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Dear Mabel, 1. For sleeping position, it is best that your head points to the good direction and feet to the opposite direction. ie if your good sleeping position is North, then ideally your Head should be North and Feet should be South. 2. For work or study is different. You should be sitting where you point to the North and back facing the South if your auspicious work/study direction is North. Hope that helps. http://www.geomancy.net/wbimages/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif Warmest Regards Robert Lee Thanks Mabel

Dear Kris, 1. If you do know how to use the flying star report, you could generate the report for your house and see if there are any inauspicious (in particular star 5 or star 2 or combination of 5 with 9). Especially, in location where he frequently spends time at. On the feng shui point of view this is usually the issues causing it. 2. However, more often in rented place, issues like dirty aircon or dust mites especially if it is fully carpeted house are common issues. 3. From a non feng shui point of view. You may seriously look at investing in like air cleaner cum ionizer and/or the use of HEPA vaccum cleaners. Alternatively, if there are blinds or curtains in the homes, that they are clean. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee

Dear Emily, In this case, since you had purchased our paid, please e-mail us your layout at support@geomancy.net or fax it to us at 6482-0570 with North-South direction and we will help you obtain the correct direction. As we will need to look at the layout plan before we can determine which would be the ideal facing of the house. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee

Hi Anon, Based on the holy trinity of luck system:- a. Heaven Luck b. Earth Luck c. Human Luck Many a times when the earth luck where you cannot change the earth luck where your friend is facing this scenario. This is where you have to compensate by Human Luck. The plus point here is that she has good work attitute. And especially since she counts you as a good friend, you continue to give her the moral support and encouragement. So that she can keep a positive and confidence. Do give her a listening ear. There are many circumstances where the earth luck isn't that favourable. But with good or excellent Human or Man Luck can overcome any adversity. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee

Dear Joan, 1. Actually, there isn't anything too major to be overly concerned with. But definately, keeping the door and toilet bowl close is good enough solution for this. 2. Does your house have a final door before it goes to the yard or common area. Usually if this door will be considered the final extend of your house area. If not, then it is not really considered part of the house area. 3. Under the water classic, it is auspicious to see water flowing in the home. For the back, you must make sure that anywhere from your backyard you should not see any open drain to back house. 4. If you do not see it then it is not a problem. If you do, then if possible you should cover it if and when possible. If it is located outside of your property where it is not really highly visible, then really considered a major issue. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee

Dear Alex, Yep. We share your sentiments exactly. http://www.geomancy.net/wbimages/smiles/icon_eek.gif Warmest Regards Robert Lee

Dear Connie, Glad that you enjoyed our website. 1. Unfortunately, the bad news here is that Tai Sui this year is at South-South-West, which is where you are planning your renovation works. This isn't very good as in 2004 you should avoid having any major renovation works done in this sector to avoid offending the grand duke. 2. Probably only thing you can do here if any is do a small prayer towards that direction to apologise disturbing the tai sui. To reduce any impact. Otherwise, very little you can do as it is always best not to offend the grand duke whenever possible. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee

Dear Sybil, 1. In your case where the re-roofing and extended kitchen is likely to change the house from a period 6 to period 7 house. Especially if the re-roofing involves completely taking out the roof, insulation and ceiling. This will definately change it to a period 7 house. 3. In feng shui for example, if the stove faces the water position or basin, one can place a mirror on the basin side directly reflecting the stove hob to reflect the fire back to the stove. 4. Since you are not using this sector as a study room, then there is very little you can do here. I mean unless it is a study room then this education/career sector will have good influence otherwise, you just don't enjoy it. 5. This is based on the Eight Aspiration concept. Which is not very accurate, so do not really need to focus on this. Flying Star analysis or Eight House will superceed this. So as long as you get especially any flying star issues resolved, then you should be pretty safe. These Eight Aspirations sectors are good to have considerations only and should only activate them if possible. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee I do hope to receive

Dear Apollo, There are many issues that you will need to check before you can determine what's wrong. Just basing on the animal sign will not be able to tell you anything. ie a. Whether it is your heaven luck entering a bad year b. The house you shift in maybe not suitable c. Or simply have bad house feng shui which adversely impact you, etc. You should make use of the numerous free tools on the website to help determine where is the cause of the problems or leaks. Only when you know what is causing it will it be easy to fix. 2. However, based on what you have provided, since you say after moving to UK, I do presume you actually have a change in house etc. So this is most likely the issue. 3. I would advise you to take a look at the flying star of your house. Use the free flying star chart, check particularly on your main door and bedroom see if there are many inauspicious stars which marked as numbers in colour red. 4. Check also if the house is suitable to you and whether your bedroom is also good for you or not. Ideally, the main door or bedroom should not fall under your Death or Disaster sector which are two most undesirable sectors to have. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee

Dear Anon, 1. Before actually answering your question, I think you first need to know about the difference between the 20-year, yearly and monthly. a. 20-year Base Star - Gives you the permanent influence of that sector depending on when your house was built. b. Yearly Star - Gives you the influence of the Yearly star changes which only impacts that particular year. c. Monthly Star - Gives you the influence of the Monthly star changes which impacts that month. Once you understand this, you will then know that priority is to always fix up the 20-year base star as this impacts the long term. The Yearly only shift some luck slightly for the better or worst. Usually to make it simple we just focus on where the star 2 or 5 which are usually the problem stars affects. Sometimes yearly star comes in which help the sector so some original influence is reduced. 2. So to answer your question, we should always fix up the 20-year chart. Then fine tune additional cures if necessary for the year so as to ensure that the stars do not cause the 20-year sector to be too inbalance. 3. Of course we also can look at the stars in total, ie say what are the elements present and cure them as a whole. 4. In your case. In current period 8, then this is a very bad sector as both 7 / 6 are Metal while 8 is the auspicious star is exhausted. So having Fire here is good for yearly cure so as to strengthen the star 8 and weaken the Metal (6 / 7). Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee

Dear Anooja, 1. For star 5 for a period 7 / 8 house in the center isn't a main issue. This is because usually the center is not where most bedroom or any important rooms are located. 2. Usually for center of the house, it should be kept empty as far as possible this is usually where all the different influence will meet at together so not wise to have too much of any elements. 3. A more major issue where some homes are affected with the presence of Star 9 and Star 5 are present at the same sector. This is because Fire will fuel the Earth Star. So this is not a major issue to worry about. http://www.geomancy.net/wbimages/smiles/icon_neutral.gif Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee

Hi, The Eight House concept is based on year of birth, and the gua direction each have an element, so this concept that your gua is Earth is based on that. Whereas ba zi takes into consideration the day, month, year and time of birth. So this is significantly more accurate. The same can also be said for taking the year of birth of the ba zi element rather than the more accurate day of birth element based on the day itself. ie a year can be say Wood year, so by default a very simple analysis is Wood element, but even in the year there is a Water-Wood person, Earth-Wood person etc. That is why the ba zi true element is always taken as the most accurate form of an element as it gives you the Heaven Luck portion of ba zi. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee

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Dear Users, Now when you generate the Free Flying Star House Analysis report. Free and Paid users will see a new flying star chart. This chart not only includes the 20-year, Mountain & Water Star. But also show the highly requested updated Yearly and Monthly Stars all summarised in this chart. The chart is colour coded to follow the element colour in the sector, as well as auspicious and inauspicious stars. So that you can immediately see whether the stars is auspicious or not. This is particularly useful for those who like to monitor the monthly star influence of your house. Especially for for the movement of star 5. For free report the yearly and monthly chart will only show the current year and current month based on the date when the report is generated. Paid users of course already have access to the full Year analysis. Example of how this updated chart looks like is as follows:- URL: http://www.geomancy.net/products/paidreport-examples/freeflyingstar-chart.htm Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

