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Dear Luna, Yes, a water element in the position you had mentioned symbolically means `illicit affairs' and for a wife, it would not be advantageous to have a water position on the right side of the main entrance door. It is acceptable to have the aquarium instead at the South East corner which is the `wood element' area. Warmest Regards, Cecil Lee -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'free-advice' suppressed suppressed> Date: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 5:30 AM Subject: Aquarium - Left or Right? room, kitchen? Is it OK if it faces the main door?

Hi, Currently, the fire hydrant is considered too far to be a threat to your house. You can always use plants on either side of your main door or in the garden. Yes, symbolically, the fire hydrant is water. But this `water' is too small to have any effect on your home. Warmest Regards, Cecil -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'free-advice' suppressed suppressed> Date: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 8:24 AM Subject: Re: Is the Hydrant bad?

Dear Jon, For plants, it is acceptable to have plants in or outside the home. The important thing to remember are:- 1. Avoid having a lone large tree in the front of the house. 2. For plants, avoid too many plants at the North East (Devil's Gate), West (Yin location) and South West (Devil's Backdoor). The reason for the above is that too many plants especially large plants create too `yin' an environment. This may create an imbalance in the surrounding and attract `spirits' to stay at the location. Another point to note is to keep the plants `neat' and `trim'. For other locations, it is also good not to have too many plants concentrated at a location also. In your case, a few pot of plants at the North West corner or any other locations are acceptable. Warmest Regards, Cecil -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'free-advice' suppressed suppressed> Date: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 9:05 AM Subject: Flower and Plants

Dear Julie, A stove can still be placed next to the refrigerator but give an allowance of at least six inches or 150 cm. It would not be ideal to place a wood wall unless it is heat resistant. If you can leave a gap as suggested above, then it would be OK to move back the fridge without the need to place a wooden wall partition. Warmest Regards, Cecil Lee -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'free-advice' suppressed suppressed> Date: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 12:26 AM Subject: stove next to fridge??

Dear Jenna, Thank you for bringing up a rather interesting question. Let me first elaborate that in the past, especially in China, toilets was never `attached' to the house. It is usually situtated a distance away from the house. However, in our modern society, this is no longer possible. Like the concept of the toilet, litter bins or boxes should preferably have a lid and closed when not in use. It should be emptied regularly. Where possible, use trash bags to contain fluids or liquid waste or drained away. The purpose of the lid is to keep any animals from scavaging the litter bins. It is acceptable practice to keep the bin below the sink (for those who have an electric waste disposal unit or a small plastic basket to empty the waste into. Here, empty such litter as soon as they become full. The main important point here is to have a good lid so that the litter bins stay closed. If so, this would reduce and contain `sha' qi. (or bad ch'i) Warmest Regards, Cecil -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'free-advice' suppressed suppressed> Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 10:37 PM Subject: litter boxes

Dear Gwen, Thank you for your encouraging words. Your words will certainly motivate us to make the site better and better. Please see below:- -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'free-advice' suppressed suppressed> Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 9:40 AM Subject: bedroom The characteristics of having two doors facing each other is that there will be a tendency for the two parties living in room 1 and say the master bedroom to have `frequent' disagreements or quarrels. As you have mentioned that both rooms have double doors, this can easily be solved (provided you are able to open only one side of the door and each is opposite / diagonal) to each other. If the double doors are `labelled' Door 1 and Door 2, you could for example: for the master bedroom open only Door 1 while for Room 1, open Door 2. This would `solved' the problem. I think the drawing cannot be seen properly here unless you attach as a scanned image or .gif or .jpg format. Anyway, it is best that the door of any of the rooms be facing a long doorway. It can be at the side this is still ok. 1. Make sure that the dresser with mirror is not facing any part of the bed. Here, when you sit on your bed, do check that you should not see a mirror. Also check that there are no poison arrows or sharp corners pointing towards your bed. 2. You need not place a partition if you have a reading table with a lamp on it. The reading table is next to the bed. The reading table, acts as a partition in such a case. 3. If you have an airconditioner, the best location is one where it is blows from the side of the bed rather than blowing from head to the feet or from the feet to the head. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Luna, For the six Buddhas, you can place them in a display cabinet. Either the `open' air or enclosed in a glass cabinet. Here are the important points to note:- 1. The wall behind the display cabinet must not be a toilet. 2. The display unit (with the six Buddhas) must not be placed in the bedroom. 3. They must not face a toilet or the kitchen directly. 4. They can face an open window in the living room. They can face the main door or close to the main door. It is acceptable to display `brand new' figurines as they have not absorbed the qi (ch'i) of any previous location. At home, I also do have two antique Buddha figurines. One with a laughing Buddha with many children crawling on him. I guess your six laughing Buddha's are `new figurines'. They are auspicious as they are `smiling'. Warmest Regards, Cecil Lee -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'feng-shui-tips' suppressed 'feng-shui-tips' suppressed> Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 12:38 AM Subject: Placement of Buddha Figurines

