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That is what I think about the metaphysical side of Feng Shui. The physical or material side is easy to understand and apply. The metaphysical side is more like an Art or a game, because you can arrive at a similar effect using very different approaches. One example from my early experiments may illustrate what I mean:

Cutting a tree without touching it

About 15 years ago, i had a case of a some tenants apartment. One of the problems was located at the backyard. The apartment was in one of those housing blocks built in the 60ies, very common in big Swiss cities. The facing of that apartment was towards that backyard. The property management some years ago had planted pine trees, and those pine trees, while being nice at first when being small, grew like bamboo fighting for sunlight, in the process stealing the light from the house and because of a lack of proper space were about touching the house. That is bad in Feng Shui.

The solution would be to trim or cut the young aggressive pines. However, not advisable for the tenant to take a chainsaw and cut them down just like this. So what to do? Time to get creative, i guessed. So i looked up a GengShen (big axe upon big axe) day and the tenant got himself a real hatchet. That hatchet on that day on a certain hour (i took a clash date) was mounted vertically (attack position) on a stand, with the blade of it directed towards the stem of the pine next to the apartment. While mounting the hatchet to its position, I focused on the wish that pine would be removed. No formula involved, just some very basic Date selection, precise positioning and intention.

I forgot the exact time span, after about 2 weeks or a bit less, that pine was chopped down by professional workers the property management must have had sent. The tree next to the house was gone, light came into the apartment.

So you might say: „Just mere coincidence“! I fully agree. This is not science. It may or may not be able to be repeated. Problem with science is: it demands the same result under any condition. Science has a day of 24hs and that is valid for everyone. So science assumes every day is like the same, within the rules of the seasons. However it neglects the fact that every day is different and that people born on different days, in different seasons, in different years, do have different mental and physical qualities or characteristics. It also suppresses or ignores any real occurences not in line with scientific dogma, e.g. the gravitational anomalies which can be found and be verified by anyone (e.g. in Italy there is a spot in the mountains where you have to push the brakes uphill, and push the gaspedal downhill).
So for the more „magical“ aspects of Feng Shui: it works or it does not. When it works it is just a mere coincidence. I can live with that, what does it matter as long as the purpose is fulfilled?

This case study might also highlight the power of intention and imagination. If you are really good at that, i think you will not need the energy of the Date.
Imo, in that specific case it would not have worked without the power of intention and also timing the proper time of putting out that intention.

Youtube washed up this video for me. It features the locations of Putin’s 13 residences in and around Europe and Asia. Besides being very informative, it enables anyone to have a look on the Feng Shui of his buildings.

Some of you might know that i research European Renaissance Feng Shui, so i was baffled and electrified to see that the guys who built this palace for him, obviously are using ancient Chinese Feng Shui principles in sync with the European Renaissance Garden and Palace Feng Shui. By the way, do you know who was the first person to experimentally use it at the time? Ya, of course, the Pope in Rome, who else… research it yourself if you do not believe me ;)

The residence i like to portray just a bit is Putin’s Neo-Renaissance Palace, located at Cape Idokopas, Russia. According to Wikipedia, it was constructed in 2005. So they built a Renaissance inspired Palace all anew in 2005. Most people might think that is just another quirk of some megalomanic individual, and why should they not, apart the fact that he simultaneously is the Head of a Superpower. However, he apparently uses the principles of Power Feng Shui based on landform, which most people will unlikely be able to spot. Everything just looks natural, right? Well, yes and no. Have a look at the macrosetup of his Palace:

Anybody can see that the residence is sited at the end of a ridge which is terminating towards the Black Sea. Anybody can see the main axis is running aligned with the direction of the ridge. Anybody can see the 9 fold bended road incoming. Anybody can see the two Helipads. Have you heard of the Vesica Pisces? Just asking. I leave it at these teasers.

