Hi all,

This is a question for everyone. If you live in an apartment, how do you determine your unit's facing direction? There are a lot of different ways follow it seems. So how does one know which is the perfect, most accurate one?

For me, it's from outside the building from the ground floor. I stand below my apartment and take three readings - one from each corner and one from the center and divide by 3. To measure the accuracy I go to the sitting, again outside the building on the ground floor and follow the same procedure.

I think perhaps there is no one most accurate method for all apartments.

The method you described (with so much checking and confirming) is very smart.

With apartments, though, determining the facing gets tricky.
Sometimes it is the front door of the building... but often it is not.
Sometimes it is the entry to the apartment complex, but often not
Sometimes it is the apparent facing of the entire building but often not
Sometimes the front door of the apartment unit you live in, but most often not
Sometimes the terrace of the unit, but not necessarily.

So you take you best guess of what is the likely facing direction and creat4e charts based on that. Then you try to correlate the chart's predictions to what life in that apartment is like.
It is complicated because the floor will change the way the chart functions.
And what part of the entire floor your apartment is on will have an influence (if your unit is in the SouthEast then that will have the strongest influence)
etc.

That's why it helps to have a very good and very experienced local practitioner take a look for you.
Or else you figure it out yourself with trial and error over time
Which has always been my preferred method!

Thanks Devadog. Won't the facing directions for all units in my apartment block be the same, with the way I calculated my facing? My unit is in the NE corner of the apartment building.

Not necessarily.
You can imagine that some flats... perhaps the lower floors... might be more influenced by the qi mouth of the building while those at the highest floors might be influenced by their terrace or apartment door. Where does the qi enter and where is it most yang?

As your apt. is in the NE, you might look at a chart for the entire building and see what the predictions for just the NE are, as well as using the small tai ji of the apartment to see where doors are located, where bedrooms are, etc.

Once my master told me, if the direction is different from different spot. Then this mean that the Qi flow in to the apartment or house, had some obstacle. So this situation you need to less use that place and try to find a good spot to activate it.

My master also told me, take the direction from the unit door or main door. Mean that which door you enter to your living room, then used that door to determine the direction. As this is the Qi Mouth, so where is got good or bad things, it will through our mouth just like human.

J

JackyLee

Do you use qi mouth as facing for houses as well... even if they are not on the most yang side?

Hi devadog,

I now this method too, but for me not workable le. I try it before, but end out no result. Then I seek many books(Chinese and English) and my master, mostly mention is door facing to determine the Qi. So I try it, and I found it out quite accurate. So every time I used door to check feng shui. This is my way, I hope you not misunderstand. Thank you.

J

No, I quite understand.
And I appreciate that you have done your own research to see what works.

As an example: my house faces NW, but the main door is in the East (yes, it is backwards!)
The stars at the facing gua have a big effect on the house. ALSO the stars at the door in the East have an effect. I see both occur.
Of course it may be due in part to my being the elder male (6) and a ming gua 3. That would also explain it all

Only observations and checking predictions against events can show us what is what.
The books help point us in a direction.
Don't you agree?

Yup

Thank you for your understanding. Well, I try to find a better way to help people. As long as it work on me and it won't give any wrong prediction, then it will be a good method and I will try to used it to help other whose need. Erm.. This is my own opinion. Hope you can give me more guidance.

J

And I appreciate your guidance!

It is clear that there are several here who are serious about studying feng shui. We do not all have the same style or methods, but we can respect each other's sincerity and knowledge even for the differences.

You have learned things that are different from what I know and I am eager to continue my learning.

After few lesson in Feng Shui, now I know that it not an easy to learn it but I wish to help so I eager to spread my though like the Eight Mansion Method. So I think it really useful and it help to change my friends luck to better, so I want to let anyone know, how easy to apply and activate, but still I need to explain in more detail so let the forum member can have deep understand. Not like some master, there need to separate to many module and need to spend a lot to learn. Haha... It just my view again. Hope I can meet up with you, by the way, do you have Facebook? May I add you as my friend, please?

J

I'm no youngster. I keep off of Facebook

Ok,

then we keep contact in here.


J

Im on a high floor. So do you think it's more influenced by the balcony or apartment door? Qi is more yang on both sides - the west has the main door, windows in my son's room, the laundry which is open on one side and looks out to the neighbourhood.

The east has the balcony, master bedroom with a small balcony and my daughter's room both with windows.

The building's entrance is in the west.

For the entire building's chart should I follow the same procedure that I normally? 3 readings and divide by 3? Thank you.

If I follow the reading from the main door, I get 290 degrees. It seems to be a better chart than 78 E.

Hi Devadog. Below is the link to my apartment from google earth. Just wondering if this will help in determining the facing. The red arrow indicates where the unit in the building.

What do you think? Thanks much.

www.flickr.com/photos/62932516@N03/5724959869/

Then may I know where is your main door suppose to be face?

J

Hi Jacky, it faces West and lies between 280 and 290, and is in the SW sector.