Robert Lee

Dear Jarno, There are two concepts here which you need to get it clear:- 1. Eight House In terms of concepts, the best concept to apply in a micro environment (ie selection of suitable bedroom), we find that the Eight House concept where 4 good and 4 bad directions are used. This is a concept based on YEAR of birth. Even though, this is so, this is a simple yet effective method. But this will give a slight conflict to the Ba Zi in some cases. 2. Ba Zi Ba Zi uses the day, month, year of birth and even hour of birth, so is able to give you a better analysis. However, it also has its limitation in terms of direction. The direction factor in the ba zi is better used in terms of suitability of a house facing element, which means say a weak water person, North facing house will be considered an Water element house, thus in terms of ba zi suitability this is better. Also, in Ba Zi direction of Travel which is a macro factor, will be suitable to use this as the suitable direction of travel or migration etc. So in terms of ba zi the use of the direction is better done in a broad scope. While in terms of choosing room, using the Eight House will be more suitable as it does a better job in a micro analysis. 3. So now that you know this difference, you will find that the difference in analysis may be there, but each has it's own use. One for a smaller area of use (Eight House), while ba zi more on a larger area of use. 4. In terms of Ba Zi, in terms of luck analysis, each 10-year, and year luck each have a suitable direction of luck travel which denotes which luck period is favourable to you or not. In such analysis, you must use the ba zi analysis direction where North - Water, South - Fire, East - Wood, West - Metal. This has nothing to do with Eight House, so eight house concept cannot be used here. 5. In terms of bed placement or choosing suitable rooms, as mentioned Eight House is better, so suitable facing direction will be used here. 6. You use ba zi facing directions only in more macro, or to help you determine which element of the house is suitable and we usually use the facing of the house as the element. ie North facing house is Water element. 7. The issue here is to use both concept to find which is common. ie North - Water element favourable to a weak water person, if your Eight House also tells you that North is Favourable eight house direction (ie prosperity), that means North is a good direction under both concepts. In your case, East is suitable to your Eight House, but under Five Element East is (Wood), which is not so good. So this is least beneficial compared to North. In our ba zi report, we give you both that analysis, but already help you factor which is used in what. Just remember, ba zi more macro or broad level, while eight house on a micro or small level. Hope that helps in clarifying this issue. Warmest Regards Robert Lee

Dear CJ, Again, here you still do not understand how Flying Star analysis works. 1. A house will have a flying star based on the year it was built. Meaning if it is built anytime before 1984-2003, this will make it a period 7 house, with a 20-year chart showing period 7 star as the base star. This will not change unless you effect a change to next period 8. 2. Such a period 7 chart will have different luck when you are in period 7 itself, and a slightly different chart when you view it in period 8. This is due to the fading prosperity effect. Meaning that if you viewed the report in 2000, the stars number 7 will be automatically auspicious, this is because of the special period 7 influence. However, if you viewd the report in 2004 onwards, period 7 will revert to it's robbery star, thus becoming inauspicious. This will take effect regardless of whether you have FLY the house to the new period or not. Meaning that a period 7 house, will still generally be auspicious, but it will be losing some of itsinfluence after 2004. 3. However, because you still retain the period 7 house chart, it still means that your mountain star for the house is still star 7 for both Mountain Star or Water Star but it will be your fading Mountain Star prosperity as well as fading Water Star prosperity. However, in addition to that, you will have the future auspicious Mountain Star and Water Star 8 as your upcoming auspicious luck. So you can still activate the star 7 given your reigning influence based on your base star is star 7. But because you have crossed over to the period 8, the star 8 becomes your future prosperity mountain and water star. 4. So the report isn't wrong on this. This is how it works. Just like if you have a period 8 house, but when you cross over to 2024, the influence for a period 8 house in a period 9 will be less auspicious, because the period 8 star will lose it's property and the upcoming star 9 will be the upcoming property. 5. So the issue here is to understand, that when star 7 is by default an inauspicious star. ONLY IN PERIOD 7, i.e. IF YOU ARE STILL IN PERIOD7 (1984-2003), WILL BE AUSPICIOUS. So now that it has past period 8, this star reverts to it's inauspicious influence. 6. This is why by default if it's found a lone even in a period 7 chart, it will lose it's influence. But if a double 7 is still found for a double 7 house, it will be auspicious because of the reigining base star 7. However, in any case, a period 7 house will start to lose it's auspicious influence in long run. So you cannot expect to have as much luck from a period 7 house in a period 8 era. So the report is giving you all these updated analysis. And that is why if you viewed the report when generated say in 2003, and now in 2004, the luck will be different. Though, not too much, but will have some slight changes. 7. So you must remember that a flying star chart has two influence, one is the house base star reigning period, as well as the current reignining period. 8. Generally, all existing period 7 house, will be in it's fading prosperity in the current period 8 era. However, it will not lose it's property immediately, it will generally mean it will not be as auspicious in a period 8 and will slowly lose it's influence in the long run. Warmest Regards Robert Lee

Dear Sir, I will be getting my resales flat soon and would like to advise on the feng shui before moving in. I had check in your website and was very impressive of the services provided. Regards Johnny 1 Sep 2004 -- Thank you for your response Mr. Lee. I really wish you could be somewhere here near manila-philippines so i could have my unit checked. It is such a relief to get your opinion most specially when you mentioned that fengshui should not be so rigid. I also agree with you when you say that little lucky ornaments being promoted by some masters are for business intentions and non-sense. Best regards and more power to you and your team. Con Roque Manila, Philippines 8 September 2004