Dear Amy, Thanks for your clarifications. Since you are using your room at night, lighting is important and this would depend on whether you are working or resting. As far as possible, try to make the room as cosy as possible particulary place a faourite photo or even a small vase of (real or artificial) flowers would help. Warmest Regards, Cecil -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'free-advice' suppressed suppressed> Date: Friday, April 02, 1999 1:04 AM Subject: Small Apartment Bedroom 2

Dear David, The best technique in using the Eight House Theory is to prepare a transparency and writing down each person's intangible directions on the transparency. Try to use it on a A4 sized transparency where we commonly use this paper. 1. Your transparency should have the North, NE, East, SE, South, SW, West and NW clearly marked on the transparency. 2. Next, if you want to use different ink to represent each member of the family. Start with the Father, Mother, etc... After doing so, you will then have a `big picture' of your entire family. 3. Get the layout plan of your house. If you are looking at various properties, simply superimpose this transparency on the layout plan (make sure that it is aligned to the North to South direction) of the layout plan. (In a proper architect plan, there is always a North `marker' somewhere on either the actual layout or a larger site layout. Determine the North South direction from any of these. A simple method is if you are staying in the house, get yourself an ordinary compass and check out the North South alignment of the house. 4. Visual the layout and check in particular: - Main Entrance - Is the intangible force there auspicious for the breadwinner? - The various bedrooms ie. such as the Master bedroom, each of your children's bedroom. Are the intangible force suited for them? - Other areas/rooms where we spent most of our time e.g. living room, study room etc... Are these auspicious for the family? Therefore, we should not only look at the Main Entrance must look at the `big picture' of where we live, and spent our time. Only in this way can be optimize the use of the Eight House Theory. But, as this is a static model, if you have done a Flying Star birth chart of the house, the flying Star chart takes 1st priority over the Eight House Theory. Only after considering the various good or bad locations under the Flying Star, if you still have the `luxury' and time, look at how you can place your furniture beds etc.. in relation to the Eight House theory. As for the Eigth Aspirations or Eight Association Theory, place this last in your priority. Only after you really have the spare time, and if you have `nothing else' to `improve on', then `work' on it. Warmest Regards, Cecil Lee -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'discussion-session' suppressed 'discussion-session' suppressed> Date: Thursday, April 01, 1999 9:40 PM Subject: How does Date of Birth affects the direction which the main door faces? furnishings?

Dear Barbara, Further to my earlier reply, it would be best to get books that try to simply Feng Shui theories rather than to `impress' its readers by using powerful terms. The simplier the explanation, the better. Here, there is less likely for the information to be mis-interpreted. Frankly, read books from authors you are comfortable in. If the theory is the same as the other book, for example the Eight House Theory is very simple, try to `stick' to the method used to derive the answer. But if other books are better written in other areas, then utilize the information. This method, would reduce the confusion we now have with so many books being `churned out' daily. Recently, I also come across a few users who e-mailed me directly on concepts put forth by some writers in the internet. The `teaching' materials are so impressive that no one understands these terms. But if we put these terms simply.... it is not that complicated! Try picking up a Feng Shui book written in Mandarin, one glance and you know the essence of the idea. The idea here is that if after reading the information or `teaching' once and you do not get the meaning, put the book or `teaching' aside. Feng Shui if correctly worded is never that complicated unless one wants to impress others. Here, it is of no use if no one can get useful information out of it. Warmest Regards Cecil Lee -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'eight-house' suppressed suppressed> Date: Saturday, April 03, 1999 1:14 AM Subject: Determining Entrance Direction