Way back i did some work on the Palace at Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel (depicted in this article is the 2nd building phase, after remodeling). Unlike most other Renaissance Feng Shui projects, in Wilhelmshöhe the building Master used the Mountains to charge the Palace in a rather obvious way. Within 70 years, the small Electorate of Hessen-Kassel was catapulted to be a player at the European Powergame of the time. Then the park and the Palace were remodeled and it took just 15 years to fall back to insignificance for the Electorate by being conquered by Napoleon. Well, never change a running system ;)
Both Kassel (1st builing stage) and Idokopas share the similarity that their Power Feng Shui is not as disguised as other functional Power Feng Shui hubs like in London, Washington, Paris etc. The setup is simple and rather transparent. Anyone just notice the similar patterns of the setup and composition of the space. I will not spill details here. However, just like in the case of that bygone first Wilhelmshöhe Palace, Putin did make a steep rise, and seems to still be on a steep rise. From the outside it looks like Putin actually IS in Power, just like some Renaissance Duke – a thing i doubt with a lot of contemporary other leaders „in power“. Coincidence? And if so, does it matter? I think it does.

If someone is out there doing some similar type of research like me, i might be be interested in some conversation.

Der Besitzer dieses Kiosks hat aus Feng Shui Sicht eine Menge richtig gemacht. Ob er es wusste oder nicht, die Elemente des Kiosks sind nach der grundlegenden Formel „Schildkröte-Drache-Phönix-Tiger“ angeordnet. Das Gebäude hinter dem Kiosk wird zur Schildkröte, der Zeitungsstand links wird zum Drachen, er ist idealerweise etwas höher als der Tiger gegenüber, der durch die Eiskiste gegeben ist. Der Tisch mit dem Krimskrams vorn in der Mitte hält das Qi vor der Kasse zurück. Nach irgendwelchen anderen Formeln braucht man hier eigentlich nicht mehr zu schauen, der Laden dürfte bereits so wie er ausgerichtet ist sehr gut laufen.

The older lady was scared about the Junkieshelter the city council had decided to establish in a house across the street of her main door. She asked if Feng Shui possibly could help. I went to the place and found that indeed that Junkieshelter was not adding any especially good vibes to the neighbourhood. Many junkies are artists, well able to express their states of mind. They had installed quite a few selfmade art objects in their front yard, like a sculpture made of huge shards of broken mirror glass, some monster-like statues and the like. The old lady already had a proper hedge surrounding her house, obviously that was not enough to shield her from the terror across.

I inquired her birthdate and measured the Sitting and Facing of her house. I found that the house, her birthdate and also the year in which she asked me were in the same group of hexagrams (using the so called „bloodlink kinship of hexagrams“. That type of method is from within the school of Xuan Kong Da Gua and I decided this might be a way to tackle the issue.

I calculated the month, day and hour the chirurgical Feng Shui incision had to be made, which then was about 2 months in the future. I asked her to go to a local stonemason and look for some elongated erratic boulder around 1,5m tall, which appealed well to her. The thing had to be delivered on the calculated day to her door. Using the bloodlink method, the stone was to be placed and erected at the correct spot at the correct month, day and hour, in sync with her birthdate and the positioning of the house.
All went well, the stonemason delivered the rock on the correct day and the stone was put into place at the correct time. By applying the Chinese characters for „TaiShan“ (China`s holy mountain), a protective Talisman was created.

About two months later i got curious. I called the lady and asked about that problem house. She replied „Oh, I totally forgot about that house. It is just like as it has disappeared“.

Dead, nonfunctional or broken watches, clocks, or any timepieces correlate to time standing still, no change taking place. Any timepiece should be functional and intact. Even a perfectly well working and pretty timepiece is usually not seen as a good thing in Feng Shui, it reminds us that time is running and never coming back, it is a reminder of getting old and death. The Chinese for that reason never present watches or clocks as a gift. However, in Feng Shui clocks can be used for positive effect or for pressing down negative effects also. It depends on where and how they are placed. But back to the dead timepieces.

So i went hunting for old watches not in use in my place. Pretty surprising to find four of those, one from my time at university, one from a weird time I once bought in Venice and two inherited from my father. The first I kept because it has a surprisingly accurate altitude meter, the second because it is pretty as only the Italians can do it and the other two have a base of gold. The first one („but it has this awesome altitude meter“) went straight to the bin. The second one will leave me in a public book box, with a new battery it is still fully functional and pretty, someone may have a use for it. The third i finally left at he book box too. Main thing I get rid of this junk.

