Advise on placement of a Bird feeder

[user283850]

Hi cecil.
I needed to know can we keep a bird feeder in the north of our house although it is a bad
location according to 8 mansion theory(disaster) or do we have to put it in good sector. Do we have to keep it according to flying star theory which I do not understand at all. Please advise.
Thanks a lot
anonymous

[Cecil Lee]

Hi,
Frankly, the Eight Mansion Theory is only to find your good and bad directions. It has no relevance to the placement of a bird feeder.
There is no impact on the placement of a bird feeder as it does not have sufficient mass to influence any location i.e. it is usually small in comparison to other `objects' within and external to the house.
Warmest Regards,
Cecil

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On 7/4/99 2:01:06 AM, Anonymous wrote:
Hi cecil.
I needed to know can we keep a
bird feeder in the north of
our house although it is a bad
location according to 8
mansion theory(disaster) or do
we have to put it in good
sector. Do we have to keep it
according to flying star
theory which I do not
understand at all. Please
advise.
Thanks a lot
anonymous

[firebard]

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Frankly, the Eight Mansion Theory is only to find your good and bad directions. It has no relevance to the placement of a bird feeder.
There is no impact on the placement of a bird feeder as it does not have sufficient mass to influence any location i.e. it is usually small in comparison to other `objects' within and external to the house.
Warmest Regards,
Cecil
Now this reminds me -- I have a blue metal windchime that has a bird feeder at the top just for smallist birdies. How will this come up with Feng Shui -- water (for blue) and windchime (for sounds). It is so
beautiful. I used to hang it right in front of the back door under the verandah and I have birds really going for the seeds I put there and they make the chimes ring. Where will be the best position for this
kind *if* it is considered a Feng Shui item? I am moving house in about 5 or 6 weeks, so I am in the process of planning some things to put in my house for best position. The place where I want to put this is
under a garden arch where creeping jasmines now grow profusely on the right side of the driveway (facing in) at the front of the house.

Will this be all right? My house is a south house, meaning the front door is facing south if you are facing the front door.
Thanks for any advice you can give me.....
Iz

[Administrator]

Dear Iz,
There are quite alot of controversies in relation to wind chimes today is
because of the following:-
1. Some Feng Shui practioners after auditing a house (most likely want to
earn more income) ask the household to purchase quite alot of windchimes.
Some `victims' fall prey and hang more than 3 or more wind chimes.
2. Recently there are many books on Feng Shui and without understanding
further, many think that wind chimes are universally considered Feng Shui
enhancers.
From the above, you can understand why many who place more than one wind
chime get into problems. As one place a few wind chimes without proper
knowledge, the chances are it may be placed in a bad or inauspicious Flying
Star location.
For a wind chime, it is best to avoid:-
1. Wind chimes with five tines or rods. Five under the Flying Star is
unasupicous. Placing a wind chime with five rods at the wrong location
spells trouble especially if it is an inauspicous location of the Flying
Star. Particularly if there is a star 5 present in the location.
2. Avoid wind chimes with hollow rods.
3. Hanging five or more wind chimes at a particular location can be quite
`risky'. It may result in someone in the family getting a mental illness.
4. Hanging windchimes opposite a yin location e.g. facing a graveyard or a
location with yin concentration: For example, the location is West plus in
addition of having quite alot of trees planted there. Too many trees create
too yin an environment. If there is also too much water in the location, too
much water is also considered Yin.
Here, if you are not careful, hanging a wind chime e.g. on a tree may
inadvertently attract playful imps to the location due to the sound of the
wind chime. In such a situation, one may not have a peaceful sleep and most
likely have nightmares.
The above `obsession' with wind chimes may lead to problems as mentioned
above.
What about placing a single wind chime?
Many people have never heard of Feng Shui and do see a wind chime, buy it
and hang it at a location they like. There is nothing wrong in this. Most
of all, we do rely on our instinctions or six sense. Without relying on Feng
Shui, we thus use our personal `feelings' and naturally (most of the time)
we do not encounter problems such as above.
Sometimes, it is better off not knowing a little of Feng Shui. This is
because, nowadays, many of us simply pick up a Feng Shui book, read in
between the lines and then immediately start to interpret what was said e.g.
wind chimes are good enhancers and start to buy not one but a few. This is
where all the trouble begin. Even when we eat, do we try to over eat? We
should eat moderately. This is the same with Feng Shui.
In your case, if you have not done a Flying Star analysis, you can:-
1. Do not use any wind chime with 5 rods.
2. You can try to place the wind chime as mentioned under a garden arch. But
do monitor the situation. Usually this is acceptable because the impact of a
wind chime is not as bad as having a few around the house. Usually, based on
our six sense (without relying on Feng Shui) is good enough.
Since you are moving house, where possible, my advise is not to clutter the
centre-point of the house. At the same time, never place any fish tank at
the centre of the house. So far, I have known a few instances where: the
male of the house gets into financial difficulties and the female of the
house gets sick and if prolonged placement of the fish tank, may be fatal.
Best wishes,
Warmest Regards,
Cecil
-----Original Message-----
From: Listmanager
To: Recipients of 'free-advice' suppressed suppressed>
Date: Monday, July 05, 1999 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: Bird feeder

