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Using Feng Shui to Shape Your Destiny and Luck

(This is an article that I wrote in a column for the Sun Daily newspaper).

The ancient masters believe that we are composed of a set of energies that we absorb at birth. This combo of energies is usually not balanced and it determines the strength and weakness of our destiny and luck.

The Significance of a House Facing Direction
The Significance of a House Facing Direction

In Chinese metaphysics, every direction is associated with an energy type. For example north is water, south is fire, east is wood and so on.

The facing direction of a house is the side that brings in most of the enviromental energy. One of the most effective way to influence our destiny and luck is by living in a house with a facing direction that is beneficial to you. For example if you lack fire, then it is good to live in a house that face south (the direction of fire).

From a birth chart a Feng Shui master can tell you which facing directions are and how they are beneficial to you.

For me, the starting point in using Feng Shui to improve your destiny and luck is to select a house with a facing direction that is good for you.

The facing direction is also very important as it is also helps to determine the quality of the house. For example some houses are beneficial to career and wealth, others to good health and relationships, yet others for both and so on.

So, for example, if you are a young person aiming for a successful career, then you would want to live in a house that has a beneficial facing direction that is also good for career and wealth luck.

The facing direction of a house also determines the auspicious and inauspicious sectors within. We would want the places where we use the most such as the main door, kitchen, bedroom and so on to the in the auspicious sectors so that we are influence positively by the auspicious energy.

The auspicious energy within can be further upgraded or downgraded with the right external land form or man-made features. For example, the health and relationship quality of your bedroom in an auspicious sector of the house is enhanced if there is a hill outside. Or the career and wealth quality of your house is enhanced if there is your main door faces a lake or a river.

Certain natural land form and man-made structures such a rocky hillside or high tension pylon generate “sha” or killing energy. If they are located very near the house, these “sha” can degrade the positive energy with the affected sectors in the house, making auspicious energy within, inauspicious.

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To summarize, the first step is to select a house with a facing direction that is good for you and supports your endeavors. Next utilize the auspicious sectors within and strive to have the correct supporting land form nearby. Finally ensure that there are no “sha” generating land form and man made structures in the vicinity.

It is not an easy task!

Is our Destiny Cast in Stone?

(This is an article that I wrote in a column for the Sun Daily newspaper).

In the last article we touch on destiny and luck and how they are determined at birth. Though your fate potential is predefine or destined, the outcome can to a certain extent be modified by free will and by other factors.

Our Destiny
Our Destiny

Take the number of children for example. Your birth chart may say that you have as many as five children. However you live in the city and decide that it is too expensive to raise five children. So you stop at two. This is free will at work. In you live in China, legislation such as the one child policy can further limit you to one child only.

On the other hand, if you live in a place where there is no need to limit the number of children, then you are likely to achieve your potential of having many children.

What then is the difference between destiny and luck?

Destiny is like your fate potential. For example from a birth chart we can determine if you are more likely to achieve success in your career working for others or in your own business. Or is it better for you to stay in your place of birth or seek your fortunes in a far way land.

While destiny indicate your potential, luck gives the timing. For example if your chart says that career luck is strong between 40 and 50, then this is the period that you are likely to achive great career success.

In Chinese astrology, we believe that success comes easier if we take the path that we have potential for and take action at the right time. It is swimming downstream instead of upstream and jumping in when you do not see any crocodiles.

For example if the birth chart indicate that you have strong career luck and and it is in a career that has something to do with the mouth or throat. Then you will likely achieve greater or more easily achieve success if you pursue a career in dentistry, or medicine specializing in the ear, nose and throat, teaching or public speaking or in singing especially so if you also have a good voice.

Ba Zi Chart
Ba Zi Chart

Another example. Lets say that your chart indicate that your wealth luck is strong and that you are capable of owning your own business. However your chart indicate that you have strong wealth luck after 35 years old but quite bad wealth luck between 30 and 34. In such as case you are better off starting your one business at around 35 rather than earlier. Or at least not commit large sum of money into the business before 35.

