Feng Shui New Bedroom!

[yxeli]

Hey all,

Any Feng Shui Experts out there!

I have just this morning slept in my new bedroom, in a new house, in a new town. (Music MA starts in approx 20 days!) And because of all this Yi'ing i've been doing, I decided that i'd try some feng shui out in my new room, see if this helps anyhting. I started internet hunting, found the western school, that says you just align the bagua with your door, but I wasn't sure about this method, as the east isn't the east, the southwest isn't the southwest etc,(also, i asked yi about this school, it gave me 21.6! and then i asked it about the traditional school, got 45.4! so knew i was on the right track)

I'm a kua 5 ( which translates as kua 8. as far as i can figure), and my house faces northeast, which is a good direction for me. I've figured out all my good directions and bad directions, and have tried to align everything right. I asked Yi this morning about my layout, and I got 30 1.3.4>23.

Now, Li is fire, right? and 23 (the house of the inferior man is split apart), I don't really know what Yi is trying to tell me. I have set up my relationship area with 2 candles, and my southwest with 1. (the southwest is my very best direction), and i have 2 candles facing Northeast.

Maybe its telling me to cut down(23) on the amount of fire?

Anyone with any tips, much appreciated!

Thanks,

Yx

 

[pocossin]

About my layout?
30.1.3.4 > 23

Congratulations on making the move, Yxeli. "Li is fire, right?" I'd like 'light' in this indoor situation and 23 as 'bed', that is, the light-bed connection. How is your bed oriented with respected to the window? Or, if no window, the major source of indoor light? A window at the foot or head of a bed I find uncomfortable (sha qi). How does the current position of the bed make you feel? Does it feel right? The space you live in influences you. Make small changes and see which feels better. If the bed can't be moved, you might try sleeping on one side or the other. Line 1, currently there is a mixture of good (sheng) and bad (sha) qi. Line 3 suggests having your mother's picture in the room. Line 4, maybe don't invest too much in feng shui decorations

 

[yxeli]

Thanks poc! Much obliged!
My bed is at an angle to the door, a very small portion of it, just the corner, is touching the window. Thanks for this very straightforward understanding of this reading, I was secretly hoping you would respond to this one poc! You have a way of seeing the larger picture! yeah! I can see exactly how you got the light bed situation from this reading! I will ask yi about moving bed in another direction. And yes! I was about to spend a lot of money this weekend in London in Chinatown, on some feng shui cures, so maybe now i'll think a little harder before dipping into my wallet.

Thanks as always!

Yx

 

[meng]

Follow your intuitive sense of balance and aesthetics and you're there. It's a matter of what feels right, not what some rules to tell you what is proper. If you wish to make it more magical, make it personally symbolic and smudge with white sage.

Anyway, that's my approach, but then I'm just a caveman so..

 

[answeredquestions]

I like what Poc and Meng said about your reading.

I was thinking about a couple of things.... I think we have a great advantage and angle at this Feng Shui thing, being that we are Yi-students. Afterall, the Ba Gua is of the 8 trigrams. In Feng Shui, they say that the NE is the place of the Mountain trigram Ken. And they say that it is a place of "self-development" ('They' are the Feng Shui authors and website designers of today)... I am becoming more and more aware that books on subjects etc are most of the time skimming the surface of things, and a lot of Feng Shui is extremely "novelty-like". I can see where someone waaay back in the day would have studied the Yi and the mountain could be packaged quickly as 'self-development'. The Mountain trigram and what it represents, hints at self-development; self-cultivation. But I am assuming it arrived at being this through sustained stillness and what Ken symbolizes on a deeper level.

Feng Shui today seems to be cheesed out, or dulled down to materialized things. Usually when things become mainstream, they get a little off kilter and glamorized. I get a feeling Feng Shui has this occuring right now.

Just like the SW being a place for Relationships... It's trigram on the Ba Gua is Kun Earth. The hexagrams that include Kun, and the trigram itself, are all loosely about relationships, but it is more about being open/receptive (in Yi terms).

I am just thinking outloud but maybe we can learn something about the Yi and it's trigrams by thinking of it in terms of Feng Shui and vice versa. Like the West. It is supposed to be the place of "Creativity and Children".... What the H-E-double hockie stick does that mean?! LOL. A lot of authors/websites say this kind of thing, and go into a little description, but really I think they might all be trying to describe the attributes of Dui.

