Master Cecil Lee and Robert Lee:

I have been reading a lot about Feng Shui in the past few years, and
tried to conform with the philosophy of feng shui, but I am still
stumped by one question to which I cannot find a clear answer. Maybe
none exists but I have decided that I have to reach out to an expert
like you - so here it is:



If you talk of geographical directions, I know where North, South, East
and West are standing on my property. My home has its front door
facing North. My back door is on the other end of the house (nowhere
near the front door) and is facing the South. We only open our front
door once a day to let my son run out the door early morning and cut
across the lawn to the street where his school bus is waiting. The
rest of the day, we use our attached garage to go out and come in to
the house and this garage is facing East. We also go in and out of the
back door which is very close to the Garage and is in the South.



Can you please tell me whether I should be treating my back door as THE
SOUTH and apply appropriate cures and keep a bird there, keep red color
and bright lights, etc. Also, should I treat my front door area foyer
as THE NORTH and keep dark blue items and waterscapes, etc.



My confusion arises from the fact that some experts say the front door
is THE SOUTH. Well, in my case, it is facing North if you are looking
at the heavens.



Thank you so much for your anticipated advice.



S

** backdoor





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E **
W

Garage



front door

N
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1. When applying authentic Traditional Feng Shui, and if you are strictly applying Compass School Feng Shui, then you should be using the "magnetic compass".

2. Not to complicate things, for example near the equator, the magnetic north is nearly equal to the geographic north. Even in other areas, there is a slight deviation, only.

3. As mentioned under Para 1, above, authentic Traditional Compass School Feng Shui, is where, as you had given an example, your frontage should be and is North not South, while the South is the back of the home. This is particuarly so, if you are TAKING a reading using a normal compass (or regular compass).

4. Not to be confused with the Chinese Luopan instrument. Even with this Luopan, it uses a magnetic needle. And only the wordings are calibrated, where North is South and South is North. Maybe this could have led to the confusion.

5. Your home based on the magnetic compass, thus should be SITTING SOUTH and Facing North. Thus, based on the compass, your Main door cannot be "SOUTH" but North.

6. You are also mixing the Four Symbolic Aniamls concept: where briefly, South is represented by a phoneix (fire element), North = water or tortise, East = green dragon and west = white tiger.

7. My god!, it is more useful to use this concept under Shapes and Forms Feng Shui than what you are mentioning:

7.1 You said: "keep red color and bright lights, etc. Also, should I treat my front door area foyer as THE NORTH and keep dark blue items and waterscapes, etc. "

7.2 What you had mentioned above under Para 7.1. is certainly NOT CORRECT! It is based on rudimentary or unfortunately : Kindergarten type of Feng Shui.