Superstitions and Taboos
Superstitions & Taboos
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Question: My dad has just passed away. I don't want to wait 1 year or 3 years (depending on individual family practises), later to get married. What is the earliest date to get married? Answer: If you want to continue with a waiting period of less than 1 year, than the wedding has to held within 100 days of the passing. Once 100 days has past, you must wait at least 1 year or more which is usually the mourning period. The duration(ie 1 year or 3 years) of the passing of a parentdepends on the individual family or clantraditional practice. Some families insist that the marriage cannot be held within 3 years of the passing of a parent. While others feel 1 or 2 years is ad…
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Please Help! I am getting ready to purchase a home and I want to make the right decision. I have heard you can tell the fortune of your home by the way in which your main door faces. Is the main door the main door or the one I will always enter the home through which would be the garage or is it the garage door itself that I would be driving into. Please help it seems that eveyone says something different? If I habitually enter my home through the garage door into the home is it that my main door or the garage I drive into, or the main door outside the home which I don't use often? My birthstar is 2 I need to know what to be looking for? Can someone help me please! I need…
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Hi! The unit that we are eyeing for transfer is located at the Ground Floor of a condominium building. It is the first unit of the building and it's supposed garden/courtyard is facing the road of the village and the unit is lower than the level of the road. Is there anything we need to consider when we transfer? Our target dates would be between Oct 28-30, 2005. Thanks!
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Hi, I purchased a home 5 years ago, and the previous owners were going through a divorce. I live more country where there is wooded areas around me. The house is about 700 feet away from the road and my address is 7124. It does face the south, and there is a round pond facing the front of the home. I am now going through a divorce that is not going to be reconcilate or mended. Any help! MTc
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Q: Can we use the mattress from previous owner? It's in v good condition Not Feng Shui. It’s personal. Really up to you
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This is a very important life lesson:- It is very interesting to associate this statement: There is a saying, ?What goes around comes around.? = Karma? http://www.tremeritus.com/2012/12/14/why-not-khaw-tells-his-own-party-about-this-too/ Not too recently, there was another valuable lesson: "Don't throw stones at a glass house. That glass house could happen to belong to your own kind".
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Do you need an auspicious date for key collection to new home?
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If my fiance grand father just passed away. Do we have to get married within 100 days or 1 year or that we can get married anytime we choose? 1. For Chinese, we have a vast range of dialect groups. And one will be surprised to hear so many versions. 2. More importantly, does your family still have a strong matriach? In the past, this could be an elderly eg. a strict and somewhat considered as the final say in the family. 3. If so, she be consulted. In a closely knit family arena, some even consult a great-uncle or auntie. 4. if one does not have this hieracy but a benev…
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I've been thinking of getting Chinese lion dance head in my home for decor. Can you advise me , based on your experience in fengshui the following: 1. Usually if people keep lion heads at home ,what is the ideal number? two? or is just one ok? 2. Does the ion need to be 'blessed" first before displaying or are there any beliefs or rituals needed? Or just buy and display? 3. Any specific direction it should face E.g. facing main door ? Or any direction?
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Hi Master, I just want to ask, whata and how I'm going to do if I want to mame the photo frames of my parent's in law? Thank you in advance for the reply.
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There are more than 12 deities on the altar table, and is not facing the door or windows. Will this cause negative effect to the family?
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Fortune trees are decorative items.. Frankly small decorative fountains are just that decorative...
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Morning Master Cecil, i need your advice on my guan yin wood statue Recentle found a line on her back that look like cracked
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Dear Cecil, Must say that your tongue in cheek hunour did make me laugh. Have a nice day!
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Took this snap-shot at Queens Street prior to an office audit near-by:- He is a stranger... Look here! I got lots of protection! Don’t believe? See what I wear on my neck! Five amulets!
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Cecil, so sorry. For wedding invitations, is there a rule that the words in the card (or the paper in the card) can not be written in red? Reply: Nobody writes in red. Black ink or nowadays silver or gold.
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Most likely this may all together disappear within the life time of the older folks... Just maybe...
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Actually, there are three dragon horses in this home. The first dragon horse starts off at the corner of the home ... then it flys “into” the home and then towards the roof terrace. Finally, it flys off! Up up and away!
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My cousin and I will wed 4 months apart. My other cousin's wife will give birth around the time of my wedding. Can we attend each other's wedding?
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Hi I ve done a Chinese zodiac tattoo to cover up on my left back arm tattoo with the original tattoo that comes with the Chinese character 重 under a red spider lily, with the other side of my arm 生 under a lotus flower. In short, I only do a cover up on my left, I did not want to be over suspicious but can't help to think it might be the cause of the cover up tattoo design (new design is a snake head facing the left side of the spider lily). What happen after one week when my tattoo healed, I began hearing sound, strangely only on my left ear too. I became paranoid but never think is the tattoo issues. I went to see ENT, specialists said hearing test is good nothing wrong…
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