Feng Shui Articles 7                                            by Kerby Kuek  

　

What kind of parent are you?

Friday, September 24, 2010

According to fung shui, certain facial features can determine the nature of parents.

Let's look at mothers first.  

Round face: a mother with a round face is more family-oriented as opposed to a sharp-faced mother who is unlikely to stick around the home. The well-being of children is very important for a round- faced mother. 

Fine or thin eyebrows: too thick eyebrows indicate a mother who is careless about details. A woman with fine eyebrows will pay constant attention to the needs of her children. 

Big and caring eyes (not too small): children prefer these to ferocious eyes. 

Nice nose bridge (not too high): a mother with a nose bridge that is too high will not accept her children's ideas and more often than not create unnecessary and unwanted social problems for her offspring. 

Proportionate lips (not too thin): a mother with too thin lips is talkative and often will not try to understand as much as she wants to be understood. 

Now let's look at fathers. 

Full chin: since the chin represents the later years of a person, as well as the children's ability to unite family relationships, the fullness of a chin signifies that a father will have better family-gathering abilities and values. 

Rather flat cheekbones: flat cheekbones mean that a person will not get angry easily. A father with such cheekbones will care a lot about his children's upbringing without using unnecessary force. 

Big eyes: a father with big eyes is more sensitive to his children's well- being and does not resort to unnecessary force. A father with big eyes likes to reason with his children. 

Nose bridge without any breaks or bumps: such a father has close family relationships and values. 

Low nose bridge: a father with a lower nose bridge will accept his children's opinions and ideas more openly, thus creating better fellowship among family members.

High hairline: a father with a higher hairline is more analytical and unbiased, a characteristic that will be appreciated if you have many kids. 

Thought of the week: Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

　

Building up good karma

Friday, September 17, 2010 

The word "karma" means doing an action. Doing good is kusula karma, doing evil is akusala karma, and doing neutral actions - neither of merit or demerit - is avyakata karma.

The person who does all these forms of karma is the owner of his karma, and it is he who is responsible for his own good or evil. Each one of us should realize that we own our karma, which is what we have done in absolutely every case. 

Think of someone who is intelligent, clever and wealthy; who has never had much illness, who has physical well- being; who, when he thinks of something he wants, it comes to him as though the gods sent it. And wherever he goes, people look after him with care and respect, and venerate him. He has so much good fortune, but he cannot share it with anyone. 

In the same way, each of us is responsible for the results of our own karma, good or bad. 

This is the way of karma, and the owner of good karma is the heart that knows. 

Obstructing Tai Sui (Grand Duke Jupiter) 

Tai Sui literally means the star that is fully in charge, or in command, for that particular year. This is heavily associated with the Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch.  

The Heavenly Stem represents heavenly energies, and thus the sky's energy. In scientific terms, this is the magnetic field and radiation emissions. The Earthly Branch represents the earth's energies with directions.  

Each year, the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches combine in different ways, and the chemical reaction results in different energy directions, some kind and some unkind.  

In the Year of the Boar (2007), for example, the North direction/sector had a candlelight fire element.  

Imagine a water-loving Boar interacting with light fire energies - what would the chemical reaction be like?  

You tell me. Stock markets crashed, bankruptcies surged. Volatility, volatility and volatility!  

The Tai Sui sector should be kept quiet. Construction, demolition or any movement in such a sector is said to obstruct the natural flow of energies.  

That is why there is a saying in Chinese: Never obstruct the Tai Sui, and leave it alone.  

This year, the Tai Sui sector is in the northeast and next year, in the east. 

Thought of the week: Experience is the name everybody gives to their mistakes.

　

Seated for success

Friday, September 10, 2010 

fung shui is a valuable tool in the workplace. It helps to increase sales, boost the morale of employees, increase productivity and induce kind energies. Apply fung shui at your business or office at home. 

At work, you should have your seat on a solid surface and have stable back support. 

Create an artificial support if you do not have one. You can do this by placing eight white stones or pebbles under your seat, or cover your seat with brown and yellow cloth.  

Things to avoid at your workplace include having the back of your seat facing the door.  

This makes sense since a rule of thumb requires your back to have support, so any opening from behind is deemed to be a leakage or loophole interfering with your support. 

If the back of your seat faces the door, you may find it difficult to win the support of your superiors or your work will require constant correction.  

Ideally, you should move your workplace. If you cannot or do not have a choice, you should cover your chair with a yellow or brown shirt and place eight white stones under your seat.  

Make sure you arrange them properly and they are not out of place.  

Take a minute to find out which of your co-workers faces such a situation and examine the repercussions he or she faces, if any. 

Having a wall plate mirror behind your seat is essentially the same as having the back of your seat facing the door.  

The rationale is that the mirror reflects you without any concrete support.  

The mirror also serves as an absorbing tool to attract kind energies like water.  

However, since you are in front of the mirror, your energies will be drained away. You will feel muscle pain and be lethargic most of the time. 

Take a minute to examine what type of mirror you have in your home or office.  

Some mirrors are concave and some are flat, for different purposes. The flat mirror absorbs energy, while the concave reflects energies. 

Thought of the week: For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

(features in Hong Kong Standard Newspaper every Friday) 　

Kerby Kuek has published three books on fung shui. He specializes in yin and yang fung shui, I-ching, life analysis and astrology.