Cecil Lee

Dear Greg, 1. In my opinion, in Traditional Feng Shui there is no `proper use of the Bagua ' as a means of looking at the Feng Shui of a house/room or office. 2. Sad to say, the `Fixed Template' type of Feng Shui is not recognised in Traditional FS Schools. It is a modern `invention' and to many Traditional FS sites, this is a marketing idea invented by the leader of the *Black Hat Tantric Buddhish* or *BTB*. 3. Thus, such ideas or concepts "to glorify" it are not discussed in this forum. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Niteka, 1. It is difficult to say that one has an area related to the career area and another room? related to ... money room. Or another room related to romance. 2. In my opinion, if it is not personalised to an individual or using Feng Shui in a holistic way, this type of `understanding' is too general to be able to work. 3. I believe that applying fixed template although can bring one "hope", it can also conversely bring one disappointment. As such concepts means that it applies to everyone and I feel that it is too "generalised". Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Michal, 1. Many elements of "Shapes and Form" School of Feng Shui is about commonsense approach. 2. The main thing one should remember is that we should make the `room' fit us rather than to "re-design" ourselves to fit the environment. 3. Here, it does not sound appropriate for you to fit into the "principles of FS" based on the book, do re-examine, what you would have done if you have not picked up the book on Feng Shui. 4. Under the Shapes and Form School of Feng Shui, things should be `natural' e.g. placing the bed at a location where one feels comfortable. For example placing the bed against a solid wall. 5. Only after one has done the above and have the luxury to be able to face say a " good direction " then try to do so. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Judy, 1. Poison arrows are `objects' that point towards e.g. the main entrance of the house or through a window into the house. For example, it can be a corner of another house pointing into the house `like' an arrrow' head. Alternatively it can be a lamp post which if one visualises, slicing (like a knife) cutting thru the main entrance door. 2. In a room, poison arrows usually are sharp corners pointed towards e.g. the bed. 3. Overhead beams are considered `Sha Qi' and not poison arrow as it is not aimed at the person or bed but rather it `weighs down' or seem to put on a "pressure" downwards. 4. Position of beds e.g. placing it against a wall for solid support or positioning of the bed or table are considered more on Shapes and Form School Feng Shui techniques utiltising concepts like the Four Symbolic Animals concept. Ref: http://www.geomancy.net/fs/four.htm Where it is advisable to have a solid backing for the bed etc... 5. Thus, the placement of the beds need not necessary have to meet with circumstances such as having a poison arrow pointed at it. There may not be any poison arrow pointed at it. But rather, the placement in such cases are inauspicious. For example, one should not place the bed sharing the same wall as the toilet bowl. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Kate, Usually, it would be best to close the toilet door when not in use and keep the location bright and dry. (Thus keeping it more Yang than Yin). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Susan, We have to see it from two perspectives: 1. If we do not relate it to Feng Shui concepts, simply choose a neutral color like white or a color that you feel that would look good at this sector. 2. Under Feng Shui, we study each person's element and strength plus the house chart and then `select' a colour scheme for the sector. Usually, most of the time, like in Para 1, a neutral color like white or pastel or light shades of a color onto white is ok. We also have to use a common sense approach. Here, check to see the lighting in the home. If there is always natural light, it would be nice to keep the home `naturally' bright and again a neutral color would be nice. Avoid painting the house such that you need to turn on the light even in day time. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, In my opinion, house numbers are not really based on Feng Shui but numerology. However, within numberology, there are many (many) types of formulas. Sometimes it does not even go into forumlas or methods but simply, the phonetic sound `like'. It is my believe that, if I were to look for a home, my first consideration is location, location and location. I apologise for writing location x 3. But seriously, location is the most single factor that has an impact in Feng Shui and affects our luck. If I were to buy the house, if the house has excellent, good or even average FS, I do not mind buying the house with the no. 2506. Usually, in Asia, where the weekly purchase of 4-D or 4digit `lottery' is common, some of us would make a bet on the number or `play' with it e.g. 2506 2605 5602 etc.. in the hope of striking or winning a prize. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, The best form of `metal' element is one's clothings. Where possible try to wear white coloured clothings. For example, for men, you can continue to wear dark colored trousers and the best colour for shirts are white or white with `gold'. You need not necessarily wear all white but even white shirt with stripes etc... Same concept for ladies. For a car colour, it would be nice to have a white colored car or gold/yellow colour. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Robin, First of all, a warm welcome to this forum. Feel free to check back past messages which I believe, would help to understand Traditional Feng Shui. 1. The key essence of a good Feng Shui house is based on Shapes and Form School. 2. In order to achieve a quantum Leap in Feng Shui and not entangled under a vicious cycle of `poor' Feng Shui is to look at how a piece of land (it can be the entire neighbourhood) and your specific piece of land can be seen to be able to accumulate wealth. 3. Here, for example, even before one builds a home on the land, a competent FS practitioner is sought to advise on the piece of land and plot where a house can be constructed which would result in it able to retain wealth. 4. Visually, one should see or " imagine " how e.g. in the case of water, landing on the house and whether, it can accumulate wealth. Sorry, but this is hard to describe. 5. Another way of looking at it is from a micro level where the back of the house needs a solid backing. Here, if the back of the house has a slope, chances are wealth cannot be retained by flows off. 6. Some buildings are sloping and facing the sea: Is like water running off the house into say the sea. 7. On your plot of land, you need to look closely at whether " wealth " can be retained or it can easily flow off. In such a situation, if your house can maintain a `horse shoe effect' e.g. providing that `protection' to the side and a higher protection at the back is one of the best method. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Christina, In my opinion, based on Chinese culture, there is a wish that good numbers bring one luck. Few people relate the relate the no. of fishes to one's kua number. But rather, many people such as Chinese (Cantonese dialect) or Hong Kong people spent money on `numbers'. For example, in my part of the country, we pay bids for car numbers e.g. such single digit new car numbers such as 8 or 9. Therefore, I feel that it would be nice to have the above number of fishes. (Not compulsory thou). This is a separate matter from a Feng Shui audit where the FS practitioner advise their clients to place a certain number of fishes either gold or black to neutralise Sha Qi. In your case, I believe, the fish tank is more for hobby purposes. Using black gold fish is usually (most of the time used) to counteract Sha Qi. But no harm if one has a few of such fishes in a hobby fish tank. Warmest Regards, Cecil ----- Original Message ----- From: "five-element-cures Listmanager" To: Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 5:46 AM Subject: Is it necessary to have a no. of gold fishes

