Lunar 7th Month Taboo #04 - No Major Events

During this lunar 7th Month, avoid moving into new homes and opening new businesses this month.

Why? It is being considered inauspicious and it brings bad luck to new ventures.

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Lunar 7th Month Taboo #03 - Offerings

During this month, you have to take note of the following when making offering:

1. Do not step, kick or make stupid comments on prayer offerings

2. Do not intentionally step or kick burnt ash (leftover from burning offerings)

3. If you are doing offerings downstairs, don't look back when done.

 

4. Do make sure you are doing the offering outside your house and not inside

 

5. Do not take any offerings from altar table

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Lunar 7th Month Taboo #02 - No Swimming

DO NOT Go Swimming in this month!

The water spirits had been released and they will roam in any places with water in it. Hence, it is wise not to go swimming during this 7th month.

BUT isn't it dangerous for those swimmers that are participating in the YOG this year which has swimming competition in this month?

Believe it or not, it's up to you!

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Lunar 7th Month Taboo #01

Just to share some of the Do's and Don'ts during the lunar 7th month, just in case you don't know, the ghost month will start now

Taboo #01 - No Marriage during this month

Avoid getting married during this month because couples will have bad ending. Some bad ghost may cast a bad spell on couples during their wedding.

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How Chinese Ghost Festival Comes Along?

You might be wondering why i am blogging about Chinese Ghost Festival, as my title indicate fengshui savvy. There is a connection between these 2 as they are both Chinese Culture and traditions which has passed down from generations to generations. This is the reason that i am sharing throughout the whole month on the Do's and Don'ts (Taboos) for this special month. Do stay tuned.


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What is this Ghost Festival?

The Ghost Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday celebrated on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. A solemn holiday, the Ghost Festival represents the connections between the living and the dead, earth and heaven, body and soul.

The entire seventh month of the Chinese calendar is called the Ghost Month, a month in which ghosts and spirits are believed to emerge out from the lower world to visit earth.

What are the activities during the month?

They include preparing ritual offerings of food, and burning ghost money (or paper money) to please the visiting ghosts and spirits as well as deities and ancestors. Other activities include burying and releasing miniature paper boats and lanterns on water, which signifies "giving directions to the lost ghosts."

You can also see various forms of tentage set up in open fields during this period, for the Chinese also believe in entertaining the spirits with boisterous live wayang and getai performances not only depicting tales of the divine gods and goddesses, but also bawdy stand-up comedy with a local twang, song and dance numbers in the various Chinese dialects and even sensually acrobatic pole dancing by felinely lithe spandex clad dancers.

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FS Home Tip #07: Keep Main Door Free Of Footwear

It is best not to have any shoes or slippers lying around outside the main door of your house. You should remove it if you can.

You should allow that space at the main door to be free and clear.

Why? -The Chi (energy) rides with the wind and will collect all the smell of those shoes and slippers into your house causing sickness.
Chi then travels about in your house looking for water to stay but if there are no water fountains or fish tanks, then the Chi will be dispersed by wind.

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FS Home Tip #06: Main Door Facing Staircase

A question, "If the front door opens into the foyer in front of a staircase, it creates massive amounts of negative energy and this is bad feng shui. Is this true or false? Mostly True.

The main door is being known as "The Mouth of Chi" in feng shui, as this is how the house absorbs its much needed Chi, or energy nourishment.

What happens when a staircase is facing the main door directly?

In this situation, Staircases can cause the chi to rush through the front door and upstairs depriving the first floor of positive chi.

NO NO for placement of Staircases

- Don’t place a staircase directly across from front door entrance.
- Don’t make staircase cramped and narrow
- Don’t place a bedroom door that opens directly into a staircase.
- Don’t use a spiral staircase because it cause energy to twist and rush upward and create negative chi.

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FS Home Tips #05: House @ T-Junction

In the world of Feng Shui, it is the best that you don't need to implement cures to fix things, therefore the objective here is to get a property that is good to start with.

With that in mind, living at the end of a t-intersection is a NO because it can cause harm to health, finances and relationships due to the concentrated flow of chi pointing directly at the house. Just imagine and you can visualize cars hitting straight into your house and that is bad for the occupiers.

Adding fencing, walls or strategically planted trees or a fountain can help dissipate some of the forceful chi coming  from the t-intersection.

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FS Home Tips #04: Bedroom Fengshui

Just to share on an article i stumple upon while surfing the internet. I believe this will really help someone who is having problem, trying to figure how to position their bed. Article is extracted from Master Soon website.

