Cecil Lee

Hi, Chinese culture is quite diverse and each specific `tool' is used for different things. No, Feng Shui cannot possible make you loose weight. However, you have to move up the chain. What is the Chain? In the structure of Feng Shui, Chinese Divinity, Health etc.. there is a chain and if you cannot find your answers, you can move up the chain. Lets look at a very general overview of the Chain:- Highest Level : Taiji Upper Level : Yin and Yang Middle Level : The Five Elements Lower Level : Specific `Applications' such as Feng Shui, Ba Zhi (Eight Characters), Medicine. If you cannot find a certain thing, you look up the higher chain. For example, if loosing weight is not found at the Feng Shui `level', look higher up the chain for an answer. You will not believe this but last year, when I visited a Chinese Book / Music Store in my country, I found music pertaining to: 1. Loosing weight ie Obesity 2. Constipation (Wow, imagine, if you play this at work, the employees might end up queuing at the toilet!) *Joke*. But this is true! 3. Headache, migraine .... What you are looking for comes under Chinese `Medicine'. Using the concept of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements. There are drinks e.g. certain Chinese tea for slimming. (Of course, you must also do your part). Under food, Yin and Yang is as follows:- 1. Yin food refers to e.g. uncooked food, steamed food etc... 2. Yang food refers to fried food, salty etc... Unfortunately, this is too large a project to undertake here i.e. Chinese Medicine. Maybe later on but the concentration here is on Feng Shui. I hope to work on palmistry.net website as this is part of Geomancy hopefully this year. Chinese face reading and hand reading are an intergral part of the `completeness' of Chinese Geomancy. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi, To summarise: 1. One should not personally `disturb or touch' him during this period. 1. In your home, you should avoid offending the Grand Duke. 2. Someone else outside can `disturb' the Grand Duke e.g. digging at the East and this will affect you also. The advise is to place `big' metal between you and the disturbance. For example, a large object such as a car. (Metal). But if you are doing gardening, a spade between the house and action going on. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi, Thanks for bring up this intresting but tragic story. It is based on the concept of " Priorities or Importance ". I have mentioned that in Feng Shui there are priorities. Some users after reading certain books on Life or Eight Aspirations felt that this is the most important thing to do. But I have clarified that this should not be done or if it is done, other Feng Shui principles MUST be considered First. For example, as you have mentioned, if the house is at a Y junction, the most ideal situation is to move out. If one stays in the house, no matter how much cures we seemingly try to cure within the interior of the house, it will not be as effective. You have highlighted an important point:- There are some Feng Shui Practioners who only eat and sleep on the Flying Star. They can get the charts done `perfectly' but what is the use of doing one if other more important Feng Shui audit are not done. You can have the most perfect flying star chart of the house but like you mentioned, the House is at a Y junction or at a T junction, frankly, this is bad. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi, In my opinion, No, it is not very accurate to mention that the pyramid shape are considered very yin just because there are instances of the huge pyramids " which are home of the dead ". There are a few points here:- 1. What you are mentioning is solely on the pyramids e.g. in Egypt for the `dead'. Here, it is not necessarily true since each pyramid is made of huge blocks of stones or earth. This is considered Yang. 2. We cannot relate the `dead' with the pyramid shape. In Feng Shui, symbolism is important and as most users are aware, the pyramid shape is considered of the Fire Element i.e. pointed object. It is advantages for a builder to construct a building after most people in the environment had built theirs. This is because if there is a Metal building somewhere in the neighbourhood or most of the buildings in the vicinity is of the Metal element, it would be advantages to build a Pyramid shaped building or hotel. Here, under the 5 elements concept, you will notice that FIRE destroys METAL and as a end result, creates wealth for the Pyramid building. The above is how Feng Shui is used in relation to the Five Elements. Everything about Feng Shui revolves around Yin/Yang and the Five Elements. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi, Not too long before the `Internationalization ' of Feng Shui where FS practioners read more of each other's works:- 1. Hong Kong FS Masters/Practioners are associated with the use of fish tanks to counteract sha. 2. In Taiwan, in the past, the `trademark' is the use of plants. Since most of us are not in Taiwan and Hong Kong: What happened? Most FS practioners all over the world use both! The one of the basic rule of the Shapes and Form School is not to (unnecessaryily) create poision arrows. Since most or all cactus plants have spikes these are considered poision arrows. Most of the time, if we follow simple rulesets such as above, we can in time easily deduce what is `good' or not so good. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi, Not to be confused, usually gardens should have a balance between Yin and Yang. The easiest answer is:- 1. Rocks, stones and anything `hard' is considered Yang. 2. Trees, plants, water point are considered Yin. It is best to have a mix of both and you usually find a good garden have both features. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi, I had written this short article in the past: http://www.geomancy.net/fs/pakua.htm 1. We are trying to romanized all words used in the website and the correct term for Pakua is Ba Gua. (Pakua is a Hokkien term - a dialect of the Chinese). 2. Please do not be mistaken an ordinary mirror with a Ba Gua Mirror. An ordinary mirror is considered `Yin'. Too much of the mirror will create a too yin environment. 3. Please read the above article and you will understand the difference between: The First Heaven and Last Heaven Ba Gua and their use. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi, Generally bird baths that are equivalent of a face bath bowl or the `sink' should not be considered as a water position. But becareful, if it is more than 1 metre and have stagnant water, it is not auspicious. There should be some activity at the bird bath. More... As for birds, there are two situations with regards to birds:- Those that fly freely and those that are caged. A `secret' weapon of Feng Shui is that it is auspicious to have birds flying freely around your house. This means that there are trees around the house to provide a serene environment. Here it is `as good as' having Feng shui enhancers e.g. fountains. For caged birds, for many society and even for most Chinese, this is not auspicious. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi, Grateful if all users can take note when creating a new topic, please try not to use one syllable word e.g. Dowsing. I have changed the wording to: Is Dowsing Important? This is because it is easier for Users here to `pick' and choose the topic they want to read. Thanks in advance. To find out more on what you have mentioned please go to this url: http://www.geomancy.net/fs/under.htm You will find the answer there. Thanks. Cecil

Hi, Here are some points to note:- 1. The best advise is to `re-look' the entire shape of the house. 2. As Robert mentioned, a missing corner is one where it is greater than 33.3 percent of the house. 3. Usually, if we do not look carefully, we may accidently consider a protrusion to be a missing corner. 4. Like you mentioned, it is impractical to place mirrors on both sides of every wall to re-enact a missing corner. You can check out the url: http://www.geomancy.net/fs/building.htm for the significance of the `missing corner'. One way to offset it is to use neutral white for the entire house. The purpose is to keep the entire house bright. This is still acceptable for a person with Strong Metal element as white seems the best choice of all the rooms. If you have the opportunity to use the Flying Star, do take note that if it is an inauspicious sector and it happens to be at the missing corner, you may have to pay more attention to this area particularly if there is a 2 or 5 star at this location. If the rest of the locations have missing corners of less than 33.3 percent and is an auspicious location, this is acceptable. Worse still to use a mirror at an inauspicous Flying Star location. You will bounce back twice the bad luck at the location. Therefore, in such a situation, it is best to look at your house in relation with the Flying Star Chart. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi, It is `customary' not to move the bed when one is pregnant. The Chinese believe that this may result in a miscarriage. Similiarly, if the wife is pregnant, it is best not to move house during the term of her pregnancy. If there is a real need, she should not be around to see the movement of the bed etc... As Robert mentioned, this is not Feng Shui but more towards Chinese Superstitious beliefs. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi, Basicially, Feng Shui is not a religion and thus there is no relevance to statues or `statue worship'. Feng Shui is both an art (Shapes and Form) and a science (Compass School: Eight House and Flying star). For those who are not aware, the Dragon Horse and the Dragon Turtle statues are derived from the two stories of how Fu Xi, a Chinese Emperor discovered the Luo Shu grid which is the mathematical formula on how the Flying Star base numbers, water and mountain stars are derived. The url for this story is under http://www.geomancy.net/fs/tortise.htm Similiarly, Flying Horse (Dragon horse) tells another story of another pattern found on this horse. I guess, some enterprising marketing `people' got the above idea and decided to come up with statues based on the above numerology. The best advise for placement of such objects are:- 1. It should not be placed on the altar with other Chinese Gods or Catholic Saints. 