NEGATIVE FEATURES IN AND AROUND THE HOME

FENG SHUI  8 MANSIONS

NEGATIVE FEATURES IN AND AROUND THE HOME

What are negative features and how will they affect your Feng Shui?

Negative features in a natural environment are likely to be mountains too close to a property, a rocky outcrop seemingly suppressing a home or stagnant water sending Sha Qi your way. In an urban setting the negative feature is more likely to be (but not exclusively) man made.  Flyovers, raised railway lines, pylons, microwave towers are all a part of our 21st century life and in the wrong place can affect us in a damaging way, both energetically and healthwise.

Outside

As with all Feng Shui checking out what might be affecting the quality of Qi outside your property and in particular what negative feature is aimed at your front door, the mouth of your property, is the first step.

If you have a narrow gap similar to this picture, such as when there are two properties close together directly opposite your main door it will cause negative Qi to speed towards you.

One of the most significant external features is a pylon.  They are large, sharp and hard to ignore.  As well as bringing potential health issues they do send inauspicious Qi your way when they are in the vicinity of your property.  Depending on their location in relation to your home they can also have a negative impact on a member of the family.  For example if it is located in the Southwest this will affect the mother or an older female in the family. 

The edge of a neighbouring roofline will send Sha Qi your way but only when it is in the vicinity of your main door.

Roads while being 'virtual water'  can bring either positive or negative Qi with them.  The infamous T-junction, especially when it is part of a busy road plays its role in sending Sha Qi towards your door.   

If you have the bow of a road or a curved road coming towards your main door it is sending negative energy your way.

Negative features in the home are likely the result of design features or property layout.

Inside

So what negative features do you look for inside your home?

 A low beam above your main door, an upright or staircase in direct alignment with your main door are all negative features.   The beam will suppress any Qi entering, the upright will cause the Qi to dissipate and the staircase will result in Qi moving quickly down the stairs and colliding with Qi entering the door.

A straight hall from the front door to the back door sends fast moving negative Qi down its length resulting in missing Qi through the rest of the property.  This will cause an excess of Yin energy in a Yang environment and will make the residents feels lacklustre and short on motivation.

As with all things there are qualifiers to the above information and a professional consultant will identify what is important and what is not when conducting a Feng Shui audit.

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LynC

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Feng Shui Home - Home Staircase

Staircase - Going Up-Going Down!

Unless you live in a single-storey property you will have at least one staircase in your home.

This time around we are not talking about external stairways but those that transport Qi between the ground and first floor of your interior living space.  You may have your living area on the ground floor which is the more usual situation, or you may have your sleeping area on the ground floor with your living space on the first floor.  Whichever layout you have will be influenced by the location of your staircase.  The quality of the Qi you experience will depend on the layout of your home.

What is it you see when you open your front door from the outside looking in?  Do you have an open space allowing the Qi to enter; gather and spread slowly and harmoniously throughout the space?  Do you have a long straight hall forcing the Qi to move straight forward quickly and aggressively, rather like a poison arrow? 

Or do you have a staircase?  And does it go up or down?  Is your staircase in full view of your main door?  Is your staircase straight, curved, split or spiral?  How does this affect the flow of Qi in your home?

A staircase going down indicates difficulties for the occupants.  Eventually you may have to leave the house or you may experience blocks to accumulating wealth.  Like water that flows downwards, Qi will flow down away from your living area.  Water represents wealth in Feng Shui so a downward staircase represents positive Qi flowing away from the main living spaces.

There are a lot of questions to consider and their answer will depend greatly on the quality of Qi you experience in both the lower and upper levels of your home.

Ideally, your staircase is located away from your main door, to one side or the other.  Ideally you will have an open space inside your front door which will allow the Qi entering to accumulate and move harmoniously through your ground floor as well as up the staircase and into the upper level/s of your home. 

Knowing that Qi moves appropriate to its surroundings, if you have a staircase directly in front of your main door where is the Qi destined to go?  Up the staircase!  This will impact on the Qi in your lower and upper floors.

If your staircase is in front of your main door the Qi will enter through the door and immediately head up the stairs.  This means your ground floor will be lacking positive Yang Qi and may have a build up of negative Yin Qi, especially if the house is empty during the daytime.  If this coincides with a straight staircase the Qi heading upwards will be fast and aggressive when there is nothing to slow it down.  If you have a door, such as your bedroom door; your sanctuary; directly facing the top of this straight staircase the Qi entering your place of peace and rest, will be fast and aggressive; not conducive to serenity and tranquility.

Next time we will look at different types of staircase in the home and their influence on the movement of Qi.

