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Monday, August 27, 2018

Bazhai Feng Shui Secrets

Bazhai or 8-Mansions Feng Shui is one of the oldest Feng Shui schools in China. It started around the "Spring and Autumn Warring States" period (770 to 221 BC).

The original Bazhai creators probably were the grand-daddy of positive thinking movement. They did not label negative sectors of a house as "inauspicious" but using "little auspicious 小吉", "less auspicious 玄吉" and "least auspicious 幺吉" instead.

When the Japanese ambassador requested China for Feng Shui help in around 7th century (Tang Dynasty), the Chinese emperor had ordered a rewrite of Bazhai to make sure our Japanese friends understand those not so auspicious sectors are actually bad sectors. This gives rise to modern version of Bazhai with the inauspicious sectors clearly labeled as negative-- "death 绝命", "six-killing 六煞" and "disaster 祸害".

Sample Bazhai sectors of Qian House

Basic premise of Bazhai Feng Shui is pretty simple-- matching the magnetic profile of a person to the magnetic profile of a house. There are only two magnetic profiles: east-4-group and west-4-group. An individual's magnetic profile or ming-gua is determined by his birth year whereas a house is determined by its facing and sitting direction. Good Feng Shui is when a east-4-group person lives in a east-4-group house, A Feng Shui mismatch occurs when a east-4-group person lives in a west-4-group house.

While determining the magnetic profile or ming-gua of a person is straight-forward, for the house is a big mess or merry-go-round situation, especially with the changing definition of facing in modern architecture.

To do Bazhai Feng Shui, the first step is to determine the "Fu Wei 伏位" or "stability" sector of a house. Essentially this is similar to determine the sitting and facing in other Feng Shui schools.

Below are different ways of determine the "Fu Wei 伏位" :

1. Sitting determines house profile: the opposite side of door-facing direction is the sitting direction. For example, if the door-facing of a house is SE, the sitting will be NW or Qian palace, the house is a Qian house or a west-4-group house. NW or Qian sector is "Fu Wei 伏位" or "stability" sector of the house. NW is always has the qi of NW. Hence this method is based on magnetic field
2. Main door facing determines house profile: For example, if the main door is in SE or Xun palace, the house is a Xun house or a east-4-group house. SE or Xun sector is "Fu Wei 伏位" or "stability" sector of the house. This method is based on energy or qi-flow. The main "qi-mouth" is in Xun.
3. Resident's ming-gua determines house profile: For example, the house resided by a person with Li ming-gua will be a Li or east-4-group house. The south or Li sector will be the "Fu Wei 伏位". This method is based on the theory that Feng Shui will not operate without the resident and should be people-centered.
4. The tallest sector of the house determines house profile: For example, if west side of the house is tallest, that sector will be the "Fu Wei 伏位" and he house is a Dui house. This is based on the tallest sector is the most dominant sector.

The methods listed above contain valid arguments. But which one should one use? I think it all depends on individual situation. For example, in a retail business, the main door traffic flow is important, using main door facing is likely more relevant. For residence, main door traffic is not as important as the house magnetic influence. Same arguments are also applicable to other Feng Shui methods like Flying star and the like. Consult your teacher or my "Practical Door Feng Shui" course for more inspirations.

Ken Lai

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Unfavorable House Sitting and Facing in terms of 12 Animals signs

Note: The following is an excerpt from the chapter "Choosing the sitting and facing of a house" from "Advanced Visual Form Feng Shui" video correspondence course.

There are numerous ways to choose an “ideal” sitting and facing for a house utilizing different Feng Shui methods. However, in this course we will limit the choices with some relatively easy to use methods

A. CHOOSING SITTING/FACING BASED ON ONE’S ANIMAL SIGN

Animal sign refers to the 12 Chinese zodiac animal signs based on one’s birth year. People born before Feb. 4^th are considered being born in previous year. If you do not know your Chinese animal sign, you may check the following link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_zodiac

Above diagram also shows the elemental nature of each animal and its corresponding “clashing” animal. For example, the elemental nature of mouse is water and horse is fire. Water and fire clash— so people with mouse animal sign should not choose a house with South sitting (wu or horse direction) and North facing (zi or rat direction).

UNFAVORABLE SITTING/FACING IN TERMS OF 12 ANIMAL SIGNS

SITTING	sitting	DEGREE (sitting)	FACING	Facing	DEGREE (facing)
MOUSE (ZI)	N2	352.5- 7.5	HORSE (Wu)	S2	172.5- 187.5
OX (CHOU)	NE1	22.5- 37.5	RAM (Wei)	SW1	202.5- 217.5
TIGER (YIN)	NE3	52.5- 67.5	MONKEY (Shen)	SW3	232.5- 247.5
RABBIT (MAO)	E2	82.5- 97.5	ROOSTER (You)	W2	262.5- 277.5
DRAGON (CHEN)	SE1	112.5- 127.5	DOG (Xu)	NW1	292.5- 307.5
SNAKE (SI)	SE3	142.5- 157.5	PIG (Hai)	NW3	322.5- 337.5
HORSE (WU)	S2	172.5- 187.5	MOUSE (Zi)	N2	352.5- 7.5
RAM (WEI)	SW1	202.5- 217.5	OX (Chou)	NE1	22.5- 37.5
MONKEY (SHEN)	SW3	232.5- 247.5	TIGER (Yin)	NE3	52.5- 67.5
ROOSTER (YOU)	W2	262.5- 277.5	RABBIT (Mao)	E2	82.5- 97.5
DOG (XU)	NW1	292.5- 307.5	DRAGON (Chen)	SE1	112.5- 127.5
PIG (HAI)	NW3	322.5- 337.5	SNAKE (Si)	SE3	142.5- 157.5

Above sitting and facing is called “personal ming clashing the sitting mountain”. This can be interpreted as your inborn Feng Shui “magnetic imprint” clashing to that of the sitting of a house. You should avoid choosing a sitting/facing that is identical to your own animal sign. If you do, you are likely to have limited advancement in life or simply working hard and achieving little.

There are more in-depth and detailed info on how to choose the best sitting/ facing in this chapter. For more info, please click the following link:

http://isfengshui.blogspot.com/2015/11/advanced-visual-form-feng-shui.html