Year 2025

Please note that Chinese 7th Month starts on Saturday 23rd August 2025 to Sunday 21st September 2025.
 

On the eve of the 7th lunar month in 2025, at Eunos Market, vendors are in the process of preparing the materials for offerings.

Each shipping box contains an identifying mark, and each box is assigned a serial number ending in 88. Since 88 is considered an auspicious number, this marking is intentional.

Extracts from 100 Palm Residences Thread

Q1. Question: Can I place an option to purchase a unit, not just in this development but also in other developments, during the Chinese 7th month?

1.1 The sale, or rather the balloting for this development, starts exactly one month before the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival, also known as the 7th month.

1.2 Given that no major infrastructure is up yet, those who believe in or are concerned about the Chinese 7th month really have nothing to fear if they want to book a unit in an uncompleted development.

1.3 The reasoning is simple:

Since there is no physical space for these hungry ghosts to seek shelter, there is no need to worry about it.

Q2. Question: Can I start renovations during the Chinese 7th month for a home that has achieved T.O.P. or has been completed for some time?

2.1 Again, this is based on logical deduction.

2.2 One can start renovations before the 7th month and continue during the Chinese 7th month. The belief is that these hungry ghosts are like us.

2.3 The hungry ghosts have not “taken possession” of any home or apartment yet.

2.4 If a place is messy, dusty, and noisy, and not suitable for human habitation, it is also not suitable for ghostly habitation.

2.5 If the hungry ghosts happen to find a vacant home during the 7th month and renovations begin while they are there, many people prefer not to risk “angering” these ghosts for this reason.

Reference:

 

When the buying Stops! The Selling Can!

We Never Sell You Anything!

 

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Here’s a concise summary of the main points from this page on myths about the Chinese 7th Lunar Month (Hungry Ghosts Month):

🌙 Key Myths and Clarifications

• Staying out late: No special danger; most people are naturally protected by their aura/yang qi.

• Swimming: Safe; accidents are natural, not supernatural.

• Offerings to ghosts: Symbolic acts, not literal sustenance.

• Funerals and wakes: No statistical increase in deaths during this month.

• Hungry spirits: The term is folkloric; spirits do not physically hunger.

• Burning paper offerings: Symbolic only; does not transfer items to the afterlife. Acts of kindness are considered more meaningful.

👻 Shadow Ghosts (Evil Ones)

• Exist year-round, not bound to the 7th month.

• Prefer locations with tragedy, abandonment, or stagnant energy.

• Rarely encountered unless one enters such places.

• Good Feng Shui, sunlight, cleanliness, and vibrant family life deter them.

• Remedies include space clearing, light, positive activity, protective cures, or professional help.

🏠 Practical Feng Shui Advice

• Moving into a new home during the 7th month: proceed cautiously, consider occupancy history and floor level.

• Renovations: can continue, but keeping the house messy is advised to discourage spirits.

• First-time open door rituals: symbolic acts like knocking, pineapple tossing, and auspicious chants.

• Incense sticks: odd numbers (1, 3, 9) represent yang energy; commonly used in prayers.

• Catholic perspectives: some clergy equate joss sticks with candles, though other denominations reject them.

⚖️ Cultural Guidelines

• Avoid cemeteries unless necessary, especially at night.

• Show respect for offerings; don’t joke, step on, or pick up roadside items.

• Avoid whistling alone at night, standing under large trees, or wearing all-red clothing.

• Wind chimes (solid rods) are discouraged as they may attract negative energy.

• Respect traditions to maintain harmony and avoid cultural misunderstandings.

🌟 Core Message

The Hungry Ghost Month is more about cultural respect, generosity, and remembrance than fear. Myths should not restrict daily life; kindness, mindfulness, and good Feng Shui practices are the best safeguards.

The truth about annual Feng Shui products: what’s sold as tradition has become a highly profitable buying trap.

What many people don’t realize: annual Feng Shui products are less about balance and more about selling fear. Annual Feng Shui products aren’t guidance they’re a carefully engineered sales cycle. Let’s call it what it is: the annual Feng Shui buying cycle has become a commercialized scam.

Understanding the Commercial Side of Modern Feng Shui

• The Annual Feng Shui Money Trap: Why You’re Told to Buy for All Nine Sectors Every Year

• The Feng Shui Sales Machine: How Annual “Cures” Turn Advice into Retail

• Annual Feng Shui Products Explained: Nine Sectors, Endless Purchases

• Separating Authentic Feng Shui from Product-Driven Practices

• Feng Shui Without Forced Buying: What Clients Are Rarely Told

Many Feng Shui shops deliberately push customers to buy new items year after year, making it seem like these purchases are unavoidable. The bigger the family, the more objects we’re told we need, filling our homes with products we never truly needed in the first place.

Over time, this becomes a repeating cycle—almost like an addiction—where people feel they have to make an annual pilgrimage to these so‑called Feng Shui masters. Fear, superstition, and guilt are quietly used to pressure people into buying again and again. In the end, the real purpose becomes clear: generating super‑normal profits for the sellers, while ordinary people unknowingly become their victims.

Recognizing this pattern is the first step toward breaking free from it.

Behind the friendly advice lies a clear motive: to push customers into buying as many products as possible—one for each of the nine sectors of their home. This isn’t guidance; it’s systematic upselling disguised as tradition.

If we want this cycle to end, it starts with us. Please spread the word: when people stop buying out of fear, the selling stops too.