Cecil Lee

Dear Tegoeh, In my opinion, Feng Shui if properly applied can help boost one's luck i.e. health, harmony and prosperity. But, I would not recommend quick fix ideas; unless one has already been `blessed' with good earth luck e.g. excellent Shapes and Form Feng Shui of the house - which can give a quantum leap in Feng Shui. Otherwise, one may have to do much of the investigative work to try to boost one's Feng Shui. Therefore, if one is doing D.I.Y. Feng Shui then, one have to spent some time to:- 1. Shapes and Form Although we cannot change much of our external environment, we can try to find out and enhance or neutralise threats to the site/house from any poison arrows or Sha Qi. For the shapes and form of the interior, one may have to understand the various concepts and apply them appropriately. 2. Eight House and Flying Star It is best not to provide me with the compass direction of the main entrance door; but rather, try to use the available tools to find out more of your home thru the Compass School of Feng Shui. I am always available should anyone wants any clarifications on Feng Shui. The key success factor in Feng Shui is to try to improve luck in all areas e.g. under Para 1 and 2 and not just one compartment or quarter or area in Feng Shui. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Grace, 1. Chinese Astrology signs:- a. 27 Jan 1971 to 14 Feb 1972 = Year of the Metal Pig. b. 17 Feb 1969 to 5 Feb 1970 = Year of the Earth Rooster. 2. Under the Chinese Astrology, the Pig is more compatible (excellent) match with the animal sign of the RAM (2003). 3. For the Year of the Horse, both the Pig and the Rooster has to be more understanding and tolerant of the Horse sign. 4. In my opinion, under Ba Zi (Pillars of Destiny) - the Year and Day of birth are considered important for `compatibility' purposes. Thus, even if say one is thinking of having a child (in a year); it boils down to not only the Year of birth but on which day, the child is also born. These two would `affect' the compatibility. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Marko, 1. One would rarely if ever find Chinese lanterns with symbols of `autumn' or `winter' as symbollically these are not suitable on Red Chinese Lanterns. 2. In fact, symbolism is important in Feng Shui and you can in-fact, use the globe Chinese lanterns (with spring and summer) all year round. And change them when their colour fade-out or their material worn out. Furthermore, red is considered an auspicious colour and can be used all-round the year. And it does not necessarily mean that during different seasons, one may have to change colour e.g. black or white = winter (colour). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anthi, It is best to grow plants in a garden. In my opinion, for plants grown e.g. on the balcony, or interior of the house e.g. in an apartment/flat it would depend on the type of indoor plant. Not all outdoor or plants that require sunlight can be grown in the house. It would therefore be nice if one has an area in the flat or apartment for natural sunlight to flow and open space especially the balcony area where rain water can at times `splash' on them. For indoors, in my opinion, planting plants can be quite tedious if there is not enough sunligh. And one may often need to bring them out to sun. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Carrie, Enclosed please find the two files where the center-point(s) are marked. Try to take a compass reading from the center-point to your front door as shown under the file "upper level-centrepoint.jpg ". Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Marinella, For the work orientation of office table, you can use the Free report: " Work position Report " at http://www.geomancy-online.com to check which is the best favourable direction of your office table. (To help best position your table). However, do take note that in the application of Feng Shui, there are lots more rulesets that need to be considered. For example, I feel that it is more important to give first priority to position of the work-top based on Shapes and Forms Feng Shui. If you using the Eight House Theory, it is best also to generate the Free Eight House report to see which room is best for you. Under the Eight House Theory, this is of primary importance and the favourable position of your work-top comes next to this concept. Wishing you an advance HAPPY BIRTHDAY! And to Happiness, Health & Prosperity! Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Based on Shapes and Form Feng Shui, it is best to place the fountain either within or at the balcony area (of the frontage). In Flying Star Feng Shui, we usually use it to locate the water stars e.g. #1's + #7's. However, if we are not using Flying Star but basing more on `intuition' then: 1. As mentioned earlier, if you balcony `has an opening' the fountain can be located at usually the `east' side or when one is facing or looking out of the balcony, try to locate it a the `east' side wall or open space. 2. Besides the balcony, and if you have an alternative `large frontage' especially if you house is rectangular in shape, the fountain can be located again at the `east' side of that wall or open space. 