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

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