Cecil Lee

Dear Anon, Generally, there are two approaches with regards to placing a water feature: 1. Persional feeling (Most common method) Here, as you have mentioned, most likely, either the location choosen seems to be an appropriate choice or because of the home layout; we most likely find that this is one of the better choice. 2. Applying Flying Star Feng Shui As Flying star Feng Shui uses a "scientific" method of determining where a water feature is useful to be placed. Frankly, not many people may want to go for the second approach. However, without using or applying the second approach, there is no reference to state where we should place the fish tank other than using our personal feeling. In general, particularly in an open space such as the living room or even dining area; if we do have a water star WS#8 at that sector, we can use water to enhance our current prosperity! Even a location that has WS#1 can also enhance water wealth. Even if the living room does not have good water stars, a water feature may be used to drown bad stars in that sector i.e. #5 or #2 or combinations of them. Thus, in general, if we do apply a "scientific" means; we can often either use a water feature to: 1. Enhance our wealthby activating WS#1 or WS#8 2. Neutralising or destroying bad stars #5 or #2 Frankly, I have given a very rough idea. As each 20 Year Flying Star Feng Shui sector also interects with two other variables: Mountain Star# and Base (Palace) star #.Often, also the yearly star is also taken into consideration for the placement of a water feature. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Anonymous wrote: Hi I wish to install a water feature in my home, where is the best position to place it. at the suggestion of standing at the doorfacing into the house

Dear Lisa, If you have read previous messages, usually, the fastest way to change to a new period is thru a major renovation. However, based on your description of work done, these are mostly cosmetic changes, thus most likely have not changed qi, yet. Currently, there may be some differences in the thinking as to what constitues a change of qi or period if one does not do a major renovation in the home. However, I will try to explain as best as I can some of the more realistic ways that we can help our home change it's qi:- 1. One school of thought is that unlike a landed property that has a roof, thus often, a large number of practitioner would advise to remove roof tiles (more the better) preferably for at least 100 days. However, for an apartment, we cannot simply tear off the ceiling rite? If so, one method is to symbolically repaint all the ceiling within a session (e.g. within a week or so). 2. In addition to the above, the consensus is that there must be "yang qi" or activity in the home to help change the qi. Thus, some of the common things done are: a. inviting a dragon dance troupe into the home and or happy celebrations (birthdays etc...) 3. Preferably, but often out of our control is that the entire building is given a coat of paint. And beside painting our home ceiling, we could also repaint the walls of the entire home o give it a coat of fresh paint. Other minor works like polishing, vanishing parquet bedroom floor tiles and polishing marble / granite living room floor tiles. Some other minor works may include change of windows, main entrance door etc... 4. Often, it is also sensible to do a "major" space clearing especially if our home becomes unduly untidy, cluttered etc... 5. As mentioned under para 2, (above) celebrations could include lion dance troupe, children's birthday where we have lots of young ones "running around" playing ... lots of yang qi. Thus, it is best to have three or more of such celebrations to encourage "Yang" qi or yang energy into he home. 6. A "south" facing person living in a "NE" facing home:- We human beings have a date of birth. A home also has a date of birth. Compass school Feng Shui uses two theories: Eight House and Flying Star Feng Shui. Thus, even if often a "south" facing person may not be suitable to a particular home e.g. NE; however, we have to study the Flying Star of that home to see if the home could "boost" our overall luck or not? In general, NE facing homes under Period 8 (plus depending) on the landscape and layout plan may sometimes have better earth luck (Feng Shui). If so, even if the home may not be suitable to us (Eight House) but because it perhaps may have superior Feng Shui, could tilt the balance and may give us better luck. In another example: Say you are suitable to "south" facing. And your home is a NW facing home. Many north west facing homes particularly under Period 7 has very little luck as the "water" wealth sector is trapped in the middleof the home. In such a situation, not only is the home not as suitable to you; but also the earth luck (Feng Shui) is not as good. What happens? Both of these luck are not there. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Lisa DeCesare wrote: Dear Robert Lee: I am new to visiting this site but it is proving to be very valuable. Here's my situation. When I moved into my apt they replaced all kitchen appliances, toilet, carpet, blinds, and painted the entire apt. Would this qualify as renovation, and changing the period? If so, what benefit would it have on a person who should live in a S facing apt but lives in a NE facing apt? And please explain the significance of having 3 celebrations. I appreciate your input. Lisa

Dear Aloysius, 1. Usually, the most common method is that one can still try to activate M8 in this sector. 2. In addition, some practitioners may recommend aconcave bagua mirror. Where it is used to "suck" back the missing corner. Ideally,a neighbour's balcony / living room should not be in very closeproximity when we hang aconcave bagua mirror. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Aloysius Chia wrote: A HDB flat balcony happen to be in a west sector with flying star M8 W6 B9 and under 8 mansion it isin theYan Nian sector. But the balcony only occupied half the sector, is there a way to boost/enhance it as M8 does benefits a lot to the people of the flat.

