Hello,

I'm pretty sure I've come across the answer to my question in this forum but couldn't find it anymore.

1) How to read the facing direction of the house main door?

a) Should one stand inside looking out of the main door? How near the door should one be?

b) What if the house is enclosed by walls and a gate? Which facing direction should I determine, the gate or the
main door?


2) How to read the facing direction of a condominium?

a) Should one stand inside loooking out of the main entrance to the whole building of the condominium? or;

b) Should one stand inside looking out of the main door of the unit only?

Thanks in advance

The facing direction of a house is taken by standing in the doorway and looking to the outside of the house. Use the door way that is the most used - this may not be the front door of the house.

A condo unit is different and depends upon the type of condo. Is this a standing free unit, or the kind like an apartment only you buy the unit, or the type where they look like a row house?

Thanks LadyMoon

So I will stand in the main door of the house (or the door most used), INSIDE looking OUT?

The Condo will be a mid-to-hi-rise building,and we just have a unit in one of the floors there. It is on the 9th Floor.

For any building, the facing direction is always taken standing in the doorway looking to the outside.

For the condo which is on the 9th floor, do the same and use the doorway to the unit. If the condo was on the 1st through 8th
floors, you would use the entry into the building if the condos had one enterance into the building.

Just for clarity:

First determine what side is the facing. The main door is not always in the facing side.
If you wish to see what mountain or gua your door is in, then you can superimpose a lou shu (compass) over an exact scaled floorplan, or figure it out with GoogleEarth or determine the center of the house and take a reading there (realizing that it may be thrown off by the construction of the house).

With a tall condo it is more complicated.
Not only do Masters disagree, but even so the situation may determine whether the facing is the apartment balcony or the apartment door or the building door or a different side of the building.
And then you must figure out any feng shui remembering that the 9th floor is Metal. There are ways to figure out the element of the apartment as well.

Thanks LadyMoon and Devadog.

Condos can indeed be complicated bec of different schools of thought.

But you have been of such great help, thanks again!

Hi everyone! even feng shui master sometimes on disagreement on what is the criteria before you will tell that it is really your facing direction, one easy step is standing under your door looking out and compass reading will tell you that it is your house facing direction, but that is not always the case sometimes your door is in front of the wall and you have an alternative door facing different direction? pls. find out on which way is the source of yang energy in your area and if there is an opening such as an alternative door or window facing on that direction you can also considered that as your house facing direction.

If it so happen that you live in a condominium, first determined on what floor are you located? if you lived 9th floor above you can considered your veranda, window or any opening from your condominium as your facing direction. But if you lived 8th floor below follow the facing direction of the building itself hope i can help you on this particular matter God bless.

Devadog,

You are right about the facing - it has to be the door or "entry" into the home that has the most activity; this may or may not be what is called the front door or the door facing the road. In my house, the facing direction is the front door in the Winter as that is the only entry used. In Summer, this is not used at all - everyone enters the house at the back on the deck and this is where all the traffic is so this becomes the facing direction.
Some condos or apartments may have a large window or balcony over a busy street and where a lot of sun enters and a lot of activity can be heard, so this window or balcony could be the facing direction. Some masters disagree about this and say it must be where people enter the home.
Feng Shui, like everything else, has many points of view. We see what works for our home and situtation.

LadyMoon,

I would distinguish between a building's facing and its qi mouth (or mouths). The Facing is about how it relates to the external land forms while the qi mouth is how Human coming ang going (and to some extent the architectural intent) admits qi.

My house faces NW but the main door/qi mouth is E and a lesser one is S: not the ideal arrangement but it does offer its own possibilities

Thanks Jose168, LadyMoon and Devadog.

Lucky for me we use just one door as main door, and this door faces the street where people and cars pass by (yang energy).

Unluckily however, I took the door’s reading and it faces West 255 degrees. Since we moved in the house (first floor) in 2003, the whole house is Period 7, and West 255 degrees is worst facing. We then moved to the second floor of the house in 2007. This second floor house is where we are currently staying (and where I took the house facing direction).

1) Does that effectively make the house a period 8 house? Because if it does, West 255 degress favours health and relationships. Please note that my parents now live in the 1st floor of the house. Do they have to take a separate house facing direction?

2) My husband and I are both East groups. Is it bad that our house faces West?

We are also considering getting a newly constructed property.

1) Is it ok in FS if the house has three stories?

2) This new property faces NW 320 degrees which under Period 8 is Best Facing.
But since my husband and I are both East groups, will NW 320 degrees facing be unfavourable to us?