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Dear Users, We have improved our Chinese Name Analysis to latest version 2 and had updated our flying star which is now a pre-release to upcoming version 8 launch. A. Chinese Name Analysis version 2 ================================== This module is not yet available to general public, but will be available for Premium Membership users. - Ability to quickly analyse name stroke combination for Single or Double Surname, Middle & Last Name to find like which combination gives best overall luck. - Summary luck shows details like Name Harmony Analysis, Tian Di Ren Ge, Name Luck, Yin & Yang Balance, Five Element etc. - It quickly highlight good names with blue and inauspicious names with red table to allow users to quickly see whether a name is good or bad. - It summarises like 4/5 or 3/5 Auspicious luck for quick and easy viewing without needing to count them manually. - In the detailed analysis of each name stroke analysis. It will give you a table of characters from the stroke combination to allow users to quickly find the a suitable name from available character list. - The Chinese Character List provides the Traditional & Simplified form of the character as well as the pinyin so that no need to look up the dictionary to get the correct pinyin sound. Currently this version has been improved for our own name analysis use. This module greatly help us reduce the workload of manually calculating the various combinations, finding the avilable characters from the necessary character strokes. Thus allowing us to be able to focus on locating a good name with excellent meaning and suitability to the baby or for those looking to change their name. This latest module greatly reduce the time needed to complete a comprehensive Name Analysis for all clients:) B. Flying Star v7.21 ==================== We have updated our website Flying Star module few week back however, we did not publish the updates here. This release is meant to be a short release just before version 8 is launched. - Flying Star report had undergone a HTML clean up to allow us to apply the various common style theme to the chart. - In addition, we have added a few additional analysis which automatically shows users like when the sector has the combination of ten and several other mathematical concepts etc. Though, in most cases the Five Element or shapes and form, but in order just to make it a little more complete we added these indicators into the analysis. - We also prepared the flying star for version 8 launch which focuses on ensuring that there is a way for us to be able to display period 7 and period 8 changes. This feature is in but we haven't yet prepared our templates so that users can run a comparison. - We also updated the various modules to ensure that all period 8 information are correctly updated so that once we cross over to the period 8, the system will have all analysis which reflect the period 8 influence. Thus, though many of the analysis is already prepared for it to be called version 8, but we have not yet launch it as we are still working on the link to get users to see if perdiod or period 8 is better. Once this is ready, we will launch the flying star as version 8. Meanwhile, many other flying star modules such as the Group Analysis etc all have the flying star common modules updated so as to support this changes. So look out for the version 8 launch where all paid users can gain access to check whether they should keep or change to period 8 as we enter into period 8 this year. Meanwhile, users can re-access the latest improvement for the flying star report from their account. Hope you enjoy the changes. Warmest Regards Robert Lee Geomancy.Net - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Users, It has been a very extremely busy year for us. Now that several of our private talks has been conducted for Year of the Monkey in Nov/Dec. We are releasing the Year 2004 Chinese Horoscope forecast for all users to enjoy. URL: http://www.geomancy.net/resources/yearly-forecast/fortunes-2004.htm This year we went a little more by analysing each different age group of animal sign in 2004. Hope you enjoy the new 2004 forecast! Wishing all users a Happy and Prosperous New Year! Warmest Regards Robert Lee

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Yeah, forgot, Honeywell site also recommends the use of specific plants to help clean the air in the home:- http://content.honeywell.com/yourhome/eiac-air_cleaners/plants.htm Perhaps, for those who cannot (for now) afford the air cleaner can look at the recommended type of plants that can help to clean the house's air. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear All, Further to what I had mentioned, this is a link to the Honeywell air cleaner website. I personally believe that if one frequently falls sick or family members fall sick; a higher success rate is to look at the use of air cleaners, than purchasing bottle gourds etc... http://content.honeywell.com/yourhome/eiac-air_cleaners/air_cleaner.asp Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Frederick, (1) If I Yes, if you read through some of my past postings and illustrations on the use of the bottle gourd, this is considered an "authentic" Feng Shui cure. Here many Chinese Feng Shui practitioners recommend it to be placed between the toilet and the wall of the bedroom. Especially if one's bedhead is against this wall. Another use, by some FS practitioners is to use it in place of the six-coins or the six-coins in a salt water bottle. (#2 or #5) Here, it is symbolic of "sucking" the bad qi. There is no harm using it. Since, many authentic Feng Shui schools do recommend it. As for the crystal, it is frankly a modern invention. And no crystal appeared earlier than 1970's (in bulk). So, I leave it to you to imagine whether it can or cannot work. Although, some FS practitioners could say that like can be diffused by it. Therefore, between the bottle gourd ("Hulu") or the crystal, the bottle gourd seems to be the more popular "authentic" cure. Personally, the other next best alternative, which is not a Feng Shui cure but rather, "commonsense approach" is the use of hepta air-cleaners. Brand leader such as Honeywell, Amcor etc... With new Japanese comers like Sharp coming into the scene. I personally prefer this last "scientific" approach. I use three air cleaners in my home. And touch wood, and when I first used them, each time, I nearly fall sick, but recovered immediately. And for the last three years, I do not have to see a doctor. The last time I saw a doctor, was to check on the Feng Shui of a clinic. I know of many mothers who needlessly worry about their family. Nowadays, when I look at the palms of several clients, they seemed to "worry unnecessarily". Therefore, if this investment can help; I personally feel, that they have one less worry! In this senario, who cares about #2 or #5! Science can help! Warmest Regards, Cecil My master When using Flying Star Your advice is highly