Dear Anon, Frankly, firstly, it is difficult to comment based only on a simple description. From what I can understand, it is quite common to have a situation such as yours. And one should not automatically have a pre-mature conclusion that what you are facing is "bad". If you are very very concerned, and may not have the expertise, then see if you can employ a competent FS practitioner to review your home Feng Shui. In Feng Shui, the way each home "interacts" with each other can have or may not have an influence on your existing home. In addition, Compass School Feng Shui (Flying Star and Eight House) should be applied to give a bigger picture of the entire situation (good or bad). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. Feel free to use the Free auspicious dates report for the next 30 days under the following link by typing this url into your internet browser:- date.geomancy.net Or goto this url: http://www.geomancy.net/reports/free-report/freerpt-dateboth.htm Quote: Anonymous wrote: Im renting a house but how do you found a good date for moving in? 2. Good dates should be treated as "nice-to-have" rather than "must-have". However, since ancient times, the Chinese have a believe in selecting auspicious dates especially for : marriages, start of piling work (new home), moving into a new office / home etc... Thus, it is all in the Chinese custom to do so. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Anonymous wrote: and if i move in at a bad date how will that affect me and is there a way to fix it?

Dear Baerbel, You mentioned that "that long road seems to directly run into the house". Generally, do check especially if the main entrance is vulnerable or any windows that is facing the long road. As most of the time, these two areas need the most protection from "sha qi" coming from the road. In many instances, (subject to a site review) many Chinese homes do try to place a "high" wall along the outline of the perimeter of the home. Often, this is the best option. If a window or main entrance is directly facing the long road, then; you may have to consider a convex ba gua mirror placed above the window or main entrance. This is the most common approach. While foo (fu) dogs are often more of decorative items or provide only a "feel nice" factor only. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Baerbel Haynes wrote: Hello, I live in a house that sits on the corner of a crossroad. The front door faces one of the roads and that long road seems to directly run into the house. I need to know what the best remedy to prevent bad chi from entering would be such as a ba gua mirror,foo dogs or whatever else you can advise. Thank you in advance. Most sincerely, Baerbel Haynes

Dear Carina, Frankly, it all depends on where the over-head beam is or if the overhead beam is at the edge of a bedroom; then how thick it is. Please see attachment. In the attachment one can see that although there is a beam around the "bed-head" area, one can still sensibly place the bed head slightly further the wall i.e. not touching the wall. And if we includ the pillow case and where we lie on the pillow, we can see that often, the beam is no longer above our head. Since you have not mentioned in detail whether your situation is like the above or if there is beam that is extremely thick or the beam suddenly protrudes further and not at the edge. If your situation is similar to what I have drawn in the picture, then, one can still safely sleep in your best direction area. However, if one cannot really avoid sleeping under such a beam, then it is best not to sleep underneath the beam even if it allows one to sleep with the head facing a good direction. Please note that if there is an extended flat roof much like that encountered sleeping under a double decker bed, it is often a non-issue. For example, the double decker bed has a flat top (for those sleeping on the lower bed). This flat top is unlike an overhead beam. And very safe to sleep on. Such bunk beds or double decker beds have been around for a very long time. And many students especially those who studies in university domitories etc.. have sleep on one. And it does not mean that their minds and strifled. Far from it. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Carina Tien wrote: Dear sir, If i were to choose between a beam on my head while sleeping or placing bed opposite my good direction, which option will put me in the worst situation? My good direction is west. But if i position my bed, head pointing west, then there is a beam over my head. If i were to put it facing north (which is the last alternative and not my favourable direction, the ceiling is clear, no beam. Which option do you recommend? Thanks

Dear Anon, To be honest, if it cannot be physically moved, not much one can do. Under the commonsense approach to Feng Shui, just make sure that usually the sewerage pipe (which is located in the kitchen and hopefully not directly above the stove) is in good repair. The commonsense, here is that should such a pipe burst, the kitchen area, items may be contamined with bateria such as e-coli and others. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Anonymous wrote: My cooking stove is immediately beneath a toilet bowl upstair. What does this imply? What are the remedies without moving the cooking stove. Also the bathroom and toilet upstair is quite busy .