Thanks in advance for considering my many questions.

Some responses:

tippymonte wrote:

Thanks Devadog. In reply to your question:

1) Is it not one house with one direction?

A: Yes. Just one house.

Q: So the fact that we moved up to the 2nd floor last 2007 doesn’t change the house period to Period 7?


2) Is there the one door or does each floor/apartment have its own entrance?

A: It is actually a 2-story house in a corner lot.

One side faces South or the South street. The first floor's main door and gate faces South (there are several other doors but the most used is the main door facing South). To even make it more complicated, the street in the South is not flat. It is steeply inclined .

The other side faces West or the West street. The second floor's main door and gate faces West . The West street is flat. Hence, since the second floor is higher, it needs an exit in a higher street, that being the West street.

Q: How do we determine which is main door of the WHOLE house, given that the 1st and 2nd floors each have different “main doors” ?

Q: What method teaches the differing Feng Shui of each floor ( for the new property) ?

Thank you so much for all these information (all the while I had been working on the wrong notion that where a house faces and sits are one and the same  )

Q:So for an East group person, a rule of thumb is to look for a house that FACES the West group, as the house would then be an East SITTING house? Stated differently, it’s the SITTING direction that should be considered vis-à-vis one’s kua number?

Again, thank you for taking time to reply. Thanks thanks so much!

Hi

You determine the facing of a building by how it relates to the land around it. The location of the doors is not the most important thing. Usually higher ground denotes sitting and lower denotes facing. Some buildings have more windows and views on one side than another and often that is the facing. The more yang/active/open side is usually facing while the yin/closed/quiet side is sitting. Sometimes it is just difficult to tell by looking.

There is a classic text called Zi Bai Jue or PurpleWhite Scroll. It is the earlier part of what grew into Flying Stars (except most Flying Star writings are based on only a part of the entire text and ignore the rest). The PurpleWhite Scroll helps us understand how stars interact, what different facings reveal about a house, the qi of different floors and even different rooms or different apartments in the same building.

An English translation and commentary is available. Hard to follow for a beginner, but not really so very complex.

And in 8 Mansions, most schools determine the sectors based on sitting, not facing. Facing does not really matter. The sectors matter. Where the main door is (whether in facing side or not) matters.

Tippymonte,

Can i ask when is that house constructed? if its constructed on 2004-present yes it is a period 8 house, if its not you have to do some renovation to convert that house into period 8 house.

You and your husband are both east group i suggest if there are any alternative door that facing the direction favorable to an east group person please use it.

If that is not possible you can use castle gate approach i mean you have to tilt your door a little to make it facing north if you can do that you will have a house that face north and sits SE both direction are favorable to east person.

Having a three level house is not a feng shui violation.

Good luck

Thanks Jose168.

House was constructed in 1970's, so it's really period 8.

Oh, I thought it's only important to consider the house sitting direction. So a house must ideally FACE AND SIT in any of one's favourable directions, i.e., for East Group, any of the ff: N, S, E, SE

Thank you again!

Hi tippymonte,

You say your house was constructed on 1970? if it is sad to say your house is not a period 8 house that is still a period 6 house unfortunately you need to do something to convert your house into period 8 house to strengthen the chi of that house.

Hi Jose168,

Oh, a typo, I meant to say "it's really Period 7' -- turns out it's even worse -- period 6! LOL

Does adding 2 rooms and T&B count as major renovation? These were done 2 years ago.

Thanks!

tippymonte wrote:


I don't think you quite understood what Jose168 was saying

To determine the 8 Mansion sectors of a house, we look at the house sitting. That's simply the perspective from which they have been described.
Some practitioners tilt the main door so it faces a good direction (if it otherwise didn't).
After all, an East (sitting house) may have its main door somewhere besides West

In some 8 Mansion schools, even if the house does not match you or support you (which would be the best plan assuming that the stars fell in sectors where they can do some good) it is OK if the direction of the main door is one of your personal good directions (again, preferably if that good star is in a supportive sector).

tippymonte,

You say, [quote]" House was constructed in 1970's, so it's really period 8." [quote] But you have your times confused.

Here is the time frame taken from the Home page of WOFS:
Period 6 - Feb, 1964 - Jan 1984
Period 7 Feb, 1984 - Jan, 2004
Period 8 Feb, 2004 - Jan, 2024

This would be the period of the homes if there were never any remodeling in the house. So if your house was built in the 1970's and NEVER had any remodeling, it would be a Period 6 house. You will need to check the history of the house to decide if it is now a Period 7 or Period 8 house.