Cecil Lee

Hi, Currently there are four methods of dealing with a T junction (not in any order of importance):- 1. Change the angle of the door to face one of your best directions i.e. tilt the door to one that faces one of your good directions. This is said to `kill' two birds with one stone. 2. If your main entrance door is elevated, you can have semi-circular steps leading to the house. This is one technique of `radiating' sha ch' away from your main entrance. 3. Alternatively, if your main entrance is level to your external of the house, you could consider a specially made semi-circular carpet e.g. of half of a sun with it's fiery sunlight (spikes) radiating away from the main entrance door. This is the same concept as " Ming Tang " where it is common for buildings to have a semi-circular pool of water outside the building. Radiating outwards. 4. Hang a pakua above the main entrance door. To find out more, please go to this URL: http://www.geomancy.net/fs/pakua.htm Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi, There are a few factors to consider:- 1. There are many situations where a house has `perfect' Feng Shui based on the Flying Star or Xuan Kong Fei Xing calculations. But unfortunately, the house is simply not suited to the owners. For example under the Eight House Theory, it is the death or disaster line of the owner. Perhaps, he/she is sleepin g in the room with the disaster etc.. bad influences. 2. Sometimes, it is true that the House has bad Feng Shui especially under the Shapes and Form e.g. T or Y junction etc.... My advise to those who are not Feng Shui experts is perhaps to get a qualified Feng Shui Practioner to look over the house and provide an assessment. As each situation differs, we cannot discount all repossessed houses bad. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi, It is hard to say whether the house is `good or bad' unless you get a Feng Shui Consultant to view the House. There is alot of consideration in analysising the house. For example, it has to be based on the Shapes and Form of the surrounding houses, the house etc... You have also to check if the house suits the person. At the same time a Flying Star Chart has to be drawn up to location any sha qi etc.. Frankly, a house `tainted' by being used to be a Meat factory is in my opinion not a real `worry' because:- 1. The worst cases are those that are `gruesome' eg. mass murders, suicide (you can imagine what I mean). 2. Usually, the total destruction of the factory and rebuilding homes over it changes the qi in the location. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Glyn, In general, the `calculation' of the amount of water is similar to the `calculation' for Missing Corners. This should be less than 33.3 percent of the house. Here we are talking about e.g. pool water. However, FIRST PRIORITY should be given to the consideration under the Shapes and Form i.e. it should not be in the centre of the house, the back of the house etc... Waterfalls with water in storage tanks etc.. are least affected because this is mostly installed by building owners and it usually does not exceed a `small' percentage of their land area. On the micro-level, it would depend on a person's element and how well it goes with water. For example, if a person is a weak Fire element and water is bound to extinguish the `fire'. Similiarly, it is equally bad for a person who is a Strong Water element, it will overwhelm him/her and the result is intense competition at work or become sick. There is a further complication if the person has a partner and one has to look at the Five element relationship. There is a free Feng Shui module that compares two person's element and provide advise on which element that can `gel' both partners. Equally, for rooms e.g. a study room, water should not exceed 33.333 percent of the entire room. Do take care if one also has plants because you need to consider them. Having too much water or plants create an unbalanced Yin environment in that location. Warmest Regards, Cecil

In general, as a balcony is above the ground and not on landed property, you can easily grow almost any plants that can bloom at the balcony. This is because, it is more important that you enjoy your little garden on the balcony then be constrained by what to plant. So long as the flowers continue to bloom, it is considered auspicious. For example, I have two plants on each side of my house balcony. Since the day I placed them, every day, you can see flowers on both plants. When my house was undergoing re-tiling, the plants we placed some other loation. They almost died. However, since they returned to the same location, they are continously booming. Go and see plants especially those that are flowering and if you like one, go and get it. Feng Shui for the landed property is different. As we are aware, in a short time and depending on the plant, it can grow to a huge tree. Here, you have to consider the Four Symbolic Animal Concept:- 1. Ideal locations for trees are at the East side of the house (when you stand at the main entrance facing outside). 2. Avoid planting too many trees especially tall trees at the North East or West which is Yin. Too many trees create a too yin environment. 3. It is good to plant trees behind the house. Again, be moderate. Hope the above helps. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Hi, In traditional Feng Shui, there is no such practise. In my opinion, (if I am not mistaken) `creating scared space' sounds more like the Black Hat Sect (BTB). This is mixing " religious " practises with Feng Shui. In some Western `rituals', salt is used to placed at corners etc... as you have mentioned to `activate' stale energy. In Tradtional Feng Shui, Qi (or Ch'i) has many descriptions. For example such Dead Qi / Suffocating Qi. Feng Shui tries to address mainly Sha Qi (poision arrows) and enhance beneificial Qi. Feng Shui is used mainly to redress Sha Qi and enhance beneficial Qi. If you are new to Feng Shui, I sincerely suggest that `drop' books on BTB or its practises and learn Traditional Feng Shui. If you go through the messages and replies in this forum, you can see a constant mention of the 5 Elements and Yin and Yang Principle. For example, I have in a few earlier messages mentioned that Derek Walters had written books on Feng shui. Frankly he had written TWO books on Feng Shui but both are classics: Book 1: Feng Shui Book 2: Feng Shui Handbook and each topic he writes relates to Yin and Yang and the Five Elements. Unlike new authors who out of the blue advise one to use a fountain etc... without full relevance to the above. The only point to note is that under Book 2 of Derek Walters: The Feng Shui Handbook, his Eight House Model is a combined personal Flying Star and Eight House. Frankly, the Eight House should not be `mixed' with the Flying Star. The Eight House is specifically used to determine a person's good / bad locations thats all. Otherwise, I advise all new users to have a solid foundation in Feng Shui. Not Fast Food Feng Shui. You will understand that like houses, there must be a solid foundation and what better way to do so is to learn Feng Shui correctly. For example, if a Feng Shui book asks one to place a wood in the toilet, this cannot work for some and infact may do more damage if the person's element clashes with the wood element. If you can relate every enhancement to Yin/Yang and Five Elements, you are on your way to learning or applying proper Traditional Feng Shui. Warmest Regards, Cecil

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 physicians are in constant motion, generating active Qi. 2. Patients fall into several categories: - Some patients are frail and weak, and these individuals tend to have more YIN. - The majority of patients are in the process of recovery, and in certain hospitals, there are different classes. Some of the higher classes offer TVs or rooms shared by four people, each with their own TV. 3. I cannot speak for other countries, but in Singapore, we are permitted to visit patients at any time of the day, despite there being set visiting hours. 4. The families of patients also generate active Qi in and around the hospital. 5. This aligns with the principles of Yin and Yang, where there is ideally a balance of Yin and Yang. 6. In essence, all human beings, unless they are very ill, emit some Yang energy. This is in contrast to a cemetery, where there is typically little activity and things move at a slower pace. 7. This is truly a new area for exploration, and my observations are based on personal experience. You may have your own unique experiences with the above :). Warmest Regards, Cecil Lee +++ In Conclusion In conclusion, the text highlights the concept of Yin and Yang energy in a hospital setting, emphasizing the importance of balance and the role of both patients and visitors in creating active Qi. This author suggests that human activity contributes to Yang energy, contrasting it with the stillness of a cemetery. (c) Geomancy.net

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