Along with an accurate compass direction, determining your sitting
and facing direction is critical to performing a precise Feng Shui
consultation. We would estimate that 70% of people get this wrong.
This area causes so much confusion, we have been to so many consultations
and told beforehand that a property faces a certain direction and
when we get there the direction of the front door is totally different
to the facing direction.
Forget your front door direction
Most people assume the front is the direction your front door faces,
try and imagine you are in my home as you stand in the centre of
my home you will be in my dining room with the living room and hallway
and kitchen either side, I have five large windows and one small
facing north, there is a road outside and a public footpath also
my front garden, but I do not have a front door there. On the east
wall I have a main door with porch and one window, which looks onto
the next-door neighbours house.
Hopefully you will get the idea by now, because my front door faces
east it does not mean this is the front of my home, my facing direction
is north, this is where the most ?Yang? (activity) energy is, the
road, footpath, people and cars going by, the widest part of the
building, if you were the architect designing my home from scratch
you would definitely put my front door there. This part is very
very important, as when you calculate any school of Feng Shui you
need to know which way your property faces.
If you take my house again (make sure you lift the ornaments and
dust underneath) although I may have a driveway leading to the garage
and front main door, for example assume at the back I now have a
main road, pedestrian footpath, lots of people and activity and
even a lovely stream, you guessed it, this would now be my front
direction as this is where all my Yang energy is, this is not uncommon
when you think about it, drive down any main road you will see many
homes with back gardens facing the road and yet they will always
think this is the rear in Feng Shui terms. This can be hard to judge
even for the most seasoned Master especially if you are on the top
floor of a block of flats or a large office building.
Facing and Sitting Directions
The facing direction is the front that faces the ?yang? (active)
energy, the sitting direction is actually more important this is
the area that has the most ?yin? (quiet) energy. The sitting direction
determines your properties Trigram. So if your property faces 350
degrees north, the sitting direction is 170 degrees south, so the
Trigram for this property is ?Li?.
Now we know that this is a ?Li? property we would know that the
best colour to paint this property on the outside would be fire
colours, red, orange, purple etc.
How do I know which is Yin (sitting) and which is Yang (facing)?
Yang (facing): This is the most active energy, energy that is lively:
A busy road.
A public footpath.
A flowing river.
The side of a property that has the most windows.
Your street sign.
The south (bright) is Yang and the north (dark) is Yin.
A childrens? playground or primary school.
The main entrance is usually (not always) the facing direction.
A nice view.
The architects intention, try and guess how he felt the sitting
direction would be.
A living or family room is normally on the facing side.
Just because your home may face a children?s playground this does
not automatically mean this is your facing direction, you need to
consider all the factors given on this page.
Yin (sitting direction): This is where the least energy resides:
A back yard usually is your sitting direction or an alleyway.
Tall dark trees at the back of your grounds.
Smaller darker rooms.
The north (dark) is Yin energy.
The quiet side of the property.
The kitchen and bathroom (not always) is normally at the back.
Bedrooms are normally on the sitting side.
Utility or washrooms are normally in the sitting direction.
The sitting direction could look onto a large building or a row
of houses.
The side of the property that is not that attractive to the eye,
i.e. down-pipes from the bathroom, gutter pipes placed sideways
across the main-wall.
You will need to take a view on all of the above; a good test to
find your facing direction is, if you had to take a photo of your
home or office which angle would you take it from? Would you take
the picture of the front door that has nothing on that wall except
the main entrance or would you take the picture of the side that
has the most windows and is more pleasing to the eye.
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