Q&A - The Sun Property Plus
21th April 2006

Q.		I am an Australian man born in 1969, married for five years to a Chinese Malaysian born in 1968. We live in KL and have three young sons aged four, two and one. I am a design consultant with my own business, but for the last five years I have had terrible luck and have not managed to secure any reasonable projects in that time. I must have submitted for at least 30 to 40 projects over that period, and thought I had a good chance of securing maybe 10 of them, only to see every one of them snatched away from me at the last minute by some amazing and almost unbelievable twists of fate. Initially, I thought this bad luck may have been a consequence of a break up with some former business partners, however, it has gone on too long for me to believe this anymore. Consequently, I have downsized my company considerably, to the point where I am now working by myself from my house, and struggling to feed my family. My wife and I believe deeply in the power of the spiritual world and have seen evidence of it from my wife's relatives. We are now at our wits end and are prepared to do anything to turn our luck around. Could you advise a course of action that could help us?
A.		I am sorry to hear that things have not been going your way. Either your feng shui is poor or your heaven luck is bad and you are destined for major hiccups in your life. But do not despair as we can fix your feng shui. You have not mentioned anything about your house, which makes for a lot of guess work on my part. Bear in mind that feng shui is all about location, environment, direction and timing. I can only look at what you can do within the house. Your Ming Gua is Xun Gua (gua number 4) and your wife is Kan Gua (gua number 1). Your good directions are North, South, East or Southeast. Ideally, the main door of your house should face any of these directions. Your bed should be in a South room with the headboard facing any of these directions. Make sure that when you sit at your desk, you are facing North. I believe that you will experience some improvement with these changes. A point to note, however: If your house is facing South or West, you should seek proper advice before doing the above or you will be activating certain time-related bad elements, namely, the three killings and the Wu Huang.
Q.		I recently discovered a wasp hive in my postbox, which we no longer use because we have another one. Do I get it rid of it right away? Does it have any feng shui significance?
A.		There is a belief that if animals come to your home; birds making nests in your garden and so on, that means that the place is a comfortable abode and has good qi. Having said that, I would personally remove the wasp hive as I think that wasps are a danger to people, especially small children, around your home. It may be an indication that there is good qi but I don't think it is a good thing if someone is stung by the wasps from that hive!
Q.		I am very comfortable in my house, always at ease and at peace, but my daughter is not. She is very fearful around the house, especially certain rooms and the kitchen. There are no altars in the house. What can I do? Does the house have negative feng shui?
A.		Young children are naturally more in tune with the environment around us and if a child is not comfortable in all parts of the house, the house may be bad from the feng shui perspective. It does not necessarily mean that your whole house is affected by negative feng shui. Every house will have some rooms that are good, average or bad. All this would depend on how qi flows in your house and this can be calculated from the direction of your house based on the Xuan Gong Fei Xing School of feng shui. Your daughter, especially, if she is very young, may be overly sensitive and is able to detect the rooms that are not so suitable to her personally, based either on her Life Gua or the house.

Master Yap Boh Chu is the son of Grand Master Yap Cheng Hai. He co-founded the Yap Cheng Hai Academy to propagate the proper teaching and practice of classical feng shui and qi gong.

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