It's ALL Element Play

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.

Does Water Equal to Money in Feng Shui?

Many dream of owning a piece of property facing the unobstructed sea view in front of their home 无敌海景 . For some it is the ultimate symbol of finally making it to the top of the rat race. But having sea front property, is it all equal or all the same?

The crucial factor is what is on the opposite of the view. If you have a seafront property, and in front there is absolutely nothing but the sea and an open horizon, then actually the open sea from Feng Shui principle is counter productive. Qi of the area cannot be retain and therefore on the major setup has Qi dissipating quality. Much will be lost in 12 years or less.

It would NOT be useful, if you make it all the way to the top and bought a house that can possibly make you lose it all in 12 years!

When prospective client call me sometimes they would like to ask me over the phone, what do you think about hill in that area, the lake, the mountain etc. This is because in most cases they think the area will have a big impact on their Feng Shui when they plan to buy an apartment or a house in a housing estate - MACRO Feng Shui. MOST of the time you do not have a choice, partly because home owner choices are determined by their budget.

But when you think about it in MACRO way and logically, if the area has 200 multi-millionaires staying together, would the area have bad Macro Feng Shui for creating financial problems for people staying in the area. It wouldn't. Why? Because these 200 people would have really strong 10 years luck to be able to 1. Afford the property in the area 2. Able to sustain living in the area.

The biggest problem is, knowing that area has good MACRO Feng Shui, would we be able to afford a home in that particular spot? So for Macro Feng Shui, you don't need to ask a Feng Shui Master. Just drive around your state or province and you can quickly learn about properous natural macro feng shui setup. Just follow the money trail....

Since this article is about sea front property. As I stroll around the neighbourhood this morning, suddenly inspiration came for me to blog about the Feng Shui of this particular row of sea front bungalow.

Sea front or water front, first and foremost criteria is that we have to observe whether the formation have sentimental formation 有情水 or unsentimental formation 无情水. If sea front then we have to look at whether what is opposite to your direct view of the sea. Is it open horizon? If hills and mountain, is it far away or near? These are the basic criteria to observe, of course there are other secondary ones to look out for, but for the sake of this post we will start with these 2 criteria.

These particular sea view bungalows are located at Seri Tanjung Pinang, Penang. Commonly known as Straits Quay area. The latest listing I have checked online is RM15,000,000 for 1 unit (about USD 4.3 million). http://www.propertyguru.com.my/penang/tanjung-tokong/bungalow-for-sale?property_type=B

The sea formation in front is quite sentimental, slow sea water - largely because it is situated on the NorthEast of Penang Island, and opposite the island is a curve formation of mainland.

This is the panoramic view that I have manage to capture. The right hand side facing the sea is actually where the sea view bungalows are located. Center of the photo is actually the 90' to the left and to the right from where I stood. When you are standing from the bungalow and looking towards the sea, you can see hills and mountains on the opposite side. There is no open horizon, all the qi are retained in the nice curve if we look at the satellite image above.

Each section of the front is captured.

Directly opposite these bungalows on the other side.

From left to right, the whole area qi is retained and protected. Definitely a good sentimental formation. And it ought to be if you are paying RM15 mil per house!.

Then the next question would be, if I stay in these type of house, would I be even more prosperous? Answer would be: It depends. If your chart can take massive amount of a particular type of element, and this setup happens to provide you what you need, then DEFINITELY it is a worthy buy. In the olden days, they have a phrase - if a particular Feng Shui setup is really 1 in a million that suits you, then even if you have to pawn off everything up including your underwear, then you must get it. 

HOWEVER, if your destiny cannot take this particular setup of Qi, staying in it for even 12 months would be disastrous!

This is just the Macro side of Feng Shui, then whether the owner has maximize the qi setup inside the property would account for 60% of the overall Feng Shui quality of the house and its effect on those people living in it.

With the above information, I think you can safely know the answer to whether water equals to money in Feng Shui. This is the last article for 2014. Wish everyone have big aspirations for being able to find and live in superior Feng Shui setup in 2015 and beyond. 

Until then...Have a phenomenal year ahead!

Rapid Face Reading - 带眼识人

Straight Line between the eyebrow, what does it mean for a person to have this feature on their face? 
It means the person has self will, once their mind is made up, nothing can change their stance. On the negative side, it means that they are quite stubborn in their views. Usually lines on the forehead will only start to develop when you are in early 20s or beyond.

