Feng Shui Course - Part 2

The course itself had a fantastic ambient atmosphere, with traditional "Kung Fu" Tea all round. Rena started by explaining what Feng Shui was and giving us some examples of it working. 

Rena then explained the cycles of the elements, in the Cycle of Birth Metal creates Water creates Wood creates Fire creates Earth Creates Metal, and so on. If you reverse it you have the exhaustive cycle Ie Wood exhausts Metal and there is also a destructive cycle where Fire destroys Metal destroys Wood, destroys Earth destroys Water destroys Fire destroys Metal. Rena said that often having the wrong elements around us or in the wrong area of the land or house can activate less positive stars or cause problems in health and relations. She emphasised that it is not always good to destroy a too strong element and it is better to exhaust it if at all possible.

Rena explained Land Form Feng Shui, which relates to how buildings are situated on the land, more relevent perhaps if you are lucky enough to be building from scratch or from plan.  Important though is to locate your facing door and understand that to the left (when you are facing out) is the Dragon Side and the Right is your Tiger Side. The Dragon Side should be higher than the Tiger. Another important point to consider is having a large open space outside your house to collect the positive engergies. 

We then moved on to the importance of different directions and the elements and colours that relate to them. For example in the 8 Aspirations Kung Fu (Ba Zai) SE is Green, is element Small Wood, represents the Eldest Daughter, and controls your Wealth and luck. Its good to enhance the energy in the SE by putting things like a 6 tier water fountain in this area. It's very important that your toilet bowl is not in this area. Toilet bowls are very bad as they represent the flushing away of whatever force is in that area. The SE being your wealth is a particularly bad place, so if your Toilet is in the SE of your house, Rena absolutely recommends moving it. This is a static Feng Shui and unlike Flying Star does not change.

Flying Star Feng Shui, perhaps was the most mind boggling and really helped me understand why doing Feng Shui for your business and family could easily turn into a full time job.  For this you have to work out the birth chart for your house, based on its year of construction, work out your facing and then "fly the stars" to work out what needs to be done on a monthly and yearly basis. The current year determines what numbers are particular auspicious ( this year have 8 , 9 and 1) and we need to use a detailed floor plan and a compass to work out what areas each part of the house is in. From flying the stars you can work out where your Mountain Stars and Water Stars are and put cures / enhancers accordingly.  It sounds quite complicated because it was and hats of to Rena for explaining it so beautifully so that we eventually got the hang of it.  

All in all it was a fantastic course, and I highly recommend Rena and Feng Shui to anyone who has an interest in energies and harnessing them to your advantage. As I discussed in my last post on Feng Shui, it is still widely used in China by major blue chip companies, and Rena was replete with examples of how people have had improved success or bankruptcy depending on how they did their Feng Shui. Although I now feel I could do the basics I think I would be very tempted to get a proper consultation on returning home or building anything new and then maintain it myself.

Thanks Rena, I look forward to any other courses you run in the future.