In Feng Shui two of the most important things to consider in a home are the positions and alignments of the front door to your home and the placement of the bed. The Chinese astrological and compass methods are traditionally used determine the best place in the house not only for assigning the bedroom, but the best wall in the bedroom on which to place the bed and the best colors to use to insure optimum health and rest.
The best orientation for the bed is determined by your Chinese astrological chart. Short of drawing up your Chinese astrological chart, however, here are some practical points you may want to consider.
The worst sleeping position is called the "coffin position." The coffin position is such that the foot of your bed points directly out the bedroom door. This is called the coffin position because it was the way bodies were laid out after death in ancient China. Sleeping in the coffin position exposes you to the Chi that rushes into the room; it can leave you feeling lethargic even if you get plenty of sleep. It may also make you feel unsettled and irritable, and not want to stay at home which then can upset your relationship. If your bedroom is too small or makes it impossible to place the bed in any position but the coffin position, you may remedy it by placing a piece of furniture such as a book case or chest between the foot of the bed and the bedroom door as a barrier.
The ideal position for the bed is diagonally opposite the bedroom door. There should be a solid wall behind the headboard. No wall behind the headboard may cause headaches and other health problems.
If you place the bed under a window, you will be exposed to cold air drafts and may have restless sleep and disturbing dreams. If you have no choice but to put your bed under the window, cover the window when you go to sleep.
It is generally inadvisable to place the bed along the same wall as the door or to lie with your head behind the door as that can make you feel insecure. You should also not sleep with your bed in a direct path of the bedroom door because the Chi coming in will cut across your body. It is not good to sleep with your head on a wall behind which is the toilet or stove. We will go further in a future article.
Raphael Simons
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
The Feng Shui of your House and Doorway
The Harmony of your House and Doorway
The relation between the way a house sits in the land and the direction that its front door faces is unknown to most modern builders and developers. Very little about this has been described in Western fengshui books simply because most of this information is unavaiable in the West.
Disharmonious structures in which people live bring about disharmonious situations in their lives whether they know feng shui or not. What has been described of house placement on the land in popular feng shui books is fragmentary, having only to do with the four constellations: the Warrior, the Dragon, the Phoenix and the Tiger. Accordingly, the most ideal situation for a house is to have the land rise behind and slope away in front, and to have the land to the left-hand side (when looking out the door) rise higher than the land to the right-hand side. While this is fine, it is not always true and is certainly not enough to go by. What I describe below is a simplifcation of an elegant classical method consisting of 24 possible house sittings with 64 door locations, 64 door facings and 192 feng shui star positions. To describe it fully would take an entire book.
The first thing to consider is how your house sits in the land. No matter if the land rises in back, at a corner, to any side, or even in front, where the land rises is the direction in which the house sits. And where the house sits is opposite where the house faces. The direction the door faces is not necessarily the same as the direction that the house faces.
In this simplified form, there are eight possible directions for the house to sit in. The house will sit either in the N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W or NW. Remember, the sitting of a house is not necessarily the back of the house; the sitting of a house is where the land rises. To determine the compass direction of the house's sitting, walk around the house outside, stand right at the edge of house and face the most noticible rise you see in the land, then read on the compass the direction you are facing. Next thing to do is determine the direction your main door is facing. That is done by standing in the doorway, facing out, and reading on the compass the direction you are facing.
It is never desirable for the doorway to face the same direction as the house's sitting. If the house sits in the North, the more positive directions for the door to face out are E, SE and S; the best direction is E.
If the house sits in the NE, the more positive door directions are SW, W and NW; the best is W.
If the house sits in the E, the more positive door directions will be SE, S and N; the best is N. If the house sits in the SE, the more positive door directions are S, N and E; the best is N.
If the house sits in the S, the more positive door directions are N, E and SE; the best is E. If the house sits in the SW, the more positive door directions are W, NW, and NE; the best is NE.
If the house sits in the W, the more positive door directions are NW, NE, and SW; the best is NE. If the house sits in the NW, the more positive door directions are NE, SW, and W; the best is SW.
If your door is in an undesirable position, put a BaGua mirror above the doorway, outside, looking out. Never hang a BaGua mirror inside the house.
For houses that sit on absolutely flat land, the thing to look for is a land feature, even a stand of trees. Barring that, especially if you live in an apartment in the city, the thing to do is get a compass reading of the front door. See if it faces out N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, or NW.
