Cecil Lee

Dear Joan, Frankly, if this is your home (not shared or rental), it is best to have clear space e.g. air-circulate around the room rather than have a portable screen (since this is the side of bed facing the door) and not one's leg facing the door. If you do feel uncomfortable, then in the evening, simply close the bedroom door. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear MK, In my opinion, the balcony is not the best place to place an altar - especially if it is subject to the elements (e.g. rain or direct sunlight). For plants, there is often no specific plant but rather, for indoor plants often, they should have "waxy" leaves and darker green colour. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Kenny, In the past, a new charcoal stove is used until it becomes old. Nowadays, it is only used to perform this action. After performing this action, it is best to gather a few pieces of charcoal e.g. 3 pieces, wrap it up in red paper. Note: the charcoal represents "gold" or wealth. Clean up the charcoal stove and place the charcoal on-top of it. the entire stove is kept inside a cabinet e.g. in the kitchen. It (the charcoal stove) should not be thrown away or given away. Throwing it or giving it away especially to strangers is like giving away our wealth. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Elena, If the main door is at the facing direction, you may consider tilting it to away from this double facing position. Otherwise, frankly, there is no way of "tilting" the entire facing direction -- just not possible, here. For some homes, or landed property, some even correct it by changing the "facing direction" i.e. relocating say the living or rooms with high activity... Warmest Regards, Cecil

Further to what I had mentioned, if the glass blocks are squarish or rectangular - piled together to form a "wall", this is OK. Do avoid circular glass blocks - much like the pothole of a ship or those found on a ship i.e. circular windows. Here, circle is considered not auspicious especially since it could symbolise a "sinking" ship. Where, the pothole of a ship seeps in water and thus sinks a ship. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Jen, Yes, the idea is much like a partition or screen. Since there is no real air moving in a straight-line between the back glass blocks towards the front door and vice-versa this is OK. Even if the back can be seen thru this glass, it is still ok. Imagine drawing a straight arrow thru the air. If it hit's a solid object such as a glass block, then this is not a straight path directly thru to the back. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Try to visit this resource:- Discuss :: Free Advice (General Feng Shui) Conference: Part I - Facing direction of a home dated 4/22/2004 Part II - Facing direction of a home dated 4/22/2004 For a better understanding on this matter. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Ming Le, Frankly, at your "age" since you are a student, one is often totally have little say in where our bedroom / cum study area or location is. Thus, in my opinion, like the millions who had gone thru this stage, it is good to entirely "scrap" the idea of Feng Shui or the notion of it. In fact, many people like yourself has completed their studies successfully -- withou the notion of "Feng Shui". This is because, firstly, your room is a "tiny location" and as mentioned above, you do not have full control of your environment. It is best to look at the holistic approach to Feng Shui or the holy trinity of Feng Shui: 1. Heaven Luck 2. Earth Luck 3. Human or man luck Having said this, since heaven luck is what is given to us, while your earth luck is not within your full control, you like the millions or billions who are studying should rely more on the Human or man luck factors. Here, human luck can suggest e.g. studying smartly, good exam techniques, healthy diet and good frame of mind. In addition, you can apply the Yin and Yang concept for your bedroom. For example, if it is time for you to study in your bedroom, have sufficient light especially during the day or evening to "encourage" you to study". When it is time to sleep, you should be able to feel cosy to sleep. For example, if your room seems too cosy -- that one could fall asleep immediately, then, it is best to find other alternatives e.g. another place or location e.g. such as the school library or corridor with table and chairs. Under Feng Shui, usually, the key success has more to do with its influence on a large location than say a "tiny" room. Of course, technically speaking, it would seem that we should study facing a good direction but, often, I have seem the young, growing up, without even applying Feng Shui. Instead, such young persons often, have their own rooms, a specific table where they neatly place all their "study tools" e.g. pens, pencil case, and all their books are right at their finger tips! I strongly believe, this is much, much better than all the Feng Shui in the world! The morale of the story: "Scrap the notion of Feng Shui, and get on with your life -- to make a success out of it! " Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Glenetta, Frankly, as mentioned earlier, this has more to do with beliefs than Feng Shui. In my opinion, one could place the evelope perhaps at the same location where we often have a "central" focus or display or on a table. Sometimes, we could place it at convenient locations such as next to or close to the set of keys or the table where we place our wallet or set of car keys etc... I have never done this before -- i.e. the placement of a "wish" envelope, thus, perhaps, this could be the wrong place for such a question. To me, any place will do so long as the wind does not blow it away or a place where, it does not collect dust or placed into a location that after sometime, we have forgotten it. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Under Feng Shui, there are several ways to go about it: 1. One's personal feelings. Often things like a small turtle or small water bowl, we often can place it at any location that we most likely, feel comfortable with. For plants, especially a single plant, we can still often, find a comfortable corner e.g. in the living / dining or around a corner of a home. But if one is growing a "jungle" or forest of plants or trees, it would be better to have them at the balcony or around the garden area of a landed property. For a singular fish tank, we can still place it often in a location for us to enjoy e.g. the living room. For a fountain, often, most likely, it can be placed in the front garden or balcony (fountain) 2. Feng Shui applying both Shapes and Forms But if we are going to have several fish tanks or fountain in the "name sake of Feng Shui" than we should first, approach this by identifying areas under Shapes and Forms -- such as the most likely locations are usually in a "clear space area" such as the balcony or living roomarea. After this, to be more exact, apply Flying Star Feng Shui to determine where is the water stars compatible with such a water position e.g. it can be double #7's (to drown it) or #8 water star to activate water wealth etc... Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Jen, From what you have written, there are basically two types of exit: 1. Entry/exits of "convenience" 2. an exit to fullfil a statutory requirement e.g. fire safety 1. Entry/exits of "convenience" ==================== As you have mentioned, often, many have a garage. And for ease of entry and exit to the garage an "exit" or entry door is located in this area towards the home. In addition, many homes do have a backdoor - to allow human activities at this location e.g. bringing out garbage, hanging or drying clothes etc... 2. an exit to fullfil a statutory requirement e.g. fire safety +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sometimes, an exit has to be built to satisfy a fire safety requirement. In Feng Shui, especially under Flying star Feng Shui, we have what is known as the "facing" and "sitting" position. And frankly, under the Flying star Feng Shui, we do not need to literally locate the front door at the facing nor the back door at the sitting position. More importantly, for most homes, it is always favourable to have windows "all round" the home so that air-flow can circulate througout the home. (Less those staying in regions that often this may be a disadvantage. For example, especially those staying in the northern hemisphere, such as Beijing, it is best to avoid having a back door or window facing north (i.e. the cold winds and yellow dust ). For a home therefore, we should not purposely create a door just because of or in or under the name of Feng Shui, but rather, do we have a USEFUL need for it? (the exit or door?). Thus, the saying goes " You live, here we don't!" Our home should be reasonably thoughout -- comfortable, practical to stay in! Imagine! If a FS practitioner suddenly says "Hey! don't have a garage entry/exit door to the home since " there could be thecar's exhaust". So what do we do? Just because of this,and if our garage is tight, we may have to do a crap-walk (sometimes walk sidewaysdue to the tight space) out of our garage etc... What also, if there is a heavy rain? The morale of the storey is "to build a home,that is practical, and fits our lifestyle -- most. Rather than built constraints onto ourselves just because of or in the namesake of "Feng Shui". Under Feng Shui, the major consideration is i.e. the external environment. For example, if our main door or back door is "hit" by a neighour's sharp roof, then we should try to "protect" it. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Jen, Thanks for your description. From what I understand, since you are only installing glass blocks with the idea that it let's in light into the home and not an opening, then there is no direct path for qi (chi) to leak out from the front to the back of this "wall". Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Glenetta, To be honest, this has more to do with beliefs than Feng Shui. Since the Chinese consider red as auspicious, usually, anything to do with red is favourable. For example, for us, the Hong Bao or red packet - which is a small red envelope is often given (with dollar notes e.g. $2 or $10) each. A sample of the red packet can be viewed under this link:- http://www.geomancy.net/mypictures/cgi-bin/mypictures.cgi?img=0&search=red+packet&cat=all&bool=and Often, the Chinese would buy red paper i.e. red on one side and white on the other side. They would write "lottery" numbers on this paper. If you want to you can do the same. Or if there is a pink paper, you can write-down on it. As to whether blue or black ink, there is no issue. Traditionally, Chinese calligraphy uses black ink. Thus, black is OK. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Actually specific part of the analysis has more to do with the tradition of Chinese naming convention. Or often, this area is used by Geomancers when one is considering "changing" one's name. Here, for example, you have zero percentage of earth element in your birth chart. For the Chinese, we have a Surname and often two other last names. For those who are newly born e.g. an infant, when chosing a name, a geomancer will usually try to see if an "earth" character can be added to the person's name. Since you already have 44 percent of fire element, where possible the geomancer will try to avoid adding "fire" or a character with fire in one's name. Therefore, this component or analysis has more to do with the above. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Since you are a strong wood person: Your best colour is Fire element (red, pink or purple). Your two other OK colours are earth and metal colours. Since you are a strong wood person: imagine that you are a strong tree (wood) and your roots has the ability to crush and anchor itself into the earth. Hence, earth is suppose to be your "wealth element". Therefore, your alternative best colour (in addition to red) belongs to the earth (yellow, cream or beige) colours. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Frankly, this is difficult to solve considering that it flows under your foundation. In the past, a pagoda was erected - to help reduce the effects. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Ann, Frankly, in my opinion, I don't see any issue or problem using it. So long as, it should not be visible when one stands inside the home. This is because, symbolically, it is not good that we in our home see a "sha qi" or poison arrow. This is much like the concept: if we are to place e.g. a twin lion, it should preferably to plump (prosperous), smiling (harmonious) vs a fierce and ferocious item. Do try it and perhaps, do let know, later if it helps or not. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Zan, For many years now, usually, you should be able to purchase the 2005 Chinese alamanac during the Chinese 7th Lunar month. Since this is often the time, the publication comes out of Hong Kong to Singapore. (Usually, you should be able to buy this 2005 alamanac from middle of August 2004 onwards. And once it is out, you can easily buy it from any HDB neighbourhood incense shop). If you can wait until then, no issue. Alternatively, you can check out our Auspicious date service:- http://www.geomancy.net/products/po-dates/po-dates.htm Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Emily, Yes, especially if the home does not undergo any major renovations to change it to a new period, it would normally remain. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Zan, Yes, in my opinion, there are two sides of the coin on your false ceiling:- 1. Asthetically, many of us read too much on Feng Shui. And based on visual look and feel, it "reminds" many people of a "beam". 2. On the other side of the coin, this is often, in my opinion, more to do with cosmetic look rather than a real impact on us. Since, this is a light weight material and unlike a concentrated beam e.g. several inches by several inches, this is flat half-way round. So whether, are you going to be "mentally" affected by it, depends on you. Some practitioners would advice buying two flutes and placing each on either side (let the flute be in a vertical) position on each side "holding-up" the false ceiling. This looks ugly Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, If you are entering data into the reports under www.geomancy-online.com then, you should simply enter your western calendar date of birth. As our reports will automatically convert (use the Lunar calendar to evaluate). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Paris, I believe, in Singapore, like everywhere else, a good indicator of a home with good Shapes and Forms is the price of the apartment. Often, needless to say, especially an apartment with very good view, size, location and (other factors: proximity to MRT) would ofteninfluence the price. When looking at a home, frankly there are many considerations and it is best to bring all family members to view the potential new home. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Good Luck Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Pirkkala For a favourable placement of a fish tank, it is best to apply both the Shapes and Forms and Compass School : Flying Star Feng Shui Since your ba zi is a "strong fire" person, a fish tank is in general, favourable for you. However, as mentioned above: Shapes and Forms Feng Shui vs Flying Star Feng Shui Here, Shapes and Forms should be combined with Flying Star Feng Shui to look at the suitability of the placement of a water feature. Frankly, what you had mentioned i.e. best locations of fish tank e.g. at south-west etc... is considered "kindergarten type of Feng Shui". In the above senario, often, the most suitable location(s) for the fish tank is often in a location such as the living room. Next, since you mentioned that your home has been renovated in the mid 80's, this home is most likely a period 7 home. Next, chart out the natal chart of the home i.e. Period 7. Then determine each sector in particular the living room. These are often the consideration as to whether to place a fish tank in say the living room: 1. If there is a double 8 at a sector in the living room. Here, since the water star is #8, one can activate the water star, here 2. If there is only a mountain star #8, then placing a water feature here is no good, since water can overwhelm this auspicious mountain star. A mountain or solid object with mass should instead be placed, here. (Often, besides the various solid objects, sometimes, a FS practitioner may ask their clients to obtain several stones the size of an ostrich egg, paint it in gold and placed it at that location to activate the mountain star). Thus, in the above senario, if a mountain star should be activated but instead, we activate it with water, this sector becomes inauspicious! Since water will drown the earth or "erode" it. 3. As mentioned in several previous forum messages, #9, #1 are important numbers under this new Period. 4. Thus, even if the natal chart is a Period6 or Period 7 or Period 8 chart, for example, #9 plays an important signficance. For example, if there is a MS #9 at the living room and if one decide to place a fish tank at this sector (since 9 = fire), what one is doing is to extinguish one's future prosperity sector! What I wanted to show you above is that, instead of applying kindergarten Feng Shui where generally water could be placed at certain sectors, it is much better to apply Flying Star Feng Shui. Here, one would then not be at a loss, of what to do or what had generally happened - that bring bad luck. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Joan, A faster change would include the building having a new coat of paint from this year onwards. Here, both the building and the interior are in sync. Warmest Regards, Cecil