3. Ideally, based on the Shapes and Form, it should be located eitehr within the balcony or at the balcony. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Kieren, 1. Ideally, the compatibility of two persons is good: normally one common binding element is sufficent. 2. However, there are many different combinations. As you have given an example: WEAK vs WEAK i.e. weak fire vs weak water. Here, the binding element would have to be two binding elements: wood and water element: where wood is a necessity here. Where wood must be need to strength the weak fire person and to offset the introduction of water for weak water person. With this two elements, it will form a combination flow i.e. water -> wood -> fire (flow). 3. Therefore, any of the permutations of: WEAK VS WEAK WEAK VS STRONG or STRONG VS WEAK STRONG VS STRONG Any of the 5 elements in relation to the above can form a binding element. The above is Traditional best pratises but I found many FS practitioners not practising it. And this is one of the key analysis that we make use of. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Michael, Currently, it is pre-mature for me to confirm which is correct. 1. Overall, Red is considered an auspicious colour). However, (red) doors are featured predominantly in many Chinese buildings (especially guarded with the two lion figurines on either side of the main entrance. Therefore, since this is considered an auspiciuos colour - to some people it means wealth or being prosperous and lucky. 2. Red is considered the most Yang of all the colours and represents the fire element. This is perhaps why some consider it `anger' as fire can mean `flaring up of temper' etc... 3. Therefore, in each case e.g. colour of red signifies prosperity while on the other hand it represents the `fire element'. 4. In Feng Shui, it depends. It depends on the Ba Zi (Pillars of Destiny) of the breadwinner in relation to the `facing' or direction of the main entrance door. It can also apply under Shapes and Form Feng Shui (especially if the main entrance faces e.g. a cemetry... Therefore, both arguments (depending on each situation) as no two situations are similar may be correct. Thus, there is effectively no right or wrong answers for this type of question. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Carrie, If you have a sketch of the various levels of your house, you can let me have a look. You can either sketch it using a simple drawing program or even Microsoft Excel or MS Word (drawing feature) and attached it to this forum. Alternatively, feel free to our fax number with a sketch(es) to +065 4820570 for me to look at it for you. Usually for the basement, I am more concerned with the entire various layout of each level of the house. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Marinella, If your birthday is on 12 February 2002, this is the start of a a new (full) moon. The start of Chinese New Year (12 February 2002) is always considered an auspicious date. And if your birthday falls on this date, you can expect your birthday to be the most widely celebrated occassion by the world's largest population of approximately over 5 billion in China and by many overseas Chinese all over the world. For the Chinese, since 12 February 2002 is the first day of a new moon (full moon); do you know that our Chinese New Year is considered as a total of 15 days from 12 February 2002. This coincide with a total of 15 days of the rotation of the moon around the sun. Many of us (overseas) Chinese in predominantly Chinese populated countries e.g. Singapore will have official public holidays on Tuesday & Wednesday (12 February & 13 February 2002). Many traditional Chinese companies that can afford to close their offices for business for many days. However, the tradition for office opening is:- If a business wants to open business on the THIRD day of Chinese New Year e.g. 14th February 2002; traditional Chinese businessmen would go to their office on early morning of 13th Februray 2002 to `open' their office. They can then start work on 14th February or the THRID day of Chinese New Year. If a business wants to open business on the FOURTH day of Chinese New Year or 15th Feburary 2002, they can go ahead to open their business on that day. Wishing you a Prosperous & Happy Birthday! (in advance!) Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Kelly, Yes, so long as: 1. If the sharp corner(s) cannot be seen, it no longer becomes a threat. 2. Breaking the profile of the sharp corner would allevite the poison arrow(s). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Appreciate if you can clarify the following:- 1. let me know which floor (level) is your house. 2. when you mentioned that there is a mosque opposite your apartment; it is facing your balcony. 3. can you describe more about the 3-dragons water fountain i.e. does the water spout out of its mouth into e.g. a basic or otherwise. Grateful, if you can let me have further information. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Due to the poison arrow of half the corridor & a unit directly opposite it facing - this industrial buidling occupant placed a Ba Gua mirror above it's front door.

