Does your element work with geographic home

[Marie]

I was wondering if your true element
can be influenced by the landmarks you
live around. For example if water weakens
your element, would living near a lake
be a bad influence on your life?
I am a strong wood - would it be impacted
if I live near a forest for instance or
would my life be more in balance if I
lived in a hot(fire element)location.
Just thought of this and it made me
curious to know if this is valid for
feng-shui.

[Cecil Lee]

Dear Chris,
Thanks for your very interesting question.
As a guide, usually our surroundings is `governed' by Feng Shui analysis using the Shapes and Form School.
Here, Shapes and Form is used at the Environment Scanning ie. the Landscape, the Site and the Home.
We can loosely term the above as Macro Feng Shui. It is important in the above to locate the dragon (yang) embracing the tiger (yin) or we consider this a gentle embrace.
In addition, in the macro level, there should preferably be a solid backing (tortise) and clear space - infront (phoenix).
In Macro Feng Shui, we also analyse the enviroment in relation to the Five Elements concept. Here, if there are lots of `wood structure' buildings e.g. surrouding buildings need not be made of wood but tall and thin, one can built a house / building of Metal to destroy the surrounding wood structures thus the end result is to create wealth for the building.
Again we should apply the 33.3 percent concept. In the macro environment, we (as a person) cannot influence much our environment.
Our environment: between buildings and landscape can influence each other.
Next, at the micro level, we can then concentrate on the influence on ourselves.
Many a times, if a person lack wood e.g. a weak wood person, a FS practioner may advise adding more "wood" in the home etc..
For those who have learned Economics, i.e. Macro level and Micro level, if we apply the same to Feng Shui at Macro and Micro level, then we can begin to understand the relationship of man and his immediate surrounding has the greatest influence. Buildings and each other and the surrounding have another relationship.
Hope the above helps.
Warmest Regards,
Cecil Lee

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On 9/14/99 12:55:15 PM, Anonymous wrote:
I was wondering if your true
element
can be influenced by the
landmarks you
live around. For example if
water weakens
your element, would living
near a lake
be a bad influence on your
life?
I am a strong wood - would it
be impacted
if I live near a forest for
instance or
would my life be more in
balance if I
lived in a hot(fire
element)location.
Just thought of this and it
made me
curious to know if this is
valid for
feng-shui.