Then what does it mean if you see it on teenagers or children?
It means that in their process of growing up, their communication has been suppressed by their parents (especially father). It could also mean that they have not received much encouragement from their father in their early years when their character are starting to form.


I will be launching on 2015

Rapid Children Face Reading Program - How to read and understand your child to guide them maximizing their potential

Rapid Executive Face Reading Program - How to Read, Communicate and Influence the people you meet in business.

Rapid Face Reading Program System - Module Face Reading Study for Serious Practitioners

Too often face reading programs do not teach how to communicate with people who have certain facial traits. Coming from a behavioural coach background, my program will tackle exactly this crucial issue - know how to exactly communicate in the way others prefer to get results. #rapidfacereading

100% Feng Shui House ?

Clients and friends often asked me "Is there any possible way to build a house that is 100% perfect in Feng Shui for me?"

The limitation of Feng Shui is not in its principles and system, the limitation is on the person's Bazi who is going to live in that particular house.

When I am auditing a house, I have been trained to think of myself with my client's Bazi, where would I place my bed, the kitchen, the best water exits and how to harness the Qi to best increase the type of Bazi that my client have. With this 2nd and 3rd person perspective, I will then select the BEST possible location for all the arrangement in the house.

And from experience, some of the clients will ask whether they can for example, place this bed on another corner, at another room. Even after much insistence on my part for it to be on the suggested location, they still ask me to think of some other ways to remedy where they plan to sleep, work etc.

They would have the idea that if the alternative location is possible, then maybe there are more alternatives that I have not think of - trying to ask for more possible location. When I inspect, audit and suggest, it is always only the BEST. Any further alternatives are just discounted options.

When a person have been given the best, but choose to locate their arrangements according to alternatives, how can a person achieve 100% Feng Shui?

Let's say we have a ready build up house with no major FS mistakes.
Bazi of the person staying the house would discount further - even if they decide to follow all advice to the dot would be 85%
If they decide to go with alternative another discount would be 70% or less effectiveness.
If they decide to only follow partial advice the whole setup would take another discount amounting to 60% or less effectiveness.

The limitation is not in the FS system but on the person's Bazi staying in a house.

生基 Sheng Ji - Live Burial or Buried Alive?

Recently in Malaysia, there is more and more onslaught of promotions for buying up your burial land and do a 'live burial' for yourself. Like what they say in the stock market, when you hear that even the radio are promoting it, then it is sure that this knowledge has hit the mainstream.

I have several clients messaging me, what'sapp me asking me to explain to their friends because their friends know that they have a long term Feng Shui consultant. And what is usually they want to know? Is it true?

First we need to be clear about Sheng Ji 生基. What is it ?

In traditional sense, Sheng Ji - means that a person who is alive have determined and bought up a piece of land that is for their future burial ground. The Feng Shui of the tomb and tombstone would also be done up with their name and all the necessary orientation of the burial hole and coffin setup is done in advance. Then we can officially conclude that the person has done up his/her Sheng Ji 生基.

All this is plan and constructed with the help of a qualified Feng Shui consultant. If it is just buying a burial land to prepare for future use, that is not considered as Sheng Ji, that is just called prepared in advance!

Let me explain the scenario of what is happening now....

The recent craze in Malaysia for Sheng Ji is much due to the 'Up Yours' mentality of amateurs who are doing Feng Shui in Malaysia. When a 'half pail' (half pail means they don't know what they are doing) they do Feng Shui for their clients, the clients doesn't see much effect. Then the client asked 'What else can you do?' 

Then they try to do something more fancy, maybe do I- Ching Oracle, then that failed too, the client asked again ' What else can you do?' Then they figure they must do a Date Selection for client to start their client business registration date. When the client's business failed, then the client asked ' What else can you do?' They search high and low and finally ' Aha ' I can do your ' Sheng Ji '! (since the client is on the way down anyway, might as well do his tomb !)

So we have 1 Feng Shui 'half pail'  doing it. Another person also having a 'half pail' consultant will ask whether his consultant can do Sheng Ji for him, and so the trend started with each half pail competing with another to 'Up Yours in their skills description'. Pretty soon, the whole market is flooded with people who wants to bury you before your are dead!