Dear Peck Wun, Please see below:- It depends. Feng Shui is all about trying to squeeze as much luck as possible for a home. On some areas, this is highly impossible. But overall, it is about trying to squeeze as much luck of the home as possible. Let me illustrate:- Based on what I have experienced: ================================ Take for example: the Rivervale Crest condominium. This condo, TOP last year. And when I first discussed the layout plan with a few clients who had purchased it, one or two years prior to their taking the keys; they have a toilet at the centrepoint of their home. Nevertheless, fortunately, the condo unit they are staying is more of rectangular shaped design. I feel that proper analysis e.g. Flying Star vs Eight House vs Shapes and Forms can squeeze out or neutralise this issue. The only issue that one has to bear with is (in the past forum message - drawback of too much moisture coming into the rooms from the "stagnant" pool of water. Here humans must fit into the home; not the other way around. The other situation:- ==================== 1. Toilet at the centrepoint or near centrepoint plus the apartment is an odd shape. For example, the layout plan from top down looks much like a "triangle". 2. Here, the key failure is not so much of the toilet at the centrepoint (considered as ONE leak) but a systemic failure on the part of the entire shapes and forms. 3. The major systemic failure in this "triangle" shaped hope is it's triangle shape. 4. Like a pack of cards; this triangle shape is already inauspicious. Coupled by a leak (don't care whether it is close to, at the centrepoint) will bring down the total luck of the home. 5. Therefore, what I mentioned here is that in order for a failure to occur, there are often 2 or more leaks. Again it depends. For example if the bad sector is "really very very bad" e.g. #5 (misfortune) with #2 (sickness) and #4 or #3 (bad wood); then, it is better to wish for only one sector "facing" this problem. But if there are sectors where although there are bad #5 but because there are also #6 etc... then, the Flying Star chart neutralises this sector or makes it mild or weak. Therefore, there is no hard and fast rule about it. Thus from the Flying star point of view, lets hope for mild bad stars stradding both sectors. Of course, we hope that there are good stars that straddle both sectors. In conclusion, there is no single right or wrong answer to your question. In fact, another major consideration not mentioned is the Shapes and Forms of the room. For example, for newly married couples, it is always preferable that their bedroom is not odd shaped. And, in addition, try to avoid pointed corners in the form of a cabinet aimed at the bed. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Lola, 1. Just take note that one Feng Shui School of Thought finds it highly unfavourable for the kitchen to be at NE. In addition, the stove is at NE. 2. This School of thought suggests that the kitchen, should not be at the North and NE sectors of a home. It has more the concept of cold winds blowing from the North. And, thus, this affects a stove situated at the North and NE. 3. However, I personally find this argument to be not exactly applicable to every geographical locations. 4. The idea behind Para 2 is because, it may be hard to cook IF - there high winds blowing into the kitchen from openings close to this. Here, if one is not affected by the winds, then this is not a major issue. 5. The idea is also equivalent of the "commonsense approach" to Feng Shui in that a stove should not be placed with it's back at a window area. 6. The next more critical point emphasised by nearly every FS practitioner is based on the Yin and Yang concept. Here, it is not ideal for the stove to be just next to the water position. 7. Another major consideration is that a stove must not sit below a beam or a water pipe. If water pipe is to be run below the stove, it must not pass the stove within 6 inches distance. Where possible, the pipe should run in a U shape design away from the stove. 8. Since both of you are of the same Gua (Kua) then, it is good for the stove to be facing your favourable direction. 9. Some Feng Shui practitioners recommend the stove (fire) face the East or SE (wood locations). And alternatively facing south as opposed to north. Since north is the water position. But, here, I find that this may not be practical in many instances. Since some of these positions are inauspicious e.g. the stove facing the back toilet bowl/wash basin etc... 10. Under my last point, it is important that the stove does not face the toilet entrance e.g. facing the toilet bowl, wash basin or shower of the back toilet. 11. As mentioned, there are many different interpretations of the position of the stove. 12. Some FS practitioners feel that it should be placed facing a bad direction to burn away bad qi. While others feel that it should be in a good location to enhance qi. 13. I have already listed, the major considerations regarding the stove. And the above statement above under Para 12 - can have different meanings to different people and practitioners. 14. What matters most is to look at the total kitchen in relation to Shapes and Forms - Feng Shui first, then look out for the above points of considerations. Warmest Regards, Cecil