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FENG SHUI and EIGHT MANSIONS

“Use awareness to make changes”

Are you and your home in harmony? 

Personal Eight Mansions is well-known in Feng Shui.  Your date of birth identifies your Kua number which in turn identifies your four good and four bad locations.  This gives you a head start when it comes to knowing which direction to sit or sleep.  Or which direction to face when you are working/playing/studying.

However this is only half of the picture.

To look at the bigger picture, knowing the Eight Mansions or the Natal Chart of your home, which takes into consideration the distribution of energy throughout the building will determine whether you and your home are meant for one another.  The Eight Mansions of your home is based on its facing and sitting direction. The facing direction of your home is the direction of maximum yang energy.  This is often, but not exclusively, the place where the main door is located and it is important to determine the facing direction before beginning.  The sitting direction is exactly opposite and benefits from more yin than yang energy.  The yang of movement, of positive chi, is best entering your home from the front and the yin of stillness, is best at the back of your home providing quiet, stability and support.

Ideally your front door will be located in the sheng chi (overall good fortune) location of your home.  Depending on the stage you are at in your life, your bedroom will be best located in your tien yi (health) or your nien yen (relationships) location.

Your kitchen, the third most important sector of your home, is different.  While it is a vital part of the overall picture in ensuring the health and wellbeing of your family, it is best located in one of your four bad locations.  In effect, it is best being in a location where it can press down and suppress the bad chi of a location.  The kitchen itself however, and in particular the stove, can be designed to bring good luck to the family.  The stove (the knobs) are most auspicious when facing the best direction of the breadwinner of the house.

So how do you deal with a less than auspicious layout?  Where do you sit?  Which direction do you face?

Location is more important than direction.  If you can sit, or work, or sleep, in one of your four good locations you then also have the option to face one of your four good directions thereby increasing the auspicious chi you are exposed to.  If you have to sit, work or sleep in one of your four bad locations you then only have the option to face one of your good directions within that location.  

It is never going to be possible to have the perfect configuration (unless you are building your own home and you have more control over the finished product) so the answer is to benefit as much as possible from what you can do and then get on with your life.  Being aware of Eight Mansions for the home, and knowing your good and bad directions based on your Kua number will definitely give you an advantage if you are house-hunting.  Taking along a standard western compass to determine the facing and sitting directions of a property, will definitely help you in your house search.  It will also allow you to find out whether the location of the master bedroom and the kitchen will benefit or restrict you.

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Feng Shui and the Magic Ratio-Home and Garden

Magic Ratio in the Home

The Magic Ratio as it is known in Feng Shui or the Golden Ratio, as it is probably more commonly known in the West is said to appeal to the human psyche making shapes and living environments that conform to this 1:1.618 rectangle harmonious and auspicious.

So what has this to do with Feng Shui? 

The simple answer is that this Magic Ratio, when used in room layout creates an instant auspicious and open feel.

If you have a long narrow room, such as may be present in a traditional Victorian style property using the proportions of the Magic Ratio to lay out the space you spend most of your time in will invite a feeling of harmony and optimism.  The area will instantly appear brighter and more spacious.

Even in a small space this Ratio will open up the area making it feel more user-friendly and roomy.

Obstacles or blocks to your success will also begin to disappear inviting positive results into all your endeavours.

  

Using the Magic Ratio is your living and sleeping areas will instantly create a feeling of wellbeing.  Any space ‘left over’ can be separated with wall or floor covering, a piece of furniture, a screen; anything that will create the divide.

By measuring the length and width of a room and multiplying the results by 1.618 the answer will identify exactly what length the room should be.

For example if your living space is 18 feet wide multiply that by 1.618 and the answer = 29.124 feet.  Ideally your space should be demarcated 18 x 29.124 feet.

In an open plan living space whether a home or an apartment this Magic Ratio can be used to great effect to separate the various areas to create harmony throughout.

On a smaller scale placing a family photograph in a frame that reflects the Magic Ratio is incredibly auspicious as is the presence of a mirror with these proportions.  Dining or coffee tables, side tables,  hall tables; will also prove effective and propitious.

Magic Ratio in the Garden

Just as in your living and sleeping spaces, regardless of the size of your garden, the Magic Ratio can be used to bring a sense of space and sanctuary to your outside room.

If you are fortunate enough to have a large outdoor space you can create more than one of these Magic Ratio ‘rooms’ and use each one for a different purpose; for family and social space or for quiet and meditative space.

The Magic Ratio of 1:1.618 can be separated from other areas by planting hedges or erecting trellis with plants growing over it to provide screening and privacy.

