Cecil Lee

Dear Violet, Use this as a Reference: http://www.geomancy.net/resources/theories/fs-5element.htm For example: Ifa person is a Strong Metal, person. Then in terms ofelements, being strong metal, need: 1. Water to help draw out or reduce her Strong Metal element. 2. When water is increased, need wood to draw it out. 3. When wood is also increased, need fire to reduce it. Thus under the productive sequence: For a Strong element person, look at the Productive cycle chart and move forward 3 elements: Thus as mentioned above, if one is a Strong Metal, look forward three elements: Water, Wood and Fire are favourable to the Strong Metal person. The Destructive Cycle Actually, this can be quite misleading way to say about this cycle. For example, we next look at the Destructive Cycle: For a Strong Metal person, his "wealth element" is WOOD. Wood is thus considered as his wealth element. Here imagine a strong metal axe is used to chop down a tree (wood). Or let's imagine, we purchase a block of wood for US$5 dollars. Using our METAL implements, an artist carve out a beautiful object. And this object is now worth US$50 dollars - as a nice piece of work of art. Again, let's look at the Destructive cycle: As the person is a Strong Metal person, FIRE element can be used to MELT the strong metal. Here, FIRE is known as the person's POWER and AUTHORITY. Thus, if a Strong Metal person work as e.g. a lawyer or in marketing or sales, (Fire element) then this is his/her power and authority element. Yes, under Flying Star Feng Shui, the balcony of a condo can be activated. For example, if we draw a Flying Star pie chart. The pie lines can be extended outwards. And the balcony can come under one of the sectors. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Dear Sir/Madam, If an element is strong and you want to balance it, how do you decide which cycle to use- the productive, destructive or exhausative? Can you jump between cycles? Also, is the balcony of a condominium part of the floor plan and can you activate that area of the house in general? Thank you so much! Love, Violet

Dear Benjamin, Please refer to the attached sample report. Sample Gender: Male Conversion of Date of Birth: Solar Calendar: 17 Oct 1980 between 1.00 p.m. to 2.59 p.m. Lunar Calendar: 1980, 9th month, 9 day, between 1.00 p.m. to 2.59 p.m. In this example, the arrow shows the direction, he should be facing. Thus his best work directions are: Sitting facing Direction: North-East Exact Degree: 22.5 to 67.4 Description: This is your Prosperity direction or Sitting facing Direction: South-West Exact Degree: 202.5 to 247.4 Description: This is your Excellent direction. Yes, the arrow shows the direction, one should face, when sitting down to work or study. When negotiating deals, one can use this principle i.e. in this sample, this male person should be sitting facing NE (Prosperity) or SW (Excellent) directions. Please note that the "Fortune Cats" DOES NOT originate from China i.e. it is not a "Chinese invention". The origins of the "lucky fortune cats" comes from Japan. And in some Japanese establishments is placed at the display window to welcome guests into their (Japanese) shops. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Hi There, I have recently changed job and is happy that I am sitting in a work position good for me. A few questions I need to ask : 1) under the free report column where we generate our suitable working position, the arrow is meant as a direction where we should be facing? 2) can we also use this same report as a good reference position when we negotiate business dealings at a customer's place? 3) I have a few Fortune Cats. Is there a right and wrong of placing them in the office?

Dear Phyllis, Thanks for proving a sketch of the layout of the bedroom. Although you have stated that the person sleeping here is Gua (Kua)5, there is no indication of a compass marking to show where the North direction is. As such, I have drawn a sample sketch. Thissketch also shows markings A and B. If we sleepin the directionfrom A to B (as shown in the attachment); this is known asa "coffin position" i.e. our legsshould not be facingthe bedroom door. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Phyllis Lee wrote: Please advise a suitable location for the bed given such a layout (attached). I've read somewhere that the bed should not be in the path of the doorway. The person sleeping in this room has a kua number of5. Thanks.

Dear Jace, To be honest,some Chinese who in one way or another if told of their favourable and unfavourable colours would tend to dwell in being more cautious when choosing a vehicle colour. Personally, I do share the same sentiments. And have always tried to choose a car colour that suits me. However, I hope you understand this is honestly more of a "personal-thing" and how much we personally either being "influenced" by it. For weak metal persons, based on the Five elements concept, yes, black = water may not be as suitable as a "metal" element colour or "earth" colours. On a scientific level, (Not Feng Shui); previously, there were some insurance studies that show that red cars have a higher rate of accidents. Most likely due to the colour of the stop lights red and the entire car being red. The next "worst" colour is suppose to be grey. As it was believed that grey closely match the"road colour" and perhaps, harder to be recognised. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: ng jace wrote: I am a Water Tiger and my wife is a fire horse. My birth element is Weak Metal and bothdo not favour in black clour. As such,we really appreciate your advise on the above matter as we are purchasing a Black colour car. Between does colour affect safety and wealth issue in selecting of car colour.