1. Financial Set Back Bed Room

Normally, the bed room is located at the back of a house for enjoyment of privacy; whereas the living room is at the front part of the house. However, the new and contemporary condo design has bed room at the front part and near to the main door with the living room at the back of the condo unit. This exposes the bed room. In feng shui this is called as “Financial Set Back House”. This kind of house may give financial problem to its occupants.


2. Sexual Affair Bed Room

If the door of the bed room is facing directly to the main door, this would cause problematic affair to the occupant. Confrontation of main door with the door of the bed room means the qi from outside is flowing directly into the bed room which represents personal life easily. Direct qi interaction between main opening (main door) and inner opening (bed room door) reflects intimacy relationship is highly possible.

3. High Sexual Desire Bed Location

Locating your bed at the entrance of the bed room or facing the door of the bed room exposes the bed easily to outsider. Door in feng shui is seen as an opening to outside world. This exposure means the occupant has high sexual desire and opens his arm to welcome romance.

4. Sickness – Bed Room Door Confronting Toilet

Bathrooms or toilets have long been associated with negative Qi. If your bedroom door faces a toilet door (see picture below), negative Qi will flow from the bathroom to your bedroom. A prolonged period of time staying in such ber room would definitely cause health deterioration.

5. Unstable Emotion – Bed room door Confronting Kitchen Door

Kitchen is link to fire element in feng shui. A bed room door which faces directly to the kitchen entrance would cause emotional imbalance to the occupant. This would gradually become worse if the bed room door is confronting the stove directly and visibly.

6. Career Disadvantage – Bed without Solid Bed Head Support

It is very important that your bed is placed against a solid wall. The solid wall symbolizes your career and your life foundation.

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FS Home Tip #04: Where Is Your Toilet?

If seeking for a house, one of the most important things to take note is the location of the toilet. Why?

It is because toilets means Filth which leads to Negative Chi.

Therefore, there're 6 things you should pay attention to:





1. Your toilet should be well-ventilated so that negative Chi gets dispersed.

2. Your toilet should be kept clean and neat so that there's less negative Chi in the first place.

3. Your toilet should not face the front door directly.

4. Your toilet should not be located in an auspicious sector.

5. Your toilet should not face the stove directly.

6. Your toilet should not face your bedroom directly.

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Face Reading #01 - Pointed Chin

Do you have this kind of chin? If yes, does the description really match you?

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FS Home Tip #03: Don't Overcrowd And No Clutter

Another important aspect element in promoting good feng shui is avoiding overcrowding.
When you have too much “stuff” in your environment, energy does not flow easily. It is better to have less in a room so the ch’i can move comfortably. You should feel relaxed and secure in every room of the house.

Speaking of every room in the house, every room in your home should be used.If much of the house is
not used, you can feel when rooms are not used. They hold dead energy. It is very important to use every room in order to circulate the energy to all parts of the house. If a room holds dead energy, that room exerts a bad influence on the rest of the house and can cause illness to the people who live there.

In addtional, remove all clutter and make sure that your home is clean and tidy.

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FS Home Tip #02: Replace or Repair Broken Items In Your Home

Everything in your home should be in working order. If you have a broken chair, replace it or get it fixed immediately. If you have chips on some of your dishes, get rid of them. Just have to make sure everything is in working condition


It is not good feng shui to have chipped dishes, or anything in the kitchen that is not working. Replace anything in the home that is not working properly, especially burned out light bulbs, leaky sinks, and broken or cracked windows and doors. Everything should be in proper working order, or your resources will drain away.

The computer you work on daily should not have cords going in every which
direction. Use a large funnel cord to put all the small cords in
so they look neat and tidy.

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FS Home Tip #01: Your Front Door Should Encourage Good Chi

1. An attractive entrance to your home or office will encourage good ch’i, or energy, to enter. If you can arrange your front door so that it faces your overall harmony or great prosperity direction, it will help bring in wealth, love and happiness. As all energy enters through your front door, it is important to keep things away from the door so the door will be free to open without problems.

2. Make sure your front door is not broken, and opens smoothly. A broken door or one that is hard to enter is the worst kind of energy to start with. Your door size should not be too large or too small relative to the size of the house. If the western world had practiced feng shui from the beginning, we could have avoided much of the trouble we have today in our personal lives as well as in our work or business.

