Cecil Lee

Dear Diane, Can I confirm? 55 gallons of water? This is quite alot of water. Based on the mountain and water concept, where mountain should be behind the house and water at the frontage, it would be advantages for water to be at the front of the house (providing clear space). If an aquarium is at knee height or higher, this would not be advantages to be placed at the front of the home as it no longer allows for clear space. Too much water in relation to the home is not ideal. Especially if the area of the aquarium exceeds 50 percent of the floor area of the home. For a weak water person, adding metal element would be much better than adding water. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Diane, 1. Black colour represents the water element. 2. It is acceptable for a weak water person to be assocated with Black (or blue or grey) the colours identified with Water element. 3. Usually wrought iron beds the exposed area (in my opinion) does not have that much of an impact on the environment of the room as most parts of it is not seen. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Lynne, You can find a picture of the Three-Legged Toad under:- http://my.geomancy.net/mypictures/cgi-bin/imagefolio.cgi?direct=Interior_Decorations/The_Three_Legged_Toad Under the following link, you can find a poll on the Three-Legged frog in this website. The actual poll and current results can be found under this link:- http://www.geomancy.net/polls/polls-threelegged.htm I believe, you can easily purchase, the decorative item from many of the Feng Shui emporiums dotting the internet. In my opinion, one should treat the Three-Legged Toad, merely as a decorative item. There is nothing mystical about this object. In past forum messages, I mentioned abit of the history of the three-legged toad. Please do a search in this forum for " toad " to find out more... Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Donna, In my opinion, when building a new home, the front door is not the only consideration. Serious consideration should also go towards the entire house taking into consideration the external environment, the site and the land. For the main door, it is best or advantages if it is an excellent location for the breadwinner. For other members of the family (even if one owns the plot of land); try to look at locations where it can be excellent or good for them especially in the bedroom area. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Diane, How to activate a mountain star:- 1. Even if a mountain star can be found, it cannot be activated in all areas. For example, if a mountain star is found at the frontage of the house such as the main entrance door area or at the front of the house. Preferably it should not be activated at the centre-point of the house or centre of the house. 2. For effective activating of a mountain star: 2.1. It can be at the backdoor or in a room especially the back room of the house. 2.2. It can be activated (if found) at the back wall of the interior of the home. 2.3. It should be activated where there is a wall behind it. Here, there can be a shelf where the object to activate the mountain star can be placed. Common items used to activate mountain star is e.g. a solid brass turtle paper weight or other objects that have `solid' mass and does not have wheels such as a decorative rock item. Please see below:- Yes, without further analysis, you can use a wrought iron bed. Generally what is more imporant is the colour scheme as the wrought iron bed will have lesser of an impact since, the bed mattress will be placed on it. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Johnny, 1. If one uses a Ba Gua mirror, it should have a convex mirror at the centre (e.g. like those placed at car park blind spots. It should not be concave as this is meant to `absorb' rather than deflect. 2. For your mum's room, ideally, you could use curtains. For example, two layers of curtain i.e. day curtain and night curtain. In the day time, day curtain could be used to shield against this poison arrow. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Hoang, Frankly, Feng Shui does not have all the answers to having good grades. There are many other factors involved such as your personal interest in your studies and more crucial, your `study' techniques and concentration. Personally, I find having a group of regular friends to `work with' or provide encouragement to. But it may differ in your medical studies. -- Give some thought. Since you are a student, you should continue to find a location that you really find comfortable in e.g. your studies or assignments. In the bedroom, when you really need to rest make the room conducive to a good night's rest. Usually thru the play of lighting and curtains. Sometimes, you may seriously consider having a fixed table in your bedroom to study in the day. Wishing you all the best in your studies... My advise is that try your best to adopt the best approach in studies that will suite you. I personally feel that, having good grades may include, taking interest in the course and at the same time, constant review / understanding of the course materials and in many instances, taking the approach i.e. using questions e.g. such as in past year papers also. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Judy, Based on Feng Shui, one has to try and protect `entrances': 1. Entrances such as the main entrance door and windows. 2. In your situation, determine whether, the broken tree stump is now a `sha qi': 2.1 Stand at the main entrance or the window(s) especially if the tree stump is tangent or `cut's across or slice thru the main entrance or a window. 