DIFFERENT TRADITIONS, DIFFERENT METHODS

DIFFERENT TRADITIONS, DIFFERENT METHODS

When I was an economics student at Flinders University (Adelaide) I was told by a lecturer in an introductory lecture that if we ask a same question to 10 economists we would get 9 different answers. That was quite a revelation! It seems this phenomenon is equally applicable to a bunch of Feng Shui practitioners. Depending on the different schools from which they have graduated one is likely to find different methods being applied to a particular Feng Shui problem and coming up with very different solutions. This seems to the case when I encountered one of my recent clients who wanted a Feng Shui audit of his house.

The house faces E1 and has had major renovations in Period 8 hence qualifying it to be a Period 8 house. 

FACING = E1 [Jia]

9       7         7 SE	5       2         3 S	7      9         5 SW
8       8         6 E    [F]	1       6         8	3      4         1 W
4       3         2 NE	6       1         4 N	2      5         9 NW

Originally the Main Door was located in the SE sector, facing East. The previous Feng Shui practitioner advised relocating the door to the East sector which I would have heartily agreed. However, he recommended activating the star 8 with fire (i.e. lighting). Now I would have recommended water, that is, an aquarium, to activate the Facing Star 8 (wealth) as it also complies with the Direct-Indirect Spirit Principle for Period 8. Initially I thought perhaps he might have wanted to use fire to activate the Sitting Star 8 to produce harmonious family relations. But then this does not make sense at all because the Main Door is a space where movement takes place; if any star is activated it would be the Facing Star rather than the Sitting Star. Hence it can’t be for this reason. So it seems that he was trying to activate the Facing Star with fire and not water. If so, then it is a different method which appears to contradict the principle: MOUNTAINS GOVERN PEOPLE, WATER GOVERNS WEALTH. 

With regard to other sectors he also seemed to have used a different method or perspective because he saw the NW sector in which a bedroom is located as a good sector. My client then placed one of his two sons in that room. Subsequently he noticed a mental deterioration in his son; he quickly then put him in a different room and that seemed to have rectified the problem. This was conveyed to me when I told to him that the NW sector which has a 2 – 5 combination should be avoided and definitely not to be used as a long term bedroom.

 

However, this Feng Shui practitioner did identify correctly the South sector with a 5 – 2 combination as a negative area to which he offered the appropriate remedy.

In a nutshell, I am still mystified over this particular Feng Shui practitioner’s appraisal of the house. Is it really a case of different traditions different methods leading to different assessments?