Dear Jian Rong, Yes, some Feng Shui practitioner(s) often recommend a mirror at the stove area. One commonsense approach is that this may allow the person cooking to look at his/her "blind spot" or simply: the person who cook can see who's coming into the kitchen. On the other hand, it is the FS practitioner's idea that having a mirror like you had mentioned, below could "double" the food being cooked. Another senario is often to symbollically change the direction of the stove to a direction favourable to direction favourable to the occupants. Quote: jian rong chen wrote: 1) To put a mirror at the kitchen stove. Hang at the wall where the stove is. Yes, it is quite common for some homes or business persons to place a ship loaded with traditional "gold bullion" or money. In many instances it is where the ship placement seems to suggest wealth flowing into the office or home. Thus many would face the ship into the home or office. Quote:2) To put a ship loaded with the yuan bao,real money & etc near the entrance of the house will bring more wealth luck?

Dear Shinta, In real life:- Huo-lu actually is the Chinese word for a stove be it a modern or olden stove. While in romanized Mandarin, there is no such thing as wou-lou. It might have being either wrongly spelt as referred to the above "huo-lu" or are you referring to a "hu lu"? A hu lu is actually known as "bottle gourd". Traditionally used by many practitioners to neutralise sickness stars e.g. #5 or #2. For example, some FS practitioners may require one to place a bottle gourd ( hu lu) next to the bed to "suck away " sickness? Thus of these bottle gourds have a cap some do not. And many have wordings on the bottle gourd(s). Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. Yes, the 2nd floor may affect the Feng Shui (below - ground floor) especially if the "two units" are not "identical in layout". For example, if a home is converted into a "duplex" or the layout of the above unit is not identical to the ground floor. 2. For example, we often find homes like a bungalow where things like the 2nd storey toilet may be just above our ground unit main entrance or sometimes it could be just above one's dining area. And for some Chinese who had placed an altar at the ground level; may also be affected if their altar is just directly below a toilet. 3. Otherwise, often, if both ground unit, 2nd storey etc.. share same layout plan e.g. toilet at toilet sector etc.. then this is often not an issue. Quote: Also, Is there anything wrong with a upside down v shaped roof? Please click on the attachment to this message. One can find that a normal home with a pointed roof is symbolic of an arrow pointing towards the sky which symbolises "progress". While an intervert V shaped is symbolic of an arrow pointing "downwards" - degression?

Dear Shinta, Often, especially if one is doing DIY Feng Shui; should if possible also draw out a Flying Star Chart of your home. The purpose is to: 1. identify areas that need or require correction(s) if any and or to 2. Enhance certain sectors. The rationale for drawing a Flying Star Chart is thus to understand what are the intangible forces at a specific sector. In most instances, there is no harm placing a set of six-coins especially if there are sectors found with #5 or #2. But may not be too good if the sector has Mountain Star #8 etc... as it may hurt this wealth sector. In addition, a bottle gourd is traditionally used also to neutralise #5 or #2. And often should not be used in areas that has wealth sector else one may inadvertently "suck" wealth away. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, To be honest, these are more of Chinese customs or beliefs than Feng Shui. And these customs should be consideredas "Nice-to-do" and not "Must-do". Thus, it would be good to follow the procedures (No harm). But if one cannot follow the procedure for one reason or the other, should not be an issue. Traditionally, it is still more important if good dates can be selected. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Linda, In the past, when women were renegated to "2nd place" there was no such thing as women = breadwinner. Thus, traditionally, all breadwinners are suppose to be the husband or male breadwinners. Even today, if both husband and wife work and say they share or bring in 50-50 of the income, itis still likely that we consider the male as being the breadwinner. In my opinion, I would say that unless the male (breadwinner) iscompletely a homemaker,and his mate or wife is the sole breadwinner then,weshould definitely consider the wife as the sole breadwinner. Thus, so long as the male is working irreguardless of his pay or bring home pay, we could say that heshould be the breadwinner. However, this can be subjective. Therefore, it is not wrong for anyone to consider the female (wife) to be the breadwinner especially if she constantly brings in 70 percent more than the husband. Frankly, there are no right or wrong answers, here. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Linda Tung wrote: Hi Master Lee, i would like to know how to determine who is the breadwinner in our marriage if both of us work. I read in some of your posts that the feng shui (direction of house, etc) should be favorable for the breadwinner, and also the luck will be directed more towards the breadwinner. Please help me with this question, thank you