3.The size of the door should be well balanced to the dwelling, not too small or oversized in proportion to the rest of the house. Too narrow an entrance stifles the flow of good ch’i entering the house, and you will have to invest more time, money and energy to achieve your goals if you live in a house with a small entrance.

4. Well-situated front doors are wide and lead into a foyer that open to other rooms in the house. The foyer acts as a buffer to slow the fast flowing energy as it enters your home. The front door should never open directly into the living room without some kind of buffer to slow the energy. If you have no choice put an attractive three-fold screen a few feet from the entrance with a healthy green plant in front of the screen. The
screen slows the good ch’i energy so that it can flow softly around the screen.

5. The first things you or visitors see when entering your home set the mood for the rest of the stay. Clutter should not be allowed to accumulate anywhere, but the entrance is a particularly bad place for untidiness. People have a tendency to put things at the door as a reminder to get rid of the things with good intentions of taking them away. But have you noticed even with yourself you leave it there, because you are in a hurry and will do that later. Later, turns into days later. This is bad for the subconscious mind. It is there when you arrive back home and due to the rush it continues to stay there. If you want good feng shui in the home taking
this stuff away should be first on your priority list.

6. The entrance should be well lit and airy. The best shape for a door is oval or square at the top. Solid wood doors are better than glass doors. The entrance should not have sharp angles from other buildings pointing toward the door. You can place a mirrored PaKua to deflect some of the negative energy from entering your home.

7. You can also hang wood or metal wind chimes to help deflect the energy. Remember, the chimes must be hollow to be effective and the PaKua must be placed on the outside of the house. It is unlucky to have a mirrored PaKua inside of your home.

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The Principles Of Yin Yang

Can there be male and no female? Can there be left and no right? Can there

be hot and no cold? How about day and no night, or anger and no happiness?

Of course not.

Although each is a counterpart of the other, each is dependent on the other’s existence. Separate but together, yin and yang illustrate the evolution of all things.

The concept of yin and yang is the first principle of feng shui. Initially yin and yang meant the shady (yin) and sunny (yang) sides of a hill, an idea ascribed toZhou ancestor Gong Liu when he set about selecting an auspicious site for his people. However, some five centuries later during the mid to late Zhou dynasty (c. 770–481 B.C.E.), yin and yang came to symbolize the two primal forces of qi.

Yin was classified as the female principle of nature, and thus, was regarded as passive and weak. Yang was classified as the male principle of nature and was regarded as active and strong.

Yin: The Feminine Side
Yin is expressed as the stable matter of earth. It contracts and condenses. Yin represents the passive principle in nature exhibited as darkness, cold, and wetness. On a human level, yin symbolizes femininity and inertia.

Yang: The Masculine Side
Yang is expressed as heaven force. Yang expands. It represents the active principle in nature exhibited as light, heat, and dryness. On a human level, yang represents masculinity and the positive side of our emotions. Yang represents the land of the living; yin the realm of the dead.

The Symbol of Taiji—Opposites Do Attract
The taiji symbol illustrates the eternal interaction between yin and yang. Like two sides of a coin, yin can never separate from yang. Together, yin and yang represent the law of nature: perpetual and unceasing change. Time
changes, seasons change, qi changes, your environment changes, and you change. Indeed, the universe, and everything in it, oscillates from birth
to death in a beautiful dance of intertwining and interconnected energy.

The “S”-like curve separating/connecting yin and yang illustrates that nothing is complete, fixed, or absolute. In other words, life isn’t defined by rigid black and white thinking, but rather varying shades of gray. In yin there is the seed of yang, a white tone. In yang there is a seed of yin, a black tone. In the clearest sky you’ll find a cloud; in the darkest night you’ll find a star. On your happiest day, there is a hint of sadness; on your saddest day, there is hope.

Despite how complicated the universe may seem, everything is subject to the laws of yin and yang. Finding a balance between the two is primary to feng shui.

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Feng Shui Mirror: Bagua 八卦

Feng Shui Mirrors : What is the Bagua 八卦?

In most practices, Feng Shui practitioners use Feng Shui mirrors to improve the Feng Shui of your house or your business. The mirrors emit the Feng Shui energy of water. A function of Feng Shui mirrors is to draw the beneficial flow of energy (Qi) into the place it is positioned at.