Dear Anon, Although it would be good if you do have a sketch. However, by what you had briefly described, this sounds out of the ordinary.. and indeed sounds.. bad! Indeed! Try not to buy the home if possible or if you have done more investigations. In addition, if this is an existing home, see if it is possible to also find out the "history" of the home. If in doubt, do not buy this home. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Anonymous wrote: We are thinking of buying a house but it is at the cornerof a V-shaped road.We have been advised by 'well-meaning' friends that it's bad fengshui as the 2 arms of the V lead into the house - like 'sha qi'. I know a long road leading into the house is bad but the actual main door faces the centre of the V and not directlty at either arms of the V. Is that still considered bad?

Dear Anon, Generally, there are two approaches with regards to placing a water feature: 1. Persional feeling (Most common method) Here, as you have mentioned, most likely, either the location choosen seems to be an appropriate choice or because of the home layout; we most likely find that this is one of the better choice. 2. Applying Flying Star Feng Shui As Flying star Feng Shui uses a "scientific" method of determining where a water feature is useful to be placed. Frankly, not many people may want to go for the second approach. However, without using or applying the second approach, there is no reference to state where we should place the fish tank other than using our personal feeling. In general, particularly in an open space such as the living room or even dining area; if we do have a water star WS#8 at that sector, we can use water to enhance our current prosperity! Even a location that has WS#1 can also enhance water wealth. Even if the living room does not have good water stars, a water feature may be used to drown bad stars in that sector i.e. #5 or #2 or combinations of them. Thus, in general, if we do apply a "scientific" means; we can often either use a water feature to: 1. Enhance our wealthby activating WS#1 or WS#8 2. Neutralising or destroying bad stars #5 or #2 Frankly, I have given a very rough idea. As each 20 Year Flying Star Feng Shui sector also interects with two other variables: Mountain Star# and Base (Palace) star #.Often, also the yearly star is also taken into consideration for the placement of a water feature. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Anonymous wrote: Hi I wish to install a water feature in my home, where is the best position to place it. at the suggestion of standing at the doorfacing into the house

Dear Lisa, If you have read previous messages, usually, the fastest way to change to a new period is thru a major renovation. However, based on your description of work done, these are mostly cosmetic changes, thus most likely have not changed qi, yet. Currently, there may be some differences in the thinking as to what constitues a change of qi or period if one does not do a major renovation in the home. However, I will try to explain as best as I can some of the more realistic ways that we can help our home change it's qi:- 1. One school of thought is that unlike a landed property that has a roof, thus often, a large number of practitioner would advise to remove roof tiles (more the better) preferably for at least 100 days. However, for an apartment, we cannot simply tear off the ceiling rite? If so, one method is to symbolically repaint all the ceiling within a session (e.g. within a week or so). 2. In addition to the above, the consensus is that there must be "yang qi" or activity in the home to help change the qi. Thus, some of the common things done are: a. inviting a dragon dance troupe into the home and or happy celebrations (birthdays etc...) 3. Preferably, but often out of our control is that the entire building is given a coat of paint. And beside painting our home ceiling, we could also repaint the walls of the entire home o give it a coat of fresh paint. Other minor works like polishing, vanishing parquet bedroom floor tiles and polishing marble / granite living room floor tiles. Some other minor works may include change of windows, main entrance door etc... 4. Often, it is also sensible to do a "major" space clearing especially if our home becomes unduly untidy, cluttered etc... 5. As mentioned under para 2, (above) celebrations could include lion dance troupe, children's birthday where we have lots of young ones "running around" playing ... lots of yang qi. Thus, it is best to have three or more of such celebrations to encourage "Yang" qi or yang energy into he home. 6. A "south" facing person living in a "NE" facing home:- We human beings have a date of birth. A home also has a date of birth. Compass school Feng Shui uses two theories: Eight House and Flying Star Feng Shui. Thus, even if often a "south" facing person may not be suitable to a particular home e.g. NE; however, we have to study the Flying Star of that home to see if the home could "boost" our overall luck or not? In general, NE facing homes under Period 8 (plus depending) on the landscape and layout plan may sometimes have better earth luck (Feng Shui). If so, even if the home may not be suitable to us (Eight House) but because it perhaps may have superior Feng Shui, could tilt the balance and may give us better luck. In another example: Say you are suitable to "south" facing. And your home is a NW facing home. Many north west facing homes particularly under Period 7 has very little luck as the "water" wealth sector is trapped in the middleof the home. In such a situation, not only is the home not as suitable to you; but also the earth luck (Feng Shui) is not as good. What happens? Both of these luck are not there. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Lisa DeCesare wrote: Dear Robert Lee: I am new to visiting this site but it is proving to be very valuable. Here's my situation. When I moved into my apt they replaced all kitchen appliances, toilet, carpet, blinds, and painted the entire apt. Would this qualify as renovation, and changing the period? If so, what benefit would it have on a person who should live in a S facing apt but lives in a NE facing apt? And please explain the significance of having 3 celebrations. I appreciate your input. Lisa

