Cecil Lee

Dear Janice, The 6 coin cure is related to the assessment done under the Flying Star Feng Shui. Here, 6 coins represent `Big metal' or strong metal element. It is used to `destroy' or `neutralise' bad numbers under the Flying Star numerology. As this cure involves the Five elements concept, you may have to first read up or understand the Five elements concept first. Before, progressing to understand how the Flying Star Feng Shui can help you. My advise is to take your time to understand the various concepts in particular:- 1. What is the purpose of each concept. 2. What are it's strengths and weakness. 3. How to apply them effectively. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Isabelle, Please see below:- There is not much one can do other than to neutralise the #4's in this situation. Metal element would help to neutralise the bad wood #4's. There are several ways to look at water positions. If one is using Flying Star method, the best location is one where there is metal at that sector. For example, if the frontage of the house has say a #7 mountain, Base 1 #7 water, in this area, there are metal elements. Provided, this sector is as mentioned earlier, the frontage of the house, or e.g. the balcony area, one can take advantage of water elements with #7 metal elements. The fundamental element in Feng Shui and even Flying Star Feng Shui is to apply the Five elements concept. For example, this link http://www.geomancy.net/resources/slideshow/ss-general1.htm shows the world's largest fountain at Suntec City, Singapore. The above slide(s) will show, a metal ring with water flowing into the centre of the fountain. Where circle also represents metal. This two combination of water + metal is the key ingredient to any water position. The metal here is on a huge scale and thus should provide vibrant Qi. Contrast this with a fish tank:- In the past (and present), it is popular for a Feng Shui consultant, to advise on this "solution" to this problem:- One sees a lamp-post slicing thru one's bedroom window. One cure is to close the curtain or use a day curtain. If it cannot be seen it no longer becomes a threat. But what happens if one needs to open the window all the time? Here, the five element concept are looked at:- A lamp-post (even if it is made of metal or wood) is considered as the `wood' element because it is tall and thin. Similar to a tree. There is water in the fish tank. And most of the recommended fish(es) are of the metal element e.g. goldfish (metal element), dragonfish etc.... Here, under the productive sequence of the Five elements concept:- Metal -> Water -> Wood It is good to use a two combination flow e.g. metal with water onto wood. Reference:- http://www.geomancy.net/resources/theories/fs-5element.htm For sectors particularly with #5 (20 year) and #5 (this year), constant metal such as a pendulum or wind chime (provided it is placed just outside this sector) is considered more effective than the static 6 coins. Here, the constant `banging' or `cling' of metal would be of use here. For locations with #2, six coins are ok. As to whether water is good or bad, since you are using the Flying Star Feng Shui, use it more authentically as mentioned in my earlier note about it's effectiveness if there is metal element in that location. If there is really no metal element(s) found at a specific sector, it is not effective. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Sandy Palm Condominium Attached please find two sample layout plans from this newly launched condominium project. In fact, the layout plans from this condominium can be summarised under the above two sample layout plans. Since, all units are identical. BAD TOILET AND KITCHEN / STOVE POSITION This condominium is really not worth considering as you can find out from the layout plan that not only is the toilet is at the centrepoint but it is doubly inauspicious since the kitchen / stove location is sharing the same wall as the toilet. Here, anyone staying in such a home would be plagued with financial problems. From the layout, it is hard to cure such a home since, one cannot simply change the toilet location although it is still quite possible to change the stove. A VERY UNFRIENDLY FENG SHUI INTERIOR In my opinion, the developers are literally shooting themselves in their foot! Warmest Regards, Cecil

Name of Project/Condo: Sandy Palm Location: close to NTUC Pasir Ris Resort & Pasir Ris Park No. of apartments: 48, 4 storey apartments Tenure of land: 99 years lease Developer: LCD Property Pte Ltd Overall, In my opinion, I personally give this condo thumbs down as all 48 apartments have toilet positions close to or exactly at the centrepoint. I feel that money could be better spent finding another property. In the next installment, I will include the layout plan of this development and go thru, what I feel is bad layout. Warmest Regards, Cecil Lee

Dear Anon, In my opinion, the main issue is related to where the fish tank is placed. If it is close to the centre-point of the house, this is highly inauspicious. Frankly, so far, I have not commonly seen a fish tank facing the bedroom. If you can, try to see if there is a better place e.g. in the living room area if possible. Warmest Regards, Cecil

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The Thian Hock Keng Temple in Amoy Street, Singapore. This temple was built in 1839 to 1842 at the site where Chinese immigrants offered thanks for a safe voyage. The statue of Ma-Cho, the Goddess of Seafarers was brought from Fukien (Hokkien) Province, China and enshired in April 1840. This Part one shows some pictures of the temple. The wrought iron (green gates in one of the picture came from Scotland, UK).

