Cecil Lee

Dear May, It is good that you provide a simple sketch. A bedroom is said to be usually a place of rest (yin). And a potted plant is "growing" e.g. leaves : thus considered yang and not suitable. 2. Commonsense approach Effort has to be made to constantly look after the plant. Some plants may not survive well inside a home; thus may need constant "attention" such as bringing it out to sun once-in-a-while. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, All over the world, many of us work either in an open office and use system furniture and are not able to or (have the luxury) of placing our table to our good directions. So this is indeed a consolation to you. Based on the holy trinity of luck:- 1. Heaven luck - what is given to us (Ba zi) 2. Earth luck - the office environment is only of the other factors. Other factors include our home. 3. Human or man luck - given that currently one is quite constrained on the earth luck i.e. unable to face a good direction for work, then, we should make use of our man or human luck to good use i.e. be a good team player and work smart ...not necessarily hard Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Sophia, From many of the current cases, usually the most common (neutral) element for the main entrance door is natural wood or wood stained in various colours e.g. pine, walnut, rosewood etc... In addition, doors that are also: white or off-white or cream or pastel shades of colours are considered acceptable and often a non-issue at all. For those who want to consider door colours such as "primary" colours (BRIGHT) i.e. Red, Blue, Green or Yellow could perhaps check the suitability, first. Otherwise, if natural / laminated wood or wood tone colours are used, do go ahead with it. In addition, if one is constructing a new home, could perhaps, use the Feng Shui ruler to get good width, height dimensions. For Singaporeans, in some past forum message, I had indicated that all HDB entrance doors (had been Feng Shuied before such that they are of good Feng Shui dimensions. Because of the race sensitivity, this fact is not know to everyone!) As a test, if you do have a Feng Shui ruler, go ahead to check the door measurements of such apartments. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Symbolically, it is good not to display broken objects. Since the Fu Dogs are decorative items, one can dispose off-them the usual way e.g. either dispose it by ourselves or pay others to get rid of it for us. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, In Singapore, a frog is quite rare sight. But not sure, how prevalent they are in your country. But alternatively, could be instead be a toad? A frog is known as a celestial cock and a symbol of a frog is common on a charm to act as protection. Both a toad and frog are known as "moon" creatures or creatures that are associated with the moon. For a toad, it symbolises longevity. No harm "chasing it" away so long as not harming them. In the past, the educated in China really hate the frogs / toad croaking as this affects their concentration in learning or work. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Sophia, Not many know that in the past, elephants had roamed China and they were very common within the North and South of China. A set of elephants actually represent a "source" of strength. And often, the elephant is decorated with motifs and thus considered as bringing fortune to the family. The elephant is both revered in Thailand (especially the white elephant) as well as is one of the gods of the Indians. It is Ok to have a pairfacing or looking outwards. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Edwin, 1. Vertical Flying star or house numbers. I think you did not use the freehouse number analysis tool. This is perfectly OK, since the house number analysis tool at http://www.geomancy-online.com has to do with apartments. Actually house numbers is subject to so many different interpretation i.e. numerology is diverse and used differently by many people. Such that in some cases, it can be interpreted as good while in other instances, it can be interpreted as bad. In Feng Shui, house number is not a major consideration since, both Shapes and Forms Feng Shui and Compass School Feng Shui does not relate to house number(s) at all. 3. Numerology As mentioned above, there are so many diverse interpretations based on numerology. And can easily come to a 50:50 good or bad situation! 4. Phonetic sound-like To the Chinese, not so much of Feng Shui, numbers have a "vocal" significance. For example, 4 sounds like "die" in Cantonese dialect etc... 5. Under Flying Star Feng Shui Since we are under Period 8, some practitioners would say that 8 is very auspicious. Thus anything with 8 during the period is said to be auspicious. However, 9 is also acceptable, since it is also considered as future prosperity. Therefore, from a Feng Shui point of view, numerology is thus considered totally unrelated to FS. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Sharon, You can do a SEARCH in this forum especially the forum messages in the early part of 2004. It has been discussed and I had also elaborated point-by-point the type of "change" needed to fly over to Period 8. Warmest Regards, Cecil

The Bayshore and sea-view facing units.....

