The Right Home
Find the right home for you…….
Below is the Feng Shui Home Identification Pack
…which you can copy & paste for your personal use. The first page will allow you to identify the most blatant no-no’s. Then it gets progressively more demanding. If you are stuck by page two you may need me to visit for a Yes/No Survey. I will aim to take measurements and orientations so that you can uprate to a full survey after purchase and the fee would be deducted from the full survey fee. These days I can generally give you a yes/no from an agent’s online information without leaving my office and I charge this at my hourly rate.
All prices on application.
Feng Shui Home Identification Pack.
For the layman
- Avoid external sat (ugly or pointing): trees, buildings, alleys, pylons, churches, bridges, drains, pillars, stagnant water or other topographical features too close and/or in poor Imperial Heaven Stars (see 2) . Relate the positions to the Trigram(s) relating to prospective inhabitants.
- Avoid numbers 4,14,114 but favour numbers 2,3,8,28,38
- Look for regular shapes: i.e. avoid protrusions and exclusions.
- Confirm tai chi (geometrical centre ie heart) of property is within. Hatchet shape for instance, can put tai chi outside.
- Ensure ming tang (open space to front and/or back and/or inside at threshold) is sufficiently large and bordered by jade belt (bordering water).
- Is there a table mountain (ie further height) beyond the jade belt?
- Check shape of plot is regular.
- Check for healthy light patterns ie no area dark 24/7 or overexposed.
- Ensure any left-right incline is not too marked; avoid bowl or mound plots.
- Is the house facing a T-junction or narrow gap, at the end of a cul-de-sac or foot of a slope?
- Is it outside a curve? Inside is generally fine.
- Check the façade of the house is level. Avoid tilted frontage.
- Avoid roofs sloping to a valley over the house.
- Ensure fence is sound and solid, not constricting, too high or too low.
- Avoid toilets close to or over front door.
- Avoid long straight unbroken corridors from front to back.
- Avoid staircase opening onto front door (or at tai chi).
- Avoid beam above front door.
- Bed should not be under a beam.
- Research the fate of the previous occupants.
- No major external water at North West.
No attempt has been made to ensure this list is comprehensive nor am I responsible for its interpretation. R
© Richard Ashworth 2011.
For the feng shui beginner
- Match kwa number(s) (based on year of birth) to house, ie:
- West Group (2,6,7,8) to West House (sitting position SW,NW,W,NE)
- East Group (1,3.4,9) to East House (sitting position N,E,SE,S)
- Identify compass orientation of direct mountain – closest major height. A drive around is advisable as well as study of a map.
- Relate this to the palaces of the doors by calculating the chi form.
- Check quality of soil (ideally tang lung green, goy moon yellowish or mou kuk pale white).
- Ensure site is higher than face.
- What is the true facing direction? Does the topography agree? Can it be changed?
- Factor in the Yearly Afflictions: tai sui, 3 killings, Year breaker, 5 Yellow.
No attempt has been made to ensure this list is comprehensive nor am I responsible for its interpretation. R
© Richard Ashworth 2011.
Advanced feng shui checks.
- Match facing direction to element(s) missing from ba zi.
- Identify compass orientation of water holding chi coming down from mountain. This may be a road or railway line and should not be too fast.
- Check kinships: choi essential and kun if there are two.
- Ensure kwas match facing/site of topography.
- Look for Dragon’s Claw; two gates for entry is one too many.
- Ensure kitchen is in poor ba zhai location away from tai chi
- Ensure cooker faces favourable ba zhai direction. Keep water and fire apart and unopposed. Avoid stove on island, in front of door or below beam.
- Ensure main door well-positioned in ba zhai terms, and relative to cooker and master bedroom.
- What are pulses like? (Stronger pulse dictates kinship.)
- What do the Kinships say? See grid
- Main bedroom should be in favourable ba zhai location and regularly shaped.
- Staircase should be in good ba zhai sector.
- Compare lap yums of occupants with that of site measurement.
- Whose are the missing numbers?
- If door is in same family as site avoid kun.
- Door must not be in a mountain clashing the element of the family of the site.
- Doors must not violate Grandmaster Yang’s Curses (wood site not shen etc)
No attempt has been made to ensure this list is comprehensive nor am I responsible for its interpretation. R
© Richard Ashworth 2011.
Professional feng shui checks
- 8 Killings (Song of the Ba Sha):
- a. Door should not clash the Trigram of the incoming Dragon (or direct mountain)
- b. If no visible mountain, source of qi (road or river) should not clash sitting position.
- 8 Roads of Destruction (Ba Lu Huang Quan) – see grid.
- Peach Blossom: at cardinal point that produces the Facing Direction Triple Combo chi
- Three Harmony Road
- Site matches remaining two branches of three combo.
- Five Ghosts – see grid.
- Plot Flying Stars and identify which appear at main bedroom, kitchen, office and front door.
- Where are the 8 & 9 water stars?
- Avoid the following axes: bing/ren, chou/wei zhen/su
- Trigram facing should not have water exiting at stem and vice-versa.
No attempt has been made to ensure this list is comprehensive nor am I responsible for its interpretation. R
© Richard Ashworth 2011.