Dear Alan, 1. Thank you for attaching your layout plan. 2. Overall, from the external shape of the house, it looks acceptable since, from the profile, view, it looks like there are several rectangular shapes within the home i.e. the jaggered edges on each side of the house. 3. Perhaps, you can describe more about the roof top i.e is it flat top or have normal roofs. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Chloe Lin, Thank you for the revised plan. 1. Yes, it looks like your house is vulnerable to `Sha Qi' (bad qi) from the cul de sac. Please see below:- Yes, try to protect the house in such a situation. Another safety feature is to paint the gate red. Here, the cul de sac is symbolic of metal element with a `knife/sickle' slicing into your home. Under the five elements concept, fire element can be used to tame or control this metal element (in addition to what you have proposed). The best option is red/clay bricks frontwall area. An alternative is to paint the gate red. Where red is meant to control `metal' or sha qi of the cul de sac. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Although the East/West Group of persons concept is applicable here, it is best that the shapes and form of the apartment is acceptable: 1. The house should have few missing corners or odd shape. 2. Find out more of the history of the rental apartment (usually this is not an issue most of the time). Not compulsory thou. 3. Although NW is your accident direction, do check out what is the intangible force in the bedroom. If the intangible force in the bedroom is equally inauspicious e.g. deather, then it is best not to take up the rental. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Not so much of Feng Shui, but do give an air of confidence. It is best to use tips relating to interviews than Feng Shui to work effectively. Under Chinese Astrology, it is good that the date /time of interview is an auspicious time. Otherwise, there is not much use of it. Wishing your husband best of luck in his interview! Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. In my opinion, you must have picked up the tip from a book written with `sector Feng Shui'. 2. From what I can see, in normal situations, there is relatively no issue or problem with regards to the placement of candles in your living hall or kitchen. 3. In my opinion also, real fire is more `unusual' than any of the other 4 elements e.g. water, wood, metal and earth. In that candles relate more to Yang energy - enhancement of Qi rather than `sha qi'. 4. I believe, some FS practitioners (if they are practising Flying Star (Xuan Kong Fei Xing) may be worried about this. Since, under the Five elements concept, fire produces earth. And because #5 (misfortune, sickness) and #2 (sickness) are both born of the earth element. 5. But in my opinion, real fire, produces heat, which more towards, enhancing Qi than adding `fire' to earth. Therefore, I tend to look at fire (candle fire) as more towards the higher level of Feng Shui i.e. Yin and Yang concept over the Five elements concept unless you intend to start a bon fire at home! Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, 1. It is good to learn that your garden has lots of curves. 2. Where possible, in relation to curves, it should not `radiate' into the house especially `slicing' thru the main entrance door area. 3. Garden Feng Shui is also based on commonsense approach of: 3.1 Not turning your garden into a jungle. 3.2 If your garden is small, then, it is best not to plant one huge lone tree (especially on the North-East side of the house). 3.3 closer to the frontage or the walk path, where possible, this should be clear space or grass or carpet grass should be grown instead of plants. As the plants grow, it requires space. 3.4 If plants can grow favourably in your garden that is great. However, if you are not a lover of plants, perhaps, you can consider the Japanese type of ZEN garden. With small and large pebbles and a decorative lamp. 3.5 If you are a lover of fishes e.g. koi, then, you may seriously consider a fish pond. 3.6 For garden Feng Shui, the most sensible thing to do is always the upkeep or maintenance of the garden. If you do not have the time, then, it is best to grow grass on this lawn. Which is much easier to maintain. 3.7 For garden Feng Shui, do avoid placing any unusual objects or any objects that have a mouth facing towards e.g. the windows or the main door. This is very inauspicious as it signifies, poverty since the object (as mentioned above) looks like it is taking food from your home. 3.8 Avoid, placement of lone tree (that one day) becomes a tree slicing into either the main door or the windows. If you want to plant a tree, make sure that at the end of the day, a few years later, it does not slice into your home. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Thank you for bringing up such an interesting observation. 1. Symbolism or importance of it is one of the key components in Feng Shui. 2. Since your finance is affected after doing so, it is prudent to see if you can correct it. 3. "The Customer Service Engineer Concept pr CSE Concept." Sometimeback, I coined this term because it is a useful term to remember. 4. Let me share with you this little observation. 4.1 In the past, I saw this incident: 4.2 This IBM machine (at a remote site) was giving intermittent communication problem with the host for many months. And remained unsolved. 4.3 Most of junior IBM Customer Service Engineers (CSE) could not solve this problem. 4.4 Then, came this senior CSE. He did a relatively simple problem resolution process. This machine came with 4 internal cards. Instead of replacing all 4 cards all at once, he replaced one at a time. 4.5 After replacing one card, the machine would be monitored. If the problem still persists, he knows that one of the other 3 cards were giving problems. He did this until the problem was fully rectified! 4.6 I used this case study to illustrate that if you are doing D.I.Y. (do it yourself) Feng Shui, should should do the same. Then, if there is a problem, you can know where the problem is. 5. Unlike, a Professional FS consultant who, would instead be able to analyse and diagnose and recommend you to apply cures in many areas at the same time. You may not have the luxury to do so. Therefore, for those who are new to this forum, see if you can remember this important point. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Mun Hon, Please see below:- 1. Most importantly, sector Feng Shui or paying homage to a sector is not a realistic way to practise Feng Shui. 2. The rationale is because it is too general to be of use for anyone. Statistically, it makes no sense to relate SW = romance sector. 3. In many of the past examples, I given such an example:- 4. Assuming that SW = romance sector, what happens if three of us are intrested in a new employee? 5. Based on the `romance sector theory' that we often read from some books, it says that we have to enhance it. 6. In my case, I place 1 rose on my SW sector. While, you have heard me doing so and decided to place 99 roses on your work table as well as 99 roses in your home at SW sector. Another of our colleagues, heard of this and outdo the two of us. He placed 999 roses at his SW corner at his home and to outbid you he also placed 199 roses at his office table top. 7. Guess who the girl dated and perhaps got married? One possibility could be:- " All three of us became complacent. Waiting and hoping for `Feng Shui' to do the `trick'. But it never happended! - Instead, she was being wooed by a nice `boy' who talked to her daily at the bus stand where she takes a bus to work. " 8. I hope you can understand the fallacy of sector Feng Shui or paying homage to SW. Or if SW is missing means that you are doomed in a relationship. This is where, auto suggestion may take place. If one's spirit is down, one may never go and meet someone who may become your potential partner. 