In addition to your Zodiac animal sign, every one of us is also influenced by our lunar mansion which is symbolically represented by one of 28 animals that correspond to the 28 days in a typical month.

Lillian Too explains the great benefits of installing twinkling lights and lanterns in your home to tune into the celebration of Christmas, the New Year and the lunar New Year. ‘Tis the time to be merry and it’s a great time to prepare for it!

Lillian Too explains fine points in using the Feng Shui Ruler as she highlights the importance of taking the right kinds of measurements and selecting the correct kind of luck to energize. She also offers a couple of secret pointers that make applications of the feng shui ruler a lot more effective and fast acting.

These days practitioners of Chinese feng shui are less intimidated with the formula of Flying Stars. When this formula of feng shui was first introduced to the English speaking world, the general response was, ‘"it is too difficult" and this was because at first glance it appears very technical and mathematical.

Lillian Too shares a little known formula in feng shui, the Magic Ratio of dimensions which is easy to understand and simple to apply when arranging furniture in homes and offices.

Find out what numbers work for you and stick with them!

There are different ways of assessing the feng shui of homes built along hillsides. In cities such as Hong Kong, where so much of the population live in high rise buildings along Mid-levels or on the peak, feng shui Masters expend considerable energies determining which of the formulas of feng shui best apply.

For practitioners of compass formula feng shui which uses the significance of numbers and symbols to interpret the luck maps of living and work spaces, LILLIAN TOO discusses the attributes and meanings of the all important Sigil of Flying Star and offers some suggestions on how they can be used to enhance one’s personal feng shui and the contemporary environment.....

Decorative objects and photographs you display around your house or office can create startling effects on the way you feel and the luck you attract. So at the application level, practising feng shui should take account of hidden messages that get created in the home or office. Lillian Too puts the spotlight on the unnoticed symbolic messages that are present in homes and offices and advises how to use them to suppress bad luck and enhance good fortune.

In recent years, feng shui has become so widely accepted and popular that on a global basis, we are now seeing a polarization of the practice so that lines are being drawn between what the older Masters term TRADITIONAL FENG SHUI and what the modern practitioners call NOUVEAU FENG SHUI.....

In the old days when feng shui was a mysterious and little known practice, aging masters kept many of their secrets to themselves, making the practice of feng shui a cryptic and difficult exercise. Feng shui experts would scour the land in search of dragons and their hiding places. This use of physical identification of the terrain to locate potential sites of good fortune wrapped itself around dragon metaphor. The method was called the Form School of Feng Shui.

Roads are important purveyors of chi energy, especially for those who live in modern city environments. The approach roads to your home as well as major highways that surround your neighbourhood exert a far greater effect on your feng shui than you realize.

Lillian Too addresses the unlucky connotations of living in a cul-de-sac and offers a way to transform a potential feng shui problem into something that can bring success luck.

In this issue Lillian Too highlights the importance of safeguarding the Northwest and Southwest corners of any home, applying the symbolic meanings of the Chien and Kun trigrams.....

In Flying Star Feng Shui the mountain star is as important, if not more so than the water star, especially since we are now in the period of 8. This is the number that signifies the trigram KEN, which symbolizes the mountain, and in the realm of Chinese cultural belief systems, the mountain stands for quiet power, influence and a majestic kind of success.....

The element of water makes up the second word of feng shui. This is because water - its flow, presence and accumulation within the vicinity of your home or apartment - exerts such a significant effect on your wealth luck. Here, Lillian offers some easy ways to be clever with water.

We are entering the festive season, that time of year when adorning oneself with precious gemstones attracts huge good fortune. Make yourself glitter as brightly as the fairy lights that make this such a special time. But do choose precious gemstones with an eye to enhancing your luck at this time.

The Eight Mansions formula is usually used as a personalized method of feng shui. Based on your date of birth, you can calculate your KUA number, and from there work out your good and bad directions. This personalized dimension of the KUA formula however is only one method of using the formula.

When a flying star annual number afflicts a direction, can we still activate it according to the Pa Kua method of eight aspirations?

The facing direction of your house is not necessarily the same as the facing direction of your main door. This issue has led to a great deal of confusion amongst practitioners, especially those wanting to benefit from the more advanced formulas of feng shui.

Feng shui has ancient beginnings, and what we have today are legends that focus on two mathematical diagrams that are said to represent the energies of the Universe.

Lillian Too explains the importance of house orientation and offers some useful tips on how you can make the most of the year's energy cycle to improve your feng shui based on your house orientation.

The cycle of the five elements, or wu xing in Chinese, is one of the most important foundation concepts upon which many of the cures and remedies associated with Traditional Chinese medicine, destiny analysis and feng shui are based.

LILLIAN TOO writes on the finer points and esoteric symbols of feng shui practice, simplifying some of the more important aspects of this ancient living skill when used to enhance modern day living and lifestyles.

There is indeed a skill to extracting maximum benefits from your feng shui practice - first you learn the different methods and formulas, then you learn to apply the formulas.

With the chi energy of the world having changed to Period 8, we are getting letters with tales of woe befalling Period 7 homes.