Dear Jason, In mdoern times, many people often bring along a hammer or ask their contractor to knock three times on a wall or floor to start renovations. Often, many Cantonese (Chinese dialet group) would offer five types AND if countable 5 fruits to offer to the "5 spirits" of the home i.e. the spirit of the North, South, East, West and centre of the home. Some with religious inclination may also offer two joss candles and burn paper offerings. In a modern society` the above are general and practical trends to kick off start of renovations. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Mr Yong, To be honest, since you did not provide picture(s), how to answer yor question. Thanks! Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. The best is often to move out of the home during the renovation period. 2. For the Chinese, it is best to pray facing the grand duke. For example, it can be a simple apology by saying: "Apologies or sorry to disturb you, as I have to start renovations, soon. Some Chinese offer two incense sticks with 5 fruits on a plate to applease the god. As for the Five yellow or work required outside of the home place some metal between the home and the work to be carried out. Otherwise, can still do the above prayer to the spirits of the home. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Traditionally, many Chinese would visit the temple to get their figurine(s) blessed. Many of these figurines are famous deities like: goddess of mercy or guan gong etc... However, I believe many products purchased via commercial means are considered merely decorative items. Selling products in the name of Feng Shui is very lucrative! As such they should be treated as decorations. When dirty, no issue in washing them. For such products` often, people buy them, gets dirty and many times the are removed from display or forgotten! Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Beverly, Firstly. you need to determine what type of mirror that your neighbour had placed on their door. This would determine the type of action or non action that you should take. Some mirrors are used for specific reasons or a combnation of reasons: 1. Concave mirror This is used often facing outwards of a missing corner to suck wealth. Thus. is considered one of the worst type to face a neighbor's home. 2. Convex mirror To deflect sha qi (poison arrows) or main door faces a sloping staircase 3. Othe types Flat mirror with or without ba gua trigram surrounding it. Concave or convex with ba gua trigram. Or door twin gods and or Qilin etc.. Try to find out. first Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Aloysius, First, it is good to understand the symbolism called "removing the roof of the home". For example, if we live in a landed property, often, if the owner removes the roof of the home (usually best if removed for 100 days) before putting the roof tiles back, it is like allowing "yang qi" e.g. daylight into the home. Thus, even if we do not do a major renovation for this home, and if we do say paint the entire home , the better. Here, such a home may be considered as having flown to a new Period 8 if it is currently a period 7 home. It is still good to have two or three celebrations after this to make sure the home has flown over to the new period. However, for many who stay in an apartment. What happens? We cannot simply remove the roof of our apartment else above collapses over our home. Under symbolism in Feng Shui, we should thus try to repaint the roof of the apartment e.g. in one session - not 24 hours but rather may take a few days or a week. This is symbolic of "removing" the roof of an apartment. In addition, it is good to give the entire home a fresh coat of paint. And you can still do some of the works e.g. polishing the living room tiles etc... In your case, you should try to have two or three celebrations in the home to bring in "yang qi" into the home. The above is the suggested way for you to fly to Period 8. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Aloysius Chia wrote: Dear FS Master, May I know does a period 7 flat (a unit on the 10 floor) become a period 8 flat after the below changes: 1) A fresh coat of paint to all the walls, celing, main door and main gate. 2) Marble polishing at the living & dinning floorings, overlay new tiles at the kitchen, both toilets, store room and balcony. 3 bedrooms are laminted flooring, so can't change.

Dear Anon, Under Flying Star Feng Shui, for this year 2006, there is a bad #5 called Five Yellow located at the West sector. It is good to define what you mean by "is not good to do anything". For example, if it is a "lame" excuse to tell the boss: " Boss! My Feng Shui man says... cannot do work at where I am sitting (West sector)! " Boss may say: " Yeah, you get lost and don't come back to work!" Anyway, for every year, the bad Five Yellow flies around and happen to reside at the west sector. As such it is considered inauspicious to: do renovations at that sector or do digging work (construction etc) at this sector. For next year 2007, the Five Yellow will fly to the NE sector. It does not mean that this for this entire year this sector has to remain quiet e.g. no activity or work or say turning on the tv (if it is the living room etc..) The usual activities can continue to happen. And if one's boss puts us there (west) to work, jolly well do your work! No lame excuse! Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Anonymous wrote: Hi, Ijustread a booksayingthat this year 2006,is not good to do anything in the west even if it is my best position. Is that true?

Dear Anon, Please goto this conference: Feng Shui Tips & Guidelines You can read the two articles found immediately when you first goto the above conference:- Part I - Facing direction of a home Part II - Facing direction of a home I hope these two articles will clearly help you to understand what is considered as the "mouth" of the home as used by Flying Star Feng Shui. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Anonymous wrote: I'm quite confused about how to identify the facing of my main door. Is it take the reading standing at the front door (still inside the house) facing out or standing in the centre of the house? If my balcony is a semicircle shape quite wide, does it mean that I shd take the direction of the balcony as my main door. I'm staying in a 5 room HDB pointflat (on 7th Flr) .Which means 4 unit in each floor. The main doorfacing each other.

