Roll Out The Red Carpet

I've been talking quite a bit about calculating your Kua number, locating your auspicious and inauspicious sectors and it probably makes sense to actually talk about the implications of these sectors.

In Eight Mansion Feng Shui, the positions of your front door, stove and bed are considered very important.

If your front door's located in an auspicious sector, you'll be inviting positive Chi into your house. It follows that if your front door is located in an inauspicous sector, you'll be inviting negative Chi (Sha) into your house.

So what can you do to mitigate the negative effects of Sha if your front door happens to be in an inauspicious sector? Believe it or not, the humble carpet can actually do just that.

Before you roll out the carpet, you first need to determine the nature of the Sha.

If the head of the household belongs to the East Group (Kua numbers 1, 3, 4, 5[Male] or 9), his or her inauspicious sectors will be West, Northwest, Southwest and Northeast.

Specifically, for a East Group person, if the front door is in the West or Northwest sector, the house will invite Sha of a Metal nature. And if the front door is in the Southwest or Northeast sector, the house will invite Sha of an Earth nature.

If the head of the household belongs to the West Group (Kua numbers 2, 5[Female], 6, 7, 8), his or her inauspicious sectors will be East, South, North and Southeast.

Specifically, for a West Group person, if the front door is in the East or Southeast sector, the house will invite Sha of a Wood nature. And if the front door is in the South sector, the house will invite Sha of a Fire nature. Finally if the front door is in the North sector, the house'll invite Sha of a Water nature.

The way to mitigate Sha is to employ the principle of the Cycle of Destruction of the Five Elements.

Fire destroys Metal. And since the colors Red and Purple signify Fire, place a red or purple door mat at your front door to mitigate Sha of a Metal nature.

Wood destroys Earth. Since the color Green signifies Wood, place a green door mat at your front door to mitigate Sha of an Earth nature.

Water destroys Fire. The colors Black and Blue signify Water. Therefore place a black or blue door mat at your front door to mitigate Sha of a Fire nature.

Earth destroys Water. Since the colors Yellow and Brown signify Earth, place a yellow or brown door mat at your front door to mitigate Sha of a Water nature.

Metal destroys Wood. The color White signifies Metal. Hence, place a white door mat at your front door to mitigate Sha of a Wood nature.

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Feng Shui Case: Bukit Timah, Singapore

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The first step is to calculate the Kua number of the couple.

CN was born in April 1970. His Kua number is 3.

WP was born in April 1976. Her Kua number is 9.

The next step is to get the floorplan (drawn to scale) and divide the apartment into eight sectors - North(N), South(S), East(E), West(W), Northeast(NE), Northwest(NW), Southeast(SE), and Southwest(SW) as shown in the picture below:

In this case, CN's the head of the household so we'll be using his Kua number to locate the auspicious and inauspicious sectors of their home.

The four auspicious sectors based on CN's Kua number (3) are:

Sheng Chi - South;
Tien Yi - North;
Yan Nien - Southeast; and
Fu Wei - East.

The four inauspicious sectors are:

Ho Hai - Southwest(SW);
Wu Kwei - Northwest(NW);
Lui Sha - Northeast(NE); and
Chueh Ming - West(W).

So we're now able to identify the sectors.

The auspicious sectors are indicated in BLUE. The inauspicious sectors are indicated in RED.

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Where's The Loo?

Toilets = Filth = Negative Chi.

For that reason, there're six things you should pay attention to:

1. Your toilet should be well-ventilated so that negative Chi gets dispersed.

2. Your toilet should be kept clean so that there's less negative Chi in the first place.

3. Your toilet should not face the front door directly.

4. Your toilet should not be located in an auspicious sector.

5. Your toilet should not face the stove directly.

6. Your toilet should not face your bedroom directly.

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Is There A Toilet In Your Auspicious Sector?

I mentioned in an earlier entry that every house can be divided into eight sectors. Four of these sectors are auspicious sectors and the other four are inauspicious sectors.

Where the toilets are located can affect the health of the people who are staying in the house. As a general rule, the toilets should preferably be located in the inauspicious sectors. Avoid having the toilets in the auspicious sectors.

Of course, relocating a toilet is no easy task. So this is something you should probably pay attention to when you're buying a house or an apartment.

Therefore before you purchase a house or an apartment, you may want to find out your auspicious and inauspicious sectors.

If you look at the diagram below, the toilet is located in the North sector.