There are effective color cures for inharmonious door positions and for harmonizing the door's element with the element of your date of birth that I will describe in the next fengshui article I post. Harmonizing the elements of your home, its doorway and your date of birth is a big step in making an affective environment.
Raphael Simons
www.psychicarts.net
www.trs-fengshui.com
The relation between the way a house sits in the land and the direction that its front door faces is unknown to most modern builders and developers. Very little about this has been described in Western fengshui books simply because most of this information is unavaiable in the West.
Disharmonious structures in which people live bring about disharmonious situations in their lives whether they know feng shui or not. What has been described of house placement on the land in popular feng shui books is fragmentary, having only to do with the four constellations: the Warrior, the Dragon, the Phoenix and the Tiger. Accordingly, the most ideal situation for a house is to have the land rise behind and slope away in front, and to have the land to the left-hand side (when looking out the door) rise higher than the land to the right-hand side. While this is fine, it is not always true and is certainly not enough to go by. What I describe below is a simplifcation of an elegant classical method consisting of 24 possible house sittings with 64 door locations, 64 door facings and 192 feng shui star positions. To describe it fully would take an entire book.
The first thing to consider is how your house sits in the land. No matter if the land rises in back, at a corner, to any side, or even in front, where the land rises is the direction in which the house sits. And where the house sits is opposite where the house faces. The direction the door faces is not necessarily the same as the direction that the house faces.
In this simplified form, there are eight possible directions for the house to sit in. The house will sit either in the N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W or NW. Remember, the sitting of a house is not necessarily the back of the house; the sitting of a house is where the land rises. To determine the compass direction of the house's sitting, walk around the house outside, stand right at the edge of house and face the most noticible rise you see in the land, then read on the compass the direction you are facing. Next thing to do is determine the direction your main door is facing. That is done by standing in the doorway, facing out, and reading on the compass the direction you are facing.
It is never desirable for the doorway to face the same direction as the house's sitting. If the house sits in the North, the more positive directions for the door to face out are E, SE and S; the best direction is E.
If the house sits in the NE, the more positive door directions are SW, W and NW; the best is W.
If the house sits in the E, the more positive door directions will be SE, S and N; the best is N. If the house sits in the SE, the more positive door directions are S, N and E; the best is N.
If the house sits in the S, the more positive door directions are N, E and SE; the best is E. If the house sits in the SW, the more positive door directions are W, NW, and NE; the best is NE.
If the house sits in the W, the more positive door directions are NW, NE, and SW; the best is NE. If the house sits in the NW, the more positive door directions are NE, SW, and W; the best is SW.
If your door is in an undesirable position, put a BaGua mirror above the doorway, outside, looking out. Never hang a BaGua mirror inside the house.
For houses that sit on absolutely flat land, the thing to look for is a land feature, even a stand of trees. Barring that, especially if you live in an apartment in the city, the thing to do is get a compass reading of the front door. See if it faces out N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, or NW.
There are effective color cures for inharmonious door positions and for harmonizing the door's element with the element of your date of birth that I will describe in the next fengshui article I post. Harmonizing the elements of your home, its doorway and your date of birth is a big step in making an affective environment.
Raphael Simons
www.psychicarts.net
www.trs-fengshui.com
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Earth in Chinese Astrology and Fengshui
In Chinese tradition there are five elements: Earth, Metal, Water, Wood and Fire. When arranged in space, Earth is in the center. All the other elements are rooted in Earth. While Earth is present through the year, Wood comes out in Spring, Fire comes out in Summer, Metal comes out in Autumn and Water comes out in Winter. Earth contains all the seasons. Earth has two expressions, the first is the actual earth on which we live and the other is the North Star. One is called Tu, the other is called Ti. The North Star is called, in the Taoist system, the palace of the Jade Emperor under whose rule universal order and harmony is maintained. In ancient Taoist belief, there is an earth deity called Tu Ti Gong. Tu Ti Gong means the worker of Earth. He is the one who brings messages up to the heavenly court of the Jade Emperor from the people living in the villages and households of the ordinary world. The traditional idea of Feng Shui is to make harmony between the earth and heaven in the dwelling place. When that is done life and fortunes flourish.
The element Earth rules everything necessary and ordinary. It rules food, clothing, housing, money, medicine, marriage, family, motherhood, and so on. In Chinese medicine, Earth corresponds to the stomach, spleen and pancreas, also the flesh and female reproductive functioning.