And now they have actually moved beyond Sheng Ji, they have actually promoting people to do 養基 Yang Ji.

What is 養基 Yang Ji ?

Yang Ji means you have already done up your Sheng Ji, then you go further by placing your DNA on the burial site. This is to harness the Qi in advance. DNA here means strands of your hair, fingernail, toenail, body hair and also drops of your blood buried in the Sheng Ji. Hence it is called 養基 Yang Ji - means to cultivate your tomb @ harnessing the qi of your tomb. Sheng Ji is indirect, Yang Ji is direct harness.

And they claimed it will help you in your luck, destiny, broken marriage, hiring helpful staffs, almost everything that is beneficial under the sun and moon. And most of the marketing that I have read recently, are promoting Yang Ji.

Questions 

1. Does 養基 Yang Ji works?

Yes it does work PROVIDED---
A. You have hired they consultant that knows what they are doing. Unfortunately not many in the field would know how to do it correctly.
B. How to know they are qualified Yin Feng Shui consultant? For my lineage, the person have to do Yin Feng Shui for their grandparents or parents before they are allowed to do Yin Feng Shui for others. And it must be burial type Feng Shui. Reason being, if a Feng Shui disciple have done their own ancestors Yin Feng Shui wrong, then they would not be able to survive to do it for others!

2. What is the purpose of Yang Ji?

The purpose is to help a person with terminal illness to extend their life, that is the main reason for a person to consider doing it. 

3. Is there any side effects Yang Ji is done wrongly?

When a NORMAL Yin Feng Shui is done wrongly, the whole direct descendant would be affected through the course of time. Effect such as health, broken marriage and financial problem.

If a Yang Ji is done wrongly, the person will immediately feel its effect and in some worst case, even terminate their life earlier. Because harnessing the wrong Qi can be detrimental especially when a person is down on their luck.

4. Do you know how to do Sheng Ji and Yang Ji?

My Feng Shui specialization is doing Yin Feng Shui. I have done many Sheng Ji for clients, but for Yang Ji, usually clients find it more cost effective to ask me to help them in their Yang Feng Shui.

Which brings me to highlight few important point. If you are after a better financial position, improve relationships or marriage, attracting more suitable staffs/workers - Yang Feng Shui (normal Feng Shui) from a qualified Feng Shui consultant, can help you achieve those results without the catastrophic harmful side effects if it does go wrong.

Sheng Ji is necessary as it is part of planning for future. Because you do not want your loved ones to be in a panic state of finding you a proper resting place when you have passed on. The event of dealing with your death will already be stressful enough for most family members.

If you are not having a terminal illness, why they heck would you be even considering Yang Ji 養基 ?

If you are down with your luck, down in your finance - if you are down in these 2 factors, it is almost impossible to even find a suitable Sheng Ji 生基 plot. Don't even think about Yang Ji, as the only Yang Ji you will be doing is the one that is really going to bury you alive for good!

My final word of advice, get a qualified Feng Shui consultant to do your house and business Feng Shui. And when you really can afford it, plan ahead and do a Sheng Ji. In desperate times, avoid touching Yin Feng Shui unless there is really a wrong burial done for deceased family and the family experiences continuos problems after the burial.

TRAVEL FENG SHUI - Chiang Mai City 2

In our family trip to Chiang Mai city, we stayed at the Holiday Inn Hotel. We are happy with our stay and even glad that we had a chance to communicate with the hotel General Manager who is also a Penangite.

While my stay in Holiday Inn had been brief and also most of the time we are out on excursion and shopping. Even with such schedule,I still managed to have a brief analysis of the hotel Feng Shui.

On the left wall of the front facade

 The hotel from the information that I have gathered, is more busy now compared to previously. And some attribute it to some changes in the interior that was done in the hotel. The most obvious is the standing Lord Ganesha statue that is facing the main doors of the hotel.

Some of the readers will now have questions in mind, what does Lord Ganesha has to do with Feng Shui?


Allow me to explain this case study. The hotel has 2 main doors in the front, on the left and right.

 

The hotel front facade faces almost North. Thereby one of the main door is facing directly NORTH while the other is more of a NORTHEAST.

By having Lord Ganesha, in the center hall of the hotel, actually it has strengthened one of the door to be considered as main intake of Qi. And it happens that this main door where Lord Ganesha statue is facing is the NORTHERN door.