Dear XiuMei, 1. It is a lovely painting which is an Emperor (5 claw) dragon playing with a pearl. 2. Your painting of a blue dragon is considered one of the 4 symbolic animals. 3. This blue dragon in Feng Shui is known as the dragon of the East. And symbolises, sunrise and fertility. The dragon playing in the clouds symbolises that it is the `source' of rainfall (good for agriculture). 4. Since this painting `dances' in the cloud in a `playful' gesture, and it deplicts a smiling dragon; it is good to hang the painting specially in the living room area i.e. where the room has some `clear space' or often may have some open windows. 5. Avoid placing the painting in your bedroom and study room. Thanks again for sharing with us the lovely smiling dragon painting. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Users from Argentina, Subject: E-mail Address ending with .ar (Argentina) 1. Please take note that our servers have blocked the entire .ar (Argentina addresses). 2. Therefore, any user who comes from Argentina and using e-mail address e.g. abc@cde.ar or abc@xxxx.ar will not be able to participate thru the mailing list option. 3. This is because many of the ISPs (large and small) in Argentina allow their servers to open relay spams. And some of them have even forged some of our domain names. This has led to receiving forged or rejected mails - supposely from us. 4. And these ISPs are not responsive and continue to allow open relays e.g. allowing their users or third party to sent spams to the international community. 5. We therefore, have no choice but to ban the entire .ar country domain names. As there can be at any one time 30 or more `unbehaved' .ar country servers trying to connect to our servers with the forged headers. 6. If you are in Argentina (.ar) and want to participate thru the mailing list option; please use an account such as hotmail.com to `listen' in or participate thru the mailing list option. 7. So far, this is the only country that which we feel is unresponsive to the international outcry to stop open mail relays (where many servers of .ar companies are helping spammers to sent spam). Requests to the country's ISP is like sending mail to a blackhole. 8. We therefore, regret that we will continue to ban all .ar mails until, some `law' takes in-to this country's internet community. If you are from Argentina, we apologise for any inconvenience caused. Warmest Regards, Cecil Lee

The Shaw House, Singapore. A typical `earth' element type of building. Earth element buildings have flat roof.

It is typical of many if not all Chinese restaurants to use red for their main entrance. This restaurant uses a " Fan " shaped signboard. In Mandarin the phonetic sound of a Fan is " shan " represents good. At the same time, many Chinese scholars or officials used to carry fans and even fans were frequently used by Chinese Immortals. Here, fan is considered an auspicious symbol as it is said to also help drive away evil.

Dear Max, 1. For a new home, one do not need to strictly adhere to the Grand Duke or Tai Sui theory. Especially if it has not even been stayed in yet. 2. It is always good to choose auspicious dates for: 2.1 Start of renovations. 2.2 Choose a good date for symbolic "move-in". 2.3 Choose a good date for actual move-in. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Steven, 1. I am indeed sad to hear about your problems. Glad that your are progressively recovering. 2. Robert and myself, will pray for you and your family. 3. The Feng Shui we practise here may need some patience and if you have the time; can go thru some of the messages. 4. To help you further, if you know to take compass readings of the centre-point to the main door, we would be most happy to provide you with Free Paid Professional Reports for you and your family. 5. However, as mentioned earlier, since we are not physically present at your home to do an audit, you may have to try to understand key concepts and especially the advise later in the various reports. 6. For the Shapes and Form, if you have a scanned street map or if you can fax it to us at +065 482-0570 or sketch it out and give some details, I can also comment on the plot of land of your house. 7. For a start, if you have the time, you can also use the SEARCH feature in this forum and type in any key words. Usually, there are already existing replies to a known question. 8. As I mentioned early, Good Feng Shui practise is not `Hocus Pocus' and is not one liner like " Where is my wealth sector ".. these sort of things. Feng Shui is a holistic method based; and usually, we should always try to apply most of the good theories or concepts that can apply or be effective to most people. And discard, those that may even be good but seem not to be effective for lots of people. This is where, for example, we should always approach Feng Shui and other of our goals or objectives. 8. We wish you all the best for a speedy recovery! 