After the earlier explanation of water and feng shui, I was asked to comments on the placement of aquariums and how it can be connected to the application of feng shui.
In most offices, it is common to hear about the politics and the corporate power struggles that are happening inside. The problems employers encounter each day with their office staff, the lack of cooperation and the list goes on... etc.
Some will wonder if there’s a method or a way that they could apply or use to help ward off such problems. According to the Jiu Gong Yii Kua Feng Shui practiced, placing an aquarium in the correct position/ sector in connection to the five elements will not only eliminate such problem that causes this imbalance, it can at the same time attributes and do activate chi to benefit in other ways than just bringing monetary prosperity.
Tips 1. The Chairman or The Managing Directors of the company will need to find out their personal Kua Number to locate the sector to place the aquarium. 2. Otherwise, they could also use their 4 auspicious directions or sectors to place the aquarium. 3. Placing an aquarium in the phoenix position in a main lobby of an office or building will help to enhance wealth, creating excellent feng shui.
Inauspicious position to place an aquarium 1. Do not place an aquarium in your bedroom. Your bedroom is a place where you need to really sleep and rejuvenate yourself. The aquarium symbolizes movement, when placed in a bedroom it can lead to suffer of losses, creating bad health, bad luck and bad career luck. 2. Do not place an aquarium at the west position, your white tiger sector (白虎方), your adultery sector (桃花方) and your five devils sector (五鬼方). When placed at these inauspicious positions it will cause one to suffer losses and face back stabbing from others. 3. The water level in the aquarium must not be higher than the owner’s chest as this will drown the owner.
The Right Fish for Your Aquarium To help enhance wealth and to provide saviour (贵人), goldfish or carp is highly recommended. For big corporate, the arowana will be more suitable.
Fishy Story In 1996, I was invited to do a review for Mr and Mrs X’s house. It is about 10,000 sq feet. In the main living room, Mr X has an aquarium which houses a beautiful arowana fish. As I go through the feng shui chart with Mr X, I explained to him that his personal kua, Shin Kung on the right hand side of the living room is his adultery position (桃花方). As he had placed an aquarium there, I suggest he remove the aquarium to the left hand side of the room to avoid the house occupants of committing adultery. Mr X immediately instructed his maids to move the aquarium. I left Mr X’s house after completing my review. Two years after my appointment with Mr X, I met Mrs X at a shopping complex while I was doing my shopping. She greeted me and we stopped for a chat. I asked her on their well being and this is what she answered me. “Mr Kueh, how accurate your review at my house is. After your review, I went to stay with my daughter (who is studying in UK) for 6 months. When I returned home, I noticed the aquarium was back at its original position. I didn’t think it was important then but after awhile I noticed some change in my husband. When I confronted him, he confessed to me that while I was away, he had an affair with his secretary and today he had a mistress. I was sad that this had happened but in a way, I had to admit that the placing of the aquarium is important as you had earlier warned us that adultery will happen if it’s place in that position. You see my husband move the aquarium back to the right hand side of the main living room while I was away." Mrs X bade me farewell after that. For me, I was sad that people choose to abuse the application of feng shui. It is a noble practised meant to help to enhance one living standard and not to abused it. So practised it wisely!
In the theory of the subject "Feng Shui 風水" the word water has frequently been used to describe or represent many things. It has also been used to represent the blood of the dragon. Why is the word water being used? Water can flows in any direction, nothing can stop in its way, the flow can either be a fast or slow flow. It can be natural, it can also be created. When a Feng Shui Practitioner uses the word water, it can meant the flow of chi "Shui Loo 水路",the water features around your home, the dragon's blood "Suen Loong Tien Siek 寻龍點穴" etc and the lists goes on.
While water also represents wealth, ancient text on water in Feng Shui has a saying that goes, "The mountain represents sons, and water represents wealth 山管人丁，水管財". That's where, the water flow in your home compound can be arrange to attract and capture the dragon's cosmic breathe. Some say, to tap the chi, so the chi has to be found, then collected. Your home compound landscape plays a role in this. The flow of water when correctly positioned can be altered to capture or harness auspicious chi to bring good fortune to the house occupants. Likewise it can also be altered or created to disperse bad chi that causes misfortune etc.
Below are some explanations on the symbols of water:
1. Chou Shui 朝水 - Water feature which is in front of your house.
2. Chi Shui 去水 - Water which flows out of your house, if the flow is fast and strong, it creates the poison arrow effect "Lou Chi"( bad chi). If you have a drain which the flow is strong, cover the drain.
3. Chit Shui 聚水 - Whirlpool or lake in front of a house, such flow of chi is good for the house as the energy/chi will concentrate in that area collecting auspicious chi bringing wealth to its occupants.
4. Fan Shui 放水 - Water that comes from the drain or from hilly ground. If the water is clean water, it's best to arranged the flow to the green dragon position "Qing Loong Fang 青龍方". If it is contaminated water, arrange the flow to the white tiger position "Pai Hu Fang 白虎方".
Many modern homes today are installed with some water features. It is advisable to seriously study if the placing is correct. When wrongly placed, the effects that comes with it effecting the house occupants are bad health, adultery, and if serious case, death. For a home, the erection of a pond or well, it is advisable not be erect a well in a house that has been occupied for a long time as when wrongly placed causes death. "Siat Pern Chow Jing 血盆照鏡". If there is a need to erect a pond or a swimming pool, it is advisable to erect it further away from the house avoiding the front door, adultery position "桃花方" in your home and the enemy position "Wu Kui Fang 五鬼方". Water enhances the bad chi at the adultery position "桃花方" and the enemy position "Wu Kui Fang 五鬼方" increasing its effects. When this happens, it not only affects the man in the house, it also affects the female occupants in the house. An issue, best to avoid.
There is no fix design or shape on your pond, carefully study the position, locate the right place then only decide on the right shape or design. In my travels, I have come across some homes where two ponds or water features were erected in front of the house, one positioned on the right hand side, the other on the left hand side. This scenerio is also found everywhere at the Forbidden Palace in Beijing, China. Two huge jars filled with water sits on each side of the doors, left and right. In the subject "Feng Shui 風水" your front door represent your mouth, so when you have two water features placed on each side, it represents the two eyes with tears. That's why so much tears were shed at the Forbidden Palace. If you have two water features each on the right and left side of your house, it is advisable to keep only one of the water feature. Dispose or cover the other one, if it is a pond. Stories extracted from the Forbidden Palace, the effects of the water features created effecting the occupants there is already a lesson for all of us to learn, so seriously study the placing of the water features in your home to avoid such unnecessary tragedies.