Dear Cindy, Please sent a private message to: robert-lee@geomancy.net We would try to provide you with the necessary reports to do a self-audit. However, you may need to do some homework such as determining the direction of main entrance etc... You should have no problem input the various information required to generate a Home Audit. Take care! Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Please see below:- Nothing much one can do unless one moves the toilet away from this sector. However, it is best to look at the overall house instead of just that particular sector by itself using the major FS theories such as Shapes and Form and Flying Star. For the definition of a missing corner in a house, it should be more than 33.3 percent of that sector's area. Use the url: http://www.geomancy.net/fs/building.htm to check the signifiance of the `missing corner'. For example, if the missing corner is at NE, here, in FS, it implies one may have poor planning. This is in contrast better than a missing corner at the North which may signify meeting an accident. The remedies, include placing mirror on the interior wall. Or if it is a landed property, one can form a profile of the missing corner e.g. by landscaping or a lighted area at that sector. Here, it does not matter if under the Eight House this is a good or bad sector. But rather try to `cure' that area (if possible). Firstly, one should make sure that the bedroom e.g. the position of the bed conform to Shapes and Form. Only after looking at the above and even analysis done using the Flying Star then, one should consider sleeping at a good sector and afterwards, sleeping with the head facing a good sector. In my opinion, currently what you are using is only the Eight House Theory but do look into other FS theories (if you can). Again, your analysis is based on simply the Eight House theory. Here, I must emphaise that the key to Eight House theory is how much time you spent at a particular sector. For the meditation area, you can actually try to find a location that you feel comfortable to meditate at. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Jo, 1. Usually no one does that especially pasting it e.g. on a main entrance door. (Under commonsense), it would not be appropriate to come up to the main door and greeted by a tiger with its mouth opened. 2. For the belief on `guardians' of the main door , for example, usually, they come in pairs e.g. two lion statues on each side of the door. 3. Even in some Chinese homes or temples, you see two door Gods on each side of the door. 4. Perhaps, one can have two split image of the tigers on a door. But usually this is not the norm but rarely if some does it. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Jo, The key thing to remember about the Eight House Theory is that the more one spents time at a good sector the better. Even if the sector is a good sector but, one does not spent time at, thus, it does `not apply' i.e. there is no beneifical effect on a person. Under the Flying Star Theory, most importantly, although it is your loss or legal problems area, you have to check the elements at that sector e.g. the mountain / water star and the base number to see if there are any imbalances. If there are imbalances, one has to cure it. Once this is done, in general we have balanced that sector. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Kaushal, In my opinion, other than if the house has good Feng Shui qualities and if the buyer is aware of FS, one can use it as a selling tool. Otherwise, I read with `amusement' some `cures' suggested include tie a ribbon etc... Many factors include the selling price, market conditions and equally ... luck. Regards, Cecil