9. Yes, it is possible to divide a room. But one must see how big the rooms are. If the rooms are huge e.g. like the Buckingham Palace or the large rooms e.g. ball rooms, function rooms, one may still divide the room. 10. But if your room is no more than 10 feet by 10 feet or even 20 feet by 10 feet. It does not make sense to do so. 11. The question asked is: What is the purpose of doing so. So that one ends up with more romance sector to enhance. 12. There is no major problem with an exposed beam if one does not sit below it most of the time. 13. In fact, the effects would be felt only if one say sits under the beam for extended period of times e.g. One and the half hours or more per day per year. 14. If you or your family do not sit below it, as mentioned above, it does not matter. 15. However, to neutralise a beam, one must see what material it is made of. - If it is made of wood, then, metal element should be used to neutralse this beam. - If the beam is made of concrete, then wood element is used to neutralise it i.e. two flutes. In my opinion, don't listen or believe too much in `sector Feng Shui' i.e. SW = romance, North = career. Try, if one wants to and in 2 or 4 years more, please return to the forum and give your comments on it. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Wasis, In my opinion, it is best not to practise Feng Shui in relation to a direction and its related colour or element. The rationale is because, it is too general without considering the birth chart of a house. Instead, you can perhaps look at the two theories:- 1. Protect, protect, protect. Stand a the main door and look out of the house. Are there any threats? If so, appropriate cure(s) should be used. Without relating to whether, e.g. North = water. As sometimes, two potted plants can be used to neutralise a poison arrow etc... 2. Flying Star Feng Shui Use this instead to look at the sector. As it involves three element relations and the 81-combinations of the #mountain with #water star and base star. The proper use of these three will give a higher level of understanding of what is `in-store' at that sector. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Rosemarie, 1. If one is applying the `formula' or the Gua number, it is best to apply a specific site's interpretation from begining to the end. 2. The rationale is because, if one uses the steps provided by e.g. each site one should as a end result get the same answers. 3. I cannot blame you for getting confused especially, if one reads a few lines from one site and follow another set of guidelines from another e.g. book. Here, again, I must emphasise, you have to read totally the instructions from a site and follow it. 4. Rationale, why many are confused:- 4.1 The original template or Chinese compass uses the magnetic South to North. While the western uses North to South. 4.2 To complicate this, some sites refer to the instructions based on the Chinese Luo Pan or Chinese Compass. Here, we call the frontage the " FACING " direction while the back is known as the " SITTING " direction. This is why, some books define that the you have to refer to the back door or the `sitting ' direction. This is prefectly correct since the sitting direction is always facing the front (or the front door area). 5. As this is an international website catering to people who can easily get an ordinary hiker's compass, the main door is always at the direction where the compass is pointing to (from the centre-point of the house). Contrast this with the Chinese Luo pan where the alignment is South to North. 6. Therefore, one has to read the instructions from one site (from start to end) or totally. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Anon, Symbollically, it is not good Feng Shui to have a cracks e.g. hairline cracks on the main door. But I personally, feel that this is secondary, to the Feng Shui of the house. One can still do some minor repairs e.g. using silcone as a temporary solution. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Tracy, Thank you for bring up this interesting question. 1. Stagnant water is always referred to as bad. For example, it is always considered highly inauspicious if one has a well at the front of the house. It is feared that a well (still water) is `host' for evil spirits. 2. Pagodas were built along water veins. And pagodas were built on sites to neutralise such Sha Qi. 3. Water Feng Shui also considers which direction the water flows. 3.1 In this example, url: http://www.geomancy.net/review/tropica/index.htm 3.2 You will find the statement " For example, two cities in China i.e. Amoy and Canton are situated at this Dragon-Tiger gate. This is where the Yang Dragon of the East is in gentle embrace with the Yin Tiger of the West. 3.3 The Tropica also has the Dragon-Tiger gate on its south-side with the protective hills represented by the apartment blocks at the north side. The clear space with water positions at the south side is in perfect harmony with the horseshoe wall of the apartment blocks acting as the hills. " 3.4 It is said that water flow can be auspicious or inauspicious depending on which direction it flows into the sea. Here, if the direction is favourable, then negative ions abound. Otherwise, it could lead to excessive positive ions. 3.5 In the above example, one can find a situation where the river flow is auspicious:- From the above site "In addition, it is auspicous as water flows from west to east to Sungei Bedok." 3.6 One should not take into context, a general statement. Because, as I always emphasised, no two sites are the same and we should not stereo-type one statement that fits all situation. 4. More importantly, what is the definition of front and back of the house? The main door can be at the front. But in many instances, the frontage (or the place where more light comes in) e.g. the living room or balcony can be facing the river you had mentioned. Therefore, in such a situation, it is perfectly acceptable to have this `frontage' facing the river. 5. The only situation is that in the past, depending on where the river is, upstream etc... it is also subjected to flooding (in times of heavy rain). 6. One therefore, cannot simply come to a conclusion or take a general statement and fit it into your model. In many instances, also a lake has a healthy population of fishers and eco system and in many instances there are also rivers connected to them. Even if they do not have rivers, rainfall, precipitation constantly fall into these water catchment area. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Users, 1. We have just published Free resources on Palmistry. If you are curious or want to find out what your hands have in store for you, you can view the various slides under this URL:- http://www.geomancy.net/events/Palm_Talk/palm_talk.htm 2. Which hand should I look at? There are a few ways at looking at it. But overall, the best results has been shown to be:- As a guide, it depends on whether you are right-handed or left-handed. If you are right-handed, then, it is best to review your right hand. If you are left-handed, then review your left hand. Warmest Regards, Cecil