9. Please e-mail us privately at support@geomancy.net Warmest Regards, Cecil Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Tina, Thank you for sharing with us your information. Yes, especially for those in US, it is always prudent to check the credentials of any "FS practitioner" first. As you have mentioned, by asking a few questions; one can have a feel of the person at the other end. I understand that you are on disability income. If you are able to take personal reading e.g. from the centre-point to the main entrance; we would most certainly be glad to provide you the necessary Free credits i.e. Free "paid reports". To help you. Actually most of our paid reports were specificially written for our own professional audit use. And, we feel that it is similar to us being present to do the actual audit. Other than the visual cues of Shapes and Form and taking the necessary compass readings. Because of the high costs of internet charges such as ISP hosting and bandwidth charges, we had to make them paid reports to help defray mainly the hosting costs. Anyway, please e-mail us directly at support@geomancy.net so that we can credit you the necessary FREE paid reports for you to begin analysing your home. We are always around if you should have any clarifications with regards to these or any other reports especially via this Free Advise forum. Or to clarify any Shapes and Forms Feng Shui specific to your home. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Ben, Thank you for your frank suggestion. 1. At this time, we have no intention yet to sell any Feng Shui products. 2. The reason being we want to focus more providing learning resources and quality consultation services both Free and paid. 3. Despite the fact that selling Feng Shui products can be lucrative. However, we do not want our website to lose it's focus. 4. Maybe, in the future, for the sake of supporting users with the proper items; we will probably look at more useful cures such as the six coins, ba gua or windchime. 5. Meanwhile, for those who really cannot find authentic items, but really need our help to do so, we can try to source the item and sent it out at a nominal cost of purchase and postage or courier depending on the urgency (more as a support service for our clients and users here). A. 6 coins - where 6 represents big metal and the coins themselves are of the metal element. B. 6 rod metal windchime - again 6 represents big metal and the constant cling of the rods, is like metal "hammering" element such as earth #5. C. For using `wood' as a cure; it is less `clear' as to what one can use. In my opinion, for a "wood cure", I found that one pot of plant is sufficent to cure a sector that requires a wood cure. It is my opinion that it is a plant where if it is placed on a floor, it is about the height of between 1 1/2 feet to 2 or 3 feet high type of plant. Since you are using a minature jade plant on second thoughts; two pots is still acceptable. To be frank, I may not always be right. And, it is good to see that you have also looked at Feng Shui with a `questioning' mind. I am very happy to see this. And, it is always good to ask questions. For example, after you had mentioned about or had questions concerning Yin and yang e.g. odd or even; for me it is good to relook at situations. I am equally happy to find users in the forum also have constructive questions e.g. recently a recent message about: time-zone in Pillars of Destiny and another question related to binding elements. Like "America is great for entrepreneural spirit"; it is good to understand Feng Shui by questioning and thru the process; all of us learn more! For me, each day is also a new learning experience and we therefore continue to learn more from one another! (And equally important; we learn from our own mistakes and try to hopefully improve on them). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Tina & all, Determining the center-point of a house ======================================= If you have a sketch or layout plan, feel free to post it to this forum, so that I can locate it for you. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Hoa Luong, Please note that Chinese Astrology books usually provide you the element based on Year of birth. For example, if a child is due or born on or after 12 February 2002; i.e. if the child is born on 13 March 2002; then he/she is considered as born under the Year of the FIRE Horse. Pillars of Destiny not only consider just the YEAR of birth. A simple Pillars of Destiny chart also consider a person's MONTH, DAY & TIME of Birth. Here, for example, the month could be water element; Day - wood element etc... and If one understands carefully each `pillar' i.e. Year, Month, Day and Time of birth has what is known as heavenly stem and earthly branch. And as mentioned above, in a simple Pillars of Destiny chart: there are already 8 variables to look at. Not just Year = Fire etc... Please continue to read my reason for not applying Time Zone at Geomancy.Net. The use of Time Zone is not a traditional approach to calculating ba zi. (ie. add the GMT changes to the hour of birth, this concept is a new concept by some modern Feng Shui practitioners - perhaps to impress on others.) There is only 1 traditional teaching on applying location factor, and that is to apply the location factor (long, lat) of the exact position when you are born to the lunar moon location. This is a complicated process for calculating and also for the people who are going to use it. At Geomancy.Net we decided not to apply any changes because of the following factors. 