Dear Barbara, Yes, it can be very confusing after reading many books on this simple theory. Most of all, it really does not matter if you have to determine the entrance direction based on the front door or back door. What I mean is that each author may directly or indirectly use different methods. But if they are doing it based on traditional Feng Shui, the result or answer will be the same. For example, if you follow the `instructions' of the author who says to use the backdoor, if his written instructions is clear, you would finally arrive at the same answer as one which uses the front door. As a reference, the model used in at this url: http://www.geomancy.net/fs/house1.htm can serve as a reference. This is because, since the website was launched in June 1997, so far, I have not changed it and there was once, a frequent user had even consulted e.g. Professor Steven Field of the Feng Shui Gate who have also confirmed the information i.e. the template is identical to the kua number. Very recently, a user noticed that one of the popular books had most likely had a typo error in the Direction of the kua. I do come across many books even by reputable authors who once a while may have either a typo error in their books. This is understandable. As mentioned earlier, you should try to use the entire model of created by the author and then if you want, reference the `results' to other books or even websites like this. Here we are around to clarify any of your doubts. What this author uses is the Luo Pan where, when you stand at a particular location, there are two `vertical lines ' one for the facing direction and the other the `sitting' direction. Here, this person is most likely saying that the sitting direction is the most important. I do agree here. Either, I am not sure if you have read his /her concept in total or just reading between the lines. If you read between the lines then, you may not get the full essence of what the person is trying to do. Sometimes also if the author does not put across his/her ideas clearly, we will continue to have doubts after reading the book(s). Warmest Regards, Cecil -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'eight-house' suppressed suppressed> Date: Saturday, April 03, 1999 1:14 AM Subject: Determining Entrance Direction

Dear Luna, Currently there are two methods at looking at the number of fishes to `rear'. Method 1: ======== The most common method is based on general good numbers of fish i.e. fishes should be numbering e.g. 5, 6, 8. (9 is still acceptable). Method 2: ======== The other method is based on your kua number ie. if your kua is Li or South, you should rear 9 fishes. If your Kua number is Kan (North), you should rear 1 fish, if your Kua number is Chen or East, then you should rear 3 fishes. Ideally, this is based on the breadwinner's Kua number Conclusion ========= Frankly, the easiest method is to follow ` Method 1' especially if you have a large family and especially, the fish tank belongs to your family member e.g. your child etc.. The vacuum black fish is I am not mistaken also called a `sucker' fish which if there is a bigger fish around, clings to it to clean it or `cleans' the fish tank. Warmest Regards, Cecil -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'free-advice' suppressed suppressed> Date: Saturday, April 03, 1999 12:07 AM Subject: Fish in the tank

Dear David, The purpose of the Eight House Theory is to find a home that suits a person or determine if it is `compatible' with the breadwinner. If your main door face the "Excellent" or any of the three other good locations, this house is thus (as far as the main door is concerned) matches you. What about my spouse or other family members? Here, you could determine which locations in the house they spent the most time. One of them is the bedroom. 1. What you can do is get a transparency and plot each family member's `Eight House' template on this transparency. 2. Next, get a layout plan of the home. 3. Find the North to South Direction of the house. 4. Superimpose the transparency on the layout plan. Check to see (in particular); which intangible force falls on the bedroom. Since, you mentioned that both of you are `opposites' i.e one belong to the `East' group and the other the `West' group, for the main entrance, or bedrooms, it is best to choose for example such combinations:- Partner 1: Excellent, Health, Longevity and Prosperity with Partner B: Spook and Irritation For example, in the bedroom, for Partner 1, it is his/her longevity sector while partner 2 is her/his Spook or Irritation Such combinations e.g. Excellent / Spook; Health / Spook; Longevity / Spook or Prosperity / Spook or Excellent / Irritation, Health / Irritation; Longevity / Irritation or Prosperity / Irritation If you can help it the above combinations are better than `extreme' combinations of Excellent to Disaster or Death. When we use the Eight House Theory, where possible; look at the `big' picture i.e. not only the main entrance door but the entire house. Pay particular attention to the areas where you spent the most time. For other members of the family, including the spouse (assuming she is not the breadwinner); the main entrance is not that important. What is most important is the bedroom area. Warmest Regards, Cecil -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'discussion-session' suppressed 'discussion-session' suppressed> Date: Thursday, April 01, 1999 9:40 PM Subject: How does Date of Birth affects the direction which the main door faces? furnishings?