Dear Users, One of our new initiatives was to convert some of our fixed resources into Mandarin (Chinese) - the native roots of Chinese Geomancy. We had previously converted a few of our pages in 1999 to Mandarin (Simplied and Traditional Mandarin). But at that time, Mandarin speaking users were few. With the emergence of China, (where Geomancy was banned during the communist era); today, more Chinese are surfing the net. Many Chinese nationality have a thrist for Geomancy and have written in us to consider having simplified Mandarin. We will be converting gradually, some of our resources into Simplied Mandarin first. As our site is pretty huge, we will be converting the more important resources first. This project will be an on-going one. Warmest Regards, Cecil & Robert Lee Center for Applied Feng Shui Research P.S. For info, both China and Singapore uses Simplied Mandarin. While Hong Kong and Taiwan uses Traditional (Big5 Mandarin)

Dear Users, Reading Your Palm (Palmistry.net) Geomancy is a very wide topic encompassing Palmistry. In China, palmistry was widely practised since 3000 years ago. Although Palmistry or Chiromancy is not as popular as Feng Shui today, I have already created on-line website resoures which will help you to read and understand you and your family's palm better. Our approach to Palmistry is based on a scientific level incorporating all the major schools of Palmistry. Both Western and Eastern methods in a well proven method of understanding your Life, Health, Love, Courage etc.. I personally feel that Palmistry will help to compliment the understanding of your life better:- Major Lines Life: Vitality Head: Attitude & Career Heart: Matters of the Heart & Human Feelings Will I marry or travel? Major Regions Mercury: Health Related Apollo: Potential for Success or Fame Saturn: Fate, Career & Friendship Jupiter: Luck, Ambition, Pride & Leadership Money: Skills at acquiring money Other Regions Upper Mars: Aggressiveness Lower Mars: Moral Courage or Will Power Moon: Good Life, Enjoyment or Discontentment Venus: Generosity, Affection We hope that with more avenues in Geomancy, it will certainly enrich your life! We will be publishing this set of resources soon. And we will also add a new conference in this forum to discuss on this topic. Our website: Palmistry.net will be pointing to our major website Geomancy.net With more avenues, we feel that you can then enjoy understanding your life better. Warmest Regards, Cecil & Robert Lee www.geomancy.net www.palmistry.net