In Chinese medicine the spleen is considered the central organ of the entire system. The Nei Ching, the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, says, "All the organs desire their breath of life from the spleen. The spleen is the transporter of energy. Spleen regulates the center. From it everything is carried out to the rest of the body-mind domain." If spleen function is sick, such symptoms as malcoordination and lack of balanced connectivity develop physically, emotionally and interpersonally.
About the stomach, the Nei Ching says, "The stomach acts as a place of accumulation as a source of supply." If this function is sick, energy depletion, lethargy and debilitation result. Too much stomach chi, the person accumulates and doesn't know how to use what they have. Too little stomach chi, the person neglects to take in. Too much spleen, the person gives and gives. Too little spleen, the person has trouble sharing.
Earth element, according to Confucius, is equanimity. Everything in life is balanced and in harmony when equanimity if established. Your Chinese astrological chart shows us the condition of Earth element in your personal life as bears on your health and fortunes. In terms of the Feng Shui of your home, Earth is always at the center. It is also found in the Northeast and Southwest areas. If the center of your home is cluttered, your ability to connect and share is impared. If your entire space is cluttered or disordered, you tend to become anxious and disorganized. If the Northeast area is cluttered, you will have financial problems. If the Southwest area is cluttered, you will have relationship problems. Houses with a toilet, euphemistically called the "powder room", in the center, have depleted Earth chi. If you have such a situation, paint the powder room red. Red is the color of Fire. Fire strengthens Earth.
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The element Earth rules everything necessary and ordinary. It rules food, clothing, housing, money, medicine, marriage, family, motherhood, and so on. In Chinese medicine, Earth corresponds to the stomach, spleen and pancreas, also the flesh and female reproductive functioning.
In Chinese medicine the spleen is considered the central organ of the entire system. The Nei Ching, the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, says, "All the organs desire their breath of life from the spleen. The spleen is the transporter of energy. Spleen regulates the center. From it everything is carried out to the rest of the body-mind domain." If spleen function is sick, such symptoms as malcoordination and lack of balanced connectivity develop physically, emotionally and interpersonally.
About the stomach, the Nei Ching says, "The stomach acts as a place of accumulation as a source of supply." If this function is sick, energy depletion, lethargy and debilitation result. Too much stomach chi, the person accumulates and doesn't know how to use what they have. Too little stomach chi, the person neglects to take in. Too much spleen, the person gives and gives. Too little spleen, the person has trouble sharing.
Earth element, according to Confucius, is equanimity. Everything in life is balanced and in harmony when equanimity if established. Your Chinese astrological chart shows us the condition of Earth element in your personal life as bears on your health and fortunes. In terms of the Feng Shui of your home, Earth is always at the center. It is also found in the Northeast and Southwest areas. If the center of your home is cluttered, your ability to connect and share is impared. If your entire space is cluttered or disordered, you tend to become anxious and disorganized. If the Northeast area is cluttered, you will have financial problems. If the Southwest area is cluttered, you will have relationship problems. Houses with a toilet, euphemistically called the "powder room", in the center, have depleted Earth chi. If you have such a situation, paint the powder room red. Red is the color of Fire. Fire strengthens Earth.
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by Raphael Simons
Astrology, Psychic Readings, Chinese Astrology, Feng Shui, Get a telephone consultation or reading
Friday, October 2, 2009
Feng Shui and Health
Your Health Star in Feng Shui
In the traditional Taoist view, good health results from a dynamic, balanced interaction of the elements in our mind, emotions and body. The elements, in the Taoist system, are expressions of interrelated polarities called Yin and Yang. The elements, called Water, Wood, Fire, Earth and Metal, generate and destroy one another, and correspond to such things as time, space, light, color, climate, the organs of the body, and so on. For example, Water corresponds to winter, night, North, cold, black, and to the kidney and bladder functions as well as to the brain, nerves, teeth and bones and to general sexual functioning. In its relation to the other elements, Water is generated by Metal, generates Wood, destroys Fire and is destroyed by Earth. The Five Elements are qualities of Chi, or energy and describe kinds of movement. For example, Water freezes and flows, Wood stretches and grows, Fire expands and leaps, Earth draws together and balances, and Metal contracts. Movement happens because of the changing interrelations of Yin and Yang. Everything arises and ceases through the interrelations of Yin and Yang. When Yin and Yang become still, Chi resolves into Tai Chi, or the Source of all things. The Tai Chi itself resolves into and arises from Wu Chi, or absolute, infinite no-thing-ness.