Dear Jason, For a bedroom, we should look at it from the perspective of: "nice-to-have" or "must-(should)-have". Often, many of our bedrooms are small, and furthermore, there are "restrictions" such as having windows and there is also the bedroom door. Because of all these constraints, there are few if any best positions to place the bed. More importantly, between the two schools: Shapes and Forms or Compass School (Eight house), the most important consideration is based on Shapes and Forms Feng Shui. Here, Shapes and Forms Feng Shui should be considred as "must-should-have". While the eight house concept would have to be considered as "nice-to-have". Often, realistically, once we have already stayed in a specific home, there is not much one can do - since a bedroom is small with some of the above constrains. Thus, it is most important to go for good Shapes and Forms. As the advantage, here is that furniture arranged in this format is often the "most-comfortable" or logical for the bedroom. Other contraints include: avoid having the bed-or-our-legs pointing towards the bedroom door. As this is the "dreaded" coffin position. Thus inauspicious. In Singapore, it is often, not good placing the bed leaning across the windows especially in high rise - especially if some inconsiderate smoker should let go their cigarette butts or ash. and this may fall on-to flammable cotton /pillows or bed sheets. A universal concern is that a child may inadvertently climb onto the bed and if there are no grilles, could fallout of the window(s). Thus, nice-to-have is not necessarily the end-of-the-world. There are always other areas in the home where one could improve on. From a Feng Shui perspective, another area is to harmonise the bedroom to the bazi or eight-characters of the person sleeping, there. For example the most common is the use of colours that harmonise to the person i.e. the wall colour, bedsheet or the curtains. Shift the bed if one must, but not to the extend that any logical person looking into the bed would laugh at the arrangement! Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Amy, Fire element careers are often associated with:- Marketing and sales Law (prosecution) Public relations, fashion Chemical process or any other liquids e.g. fuels - oils Fashion or Livestock Homemaker Metal careers are often associated with: Accountancy, banking, coin mintage, enterainment, finance, hardware, investment, jewelry , loans, Management consultancy,mechanical engineering, money, perfume, politics, rail, trains Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Tim, Please see below:- In another example, if base = #1, this is acceptable since 1 = water and can partially drown earth elements (#2 or #5). Warmest Regards, Cecil

If one is applying Flying star Feng Shui, (without being at location to access the qi); but from your description, looks more like the "mouth" of the home comes from the facing of the pool/club-house rather than the lift landing area. Therefore, based on the preliminary information, tapping the Flying Star numbers based on the facing of the pool/club-house would be the best choice. However, are there any other facing besides the pool or the main entrance door? Usually, most condos have three "openings" or locations where either there is the main door, windows facing one side and another side. So far, the only buildings that have two sides with windows/doors are terrace homes that are sandwiched together (other than the corner unit of a terrace house). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Timothy, Please see below:- If however, the mirror does not face the door directly, this is still OK. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, In my opinion both cases you had mentioned below are non-issues especially for the fire hydrant. As often, it is quite low and does not pose any "poison-arrow" issues. In fact, from a non-Feng Shui point of view, this is often a blessing in disguise as it is right in-front of one's home As for the electricity sub-station, there is also no issue since it is quite a distance away. And often, even if one lives close to one, there is no known bad effects from it. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Emily, Given that the mountain star is #8, water is not a good idea here, since firstly water at an auspicious MS#8 can drown or "drop the mountain into a hole(water)" thus making it inauspicious. If you have a landed property or if your is a landed property, then landscaping with rock garden would be favourable to further enhance the mountain star #8. In addition, neutralise the #6 - strong metal water star. This is provided the base star is also considered. Here, you have not mentioned what is the base star number. As it should be considered together with the MS and WS. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Chee Kiong, Actually, the clue has to do with the "strength" of your element. For example, there is a difference between a "weak" fire person and a "strong" fire person. Under the Five elements concept; the idea is that if one is weak, one should increase one's element. While on the other hand if one is strong, one should try to decrease it. Here, in both instances, what we try to do is to become "balanced" i.e. a "balanced" fire element that is neither too weak or too strong. In your case, since you are a strong fire person, water is favourable to you as it will help to reduce the strong fire. The opposite is true for a weak fire person. Water will further help to extinguish his /her element. Try to understand the above and hope it makes sense for you. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, To be honest, there is very little information to go on to assess whether it is OK to place the fridge close to the main door entrance. Usually, in a compact kitchen, often a fridge do happen to face a stove. This is especially acceptable if the kitchen is located in the south of the home. It would be best to avoid such a situation i.e. stove face a water position (in the north or if the kitchen is at the north). See if the new location feels more comfortable to both of you or the earlier location. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Alvin, There are two major considerations, here. Firstly, as you have mentioned: that you are a weak fire person. Therefore, on a hobby level, it is not that advisable to rear fishes given that water can inadvertenly extinguish your weak fire element. However, another major consideration is the "luck" factor of the home. Here, each of us is an individual with our own distinctive date and time of birth. Equally, each home has it's date of birth. Senario ONE 1. The fish tank was placed correctly at the water wealth sector. For example sectors that may have water star #8 (present water wealth location - under Flying star Feng Shui) and sectors like #6 where there is a strong metal location etc... 2. Even if one is a weak fire person, but has correctly placed a water feature (be it a fish tank or a water fountain correctly) either : To enhance wealth or to neutralise sha qi. 3. To enhance, I have given a specific under Para 1. Sometimes, a location may have sha qi or a fishtank had been used to correct a poison arrow suchas a lamp post slicing towards the window of a home. And a water feature has been placedfor this purpose. Senario TWO 4.The fish tank was placed at a wrong location. Such as a mountain wealth location. Here, "water inadvertenly drowns themountain." Ora water position has been wrongly placed at a#9 mountain wealth location. Where 9 = future prosperity. And 9is the fireelement. Water at this sector can drown the "future wealth prosperity". 5. In another senario, where there is a mountain star #8 (current wealth location - pian cai or relationship or lottery luck sector, water again could wrongly drown this luck! Therefore, from the above two senarios that: ONE:A water position placed correctly within a homecan boost one's wealth without MAJOR regard to whether one is a weak fire or strong water etc... TWO: A water position placed wrongly in the home can be a double edged sword: It is already not auspicious for aweak fire person.Yet, one further AGGREVATE the situation by making it worse by "destroying" the home's wealthalso. Like they say, here: Everything went wrongly for me! I am in a vicious cycle of poverty and never seemed getting out of it! The above two senarios show that it can go "both ways"! Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Frankly, traditional Schools of Feng Shui specifically use two major schools: 1. Shapes and Forms Feng Shui 2. Compass School: The Eight House (Ba Cai) or The Flying Star Feng Shui Thus fixed template "Feng Shui" or adapting the Eight Aspirations or Life Aspriations concept of the Eight Trigrams is common today. Although it looks very easy to apply, it is considered too general by Traditional Schools of Geomancy or Feng Shui. In addition to the above, the Ba Zi or Pillars of Destiny of individuals are also used by Authentic Traditional Schools. It all boils down to another major concept: known as "The lowest common denominator or LCM" or everything revolves around the Five Elements concept. The Five elements concept is thus like a gel that holds all the major theories of authentic traditional Feng Shui together. If you really want to apply proper Feng Shui, it is best not to use the "fixed template" model of e.g. Career = North; Romance = SW etc.... Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, For the bedroom, it would be best to avoid any water scenery painting or poster in the bedroom. Otherwise, often, other types of painting or poster has to be looked at individually. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Tim, Actually, there can be some "misunderstanding", here with regards to the statement: "qi would enter the house through the main door". Frankly, this is just a simplistic explanation to quantify that qi exists. However, qi can enter a home from any directions if there are any openings be it a window, the backdoor or any crevice or holes or any openings - vents in any home. For the purpose of applying Flying Star Feng Shui, often the "frontage" of a home is located. And for the purpose of Flying Star Feng Shui, once this "frontage" or mouth is determined, it can be used to plot the flying star chart to determine where the best qi to e.g. place a water position etc... No offence, but in my opinion, this is a wrong way to work on "enhancing qi". From what I read, you mentioned the need for a "remedy". But in the first place, what is there to remedy if the door is a perfectly normal set of entrance. It is not good to place a mirror wrongly i.e. such as facing the main door directly. Even if it is good Feng Shui in the first place, in commonsense approach to Feng Shui or purely on commonsense; for example, if we are in deep thoughts and the moment we open the main door and immediately see a shadow of a person, some of us may get a "shock!" thinking that someone else is at the home. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Hung, If one applies the Compass School of Feng Shui: Eight House (Ba zai) and/or Flying Star Feng Shui the basis of this School has to do with the magnetic compass and not geographical compass. Thus, for any home / office /building /site investigated via the Compass School of Feng Shui, a magnetic compass has to be used to determine the magnetic north and other cardinal points etc... For the purpose of evaluating any site / building or interior, one has to determine the "center-of-gravity" or the centrepoint of say the layout plan of the interior.