View from behind Lord Ganesha statue, looking at pic you can see the other entrance on the right.

 Hotel industry belongs to element of Metal and Water industry. Before the installation of Lord Ganesha, the hotel had equal intake of Qi from 2 main doors which is a mix Qi, after the installation, the primary Qi intake has been established on the Northern door. Whereby creates more traffic flow and business for the hotel.

Some who like to study Feng Shui theories and in constant search for Feng Shui complex formulas will be thinking " WHAT ?! That's it?, no need check the Flying Star 飛星, Water Exits 出水位, Landforms 地形, Xuan Gong Da Gua 玄空大卦?"

Knowing when to apply what is the most crucial skill as a Feng Shui practitioner. Being able to find the most effective leverage point to influence a Feng Shui setup is called a Skillful Feng Shui practitioner.

Of course more can be done for the hotel in terms of its location and interior.

Nevertheless they have correctly installed the beautiful Lord Ganesha together with 4 other elephant statues in their main hall from a Feng Shui perspective.

Paul Walker - Fast and Furious BaZi?

As a fan of Fast and Furious Series. News of his death came as a shock. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/paul-walker-dies-crash-report-article-1.1533786

Normally I do not analyze Hollywood members BaZi, but I have decided to have a glance at his BaZi to find if there is any hints of it happening. Dying at the age of 40 at what can be said as the height of his career is really tragic.

Born 1973, September 12 his BaZi chart is below (time unknown)

 Even without confirmed time, we can deduce that he has a STRONG METAL 強辛金命 chart. Best fit time would be 11am - 1pm base on his bio. Strong Metal using Water and Fire Element. Some may argue why FIRE, as Xin Metal 辛 is yin metal and fire is usually not suitable. Actually not the case, from Qi perspective, you will only be able to use what is available and given. Preference only comes when there is a choice.

 His rise to fame agreed by many was in 1999 Varsity Blues. http://www.biography.com/people/paul-walker-21044993?page=1 

Paul in Varsity Blues. Photo from fanpop.com

1999 the year itself is 己卯 within the major luck of 戊午 (1995 - 2005).  Combo of Major luck stem with his Year Pillar, form Fire propelling him to movies and out of from TV series. Wood appearing brings more money opportunities. The combo of major luck period of 1995 - 2005 with year pillar, is transformation fire. No doubt FIRE is a strong driving force for his career.

2001 release of F&F 1, paves the highway for his career in Hollywood with strong 午 Fire branch influence from major luck period.

His luck period change in 2005 to 丁巳 (2005-2015). His rise to fame was already set through 3 F&F movies (F&F 3 was released in 2006 丙戌 Bing Xu year － strong Fire year). However from 2010 onwards, the shift of Qi in his chart has slowly change from 丁 Fire Stem influence to Si 巳 Branch Fire influence.

Si 巳 Branch originally Fire Qi, meets with half Frame of metal elements in his year and month pillar 酉 You Metal in Month and 丑 Chou Earth. Together these element solidify into a Strong Metal Frame.  This year 2013 癸巳， again the branch of Si 巳 appeared and further double up the metal influence in his chart. As a Strong Metal person, gathering of more Metal Qi in his chart is not good news.

CLASH of Traveling Star

巳 Branch is considered a Traveling Star located in his 丁巳 Major Luck Period and also 2013 癸巳Stem and Branches, Hai 亥 Branch in his DAY Pillar also a Traveling Star. Hai 亥 and Si 巳 meet is considered a clash of traveling star.

2013 November Month Pillar is 癸亥. Therefore 2 sets of clash happening simultaneously in his chart. His current major luck period 丁巳, the stem also clash with Self YEAR PILLAR 癸丑 and 2013 癸巳.

With so many clashes occurring in his chart, for this year and month - incidents will definitely happen. Clash of Traveling Star also indicate vehicle accidents. Water and Fire clash 癸丁 indicate explosion. The car he was in not only crash but went up in flames as well.

Can it be avoided? Well no point of discussing that, when the event has already happened. But his end was not written in definite terms on his destiny chart because GUI 癸 Water is still available and have not totally terminated from the chart.

He definitely will be missed in future Fast and Furious Series. May he forever Rest in Peace...