2.2 If, the above is true; then, it is best to try and take immediate action as soon as possible, such as `cutting' down the rest of the tree and remove the roots. 2.3 If the tree stump does not cut thru the window or main entrance, then, you can take your time to uproot or remove the tree especially if it no longer could grow i.e. a dead tree. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Madi, Thanks for some of your clarifications. 1. Are the drains coverable? It would not be ideal for the drain water to flow from west to east or remain stagnant. 2. Currently what is the distance between the drain and the main entrance? 3. Is the drain parallel to the front entrance? 4. Are there now plants outside the main entrance. If so, how many plants and how large are they? Are they planted or in pots. Thanks. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Janaki, From a Shapes and Form point of view under Feng Shui, yes, it is inauspicious to have a toilet door facing the main entrance. This is usually a fundamental flaw and difficult to correct. The only option to REDUCE the effect is to see if the toilet door can be `partitioned' away from the view of the main entrance. Try as we might, sometimes it is difficult to `cure' fundamental flaws in the house. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Roasline, Here are some guidelines to the placement of an ancestor's tablet:- 1. Avoid placing it immediately facing the front entrance (main door). Here, the implication is that it is disrespectful to let an ancestor become the guardian of the house. 2. Avoid placing it facing a toilet or on the same wall as the toilet. 3. If possible, avoid placing it in the kitchen. 4. Try to find some place in the living room area. Preferably facing outwards i.e. facing an open window (if you can). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Madi, 1. How long is your uncle's restaurant business at this premises? 2. Is the business facing financial problems? 3. Are there other restaurants in the same area? And compared to the business with these restaurants, is the business good / bad i.e. same as those in the area? Warmest Regards, Cecil

Introduction: 1. Geomancy.net forwards a copy of its forum message (one-way) to Yahoo! Clubs: Feng Shui Geomancy Club mainly to serve as an additional archive of the messages in this forum. 2. One of our Yahoo! Club member has requested for help in filling in a simple survey. URL: http://www.risd41.org/surveys/feng.tp3 Password to enter: " guest " 3. I have personally checked out the survey and it takes quite fast to fill-in. 4. If you have the time, perhaps, you can lend a helping hand to assist this student in his research paper on Feng Shui. You do not need to provide your email address etc... Thank you in advance. Warmest Regards, Cecil P.S. The details below is `self-explanatory':- ----- Original Message ----- From: "trely99" To: Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 3:56 PM Subject: Hi everyone! [Yahoo! Clubs: Feng Shui Geomancy Club]

Dear Chee Kiat, I totally agree with what you had said. 1. In East such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and Singapore, we have always learnt that Feng Shui does not depend on highly commercialised products that are produced to satisfy the `demand' and driven by unscrupulous people in the name of " Feng Shui ". 2. When I tried to do a search under the search engines for Feng Shui products; for our friend in Portual; I found several Feng Shui emporiums that have tied in with so called Feng Shui practitioners to help `push' their products. 3. Feng Shui is now so contaminated and commercialised by all these association with material goods which are highly marked up and only to fool the unsuspecting .... to depart with their hard earned money. Worse, for those who are already at a disadvantaged i.e. financial difficulities are made to buy these ex-goods.. what a pity... 4. It would be a different case, if many of these emporiums concentrate on items e.g. for Feng Shui students such as Loupans or coins. But these unfortunately do not generate big bucks for these emporiums. 5. We have heard of Feng Shui jewellery, wealth fountains, 3 legged toad etc... 6. Like Chee Kiat correctly pointed out, Feng Shui is based on the Five elements and almost anything found in the home can still be used as a Feng Shui `cure' or `tool'. 7. We should all begin to differentiate `real' Feng Shui with fake stuffs... 8. Fake Feng Shui material goods are only just as good as being decorative items ONLY. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Wasis, Would it be possible for you to upload a .gif or .jpg or .bmp file for a clearer understanding of your situation. Usually, you should leave out the main gate as this should not be considered the main entrance. For the main entrance, for many homes, there are usually two doors to the main entrance or distinctly, in many instances, the main entrance door can be seen from the frontage of the house. Or when we drive-in to the house, we could see the main entrance door. Alternatively, it should be the `largest' door in the home. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Wasis, 1. The term " Flying Star Feng Shui " and " Xuan Kong Feng Shui " is one and the same. 2. In fact, if one looks carefully at the naming convention in this forum, under the topic header "Flying Star (Xuan Kong Fei Xing)" one will come to understand that Flying Star is indeed Xuan Kong Fei Xing. 3. As money plants prefer some shade, in country which is near the equator, and subject to direct sunlight; it is very common to see money plants planted just below expressway flyovers i.e. the shaded ground. These money plants grow very well such that they look like a vast carpet `grass' covering these areas. As to whether one can plant a money plant in the soil; it can be done. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Liz, I tried searching thru the search engines to locate a supplier i.e. in Portugal, but could not find any. Perhaps, you could try the search engines such as yahoo.com to find a supplier perhaps overseas. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Diane, In general, where it concerns the compass location at north east, it is best to avoid creating or enhancing the location to become too yin. This also depends on the size of your aquarium. Where water is considered a Yin element and too much of it may not be good for this sector. However, further FS audit may be needed such as: 1. What is the lighting level (especially natural light) that goes into this room/area? More natural light -- more yang and good. 2. How large is the aquarium. 3. If a Flying Star analysis has been done; how many #numbers relate to Yin at this sector? Where possible, the Flying star #numbers at this sector should have more Yang influence. For example, Flying Star numbers have signifiance and each no. does represent an object or item. For example, a worst case senario is to find the Flying Star numbers associated with: - Women - Robe - Young - perhaps (RED) Here, we could quite imagine.. that now or in the near future, there could be a likely hanging by a young girl in red clothes at this sector... Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Kerrie, Frankly, I do not know where to begin advising you on concepts such as "fame" area. These are non-traditional FS practises. Neutral colours such as white or pastel white colours are best if one is not sure what colour to paint a wall. Alternatively, instead of speculating on what to paint the wall at the "fame" area - you could perhaps, make a choice based on your personal feelings or consulting family members on the colour. Where possible, in such an instance, do not be `taken' in by suggestions on how to `brighten' up the fame area... These are not proper FS theories ... Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Ian, I can quite understand your confusion here. In this website, and for those trying to find the main entrance direction: 1. Always find the centrepoint of the house and from the centrepoint, locate the compass direction of the main entrance. Reference: http://www.geomancy.net/fs/cecilcompass.htm 2. If you are referring to the use of the `Bagua' as those taught by Black Hat Sect or BTB .. then in my opinion, this is not the correct way to `practise' FS. BTB type of practise is not recognised form and a large measure is focused on making one purchase objects etc... and other marketing ploys to get one to depart with their money. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Joey, For accessing the third floor accomodation, one should take into the consideration the main door location at south-west for taking the compass reading under Flying Star analysis for the room. Warmest Regards, Cecil

TRUE SAD STORY There was once this guy who is very much in love with his girl. This romantic guy folded 1,000 pieces of papercranes as a gift to his girl. Although, at that time he was just a small fry in his company, his future doesn't seemed too bright, they were very happy together. Until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and will never come back. She also told him that she cannot visualise any future for the both of them, so let's go their own ways there and then ... Heartbroken, the guy agreed. But when he regain his confidence, he worked hard day and night, slogging his body and mind just to make something out of himself. Finally with all these hardwork and the help of friends, this guy had set up his own company ... You never fail until you stop trying. One rainy day, while this guy was driving, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain walking to some destination. Even with the umbrella, they were still drenched. It didn't take him long to realise those were his girl's parents. With a heart in getting back at them, he drived slowly beside the couple, wanting them to spot him in his luxury sedan. He wanted them to know that he wasn't the same anymore, he had his own company, car, condo, etc. He made it! Before the guy can realise, the couple was walking towards a cemetary, and he got out of his car and followed ...and he saw his girl, a photograph of her smiling sweetly as ever at him from her tombstone... and he saw his papercranes beside her ... Her parents saw him. He ask them why had this happened. They explained, she did not leave for France at all. She was ill with cancer. She had believed that he will make it someday, but she did not want to be his obstacle ... therefore she had chosen to leave him... Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to,doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have She had wanted her parents to put his papercranes beside her, because, if the day comes when fate brings him to her again ... he can take some of those back with him ... Once you have loved, you will always love. For what's in your mind may escape but what's in your heart will remain forever. Find time to realize that there is one person who mean so much to you, for you might wake up one morning losing that person who you thought meant nothing to you. The guy just wept ...