Dear Jackie, You have asked a good question. The Four Symbolic Animals or Four Celestrial Animals Concept can be looked at in two main areas:- 1. Survey of the Landscape and Site. Under this area, we will have the Dragon at the East and White Tiger on the East. A Feng Shui Master will try to find the `Dragon' of a site. A dragon can be a `real' dragon i.e. the features of a hill or a `false' dragon e.g. a high rise building or even a road etc... An excellent site is one where there is a Green Dragon and a White Tiger " in close embrace " of each other. When you are in the house facing the main entrance, the Green Dragon is always on your Right and the White Tiger is on the left. 2. For Applying Feng Shui `cures' to a site, you must then use the REAL compass points. For example if your main door is facing East, this sector `belongs' to the Green Dragon. Here the distinction must be clear from point 1. Let's take another example, if your main door faces West or the White Tiger, this is the White Tiger's domain. Therefore, the following must be applied `strictly here' :- If your main door faces: North = Black Tortise sector South = Red Phoenix East = Green Dragon West = White Tiger Therefore, it is important to note the distinction between para 1 above and para 2. Warmest Regards, Cecil Lee -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'feng-shui-tips' suppressed 'feng-shui-tips' suppressed> Date: Thursday, April 01, 1999 10:13 AM Subject: White Tiger and Green Dragon location

Dear Sue, Sorry for the delay in my reply. It is very time consuming to do manual Pillars of Destiny calculations. This is the purpose for the full report available on www.geomancy-online.com We have thus done away with manual calculations of Pillars of Destiny. Warmest Regards, Cecil Lee -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'pillars-of-destiny' suppressed 'pillars-of-destiny' suppressed> Date: Sunday, March 28, 1999 4:17 AM Subject: Free limited-anlaysis of PIllars of Destiny update!

Dear Jody, The first thing you need to determine is which intangible force your main entrance door is at. You mentioned that it is spook/disaster. However, you need to further determine whether it is closer to spook or disaster from the mid-point of the main door. If it is the spook intangible force, you do not need to do anything other than keep the location bright e.g. neutral colour white will do. However if the disaster line flows through the main door, you may like to take up any of the following suggestions:- Currently there are five methods of dealing with this (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. 4. Hang a pakua above the main entrance door. 5. Simply close the main entrance door when not in use. (Plus keep the location bright). Warmest Regards, Cecil -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'free-advice' suppressed suppressed> Date: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 9:18 PM Subject: Clash of the 8 Houses

Dear Toni, Currently, number plates are not within the sphere of Feng Shui and it comes within other Chinese numerology. However, this can be highly subjective as there will be lots of different opinions based on `interpreting numbers'. Under the Flying Star method, Number 5 is considered inauspicious. However, number 4 or a combination of 4's is considered auspicious under the Flying Star method. Overall, as I mentioned above, you may get different views on the above. Wishing you and your number 5444 good luck! Warmest Regards, Cecil -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'free-advice' suppressed suppressed> Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 2:08 PM Subject: numbers

Dear Jody, I can confirm that you are indeed a North-East person. I did notice earlier that there could be a typo error in Lillian Too's Feng Shui book as a few users had highlighted this earlier. Warmest Regards, Cecil -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'eight-house' suppressed suppressed> Date: Thursday, March 25, 1999 7:35 PM Subject: Which of the 8 Houses do I belong to person. Which one am I?

