Confusion about 'facing' and 'sitting

[yzhang]

Dear Master Lee,

I am new to Feng Shui. After some reading and web searching, I have found two seeming contradicting theories. Please help to clarify.The theory adopted by you seems to indicatethat forEast persons like me with Kua = 4 thefour good directions for the door facing are N, S, SE, and E. However, another theory seems to believe the good sitting direction should be N, S, SE, and E, and thus the door facing directions are S, N, NW, a nd W.For the N and S, either theory would say to begood directions for facing and/or sitting. But for the other directions, two theories could yield totally opposite results (for me, NW would be an idea facing direction according to the 2nd theory, but bad one according to the 1st theory). Could you please offer some insight to thisconfuusion and perhaps the origin of that? Many thanks!

[Robert Lee]

Hi Anon,

Unfortunately, it is going to be difficult for end users to be able to tell what is really right or wrong. This is not the only theory that I have seen which is different ways to apply, even other concepts like flying star, eight house, ba zi also have lots of variation.

The best advise I can give you is, for the internet, it is easy for anyone to write an article on Feng Shui, more importantly, you should always check up on who wrote the article and how much experience they have on the matter. I mean no point taking advise from an article written by someone who just got interest in the subject and thus written the article as they will probably not be able to fully understand most of the feng shui concept anyway. So they may have wrongly interpreted the concepts for example.

Often, whenever you learn or read any concepts you should apply the concepts entirely from the same source before coming to any conclusion. Meaning that you shouldn't not read a little here and little there and then combine the information. This is because every concept must be able to be related properly together with a common denominator. For exmaple, using Five Element as the basis to associate the concepts together. Often if you just read one concept from this person, and another concept from that person, the principle theory behind is different, then the result you will get will be completely off.

Anonymous wrote:
I am new to Feng Shui. After some reading and web searching, I have found two seeming contradicting theories. Please help to clarify.The theory adopted by you seems to indicatethat forEast persons like me with Kua = 4 thefour good directions for the door facing are N, S, SE, and E. However, another theory seems to believe the good sitting direction should be N, S, SE, and E, and thus the door facing directions are S, N, NW, a nd W.For the N and S, either theory would say to begood directions for facing and/or sitting. But for the other directions, two theories could yield totally opposite results (for me, NW would be an idea facing direction according to the 2nd theory, but bad one according to the 1st theory). Could you please offer some insight to thisconfuusion and perhaps the origin of that? Many thanks!

I must tell you frankly, that I never like to use the word Facing or Sitting direction. Because, I find that you need to first understand how the author treats these term. Why?

Facing can be interpreted two ways. From center of compass going out to the direction (this is from the view that you stand from the house looking outwards). Or from the Direction towards the center (this is from the view the Qi flows from the direction into the house). Of which most often, we take it from the center outwards to the direction.

So unless you get this reference point correct, then you will find that you might get different analysis results. So really very hard to tell you which will be right or wrong all depends on how the person explain to you.

However, it has been generally accepted that for Eight House, the purpose is find which sector is good or bad for you. And how you apply this is as follows:-

1. Finding best bedroom sector, for example West sector, means your bedroom should be located in the west side of the your home.

2. Bed position - Ideally, if West is a favourable direction for you, then your head to point West, while feet point East.

3. House Facing - If for landed property, generally, because the bedroom are located on the 2nd level. Often most house design is such that if the living room / entrance is South, the master bedroom is located on the top. As such, South Facing house are ideal.

4. Apartment Facing - Now this is a little tricky. Cos most houses, you enter from the West, but your bedroom are mostly located at the East. So when you apply this concept you try to ensure that most of the sector for your bedroom falls under your favourable sector. For example you will noticed one direction often opposite to the other 3 good direction. So if your main door can fall in that sector, while the bedroom still fall under the good sectors this is ideal.

5. In terms of Ba Zi and Eight House determination of direction, it is best to use the Direction from the compass outwards as the facing direction. So for example if your house main entrance is West, and West is your auspicious sector, this means that West side is where your auspicious Qi is so you want this Qi to be blowing into your home. That is why most master on the internet as well as our website will take this as the correct facing direction orientation.

On our website, we prefer to use the actual Compass direction as this will eliminate any confusion on the Facing and Sitting direction.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research