EDITED: A minor update made to fix an error in one of theWater Star which instead showed it at Mountain Star due to a typo during a check in the stars. (ie instead of checking against water star, it compared to the mountain star). This has been corrected in the v8.02. Dear Users, In addition to the previous update, I have added a few new features for the flying star report. This is because it seems that many users are not clear on issue about period 7 and period 8. 1. Please note here that a house build in say period 7 (1984-2003), will continue to retain it's 20-year base chart of period 7, until you decide to change it to the next period. This goes for period 6 (1964-1983) as well. This means that it will not automatically mean that your chart will be a period 8 chart the moment you enter into period 8. In fact, what it means here is you have an option to check if period 7 or period 8 is better. Then decide on making the move to a period 8 chart. 2. However, what will change is the influence on certain stars ie star 7 will not be considered auspicious on its own now that we are in period 8, meaning that it will revert to the original Robbery Star which is inauspicious on its own. Thus, if you viewed the flying star for a period 7 house now, compared to before 2004, you will find that the luck will change a little. This is because the period 7 houses will now be entering what we call the fading prosperity. It will not completely use it's influence but will not be as strong anymore. 3. So in order to make this clearer in our latest report, what we have done is to give users an opportunity to view the next period influence and thus give you the chance to see if you should change to a new period. If you do decide to EFFECT the change in period, it is best you re-create a new profile under that period and use that instead of your old period. 4. So you should now see an option such as this under the flying star chart Example:- View the house under 1984-2003 the Next Period 8 Influence 5. In addition, the older yearly/monthly module is really no longer needed as the current flying star report not only show you the 20-year, current year and all the current year months star from Jan to Dec. 20-Year Chart North-West (Metal) 2 Earth 3 Wood 8 Earth Zuo Fu Xing, Current Prosperity Year 2006 4 Wood Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun (4) Wood 3 Wood 2 Earth 2 Earth 1 Water 9 Fire Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 8 Earth 7 Metal 6 Metal 5 Earth 4 Wood 3 Wood So what we do now is to provide you a link to view the next year detailed chart at the bottom of the report. Hope you enjoy the updates Warmest Regards Robert Lee All the last posted updatesfor flying starv8.00 Dear Users, Just as the all the Pillars of Destiny (Ba Zi) editions got a major upgrade. We had also worked on to improve our Flying Star And House Hunting Reports. We are pleased to announced the public release for the Flying Star & House Hunting v8.00 1. Flying Star (Xuan Kong House Report 1A. Flying Star (Xuan Kong) House Anlaysis Report The flying star chart has undergone a major revamp, with improved looks as well as detailed Yearly & Monthly (full 12 months) charts all fully colour coded for easy reference. It also includes a quick link to view the detailed portion of the report from the summary chart. North-West (Metal) 2 9 5 Year 2004 6 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 4 3 2 2 1 9 Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 8 (7) 6 5 4 3 North (Water) 7 4 (Main Door) 9 Year 2004 1 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 8 7 6 6 5 4 Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 3 (2) 1 9 8 7 North-East (Earth) 9 2 7 Year 2004 8 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 6 5 4 4 3 2 Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1 (9) 8 7 6 5 West (Metal) 1 1 6 Year 2004 7 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 5 4 3 3 2 1 Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 9 (8) 7 6 5 4 Center (Earth) 3 8 4 Year 2004 5 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 3 2 1 1 9 8 Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 7 (6) 5 4 3 2 East (Wood) 5 6 2 Year 2004 3 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 1 9 8 8 7 6 Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 5 (4) 3 2 1 9 South-West (Earth) 6 5 1 Year 2004 2 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 9 8 7 7 6 5 Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 4 (3) 2 1 9 8 South (Fire) 8 3 8 Year 2004 9 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 7 6 5 5 4 3 Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2 (1) 9 8 7 6 South-East (Wood) 4 7 3 Year 2004 4 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 2 1 9 9 8 7 Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 6 (5) 4 3 2 1 1B. Detailed Sector Analysis also includes Yearly Analysis The detailed sector analysis chart is fully colour coded to quickly show whether a sector is auspicious (blue), inauspicious (red), average (green).New additional analysis such as comb. of 10, mountain and water star etc. Added the colour for the proposed element. The full monthly and yearly charts are all summaried. Later one more analysis will also be aded for the Monthly chart in this report. Center direction 20-Year Chart Center (Earth) 3 Wood 4 Wood 8 Earth Zuo Fu Xing, Current Prosperity Year 2004 5 Earth Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 3 Wood 2 Earth 1 Water 1 Water 9 Fire 8 Earth Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 7 Metal (6) Metal 5 Earth 4 Wood 3 Wood 2 Earth NOTE: Month's should be taken as the Chinese Lunar Month) Current Sector Description Generally this location is your Zuo Fu Xing, Current Prosperity (8) area. It is extremely good to spent more time here provided there are no inauspicious star in this location. Eight-One Combination Explanation [3] & [4] - Star 3 represents Male. Star 4 represents Female. When Female comes, the Male will follow. Means it is the Male's Romance luck. Five Element Analysis (Mountain vs Water) Analysing: Strong Wood (3) vs Weak Wood (4) Strong Wood (3) (Inauspicious Star) represents Lu Cun Xing, Disputes, Quarrels, Conflicts. Weak Wood (4) (Average Star) represents Wen Qu Xing, Education, Romance. Relationship Analysis Wood (3) has the same element as Wood (4). Wood star is inauspicious, and there is no elements to control or neturalize it. Thus, this is considered an inauspicious combination. Proposed Solution Make use of Fire (red) to exhaust and weaken Wood Five Element Analysis (20-Year Star vs Year Star) Analysing: Weak Earth (8) vs Strong Earth (5) Weak Earth (8) (Auspicious Star) represents Zuo Fu Xing, Current Prosperity. Strong Earth (5) (Inauspicious Star) represents Lian Zhen Xing, Misfortune, Sickness. Relationship Analysis Congratulations! Earth (8) has the same element as Earth (5). This happens to be in the period 8 which controls star 8. Thus, this is considered an auspicious combination. Activate Mountain Star No mountain star to activate. Activate Water Star No water star to activate. Sector Overall Summary This is generally a considered an bad sector. Likely, the year star isn't inauspicious, so it means this is not the worst sector for this 20-year period. 