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Dear Crs Teo, Crs Teo wrote: Thankyou for your guidance. I lived on the 3rd floor. The gate is in the direction of the cooridoor while the wooden door looks out to a "window". Have sketched the house plan so it's clearer. Pls pardon me for the poor drawing. In red is my alter. Generally, the main wooden door be the main door, because that is where your unit number is located there. Unless of course, you move the door to the gate door and theunit nnumber is moved there, then the gate becomes your facing. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards RobertLee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: I have purchased a new Chinese Money Frog to replace a damagedMoney Frog that was accidently dropped and got broken. Is there any Chinese protocol that I should follow for the proper disposal (or throwing away) of the old Money Frog? 1. Feng Shui items are not imbued with mystical abilities, including the Money frog, which is considered a marketing ploy and primarily used for aesthetic purposes. 2. These items do not require any specific rituals or protocols to be followed, as they are considered more as art pieces. 3. If you are worried about disposing of them, simply wrap them in old newspapers and discard them like any other unwanted item. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Wong Wong, wong wong wrote: how to analyse the 10 luck pillar? year luck pillar? Frankly, this requires you to understand how to read a ba zi chart. There are so many things you need to understand before you can interpret the chart. So it is going to be hard to explain how read it. Basic fundamentals (in a nutshell), if the element of that pillars is suitable to you, that means that generally it may be a good year. Then you have to consider whether like there are any clashes/harms or any special stars etc. If you are do not know how to read a chart, then you better see professional consultation services to let the professionals do it for you. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: My next door neighbors are a nice young couple, but their lifestyle includes loudy heavy metal music, drinking, barking dogs, late night visitors with noisy cars, all of which is conducted in their garage and on their front porch which is only a few metres away from my bedroom and my 10 month old son's bedroom (we live in a group of stand alone villa units). I have tried talking to the neighbors and asking them to moderate the noise, and they are very understanding and promise to be quieter, but then the noise continues. Sorry, but Feng Shui is not a miracle cure for all times of problem. This is because even if youpaint the favourable colours favourable/hang a baguaetc, and it won't do you oryour neighbourany good. In this case, you have to work something out with your neighbour. See how you can work out an acceptable solution. Or a more practical way is maybe to consider sound proofing your room. If your bedrom is affected by this, then maybe sound proofing your room can help to ensure that you will not be affected by the noise when you sleep. This will certainly help to reduce any noise Far better than relying on any feng shui solution. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Erwin, Erwin Wiradinata Halim wrote: I like to know why doesnt it sums up to 100%? some adds up to 97% or 98% or even 84%? I am aware of this. Most figures shouldadd up to about 98-99% without the proper round up or down of the decimal point percentage. It is because I let the system show only the numeric less the decimal point. So the system does not round up or down the decimal point. Maybe in future version, I will include the 2 decimal points. As for the 84%, that could could be someerror. I will have to get back to you after I checked it out. Erwin Wiradinata Halim wrote: when my wood increases will my fire automatically increase since wood help to produce my main element? or if my water increase my fire automatically reduce since Water destroys Fire? Yes, when your wood increase, it will help your main element. Just like when you have more of your unfavourable elements it will reduce your element. But these factors on how much it helps or destroy your element is not easy to calculate. The reason is simple. Take Wood element. Wood helps Fire grow. At the same time, Wood destroy Fire. At the same time Wood also exhaust Water. So at any one time, there are 3 different interactions. The chart will not not consider this because it will be impossible to accurately determine the exact help/destroy/exhaust factor. It will only show you how many roughly how many elements is present and what is the rough percentage representation. Erwin Wiradinata Halim wrote: You said always base on your intial elements, then just fine tune that period with the element you lack most. Since you have provided changes for period of 10 years till 126. that is not temporary. The changes in 10-year is temporary. This is because I tabulate that factor based on what elements are favourable in each year.So that percentage only shows you the changes for that whole 10-year. In each year, the percentage will change again. Even in each month, the percentage will always be changing. But it gets harder and harder to tabulate a percentage value. But it is temporary. It is for you to see what percentage may be influence by that period. Your main favourable and unfavourable elements does not really change because of it. What does change is that for that period, you may be stronger for example. Thus, say if that is your wealth