Dear Aloysius, 1. Usually, the most common method is that one can still try to activate M8 in this sector. 2. In addition, some practitioners may recommend aconcave bagua mirror. Where it is used to "suck" back the missing corner. Ideally,a neighbour's balcony / living room should not be in very closeproximity when we hang aconcave bagua mirror. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Aloysius Chia wrote: A HDB flat balcony happen to be in a west sector with flying star M8 W6 B9 and under 8 mansion it isin theYan Nian sector. But the balcony only occupied half the sector, is there a way to boost/enhance it as M8 does benefits a lot to the people of the flat.

Dear Anon, Frankly, firstly, it is difficult to comment based only on a simple description. From what I can understand, it is quite common to have a situation such as yours. And one should not automatically have a pre-mature conclusion that what you are facing is "bad". If you are very very concerned, and may not have the expertise, then see if you can employ a competent FS practitioner to review your home Feng Shui. In Feng Shui, the way each home "interacts" with each other can have or may not have an influence on your existing home. In addition, Compass School Feng Shui (Flying Star and Eight House) should be applied to give a bigger picture of the entire situation (good or bad). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. Feel free to use the Free auspicious dates report for the next 30 days under the following link by typing this url into your internet browser:- date.geomancy.net Or goto this url: http://www.geomancy.net/reports/free-report/freerpt-dateboth.htm Quote: Anonymous wrote: Im renting a house but how do you found a good date for moving in? 2. Good dates should be treated as "nice-to-have" rather than "must-have". However, since ancient times, the Chinese have a believe in selecting auspicious dates especially for : marriages, start of piling work (new home), moving into a new office / home etc... Thus, it is all in the Chinese custom to do so. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Anonymous wrote: and if i move in at a bad date how will that affect me and is there a way to fix it?

Dear Baerbel, You mentioned that "that long road seems to directly run into the house". Generally, do check especially if the main entrance is vulnerable or any windows that is facing the long road. As most of the time, these two areas need the most protection from "sha qi" coming from the road. In many instances, (subject to a site review) many Chinese homes do try to place a "high" wall along the outline of the perimeter of the home. Often, this is the best option. If a window or main entrance is directly facing the long road, then; you may have to consider a convex ba gua mirror placed above the window or main entrance. This is the most common approach. While foo (fu) dogs are often more of decorative items or provide only a "feel nice" factor only. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Baerbel Haynes wrote: Hello, I live in a house that sits on the corner of a crossroad. The front door faces one of the roads and that long road seems to directly run into the house. I need to know what the best remedy to prevent bad chi from entering would be such as a ba gua mirror,foo dogs or whatever else you can advise. Thank you in advance. Most sincerely, Baerbel Haynes

Dear Carina, Frankly, it all depends on where the over-head beam is or if the overhead beam is at the edge of a bedroom; then how thick it is. Please see attachment. In the attachment one can see that although there is a beam around the "bed-head" area, one can still sensibly place the bed head slightly further the wall i.e. not touching the wall. And if we includ the pillow case and where we lie on the pillow, we can see that often, the beam is no longer above our head. Since you have not mentioned in detail whether your situation is like the above or if there is beam that is extremely thick or the beam suddenly protrudes further and not at the edge. If your situation is similar to what I have drawn in the picture, then, one can still safely sleep in your best direction area. However, if one cannot really avoid sleeping under such a beam, then it is best not to sleep underneath the beam even if it allows one to sleep with the head facing a good direction. Please note that if there is an extended flat roof much like that encountered sleeping under a double decker bed, it is often a non-issue. For example, the double decker bed has a flat top (for those sleeping on the lower bed). This flat top is unlike an overhead beam. And very safe to sleep on. Such bunk beds or double decker beds have been around for a very long time. And many students especially those who studies in university domitories etc.. have sleep on one. And it does not mean that their minds and strifled. Far from it. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Carina Tien wrote: Dear sir, If i were to choose between a beam on my head while sleeping or placing bed opposite my good direction, which option will put me in the worst situation? My good direction is west. But if i position my bed, head pointing west, then there is a beam over my head. If i were to put it facing north (which is the last alternative and not my favourable direction, the ceiling is clear, no beam. Which option do you recommend? Thanks

