Have you thought about what could change your life if you used the energy of your home in your favor? Knowing our house is as necessary as knowing ourselves because the knowledge of our house represents the third part of our fate.
According to Chinese metaphysics there are three factors that make up the destiny of a person. Namely: LUCK FROM HEAVEN, LUCK FROM MAN AND LUCK FROM EARTH. The Luck of Heaven: These are all those talents with which we were born; the place and family to which we belong, as well as the genetic predisposition that will make us develop and grow with specific physiological characteristics.
The Luck of Man: This is the free will that makes us act and decide based on our education, principles, beliefs and opportunities. The luck of the Earth: It is the one that gives us the place where we live or where we work. THIS IS THE PART OF THE FENG SHUI. As we see, each of these three represents a part of our destiny. One of them - The Luck of Heaven - is fixed and unalterable. However, we have in the other two - The Luck of the Earth and The Luck of Man - sources susceptible to highly beneficial changes and modifications.
When we have the opportunity to use Feng Shui to favorably impact the third part of what our life should be, it is relevant that we understand two things: one, that there are physical factors that we can see and identify, and the other, that we have factors that do not they materialize and nevertheless they are there, - yes there - in that precise place where we are. Both factors affect the human being in the same way. Let's make an analogy: the visible represented by the hardware of a computer and the invisible by the software. It does not work without it, but together they become an effective tool.
A Feng Shui consultant has to analyze both the visible and the invisible part. First the visual, reviewing the surroundings of our house or business looking to identify the basic elements in a site with good Feng Shui, as it has been done until today for more than 4000 thousand years using the school of Form. Secondly, a true Feng Shui professional will not be unless he makes essential use of one of the fundamental tools of the classic Feng Shui practice called luo pan, which serves to measure the exact orientation and based on this is to perform mathematical calculations with various variables, including the date of construction. As a result of this we will have the invisible characteristics of the site where we are.
Now, since all construction is a set of matter constructed in a certain way and placed in a specific orientation within a general plan, it will receive certain specific, unique and specific energy charges depending on the orientation, position, shape, age and environment. That particular site will contain a series of possibilities and exclusive qualities. These are the ones that will determine the quality of life that it will offer us. It is THE LUCK OF THE EARTH.
Classic Feng Shui uses this dynamic method based on time and space -flying stars- which has its origins in the rotation of the Big Dipper around the North Star, Polaris. The movement of its nine stars, seven visible and two invisible, determines the flow with which energy moves every day, every month and every year, making it possible for us to identify the type of qi that will visit our home from each of the orientations
As a result of observing the behavior of these nine stars, ancient Chinese astronomers designed 81 different combinations, each one related to specific aspects of both health and prosperity as well as human relationships. It is necessary for Feng Shui to prepare the energy table of a house to identify which are the characteristics or combinations that correspond to it, which will make it unique and different.
Knowing the weaknesses and strengths of our home is of the utmost importance since we will be able to understand many of the things that happen to us or not, and we will know if that house is consistent and favorable to our priorities.
Just as there are no good or bad people, there are no good or bad houses, each one is as it is and is valid for different things, the question is to see how these characteristics exert positively or not for its inhabitants. Potentially harnessing positive energy and neutralizing or mitigating negative ones and the effects they have on people is THE LAST AND PRIMARY OBJECTIVE to conduct a study of Feng Shui.
In other words, to know the relationship that the house has with its inhabitants and how this relationship has the power to influence positively or negatively.
Likewise, the Feng Shui consultant should also analyze the human aspect of the residents, since the general idea is to provide help to people, not to houses and for that, knowing a little of the people who live or work there, both about their interests as abilities, which as we indicated before, are represented by the fate of Heaven and their interpretation is done through Ba Zi or four pillars. The Ba Zi is a table that is composed of eight characters and the relationship between them will be interpreted as the fixed and immovable part of our life. It is unalterable. This was printed at the time we were born and aspire to our first qi. Having carried out these analyzes, we will already be able to get a clear idea about the relationship between the individual and the place where they are, in and until then, we will be ready - never before - to give suggestions. Therefore, the widespread ideas that will bring us love, health and abundance so beaten in the West in the last decade have disappointed many people, leaving only skepticism and confusion.
Last but not least, we touched on the theme of Man's Luck. This area is what we each manage to our free will, deciding on what we want to do, when, how, where and with whom. We also take care of our health and body, work, rest, play sports, etc., being the set of these habits, customs and decisions that will make up the last third of our destiny.
As we have seen, it is true that there is a part that does not depend on us, but another large part that we may modify in our favor. It is not possible to expect Feng Shui to make us millionaires or perform miracles, since it has already been explained what are the scope of the same, its benefits and importance, but of course that the understanding and application that its tools can provide us, gives us a satisfactorily complete picture, of what we are, of the environment where we will develop better, kind of recommended career, optimizing our choice of the right place so that we can take advantage of these characteristics and get a better result from them.
We will do the same with our health and body, we will know what our weakest areas are and we will try to avoid exposure to that energy that does not contribute to our best benefit and far from it weakens us even more.
Therefore, the area where we sleep is a priority for the human being for the time we spend there, the same as those places where we stay many hours, such as the living room, our office, etc., because it is after prolonged exposure to a certain energy, which is reflected in our person and in what we do.
If we put two people who were born at exactly the same time and in the same place and wondered why their lives are not the same; the answer would be that although they share the same BaZi, the other two thirds of their destiny, the fate of the Earth and that of Man were different.
For our fortune, Asian professors work tirelessly to make these old doctrines and the serious and effective use of their practice available to a larger core of people, the number of people we understand and accept the valuable contribution being increasingly high. It makes east to west as soon as we decide to incorporate them into our lives.
In conclusion, well-applied Feng Shui is a generator of remarkable changes in people's lives, saving us setbacks and difficulties. It is time to take advantage of it and put it into practice in order to be healthier and happier!
Leonor Estrada
Member of the British Feng Shui Society, Disciple of Grand Master Raymond Lo