2. Finding a Good House (Most suitable House facing report) 2A. The same detailed analysis as the Flying Star summary is also applied to the House Hunting Report. In addition, we added a star rating to make it easier to see at a glance whether a sector is good or bad. NW2 (307.5-322.4) - North-West Main Door Facing (315) 20-Year Chart North-West (Metal) 6 Metal 8 Earth 9 Fire You Bi Xing, Coming Prosperity Year 2004 6 Metal Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun 4 Wood 3 Wood 2 Earth 2 Earth 1 Water 9 Fire Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 8 Earth (7) Metal 6 Metal 5 Earth 4 Wood 3 Wood NOTE: Month's should be taken as the Chinese Lunar Month) Breadwinner's Suitability Health Current Sector Description Generally this location is your You Bi Xing, Coming Prosperity (9) area. It is average sector having good and bad include. But on it's own generally considered auspicious. Eight-One Combination Explanation [6] & [8] - Prosperity and good fortune. Five Element Analysis (Mountain vs Water) Analysing: Strong Metal (6) vs Weak Earth (8) Strong Metal (6) (Auspicious Star) represents Wu Qu Xing, Luck from Heaven. Weak Earth (8) (Auspicious Star) represents Zuo Fu Xing, Current Prosperity. Relationship Analysis Congratulations! Metal (6) helps to exhausts Earth (8). Earth element is weaken by Metal, which in turn makes Metal stronger. Thus, this is considered an auspicious combination. Five Element Analysis (20-Year Star vs Year Star) Analysing: Weak Fire (9) vs Strong Metal (6) Weak Fire (9) (Average Star) represents You Bi Xing, Coming Prosperity. Strong Metal (6) (Auspicious Star) represents Wu Qu Xing, Luck from Heaven. Relationship Analysis Congratulations! Fire (9) destroys Metal (6). Metal element is destroyed or weaken by Fire. Thus, this is considered an auspicious combination. Sector Overall Summary This is generally a considered a good sector. Final Analysis This is a GOOD house! In addition, it suits the owner of the house because it falls in his Health sector. This house is of an element representing your wealth element. 2B. Link to Detailed House Analysis Report We added a link to allow users to view the more summarised Flying Star House Analysis report of that sectorwithout having to create a new profile. 2C. Executive Summary in a compass layout We summarised the good and bad sectors for the summary and show it in a compass layout so that users can see at a glance which sector is good or bad for them. NW2 315 307.5 - 322.4 NW3 330 322.5 - 337.4 N1 345 337.4 - 352.4 N2 0 352.5 - 7.4 N3 15 7.5 - 22.4 NE1 30 22.5 - 37.4 NE2 45 37.5 - 52.4 NW1 300 292.5 - 307.4 North-West North North-East NE3 60 52.5 - 67.4 W3 285 277.5 - 292.4 West Select the closest exact direction of your main entrance (eg main door). Assuming that each outer square represents a 15 degree angle. East E1 75 67.5 - 82.4 W2 270 262.5 - 277.4 E2 90 82.5 - 97.4 W1 255 247.5 - 262.4 E3 105 97.5 - 112.4 SW3 240 232.4 - 247.4 South-West South South-East SE1 120 112.5 - 127.4 SW2 225 217.5 - 232.4 SW1 210 202.5 - 217.4 S3 195 187.5 - 202.4 S2 180 172.5 - 187.4 S1 165 157.5 - 172.4 SE3 150 142.5 - 157.4 SE2 135 127.5 - 142.4 2D. Executive Table Summary We also summarised the direction, and break down each group by the facing direction on a single line. Making it easier to see what sector is good or bad from a table layout. Corrected a bug where excellent house direction never seem to show any summary in previous version. Type of House Direction of Main Door Excellent House Auspicious House NE1 (22.5-37.4) , NE2 (37.5-52.4) , NE3 (52.5-67.4) , SW1 (202.5-217.4) , SW2 (217.5-232.4) , SW3 (232.5-247.4) , W2 (262.5-277.4) , W3 (277.5-292.4) Auspicious but Unsuitable House NW2 (307.5-322.4) , NW3 (322.5-337.4) , N1 (337.5-352.4) , N2 (352.5-7.4) , N3 (7.5-22.4) Inauspicious House E1 (67.5-82.4) , E2 (82.5-97.4) , E3 (97.5-112.4) , SE1 (112.5-127.4) , SE2 (127.5-142.4) , SE3 (142.5-157.4) , S1 (157.5-172.4) , S2 (172.5-187.4) , S3 (187.5-202.4) , W1 (247.5-262.4) , NW1 (292.5-307.4) Hope you enjoy the various updates. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

EDITED: To link previous post. Dear Users, This is some updates to the previous release of v12.5x. We noticed some irregularities in the analysis modules. 1. FIXED THE YEARLY LUCK SUMMARY RANKING [1962] ren-yin - Luck with you but Very Good [1st 6 months] ren - is very inauspicious. Heavenly Stem Clash: bing-ren [2nd 6 months] yin - is a little auspicious. [1963] gui-mao - Luck with you but Bad [1st 6 months] gui - is very inauspicious. [2nd 6 months] mao - is a little auspicious. Earthly Branch Clash: mao-you Earthly Branch Punishment: zi-mao Possible Romance Encounter: Mao Nobleman Stars available to help you: Mao & Si Academic / Study Influences: Mao [1964] jia-chen - Luck with you but Average [1st 6 months] jia - is a little auspicious. [2nd 6 months] chen - is very inauspicious. Earthly Branch Self Punishment: chen [1965] yi-si - Luck with you but Bad [1st 6 months] yi - is a little auspicious. Heavenly Stem Clash: yi-xin [2nd 6 months] si - is a little auspicious. Earthly Branch Harm: yin-si Earthly Branch Punishment: yin-si Possible Career Change / Change of Location: Si Nobleman Stars available to help you: Mao & Si [1966] bing-wu - Luck with you but Good [1st 6 months] bing - is a little auspicious. [2nd 6 months] wu - is a little auspicious. Earthly Branch Self Punishment: wu a. Corrected the ranking system that helps defined the Year being Very Good, Good, Average, Bad & Very Bad. The latest ranking give every possible option equal ranking so more accurately give you an idea of how good or bad each year is. b. Fixed a but in the Part 3 report where some of the year summary does note match the analysis from the other modules such as our Group Analysis summary. This was due to a bug in the system obtaining the wrong pillar information thus not giving the right analysis for some of the year. c. Fixed the yearly forecast report so that the year colour coding will match the part 3 and group analysis summary. This update should correct all the various analysis modules so that they will reflect the same analysis.It adds on the many enhancement made in the v12.5x, you can read more about that from this link:- http://forum.geomancy.net/webboard/wbpx.dll/~geomancy/read?16336,17 Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee

Dear CJ See & all other paid flying star users, I am using this posting to explain to all users who seems to have this confusion about the flying star. 1. Everyone should remember, that the flying star analysis from our website, gives you the analysis of the period based on the year the building was built. ie. If a house is built in period 7 (1984-2003), it means that it should show you a chart that is based on a period 7 20-year house chart. ie. If a house is built in period 6 (1964-1983), it means that it should show you a chart that is based on a period 6 20-year house chart. 2. What it DOES NOT do is to automatically show you the next period influence (ie now is 2004, so it is entering into period 8). It will not by default show you a period 8 chart. Why? Simply because a house built in whatever period, will continue to retain influence of that period chart. Meaning that if a house built in 2000, will continue to retain a period 7 chart even if you enter into the year 2004. What changes each year, is the yearly chart ie 2004 / 2005 each will make certain year more auspicious or less auspicious for certain sector. 