1. How many people knows exactly the long & lat of where they are born exactly? Many people don't even know the hour of birth let alone the long & lat of birth. So if you don't know the EXACT long & lat, one slight change in 1 degree of any of the angle, will result in a even more in accurate analysis of your birth chart. Coz, a single degree of inaccurate can result in different hour pillar (or worst it might change your day pillar). 2. Any Four Pillars analysis (if they use GMT Timezone conversion) will again not be accurate because the GMT Timezone only use one factor of the location. And now in recent times several countries have adjusted their time zones e.g. by 1/2 an hour to an hour or more. 3. Next, this involves the fact about knowing how ba zi works. If one knows how ba zi really works; one would be aware that even if one does not have the hour of birth it does not really matter. 4. What is the rationale for this? 4.1 With Hour of birth, you will get an additional House of Life (Advanced Pillar). So all in all you have 4 pillars and 2 additional Advance Pillars (this results in better determination of the element strength). 4.1.1 Usually most people who basic 4 pillars are already weak or strong usually will not have much changes with the additional pillars unless that additional pillars really affect the overall chart (particularly the house of Life). This is quite rare, but we do find some people with such a change. 4.1.2 And with the additional pillars, what you can get is just further details of the chart itself. (Otherwise, if the birth element strength does not change at all, it. weak wood is still a weak wood despite having all the additional pillars) There will be absolutely no impact on the final luck pillar reading. 4.1.3 Thus, even if you exclude the Hour of Pillar entirely, it does not really matter much to the final analysis, only affects the determinating of your birth element whether weak or strong. 4.1.4 Let us be realistic: not many people have a clue about their hour of birth; and even if they included their time of birth - there is a high chance that the time may be inaccurate. And this is an accepted fact. 4.2.5 If one has lived a full life; a Professional Ba Zi consultant can actually input only three variables i.e. Year, Month & Day of birth. And, work backwards to find one's Time of birth (based on the two hourly time intervals of Chinese hour. 4.1.6 Therefore the existence of the Hour Pillar is considered Optional (best if you know it, but not a really necessity if you don't know it.) 4.2 A Chinese HOUR pillar actually equates 2 hour. This means that there is already a 2 hour level of inaccuracy involved. This means that even if you are 1 minute apart it will not affect the reading much unless your 1 minute is in the boundary of 2 different hours. 4.3 But when you apply the location factor, it can shift this hour pillar a lot so that there may be a great change in the hour pillar details. Therefore, I mentioned if you do it wrongly or you miss enter your Location factor, it will cause more inaccuracy than making it more accurate. 4.4 The Luck Pillars is calculated from the Month Pillar, so whether or not the hour pillar is there or not, it does not make a difference in the Luck Pillar analysis. 5. Therefore, because we have looked at it carefully and felt that there is really no need to include the " GMT " time factor - which in-fact would create more inaccuracies. Warmest Regards Cecil

Dear Becky, 1. Yes, you brought up a good point. Often, you will see Feng Shui practitioners analysing a birth chart of a house. Without due consideration of e.g. two parties (husband and wife) sharing a room. 2. Please check out this url:- http://www.geomancy.net/reports/reports-list/cmplist-comparison-pillars-rep.htm 3. This sample report gives a comparison of e.g. husband (strong metal) and wife (weak wood). The binding elements to get the two parties to be compatible or reduce conflict is Water element. 4. Thus, this is known as the `binding' element. And it is recommended that for the bedroom of the two persons; we can use the binding element of water. And if they own the house, they can do with more of this element especially in the bedroom area. 5. The same goes for comparision of the binding element for two children staying in the same bedroom. 6. For example, if both a person's son (Weak wood) and daughter (strong earth) are staying in the same room; the binding element is wood element. 7. In my on-line and offsite audits; I have a table drawn of the combination of binding elements between two parties e.g. - Husband & Wife = binding element = wood (Strong Earth vs Weak Wood) - Husband & son - Husband & daugther - Wife a& son - Wife & daugther 8. Such an analysis also tells whether which family member gets along very well with each other or whether, some effort is needed (incompatbile issues) etc... 9. Thus as you have mentioned, the binding element concept is the key to `bind' e.g. the husband and wife. 10. Therefore, in Feng Shui or Pillars of Destiny; it is not so simple as buying an object and placing it at a sector e.g. South-West (romance sector). 11. If one really understands or want to use Traditional methods; it is certainly not the "instant coffee" type of approach. 12. As you can see; most of the time; whatever questions we have would have been `anticipated' or thought about carefully. Especially if both Feng Shui and Pillars of Destiny has been taken seriously. But I believe; if you go and ask many practitioners they may just give a " huh? " is that so... Warmest Regards, Cecil