Do you know about the 'Four Guardians'?
....
N - Black Tortoise
E - Green Dragon
S - Red Pheonix
W - White Tiger
....
They could all be great metaphors for a deeper understanding of Kan, Zhen, Li and Dui ???

 

[meng]

A word on 23 and feng shui: stripping what is extraneous and bringing out the essence or soul of a room is, I think, an important aspect of this. A Zen garden, for instance, is generally sparse with stone, sand, maybe a bench or aesthetic tree. It isn't full of Buddha statues and pretty stones from India, or I Ching coins embedded in the cement surrounding the Koi pond.

It is the same with effective writing for me. It is the stripped away words that allow the others to have more thorough meaning and penetration, and perhaps most of all, be pleasurable, natural, effortless.

Being a natural born minimalist, I find this concept to be very attractive, whether applied to a garden, a poem, an explanation or a bedroom.

23, very applicable to effective balance and aesthetics, inwardly as well.

 

[answeredquestions]

23 as a relating hexagram to a Feng Shui question does point to a minimalization technique, rather than the usual 22-like nature of Feng Shuiing - "Buy this and set this here" ... "this object represents this". Interesting!

 

[answeredquestions]

Here is a picture of a cave with electricity (you might like this Bruce):

It is probably very simple inside yet it does have a 22 type feel to it, being that it is like a "mountain with fire" inside.

Image from here.

 

[meng]

Haha! Bruce Flintstone. Must be cool inside, literally. But I'm a sun (Mercury) person so windows and being outside a lot are essential to my sense of wellness. My current abode is small inside with sliding glass doors on one side and a large window facing west to our desert oasis perched on a hill in a large valley, and due to the desert summer heat I must close all curtains and blinds to keep it barely cool inside with the a/c going almost non-stop all day. But the shroud of darkness is dispersed with treks outside, where mountains increase the distance one can see, 360 degrees about. The first reminds me of 2.4, the second, what else but 55.

 

[dragona]

Hello, I am a visual type and interested in feng shui but an plan drawing of the situation would help a lot.

 

[answeredquestions]

I like how you have your Yi googles on at all times. My apt is halfway underground, so the window is me looking out of a slanted hill, part grass, part sky. When I emerge it is very groundhog like, and also pretty 2.4 when inside. It can sometimes reminds me of a 5.4 pit, so when this happens, I have to make myself just sit up and walk outside for some fresh air. A little dab'll do!
...or Yabba Dabba Doo, whichever get's your carwheel's turnin'.

 

[answeredquestions]

Dragona, I made this a while ago to help myself remember the drections and their smybols/meanings/ect. I am very visual as well. This was for personal use, so it is geared towards yours truly...

 

[dragona]

Thanks, Courtney, I like it.
But I meant to say that perhaps I could be of some use if I could see the plan of the room/appartment with doors and windows and orentation.

 

[meng]

I like how you have your Yi googles on at all times. My apt is halfway underground, so the window is me looking out of a slanted hill, part grass, part sky. When I emerge it is very groundhog like, and also pretty 2.4 when inside. It can sometimes reminds me of a 5.4 pit, so when this happens, I have to make myself just sit up and walk outside for some fresh air. A little dab'll do!
...or Yabba Dabba Doo, whichever get's your carwheel's turnin'.

chuckling, had to read that several times before I realized you meant goggles on.

Girl, get your googles on!

 

[answeredquestions]

!LOL Oh yes, goggles, not googles!

 

[yxeli]

hey all, ta for all the thoughts here, i'm a minimalist at heart too, and can see where yi might be drawing my attention to 23, because i was thinking about buying a load of feng shui 'things', maybe i dont have to. Like most things, its all to do with the intention isnt it?

Sorry for the late reply also, just back from a quick weekend trip to london, so that's my official excuse. ( i refrained from buying any shiny 'cures' and bagua mirrors in chinatown too! *proudface*)

i'd draw up a quick sketch of the layout of my room but all the online software i've come across is useless, and i don't have a scanner to do it on the fly, so sorry about that.

i've decided just to go with my gut on the whole feng shui ting, not spending any money, just gonna keep moving things around till it feels right (loosely based on what i've garnered from the net too)

thanks!

Yx

 

[meng]

feng shui ting

You made a Confucian slip. That really is it too! You create your Ting.

 

[yxeli]

hayah!!