2. If you do not have an altar, you can display these statues facing the main door or in a specific decorative cabinet. Ideally, they should not face any of the bedrooms or even be placed in the bedrooms. It is good to let them face an open window in the living room. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi, Golf sized crystal balls are not ideal to be used to activate the Mountain Star. Firstly, the Mountain Star should be non-moveable and I am not sure if the golf sized crystal balls have a `solid base'? The base should not move and by stringing the golf sized crystal balls, they are thus moveable. For the slanted roofs, you have to confirm:- 1. What materials are they made off? If they are wooden supports, then you have two choices:- Use Big metal as proposed by Robert to neutralise or `destroy' the Wood element. Ideally, use the ancient Chinese coins with the square holes in the middle. Here you can use red string to tie them up and stick them on the beam. (To prevent them dropping, loop the red string over the beam. So that should they `drop', it will hang over the beam. 2. For other beams, you can use two bamboo flutes shaped like the top of the pakua profile for e.g.:- --------- Beam / \ flute flute From the above, you will notice that the two flutes looks like the top of the Ba Gua profle. 3. For the Bedroom, this is optional but you can consider a Poster Bed with four pillars and you can place a cloth material or something like a mosquito net (material) or lace material on top to act as a roof for the bed. Lastly, the higher the slanted ceiling, the less the effects of the beams will have on someone below it. Alternatively, one consideration is to use a rotating ceiling fan (usually made of metal) the metal element will offset (destroy) the wooden beams. (Not compulsory but just a thought). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Glyn, Thanks for your reply. Frankly, I have not come across or read anything regarding the use of bunk beds and its effects. This may not be an `issue' because from what I understand, the upper bunk bed is uniform and spreads evenly throught the lower bed unlike a beam which is `concentrated' and may put more `pressure' or sha qi on a particular portion of the body. As there is not much written documentation on bunk beds, in my personal opinion, I find it acceptable if you are short for space in a bedroom. As I mentioned, it is not similiar to a beam. This is because when a person sleeps above or on the top bunk, his weight is spread evenly. Secondly, there is no poision arrow aimed at the person sleeping at the lower bed. In my opinion, when I was young, I do recall sleeping at the lower bunk bed (my elder brother was above me). So far, erh... I don't recall any side effects:) If your children feel restful and have peaceful sleep most of the time on the bunk beds, then this is fine:) Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi, Frankly, the Eight Mansion Theory is only to find your good and bad directions. It has no relevance to the placement of a bird feeder. There is no impact on the placement of a bird feeder as it does not have sufficient mass to influence any location i.e. it is usually small in comparison to other `objects' within and external to the house. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi, Recently, I read in the local newspapers that living too close to hight tension wires are not adviseable. However, rougly from what you have wrote, I guess the high tension poles/wires are quite far away. The recent article mentioned the higher incidence of `cancer' living too close to the high tension wires. If it quite far away, it usually do not pose any `threat' to your dinning room windows. In my personal opinion, if it is more than 600 metres away is still acceptable. If there are trees planted between the high tension poles and your home much the better. Let me share with you one of the Traditional Feng Shui Theories called " Penmanship ". In the past, many Chinese settlements errect a Pagoda at a specific location of their settlements. Some of these pagodas were errected above underground water. With a pagoda at the location, to offset any built up area. In recent times, underground water was found not `healty' for those living above it. The other purpose of erecting a pagoda is so that the decendents can strive to do good in their examinations. Currently, if one can see a tall object e.g. telecoms tower or narrow pointed structure on the right of the study table (when looking out of the window), this is considered good as it means " Penmanship " or one becoming a scholar. Particulary if the child is of the wood element.