3. It DOES NOT mean here that just because you entered into a period 8 house, that your chart automatically fly to the new period. THIS IS WRONG OR MISTAKEN! What it does mean is that for all home owners (ie those whose house is build in period 6/7), you now have a choice to make, should you keep within period existing chart or change to the new period. REMEMBER THIS IS NOT AUTOMATIC! You actually do have the option to check if existing chart is better or worst then new period. If new period is worst off, then best not to change, but if new period is better luck, you should change. 4. If you choose not to change the luck, the house will continue to retain the luck for the old period. However, the one issue that will change is that the STAR7 which is originally an INAUSPICIOUS Robbery Star will actually remain as a inauspicious star (in all periods except period 7). Only under period 7, the star is actually an auspicious star rather than inauspicious. So this means that all house will suffer this impact. Meaning that if you were to view a chart done before 2004, and compared it to now, there will be some changes to the analysis of how well a sector is because this star 7 loses its auspicious status in period 8, even though the base star can be star 7. Thisis why we call period 7 a fading prosperity. Which means luck will still be there, but as time goes by it will fade away and no longer be as good as it used to be in period 7. 5. However, whatever double combination that that occurs which is the same as the base period ie a double7 in a period 7 base chart will still be auspicious. This is why in your case, this analysis is this way. So please do not be confused or mistaken in the fact that the flying star report DOES not consider all these changes. It does. 6. However, I will agree with you that in order to avoid such future misuderstanding, I had actually updated the report now to provide additional link to allow all existing report under the current report to view changes that can be expected in the next period. This will allow you to make a better decision as to whether or nor to change to the next period without even re-creating a new profile. 7. Once you do decide to make a change to the next period, it is better you create a whole new profile for that year, so that the base analysis starts of from a period 8 rather than period 7. This will be necessary for all users. So as to avoid confusion in the future. 8. In addition, with the latest v8.00 report, you will noticed that all yearly and in fact the full months chart are already being displayed in the analysis. The only issue is the detailed monthly analysis is not yet available (both in old and new version). This is being tested and once it is ready will release to all users to enjoy. 9. As for the mountain star, given that it is still a period 7 house, star 7 and future star 8 are all auspicious mountain or water stars to activate in a period 7 house. For period 8 house, it should be star 8 as well as the future prosperity star 9.So this isn't wrong in the analysis. As mentioned, until you decide to EFFECT a change to move to the new period, your present chart will remain as it is. 10. And that is the reason why I decided to post this so that all other users will not make the same mistake or ask the same questions. 11. The report is actually very much updated and very much more imporoved. Just that, I overlooked the proper presentation of the report to cater to letting users understand about this changing period issue. Anyway, the addition of the next period report and next year report are now added to the Flying Star v8.01 so this willit clearer for all users. 12. So in summary, for all existing house in period 5/6/7 house, have an option to check if it is better to move into the next period. In addition, our report will give the latest year analysis when you generate the report. Meaning, that if you enter into 2005, you can re-generate the report for that year to view the changes in luck for you home, so that you can attempt to fine tune the analysis. Hope that all other users will also be clear of this issue when you use the flying star report especially in this change period. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui

Dear Ulla, 1. In all honesty, the various practitioners or masters who utilize time zone or location factors to modify the original ba zi are relatively recent developments advocated by modern practitioners. 2. Perhaps the only method that could be somewhat logical is applying the location factor to adjust the location to the current moon location. However, even this approach presents numerous challenges. For instance, a slight deviation of 0.01 degree in latitude or longitude can significantly alter your ba zi chart, resulting in less accuracy compared to not considering the hour of birth. Additionally, most individuals do not possess the exact information. 3. Utilizing the GMT time zone to adjust a ba zi chart is not a recommended practice. This is due to the oversimplification of the GMT time zone, which only impacts longitude changes, rendering it inaccurate. 4. Our stance on this matter is to avoid adding unnecessary complexity to the analysis. It is advisable to use your local time (irrespective of the country) for ba zi analysis. 5. Understanding the fundamental principles of ba zi reveals that the hour pillar does not have a significant impact on the 10-yearly, 5-yearly, yearly, and monthly luck pillars. Reference: On GMT and more... 4.1. Typically, the hour pillar introduces additional pillars for combinations and clashes, potentially influencing whether a person's outcome is weak or strong. Without the hour pillar, most other hours tend to exhibit a consistent weak or strong nature, with only a few exceptions. Therefore, the impact of the hour pillar on luck pillars is minimal, except for minor yearly clashes or harms. Overall, the general luck remains relatively unaffected. 5. Consequently, it is still possible to analyze a person's luck effectively even without the hour pillar. 5.1. Many case studies of famous individuals have been conducted based solely on the date and time of birth, demonstrating the feasibility of accurate analysis without considering the hour pillar. Allow me to provide you with a few instances: a. Given the exact date and time of birth of a twins. One has primary education and one has PHD. Which you think will have better life. Most likely the one with PHD. b. Given a twins again. One stay in US and one stay in IRAQ. which wiill you thihnk will have a better life. Again most likely US as it is more stable and peaceful. c. Given a two person. Person A has 10-year favourable luck to him, but he stays in a house with entrapped feng shui and death suitability to the home. Person B 10-year luck not with that person, but he says in a house with excellent feng shui and prosperity suitability to the home. The Person B will have actually a much better luck then person A. Cos, a person's earth luck has ADVERSED impact upton your bazi. 8. So if you understand this fact, frankly, ba zi is by no means a tool which can forecast 100% all past events. What it can do is give you a forecast of potential pitfalls, and how you can try to maximise your luck. 8.1. Many modern practitioners/masters, try to make you think that ba zi can give you an accurate assesment of your past and future events. But I will ask you how is this possible if this concepts only supposed to provide you with a heavenly given luck? 9. So this is another reason why, frankly, no alternation of hour or even adding location factor is really necessary. In Feng Shui, ba zi only defines your heaven luck, but to fully apply feng shui you have to use all the other tools such as Ba Zi, Compass Schools (Eight House / Flying Star), Shapes and Form and more. 9.1. Only with these combined tools can it give you a proper analysis and how you can improve it. You should not just eat and sleep with only one concept and ignore the rest. 10. So our advice to you is just to leave the hour unknown or unaltered. 