Pfs Course 2

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Introductory Traditional Feng Shui Course

By John Mausolfs Pure Feng Shui

http://www.purefengshui.com

http://www.purefengshui.com.au

~ Part 2 ~

Compass, Directions and the Areas of your place

Version 1.0 - November 2004


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1 - Compass, Directions & Areas

OK, there's heaps of different types of compasses available, so what type should you actually use for Feng Shui asa beginner in an urban environment?

It is not necessary for you to use a LuoPan (the Chinese Feng Shui Compass) in Feng Shui for self help, so don'tlet anyone talk you into wasting hundreds of dollars on something you don't actually need.

In all honesty, I never take a compass reading from a LuoPan in suburbia, it is too easily influenced by electricalinterference, especially in steel-framed homes. I do however look at the (compass) needle movement of theLuoPan as I go through premises. Certain movements of the needle indicate a whole manner of things, which arenot visible to the untrained eye; such as buried bones or weapons, underground water, even ghosts!

I recommend only one form of compass for beginners. Known as a "Lensatic" or"Engineers" compass, and appearing to the left. Available here in Australia, for aroundabout $27 ($AU) from Australian Geographic. This type of compass has an oil filledreservoir containing the compass plate, this oil actually assists the compass remainmagnetically true even when under the influence of mild EMF's (Electro-Magnetic-Fields).These compass' also have cross hair lines for aligning one's self with outer walls ofbuildings, and have two degree increments which are easy to read through use of themagnifying glass that is part of the Lensatic / Engineers Compass.

Some practitioners of Feng Shui recommend the flat looking "Hiking" or "Orienteering" type compasses asquite OK to use. I don't, as they usually only have five-degree increments, and are too easily influenced byjewellery, electrical and metallic objects. Costing up to $250 ($AU), don't waste your money!

Other practitioners recommend using the bulbous looking "Boating" or "Car-Rally" type compasses, again, Idon't recommend this type of compass as appropriate for Feng Shui usage for the self same reasons asmentioned above, not to mention the fact that it can cost over $500 ($AU) for a moderately sized boatingcompass.


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Things to be aware of before you use your compass....

1. Take off all metal jewellery that is on your hands, wrists, chest and neck area as well as around the faceregions as it can influence your reading by up to 20 degrees!

2. Do not take a compass reading with a mobile phone / palm pilot / or PDA on your person.

3. Do not stand over or under the electrical powerlines coming into the premises you are looking at.

4. Do not take a reading from within (at least) 7.5 metres of an electrical transformer on a power pole.

5. Do not take a reading whilst standing next/near to the electrical meter box/board.

6. Do not take a reading from the street near any powerlines, especially if there is high humidity, or it has justrained and you can hear that "buzzing" sound. This buzzing is actually the EMF around the powerlines, andif you go there after dark with a fluoro tube you will actually see it light up, without being plugged in. That'show strong these electrical fields are!

7. Do not take a reading from anywhere inside of the premises you are looking at.

8. Go and spend about 20 minutes with your feet buried (above the ankles) in Mother Earth whilst facing your"D" direction before using your compass. This helps regulate your bodies electrostatic field for optimalcompass use.

9. Make sure that the central plate of your compass is perfectly free to spin on the horizontal axis (round andround), and is not wedged or stuck. This can be achieved easily by just tilting the compass a little andseeing that the plate has free movement to spin horizontally. You will then get an accurate reading.

How to get a cor rect compass reading....

1. Re-read the above 9 tips!

2. Align yourself with as many exterior walls of your home as is possible, so that you get asmany readings as you can, looking in all possible directions. By doing this, you are able tosee the magnetic difference/variance around your place, and work out your correctcompass alignment thanks to your multiple observations.

3. Face toward the building and not away from it, this way you actually have something, suchas the exterior walls to align yourself with, rather than guessing whether you are standingparallel to the building.

4. The exact same rules apply for home units also, as per the graphic below.


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Facing & Sitting Directions

In order for you to use your Ming Gua (Lucky Directions) and BaZhai (8 Houses), we need to know the "Facing"and "Sitting" directions of your place. These are always 180 degrees from one another, and can fall on any of the 8Palaces (North/Kan, South/Li, etc.), or may fall on any of the 24 mountains that we look at in the more advancedFlying Star Feng Shui method later on.

Think of the "Facing" as the front / facade of your home, and the "Sitting" as the back or rear of your premises.

The facing of your place is derived by means irrelevant of the direction or location of your front door. TheFacing direction is simply 180 degrees (opposite to) the Sitting direction. Some homes sit across theirproperty, most homes sit to the back of the property (opposite to the street front).

e.g. a home sitting to 84 degrees (Mao) and facing 264 degrees (You).

The facing is literally the front side of your home.

In homes overlooking water / perched on cliff tops / etc...., you actually arrive at the rear or"Sitting" of the home (usually the garage / laundry / bathroom / etc....) with the living areasand Yang spaces being on the "Facing" or Water / View side.

Do not get confused that just because the Yang spaces such as the living areas are at the rear or side of a house,that a place is going to be facing away from the street! If the front of the premises is dressed with a finish of somesort (render, quoins, stone-work, etc... just like a lady wearing make-up), or simply faces on to the street, this is thefacing side of the home, regardless of the living spaces or Yang areas being at the rear or side of the premises.