Dear Anon, Frankly, in the past most of the "Feng Shui" of a shopping complex is done-up either based on intuition or via Feng Shui advice on the construction i.e. type of external design of say a shopping complex. Here, if a geomacer is tasked the job, he will do an environmental scanning of the surrrounding buildings andadvise on the type of structure. For example, if the neighbourhood is made up of largely of earth buildings or buildings that are squarish or rectangular in shape, a geomancer may advise that the owner build a building is in the form of a wood element e.g. tall structure e.g. like a trunk. For example, for those in Singapore, good examples are: 1. BANKS: DBS (Development Bank of Singapore) LTD vs UNITED OVERSEAS BANK (UOB) The HQ of DBS bank or Shentonway Tower 1 and 2 is in the shape of a rectangular type of building or known as earth element building. UOB's HQ building is in the form of a tree or wood element. Imagine the roots of a tree crushing into the soil or earth. 2. The Merriot Hotel (formerly Tangs) at Scotts vs the neighbourhood Most of the surrounding buildings near to this landmark is of the earth element type e.g. Wisma Atria and other buildings nearby resemble earth structures. The above is to illustrate that more importantly, the external environment is the most crucial for Feng Shui. Such as the frontage, water positions outside of or within the complex (office or shops). 3. In the past, it is very rare for retail outlets to have water positions SIMPLY because of the limited real-estate space to sell! And, most of the time, water position within this retail space may not be able to tap on good feng shui because that it is simply too small. 4. Nowadays, here: the idea is "YOU ASK, YOU GET" type of responses. 5. In the past, when buildings are constructed, some developers consult geomancers. Nowadays, even small retail shops get geomancers. And because there is not much else to do, these geomancers would thus recomend fish tank etc.. since, there is relatviely nothing much more (visible) or invisible that can be said to be "Feng Shui". 6. The morale of the story is that what is more important is the location, location and location PLUS business model. So, do you think placing a fish tank in a retail will work? Warmest Regards, Cecil