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Dear Tri Nguyen,

I wrote this reply recently and I hope you find it useful:-

I mentioned earlier in some of the replies in the forum that it is common
practise of Hong Kong Feng Shui Masters/pactioners to use fish tank as Feng
Shui `cures'. What I mean is that between the two : fountains / waterfall,
which is considered to bring beneficial ch'i to a home. Placed either
outside
the compound outside the front of the house or in the living room.

Fish tank as a cure. For example if a lone lamp post can be seen from the
living room entrance, a Feng Shui practioner would then suggest that a fish
tank be placed `overlooking' the lamp post. Notice that the lone lamp post
being thin represents the `Fire' element and the water in the fish tank
represents the Water element. Under the 5elements principle (reference: Five
Elements) Water DESTROYS Fire. Thus neutralising the `threat'.

In addition to this, black gold fishes are placed in the aquarium. Sometime
back, I wrote a short article in this website. (Reference: Fishes ). Where
best, fishes should be numbering e.g. 5, 6, 8. (9 is still acceptable).

In addition, a fish tank also consists of two elements:-

1. One view is that it is made up of the Water element and Metal element ie.
the water in the fish tank is = water element (straight forward) and the
other is Metal element e.g. fishes like goldfish or kois (carps) and
arowanas (Dragon fish) because it is " gold " and gold is the metal element.

2. Another view is that the water again = water element. But the fishes are
of the fire element i.e. gold fishes (red gold fishes) represent the fire
element.

3. Black gold fish represents the water element as colours such as black ...
to grey represents the water element.

In all the above cases, all three " answers " are correct.

Why do I bring this up? It has to do with the five elements `cure'. It's
take a different example. For instance if a peron's Pillars of Destiny
element is
`weak water'. The direct cure is to add water element to it. The indirect
`cure' is to add metal to his water element. If you cannot follow, I
suggest,
first look at the Productive and Destructive cycle of the Five Elements.

As black gold fish = water element, it is said to strengthen the Water
element. This will be more effective to counter any `Fire threats'.
Similiarly,
adding fishes with the `metal' element also helps to strengthen the Water
element. As Metal supports the Water element under the Productive cylce of
the 5 elements.

Here, what I am trying to say is that if you are using the fish tank to
counter the threat of the `Fire element' then, the Water element would not
be strong. However, the good news is that if one is not using the fish tank
to neutralise a `threat' by all means get yourself any coloured fishes.

In your case, you have correctly pointed out the a pakua would be of use. To
find out more about the type of pakua, you can check this url:
http://www.3dglobe.com/fs/pakua.htm



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Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 1:49 PM
Subject: Tree & a single lamp post in front of main door


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>Hi,
>I'm very new with Feng Shui although I had heard about it. Recently, I
watch a show on Public Television about Feng Shui and it could not get off
my mind. And then, I noticed that there is a tree and a lamp post in front
of my front door (double door), the tree is almost in center, the lamp post
is a few feet to the left and on the other side of the street. Would the
pa-gua cure the problems or there's other alternatives? Please help!!!
Thanks in advance. I really like your web page.
>-advice".