Cecil:
I have a mirror in my living room that is indirectly reflecting the stairs to the second level of my home. If you stand about 5 feet to the left of the mirror, you can see the stairs reflected. I have heard that a mirror reflecting stairs is bad Feng Shui. I can move the mirror if necessary. What is your suggestion?
Thank you.

Dear Julie,
Frankly, there are two considerations here:-
1. Mirrors at staircase landings need not necessarily be bad. One school of thought here is that a mirror at this location can help to `move' Qi up or down the stairs.
2. Another consideration is that a mirror at the wrong wall or sector can bounce back twice the bad luck.
Undera Para 2, if one is not sure, one should not place a mirror on the stair-case landing.
3. In your question, you mentioned that a mirror is facing the stairs, frankly, this is more of a "commonsense approach". Or we can say that this is more of a commonsense type of `Feng Shui'.
3.1 Here, it may become inauspicious because, sometimes we do get a shock especially at night when e.g. going downstairs. And we see a `figure' approaching us.
3.2 This usually applies to guests or even uneventfully, it may affect us, especially when we hear noises downstairs. During such situations, it may just unfortunately happen - fall down the stairs.
In such a situation, we may lose our step and fall down.
In my opinion, this is the rationale why, (not necessarily) Feng Shui that it may not be good to have a mirror facing the stairs.

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On 5/1/2002 1:05:00 PM, Anonymous wrote:
Cecil:
I have a mirror in my living
room that is indirectly
reflecting the stairs to the
second level of my home. If
you stand about 5 feet to the
left of the mirror, you can
see the stairs reflected. I
have heard that a mirror
reflecting stairs is bad Feng
Shui. I can move the mirror if
necessary. What is your
suggestion?
Thank you.