year, instead of being average or mix-blessing because you are not strong enough to control. For that year, you will be better. Erwin Wiradinata Halim wrote: I'm asking coz i'm in a period where my element changes so much compare to the initial elements. I'm 26 should be 27 next year. my fire will be at 55% from 3% or 7% (initial). and the total favourable vs your total unfavourable changes 10% Wood + 55% Fire = 65% favourable element 15% Metal + 1% Water = 16% unfavourable element That is why your 10-year luck period can show you why certain luck period is better/worst for you. But again, this is temporary, because as you change a next 10-year, the percentage changes again. Also, you are forgetting, this calculation is only consider what the whole 10-year period's five element is likely to be. Factors such as your existing house element, the colours, the career element etc are not considered. So again, your percentage will change. That is why you cannot just take that 10-yearly five element balance as permanent. You should only use it to see what elements you need more or less. Remember, it is not possible to tell you exactly how many percentage is a colour of your shirt/car/bedroom decor will affect you. So where you are a say a weak fire, then generally more wood and fire will definately benefit you. Which is why the initial chart five element is the more important and permanent chart you based on. While the five element changes each year, is for a reference to know how best you can fine tune. Erwin Wiradinata Halim wrote: favourable element vs unfavourable element 65% vs 16% it is a huge change from ages 7-26 (12% vs 36%) or the initial (27% vs 32%). Yes, this is expected, The main reason is because every 10-year, the luck pillar's heavenly stem/earthly branch changes. Each 5-year/year, it also changes. So your percentage also changes depending whether the 10-year/5-yearly/year favours or not favours you. Which is why it is temporary only. For that period only. Erwin Wiradinata Halim wrote: I'm still thinking of a good colour for the bedroom and living room. If I'm in need of wood i was thinking of colouring it green for the bedroom. and red for the living room. or should it be the other way around? Usually, for bedroom you try to choose colours favourable to you and your spouse. For common rooms shared by other family members, you choose a more netural colours (ie white/light beige etc) or colours generally favouring most of your family members. Also, take note here, is that you also have to consider the flying star influence. Certain colours like bright yellow/bright red can activate the inauspicious misfortune stars etc. Even colours like green/brown (Wood) can also sometimes activate the inauspicious Lawsuit / Quarrels stars. In general, if you should always use light pastel colours, never use dark shades of the colours. Light pastel is often mixed with white which represents metal. Metal is often the element necessary to balance the inauspicious stars. Erwin Wiradinata Halim wrote: another problem is that my partner a strong metal, I can see she can benefit from my fire and she should be fine with the colour of red. but her 4 Good and 4 Bad Direction belong to the west group. how can people that belong to totally different group sleep together? if she sleep on east she is on the irritation direction. is there a way to counter? This is very common. Just like each person have different favourable elements, each person also have different directions. We always use a give and take approach. For example, for house facing, the breadwinner gets the best house facing, while the bedroom is given to the spouse. For sleep position, in a king/queen size bed, there is always a right and left side of the bed, right? So you determine which side of the bed falls closer to that person's favourable eight house sector. So each person will sleep on the side of the bed best for each other and shield each other from the negative aspects. Erwin Wiradinata Halim wrote: since i read feng shui now i try not to sleep facing northeast but there is no way i could change the position of the bed. I try to sleep on diagonal direction where i sleep facing east, but i don't really find it comfortable since it is diagonal. is there a way to counter this? There are many many concepts in feng shui. To get everything correct without a single flaw is impossible. In bedroom arrangement, the shapes and form placement of the bed is most important, followed by the most suitable position/bed directions. For example, the bed should be placed such that when you sleep you can see the door. This is the best position. So even if the bed position is not the best, this is the most recommended position. There is no way to change it unless, you build the house entirely from scratch and can plan all these factor before you actually construct the place. Anyway, there are still many factors affecting your luck, such as the luck from the house, the colour of the bedroom. So, even if this is not the best position, it does not mean that it is all doom for you. You still be able to compensate from other areas. What is most important, is that you correct as many flaws that you can fix. As you fix any flaws, you will already be improving your luck. So even if there are one or two areas you cannot control, it won't matter as generally most things are correct or right for you. Erwin Wiradinata Halim wrote: last question is which is better for me to live on? a house on northern part of the city which door direction facing south, bed direction was plan to face east. or my apartment in southern part of the city which door direction facing north, bed direction facing northeast. Of hand, I don't have your chart in front of me. Under the five element direction suitability:- 1. North part of City is water direction. South part of City is fire direciton. Based on your current post, I understand that wood/fire is better for you right, so that means South part of the city is better. 