The last one is still functional i found out, so i put it in a direction where it helps generating some supportive energy.

Sobald zu viel des Guten angehäuft wird, wird es zuviel des Guten. Kinder, die mit Spielzeugen überhäuft werden, lassen nach kurzer Zeit den Grossteil der Spielzeuge links liegen. Frauen, die sich mehrere Schrankfüllungen aus Schuhen oder Kleidern zugelegt haben, wissen sich bald nicht mehr zu entscheiden was sie tragen wollen. Männer, die sich Werkzeugausrüstungen für jeden Fall der Fälle und Anwendungszweck zulegten, gebrauchen das meiste davon nicht.

Dem „Zuviel des Guten“ folgt nicht nur die Verschwendung von Geld aus den zahlreichen Käufen und Speicherplatz für die Aufbewahrung der Dinge. Ihm folgt auch die Schwächung der Konzentration auf das Wesentliche. Wer z.B. eine Anzahl von Werkzeugen lagert die mehr oder weniger regelmässig benutzt werden, der hat genug des Guten. Ein anderer, der dieselbe Anzahl von Werkzeugen lagert, diese aber nie benutzt, für den werden diese Werkzeuge zum Ballast. Das gleiche gilt für Spielzeuge, Kleider, Schuhe, Bücher, Kochgeräte usw.

Von Puristen und Messies

Die Übergänge zwischen Puristen und Messies sind fliessend. Purist sein bedingt nicht notwendigerweise nur wenig zu haben. Ein Purist hat das Feld seiner Aufmerksamkeit auf das Wesentliche eingehegt und trachtet auf diesem nach dem besten Ergebnis. Ein Purist mag jedes Jahr 100000 Euro für die noch bessere Stereoanlage, den besseren Winkelschleifer etc. ausgeben, aber er entledigt sich dann des minderwertig gewordenen „Besten von gestern“. Ein anderer Typ des Puristen mag fälschlicherweise als Messie angesehen werden, z.B. jemand der alle verfügbaren Coverversionen eines bestimmten Songs sammelt, oder ein Starwarsfan der tausende an Starwarsgimmicks hat. Der Purist und der Nerd/die Koryphäe liegen nah beieinander. Was diese vom Messie unterscheidet ist, dass der Purist die Kontrolle über seine sehr kleine oder sehr grosse Sammlung behält, der Messie sie aber schon lang verloren hat und die Masse an angehäuften Dingen als äusseres Schutzschild gegen die eigene Konzentration auf das Wesentliche gebraucht. Selbst jeder Messie braucht Raum zum Leben, selbst in den schlimmsten Messiehaushalten gibt es begehbare Wege zu Bett, Herd und Haustür. Der Rest des inneren Raumes, geistig wie materiell, ist unzugänglich durch all das Zeug „was man ja brauchen könnte“, oder „was man nicht loslassen kann“.

Konzentration auf das Wesentliche

Einem Kind das nicht mehr spielt weil es zu viele Spielsachen hat, einem Menschen der nicht mehr liest weil er zu viele Bücher hat, diesen wird geholfen indem man das zu bearbeitende Feld verkleinert und sich auf das Wesentliche konzentriert. Das Wesentliche sollte dann gleichzeitig von der bestmöglichen Qualität sein. Das Feld gross genug um die Entfaltung und das Gedeihen zuzulassen und klein genug um es bewirtschaften zu können. Sobald das Unkraut bzw. das Gerümpel aus dem Weg ist, ist der Raum zur Entfaltung frei.

Für Erwachsene gilt die Daumenregel: „Zwei Jahre nicht benutzt – kann weg“. Bei Kindern ist der Zyklus kürzer. Wenn Sie aber feststellen, dass ihr Kind sich für eine Sache wirklich interessiert, dann sparen Sie nicht am falschen Ende, kaufen Sie ihm gute Qualität.

