painting with many birds facing the dining table. This is symbollic of too many mouths to feed. Even if they are cranes. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Susan, For a stove, it is equally inauspicious if a water pipe runs directly (below) the stove especially if it is as close as 6 inches. In such a situation, it is best to divert the water pipe away from the stove so that it does not directly cross path with the stove. Where possible, the water pipe you mentioned should be `hidden' from view of the stove especially if this sector is the North of the house. If the location of the kitchen is at the South of the house i.e. standing at the centre and the kitchen is at the south, there is no issue with it facing the washing machine. Frankly, with regards to the washing machine, this is quite new to Feng Shui, and in my opinion, there are so far no conclusive results to say whether it is or is not inauspicious to have it face the stove. Warmest Regards, Ceil