Hi, Thanks for bringing up a refreshingly new question. In general i.e on a macro level, overall, hospitals are considered a YIN location. Frankly, all of us (doctors & nurses included) have reasonable levels of personal AURA to defend ourselves from YIN elements. 1. Nurses and Doctors move around and create active Qi. 2. For the patients, there are a few categories:- - Some patients are weak and frail and these are the ones that do have more YIN. - Majority of the patients are recovering and in certain hospitals there are a few classes. Some of the higher classes have TVs or 4 share 1 room to 1 room per person with TV. 3. I am not sure what is the practise in other countries but in Singapore, we are allowed to visit a patient anytime of the day ( even thou there is a fixed visiting period). Families of the patients do create active Qi in and around the hospital. This follows one of the principles of Yin and Yang where ideally, there is more or less a balance of Yin and Yang. Basically all human beings unless they are very sick provide some Yang energy. This is opposed to a cemetry where unless there are work activity, it can be pretty quiet and `slow' moving. Well this is indeed a new area for exploration and what I mentioned is based on my personal observations, perhaps, you have your own personal experience on the above:) Warmest Regards, Cecil Lee

Dear Helen, Sorry for the delay in response. You can use `metal' element to counteract the timber as metal destroys wood. You can place e.g. metal tin `circular' metal tin foil on each beam:- 1. Stick 6 metal tin foils or 6 coins on each timber piece. The coins can be any coins e.g. diameter can be 2.5 cm or more. Chinese " ancient " coins (those with square holes in the centre are equally acceptable. If you use the " ancient " coins you can string them with red string and stick them on each beam. 2. What is the purpose? 6 coins represents Big Metal and is used to counter wooden beams. Under the 5 elements concept, Metal destroys Wood. Warmest Regards, Cecil Lee

Dear Lisa, There are a few considerations here:- 1. North East Direction is considered the devil's gate. It is adviseable for you to:- a. Use the Eight House Template to check which intangible force is influencing the main entrance door. Best that it is not the Death / Disaster location. b. It is also good to know which intangible force affects your masterbedroom. As for the North - East Direction or devil's gate, you do not need to worry other than to avoid having a lone large plant on the North East or on the right side of the house i.e. if you are standing on your main entrance and looking outside, you should avoid having a large tree on the right side of the house. c. Since your master bedroom faces the main entrance door directly, the best advise is to use a partition at anypoint e.g. either closer to the main entrance or close to the master bedroom door. So long as it cannot be viewed from the main door, this is cured. d. A less effective method is to close the master bedroom door and not leave it open at all. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Joe, In tradtional Feng Shui, here are the points related to the stove:- 1. The Kitchen is an important component of ahouse as this is where food is being prepared. It will help to ensure good health for the family. 2. The emphasis here is on the position of the stove. In anicient China, building a stove was a very grand affair where an auspcious date and time. This includes the position of the stove. 3. In traditional Feng Shui, preferably, the position of the stove should compliment the spouse (wife). Ideally, it should be placed at one of her inauspicious location but facing the auspicious direction. 4. One " hidden area " to check is to see that water pipes do not " criss-cross " or run across the stove or close to it. This would signify the the spouse (wife) or family members may suffer from health problems. (The cure is to use red e.g. a red tile or earth element. Fire or red strengthens the Fire element while Earth element destroys Water element). 5. The rubbish bin (open or concealed) should preferably be not next to the stove but further away. 6. The stove should also not face e.g. a toilet door or be on the same wall as the toilet. 7. The stove should not be below a beam or water pipe as this may result in the two husband and wife having mental problems. Although the logic between what you have mentioned " having enough food and heat " are `similiar' between the two, Traditional Feng Shui uses both the Shape and Form School, Compass School (auspicious and inauspicious location) plus two other theories or concept: The Yin and Yang (hot and cold) and the Five Elements Concept). While the BTB uses very generalised theory i.e. as the stove is important, we should enhance it. The BTB is more a interior design method. Where else, traditional FS primarily aim is to enhance Qi and not so much as generalised ideas of e.g. placing a mirror to enhance the stove. A Traditional Feng Shui person would say this: What happens if the location of the stove is an inauspicious one? Placing a mirror would'nt reflect twice the bad luck? I personally feel that another view point is that BTB uses entirely " intuitive " or trial and error Feng Shui. In Traditional Feng Shui is about Qi manipulation and not so much about interior of the house. Although this is a secondary component, most of us would pick up a book and