Q&A - The Sun Property Plus
27th May 2005

Q.		MY house faces more to the west (W), slightly southwest to be exact. I have been told that a main door facing this direction is no good. Is it true and why? How does one rectify this? What if we sleep facing south, is that good? My husband and I do not sleep well. He is jobless and my mother-in-law is giving me a hard time, always nagging or adding fire, complaining to the son on small issues. I have been tolerating it for years. I have tried a few feng shui remedies such as a crystal ball, crystal tree and mandarin ducks, but I am not too sure.
A.		You do not give me much to work with. If your house is facing W this year, it is not so good as it faces the Tai Sui. You should not dig, drill or nail anything along your western side of your house. To offset the Tai Sui, you may consider putting something metallic next to your door entrance. It could be a metal flowerpot, brass Qi Lin (pix), antique iron or anything that is large, heavy and made of metal that you can get your hands on without costing too much. As for whether this door is suitable for you, see if the entrance direction is auspicious for you based on your Life Gua and that of your husband’s. Refer to Propertyplus on March 18 or visit www.ychacademy.com/media-01002005.shtml. If the door is unsuitable, you cannot do anything this year and will have to put up with it next year as well as you cannot renovate your front door in the west in 2006. You should check if south is one of your auspicious directions. Unfortunately, placing all those things you mentioned is not what I would term ‘true classical feng shui’, which is predominantly concerned with direction, location and usage of the fi ve elements. This is why I suggested that you place a metal object next to the door to counter the earth killing the Tai Sui energies.
Q.		I am a male horse born in 1954 and my Gua number is 1. My front door is on the left looking from inside out at position southeast (SE) at about 145º. I have two kitchens and a reading made from the centre point of the whole house showed both kitchens are in the north (N) northeast. I was told since both kitchens are in the N sector, which represents water and which is also my good sector, the kitchen should not be placed there. I found it difficult to move both kitchens. In order to neutralise or remedy this bad effect, I was told to place a mirror on the wall opposite the stove so that if I do cook standing in front of the stove, the mirror, which is at my back, will reflect away the stove. Also, the stove can be seen at my back when I cook. Is this remedy correct? My ground-floor bathroom with the toilet is sited in the N sector of my house when the direction is taken from the centre point of my house. On the first floor, I have a bathroom with a toilet on the northwest west sector. When I sleep, my head points to the southwest direction, which means that its direction is more towards the W side. I was told this is not a good sleeping direction. Please advise me which direction my head should point to when sleeping.
A.		It seems like you already have a feng shui consultation done for your house. Our policy is not to comment on another consultant’s work unless we are engaged as the new consultants. As you are Gua 1, you may refer to your best directions from the chart published in Propertyplus on March 18 or visit www.ychacademy.com/media-01002005.shtml. Based upon the application of the Ba Zhai (8 Mansion) Feng Shui School, a person’s head should point to any of these good directions, SE, E, S and N, for Gua 1 when they are sleeping.

Yap Cheng Hai Academy Sdn Bhd
Tel: (03) 2070 8009; Fax: (03) 2072 8009; E-mail: info@ychacademy.com

Disclaimer: Yap Cheng Hai Academy Sdn Bhd does not, and cannot, in any way whatsoever or howsoever represent, warrant or guarantee that the recommendations given in this column mean that the happiness and good fortune of the person(s) who put these recommendations into practice will naturally or necessarily follow