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email: cuptprop@aol.com Landscape Feng Shui
Creating A Feeling Of Space Brings Excellent
Feng Shui
There are so many factors to consider when you
want to improve the feng shui of your home. In this issue, Chris Yeo discusses the
benefits of open-spaced concepts in living room design, while also investigating new ways
to apply elemental feng shui without going overboard with excessively bright colors.
Using a Period 8 Northeast 1 facing house as an example, I want to show you how to make
the best use of space within your house to strengthen the positive aspects of this very
lucky chart. The NE1 chart is lucky for several reasons. Each sector enjoys a sum-of-ten
combination between the main star numeral and the water star numeral. This auspicious
combination brings wealth luck as it involves the water star, but it must be activated.
This chart enjoys the lucky 2-5-8 parent string combination in its center sector. Some
practitioners say the parent string is more powerful than the sum-of-ten combination, but
if you can, I would advise you try to benefit from both. After all, feng shui is only
one-third of your trinity of luck, so why not try to get at least that one third of luck
in your control as good as possible. The 2-5-8 combo is an all-earth numbers combination
where the 8 dominates the unlucky 2’s and 5’s on their own.
Designing the floor plan
When you know Flying Star feng shui, you will always endeavor to position the different
rooms of the home to activate the good sectors, while suppressing the inauspicious
sectors. In this case, all the sectors of this house are auspicious because of the
sum-of-ten. However, certain sectors will be luckier than others. Also, you need to be
careful of the pesky earth stars such as the #2 illness star, the #5 misfortune star and
the #3 quarrelsome star in individual sectors, even though wealth luck from your
sum-of-ten brings money luck to the home.
The first sector to consider is the facing palace sector, which is the Northeast. The NE
sector has the water star 8, which can be considered the major wealth-bringing sector of
the house. You should not let this go to waste, so design your landscaping such that you
have a water feature in the NE sector, one that has water flowing towards (and NOT away
from) your front door. Ensure the water feature is to the left and not to the right of the
main door from the inside looking out, to prevent infidelity for the married couple living
within.
The second sector to look at is the sitting palace, which is the back of your house. The
NE1 chart reveals the lucky mountain star 8 in the SW sitting palace, which should be
activated with earth energy. Doing this will enhance relationship and health luck for the
residents. It is a good idea to locate the back door in the SW sector (i.e. in the middle
sector at the back of the house) to benefit from the luck of the sector. A door here
encourages the benevolent Chi to enter the house from the back as well.
Notice that although the kitchen is (as typical) located towards the back of the house, in
this case the floor plan has been designed so that cooking areas of the kitchen is in the
West and not the SW. If cooking is located in the SW, it would ruin the good feng shui of
the home since the auspicious mountain star 8 would have been suppressed; and then instead
of enhancing the auspicious # 8 star you would have activated the very dangerous #5 water
star instead. So remember not to ever locate a kitchen, bathroom or store room in an
“auspicious” sector.
Magnifying good feng shui
Moving on to other parts of the house, we see that we should not ignore the 2-5-8 parent
string located in the center sector. Because this is such an auspicious combination, let
us see how we can tap the good luck here not just for the center of the house but also
magnify the feng shui by causing the good fortune Chi to spread to the rest of the house.
The layout is designed to “open” the center of the house. This means that we
have one large room in the center, not little rooms which end up trapping good stars. By
designating this large living space as the foyer, the living and the dining areas we are
in effect creating a ONE BIG room effect. So this whole area benefits from the parent
string 2-5-8 sector. We will then be allowing these frequently used areas to benefit from
the very auspicious stars. Surrounding sectors which are less lucky will have their energy
improved by the influence of the parent string stars emanating from the middle.
Also, because it is one big room, you can easily adjust and update for yearly feng shui by
simply moving your feng shui enhancers around your main living / dining area each year.
The open space acts like a bright hall within your home, where the Chi can circulate
unobstructed. This prevents an accumulation of stale Chi, minimizing the need for constant
space clearing.
Using shapes rather than colors to enhance
Once you’ve designed the basic layout of the different rooms and areas in your house,
we come to interior décor.
So much of feng shui practice revolves around the five elements, as it is the five
elements which characterize the different sectors around the pa kua. Because feng shui
needs to be activated to work, the most common enhancers of feng shui after symbols are
the elements themselves. The five elements are fire, earth, metal, water and wood. These
are associated with the colors red, yellow, white, blue and green respectively. But unless
you’re decorating a nursery, you’re unlikely to want to mix and match any room
to THAT extent. Usually, if you mix more than three colors, already you are looking at an
interior design nightmare.
So use SHAPES! Each element is associated as much with colors as with shapes. Fire is
triangular and pointed, earth is square, metal is round, water is wavy and wood is
rectangular. These shapes can enhance their own sectors. In this example, let’s look
at the use of circles to enhance the metal element. In the North which is ruled by water,
metal energy is the enhancing agent, as metal produces water. I thus suggest the placement
of a circular rug here to balance the straight lines of the walls. In the Northwest sector
which is ruled by metal, the bottom of the stairs has been given a curvilinear appearance,
to represent metal element. Remember, you can activate by using either the SELF element of
the sector, or the PRODUCING element of the sector. The circular last three steps also
broadens the bottom of the stairs, making the corridor of the stairway broader, and the
living hall grander.
Now let’s at the use of rectangles to enhance the wood element. The Southeast and
East are sectors governed by wood, so here I avoid using circular motifs and instead focus
on straight lines for the furniture. Wood is supported by the rectangular shape, while the
of circles “destroy” wood in the destructive cycle of elements, thus it is
avoided here. To contrast against too many straight lines in the wood sectors, the
placement of plants here will activate the feng shui of these spaces.
Outside the house, the garage is located in the North sector, rather than the East sector,
because cars are metal element. Placing a large metallic vehicle in the North would thus
ENHANCE the luck of the North (being a water sector), but would diminish the luck of the
East (being a wood sector). The flying stars of the North are also promising, with the
lucky #6 water star here, so parking the car here boosts the luck of the house.
Points to remember
It is both easy and fun to design your own layout and décor using feng shui if you simply
follow these easy pointers. Don’t try to do too many things at once, or to work with
too many formulas. Stick with these main ideas, implementing them before moving on to
anything else.
- Plan the layout of your house by identifying the good
sectors and not so good sectors after examining the flying star natal chart of your house.
- Identify if there are any specials such as parent string
combinations in your flying star chart, and plant to augment their good luck by
incorporating an open-spaced concept within your house.
- Then work with shapes when activating the feng shui of the
different sectors of your house.
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