Dear DeVon, Usually the best advise is to check on one's religion first. For example, if one is a Catholic, one can obtain holy water from the Priest or invite him to `bless the house'. Similiarly, if one is a Christian, could ask your pastor to come to your home and `do some cleaning'. For other religions e.g. Buddhism, Toaism, should seek the help of their respective Priests/Monks. If one is a `free thinker', can still e.g. invite a religious person or go to a Catholic church to obtain `holy' water. Usually, prayers are said before sprinkling the `holy' water in the house. However, it is best to try to invite a Priest and only do this as a last resort. Where possible, it should be done when the young is not in the home. Warmest Regards, Cecil ----- Original Message ----- From: "free-advice Listmanager" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 7:29 AM Subject: Nephew sees ghosts downstairs at basement

Dear George, 1. It is difficult to say for sure that, removing some of the toilets and leaving a few behind would help the situation. It can be tried but not sure, if it would work as there are still toilets at the centrepoint of the house. 2. One `idea' of using rocks is to create more `Yang' as rocks or stones are considered Yang objects. If you read it from a book and you can give a try. In general, other alternatives like keeping the toilet bright and clean is a better option. Warmest Regards, Cecil ----- Original Message ----- From: "free-advice Listmanager" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 7:26 AM Subject: Bathrooms location

Dear DeVon, If one intends to harmonize a home using Feng Shui, you may have to: 1. Do lots of `homework' in finding out not only the Principles and Concepts of the various Feng Shui techniques but also how to apply them properly. This can start from reading up books, taking up courses etc... 2. Alternatively, the most `hassle free' method is to consult a competent FS practitioner to do a home audit. Warmest Regards, Cecil ----- Original Message ----- From: "free-advice Listmanager" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 7:27 AM Subject: Harmonized ones home

