Hi, from your many replies, I come to understand thatelement of the house is based on the facing direction of that house. I am rather confused as the sitting of the house will determine the house kua and thus its element as we applythe Eight House Mansion Theory.

Dear Shawn,

SHAWN HO wrote:
Hi, from your many replies, I come to understand thatelement of the house is based on the facing direction of that house. I am rather confused as the sitting of the house will determine the house kua and thus its element as we applythe Eight House Mansion Theory.

Actually, we always determine the direction of the house from the facing direction of the house. Even when we apply our eight house what we often focus on is the facing direction rather than the sitting direction.

This is because, to be practical, the sitting direction is often not very practical. This is because if you really want to apply the sitting direction, then you do it based on the location of you home.

For example, if you are a weak wood person, water element is good for you, so a good location where your house should be located within Singapore would the Northern part of Singapore ie say in Yishun/Sembawang area. This is more practical and accurate than basing on the eight house which only based on your year of birth. However, even with this, the shapes and form factor will still be the ultimate determining factor. For example, in Singapore the better locations for homes tend to be in like Marine Parade and Bukit Timah, etc? This is because if based on the landscape of Singapore, these locations have good Dragon Qi. So by staying in such location, your luck will be boosted by these external shapes and form Qi.

I am aware that there is some website that follow this principle if North is good for you, you should be sitting North and facing South. However, the most important is where the Qi enters into the house. So our definition and what most other FS masters agree is the house should face the good direction so that the Qi entering in the house comes from the Good direction ie. If house faces North, and North is excellent, your excellent Qi will be entering into the house from the North. This is far more practical than having to sit at your good sector and facing the bad direction.

So as far as our website is concerned, we are interested in where the Qi enters into the house. Meaning if we say facing North we want the good Qi from the North to enter into the house from the North. And apply the best location based on your eight house element on which part of the country would you get the best amount of luck.

What is important for us is to face the good direction and have the Qi enter into the house from these good direction. The location factors (ie stting position), is better to get a good location or a location favourable to your element. These are what determines good location and not really the sitting position.

Hope that helps.

Warmest Regards
Robert Lee
GEOMANCY.NET - Center for Applied Feng Shui Research

Thank you for your prompt reply.

To further clarify on the same subject, there are eight kua according to the Eight House Theory.

I agree that thefacing directionwhere the Qi enter the house is of utmost important.But before that we have to determine the kua of the house before we can apply the Eight House Theory.

So, a house that sits on East (using the loupan to determine), it is the "chen" kua and thus we can apply, based on the Eight House Theory, the favourable and unfavourable directions based on the "chen" kua. Do you agree?