Generally, the mirrors can be used to expand the space of an area, to reflect and deflect the Qi of an area. There are 3 areas of Feng Shui mirrors which it can utilised listed below:
The functions are as followed, to expand, reflect, and deflect the flow of Qi in an area. When used in the appropriate manner, the Feng Shui mirrors will improve the flow of Qi in that area. However, Take note here,  improper placement of Feng Shui mirrors will cause things to worsen.

Listed below is a brief explanation on the 3 types of uses of the Feng Shui mirrors.

Expansion

In this case, the use of a mirror is to create virtual space to adjust your focal view of an area. In the study of Feng Shui, the mirror provides us with a new in-depth view of ourselves as it opens up a virtual view on an otherwise plain surface. The mirror can also create a virtual view of an area, and can “expand” the space of the area.

In Feng Shui, a small space represents limitation. Small spaces will limit the flow of Qi in the area, eventually limiting our movement and advancement in life. Thereby, a mirror is often used to virtually expand a small space.

Reflection

When a Feng Shui mirror reflects an object, it does not only reflect the image of the object, but also the energy the object is emitting. Thereby, it doubles the effect of the energy the object is emitting. For example, if the mirror shows the reflection of a pile of unpaid bills, it will mean that in time to come, there will be more unpaid bills piling up, increasing your debts. On the other hand, if the reflection shows a reflection of a kitchen stove, it symbolizes that your wealth will be doubled as fire stoves symbolize wealth. You can also put reflection of fruits and food which mean an abundance of food, you will never go hungry.

Deflection

Feng Shui mirrors can be used to deflect the negative energy (Sha Qi) away from your house or business. The mechanism behind this is that it will deflect the Sha Qi back to its source, preventing it from entering the house. Bagua mirrors are used to deflect Sha Qi.

If your intention is to deflect Sha Qi, the Bagua mirror should be placed outside your house. It is common to see people hanging a Bagua mirror outside their homes. Other than deflecting Sha Qi, the Bagua mirror also brings harmony and good fortune to the owner. For this purpose, you can place the Bagua mirror in your home, preferably in your living room.

With proper usage, Feng Shui mirrors can improve the flow of Qi, allowing you to enjoy a better quality of life. Now that we know the uses of the Feng Shui and Bagua mirror, you can make use of these mirrors to ward off bad luck and improve the quality of your life.

Hope this post help you have a better understanding of what actually is Ba Gua.

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The Magic Gourd

Picture: Courtesy of thenativeamericantaoist.com

The Magic Gourd commonly known as the calabash or Hu Lu is an ancient health miracle wonder. The hisotry of this dried out gourd is that it was used by the Chinese as container for medicine and wines for a long time.

What actually is it?

The calabash or bottle gourd is a vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable or harvested mature, dried, and used as a bottle, utensil, or pipe. For this reason, one of the calabash subspecies is known as the bottle gourd. The fresh fruit has a light green smooth skin and a white flesh. However the rounder varieties are called Calabash gourds whereas the longer and slimmer kinds are usually well known as bottle gourds

What is it used for in Fengshui Remedies?

Calabash (Hu Lu),葫芦 is an ancient classical Feng Shui remedy against sickness energy. The calabash symbolises the image of Dui trigram which is yin metal from heaven.

Sickness energy in the flying stars feng shui formula has the attribute of earth element. The calabash being yin metal will weaken and contain the sickness energy, hence providing health for you and your family.

When place next to your bed or in the house, the calabash will absorb the sickness energy and protect you and your family from sickness. For people with illness, the calabash may not cure the sickness but it will definitely reduce suffering and the seriousness.

Today, there are many miniature metallic calabash available in feng shui shops. However, the best calabash (Wu Lo) is the natural one because of the woody material. Wood will keep the contained earth energy under control.

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What Is Fengshui?

What is Feng Shui?

This can be a very simple question but difficult to answer. Feng Shui is an ancient art and science developed over 3,000 years ago in China. It is a complex body of knowledge that reveals how to balance the energies of any given space to assure the health and good fortune for people inhabiting it.

Feng means wind and shui means water. In Chinese culture wind and water are associated with good health, thus good feng shui came to mean good fortune, while bad feng shui means bad luck, or misfortune.

Feng Shui is based on the Taoist vision and understanding of nature, particularly on the idea that the land is alive and filled with Chi, or energy. The ancient Chinese believed that the land's energy could either make or break the kingdom, so to speak. The theories of yin and yang, as well as the five feng shui elements, are some of the basic aspects of a feng shui analysis that come from Taoism.

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