Dear Chloe Lin, 1. Thank you for making the effort to draw a sketch. 2. I have revised it using an outline of what you had sent. Please see attached. 3. I need to understand further:- 3.1 Is the cul de sac oval shaped? 3.2 As I cannot clearly see how the curve of the cul de sac is in relation to the road, I cannot fully comment on the impact on your house. But, based on what you had drawn, with the road coming into your front of the house, I would say that your house (based on this intitial findings) is a `direct hit' or threated by the road and cul de sac. 3.3 I have drawn the two way movement of cars based on American standard i.e. cars drive on the right side of the road. Is my drawing correct. 3.4 When you stand at the main entrance, facing outwards of your house, can you immediately see the road leading into and out of your home. 3.5 Are there any windows at this side of the road. And if so, where. Thank you. Warmest Regards Cecil Lee

Dear Users, A while back, I had constructed two additional FAQs. We just published this two pages yesterday:- 1. Worry Free - International Off-site Package Visit this link to find out more about this relatively inexpensive service:- http://www.geomancy.net/consultation/consult-home/offsite-consultation.htm Many users have been constantly asking us if we have an International Off-site service. And the above resources will help you find more. 2. House Hunting: Can or Cannot Buy? 2.1 This is a hot topic, locally in my country. 2.2 I find some of the resources in this page is equally relevant for finding a good house in your country. Especially what to look out for if one wants to have a `Quantum Leap' in Feng Shui. 2.3 `Quantum Leap' in Feng Shui simply means that once you can find such a house, you do not even really need FS consultations. Many people, in their life time have never used Feng Shui, yet, were lucky to live in such homes. Where they were blessed with `wealth' in the form of money and children. 2.4 This link also touches on the relevant fact on why many FS practitioners do not really like to be involved directly with you when you are at this stage of house hunting. 2.5 In fact, asking a FS practitioner on house hunting is more tedious than simply visiting your already purchased home. Nevertheless, I hope you find the resources below useful:- http://www.geomancy.net/consultation/consult-home/home-househunting.htm Wishing Everyone, Health, Wealth and Happiness! Warmest Regards, Cecil and Robert Lee Center for Applied Feng Shui Research