This apartment will be favorable (from this perspective only) to an owner with Kua number 2, 5, 6, 7 or 8 since North is his/her inauspicious sector.

Conversely this apartment may adversely affect the health of an owner with Kua number 1, 3, 4 or 9 since North is his/her auspicious sector.

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Locating The Auspicious And Inauspicious Sectors Of Your Home

According to Eight Mansions Feng Shui, every house can be divided into eight sectors - four auspicious and four inauspicious. Where these eight sectors are located in a house is determined by the Kua number of the head of the household.

Once you have your Kua number, you can find out which are your four auspicious sectors and which are your four inauspicious sectors.

The next step is to get hold of the house's floorplan that's drawn to scale. With a compass, determine the directions and draw a pie chart like the one illustrated below:

You'll then be able to identify the four auspicious sectors and your four inauspicious sectors for the family.

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Home Improvement Tip #9 - Your Front Door Should Not Face The Toilet Door

The position and location of your front door, stove and bed have the greatest impact on your health.

When your front door is situated in your auspicious sector, you'll invite positive Chi into your home which will benefit you and your family's health. When your front door is situated in an inauspicious sector, you'll invite negative Chi into your home which will affect you and your family's health adversely.

If your front door faces the toilet door directly (refer to the first picture below), Chi that enters into your house will be convoluted with the negative Chi from the toilet.

So if positive Chi enters your home, it'll be mitigated by the negative Chi from the toilet. If negative Chi enters your home, it'll be made worse by the negative Chi from the toilet. Unfortunately in this case, negative plus negative doesn't give you positive :-)

There are a number of solutions. One, you can relocate either the toilet door or the front door. If this is easier said than done, build a partition between the front door and the toilet door (refer to the picture below).

One of my friend's apartment actually has a toilet that faces his front door just about two meters away and it's the first thing you see when you enter his apartment. In this case, it may be virtually impossible to build a partition within that two-meter space. The only thing he can do is keep the toilet clean, try not to use that toilet and always keep the toilet door shut.

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Home Improvement Tip #8 - Your Stove Should Not Face The Toilet Door

In a previous entry, I said that your bedroom door should not face the toilet door directly because it affects your health adversely.

The same is true when your stove faces the toilet door directly as shown in the picture below.

In Feng Shui, the stove has such a great influence on the health of the household because of its function - it's used to cook food to be consumption. And having the toilet door face the stove directly implies that filth gets into your food more easily.

You can either change the position of the stove or the location of the toilet door. If both solutions aren't possible, you should try to keep the toilet door shut as often as possible.

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Finding Your Auspicious and Inauspicious Directions

Every one of us has four auspicious directions and four inauspicious directions. When you learn to activate your auspicious directions and avoid your inauspicious directions, you're able to improve many aspects of your life, including your health, relationships, and financial situation.

The first step of finding your auspicious and inauspicious directions is to calculate your Kua Number.

Once you've calculated your Kua number, you can refer to the chart below to find out your four auspicious directions (Sheng Chi, Tien Yi, Yan Nien, and Fu Wei) and your four inauspicious directions (Ho Hai, Wu Kwei , Lui Sha, and Chueh Ming)

The directions for male and female are different for Kua number 5. So if you're Male, you'll have to look under Column 5(M) and if you're Female, you'll have to look under the Column 5(F).

Kua Number
	1	2	3	4	5 (M)	5 (F)	6	7	8	9
Sheng Chi	SE	NE	S	N	NE	SW	W	NW	SW	E
Tien Yi	E	W	N	S	W	NW	NE	SW	NW	SE
Yan Nien	S	NW	SE	E	NW	W	SW	NE	W	N
Fu Wei	N	SW	E	SE	SW	NE	W	W	NE	S
Ho Hai	W	E	SW	NW	E	S	SE	N	S	NE
Wu Kwei	NE	SE	NW	SW	SE	N	E	S	N	W
Lui Sha	NW	S	NE	W	S	E	N	SE	E	SW
Chueh Ming	SW	N	W	NE	N	SE	S	E	SE	NW

Four Auspicious Directions

Sheng Chi is the direction for attracting prosperity, wealth and fame into your life.

Tien Yi is the direction for improving your health and bring longevity.

Yen Nien is the direction for enhancing family relationships.

Fu Wei is the direction for achieving self-actualization and peace.