Within the Magic Ratio you can arrange your outdoor furniture in auspicious Feng Shui configurations just as you would in your living area to invite harmony into the space.

A well-maintained garden will always invite auspicious Feng Shui and by incorporating this with the Magic Ratio you can make it into a space that will ooze Sheng Chi (auspicious energy.)  Remember, the quality of Chi that enters your home whether from the front or back will only ever be as good as the quality of your outside space.

It is both satisfying and auspicious to make the effort to attract auspicious Chi, and in addition, having effectively turned your garden into one, or many, outdoor rooms expands your living space and being as one with the natural world.

If you live in an apartment and you have a balcony, you can still use this principle and place growing plants and flowers to activate the space as well as a seating area if you have the space.  This is a very effective method of maximizing your Feng Shui in a limited space.

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GARDENS and Feng Shui

These days any outside space can be turned into an additional room; a garden room; when it is located in the private area of your home.

This makes it ideal for treating exactly the same as you would any room within your home, in terms of creating an auspicious flow of Chi Energy throughout the space, making it the perfect spot to spend time in nature.

This is especially important if you live and work in a city or large town and are not able to spend as much time in the wide open spaces as you would like.

There are two ways of calculating the location of each sector in your garden and home.

The first is using the area around the perimeter of your land (house and garden combined) and the second is splitting your front garden, your home and your rear garden into three distinct sectors.

The first solution can be used if you have direct access from the front of your property to the rear of your property.  In this case you can split the whole of your property into nine sectors.  If your home is located in the middle of your property then the chances are you will have three sectors in the front of your home, three sectors for your home itself and the remaining three sectors in your rear garden.

	Rear Garden
	Centre of Home
	Front Garden

The second solution is recommended if you are unable to reach your back garden from the front of your home.  If this is your situation then you can split the rear garden into nine distinct areas, all based around the primary and secondary points of the compass plus the centre.

	Rear Garden
	Centre of Garden
	Top of Garden
	Home

Once you decide which of the two methods to adopt, the next step is to use the compass to establish the direction your rear garden faces.  As in all calculations of Feng Shui, guesswork is not recommended because it could create negative energies in an area rather than the positive energies you are seeking to achieve.

It can be a haven of peace; a vibrant family fun area; a party area; a Garden of Eden or a water garden.

Trees, bamboo is especially auspicious in the East, plants and flowers, garden furniture, bird feeding stations, seating areas, fire pit, ambient lighting, wind chimes and other decorative items, water features or a vegetable garden; how wide is your vision?

Your choice is limited only by your imagination, the space you have available and to a degree the direction your garden faces.


Next time – H-Health

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Exterior Feng Shui

So how can you influence the exterior of your home or office?  How can you positively affect your surroundings?

The first thing is always to use your compass to find out the direction your home faces.

Once you know that, the next step is to look at your immediate environment.

City or Town Houses

How much space do you have outside?  Are there any poison arrows* pointing directly at your front door?

Poison arrows are:

The edge of a neighbour’s roof line

A lamp post

A single upright tree

A straight road coming directly towards your front door

A narrow gap between houses opposite that is sending negative Energy towards you

Anything that appears threatening will be sending negative Energy towards your front door

Do you have a busy road outside your home?  How fast does the traffic move?  Are you at the end of a cul-de-sac?  Do you have a busy road behind your home?  Is the house on your left lower than the house on your right?

Rural or Country Houses

Are there houses around you?  Is the land flat or undulating?  Is the back of your property higher than the front?  What is directly opposite your front door?  Is the land to the left of your home lower than the land on the right?  Do you have a river running in front of you or behind you?

These are some of the things to look for before beginning to work with what you have.

Ideal Configuration

Having given some idea of what to look for, here is the ideal configuration for a home, so you can look for positives as well as negatives.

In Landscape Feng Shui, which focuses on the exterior of a property, the ideal layout is what is known as the ‘armchair effect.’

This has the left side of your home (standing at the front door looking out) higher than the right.

The land behind your home will be higher than the land at the front.

There is an open space in front to allow positive Energy to accumulate before entering your home.

There will also be a winding river meandering in front, allowing positive Chi Energy to enter your home as it passes and high ground behind creating support.

In traditional Feng Shui this signifies, the Green Dragon on the left (East), the White Tiger on the right (West), the Black Turtle behind (North) and the Red Phoenix in front (South.)

The environment is much different now than it was when Feng Shui first evolved.

Fortunately, in harmony with the living skill it is, it now incorporates the elements in our modern world positively and effectively.

Have a look around and next time we will look at positive steps to take if the exterior of your home is less than ideal.

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