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I thought I never need to write basic Feng Shui articles anymore, as Feng Shui is so popular around the world today. Just go to any nearby book store and you will have a section of books dedicate to this subject - all basic ones of course. Nevertheless a good start for all beginners.
What inspired me to write this posting was that I have read somewhere in the main stream media ad that only certain branch of Chinese Metaphysics have direct correlation between Feng Shui and also Destiny. This off course is not true, why some people may be led to believe so, is because mainstream Feng Shui writers like to separate out destiny reading and feng shui.
They have not been taught that all of this knowledge is supposed to be linked up. However some school of thought linked it up to become a very powerful leverage to help on a person's destiny while some school sort of try to fit a square peg into a round hole (keep on pushing it and make a mess). It is like Fusion Food. I like Tomyam Spaghetti, but please don't ask me to try Peanut Butter with Tuna on a bread !
If you know Chinese Metaphysics really well or study in depth on each of the subjects from Face Reading 面相 to Oracle卜卦 to Feng Shui 風水 to BaZi 八字 / ZiWei 紫薇 to Qi Men Dun Jia 奇門遁甲. All of it deals with the 5 Elements. The basic is the 5 Elements, the highest learning is also interaction of the 5 elements. If it is something beyond 5 Elements then it is NOT Chinese Metaphysics.
What does 5 Elements do? It categorize or simplify the characteristics of the Qi or what you call Energy. And all branches of Chinese Metaphysics talk about achieving balance. When you have balance, not only it looks nice, it sounds perfect and everything moves smoothly.
When we discuss about Human Destiny - humans naturally are affected by Qi, whether reaching balance in their destiny, achieving balance of qi in their body's 5 main organs or harnessing the suitable Qi from the environment to aid them in their luck periods.
When we read a person's destiny, what is their potential, what is their fall back, what are weakest genetic link - all this have to do with the 5 element balance in their destiny chart. When I do Feng Shui consultation for my clients, I then use the information of their destiny chart and try to do a setup in their environment to harness the qi that will help balance their destiny to avoid all the fall back and support their destiny and luck periods.
I don't do House Feng Shui - meaning find the best way to decorate their house according to House Feng Shui Principles.
I help my clients do a setup of Qi in their environment, advice them on where to tap the Qi that best suit their type of destiny and also the goal that they are trying to achieve. Therefore each person or family is different. Same house with different people will be different advice.
Destiny here means their Four Pillars of Destiny or 八字. Other systems are only interested in Year of Birth to convert to a GUA Trigam. That you can do in a DIY setting. No need to hire Feng Shui Master.
Because of the mass conventional materials that is out there, writers who have never made the link or never been taught that it is supposed to be linked. This concept becomes alien and 'unconventional' to many newbies.
When I do Yin Feng Shui － Feng Shui for burial ground or columbarium selection, the crucial key other than finding good landforms is whether the element it harness will be suitable for the later generations of my client. Their children's destiny requirement and also the timing to harness the qi.
Even in Qi Men Dun Jia 奇門遁甲，the highest essence is the ability to linked it with a person's destiny. How to chase after qi that is suitable to you. Not just basic favourable and unfavourable location base on conventional Qi Men knowledge that are in books.
From the 十天干 Heavenly Stems， 地支 Earth Branches, 八卦 Ba Gua correlation with 5 Elements 五行 in all Chinese Metaphysics subject is denotating the same 5 Elements - there is no such thing as 5 elements for Feng Shui is different from 5 elements of destiny OR 5 elements of Yin Feng Shui is different from 5 Elements on your face for Face Reading.
Finally, if you have understood this point and looking at the linkage instead of the difference, it all comes down to element play.