2. But even that, the house facing is also important. If North facing house is not as good or suitable than South facing house, then even if you stay in the part of the city that is favourable it is no use. However, when it comes to the house direction, the flying star of the house is also important. So priority, I would have to say focus first on the house direction make sure it is of the most suitable flying star and house facing. The actual location within the city is less important. This is because the qi of the house is based on your house facing, if the qi is lousy, then you will be adversely impacted by it. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: We lived in a HDB flat andbought the access area. The wooden door faces East but the gate faces South. Which direction does my house face? Do I go according to the door or gate? Appreciate your advise. Can you confirm what level is your unit? This affects which the facing direction to take. For 2nd - 7th level, you should take the main door facing. For 8th level and up, you should take the living room and balcony facing. If your flat is above 8th level, then you just need to take the living room and balcony. If your flat is below 7th level, then you will have to worry about this question. In general, we mostly consider the main door into the house as the entrace to the house. But sometimes, it also may be the gate depending on the situation. Anyway, first determine if yours is above 8th level, if it is, then you do not have to worry about this question. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: Master Lee, how do I determine the west direction in my bedroom? If you want to determine if the bedroom falls in the west:- 1. Get your layout, and determine the center point of the home. Or stand at the center point of your home. 2. Determine the North 0 degree from a compass. Then divide the house to the North / South / East / West. 3. If the room falls in the West, then it is a west sector of the house. If you want to determine the west direction in your room. Do the same thing:- 1. Stand in the center of your room. 2. Determine the North 0 degree from a compass. Then divide the room to the North / South / East / West. 3. The west side will be the west direction in your room. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Andy, Andy Mak wrote: Sifu, I am currently looking for a new home after selling my old one. If I find a house with a good facing direction, the number is not auspicious even if I bring it into period 8. Please advice which I should look out for as I would like to start the new year with a good new home for my family. The house facing is the more important as that determines the overall Earth Luck Qi of the home.For example, for a West groupperson, the besthouse facing in general forthis period 8is a NE/SW facing house. Foran East group person, it will be the next best S/E facing.Not only should the house have good Qi that you can benefit from, it should also be suitable to you otherwise you may not be able to enjoy the best amount of luck from the house. The housenumber isalways secondary. Furthermore,there are many many ways to determine an auspicious house number.For example, most Chinese just don't want to have a 4in the number because itsounds like die in cantonese.So house number is reallysecondary. At most it may affect future resale value aspeople who aredo not likecertain numbers may notwant to buy it. But between the two the house facing is the more important factor. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: I'm a weak Fire thus most favourable element is Wood favourable element is Fire. Most unfavourable element is Water unfavourable element is Earth. Unfavourable Wealth is Metal. Anonymous wrote: My Balance of elements are like these. 1 Water (2%), 4 Wood (20%), 1 Fire (7%), 3 Earth (38%), 3 Metal (30%) As a weak Fire, your favourable is wood and fire element. You have 20% wood and 7% fire therefore what it means that you lack more Fire than wood. So both element even though are considered your favourable elements you lack more fire than wood. So fire element is your most favourable followed by wood element. Your unfavourable element is water and earth. Earth (38%) while water (2%). This means that Earth is your most unfavourable because you have 38% of it exhausting your fire. While water is only 2%. So you are weak due to having too much earth. Water is still your unfavourable, but as there is 2% it is below the default threashold of 20%. So some water is still acceptable for you provided you have enough of Wood and Fire first. Metal is your wealth element. As a weak fire, you are not able to control your wealth so it is by default unfavourable. Only when you are strong enough with more Wood and Fire then you will be able to benefit from being strong enough to control it. So by default, what this all means is that Fire is your most favourable element, followed by Wood. Then when you have enough of Fire and Wood, some Water is also good for you. You see, the goal is to have 20% of each element to attain perfect harmony. Only then will each of your element be at the right percentage to balance up your overall chart. Anonymous wrote: From the rating My water is very low 2%, and the (% rating) said to Increase Rating. does that mean i have to increase my water element? does the 7% makes me a weak fire? Like I mentioned above, you add some water only when you have sufficient of wood and fire first. 