Dear Sir
Thank you for this eyeopening forum.
The main door of my house is just opposite staircase & one can also see metalrods i.e building construction material left exposed, which I cannot get rid of, which probably have a negative effect(probably slicing effect as per the articles) on the main door of my house.Other than semicircular door mat to combat the effect of stairs , can any other cure be used if bagua cannot be used due to certain reasons .Further what is the difference between pakua mirror & bagua.I hope my queries will be considered & answered.Thank you in advance

Dear Anon,
Please see below:-

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On 10/7/2003 2:20:15 PM, Anonymous wrote:
Dear Sir
Thank you for this eyeopening
forum.
The main door of my house is
just opposite staircase & one
can also see metalrods i.e
building construction material
left exposed, which I cannot
get rid of, which probably
have a negative
effect(probably slicing effect
as per the articles) on the
main door of my house.Other
than semicircular door mat to
combat the effect of stairs ,
can any other cure be used if
bagua cannot be used due to
certain reasons.

1. Usually, the most common approach in Feng Shui is "if it cannot be seen it is no longer a threat" applies.
2. Therefore, things like a screen or (for less modern approach - beaded screens) can be used.
3. The Taiwan Feng Shui approach is commonly to use plants to be used as a screen. For example, artifical plants can be used in such a situation to screen the staircase from the main door.
4. The Hong Kong type of approach is to use a water postion e.g. a fish tank to neutralise or create a flow of the Five Elements between the offending object and the main door.
4.1 The Hong Kong type of approach uses the Five Elements in a harmonious cycle. Much like the Chinese martial arts of "Tai qi". Here, under this form of martial arts; if an opponent fights hard, the `trick' here is to use his/her force by swift movements of the arms to slow it down, divert the hard blows and `return' it to the opponent.
4.2 For example, using a fish tank containing all five elements to help neutralise the threat:
where:
water in the tank = water element
fishes = often these are gold fishes = metal element
rectangle tank = earth element
light in the tank = fire element
some plants or greenery in the tank = wood element
Here, there is a five element harmonious flow.

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Further what
is the difference between
pakua mirror & bagua.I hope my
queries will be considered &
answered.Thank you in advance
Please go to the conference: " Picture Tours of Interest (with pictures) " and search for Ba Gua or Ba Gua mirrors.

Under this conference, I had previously posted various types of ba gua mirrors. Plus also, given a summary of their use.
Hence, pa kua or (Ba gua) mirrors are often used for:
1. to deflect sha qi
2. to protect (drive away evil or prevent evil from entering a location i.e. placing it above the door)
In fact the term Pa Kua is actually a Hokkien (Chinese dialect group spelling or sound like name) of the Mandarin word: Ba Gua.
Thus the words are one and the same.
Ba Gua can also refer to the Trigram or the First Heaven Sequence diagram on the trigram and the Later Heaven Sequence trigram.
Please check out some of the resources on the main pages as I had in the past, written on them.
Warmest Regards,
Cecil

Further to what I had mentioned earlier, you can find some of my older resources on Pa Kua or Ba Gua under this very old link:-
http://www.geomancy.net/resources/art/art-pakua.htm
Warmest Regards,
Cecil