In the example above sitting 84 degrees / facing 264 degrees, a West Group person would like to facetowards the front of the home when seated inside, and also to sleep with the top of their head pointingtowards the front of the home.

A build ing with a confused facing!

In this example of a home situated on a corner block,there is no front door or entrance into the facing of the building!

Close up of the facing side of this home.

The home is facing one direction toward the main road,and the front door is facing towards the side street.

Just because you would enter the home from this side pictured to theright, does not make it the facing direction of the building structure!The heavy architectural features are clearly visible in the middle

picture, above, and this dictates its facing direction.

As I said above, this is just like a lady wearing makeup!


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Finding the Centre Point

Now that you know what direction your home "Sits" and "Faces", we need to know where the centre of your homeis, so that we can apply the floor plan overlay template included in the next booklet onto your floor plans. This thenallows you to see exactly which rooms fall into what areas, and therefore, the quality of the rooms.

In square and rectangular homesthis is easy, simply draw lines from the opposite corners creating an Xon your floor plan, thereby indicating your centre point.

In homes that are unusually shaped, like looking at stairs side on, or with dog legs all over the place,etc... I suggest you make a cut out of your homes floor plan (to scale / with correct proportions) on paper, take thisto your local copy centre, and get it laminated, then cut it out exactly to the outer walls and balance this on a pin.When you find the balance point, you need to stick the pin through, indicating the gravitational centre of your home.

In "L" shaped homes there are a few easy steps to follow.

Step 1:Find the centre of the two parts as indicated in red, do this in pencil so it can beerased. Draw a line between these two centres, indicated in blue, do this in biro. Erase thepencil lines.

Step 2:Following the same procedure again, using pencil first, then biro, we find the centre ofthe other portions as indicated below.

Step 3: Where the two biro lines cross is your centre point

It is now just a matter of aligning your template includedin the next booklet so that you have the facing compassreading of the template at the front of your home,extended straight out from the centre point, and thesitting compass reading at the rear of your home, againextended straight out from the centre point.

If you don't have access to floor plans, simply draw up your own floor plans making sure that they are to scale. 1cm= 1m. Measure the outside dimensions of your home, indicating every window and door way in their correctpositions, then draw up the inside floor plan.

You do not need to draw every little piece of furniture, just the walls, doorways and windows accurately positionedand to scale.

Whether you include the Carport or Garage in your floor plan, as part of the centring process is all determined bywhether or not the Carport is used as an entrance into the home. Does the Carport have a door entering directlyinto the home, and is it used? If yes, then include this as part of your floor plan.


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Floor plan example with areas marked out after finding the gravitational centre point.

In finding the centre point for the left floor plan, theGarage was not included, because it does not havean entry directly into the home.

Once the areas have been marked out according tothe Facing and Sitting directions, we are then able torelatively easily see what rooms are in what areas,and under what influences.

Some folks get caught up in whether to dividethe building into a pie wedge with eight 45degree wedge portions, or whether to divide it

up into a neat 3 X 3 "tic-tac-toe" or "noughts& crosses" type box... Well the correctanswer is to do both!? Sort of!!!!

Do not think that the areas end exactly where thelines are for the eight 45 degree wedge portions as inthe above picture!

In the next picture (to the right) I have marked outthe 9 area grids for the above example, with therooms in each section indicated in different colours,and the centre left white. I refer to this as the "MagicIce Cube Tray Technique"!Think of a regular old icecube tray, we can see all of the neatly defined areasto pour our water into; they are all even and uniform,yes? Well in a building, the eight 45 degree wedgeareas are not all even and uniform, they stretch, andshrink to fit within the various rooms boundaries orwalls, just like the completed examples below!

The secret to working out whether the toilet in thetop right of the following picture is included withinthe blue or yellow section is to simply look at whereits doorway or entrance is!

The 45-degree wedge that straddles Bed 2 and theStudy simply slides down to the grey area of theStudy!

Remember that this is a "Magic Ice Cube Tray" with the power to stretch, and shrink as required!


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Here is an example of another home, sitting to 135 degrees, Xun. It is divided into its 9 areas; with the eight 45-degree wedges also visible through the use of our template you download in our next booklet.

In this example, the bedroom in the centre right(pale orange / brown) becomes the SW area, eventhough the door is in the West of the wedgediagram, the Carport (pale blue) becomes theWestern area for this home!

When finding the centre point for this home, the

carport was not included in the process! Reasonbeing that there is no entrance into the home fromthe carport. If there had have been an entry intothe home from the carport, it would have beenincluded as part of the home, and the centre pointwould have been on the right hand side of thepassage, not on the left.

The passage (white) has become the centre areaof this example home, excluding the entry room atthe front door (grey at bottom of the picture).

When it comes to looking at external things to see what area they fall into, forget about the "Magic IceCube Tray", and look directly at the lines that indicate the eight 45 degree wedges, as they extend fromyour home! This will allow you to see accurately and concisely where any outside influences fall within yourplace eternally!

In the next booklet, we cover using the MingGua method for working out your personalised lucky directions and theBaZhai method, to show you the intrinsic energies of your home. Even showing you how to treat and activate themeffectively!

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