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Now this reminds me -- I have a blue metal windchime that has a bird feeder
at the top just for smallist birdies. How will this come up with Feng
Shui -- water (for blue) and windchime (for sounds). It is so
beautiful. I used to hang it right in front of the back door under the
verandah and I have birds really going for the seeds I put there and they
make the chimes ring. Where will be the best position for this
kind *if* it is considered a Feng Shui item? I am moving house in about 5
or 6 weeks, so I am in the process of planning some things to put in my
house for best position. The place where I want to put this is
under a garden arch where creeping jasmines now grow profusely on the right
side of the driveway (facing in) at the front of the house.
Will this be all right? My house is a south house, meaning the front door
is facing south if you are facing the front door.
Thanks for any advice you can give me.....
Iz

[firebard]

Again, thanks for your wonderful advices to all of us. I am speaking here
like I am the spokesman for us all, but I really do appreciate each and
everything you advises whether it will benefit me or not but I have learned
so much so far from what I have already read from you site and believe me,
I did read each and every thing from your site and saved some portions of
it especially the instructions on how to determine the centre of the house
and determining the front door and so on and so forth along these lines.

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In your case, if you have not done a Flying Star analysis, you can:-

I have done a partial Flying Star analysis, that is the main trouble so I
am getting more curiouser and curiouser about Feng Shui after also
acquiring the latest book I have read from cover to cover called
"The Personal Feng Shui Manual" by Master Lam Kam Chuen. His book is the
catalyst that made me seek Feng
Shui sites on the net to learn more as there are some issues that I need
elaboration. I have since put that aside in favour of your site and
downloaded the trial software(which I mean to buy with all the full modules
of soon as I get a reply from Michele Delemme when she comes back from her
time offs. One
thing is that Four Pillars said that I am a metal person whereas in KOS it
stated that I am a weak wood person. I have to know which one is which as I
was born April 11, 1946, a fire dog person in the tiger hour, (4am
thereabouts) at my then location of birth 14N29 120E55 zone: -8. There is a
bit of confusion
about the software I suppose (or was it me?)
Anyway, all these knowledge will help me prepare for my move and not intend
to overwhelmed me, so I am taking this step by step really, thanks to all
of your advices to the group. Since I am not situated even near where you
are it is sad that I cannot take advantage of your business side fully by
asking you to fit me in your actual schedule of site visitation. Maybe
there are other ways as I cannot afford to actually buy a returnn flight
and entertainment for the three of you together. It will be nice to be as
rich as Donald Trump but I am not -- (yet.) One day.......even just for
pure pleasure it will be nice, huh?

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1. Do not use any wind chime with 5 rods.

Anyway, I think from memory (I have been so attracted to windchimes in the
past even without Feng Shui knowledge at all then), I have two windchimes
left that are in perfect order. One of them, if I remember right, have 4
rods and is very red in colour which I used to hang in the hallway as my
front door here faces the bathroom sink even though we don't use the front
door much. I live in one of those ex-federation house we have acquired 18
years ago now and since moving in here, our life has been one disaster
after another not knowing the whys and wherefores of it.
After becoming interested in Feng Shui stuffs recently because of my
intended move, (before I came to your beautiful and wonderful site), I read
something about "living in a divorce house" somewhere. I started analyzing
the past owners and renters of this house and found that not one of them
ever have a
nicer life, that all that ever lived here before us have marriages that
ended up in divorce and unfortunately, this includes mine. We have sold
this place over a month ago now because my ex and I have divorced two years
ago (finally!!) So you can see how careful I am in wanting to make my next
place to be more harmonious. I did not mean to have a green roof, but I
noticed that after I bought the place really so I was asking about it.
I want to be well armed, forewarned and well prepared this time around if
you can follow my line of thought here........

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2. You can try to place the wind chime as mentioned under a garden arch. But
do monitor the situation. Usually this is acceptable because the impact of a
wind chime is not as bad as having a few around the house. Usually, based on
our six sense (without relying on Feng Shui) is good enough.
Since you are moving house, where possible, my advise is not to clutter the
centre-point of the house.

I have no intention of changing anything in the centre of my house as
before I came to your site and was just reading up on Feng Shui books, I
noticed that there is no #5 mentioned in any of the write-ups about that
number. I came upon a Taiwanese born but with a Japanese father,
HongKong-ist mother but now living here in Australia, when I was buying my
daughter her mobile phone in the city. I asked about that issue and he said
that although he is not into Feng Shui, his parents practice it and he
applies it to his home in his own discretion. #5 as he said is the number
which is powerful, godlike if you want to put it that way, but reading it
in Chinese characters or even in Japanese ones, it means "never"
-- never being able to "do this or that", never being able to "achieve this
or that".
(I do hope some people here are listening or reading this one........)

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At the same time, never place any fish tank at the centre of the house. So
far, I have known a few instances where: the male of the house gets into
financial difficulties and the female of the house gets sick and if prolonged
placement of the fish tank, may be fatal.

I used to have a fish tank in my computer room -- I do not intend to have
one live one ever again inside the house, thanks to your advice. On the
other hand.....fuggedboutit!! just making things lighter........
Again, thanks for all your advices.
Very sincerely,
Iz