Real Feng Shui treats the environment like a living entity.
Healthy soil & terrains for solid foundation. Clean and sentimentally flowing waterways for Qi to be ever cycling. Good size, well designed & located doors / entrances to receive all we can from the surroundings. Suitably located and well designed connectors like pathways, stairs, lifts, air-wells etc to introduce one space to another indoor. Well located and designed stoves to provide for health of the occupants. Strategically located beds and work desks to align the occupants to the overall Qi map. Then, appropriate timing to construct, renovation and move-in.
But wait. We are missing something. The heart – Heavenly Heart 天心.
Most of the time, the piece meal formula and texts we see today that try to emulate as ‘Feng Shui’ may not be wrong. The problem is when one sees only the parts but not whole of the organic environment, of a given space.
Qi moves in a micro-circulation manner. A good analogy is the human body.
The objective of any Feng Shui system eventually aim to attain good (healthy) heart.
Look at this spherical presentation of the 10 Stems, 12 Zodiac, and 28 constellations. The faint blue sphere is Earth, a TaiJi. (It is not the best we can draw. Will try to improve.) )
When you use San He, you would see that each formation is not exactly a single dimensional horizontal plane. When you use San Yuan, the vertical connections are not just a 2-D slice of the sphere too. It shows you protrusions of 10-Stems in BaZi, combination in Zodiac, where the doors open or close in Mystical Door 奇門 and where Tai Yi 太乙 / Liu Ren 六壬 slice the spherical ball. If we are able to add other solar planets to this image, it would be exciting….
Therefore, the heart of a premise – is it still a sphere to you? Or is it a pyramid or a hexagon? A tiny dot? 3feet by 3 feet? Or is it bigger?
Do you still need to give it ‘house-arrest’ when 5 ‘flies’ there by locking it? Have a pool in the middle of a premise? Cook on it? Have a bathroom there? Or, open an air-well there to ‘free’ it?
Whatever. Let’s have a heart.
A clear, healthy and consistent heart that delivers.
Dear Zoe,
Many years ago I took a Feng Shui course on flying stars. The results was I locked up the center of my shop in Kallang Bahru. The business went down and I had to close it within 9 months. Thanks for giving us the insights. I find 13 voices refreshing.
Regards,
Chong Seen
Yeah! They are amazing.
Zoe, Kenny said you will visit Manila soon. Please let me know when as I would like to organise something for your company. A group of us have been learning fengshui some time and would be interested to learn and engage your services. Some like to be enlightened on Bazi as well.
Pls write more on bazi. Your past articles were very helpful.
Thanks Chong Seen & Siwi.
It is quite tough to write for a broad audience. We have many laypersons as well as serious students/ practitioners coming to this space. For now, our posts are more consumer based and for beginners.
There are some guest writers’ contributions which will be released later in the year. Siwi, they include Bazi.
Regardless of delays or hurdles, we will continue to educate and share on as neutral basis as possible.
cheers!