7% fire does not make you weak. It is your total favourable vs your total unfavourable take makes you weak or strong:- 20% Wood + 7% Fire = 27% favourable element 30% Metal +2% Water = 32% unfavourable element Earth element is not considered in this balance because it can exhaust fire weaking it, but at the same time destroy Water which makes you weak thus helping you. So since this element can help and weaken you, therefore cancel out it's effect. Since you have 32% unfavourable elements vs 27% favourable, you are therefore determined to be weak. So the 7% fire just means your weak fire is weaker due to less fire thanwood. Anonymous wrote: On Detailed Analysis of Luck Pillars My five elements changes for 7-26. Water (22%), Wood (9%), Fire (3%), Earth (49%), Metal (14%) Anonymous wrote: My five elements changes for 27-36. Water (1%), Wood (10%), Fire (55%), Earth (18%), Metal (15%) Anonymous wrote: does these changes make me into a strong fire since it has increase to 55%? should i reduce my fire? and increase wood? will i'll be too strong and should start increasing water? Your luck is always changing, thus your five element also changes through the different time period. That is why your percentage changes as you enter each period. So any changes you make for that period is only good for that period. You should always base on your intial five element, then fine tune a little for that period depending on which element you have more or less. So in 27-36 for example, it means you benefit from having more Wood than fire. So during this period, more wood will bring about greater luck improvement than fire. Anonymous wrote: which balance of elements should i use? the one that changes every 10 years? or my overall balance elements Always base on your intial, then just fine tune that period with the element you lack most. That means by default you lack most fire than wood. But that period, you should add more wood than fire. Once you pass that period, then fire is main element you sould focus on. In either case, as long as it is wood/fire you will still benefit from it. Anonymous wrote: Career with wealth = Metal Career with Power & Authority = Water Anonymous wrote: "Analysis for the metal career path According to your Pillars, you will not completely enjoy this wealth unless you enhance yourself with Wood. This type of Career is not recommended unless you are in constant contact with Wood." Anonymous wrote: i'm in a bank and deal with investment i think it is metal If i can constantly in contact with Wood, will I find my wealth? The wealth element is always present for everyone. Just that weak person needs first to strengthen their favourable elements, while a strong person already have enough elemens to directly control the wealth. As you work in a bank and dealing with investment, your career and job scope is metal element. As a weak Fire, you will not be strong enough to control it, so still need more wood/fire elements in other areas of your life. For example, colours of your room decor/car/clothes would be wood (green/brown) or like fire (red). Even having a house that is South (fire) or East/South-East (wood) would also be good. Or people/family members that is of wood/fire will be good for you. Basically you can relate five element to any of these areas found at this link:- URL: http://talk.geomancy.net Anonymous wrote: how do i can constantly in contact with wood? is that mean that i can't wear water/ earth / metal colours to work? Should I wear only green/brown? in some site i read that there are a neutral colours? it is hard not to wear something that has black or white colours on daily basis. what kind of jewerly to help enchance my wood element? How to add your wood, I have explained above. A little of water element is still acceptable. But most should be in shade of green/brown (wood) or red/purple (fire). Neutral colours are white and black. For example, in most working attire, white is the base colour, but if you wear a red colour tie, you are adding fire element to what you wear. For jewerly, you can go for any of the wood/fire element type gemstones:- Garnet = Fire Amethyst = Fire Aquamarine = Water Diamond = Metal Emerald = Wood Pearl = Metal Ruby = Fire Peridot = Wood Sapphire = Fire Opal = Earth Topa = Earth Turquoise = Water Anonymous wrote: should i work facing East (Wood)? but my best working position is North which is (water)? North (water) being my Most unfavourable element. I'm confused. There is two direction analysis. One is based on the ba zi and the other is abased on your eight house. Eight House is often used for micro level. ie the position of your desk in the room etc. Ba Zi direction is used more for macro level. ie staying in a South part of singapore etc. So for desk direction/sleep position, you still based on eight house (avoiding death and disaster sector). Or go for the direction that is both favourable in your ba zi and your eight house. So in this case you should follow your best work postioin which is North. Anyway, as mentioned you lack some water, so some water is not entirely bad for you. Anonymous wrote: I also have shares in advertising company & Computer company which i don't run. does having shares with company that may or may not match my element affect to the business? Even though certain