Here are 11 basic feng shui buying tips to choose a lucky home.
First of all, choose a “positive feng shui home 吉宅” where the destiny’s energies 宅命 of the house is align with the environment 环境.
地吉 苗旺，宅吉 人旺
Most are misinformed thinking that house feng shui is solely based on your bazi or gua number. Using a simple analogy. If your family migrate to America, you should adapt to the environment or the other way round?
2 major concerns to choose a positive home is Environment and Energy 峦头 和 理气.
This is by integrating various feng shui schools methods such as 形势, 三元, 玄空飞星, 八宅, 三合 etc.
One crucial factor is “timing”
Authentic feng shui principles emphasize on the harmony between external & internal structure physical landforms’ (峦头) with house innate energy (理气) “峦头为体，理气为用”.
The visible shape, material, size, height, distance … of physical environment all matters.
1. understand your home External environment 外峦头学
空秘旨：不知来路，焉知入路，盘中八卦皆空。未识内堂，焉知外堂，局五行尽错
Start by understanding Singapore Master plan.
Study the external landforms using google satellite maps to check out roads, park, canal, sea etc.
It is important to study the external landforms because to a certain extent it is fixed unless it is earmarked for new development.
However understanding Singapore’s policy, perpetually there are on-going “construction” everyday which is feng shui worst nightmare. Once your neighbourhood construction commences it upsets Earth’s energy and immediately has detrimental effect on your family’s health & wealth.
Putting feng shui aside, think about the inconvenience of road diversion, the dust that you breathe…the detours you have to make
2. Analyse the internal environment 內形体学 of the house
Study the shape of your house using the floor plan. Is it rectangle, square or out-of-shape?
locations is more important than directions in fengshui
Where is the main door located? stove and beds locations ? Know at least the 8 main sectors of your home i.e. bagua
Any serious missing sectors (25% of the total floor size)? Do not choose a house that is out-of-shape or the length to breadth ratio is greater than 1:3. You will have uneven sizes per sector. If happened that the smaller sectors are positive ones like wealth, health, career than you are in trouble. See picture North and South sectors are relatively small.
3. Feng shui buying tip 4 – timing
In San Yuan Chinese metaphysics 三元九运玄空下卦, timing is the key to good feng shui.
As a general rule of thumb in Period 8 2004 to 04 Feb 2024, overlooking “water” in the SouthWest direction improves wealth. See illustration. The opposite side which faces NE direction water is bad feng shui.
In Period 8 context, NE direction should overlook tall buildings instead of water. Structurally within the house, Northeast sector should not be the toilet or missing.
After 2024 in period 9 overlooking “North” direction water is good for wealth and the opposite is not.
“山环水抱，气聚有情， 山管人丁， 水管财”
4. Open space is a plus in feng shui
Observe the space surrounding the block in relation to your neigbourhood. The physical terrain of the 4 main “mountain 山势” influence, front 朱雀, back 玄武, left hand side 左青龙 and the right 右白虎. If you have to compromise facing a spacious front is relatively more important. See picture Blk A is better than Blk B.
5. Avoid Bad Home Destiny 宅命
Similar to our birth profile, houses also have their own destiny. “Destiny 宅命” of the house is determine by the orientation i.e. the “degree” of it’s facing.
6. NO tilted Main door
Do not buy a house or office with tilted doors. Some feng shui masters uses 玄空大卦 to tilt the door believing that the house “negative” energies will improve permanently! It does not. Energies does not go sideways when you tilt the door. So if you see that the door is tilted it is clear sign telling you that the house is bad.
7. AVOID bad external landforms
Ensure that landforms such as sharp pointed buildings, reflective mirror-like windows, hospitals, police stations, T-junctions, expressways are not within your sight. We judge the intensity of negative influence based on distance to your house. If you need powerful binoculars to see the “troubled building” then there is little harm.
8. a house based on male breadwinner’s bazi is chauvinistic and redundant
Feng Shui dated many many years ago and during that time most theories are bias towards the “male breadwinner (封建思想 feudal society)”. So finding a house solely based on the male breadwinner is chauvinistic. Nowadays our female counterpart may even earn more money. Thus the basis to find a good feng shui house is not based on bazi lucky elements or gua number, unless you wanted to remain single or the entire family shared a single lucky element which is rare.
9. Feng shui taboo 风水大忌
Toilet and stove should not in the center of a house. Toilet in the center will cause digestion, intestine and urinary system issues. As for the stove it causes heart & blood problems.
10. Feng shui taboo 风水大忌
Main door should not face kitchen nor toilet entrance. This will cause illnesses to the entire family.
11. Feng shui taboo 风水大忌 avoid “空亡 void” directions
These are the main door orientations to avoid. Known as 大空亡线 meaning “void”. These degrees is in between 8 gua 八卦 therefore No Destinies! Void degrees variance +/- 1.5 degree are 22.5°, 67.5°,112.5°,157.5°,202.5°, 247.5°, 292.5°, 337.5° 大空亡 and 7.5, 37.5 52.5, 82.5, 97.5, 127.5 142.5 172.5 187.5 217.5 232.5 262.5 277.5 307.5 322.5 352.5 小空亡. These you need to engage a feng shui master to check for you.
Any bad things can happen for such degree such as freak accidents, surgeries, sickness, suicide, lawsuit, disharmony, evil spirits and there is “no permanent feng shui solutions”.