10.1. This will really give you a fairly good analysis as well as an even more accurate analysis then attempt to modify a theory with timezone or location factors, which in any case most people don't have a detailed record of the exactly long. and lat. of birth. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Robert & Cecil Lee, Many Thanks for your services in my daughter's name change and my auspicious dates analysis. I will truly in the future recommend friends to your services. Many Thanks once again. Warmest Regards, Susan Cheong Sarkies Bukit Batok, Singapore 30 August 2004 --- Dear Master Lee, Thank you so much for your prompt reply.The new report is A LOT MORE clearer! i am impressed this time and definitely more confident! Cheers, Chee Yuen Singapore 31 Aug 2004

Dear Russ, 1. The start of the Chinese Lunar New Year for 1972 is 15 Feb 1972. 2. Since your birth date falls before the Chinese Lunar New Year on 22 Jan 1972, your lunar birth date should be:- a.. Solar Calendar: 22 Jan 1972 between b.. Lunar Calendar: 1971, 12th month, 7 day, between 3. Since your Year of birth for the Eight House calculation is 1971, it will be as our website calculator has generated Gua 2. 5. Since our online calculators has been extensively tested, it is very rare that it will be calculated wrongly. So the results from our website on this issue is correct. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear K T, You should try to re-access the paid online report if you had not done so. The latest version with the Executive Summary will make that period more clearly as it will try to explain potential issues you might encounter especially if clashes / harms / punishment are found. Generally, you need to know that:- 1. Clashes Clashes are the worst impact on a chart. Depending on whether there are heavenly stem such as Main Funds (Health), Wealth (Financial)or so, it might usually mean health or wealth impact. Any clash especially if found with the Day, Month & Year are considered major clashes. 2. Harms These are sort of like obstacles which you have to overcome. These have less impact that clash, it often means trouble and expect some level of difficulty whether such harms are present. 3. Punishment / Self Punishments These are internal conflicts similiar to like whatever you do, you tend to like make mistakes etc. So whatever things you have planned will not likely go smoothly. How they affect your luck, depends on what are the kind of stars, ten deities which give you an indication of what potential troubles might occur. More and more of these are being added to the ba zi report so that users will not need to guess how to read the clashes. Look out for more analysis modulesin upcoming bazi releases. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Users, Just as we had recently updated the entire Pillars of Destiny reports for Standard and Premium users, we have also updated the Free report for all users to enjoy. URL: http://www.geomancy.net/reports/free-report/freerpt-element.htm The free report will now give you a full summary just as in this example:- Birth Element Since you are a weak Wood, you don't want to be too weak otherwise you cannot take advantage of your Wealth Element. Thus, you should increase yourself with your favourable elements as follows. Favourable Elements Most Favourable Element Colour: blue/black/gray Favourable Element Colour: green/brown Unfavourable Elements Most Unfavourable Element Colour: white/gold Unfavourable Element Colour: red This is a very important concept for you to improve your luck. Five element can be applied in many ways, but most important is the Colours of any objects etc. In this free report, only some information will be made know so that you can understand how to use it. This free report will only show you an example using the Best favourable element. Your personal objects / dressing ie shades of colours:- Water - blue/black/gray Your career ie a Job favourable for you are:- Water - Advertising, Arts, Communications, etc Your Chinese name ie a good name would help to increase your weak element The period ? ie luck changes each day, month, year etc. So different period you will find your luck changes from up and down. Thus you should take advantage of those good luck period for doing any important thing in your life. Overall Big Luck Summary Ul

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Dear Anon, 1. You will first have to identify where is your major leaks first. A. Is it a problem with your heaven luck (ba zi) which is in a very bad 10-year/5-year/year? B. Is the problem because of your Earth Luck (house feng shui)? The reason I ask this is because unless you know where the problem is from, it is hard for anyone to advice you on what you can do. 2. If it is your ba zi, then it could mean that say if you are a weak Wood person, you have nearly everything in your live which is against you, ie a unfavourable element house (ie Metal - West facing house), a career such as Metal (Finance), and very bad ba zi luck period. If this is the case, then you have to correct it by ensuring that you correct as many areas in your life so that it is favouring you. 3. If the problem is your home, then you will need to fix up the leaks in the home. Without knowing what exactly is causing the leaks, it is very difficult to advice you on what or how to solve your problem. But since most problem comes from either ba zi (heaven luck) or home (earth luck), you should make use of the numerous feng shui tools in our member areas to help you assess where could be the potential leaks then correct them as much as possible. Only then can you attempt to improve a bad year. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Hi Anon, Generally, for Eight House concept, you have to apply them as follows especially for two person with completely oppose charts:- 1. Usually you try to ensure that the breadwinner (the head of the house), has a suitable house facing direction. 2. The spouse should next be given a better direction given that the breadwinner now has a better house suitability. 3. The bed position should still be placed based on the shapes and form placement ie the bed should be placed such that you can see the main door and window. This should be ideal position. 4. Only when the above conditions are met, then you can fine tune the sleeping position if possible. Sometimes this is not possible, so you just have to ensure that each of you sleep on the side of the bed closest to your good sectors. Then use each other to shield you against the bad directions. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear K T, Unfortunately, everyone is supposed to be born with a certain destiny path. For some people, the big luck (ie 10-year luck) luck is always with him, such person will normally find that whatever they do, things will always work out for them, with minimal effort. However, for majority of us, luck isn't always with us. This means that we have to work extra extra hard as compared to those lucky few who have luck with them. There is no way you can change this. You can however, attempt to improve it by creating an environment with as many areas in your life being favourable to you. ie a weak Wood, will need more Water and Wood. This means that you need to try to have a career which is Wood (ie teaching), a house which is Water (North facing) as well as many areas of your life as possible. When you have sufficient, you can improve your overall luck. Anyway, a 10-yearly luck which does not favour you isn't entirely bad. You have to consider the 5-yearly, yearly, 6-monthly, &monthly luck which constantly changes. So there will be some luck period which will be better than others 10-year. Some of your big luck even though not favouring you, but if you have the yearly luck, you will still gain luck from those years. So it isn't the end of the world. Your chart, simply tells me that you have to work extra hard to gain success. As you will not have that kind of added bonus as compared to another person who's luck is always with them. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Hi Anon, For a Strong Water, Fire element is wealth element. Since you are a strong element it is good favourable for you. House (flying star) report is different, that tells you whether a sector is not balanced. Usually because say a sector has star 5 and star 2 (which are Strong Earth stars). With presence of Fire element especially in that sector, it will make the sector even stronger. Thus, activating the possible inauspicious stars. Ba Zi is your own personal element, so as long as you have a house for example South facing (Fire Element house), this improves your luck for your own ba zi. As for each sector what cures to fix, this is where you have to balance between the house and ba zi. ie. certain colours ie Fire (red), Earth (Yellow), and sometimes Wood (Green/brown), must be applied according. Some sectors can react adversely if such colours are present. So you have to balance between how much of such colours can be present in any sector. And this you have to use the flying star chart with higher priority. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Users, EDITED: In addition to the release of v12.50 yesterday,a minor release on the v12.51 was released a day later. 1. To fix a bug where the clash/harm/punishment/self punishment wasn't showing properly, thus not giving a proper analysis for the yearly luck analysis. 2. In addition the Yearly Luck analysis description was further refined. 3. Executive Summary released for all users to enjoy. We have made a massive revision to the Pillars and Group Analysis modules. These two reports each contain different advanced analysis modules. In this latest revision, we integrated common components so that they can be shared between reports. In addition, we made the Pillars of Destiny module even more robusallowingcrossanalysis between 10-year luck and it's yearly luck. This will make it easier to add even more analysis module and make the modules interact more closely together. 1. Addition of the Five Element Balance chart in each 10-yearly luck pillars. This will allow us to re-calculate the impact of the 10-yearly luck pillars to your existing five element distribution. Which impacts how much more of a particular element you need compared to another. We are working to bring this available to even the yearly analysis so as to give greater depth to the forecast modules. We may still revised the element percentage so as to give proper rating depending on 10-year, 5-yearly, yearly, 6-month etc. For time being only 10-yearly chart has been released. In future, we will expand it further. Example 1:- Water Wood Fire Earth Metal 49 % 1 % 49 % 0 % 0 % You are a Weak Fire. Generally, you will need more Wood and Fire, while avoiding any Water or Earth. In order to be effective, you should know how the current 10-year luck period affects your original five element distribution. So for this 10-year period you should fine tune your favourable elements as follows:- Favourable to you Your favourable element Wood (1%) and Fire (49%). You will need more Wood (1%) than compared to Fire (49%) to improve the luck for this period. Staying in a suitable House Element - Your luck will further be improved if you are staying in a house facing direction which represents Wood Having a suitable career - Wood element career such as Engineering, Filming, Hospital, etc. Having more favourable colours - You can further boost your luck by ensuring your bedroom decor/car colour/dressing are in green/brown (Wood element). Unfavourable to you While, your unfavourable elements are Water (49%) and Earth (0%) You will to avoid Water (49%) more than Earth (0%) to improve the luck for this period. Avoid staying in an unsuitable House Element - Your luck will further be reduced if you are staying in a house facing North direction which represents Water Avoid an unsuitable career - Earth element career such as Advertising, Arts, Communications, etc, will make this period less auspicious for you. Avoid unfavourable colours - Should ensure you avoid bedroom decor/car colour/dressing are in blue/black/gray (Water element). 2. Revised the Yearly summaryin Ba Zi Part 3 Previously in our last revision, the yearly report keep only showing Good and Average. The Bad and Very Bad did not show up properly. To help differential year which is unfavourable as compared to year which is bad and have clashes or harm. We had revised this so that it breaks up into Very Good, Good, Average, Bad and Very Bad. This will make the previous years which were classify as Average more clearly. Example 2:- [1984] jia-zi - Luck against you but Bad [1985] yi-chou - Luck against you but Average [1986] bing-yin - Luck with you but Bad [1987] ding-mao - Luck with you but Very Good [1988] wu-chen - Luck with you but Average This portion to summarise the luck for the year was greatly enhanced. It now shows you Yearly Luck with/against you etc. It now adds further fine tuning of Very Good, Good, Average, Bad and Very Bad summary analysis as opposed to just Good, Average & Bad. It also now considers clashes / harms to see if they are major or minor clash. ie minor clash with HOUR/LIFE/CONCEPTION pillars are not shown anymore, as they do not impact anything. It also considers PUNISHMENT and SELF PUNISHMENT into grading it's overall effect. It also gives grades the year based on how suitable to element and give higher priority of rating a year very bad if the clash is found, while harm and punishment is less bad, and self punishment is least bad. Given that there is more comprenhsive analysis done, the final analysis for the year summary might be different from previously analysed. But it gives a more