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Along with an accurate
compass direction, determining your sitting and facing direction is
critical to performing a precise Feng Shui consultation. This area causes
so much confusion, we have been to so many consultations and told
before hand 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.
To give the answer is actually very hard, as there are so many different
views on how to find the front direction of your home or office, in fact
even a qualified Feng Shui consultant can spend some time analysing a
property before she/he makes a decision on where the front is.
Most people assume the front is the direction your front door faces, try
and imagine you are in a house (while you are there can you do some
ironing and dusting please) as you stand in the centre of the house, you
will be in the dining room with the living room and hallway and kitchen
either side, it have five large windows and one small facing north, there
is a road outside and a public footpath also in front of garden, but the
house do not have a front door there. On the east wall, there is 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 the front door faces east
it does not mean this is the front of a house, the 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 a house from scratch that would
definitely put the 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 the house again (make sure you lift the
ornaments and dust underneath) although it may have a driveway leading to
the garage and front main door, for example assume at the back of
the house now have a main road, pedestrian footpath, lots of people and
activity and even a lovely stream, you guessed it, this would now be the
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.
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