start to " enhance " our interiors. As books are written for the general user, you will see many people, start hanging wind chimes etc.. But what these people did not realise that this may or may not work or worse do more harm. For example, if we start to use the Numerology method of the Flying Star to assess each individual home. Someone recently wrote to me saying that because their year element e.g. is Wood, they belong to the wood element. Hence started to do " Fast Food " Feng Shui in ehancing e.g the Fence, gate, door etc.. in colours suitable for the above example: Wood. Only to realise that under the Pillars of Destiny, you have a combination of 8 elements. Yes, the year of birth could be Wood, but what happens when the day, month and time of birth elements and their strength are not taken into consideration. Lastly, many BTB books I believe are written by Intelligent people and one must have done your personal homework to understand both Traditional and BTB. I mentioned much earlier that to the " surprise " of many is that the past Grand Masters of Feng Shui did not learn Feng Shui from another Master, but from books (erh.. not BTB books I believe... ). The best way each of us can do is to pick up what is good and discard the bad. Personally, Robert and myself, have read more than 400 Feng Shui books and will continue to do so. The reason is simple, it is good to understand all `Schools' and from here pick only the best or combine the best of each concept. Warmest Regards, Cecil -----Original Message-----

Hi, You mentioned that the lake is at the back of the house and at the right side. 1. Is the lake part of the entire `estate' of this housing community or detached. 2. How far right is the lake from the house. 3. What is the view like from the front of the house. 4. Is the land flat or if not, which part of the land (the site the house sits on) is higher e.g. If you look out from the main door entrance, is the right side higher than the left. 5. What is directly behind the house or view like? For example: can you see the back of another house or is it a `solid' protective backing. Overall, as you are aware, ideally, a water position should not be directly behind the house. If it is not, but on the `far' back and right of the house, you still can `defend' the house. As for a big tree at the back it is the least concern or contrary be good if the size is in relation to a `large' house e.g. with around greater than 8,000 square feet area and it also depends on:- 1. the size of the backyard, 2. which compass direction is the tree at. Another thing you can do is to check your Eight House template to see if the house `suits' you or not. Also, where the death or disaster intangible force for each family member is `located' in the house. What intangible force is influencing you in your bedroom and each family members bedroom. These are the initial `tasks' you may need to do first. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Mercury, Thanks for sharing with us the picture of the sticker. In this part of the world i.e. Far East e.g. Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Phillipines, it is quite common to find people of religious faith `combine' their religion with Feng Shui. Although Feng Shui is a non-religion. Here in this forum, we do not mix religion with Feng Shui. I have seen or studied quite alot of Chinese drawings(symbols) and emblems. Currently, the most popular drawings (symbols) are of 1. The Yin and Yang (circular symbol) 2. The First Heaven Sequence symbol. Even Geomancy.net uses both in its logo. Another variant is the I-Ching format or Tai symbol used by Geomancy-U.com and Geomancy-online.com The two symbols are considered `potent' symbols e.g. used in talisman and on many FS items even the Luo Pan. The drawing submitted by look more like a logo of a `business' enterprise or `religious' enterprise. It is also not found in any of the Authentic Feng Shui symbols book. My conclusion is that it may be of a `religious' value or the FS Master's trademark of sorts. Unlike the First Heaven Sequence Trigram, which represents a family unit and used by many to ward off evil etc... I don't see much in the symbol. In my opinion, the symbol looks more like the NASA or an atomic symbol which I feel is a modern `invention' not based on traditional Feng Shui, divinity or Chinese Astrology. So, don't worry about the effects (even if it is blessed). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Simon, The following are points to consider on the display of ornamental Japanese swords:- 1. Like any other swords, it should not face the main entrance door. 2. It should be displayed with the protective sword casing even if the sword is blunt. 3. Ideally, it should be displayed in a display cabinet. 4. The best location to display the ornamental sword is in a `separate' room. For example, in a private office, a `person' room . 5. Avoid displaying it in the living room, dining room, family room. As mentioned above, it should be in a " private " room. If it is displayed under para 5 above, there may be a possibility of relationship problems. Finally, in my opinion, it should not be displayed in a house with young children. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Jason, I have just logged into the geomancy-forum webconference. Have viewed the gif image. Yes! This is to confirm that you have got the centrepoint marked correctly. Warmest Regards, Cecil