Dear Anon, To be honest, if it cannot be physically moved, not much one can do. Under the commonsense approach to Feng Shui, just make sure that usually the sewerage pipe (which is located in the kitchen and hopefully not directly above the stove) is in good repair. The commonsense, here is that should such a pipe burst, the kitchen area, items may be contamined with bateria such as e-coli and others. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Anonymous wrote: My cooking stove is immediately beneath a toilet bowl upstair. What does this imply? What are the remedies without moving the cooking stove. Also the bathroom and toilet upstair is quite busy .

Dear Jian Rong, Yes, some Feng Shui practitioner(s) often recommend a mirror at the stove area. One commonsense approach is that this may allow the person cooking to look at his/her "blind spot" or simply: the person who cook can see who's coming into the kitchen. On the other hand, it is the FS practitioner's idea that having a mirror like you had mentioned, below could "double" the food being cooked. Another senario is often to symbollically change the direction of the stove to a direction favourable to direction favourable to the occupants. Quote: jian rong chen wrote: 1) To put a mirror at the kitchen stove. Hang at the wall where the stove is. Yes, it is quite common for some homes or business persons to place a ship loaded with traditional "gold bullion" or money. In many instances it is where the ship placement seems to suggest wealth flowing into the office or home. Thus many would face the ship into the home or office. Quote:2) To put a ship loaded with the yuan bao,real money & etc near the entrance of the house will bring more wealth luck?

Dear Shinta, In real life:- Huo-lu actually is the Chinese word for a stove be it a modern or olden stove. While in romanized Mandarin, there is no such thing as wou-lou. It might have being either wrongly spelt as referred to the above "huo-lu" or are you referring to a "hu lu"? A hu lu is actually known as "bottle gourd". Traditionally used by many practitioners to neutralise sickness stars e.g. #5 or #2. For example, some FS practitioners may require one to place a bottle gourd ( hu lu) next to the bed to "suck away " sickness? Thus of these bottle gourds have a cap some do not. And many have wordings on the bottle gourd(s). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. Yes, the 2nd floor may affect the Feng Shui (below - ground floor) especially if the "two units" are not "identical in layout". For example, if a home is converted into a "duplex" or the layout of the above unit is not identical to the ground floor. 2. For example, we often find homes like a bungalow where things like the 2nd storey toilet may be just above our ground unit main entrance or sometimes it could be just above one's dining area. And for some Chinese who had placed an altar at the ground level; may also be affected if their altar is just directly below a toilet. 3. Otherwise, often, if both ground unit, 2nd storey etc.. share same layout plan e.g. toilet at toilet sector etc.. then this is often not an issue. Quote: Also, Is there anything wrong with a upside down v shaped roof? Please click on the attachment to this message. One can find that a normal home with a pointed roof is symbolic of an arrow pointing towards the sky which symbolises "progress". While an intervert V shaped is symbolic of an arrow pointing "downwards" - degression?