Dear Jian Rong, Sorry to hear about your condition. It is good that you continue to seek treatment. As for your home, since you have not done any extensive Feng Shui audit of the home, hope you understand that it is quite difficult to provide proper advice. For example, these are some of the sample situations that may result in poor health:- 1. Flying star charts where the frontage (or mouth of the home) and the back of the home has bad flying star numbers. For example, athough wealth may not be an issue for a Period 8, SW1 home, but one has to neutralise sickness stars for such a home since it's frontage e.g. SW is plagued by MS#5 WS#8 B#5 while NE is plagued by MS#8 WS#2 B#2 Neutralising these elements as well as any other #5 or #2 or worse still #9 inflaming any of these #5 or #2. 2. Sometimes, a bedroom which we commonly sleep may be plagued by any of these three stars: #9 inflaming any of these #5 or #2. In general, issues leading to poor health in a home can be diagnosed as: 1. Bad stars : #2 #5 with or without combined with #9 may be found at the mouth of the home or diagonally opposite 2. Bedrooms may be plagued by such stars. 3. Sometimes both bedrooms and living room /or frontage are plagued by these stars. In general: a. Assuming that there are bad stars in a specific sector: Avoid: Bright Yellow or Bright Red in your bedroom b. In the earlier example: Period 8 : SW1 MS#5 WS#8 B#5, where there are twice bad #5's then one should use moving metal such as a six-hollow rod windchime to neutralise these sectors. c. For Period 7: East 2/3 is often plagued with health issues especially if one's bedroom is located at East e.g. MS#2 WS#7 B#5. As mentioned, since it is unclear what MAY or could be bad stars in your bedroom; one has to check to see whether it is the frontage / back or the bedrooms or both of these that may affect your health. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: jian rong chen wrote: 10 days ago I got a facial nerve desease call Bell's Palsy. The viral attacked my right side of my face and as a result 92% of my right face couldn't function normally as left side.

Dear Tru, It should be the direction, the house faces or on a bigger picture: location, location and location! Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: tru bluu wrote: Wondering what counts the most? The direction you move to or the direction the house is facing. If i move out to the southeast and that is my death side but the house is facing the southwest is that okay? Should i turn the house down? Also analizing my apt number was very accurate. I appreciate your help I have to move soon.

Dear Max, Toilet Feng Shui is actually related to "Commonsense" then Feng Shui. Thus if one wants to call it: "Commonsense approach to Feng Shui". This is because one day, while I was driving on a highway; this person was saying that whenever we flush the toilet (bowl), germs "fly" all over the toilet. Even if the our toothbrush was a distance away; it will still contain some-form or type of baterial e.g. e-coli etc... Makes sense? Rite? Well, whathe asks us to do? Buy histablets to frequently dis-infect our toothbrush in it. Much like thosedenture cleaning agents! Therefore, does this not equate to "Toilet Feng Shui" where toilet qi is said not to be good? Well, look at it this way; for normal healthy human beings, a little resistance fromsuch germs e.g. brushing teeth regularly from"contaminated" toothbrush isnotgoing to make us sick at all. Thus, if we cannot "stand" the germs from your toilet, imagine goingoutside ofour homes. Some toiletsespecially(locally) in Singapore are horrendously dirty! So who cares about dis-infection we can live with it In the past, many Singaporeans let their children crawl along the home or outside. Andeven when their baby teets dropped onto the floor, the child simply picks it up and places it backto their mouths. Nowadays, everything must be very sterile. Thus coming back -- for the toilet,some people say to placelive plants ... if there is minimal maintenace no issue with having a plant in the toilet even if it does notsay suit your kua (gua) number. No issue. Frankly, in my opinion, a disk of say dry salt or even wet salt does not seem to be of any"scientific" value e.g. it does not kill germs etc.. Therefore, some of these suggestions, may not be practical at all orserve any purpose at all. Warmest Regards, Cecil Quote: Anonymous wrote: Hi, 1. Someone told me beforethat my personal kua shows that I should not have plant in the house. But I also read that hanging a plant in the toilet is good for feng shui. Is it Ok to have a plant in the toilet if my personal kua shows otherwise. 2. What is the purpose of putting a disk ofsalt next to toilet bowl? As it can be easily wash away by water, is there other alternative such as pebbles, etc?