Illness comes from obstructed Chi. Obstruction happens when the flow is harmed. Health is regained when the natural flow is restored. This is a basic principle in Chinese medicine and Feng Shui.
In traditional Feng Shui, the condition of Chi in a person's life is discerned by Chinese astrology. While there are several systems of Chinese astrology in existance, there are two that are used in Feng Shui. They both derive from the Taoist theory of Chi, Yin and Yang, and the Five Elements. The two systems are Chui Kung Ming Li, or nine-star astrology, and Ba Tzu, or eight-word astrology, also called four pillar astrology. Both of these astrological systems are extremely ancient. And while they both should be used together, almost everyone in the West who claims to use Chinese astrology in Feng Shui, uses only the nine-star astrology. Almost no Westerner knows Ba Tzu fully. This is because Ba Tzu can only be done in Chinese characters and with a special kind of Chinese astrological ephemeris. Beside it being an excellent way of telling the future, the most important thing in Ba Tzu is that it reveals a person's vital element. The vital element, also called the spirit of the chart, is the element that the person's life depends on. Based on this all-important bit of information, a Feng Shui expert is able to set up a person's space so it supports the person's health correctly. This is highly technical and it takes a lot of time to study and learn.
In the nine-star astrological system there is, however, an easy way to calculate an element that benefits a person's health. A star that balances your birth star-element, your Health Star has a corresponding direction in space and color. Because nine-star astrology is a numerological system, it is easy to translate into Western terms. In addition to Ba Tzu, I always use nine-star in my work. It is elegant and effective. To find your Health Star you first need to find your Birth Star. The calculation differs for males and females. Here is a basic table:
The Birth Star of a female born in 1968 is 1. A male born in 1968 is 5.
The Birth Star of a female born in 1969 is 2. A male born in 1969 is 4.
The Birth Star of a female born in 1970 is 3. A male born in 1970 is 3.
The Birth Star of a female born in 1971 is 4. A male born in 1971 is 2.
The Birth Star of a female born in 1972 is 5. A male born in 1972 is 1.
The Birth Star of a female born in 1973 is 6. A male born in 1973 is 9.
The Birth Star of a female born in 1974 is 7. A male born in 1974 is 8.
The Birth Star of a female born in 1975 is 8. A male born in 1975 is 7.
The Birth Star of a female born in 1976 is 9. A male born in 1976 is 6.
If you were born in a year outside this range, add or subtract 9 or multiples of 9. For example, if you were born in 1948, you would add 27 to get 1975. Or if you were born in 2004, you would subtract 36 to get 1968.
Your Health Star
The Health Star for 1 is 9 Fire. The Health Star for 2 is 6 Metal. The Health Star for 3 is 4 Wood. The Health Star for 4 is 3 Wood. The Health Stars for 5 are 2 and 8 Earth (note that 5 has two Health Stars). The Health Star for 6 is 2 Earth. The Health Star for 7 is 8 Earth. The Health Star for 8 is 7 Metal. And the Health Star for 9 is 1 Water.
Once you find your Health Star you can use it for aligning yourself when you sit, meditate, stand for Chi Kung exercise and lie down to sleep. The correct way to align your self is to put the direction of your Health Star to your Back when sitting and standing, and to your Head when lying down. You can also wear or paint your room with the nine-star color of your Health Star to support your health. You may notice that the nine-star color scale is different from the five-element color scale. In the color descriptions below please note that I have included the five-element color, where it applies, after the nine-star color.
1 Water is North and white, also black or deep blue. 2 Earth is Southwest and black, also yellow. 3 Wood is East and light green or light blue. 4 Wood is Southeast and dark green or light blue. 5 Earth is not used as a Health Star. 6 Metal is Northwest and white or silver. 7 Metal is West and red, also white or silver. 8 Earth is Northeast and white, also yellow. 9 Fire is South and purple, also red or rose.