Dear Shinta, Often, especially if one is doing DIY Feng Shui; should if possible also draw out a Flying Star Chart of your home. The purpose is to: 1. identify areas that need or require correction(s) if any and or to 2. Enhance certain sectors. The rationale for drawing a Flying Star Chart is thus to understand what are the intangible forces at a specific sector. In most instances, there is no harm placing a set of six-coins especially if there are sectors found with #5 or #2. But may not be too good if the sector has Mountain Star #8 etc... as it may hurt this wealth sector. In addition, a bottle gourd is traditionally used also to neutralise #5 or #2. And often should not be used in areas that has wealth sector else one may inadvertently "suck" wealth away. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, To be honest, these are more of Chinese customs or beliefs than Feng Shui. And these customs should be consideredas "Nice-to-do" and not "Must-do". Thus, it would be good to follow the procedures (No harm). But if one cannot follow the procedure for one reason or the other, should not be an issue. Traditionally, it is still more important if good dates can be selected. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Linda, In the past, when women were renegated to "2nd place" there was no such thing as women = breadwinner. Thus, traditionally, all breadwinners are suppose to be the husband or male breadwinners. Even today, if both husband and wife work and say they share or bring in 50-50 of the income, itis still likely that we consider the male as being the breadwinner. In my opinion, I would say that unless the male (breadwinner) iscompletely a homemaker,and his mate or wife is the sole breadwinner then,weshould definitely consider the wife as the sole breadwinner. Thus, so long as the male is working irreguardless of his pay or bring home pay, we could say that heshould be the breadwinner. However, this can be subjective. Therefore, it is not wrong for anyone to consider the female (wife) to be the breadwinner especially if she constantly brings in 70 percent more than the husband. Frankly, there are no right or wrong answers, here. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Linda Tung wrote: Hi Master Lee, i would like to know how to determine who is the breadwinner in our marriage if both of us work. I read in some of your posts that the feng shui (direction of house, etc) should be favorable for the breadwinner, and also the luck will be directed more towards the breadwinner. Please help me with this question, thank you

Dear Jason, In mdoern times, many people often bring along a hammer or ask their contractor to knock three times on a wall or floor to start renovations. Often, many Cantonese (Chinese dialet group) would offer five types AND if countable 5 fruits to offer to the "5 spirits" of the home i.e. the spirit of the North, South, East, West and centre of the home. Some with religious inclination may also offer two joss candles and burn paper offerings. In a modern society` the above are general and practical trends to kick off start of renovations. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Mr Yong, To be honest, since you did not provide picture(s), how to answer yor question. Thanks! Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. The best is often to move out of the home during the renovation period. 2. For the Chinese, it is best to pray facing the grand duke. For example, it can be a simple apology by saying: "Apologies or sorry to disturb you, as I have to start renovations, soon. Some Chinese offer two incense sticks with 5 fruits on a plate to applease the god. As for the Five yellow or work required outside of the home place some metal between the home and the work to be carried out. Otherwise, can still do the above prayer to the spirits of the home. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Traditionally, many Chinese would visit the temple to get their figurine(s) blessed. Many of these figurines are famous deities like: goddess of mercy or guan gong etc... However, I believe many products purchased via commercial means are considered merely decorative items. Selling products in the name of Feng Shui is very lucrative! As such they should be treated as decorations. When dirty, no issue in washing them. For such products` often, people buy them, gets dirty and many times the are removed from display or forgotten! Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Beverly, Firstly. you need to determine what type of mirror that your neighbour had placed on their door. This would determine the type of action or non action that you should take. Some mirrors are used for specific reasons or a combnation of reasons: 1. Concave mirror This is used often facing outwards of a missing corner to suck wealth. Thus. is considered one of the worst type to face a neighbor's home. 2. Convex mirror To deflect sha qi (poison arrows) or main door faces a sloping staircase 3. Othe types Flat mirror with or without ba gua trigram surrounding it. Concave or convex with ba gua trigram. Or door twin gods and or Qilin etc.. Try to find out. first Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Aloysius, First, it is good to understand the symbolism called "removing the roof of the home". For example, if we live in a landed property, often, if the owner removes the roof of the home (usually best if removed for 100 days) before putting the roof tiles back, it is like allowing "yang qi" e.g. daylight into the home. Thus, even if we do not do a major renovation for this home, and if we do say paint the entire home , the better. Here, such a home may be considered as having flown to a new Period 8 if it is currently a period 7 home. It is still good to have two or three celebrations after this to make sure the home has flown over to the new period. However, for many who stay in an apartment. What happens? We cannot simply remove the roof of our apartment else above collapses over our home. Under symbolism in Feng Shui, we should thus try to repaint the roof of the apartment e.g. in one session - not 24 hours but rather may take a few days or a week. This is symbolic of "removing" the roof of an apartment. In addition, it is good to give the entire home a fresh coat of paint. And you can still do some of the works e.g. polishing the living room tiles etc... In your case, you should try to have two or three celebrations in the home to bring in "yang qi" into the home. The above is the suggested way for you to fly to Period 8. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Aloysius Chia wrote: Dear FS Master, May I know does a period 7 flat (a unit on the 10 floor) become a period 8 flat after the below changes: 1) A fresh coat of paint to all the walls, celing, main door and main gate. 2) Marble polishing at the living & dinning floorings, overlay new tiles at the kitchen, both toilets, store room and balcony. 3 bedrooms are laminted flooring, so can't change.