The events from a birth chart is further divided into those will happen and likely to happen. A very small percentage of events fall in the first category. Even though it will happen, we can influence the intensity. For example, at 35 years old, you visit an astrologer and he tells you that you will have a health issue at 52 that involves the heart or the eyes. Assuming that you believe him and start to take good care of your heart and eyes say by eating right, getting plenty of exercise and not strain your eyes etc, then when the health issue do hit you at 52, it is likely to be mild.

What about the events that are likely to happen? It depends on other factors e.g. free will, Feng Shui etc. For example if you really wanted to buy a house and the Feng Shui of the house that you are currently staying in “encourages” you to do so, then it will very likely happen.

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The more factors present, the more likely an event will happen. Factors include the indications in your birth charts, free will, feng shui, the presence of people with the right animal zodiac sign etc. You may of heard of instances when the career and wealth boom after marriage or having a child. This is an example of spouse and children enhancing one’s luck. Parents can be an activator too especially so if they are living with you. So please check your chart before sending them to the old folks home.

In my next article, I will write about how Feng Shui can influence your destiny and luck.

Is my Luck Cast in Stone?

To the Chinese, luck is not a matter of chance. Instead it is a measure of how well your endeavors is likely to be during a period. And it can be computed using a variety of astrology techniques. A period can be span of 10 years (also known as big luck) or a year (also known as small luck). In practice, you can drill down further to month, day and even hour luck!

Luck can be further categorized into career and wealth luck, health luck, relationship luck and the luck of travel and migration. Career luck has to do with what you do on a regular basis. For an employee it is your work, while for a housewife, it is whatever you do at home. Wealth luck has to do with money. If you are a business person, it is to do with cash flow and profitability while for an employee it usually mean savings and investments.

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Health luck is about physical and mental health while relationship luck is about relationship with your parents, sibling, spouse, children and friends. Finally travel and migration luck is self-explanatory.

If an astrologer predicts that your next decade career luck is strong, it means that your career is likely to be smooth and progressive during that period. You will likely encounter plenty of opportunities, gain promotions etc.

Or if the astrology predicts that your spouse and children luck is poor, it means that you are likely to encounter problems in your relationship with your spouse and that you have very few or no children, or have poor relationship with your child during that period.

During a luck period, events such as a promotion or child birth can be further divided into set events and unset event. Set events that those that will happen regardless while unset events are those that are likely to happen but may not. Both types of events are influence by a many factors.

For a set event the presence of these factors with intensify the event – whether good or bad. For example if the astrologer predicts that you you have good career luck next year and is a set event, it means that something good will happen in your career e.g. promotion, salary increment or simply handed a task that you have been eyeing. How great the event will turn out – for example how much of an promotion or quantum of the increment – will depend on the presence or absence of the factors mentioned above.

For unset events the presence of absence of such factors can be the difference between whether the event with take place or not. For example, the astrologer may predict that you will have a child this year and that it is an unset event. If you have decided that you do not want one and is taking action to prevent conception, then it is unlikely to happen.

Aside from human will, are there other factors that can trigger, enhance or depreciate a set or unset event? Yes, absolutely and I will touch on some of the more significant ones.

The first is Feng Shui.

The facing direction of a house is the side that lets in the most environmental energy. Each direction is associated with and energy and can enhance or depreciate some aspect of your luck. For example if a certain facing direction can increase your children luck, then living in such a house can increase your chances of having a child and turn it from may happen to will happen.

Each sector of a house is influenced by varying qi – some auspicious and other inauspicious. Again assuming that your bedroom is in an auspicious sector for wealth, then living in a bedroom is such as sector can increase your wealth luck and cause a may happen event into a will happen one.

We are influenced by the energy or qi of the people around us. The ones that stay in the same room and house will have a much stronger influence on us. In Chinese astrology, it is quite common to define energy or qi by the zodiac sign. For example say the zodiac sign Rat enhances your career luck. If you wife is a Rat, then she enhances your career luck and helps to make a may-happen event into a sure-happen event.

Another factor is the role of the people around you. For example your birth chart may say that parents will increase your wealth luck. So if your parents are still alive and living with you, you wealth luck will be enhanced.

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Yet another factor is travel or migration. If your birth chart says that travel will improve your career luck, then having a job that requires a lot of travel or working in another city or migrating to another country will help greatly.

So now you know that your life path is not cast in stone and can be enhanced by having the right factors.