Dear Anon, 1. In my country, I do encounter several old houses such as bangalow houses i.e. over 100 years old that has been transformed into quad or duplex houses. 2. In one such house, it became `sunken' in relation to other developments around it i.e. new buildings next to it on higher raised ground. In this particular house (or quad-units) the house is considered `entrapped' and surrounded by taller more modern buidlings surrounding it. From my personal observations of the house, for the past 5 years: 1. The owner of one particular unit at the ground level (entrapped house) had difficulty trying to find a buyer for it. 2. Progress for the breadwinner was slow and while many others living next to his house had changed cars no less than 1 or more times, the owner.. from my obervation, was not able to afford a new car. Perhaps, he did not want to change it... maybe... 3. More importantly, rather than simply looking at how well, you can increase the `Earth luck' of the apartment, one should take a look at it's surroundings. 4. As the surroundings can influence how auspicious or inauspicious the house (whole building becomes)... 5. If one uses the Eight House theory, it generally tells how suitable a house to the person. This does not translate to a cure for such a situation. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Ian, Can u elaborate further as to the two doors. Are they the main entrance or two doors within a main entrance area. Usually, one will not be too concerned with the effect of the two doors unless, one is trying to determine which door to apply as the main entrance when applying the Flying Star Theory of the compass school Feng Shui. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Kristina, 1. In my opinion, based on your initial feedback that the hous is beautiful, large and airy... you could perhaps, first apply the adage " If it ain't broken, don't fix it.". 2. Many people, actually do not need the help or `assistance' of Feng Shui to prosper or enjoy good luck. 3. This is because, majority of the time, a house with good Shapes and Forms (both external and internal of the house) provides a quantum leap in `LUCK'. 4. Feng Shui and other Chinese divinity methods is in some sense, all about increasing one's `LUCK'. 5. If one has a quantum leap i.e. excellent Shapes and Form; this is already a significant boost in LUCK. Any additional increase in `LUCK' may be much harder to `squeeze' and based on marginal utility, it may not be worthwhile if we need to spent (say) an additional $100 to get an increase of just $1 of luck. 6. What I mentioning here is that, you could perhaps move in first. 7. Usually, bad Feng Shui in most instances is associated with: 7.1 Constant sickness in the family 7.2 misfortune or accidents 7.3 loss of wealth 8. What you are trying to apply, frankly `worries' me because, it is just bits and pieces of the full Feng Shui puzzle. Applying abit here and there.. does not seem coherent... or proper application of Feng Shui. 9. A full Feng Shui audit looks more into greater detail and by wanting to change the color etc... without proper investigations.. can provide grave concerns.... 10. I remembered, in the past, this Doctor, who read a FS book and immediately changed the color of his gate .. but later realised that it does not suit the element. 11. If a home has excellent FS, kua numbers, in my opinion, may seem less relevant here. 12. If you and your husband and perhaps, children, have a happy feeling about the house, this is indeed a good thing... 13. Rather than, using `haphazrd' form of FS, I believe, you should move in first and `monitor' the situation. Warmest Regards, Cecil