Cecil Lee

Dear Diane, 1.In my opinion, kei loons and especially a pair of lions are usually decorative items. 2. In many parts of China, one can see a huge pair of lions outside the entrances of large buildings. 3. In my opinion, there is nothing really magical in them other than they give an imposing `confidence' to the building(s). 4. In Singapore, a pair of lions (large ones) are very popular also. For example, one can see a pair of lion statues outside the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Singapore. At the main entrance of Ngee Ann City (mega) city. Many temples also have the lion statues "standing guard". 5. In my opinion, kei loons are more commonly placed in homes or above the pillars of the drive-way gate. Perhaps we can call kei loons as `puppies' and as a decorative item. Nothing magical. 6. In many very old buildings especially bungalow buildings, the belief is to use figurines with `fierce' or scary look decorating the frontage of the home. Several temples use a pair of figurines of the Door God `fiercely' protecting the home. 7. The belief here is that if humans are not scared of such tame objects as as `sweet looking' kei loon or lion, why should bad spirits? 8. In my opinion, kei loons and lions are thus decorative items... 9. Sorry can u elaborate what is Pi You as this may not be the correct han yi pin yin description of an object and it is hard to piece what it is. 10. For gold ingots, if they are real, and if the price of gold is up (they are never up); sell it and keep the money in the Bank. *JOKE* Well for a piece of imitation gold ingot, if one wants to place, it, think of it simply as a small decorative item i.e. place it where you feel appropriate. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Another area, you can look at or minimise miscarriages is to check whether there is a #5 (misfortune) especially in your bedroom. You can generate the free flying star report and check if #5 is in the bedroom where you are staying in. (In a more advanced level the 81 combinations of the two stars may give a clue as to the type of problems which may be associated with miscarriage) If so, #5 or #2 (sickness) should be appropriately neutralised. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, One observation in Singapore is that there are still many Geomancers; many only familiar with Eight House Theory and practising FS. Some of these practitioners started FS business as a novice, finding the simplicity of Eight House and have not upgraded themselves in their " FS careers ". Hopefully, they should compensate this with good Shapes and Form FS. The main worry about applying only Eight House or Flying Star is that these two theories should not be used in isolation. Many a times, one who only favours numerology i.e. Flying Star; may overlook the Shapes and Form. It is of no great value if it sounds nice on paper i.e. the stars looks great but everyting else outside the house is a `disaster' i.e. the site is lousy, the house has many threats.... With the advent of the internet, many of us, may even be more well versed than a local practitioner. We all can learn an important lesson here: " Learning never ends " and we must constantly have an open mind. Apply concepts or theories that have worked for many people and throw out those that have the list chance of success. (Here, this is no easy task... but one has to be patient and learn from many others). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear All, Here are some questions which we can use as a guideline:- 1. How useful is Shapes and Form Feng Shui? We can make use of Shapes and Form Feng Shui to review our home with regards to the strengths and weakness / threats to our home. If we are choosing a new home, and take full advantage of Shapes and Form FS, we may get a Quantum Leap in Feng Shui LUCK. (This area is worth understanding). But do remember that it is easy to understand but difficult to apply in some instances. 2. Go on the Defensive... Even if a house is considered an EXCELLENT house (by virtue of its EXCELLENT Shapes and Form), this does not mean that such a house does not have a `defect'. The rule: Protect, protect and protect. Stand at the middle of the main entrance looking out and each window in the home. If there is a poison arrow aimed into i.e. the main entrance or window, try to neutralise it. 3. I am currently staying in this present house and WANTS to become an instant MILLIONAIRE... Advice: Go buy a Lottery ticket instead... If your personal LUCK is good... perhaps one can strike rich. But if one feels that FS is the means to becoming a millionaire, one may be disillusioned. 4. My family members are constantly sick or get into a misfortune (e.g. accident). Preferably, seek professional FS advise instead. 5. I have invested heavily in a new home and want to have peace of mind after I moved in. Preferably, seek professional FS advice. 6. My company is in the .dot com business. I face financial problems. Hey!; So does every other .dot com companies especially if they are not a brick and mortar company. For business within the same segment or sector ie. .dot coms, Feng Shui is not the answer! Look elsewhere for finance. 7. In the past, in one of the messages under Wish List, I mentioned that it is only time that Yahoo.com will one day.... get into trouble. Especially when they ran out of money or guilble investors to keep on investing into a blackhole. In my opinion, they are now trying to see if they can get into any viable business (perhaps brick and mortar). 8. Some of us have problems and some turn to religion i.e. some quietly visit a temple or church. Some turn to Feng Shui? 9. Food for thought: If it ain't broken, don't get burnt and try to `fix it'. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Madi, In all periods, #2 (sickness) ; #3 (Bad wood); #5 (misfortune) can be considered bad. But some FS practitioners consider the period i.e. in Period 2 (which is along long way to go); #2 may not be all that bad. Or if we are in Period 5, #5 may not be all that bad. A good example is #7. In period 7, this current period ending in year 2003, #7 is OK because #7 is associated with the Period 7 number. But, #7 if interpreted under Period 8, may not be good. For those who have houses with Double #7 at the front door, need not worry, because, if there is no major renovation done in Period 8, your house will still continue to enjoy #7 or where this house is known as a Period 7 built home. Should one do a major renovation, say in Year 2004, under Flying Star calculations, the stars will fly and the front door need not necessarily be #7. In some instances it could be Double 8s. Since 8 is auspicious in Period 8, a house in period 8, with double 8's would be auspicious. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Miss Quiss, 1. I can understand your frustration in wanting to learn so much of FS and applying it. 2. Generally, many of us do not really need FS. In fact, my people, have been very (very) successful without ever calling in a FS practitioner. 3. What you have mentioned with regards to Traditional FS may not be totally true. 4. This is because, Traditional FS is not ONLY about Flying Stars and how these stars fly. There are other aspects of Traditional FS such as Shapes and Form, which we read about and can apply to our home. Here, Shapes and Form is used to analyse a home especially as a defense posture i.e. threats to the main entrance or living room. 5. In my opinion, many successful people, have very good homes (excellent Shapes and Forms) and prosper. And many people simply fall in love with their homes; and concentrate on their careers... Are doing much finer than those who, `worry' this or that. Therefore, to say that Traditional FS rely only on flying stars is not exactly correct. 6. In many of messages, I mentioned, FS is all about trying to increase `LUCK'. There are many forms or types of `LUCK'. And, within FS, there are various techniques and weightage ... which may help increase or bring down luck. 7. In Traditional FS, the chief forms of `LUCK' is: 7.1 Shapes and Form 7.2 Flying Star 7.3 Eight House 7.4 Correlation to Pillars of Destiny I have elaborated in the past that if one has excellent Shapes and Form for the home, the weightage of LUCK could be in the factor (especially EXCELLENT Shapes and Form) can bring the LUCK already to 60 to 70 percent of the overall LUCK for the home. Any additional increase, we want to do, can only bring in a marginal return of less than 40 to 50 percent more than the above. 8. One can still buy books particulary explaining the `Shapes and Form Feng Shui' but in my opinion, other books, may not be effective as it is not personalised to a person. 9. Books that ask us to enhance i.e. sectors i.e. mentor luck, career luck etc... may not be that effective... Many of these have hidden agendas such as making one buy material goods which is more or less decorative items and nothing magical about it. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. Under the Flying Star (numerology) theory of Feng Shui; the two earth elements are #5 (misfortune) and #2 (sickness). 2. As one can see from the above, the two earth elements are inauspcious. The colour for earth element is = Yellow. 3. Usually, if one constantly falls sick (especially in the new house); most likely there could be an influence of bad earth #2 (sickness star) at a specific location i.e. such as the bedroom of your son. 4. It would be best to confirm whether, there are any bad bad element. The cure for bad earth element i.e. #2 or #5 is the use of metal element cure. Usually if 6 metal i-ching coins tied with red string should do the `trick' to neutralise #2 or #5. And one may not need to change the colour e.g. of the bedroom ie. from yellow to another colour. A neutral colour is white or off-white or pastel shades of white. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Miss Quiss, Frankly, I have clicked a few times on your question. I was trying very hard to see how I could approach to `answer' your question but each time when I things like `mento luck'; career luck etc... It is very difficult to relate this to Traditional Feng Shui which does not associate a room with `mentor.' With regards to your assumption that NW is the metal element sector. Generally, this sector is the metal element sector but may be too simplistic a statement to use. This is because, if one uses the Flying Star analysis; because of the interaction of the #mountain / #water and base # and the time period i.e. Period 7, this sector may not necessary be all metal element. It depends on the interaction of all three elements. The wood panelling may aid or further create more problems.. depending on the three elements as mentioned above. Warmest Regards, Cecil On 4/1/01, Miss Quiss wrote:

Dear Karen, 1. There are many different issues in Feng Shui and Ba Zhi (Pillars of Destiny) and Yin and Yang concepts with regards to determining/recommendation as to the colour in a room. 2. This message would not be able to address all the above. And furthermore, `knowledge sector' is not practised here. 3. With regards to colours, `earth' colour or any other colours, you may have to take it in the context of Yin (darker) and Yang (brighter colours). Since your preference or comfort level is a darker room, it should do. Usually, earth colour is associated with Yellow. I am not sure what is the exact colour i.e. mauve.. if it dark, then, it could instead be `wood' colour i.e. brown... Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Madi, In my opinion, this is a Shapes and Form weakness. Equally important, is that the property should not be `entrapped' i.e. surrounded by taller buildings on all sides and particularly where they are at higher ground. It is a site feature and very little one can do here. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Allan, On an intuitive level, (without) detailed Pillars of Destiny or FS analysis; you can: 1. determine what is your present `LUCK' in the existing home. 2. If you have found a `better' home, or feel that you have found a better one then your existing home. In such a situation, you can try to move residence ASAP. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Johnny, Thanks for bring up this interesting question: 1. When we talk about wealth area, it is good to look at macro Feng Shui. 2. In macro Feng Shui, the traditional way is to look at a land where the dragon Qi can flow from within the land mass towards the sea. 3. For example, many Chinese cities were built where the dragon Qi flows towards the sea. 4. Such as a river, which can be considered a dragon where it flows from high above and merge with the sea. 6. This is truly considered the `wealth area' where populations, can grow and `create wealth'. 7. For Hong Kong, many buildings especially if they are at the mouth of the sea, have a clear opening to allow such a dragon flow from the land mass towards the sea. 8. The question asked for micro Feng Shui is: 8.1. If it so easy to determine one's wealth corner in the home, how is it that many of us are still confused and still shaking our head to try and find this wealth corner? 8.2. How is it that there is no specific book that is written purely on `Location of Wealth' Sector. If such a book exist i.e. either it is not real or the author would try to make it even more ambiguious and many people who having read the book would ask the same question as you do... ' How do we locate where the wealth area is? '. 8.3. Traditional FS is about the 5 elements concept and the balance of it at all sectors. 9. A more commonsense approach is to try to score as much marks in all areas of Feng Shui instead of relying on hearsay comments ie.. " Dear Friend, Your wealth area is opposite your main door. " We often hear many FS practitioners provide such an advise. 10. It is because most of us want to hear this.. and may not take kindly to a practitioner that says... " I really do not know where your wealth area/sector " is. Perhaps, it is more comforting to hear from a practitioner that he had found the wealth area / or sector. If the practitioner says otherwise, unfortunately many of us, do not want to listen to the TRUTH. For those who believe strongly in wealth area/sector... please continue to believe it... In my opinion, we should maximize our FS instead of placing such `silly notions'. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Elizabeth, Usually, in most cases, the incidence of cancer may be associated with under water courses (hidden) below the ground. Check out this link:- http://www.geomancy.net/fs/under.htm Usually hanging crystals may not be a good solution. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Eoin, 1. Although some FS books e.g. author Evelyn Lip had mentioned, certain directions associated with certain occupations. 2. In others, for example, since metal (metal coins) are associated with banking, it was said that Banking outlets should face the `Metal' direction e.g. West or NW. 3. Again, it is said that since South represents `Fire'; business associated with Marketing / Sales should face this direction. 4. In real life, I believe it would be naive to simply look at the `best position' or rather best direction of the front door and associate it with any business. 5. Rather, the front door, should be looked at in relation to the whole business premises. 6. For example, I know of this real life situation of this new condominum where the owner of the supermarket (within the condominum) had perhaps cited their main entrance `wrongly'. Instead of using their main entrance which can be accessible by all, they sited the main entrance within the `secured' controlled gate premises. Here, it made it so inconvienent for their customers to go into their shop house. I wonder how long this shop would last. It may be poor foresight as they had already situated their cashier's counter and it is very much harder for them to resite it without affecting the flow or movement of the supermarket. Warmest Regards, Cecil

This is a short write-up on the legend of the Three-legged toad. Which I had included in the Poll of the Three-legged toad:- There are two versions to the legend of the Three-legged toad:- 1. A Chinese Immortal Lui Hai was said to live in the era of the Sung dynasty in the province of Shensi. According to legend, he was the general who successfully fought off Lord Liu (Master of the Sea Toad). To this a statute of Immortal Lui Hai with his three-legged Toad is considered the symbol for money-making. 2. A second version: Legend has it that there was once a Toad which lived in a deep well and emitted poisonous vapors. Immortal Lui Hai lured the creature with a string of gold cash and killed it. 3. More: Often one sees the Chinese God of Wealth being carried in a procession (festive occasions) together with an image of the three-legged Toad. The association with the God of Wealth (Tau Pei Kong) linked the three-legged Toad with wealth. Hope the above will help everyone to better understand the `origins' of why so much commercialization went into this Chinese belief. The three toad has now become a commercial object and things link a coin and `jewel' added to its mouth etc... Therefore, one can now clearly understand that there is no direct link between the three-legged toad with Feng Shui. The recommended placement of a three-legged toad is on the same wall as the main entrance (next to it) facing into the house. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Karen, At most, without going into detailed FS audit, we have to apply intuitive FS or FS by feel here. You may have to honestly access the situation on your own i.e. did you have a better sleep after painting it to this new colour? Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Diane, Can I confirm? 55 gallons of water? This is quite alot of water. Based on the mountain and water concept, where mountain should be behind the house and water at the frontage, it would be advantages for water to be at the front of the house (providing clear space). If an aquarium is at knee height or higher, this would not be advantages to be placed at the front of the home as it no longer allows for clear space. Too much water in relation to the home is not ideal. Especially if the area of the aquarium exceeds 50 percent of the floor area of the home. For a weak water person, adding metal element would be much better than adding water. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Diane, 1. Black colour represents the water element. 2. It is acceptable for a weak water person to be assocated with Black (or blue or grey) the colours identified with Water element. 3. Usually wrought iron beds the exposed area (in my opinion) does not have that much of an impact on the environment of the room as most parts of it is not seen. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Lynne, You can find a picture of the Three-Legged Toad under:- http://my.geomancy.net/mypictures/cgi-bin/imagefolio.cgi?direct=Interior_Decorations/The_Three_Legged_Toad Under the following link, you can find a poll on the Three-Legged frog in this website. The actual poll and current results can be found under this link:- http://www.geomancy.net/polls/polls-threelegged.htm I believe, you can easily purchase, the decorative item from many of the Feng Shui emporiums dotting the internet. In my opinion, one should treat the Three-Legged Toad, merely as a decorative item. There is nothing mystical about this object. In past forum messages, I mentioned abit of the history of the three-legged toad. Please do a search in this forum for " toad " to find out more... Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Donna, In my opinion, when building a new home, the front door is not the only consideration. Serious consideration should also go towards the entire house taking into consideration the external environment, the site and the land. For the main door, it is best or advantages if it is an excellent location for the breadwinner. For other members of the family (even if one owns the plot of land); try to look at locations where it can be excellent or good for them especially in the bedroom area. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Diane, How to activate a mountain star:- 1. Even if a mountain star can be found, it cannot be activated in all areas. For example, if a mountain star is found at the frontage of the house such as the main entrance door area or at the front of the house. Preferably it should not be activated at the centre-point of the house or centre of the house. 2. For effective activating of a mountain star: 2.1. It can be at the backdoor or in a room especially the back room of the house. 2.2. It can be activated (if found) at the back wall of the interior of the home. 2.3. It should be activated where there is a wall behind it. Here, there can be a shelf where the object to activate the mountain star can be placed. Common items used to activate mountain star is e.g. a solid brass turtle paper weight or other objects that have `solid' mass and does not have wheels such as a decorative rock item. Please see below:- Yes, without further analysis, you can use a wrought iron bed. Generally what is more imporant is the colour scheme as the wrought iron bed will have lesser of an impact since, the bed mattress will be placed on it. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Johnny, 1. If one uses a Ba Gua mirror, it should have a convex mirror at the centre (e.g. like those placed at car park blind spots. It should not be concave as this is meant to `absorb' rather than deflect. 2. For your mum's room, ideally, you could use curtains. For example, two layers of curtain i.e. day curtain and night curtain. In the day time, day curtain could be used to shield against this poison arrow. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Hoang, Frankly, Feng Shui does not have all the answers to having good grades. There are many other factors involved such as your personal interest in your studies and more crucial, your `study' techniques and concentration. Personally, I find having a group of regular friends to `work with' or provide encouragement to. But it may differ in your medical studies. -- Give some thought. Since you are a student, you should continue to find a location that you really find comfortable in e.g. your studies or assignments. In the bedroom, when you really need to rest make the room conducive to a good night's rest. Usually thru the play of lighting and curtains. Sometimes, you may seriously consider having a fixed table in your bedroom to study in the day. Wishing you all the best in your studies... My advise is that try your best to adopt the best approach in studies that will suite you. I personally feel that, having good grades may include, taking interest in the course and at the same time, constant review / understanding of the course materials and in many instances, taking the approach i.e. using questions e.g. such as in past year papers also. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Judy, Based on Feng Shui, one has to try and protect `entrances': 1. Entrances such as the main entrance door and windows. 2. In your situation, determine whether, the broken tree stump is now a `sha qi': 2.1 Stand at the main entrance or the window(s) especially if the tree stump is tangent or `cut's across or slice thru the main entrance or a window. 2.2 If, the above is true; then, it is best to try and take immediate action as soon as possible, such as `cutting' down the rest of the tree and remove the roots. 2.3 If the tree stump does not cut thru the window or main entrance, then, you can take your time to uproot or remove the tree especially if it no longer could grow i.e. a dead tree. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Madi, Thanks for some of your clarifications. 1. Are the drains coverable? It would not be ideal for the drain water to flow from west to east or remain stagnant. 2. Currently what is the distance between the drain and the main entrance? 3. Is the drain parallel to the front entrance? 4. Are there now plants outside the main entrance. If so, how many plants and how large are they? Are they planted or in pots. Thanks. Warmest Regards, Cecil