accurate assessment of the year. Though, this does not impact your analysis as it is just a summary of the year whether we consider it good or bad etc. This revision in the grading of the year will be expanded to the yearly forecast chart 10-year colour coding only. Most analysis does not use this portion to so nothing major except description. There are more complicated analysis ruleset now in place so, it is far more accurate to be able to properly define the year being Very Good, Good, Average, Bad or Very Bad. This was a feature not possible in older version due to the complexity of the 10-yearly andyearly. In our latest revision, we made it possible to relate them together, rather than depending on a separate detailed analysis report. In addition, we also show all the symbolic stars available for each year. This will make the analysis even more useful in determining potential romance luck etc. 3. More details released for the Yearly Forecast Module The Yearly Forecast module will now contain more details for each of the monthly analysis. Example 3:- Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 2 Good 3 Good 4 Average 5 Good 6 Good 7 Bad 8 Bad 9 Bad 10 Average 11 Average 12 Average 13 Average 14 Good 15 Good 16 Average 17 Bad 18 Good 19 Bad 20 Bad 21 Good 22 Average 23 Average 24 Average 25 Average 26 Good 27 Bad 28 Average 29 Bad 30 Good 31 Average 4. Executive Summary for Age This is an example of an small portion advanced analysis report which has been released to all users to enjoy. A very plain english explanation of the luck pillar. In addition, it also points out useful information about possible career Major or Minor change / academic luck / romance luck that happen in that period. This is one portion that we have tested for a long time and found it ready to be released for all users to enjoy. Example 4:- Executive Summary for Age 3 - 12 (1974 - 1983) Unfortunately, luck isn't with you during this 10-year period. This means that you have to work even harder on your own to gain success during this period. 1974-1978 luck is much better than 1979-1983. You are also very lucky to have nobleman luck where you will meet some people who will always give you a helping hand. Be prepared for some slight hichups especially for any major event. However, once you overcome it things will usually end well. This is a good period for you, especially if you are studying as you have the aid of the Acadamic star. Remember to ensure that you look after your health by watching your diet and ensuring you keep yourself fit so as to avoid any potential health issues. Major Nobleman Luck [1974-1983], Especially in [1974**] [1978] [1981] [1983**] Minor Yearly Career Movement Luck in [1977**] Major Academic Luck [1974-1983], Especially in [1981] NOTE: 1. Year marked in red colour or YEAR** is a very inauspicious year, so expect adverse effect on the Career / Romance / Academic Luck. 2. Year marked in green colour or YEAR* is average year, so must be extra careful else you get adverse effect on the Career / Romance / Academic Luck. Otherwise, nothing else major to point out from your current luck period. 5. Other Advanced Ba Zi Analysis improved. Many more Advanced Ba Zi Analysis modules have been updated but not released to general public. These analysisare now being used for our on-site audit as well as expert review to assist us inanalysing your chart in greater detail. Thesenew features are available for all Ba Zi Premium report users. Users may now login to re-generate the report so that you get the most uptodate and even more accurate analysis. Hope you enjoy the various improvements. Warmest Regards Robert Lee Geomancy.Net - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Users, We have upgraded all Pillars of Destiny Standard which was still accessing an older v8 report to be able to access the many improvement from the v12.50. The Overview Summary report which usually onlyPillars of DestinyPremium used to enjoy will now be made available toPillars of DestinyStandard. . The main difference is that Ba Zi Standard will not have a detailed analysis module until only 5-yearly analysis as well some of the new modules listed by the recent Pillars of Destiny Premium. Hope you enjoy the upgrade. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Margaret, So in singapore especially, the unit numbering for your home would be shown as #03-10. Where 03 is level, and 10 is the unit number for that level. Thus, there is two fields. I believe it should be safe for you to use 3 in the first field and 10 in the second field when using our Apartment Number report. In your case, depending on the layout, if the layout plan is such that the door isn't located too oddly or being blocked, you can take the center of the house to the main door. Else, you should take the frontage based on the living room's balcony where most light come into the house.Generally, you take for example from balcony looking out if you take this as the frontage. All really depends on your layout plan and positioning of the door. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Unfortunately, since you mentioned that this is the only possible position you can place the altar. Then, there is very little you can do to re-position it. I mean Feng Shui is also actually about common-sense. I mean if course when possible if you are able to it is best to place it in the best possible position. But sometimes, these things happen and there is no possible alternative for you. So you just have to make do. When you look at feng shui, you have to look at it in a wholistic approach. Meaning that there are major issues right down to minor issues. It does not mean that just because one area is wrong, you will be faced with issues. Frankly, it takes a couple of problems such as a house with bad exterior feng shui, interior feng shui, unsuitablity to the home, bad ba zi luck period etc. Many factors which are unfavourable to happen at the same time before it is declared as a DOOMSDAY. Otherwise, as long as you fix up whatever you can. There shouldn't be much of an issue. In this case, this isn't the worst kind of placement. Just not as good, because it would seem that you are like employing the Guan Yin to be a security guard for the home. But like you mentioned, no other better placement. So it will have to make do. Maybe, the best way is just to offer more incense so as to make up for the flaw. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Christine, Frankly, Feng Shui is by no means a miracle cure for every single situation. In feng shui the main goal is to attempt to create a harmoious environment so that everyone will feel good. When you feel good, you will feel more relax, sleep better, work better and thus giving you the ability to focus on your career. The only thing here you can do is to ensure that you check the element compatibility between the you/husband and your step-daughter. This will help to reduce some tension between the three. ie a weak wood andweak fire will be in best harmony if you have more Wood (green/brownin the room for example). Use the compatibility report in the member area. To help you on this. Though the report is listed under the paid report, it works for free report access as well no difference. Other then that, you will have to use your sincerity and loving care to touch your daughter's heart. Meaning that if you truly show that you care and love her, she will eventually accept you better. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Basically, in terms of bed placement. You should follow these priority:- 1. It is most important that the bedroom is located at the one of the 4 good directions based on the Eight House concept. Meaning that if you divide the house from the centerpoint, your bedroom should be located West (in your case). As long as the bedroom is in a good sector, the issue of the bed position becomes less of an issue, as regardless of where you actually sleep, you are still sleeping in a suitable sector of the house. 2. As rooms are small now-a-days, so it is frankly, very difficult for most people to have the luxuary to arrange furnitures so that it can fit the best placement for every furniture. So we should focus on ensuring that the bed placement is placed in a practical manner priority goes shapes and form placement of the bed. Such as the following:- http://www.geomancy.net/events/Popular_FS_Talk/fs_talk_slide_37.htm Reason being is that as long as you have a suitable bedroom, regardless of where you position your bed it is generally still suitable to you. Sames goes for table etc. More importantly is you should ensure that all the furniture especially the corner of the table etc should not be cutting the bed where you will be sleeping. As long as this rule is followed, you are pretty safe. 3. Only, when the two above priorities are in place, should you then see if you the suitable bed position based on the Eight House can be also put into place. If you have space restriction, then of course better to follow the shapes and form placement as above. If you have still have some flexibility left in the placement of the bed, then you should make sure if possible it faces one of your better directions (ie avoiding Death or Disaster) where possible. 4. Other rules, ensure that the wall at where anchor the bed should not be a window. 5. You should not place the bed facing the door such it faces the door when you enter the room. As this is a coffin position. Frankly, I am unable to see your layout, so will not know for sure if it is truly ok or not. As long as you follow the above rules, you should generally not need to worry too much anymore. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Generally, Eight Aspiration / Eight House / Flying Star are part of what is known as the compass school of feng shui. 1. Eight Aspiration where the directions for the various sectors are always fixed based on the bagua direction is the least important of the many concepts. 2. Eight House is more personalised thatn Eight Aspiration where each person depending on the year of birth, will have a certain 4 good and 4 bad directions. This helps you determine whether a house or sector of a home generally suits you or not. If a house has excellent feng shui but it doesn't suit you then, you get very little luck from the house itself. 3. Flying Star is something like a birth chart of the house itself. Similiar to like Ba Zi is a chart of a person's luck. This concepts helps you determine where are the good sectors and bad sectors in a home itself. It does not consider any suitability to any individual person. But generally, helps you determine the various magnetic influence, ie where is your potential wealth sectors, where you should position your water feature. It also helps you determine where there are potential sickness related stars or the various stars (ie sickness, robbery, misfortune, lawsuits etc.) So in general, you should always use flying star to help correct existing problems. Ensure that the house at least should be suitable to you and that all family members have a suitable bedroom etc. Eight Aspiration is only applied when all Flying Star and Eight House requirements are done. This is because Eight Aspiration such as South-West is Romance sector are very static templates. Why I say this is imagine, what this concept tells you is that for everyone on this earth your romance sector is South-West. So this means that say in an office if there is a particular girl that other male colleagues like, they all rush to follow this tip that by placing 99 roses in the South-West sector of the home, they will automatically get the heart of the girl. Unfortunately, this will never work simply because it is simply too general a concept. The only additional analysis which isn't considered is the external Shapes and Forms. You must always remember, that matter how nicely you do up your interior of the home, but if your surrounding and exterior building is collapsing or run-down, then no matter how much you enhance within your home, it will not help you that much. This is why despite having all these compass schools, the most important in a home is not the interior, but rather the external factors. If you can get house with excellent external factors (ie a house with receive position, then you already have won half the battle in choosing a good home.) Only then should you focus on your interior. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Hi Anon, A large part has to do with the external factors such as the boss calling the shots. I am afraid there is very little you can do in terms of Feng Shui to cure the situation. You will have to work hard to changing the boss opinion of you through better human to human relationship. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Usually, when the year the house was built is in question, we normally use two different period house which we suspect the house to be built and then do a comparison to see which is more likely to be thechart that is present in your home. If you can tell for sure when you had any major renovation done, then you can be pretty sure which chart influence is still present for your home. Period 6 (1964-1983) while Period 7 (1984-2003). Now we are in Period 8 (2004-2023). Generally, if you had any major renovation done in period 7, then it is very likely that your house belong to the period 7, else it will still remain as a period 6 chart. So unless there was a major renovation done during period 7, then your chart will still remain as a period 6 chart. In anyway, now that you enter into a period 8 chart, you should check out the period 8 chart, as even if your home is still period 6, the only option for you to fly over to the new period will be a period 8 house. There is no way to can obtain a period 7 house chart anymore since it has already pass. However, if your house had a major renovation in period 7, and you had not done any major renovation this year. Then you have the option of keeping the period 7 house especially if the period 8 isn't as good as period 7 house chart. Most of the time for houses in period 6, there is a pretty high chance that some renovation may had already altered the luck to a period 7 chart. But what you need to note is that it does not mean that period 7 chart will automatically take preceedence of the period 6 chart especially if no renovation was done to effect the change. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research