"Forever Auspicious Feng Shui" 「三元不敗」風水

Hong Kong's famous Chinese Almanac and Feng Shui grandmaster Cai Ba Li (蔡伯勵) had passed on July 26, 2018 at the age of 96.  Cai was the region's ultra-rich and famous people's "go-to guy" for Feng Shui and date-selection consultations.  Billionaire like Li Ka-Shing was one of his clients.  He had been in the Feng Shui and Chinese Almanac publishing (通勝曆書) business for over 70 years.  Cai's annual Chinese Almanac (aka "Tung Shu") is sold over 1 million copies per year in Asia.

Cai had spent 20 years to plan and build a ancestral mansion in his China hometown. Below description is given by Cai about his mansion.

Cai's ancestral mansion

"This mansion has mountain at the back and river in the front.  There is a theory of changing period luck in Feng Shui.  It stipulates that period luck changes once every 20 years.  This mansion will use the right door as main door when 2024 arrives.  Left door will be utilized in the following luck period.  Current main door is in the middle.  Left, middle and right doors are 15 degrees away from each other.  Timing and locations have all been carefully calculated."
蔡伯勵曾說：「這裏後面有山、前面有河，風水有運氣之說，每20年一轉，2024年後便會用右邊門口，最後才用左邊門，正門在正中，左右各差15度」，「時間及方位全部都有計過」，此乃三元不敗之局。

This is the so-called "forever auspicious Feng Shui formation"  (三元不敗之局).  The secret is adjusting the main door location for each new period!

Real case study from a real grandmaster-- now you can see the importance of main door in your Feng Shui design planning.  For more info about door Feng Shui, consult this video course:

“Practical Door Feng Shui for Wealth” w/ 3 hr. video

GM Cai was active in civic activities with his own charity foundation.  He had fathered 11 children with 5 of them to continue the family business in Feng Shui and almanac publishing.

RIP GM Cai

Ken Lai

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Feng Shui: Sitting vs. Facing 山与向

When doing Feng Shui audit, the most critical part is figuring out the "facing" and "sitting" of the house because this determines the energy distribution within the property.

"Sitting" is also called "mountain" in Feng Shui terms.  This obviously implying the "back" of the house.  "Facing" is the angle measured based on the "sitting" of the house.

However, how to define "facing" and "sitting" is not this simple.  The topic remains a "hot potato" in Feng Shui circle.

Approaches to facing and sitting:

• Using door location as facing-- the opposite of door facing will be the sitting.
• Using mountain or back-support (buildings at the back) to determine facing-- door location may not be the opposite side of mountain.
• Using the "yang-est" side like big open space or ocean or the side with most street traffic as facing-- even the door may be at the back of this "facing".
• For Qi-Men-Dun-Jia Feng Shui (non-divination type)-- door location is very flexible and can be located in any trigram or palace.

For multiple storeys building with multiple tenants:

1. Using the main entrance of the building as the facing,  the opposite of door facing will be the sitting--- all the units/ apartments will use the same sitting/ facing.
2. Using the main door location of individual unit/ apartment as the facing,  the opposite of door facing will be the sitting.
3. Using the "yang-est" side (side with most windows/ balcony) of individual unit/ apartment as the facing,  the opposite side will be the sitting.
4. Combination of #1 and 3 with this rule:  For storeys 1 to X ("X" usually is 10+) storey, use rule #1 and after "Xth" storey, use rule #2.  The rationale is "Xth" below storeys will be more affected by earth energy and "Xth" above will be affected more by "heaven" or star energy. 

There are numerous arguments on which method is more "correct" using how "qi" or energy travels and moves around a house.  For example, the argument against using the yang-est side of a highrise apartment as facing:  qi must be carried by people into the apartment.  People walk through building main entrance, take the elevator and walk to their apartment door.  They do not and cannot walk into their apartment through the balcony high above ground.

I have deliberately skipped the argument on whether "facing" OR "sitting" is more important to keep this short.

Regardless of the arguments, most schools think their method is the best!  This is why if you hire Feng Shui practitioners from different schools, you may get totally opposite readings if facing/ sitting measurement methods are different.

Ken Lai

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Door Feng Shui

A Feng Shui friend sent me the following email:

My sister wants to build a new house, so it will be a P8 house.

The plot faces N2 so the Flying Star chart can meet the criteria for a "7 Star Robbery", so according to this, she should place a door/window at the South, East and NW.

According to "Castle Gate" the Qi entrance should come from NW2.

According to the San He "12 Life Stages" a NW2 Qi entrance would be either at stage 3 or 4, so it is good, but my question is if the door must be placed at NW2, but facing N2 (same bearing as the plot) or if the door should be slanted facing NW2?


My friend tries to integrate Flying Star, "7-star Robbery", "Castle Gate" and San He's "12 Life Stages" to the house design.

I think he is making things too complicated. Although he can mix as many schools and methods as he wants if he has my "Practical Door Feng Shui" course materials. He can also easily integrate XKDG and Flying Star in 30 seconds.

"Practical Door Feng Shui" also includes the "decoders" for the word-play puzzles like the "Qian mountain Qian water" gig. Someone considers this little word-game as lineage "top-secret" on other lists. It does not worth a penny if you know the answer.


P.S.:
WARNING: DO NOT use the formula listed above. There are many missing details here. Consult your teacher/ master before applying these formula.


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Top-3 Questions in Feng Shui Seminars

The followings are the top-3 questions asked by
students during my Feng Shui Seminars:

1. How to measure facing of a house/ apartment?
Depends on your teacher, it can be:
-- based on the main door
-- based on the yang side
-- based on the water side
-- based on the main gate of the building
-- based on the mountain side
...... and more fun choices!

2. How to change "heaven's heart" or Period of a
house/ apartment?
I have over ten recipes for this one, from very
expensive ones to almost free one:
-- major remodelling
-- open a hole in the roof and let the sun shine in
for over 49+ days
-- strike the center ceiling of an apartment until you
see steel bar...
-- stop cooking for a certain period of time
-- move out for at least 49 days
....... and more!

3. Do you put water in the NE side of your house?
Depends on your teacher, it could be:
-- OK to put water in NE
-- not OK to put water in NE
-- put fire, you idiot!
-- put horses, you smarty!
-- put what???

BTW, if you get good answers to these top-3 questions,
you may set up shop and drive me out of business :.)0

Ken Lai
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