element is favourable etc. Having shaes in company is aninvestment. In any investment you should always based on fundamentals of the company (ie good business model etc). Rather than relay on feng shui to assess. If a company is have good fundamentals, then it will make money and thus you can earn dividend or gain from the price of the shares. So such factors are far more important than basing on feng shui. Anonymous wrote: Regarding main door direction and Changes in your Five Element Balance. The report said my best the main door is facing North (water). my childhood and youth it said that my house direction is better to face South or Fire while my adulthood 28-46 i should staying in a house facing direction Wood (East) Which direction is best for me? Again, your initial chart element or direction is your base element / direction to focus on. The 10-yearly changes are temporarily. For temporarily changes, the change in colour etc are more practical things to change rather than a house. As a house is expensive to own, so it is definately not practical to change your house every ten years. So you should go for a house that fits your initial chart rather than your current luck period. Of course, unless you can afford to change a house every 10-year, then of course going by the current 10-year luck advise would be good. Anonymous wrote: ---- what is bedroom location? I understand bed direction. i have a bed room covering from north west, north, and north east side of the house but the actual bed is in the north east side of the house and facing East direction. does that mean the bed location is in spook location? Bedroom location means if you divide your house from the centerpoint, the room that falls in the North= Longevityfor example will be the North sector. If your bedroom location is located in the North sector then it is a suitable room. Within the room, your focus if possible is to choose the right sleeping position. Such as North facing, means your head point north, feet point south. Anonymous wrote: ---- last question regarding Compatible Animal Signs. does my partner also have to be the element that favourable for me? Anonymous wrote: I'm a weak Fire should i find partner that is a strong Wood or weak fire? or it doesn't matter much as long the sign is compatible? which is more important? having a partner that matching elements? or compatible animal sign? This is of course ideally good to have, but realistically, it is hard to get perfect horoscope sign. So the more realistic is the compatible element. A compatible element signs is easier to balance. However, every couple can still be balanced with finding the common element. For example, weak water and weak wood, can use water element as the binding element. So irregardless of what element, there is way to balance the element. Furthermore, besides harmonising the heaven luck, a relationship depends a lot on human luck.So I won't worry too much about this. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Casey, Casey Wong wrote: hi I'm planning to get a tattoo design of a KOI fish on my leg somewhere around the calf area. Therefore, my question is whether will this effect my feng shui, since tattoo is permanent. Thanks in advance. Frankly, tattoos are more commonly associated with gangsters especially in singapore during the 1950's, 1960's and 1970s. So it already have a negative impact. You see just like why people have bad impression on number say 4 = die, when most think about tatoo it often relates to something bad or illegal. In feng shui, you want to have more good influence than bad influence, so naturally, tattoo would also be viewed as having bad influence. Even though, recent tattoos are being viewed as a personalisedart form. So if you ask my personal opinion, I would have to say that a tattoo is more likely to havea negative feng shui impact rather than positive one.So not advisable. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: hi, i would like to know if my home address w/c is 245 an auspicious number? had the roof change in 2003 and color brick. also how auspicious is 14415, 1141 0r 2121 to built on for my retirement residence. thanks so much for your site and shall will bear you in mind in the future for consultation when am ready to have a house built within 4-5 years ...female, b-date 10/30/49 time 11:00 to 12:59 thanks a million Frankly, there are many many ways to look at numbers. The most common way is by the sound of the number. So far I believe what you are concerned with is the house number containing the number 4. Which to most Chinese means die when you pronounce it. So to most chinese, they will want to avoid any number containing 4. Especially if for starting and ending numbers. So if your house number contains such a number, it may affect your future resale value if any especially if the buyer is Chinese or very supertitious about number. But on the otherhand, some people like 4 just like why 4 leave clover is considered auspicious icon. Or to some 4 happens to be their lucky number. So it does not matter to them. Under our website, using your kua number as your luck number, can also be used to calculate whether a number is considered good or bad. Here is the link to show you how to check this out:- URL: http://www.geomancy.net/reports/reports-list/perlist-eight-gua-number.htm From your numbers so far, probably 14415 will be definately eliminated from the list because 144 sounds likepress-die-die pressed until you die. 1141 also most Chinese Cantonese may not like due to too many ones. 2121 does and 245 does not have any significant sounding issue. 