Dear Anon, Appreciate if you can elaborate further as to what you mean by bad Feng Shui at the main entrance i.e what is the poison arrow. Usually, there is currently not much information about the `effects' of using a cross on the main door for such a purpose. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. In general, a neutral colour for a room is white or nowadays there are paints that have light shades of any other colors. 2. This makes the room bright. 3. Under Feng Shui, there are several methods of finding suitable colors: For example:- 3.1 If the home is large e.g. as large as the white house or other stately mansions, one paint each wing a color based on `Feng Shui' colors like.. blue = North, East = green, West = white or gold.... etc 3.2 More professional methods under Traditional FS is to find out one's element and it's strength. After finding out each person's element and strength, for the bedroom, one can then find a Binding element. If the binding element for the two persons is water, then, ideally the room can be painted e.g. blue or shades of blue to help bind the two parties. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. Usually, a Feng Shui consultant would first do an audit of the home and afterwards recommend the placement of a water position (if it is benefical). 2. Other factors include, the breadwinners Ba Zhi or Eight Characters. If the person's element and strength is weak water or strong fire, based on his element, it would be advantages if such a person, has water in his home. However, if the person is a weak fire person, additional water would further exhaust him. Similarly if a person is a strong water person, he should not need more water as it would `weigh' down on him. 3. In general, without taking into consideration the `caution' above, one can generally activate `water' at the frontage of a house. If the house is a landed property it should be at the frontage of the house. 4. For your home it would be advantages to `find' : 4.1 The frontage of the apartment 4.2 The back of the home. 5. After you have done this, you then check that your water fountain is at the frontage and not in the middle of the house. 6. Usually for an apartment, the frontage need not necessarily be the main entrance but somewhere `bright' e.g. the balcony area. Thus if you have a balcony area plus the lobby of your private lift and they are situated closeby, you can still have a water position. But, if the lobby of the private lift is closer to the back of the house, then this is not that adviseable. It depends on your layout plan. 7. It is a `practise' to avoid placing a water position on the right side of the door for the `fear' of one of the spouse having an affair. Overall, if you do not want to consider any of the above, if personally you or your family feels comfortable and `happy' with a water fountain at the lobby area, then, you can try it there. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Ellen, 1. In my opinion, the correct approach is a holistic approach to Feng Shui. 2. If one is using Feng Shui, one has to look at different Feng Shui Schools and then maximise the `key' points in each School. 3. Thus even before you approach whether a main door direction is `good' or `bad' you can try to do a home audit first with the Shapes and Form School 4. The most crucial is to do an environmental scanning e.g. by standing at the main entrance and at each window of the house and look for any poison arrows aimed at them. 5. If there are poision arrows, try to neutralise these first. 6. Personal Kua numbers or those related to the Eight House in essence, tell us how suitable the house is to e.g. the breadwinner. This theory cannot do more than that. If you are using the Eight House Theory, do check what is the influence or intangible force at your bedroom. Where best, sleep closer to a good sector (but bear in mind, that Shapes and Form prevails over this). I.e. it is better to place the bed against a wall rather than placing it against a window. The compass direction such as 300 degrees of the main door, can be used to look at the house using the Flying Star. Which uses the Five Elements concept to check for imbalances at each of the 9 sectors and with this understanding `cures' can than be used to neutralise them. Thus my advise is that it is not really the `end' of the world but rather, you have to try to use each of the theories to try and `maximise' or increase your `Earth Luck'. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Maggie, Yes, it would indeed be cruel to deliberately kill the fishes. You should seriously consider giving them away. If not, perhaps you can call up any Aquarium shops and check with them if you can give the fishes to them or even pay them to keep the fishes. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Kaushal, 1. Under Feng Shui, this is considered inauspicious as `beneifical' Qi is suppose to come into the house and meander slowly circulating inside the house and `exit' the home through other openings. 2. Where possible, it should not enter the house e.g. the main entrance and exit out through an opposite window. Here, Qi is not allowed to circulate in the home. 3. The best option is to place a screen close to the main door area to allow the Qi to meander into the house. The screen need not necessarily be of full height. It can be of a lower height where possible it can cover e.g. three-quarters of the door. 4. Another alternative is to close the window which is facing the main entrance door or install a blind or curtains (closing that window). Warmest Regards, Cecil ----- Original Message ----- From: "free-advice Listmanager" To: Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 7:28 AM Subject: Window Facing Main Door.

Dear Gema, For a flat, the best placement of a fountain is either at the balcony or in the living room area. It is best to avoid placing a fountain at the bedroom and kitchen. Warmest Regards, Cecil ----- Original Message ----- From: "free-advice Listmanager" To: Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 7:30 AM Subject: Water and my dog and cat loves to play...