Ein Beispiel aus dem Leben

Eine Kundin hat dies so gemacht: als sich herausstellte dass ihre Tochter gern zeichnet, bekam diese trotz schmalem Budget einen Apple mit Zeichenstift ins Jugendzimmer gestellt. Die Entscheidung zum Wechsel aus dem öffentlichen Bildungssystem hin zu einer teuren Privatschule öffnete den Weg für die Tochter zu einem kurzen und knackigen Studium an einer Designschule. Die mit Belobigung abgeschlossene Designschule öffnete den Weg zu einem guten Job in der Industrie. Nach einem Jahr stellte sich heraus, dass der Industriejob nicht das war, was die Tochter glücklich machte und sie wechselte in ein Tattoostudio um die Grundlagen dieses Handwerks zu lernen. Nach einem halben Jahr eröffnete sie ihr eigenes Tattoostudio. Bisher erfolgreich. Dies ist ein gutes Beispiel für die Konzentration auf das Wesentliche. Wesentlich ist was dem Wesen entspricht, das gilt für Werkzeug- oder Kleiderschränke, Bibliotheken, Spielzeugsammlungen, egal was.

Das Nichtwesentliche kann weg.

No, the other White house, the one of the TV-show characters Walter and Skyler White from „Breaking Bad“.

Good movies often show Feng Shui features fitting to the story

Did you ever notice that artists e.g. like show producers successfully implement valid Feng Shui rules into their work? It just seems to work. Let´s have a look at the Feng Shui of the White`s house of the show „Breaking Bad“.

Poison Arrows out and in

The location of the house the show was filmed at shows a vicious poison arrow hitting the house, namely the garage which is located on the left or Dragon side of the house. Left side is male side, the garage is huge. Like in the show it suggests that the male is out a lot but also meeting with a lot of adversity. The arrow directly hits the garage (male).

It is also obvious that the house has two heads. Just like Skyler and Walter fighting for dominance of the family all throughout the show.

Zooming closer, we see a dead tree in a sea of gross pebbles on the right (female) side. The wife has lots of troubles and a hard life, difficult emotions.
The lot has no boundary, the Qi cannot gather.
The entrance to the house is very hard to find and clogged by brushes where they should not be. This house has breathing problems. Walter in the show gets lung cancer, a life threatening condition. The tree stands for the male. Fittingly to the sharp branches piercing the entrance, in the show he is coughing blood. Even when the tree is green, the wife does not support him too well. There is little nutrition in pebbles and the humidity in the soil evaporates fast.
Besides that, the house gives an air of being rigidly meek and conforming to the outside. It is easy to infringe on these nonexistent boundaries.
There is nothing to hold the Qi in, money flows away fast. As quickly as he gets it in the show, as quickly he is dead broke again in an instant.

Stepping in, like in many US american houses, we already have entered the living room. In the US, most everybody is „your buddy“ from the start.
In the case of the White´s house, the main door crashes directly into the suite. Think of Hank and Marie´s kind of overbearing type of „help“ they offer to their siblings, or that of the school director, or that of the Schwartz couple… there is always someone who knows it better and that with certainty.

Looking in from the living room, we see the inside poison arrow splitting the house in two halves:

The bedroom is located at the side of the end of the arrow, there the energy of the propelled Qi crashes in. Walt Jr.´s room is to the right in the middle of the arrow, he does not get too much attention anyway.

Also in the show we have the water theme: a pool behind the house likely makes for mental or physical troubles, the water coming from the taps inside of the house in the beginning of the show is always dirty and also does not heat up well. Again drained and cold emotions, dirty money/water, a pool of either clean water nobody ever uses or swims in except for the one time Skyler makes her fake suicide attempt or when Walter Jr. throws up into it. Oh yeah, the burnt doll dropping from the exploded plane likes to swim in it too. And the Eye of God watching over all this madness is harboured by Walter after he secures it out of the pool sink and furtherly will watch over his fate once the Salamanca brothers arrive to kill him. Otherwise the pool is empty and drained in the later episodes.

Once he got the boiler going by having exchanged it to a top model, at least the dull emotions are gone past…

But is that a house of a supervillain? Not really. Has any of this any meaning outside of the TV show? Who knows. But in real life, the owners had to put up sturdy fences to stop the infringements of crazy fans throwing pizzas onto their garage roof, see the first picture. That was a necessary Feng Shui cure, but looking at how they did it, i think they overdid it.