Dear Clern, Frankly, there can be many other reasons other than what you have mentioned e.g. pricing, market demand etc... Warmest Regards, Cecil -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'free-advice' suppressed suppressed> Date: Sunday, March 28, 1999 3:15 PM Subject: Spook at my Front Door

Dear Elizabeth, If the main door has two panels, you can open the side furthest away from the stairs. Placing a half door at the foot of the stairs can be done but not sure if there are any safety concerns i.e. making the stairway dark. One alternative is to place a mirror at the staircase landing (when the stair case `turns'). Warmest Regards, Cecil -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'free-advice' suppressed suppressed> Date: Friday, March 26, 1999 12:10 PM Subject: Main Entrance facing the stairs

Dear Jon, The purpose of the Eight House Theory is to find a suitable house for 1. the breadwinner 2. locate suitable rooms especailly the bedroom for the wife, children and other family members. Therefore, when you look at a house, you could use a transparency and superimpose each family members good and bad directions over it. When you use the template, you can see cleary which rooms are good for which member of the family. Ideally, avoid having the death or disaster line of any family member falling within their bedroom and for the bread winner avoid having the death or disaster line flowing through it. Warmest Regards, Cecil Lee -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'free-advice' suppressed suppressed> Date: Thursday, March 25, 1999 1:32 PM Subject: How do I apply Eight House if I am married?

Dear Chris, The most important consideration under the Eight House Theory is that the house should suit the breadwinner. This is the main concept of the Eight House Theory. The good news is that there are many couples who have `opposite' houses ie. one partner East house and the other partner West house. What you should look at is:- On Death and Disaster Intangible force I have mentioned in a few replies that in terms of unsuitability of a house, Death ranks first and Disaster ranks second. The main thing you should have is that as far as possible both these inauspicious intangible force do not flow thru a. Main Entrance door b. Bedroom Here, for example in the bedroom, a partner would have a good auspicious direction e.g. Prosperity, Excellent, Health while the other partner e.g. Spook or Irritation. This combination is quite acceptable. When we sleep, let one partner who has the auspicious intangible force sleep closer to the intangible line and use the other partner sleep on the other side. Using the partner as a `shield'. The same can be made for say a partner with Health and the other the death line. The partner with the health intangible line sleep closer to this line and use him/her as a `shield'. Warmest Regards, Cecil -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'feng-shui-tips' suppressed 'feng-shui-tips' suppressed> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 5:39 PM Subject: Husband & Wife having opposite dir element

Dear Chris, Usually, the effect would be on the breadwinner. However, there are many other variables involved also. E.g. if both parties are working, if the partner's Ba Zhi (or the house) is not suited to the partner e.g. her death or disaster line. Warmest Regards, Cecil -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'flying-star' suppressed suppressed> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 6:42 PM Subject: Who will get bad luck?

Yes, this should be good as most experts in ch'i power have the same sensations. Perhaps you would like to elaborate more on whether there are any `events' leading to this or you have picked it up `suddenly'. Warmest Regards, Cecil -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'feng-shui-tips' suppressed 'feng-shui-tips' suppressed> Date: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 10:15 AM Subject: CHI MOVEMENT

Dear Chris, Frankly, it is not necessary to get the items blessed. You can simply buy them off the shelf (unused) and install them directly. For the Pakua, First Heaven Sequence or Fu Xi's Pakua, it is already powerful enough. Other items need not be `blessed'. In fact, before you place the item, you can on your own, say a simple prayer if you like. In Far East, some people would bring it to a Chinese temple e.g Kuan Imm Temple and get it `blessed'. The First Heaven Sequence's formation of a family unit is already powerful enough. Warmest Regards, Cecil -----Original Message----- From: Listmanager To: Recipients of 'feng-shui-tips' suppressed 'feng-shui-tips' suppressed> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 5:40 PM Subject: Where to get blessed 'feng shui' item?