2121 may be still avoided bypeople who do notone too manyones.So this will depends on individual already. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: I am born in 1954 which is Kua No. 1. My home front door is facing NW direction which is not favourable to me as far as I understand.. :Moreover, the front door is facing the kitchen door at the back of the house directly and the kitchen door is90 deg angleto the toilet door i.e you will be able to see the toilet partly viewing from the kitchen..How can I improve the situation? The main door seeing the kitchen door is not as bad, as the main door leading to an open window (which will mean you have a qi leak out of the house). Frankly, it would be worst if you can see the toilet bowl from the main door. But so far you only see the toilet door. So it is really not as bad. The most simple way to solve this is keep the kitchen door and toilet door close when not in use. The second way is to add a screen/partition just after you enter the door to prevent the kitchen door/toilet door from being seen when you enter. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Ken, Anonymous wrote: 1. My stairway locates at the center of the house and it elevates up from right to leftat the front door looking in. Ideally, the center of the house should be left empty as possible, as that is what we call the centerpoint where all the influence meet. There is really nothing much you can do about correcting this problem if the stairs is already built there. Sometimes, if the flying stars of the house is such that there is inauspicious stars at the center location that needs to be trapped. Then it is still ok to have like a stairway located there if there is like a stairway cupboard to help lock up the bad stars. Currently, you mentioned that you see the side of the stairway from your main door. This is at least not as bad as seeing the front of the stairs. Otherwise, you would have another problem where the stairway faces the main door. But since you can see the stairway from the main door, you should consider putting a partition at the door entrance so that you cannot see the stairway right from entry. Otherwise, there is nothing much you can do to correct this problem, also every house is sure to have one or two problems. Compared to having a toilet at the center, having a starway in the center is less serious. As long as there are not too many major leaks found in the same house, then usually still can live with it. What you should do is focus on areas you can correct to minimise any impact from areas you cannot fix. Anonymous wrote: 2. The stairway doesn'thave any turn. It runs straight upand aligns with the bathroom on second floor. If the stiarway meets the bathroom door at the second floor, ensure that the toilet door is closed. Else, when Qi flow up to the 2nd floor, it may leak out to the toilet. That is about all you can do since the house is built in such a way. Nothing much else you can realistically do to improve it. But again, it takes multiple problems/leaks in a house for it to poise a problem. So fix/improve whatever you can such as balancing the bad stars in the flying star sectors, choosing the right colours etc. These will help offset areas which you are not able to correct. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Users, The Ba Zi Standard report has been revised to make it easier to know the difference between the Ba Zi Standard and Ba Zi Premium. In the past, the Ba Zi Standard, isa lite version with a less detailed 10-year luck summary in the Part 3. We have revised it such that it now offers the same depth of analysis as the paid Ba Zi Premium Part 3 report. Only difference lies in that Ba Zi Standard, does not offer additional yearly forecast link which allows you to view the monthly/daily forecast for each year. URL: http://online.geomancy.net/public/code/html-fs-pod-view?pay=2&tpl=-standard&ID1=109241|KjjLj1jNKDLcjj|CXTS|gaaeahacg2edaa|0|0|0|0|&lang=0&recno=2 This means that the standard version will only give you a summary of the each 10-year luck cycle, while the premium version will give you further access to the yearly forecast module which shows you the monthly/daily forecast. Users who had purchased the Ba Zi Standard, can login to re-generate the report. This updates willallow us to make it easier to refine ourreport with even more details (work is in progress and will be announced later). Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Rowena, rowena ceniza wrote: Does live turtle bring good luck to us and our home? One of my friend says its not good to bring a live turtle in the house because luck comes very slow as associated with the turtle walking so slow before it can reach to its destination. Is this true? I saw a lot of turtles (wood, plastic, etc) in fengshui stores so i presumed this brings good luck also. but what about a live turtle? My 4year old daughter wants to have small turtles in the house but i am hesitant to buyuntil such time i can get a concrete answer with regards to fengshui. Under the Chinese Symoblic and Animals. A tortoise is often considered an immortal creature, defensive, very firm and steadfast create. Even in the 4 symoblic animal, the tortise is 1 of the 4 animals associated with the back of the house (a solid backing). Even in the feng shui luo shu is also associated to the tortoise. So generally the tortoise is considered more auspicious than inauspicious. However, take note that A tortoise is a turle, but not all turtles are torties. A tortoise is more land-dweller than water based. While Turtles are more water based. So generally, if it is a tortoise should still be ok. But a turtle may not necessary be auspicious. Of course your friend is also right to say that tortise are slow creature, but remember the story about the tortise and the hare? The tortoise still wins the race in the end. That is why the tortoise is considered a trustworthy, steadfast creature. Just out of curiousity, way not go for fishes? Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Kevin, kevin masboy wrote: Hi there, I'm new with Feng Shui then my wife & I about to buy a house that we like but the stairs is right in front of the door. I heard from my parents, stairs that directly face a front door is not good, we gonna spend a lot of money ? Is that true ? if it is, is there anyway to avoid this 'bad luck' ? Thanks in advance !! Yes, this is true. This is because wealth tends to flow from high ground down to lower ground. So if you have the stair facing the main door. It is like wealth flowing out of the house. That is why it is inauspicious. Probably, if you already bought it, then you need to see how you can put a partition between the door and the stairs to prevent the wealth from leaking out. If you have not bought it, then you should consider other apartments rather than this one. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Jaymee, Jaymee S wrote: How does one define your gender in ba zi if you have undergone a sex change operation and live completelyas the opposite sex? Frankly, in the past when feng shui was created, there is no such gender change operations. So really, there isn't going to be a confirmed answer to this question. Please read my recent reply on a similiar question asked:- URL: http://forum.geomancy.net/phpforum/article.php?bid=2&fid=1&mid=21260 Frankly, there is not going to be a prefect answer because:- On one hand, you gender is generic from birth. So your luck is based on when you are born. However, on the other hand, when a person does undergo a sex change, his overall luck will also change because that person will be treated differently. So using the gender after sex change may also be correct. So it really depends on how you assess the situation. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Kelvin, Kelvin Goh wrote: Is import & export and sub letting of wholesale centre a water element career? Inmport and Exporting in general transport related, so Wood element. Sub-letting of wholesale centre is similiar to rental so Earth element. So it is a mixed of Wood and Earth element. Kelvin Goh wrote: What is the full lists of Water Element Career? Frankly, it is impossible to create a comprehensive career list because there are simply too many types of career. We only have a key sample of career breakdown:- URL: http://talk.geomancy.net Based on that, you will aready be able to classify most careers. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: Dear Masters, I would like to seek your advices as to when are the auspicious dates to open for business after Chinese New Year. We are a trading company dealing with equipments and I understand that every year after Chinese New Year, different company re-start their business based on the auspicious date. Kindly advise us : 1. which are the auspicious dates to open for business, You can either use our free personalised auspicious dates report at this link:- URL: http://www.geomancy.net/reports/free-report/freerpt-dateboth.htm Alternatively, go by the tradition method. ie. Start your business either on 2nd, 4th or 5th day within the 1st week. After that, you can start anytime you wish after the 8th day. Anonymous wrote: 2. do we need to open at auspicious time too? This is up to the individual. If you use our free auspicious date report, you can try to open at the most auspicious hour. Alternatively, go for auspicious sounding ie 8:38/8.39am or 9:38/9:39am etc. Anonymous wrote: 3. Any special ceremony or procedures that we need to do? Again, depends on the individual. Some will just invite lion dancers. Others, just do simple offerings and praying for a good year. Others just start working as normal (no special procedures). Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

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Dear David, David Lougheed wrote: I have been studying this website intensely. I came across a small 2 story house with small bedrooms upstairsand open to below balcony but cannot find the drawing of it now. Can you direct me to it again? Sorry, but this forum contains too many posts(collected over the9+ years)and I really have no idea what or which layout you are looking for. Try using the forum search to help you. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Chris, Chris Yeo wrote: Pls let me know the procedure if we wish to stop praying and move away the idols at our home. Is it true that ifI wish to pray, the idols should be invited by me and not by my mother? The present idols are invitedby my mother and they have since stayed with me since my mother moved house. If you wish to pray, then the person who wishes to pray should invite the idol. The sames goes, for returning. If possible the person who invited the idol should also be the one who return it. For example, if it is goddess of mercy, then you should return to the goddess of mercy temple. Exactly what to do can vary depending on what type of idol is being worshipped. If in doubt, you should seek advise from the reverend of the temple to guide you on what to do. They will be able to advise you better on this subject. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: What's to confirm the auspicious number of steps in a staircase. I know that it's best to have odd number but my ? is would that be including the landing floor like for example 17 + another step as the landing floor. Introduction: 1. In Feng Shui, there are two traditional methods of determining the number of steps. 2. The first method is a 3 number combination. Where the first two steps are Auspicious but the last step is inauspicious. METHOD 1 - THE THREE-STEP CYCLE ======== 3. Thus under the `Three-steps formula' step No. 1 (Auspicious), Step No. 2 (Inauspicious) while Step No. 3 is considered inauspicious. Usually this 3rd step is known as the `death' step. 3.1 Thus:- Following this method, one should be able to work out the number of steps:- 3.2 Auspicious steps are:- 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 3.3 Inauspicious steps:- No. 3 is the third step No. 6 is the following third step No. 9 is again the following third step No. 12 is again the following third step...etc... METHOD 2 - THE FOUR-STEP CYCLE =============================== 4. However, Method 1 should be used in combination with Method 2 below:- 4.1 What is the four-step cycle:- Step 1: Auspicious Step 2: Auspicious Step 3: Inauspicious Step 4: Inauspicious 4.2 How to calculate under this method: Step 1 is Auspicious Step 2 is Auspicious Step 3 is inauspicious Step 4 is also inauspicious 4.3 Next 4 steps:- ================= Step 5 is auspicious Step 6 is auspicious Step 7 is inauspicous Step 8 is inauspicious 4.4 Next 4 steps:- ================= Step 9 is auspicious Step 10 is auspicious Step 11 is inauspicous Step 12 is inauspicious 4.5 Next 4 steps:- ================= Step 13 is auspicious Step 14 is auspicious Step 16 is inauspicous Step 17 is inauspicious etc... 4.6 One can do similar calculations for 17 or more steps..... 5. After finding out the numbers for both Methods (1 and 2) we now derive the following sets of steps:- 5.1 Under Method 1: The Three-Step Method:- 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26 5.2 Under Method 2: The Four-Step Method:- 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18, 21, 22, 25, 26 Thus we have to eliminate the following numbers which are considered inauspicious in either one of the above methods:- Number 4 - inauspicious under method 2 Number 6 - inauspicious under method 2 Number 8 - inauspicious under method 2 Number 11 - inauspicious under method 2 Number 16 - inauspicious under method 2 Number 18 - inauspicious under method 1 Number 19 - inauspicous under method 2 Number 20 - inauspicous under method 2 5.3 Thus the final result are the following numbers:- 1,2, 5, 10, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25, 26 etc... 6. Steps Landing Yes, the number of steps is important. Each step including the steps at landing is included as a count. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Anon, Anonymous wrote: For a house constructed in period 7, the energy of star 7 will be strongest during period 7, but becomes weaker and weaker after period 7, even though the house did not undergo any renovation work to move it from period 7 to period 8. Is this correct? Yes, this is correct. This is because as you enter into period 8, the star 7 becomes your fading prosperity. Sothough your house chart may still be period 7, the luck will slowly fade away. Anonymous wrote: During period 7, usable stars are 1 and 4. For a house constructed in period 7, should these remain as usable stars during period 8 (for that matter, all future periods) assuming that the house remain as a period 7 house? Or should we base our list of usable stars on the current period, regardless of the period of the house? The usable star is calculated based on the periodunder the houseperiod.So stars 1 and 4 may be good in period 7 house chart, but when they enter into period 8, another set of numbers will be the usable stars. Just like in period 7, 7 is current prosperity, 8 is future prosperity, while 6 is the fading prosperity. As you change to a period 8 chart, 8 becomes the current prosperity and 9 is the future prosperity, while 7 is the fading prosperity. This means that if this is a period 7 house luck, then star 7 still remains the current prosperity sector. However, the difference is that star 7 revert back to it's robbery status. Thus, the luck of the house sector of each sector will change slightly as you enter into the period 8. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Dear Spring Bennett, spring bennett wrote: hi, what can i do to bring good tiding for 2007, i am a water rabbit, believe weak water and forecast not so good? My sincere thanks! Always have more of your favourable elements that you lack in your ba zi. Such as wearing favourable colours of clothes, own or drive a car that is of your favourable colours, stay in a house that is suitable and if possible a suitable element for you, have a suitable career etc. All these will automatically, improve you luck. This way even if the year isn't that favourable, all these favourable elements will boost your luck improving your resistance to a bad year etc or at least minimising the impact of the year. Refer to this chart for five element and characteristics:- URL: http://talk.geomancy.net So as a weak water, then you just need to continue to have more metal/water elements in your life. The more you have metal and water, the better your overall luck. This way you may be strong enough to benefit from the year. Hope that helps. Warmest Regards Robert Lee GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research