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Dear Jocelyn,

Thank you for bring up this question. Presently there are many users in this forum and it is good to mention this subject.

One way is by asking questions:

1. What is truly traditional Feng Shui practises?

1. At the highest form is called Taiji.
2. The next level is --> the Yin and Yang principle
3. One level below is --> the Five Elements Concept

The highest form called Tai Ji is merely a term which we can broadly say that it is the union of Yin and yang in balance.

All Feng Shui principles, theories and concepts must embody Yin and Yang.

At the lower level is the Five Elements Concept. It is said that everything is made up of the Five Elements i.e. it is said that the Five Elements make up a person etc...

The key to the Five Elements is " Balance ".

For a human being, the Chinese use the Pillars of Destiny to find out our `components' i.e. our breakdown of the five elements.

For example, when my elder brother was born, my Grand Father consulted a Geomancer specialsing in Pillars of Destiny. In his Ba Zhi, or Eight Characters based on his Year, Month, Hour and Time of birth (which comprises of 4 stems and 4 branches = 8 characters), the Geomancer found that my brother lacked the Water element. Because of this, he was given a Chinese name with an his last name as `Chwee' which is hokkien for Water.

Under the Shapes and Form School, you will notice that there is the Dragon and the Tiger. When a geomancer looks for an auspcious site, he looks for a higher hill embracing a tiger.

Here, the Dragon is Yang and the Tiger (yin). Where the Yang (male) hill is in gentle embrace with the yin (female) tiger.

Many of the Shapes and Form School relates to Yin and Yang and some to the Five elements concept.

The Compass School of Feng Shui such as Flying Star and Eight House uses the Compass for analysis.

The Flying Star uses 24 sectors while the Eight House uses 8 sectors.

The Eight Aspirations or Life Associations/Aspirations merely interprets the trigram at each of the 8 sectors. It is too general a theory to be considered reliable.

I have given quite a few examples of these previously. One good example is that as SW is the Romance sector. What happens if there are five guys in an office and all are attracted to this beautiful girl in the same office.

What happens if all started to place a rose or enhance the SW sector e.g. in their home or at their office table. Should one over do the other in other to `get' the girl? If my colleague place 1 rose, should I place a dozen roses in my home's SW and my office table? Is my chances better?

In the end result could be that all five became over confident and instead someone else outside the office finally `win' over the lady.

What happens if five, ten, 100, 1000, 1 million persons place a rose or dozens of roses at the SW? The end result is only the florist gets richer!

Warmest Regards,
Cecil


On 10/14/99 6:24:08 AM, Jocelyn Yu wrote:
>Dear Cecil & Robert
>
>I would like to understand how
>to interpret the different
>schools of thought for feng
>shui. For example, there is
>one school of thought that
>does not look at individual
>auspicious directions but
>assigns a sector for each
>direction--e.g. north for
>career, southeast for wealth,
>etc. If I want to excel or
>get rich, I'm supposed to
>place something in these
>sectors to enhance them.
>
>However in the 8
>house/pakua/loshu school of
>thought, I am a West person.
>The directions north &
>southeast are not auspicious
>for me therefore I need to
>locate such things as toilets
>or kitchens there. Will this
>affect my career and wealth?
>If I do have toilets or
>kitchens in these sectors, do
>i need to enhance them for
>career & wealth?
>
>thanks
>
>jocelyn
>
>
>