Four Inauspicious Directions

Ho Hai is the direction that leads to frustration and possible financial loss.

Wu Kwei is the direction that leads to loss of income/employment and burglaries.

Lui Sha is the direction that leads to illnesses, accidents, and legal entanglements.

Chueh Ming is the most fatal direction. It leads to bankruptcies and fatal illnesses.

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Home Improvement Tip #7: Your Front Door Should Not Face The Back Door

A house that's constructed with the front door facing the back door directly, like the one in the first picture below, is a house that's incapable of accumulating wealth energies.

Wealth energies that come in from the front door will quickly exit from the back door. Wealth energies that come in from the back door will quickly exit from the front door.

What you'll need to do if you're faced with this situation is to put a partition or build a wall between the front and back door so that they do not face each other directly, like what's shown in this second picture.

If for any reason, it's not possible for you to have a partition or wall between the two doors, you should try as much as possible to keep the back door shut.

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Home Improvement Tip #6 - Your Stove Should Not Face The Refridgerator

Urban living dictates that many of us have to put up with a miserably tiny kitchen. Given limited space, you may end up with a situation where your stove is facing your refridgerator directly as shown in the picture below.

However such a configuration may adversely affect your health because of the conflicting nature of two elements - fire and water. The stove belongs to the fire element and the refridgerator belongs to the water element.

There are two solutions:

One, relocate either the stove or the fridge so that they do not face each other directly.

Two, turn the fridge so that the door of the fridge does not face the stove directly.

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Does Your Bedroom Door Face A Toilet Door?

Few of us would like a seat near the restroom when we're dining at a restaurant. The thought of filth and bacteria in your proximity while you're enjoying a meal doesn't seem all that appealing. For that reason, bathrooms/toilets have long been associated with negative chi.

If your bedroom door faces a toilet door (see picture below), negative chi will flow from the bathroom to your bedroom.

If you sleep in a such a bedroom for a prolonged period of time, your health may deteriorate. It may also affect your career adversely.

The best solution would be to relocate one of the doors so that they don't face each other directly. Since this is a rather major project, there are other things you can do to mitigate the negative chi.

One, keep both doors closed as much as possible.

Two, put up a partition in your bedroom to block the negative chi as depicted in the picture below.

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Home Improvement Tip #5: Do Not Sleep With Your Back Against The Door

Most feng shui tips for the bedroom have a lot to do with making it a conducive place for rest and renewal. One of the principles is that you should be able to clearly see the bedroom door while you're lying on your bed.

Sleeping with your back against the door adds undue stress because you can't see who's entering your bedroom.

See the picture below. Avoid placing your bed this way.

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Home Improvement Tip #4: You Should Buy A Four-Legged Bed

An ideal bed is one that has a space between the base and the floor, which makes the conventional "four-legged" bed the ideal bed from a feng shui perspective.

An example of a four-legged bed (by Flou Italy) is shown below.

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Home Improvement Tip #3: Your Bed Should Be Backed By A Solid Wall

To refer to the original floor plan, click here.

It is extremely important that your bed is placed against a solid wall as shown in the picture below.

The solid wall ensures that your career, or life in general, is built upon a strong foundation and that you'll find people around you who will guide you and help you.

The pictures below are examples of beds that are not backed by a solid wall.

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Home Improvement Tip #2: Your Bed Should Not Be Next To The Toilet

To refer to the original floor plan, click here.

The bathroom/toilet is the place where we, er..., shit. If you have your bed rested against the toilet wall as shown in the picture below, you may experience headaches and dwindling wealth.

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Home Improvement Tip #1: Your Bed Should Not Face The Door

To refer to the original floor plan, click here.

If the door faces your head and chest, it's bad...

If the door faces your entire body, it's really bad...

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My Best Friend's Housing

6 years ago, I made a pact with a close friend of mine that if neither of us are attached by the time she's 35 and I'm 36, we'll just move in together and be close companions. Lucky for both of us, she got married a year and a half ago. Otherwise it's totally possible that we'll end up killing each other if we live together.

She married a guy who I get along really well with and they're going to move into the apartment they bought come May this year.

Anyway they are kind enough to reserve the maid's room for me. They gathered that I'll never get hitched in this lifetime so the maid's room will come in handy when I'm old and wrinkled.

Since I may be staying there, I've a vested interest to make sure that the apartment is fengshui-ed. Here's the floor plan.

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