ARTICLE October 2001: FORM: THE BASICS A look at Form and the effects of Land Mass, Open Space and Water in Traditional Feng Shui. [read]

CASE STUDIES MAY 2001: THE LUCKY HOUSE Why were the owners of an "unlucky house" living such prosperous lives? CASE STUDY 1 Detailed Analysis of Changing Main Doors of Use CASE STUDY 2 The Lady Without a Man CASE STUDY 3 Main Used Doors

THE 'LUCKY' HOUSE

Why were the owners of what should have been an "unlucky house" living such prosperous lives?

There is an old maxim in feng shui that says when looking at the site of a house, Mountain (ie. height) should be to the rear and Water (lower ground) to the front. But there are exceptions and in the case studies we are going to be looking at here, the very opposite is true. 'Facing mountain, sitting to water,' is how it is sometimes expressed. In fact this is the term used to describe how the Governor's Mansion in Hong Kong was built. Proof some say that feng shui was used in the design of the governor's official residence. In these two particular case studies we will see by using the 'Flying Stars School' , just how powerful the effects of land on the internal dynamics of a house can be.

In the Flying Stars School,(ie. the study of the effects of Time over Space), feng shui experts track the constantly changing influences of time on buildings. In simple words, time itself has an effect on buildings, creating recognisable seasons within the structure. The Chinese have been observing and studying these influences for a very long time and it is just these dynamics that we are going to be considering.

In the previous article 'San Yuen and the 'Flying Stars' I explained something about the basis of this school and how the dynamics of the Lo Shu grid were used to help map out the current time/space dimensional aspects at work in any given building. A brief review of this system shows that both the date of the building's construction and the direction in which it 'faces' are matched. From this a mathematical pattern is then established for the building using the same binary system that is used to help understand DNA. It is by reading this mathematical pattern that the qualified person examining the feng shui of the house is able to understand what is actually happening in the building. It is recognised by feng shui masters the world over that the 'flying star' aspects are some of the most dynamic influences in feng shui. Indeed these are frequently the most complex and take a great deal of training and experience to begin to understand.

House 1
House 2