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In the traditional Taoist view, good health results from a dynamic, balanced interaction of the elements in our mind, emotions and body. The elements, in the Taoist system, are expressions of interrelated polarities called Yin and Yang. The elements, called Water, Wood, Fire, Earth and Metal, generate and destroy one another, and correspond to such things as time, space, light, color, climate, the organs of the body, and so on. For example, Water corresponds to winter, night, North, cold, black, and to the kidney and bladder functions as well as to the brain, nerves, teeth and bones and to general sexual functioning. In its relation to the other elements, Water is generated by Metal, generates Wood, destroys Fire and is destroyed by Earth. The Five Elements are qualities of Chi, or energy and describe kinds of movement. For example, Water freezes and flows, Wood stretches and grows, Fire expands and leaps, Earth draws together and balances, and Metal contracts. Movement happens because of the changing interrelations of Yin and Yang. Everything arises and ceases through the interrelations of Yin and Yang. When Yin and Yang become still, Chi resolves into Tai Chi, or the Source of all things. The Tai Chi itself resolves into and arises from Wu Chi, or absolute, infinite no-thing-ness.
Illness comes from obstructed Chi. Obstruction happens when the flow is harmed. Health is regained when the natural flow is restored. This is a basic principle in Chinese medicine and Feng Shui.
In traditional Feng Shui, the condition of Chi in a person's life is discerned by Chinese astrology. While there are several systems of Chinese astrology in existance, there are two that are used in Feng Shui. They both derive from the Taoist theory of Chi, Yin and Yang, and the Five Elements. The two systems are Chui Kung Ming Li, or nine-star astrology, and Ba Tzu, or eight-word astrology, also called four pillar astrology. Both of these astrological systems are extremely ancient. And while they both should be used together, almost everyone in the West who claims to use Chinese astrology in Feng Shui, uses only the nine-star astrology. Almost no Westerner knows Ba Tzu fully. This is because Ba Tzu can only be done in Chinese characters and with a special kind of Chinese astrological ephemeris. Beside it being an excellent way of telling the future, the most important thing in Ba Tzu is that it reveals a person's vital element. The vital element, also called the spirit of the chart, is the element that the person's life depends on. Based on this all-important bit of information, a Feng Shui expert is able to set up a person's space so it supports the person's health correctly. This is highly technical and it takes a lot of time to study and learn.
In the nine-star astrological system there is, however, an easy way to calculate an element that benefits a person's health. A star that balances your birth star-element, your Health Star has a corresponding direction in space and color. Because nine-star astrology is a numerological system, it is easy to translate into Western terms. In addition to Ba Tzu, I always use nine-star in my work. It is elegant and effective. To find your Health Star you first need to find your Birth Star. The calculation differs for males and females. Here is a basic table:
The Birth Star of a female born in 1968 is 1. A male born in 1968 is 5.
The Birth Star of a female born in 1969 is 2. A male born in 1969 is 4.
The Birth Star of a female born in 1970 is 3. A male born in 1970 is 3.
The Birth Star of a female born in 1971 is 4. A male born in 1971 is 2.
The Birth Star of a female born in 1972 is 5. A male born in 1972 is 1.
The Birth Star of a female born in 1973 is 6. A male born in 1973 is 9.
The Birth Star of a female born in 1974 is 7. A male born in 1974 is 8.
The Birth Star of a female born in 1975 is 8. A male born in 1975 is 7.
The Birth Star of a female born in 1976 is 9. A male born in 1976 is 6.
If you were born in a year outside this range, add or subtract 9 or multiples of 9. For example, if you were born in 1948, you would add 27 to get 1975. Or if you were born in 2004, you would subtract 36 to get 1968.
Your Health Star
The Health Star for 1 is 9 Fire. The Health Star for 2 is 6 Metal. The Health Star for 3 is 4 Wood. The Health Star for 4 is 3 Wood. The Health Stars for 5 are 2 and 8 Earth (note that 5 has two Health Stars). The Health Star for 6 is 2 Earth. The Health Star for 7 is 8 Earth. The Health Star for 8 is 7 Metal. And the Health Star for 9 is 1 Water.
Once you find your Health Star you can use it for aligning yourself when you sit, meditate, stand for Chi Kung exercise and lie down to sleep. The correct way to align your self is to put the direction of your Health Star to your Back when sitting and standing, and to your Head when lying down. You can also wear or paint your room with the nine-star color of your Health Star to support your health. You may notice that the nine-star color scale is different from the five-element color scale. In the color descriptions below please note that I have included the five-element color, where it applies, after the nine-star color.
1 Water is North and white, also black or deep blue. 2 Earth is Southwest and black, also yellow. 3 Wood is East and light green or light blue. 4 Wood is Southeast and dark green or light blue. 5 Earth is not used as a Health Star. 6 Metal is Northwest and white or silver. 7 Metal is West and red, also white or silver. 8 Earth is Northeast and white, also yellow. 9 Fire is South and purple, also red or rose.
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