Direction Of The Fireplace

[myfs_88310]

Dear Master Cecil:
I have a fireplace (a red brick one) situated in the west direction of my house. Because it is metal in the west, I wonder if the west is a bad direction for this fireplace. What should I do to neutralize the conflict? Please advise.
Regards,
Anon

[Cecil Lee]

Dear Anon,
1. Drawing a parallel, nowadays, also, this type of Feng Shui is too general to be effective. It is like the notion of North = career sector; SW = romance sector.
2. Although: West is associated with metal; East with wood; there is not much this can tell us.
3. A more accurate interpretation is to apply Flying Star Feng Shui. This is because each sector has three variables: the mountain star; the water star and the base star.
4. For example, the Flying Star analysis is based on the birth chart of each home. Here, one needs to know the year the house was born or had a major renovation. The direction of the house.
4.1 Senario 1:
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If this (west) sector has a
5 2
2
A fire place at this sector may be considered unfavourable since #5 = bad earth or misfortune/sickness and #2 is sickness star.
Given this senario, a fire place with real fire represents: fire element.
Under the productive sequence of the Five elements concept:
Fire helps or fuel earth.
Given this understanding, if this sector is not controlled or neutralised, then this is very unfavourable. Given such a situation, one should introduce metal to this sector.
4.2 Senario 2:
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If the Flying Star charts are:
3 4
7
Since #3 is bad wood and #4 also bad wood, a fire place (fire is beneifical) here.
This is because, under the productive sequence of the Five elements concept:
Fire is used to `burn' off or neutralise bad wood elements.
We can look at it from a different angle. What say if we want to place a water feature at such a location? 3 7 4?
Again, under the productive sequence of Five elements concept: Water aids or fuels wood. We should therefore, given this understanding, avoid using water element i.e be it a real fountain/ fish tank or even painting the walls blue here.
Warmest Regards,
Cecil

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On 4/27/2003 7:25:12 PM, Anonymous wrote:
Dear Master Cecil:
I have a fireplace (a red
brick one) situated in the
west direction of my house.
Because it is metal in the
west, I wonder if the west is
a bad direction for this
fireplace. What should I do
to neutralize the conflict?
Please advise.
Regards,
Anon