Hi everyone...

Picked up a book I'd had here for ages (by Lilian) but never read, and decided to give Feng Shui a go!

I note in the book (published i think in 2004) that I am to use the 8 tables because my house was done out by the previous owners and more recently ourselves. However, when I came to the website and inputted my data i.e. house facing Northwest 1 (which I believe it to be), the Mountain and Water numbers are correct but the period numbers are different....why is this?

Have tried to figure out what I may be doing wrong but I cannot see what that could be when the information is in the book, then contradicted on the site.

Any help much appreciated before I go any further as clearly I will have the wrong information to work with my house.

Love and Light xxx

What Period to use for a house is a sometimes controversial issue.

Many use the construction date.
Some use the move-in date.

What constitutes a change in Period -- what construction is required, etc. -- is also debatable.
Commonly agreed upon is when the roof is opened (not simply new shingles put on) for over 3 months, or the house is vacant for a similar period. Less agreed upon is a radical change in the main door.

Usually things like renovating the kitchen or replacing the carpets or even adding a new room are not seen as changing the preiod.

So the first thing is to figure out what period is best to use.
Once you get really good at feng shui, you'll be able to double check that the period you chose is indeed accurate based on the chart it produces and the predictions that chart creates matching real events. Yes, feng shui can be that good!

Ok here it is...(hope you can help )

My house was built circa 1890. Prior to moving in (2004) the previous owners had moved the staircase from the front of the house to the back of the house (now open plan lounge with stairs) which I would take to mean an 'extensive renovation'. In the past year, we have replaced the floors and more recently had alcoves blocked up and the wall re-plastered along with the usual painting and decorating throughout (i.e. new plasterboards in bedroom and flooring, new kitchen, extensive work to garden). In this respect, can we expect our house to be in Period 8?

If it is in fact Period 8, then the chart in the book states one period number for each grid but when I enter the numbers onto the calculator on the website, as I've previously indicated, it states different period numbers.

Do I have to draw the floor plan to scale also? I have done a rough sketch of the downstairs and put the grid over the top, but I fear that if it is not to scale, that I may get the dimensions wrong as far as feng shui rules are concerned.

As I've said, I'm new to this but after so many things occurring over the previous years, and things becoming increasingly difficult in lots of areas of my life in the past six months (since we have decorated/plastered etc), I'm desperate to try and put it right.

Thanks for your input so far, if you can help I would be eternally grateful x

I see this as a Period 2 building.

If you have extensive surgery and hair grafts and knee replacements, has your date of birth changed? No. Get a brain transplant and then, perhaps, yes.

Feng shui is an old and virtually scientific thing which includes a variety of different (and sometimes arguing) schools. And then there is the contemporary, watered down diy version. Even Masters from the same general method will disagree. What fun

I have found real long term benefits from a classical approach. Few benefits from the modern diluted and New Age influenced approach

So to get the best results, yes you need a very accurate floor plan (if you get the location of the doors wrong your info is seriously flawed, if you place a "cure" in the wrong part of any sector, they will not work or will work poorly).
One thing that can be quite challenging -- although people don't often realize it -- is getting the compass direction perfectly accurate. In some houses "close enough" is good enough. In others, a degree one way or the other changes everything!

If you get the floorplan and the direction right, then once you understand fs deeply you will be able to predict future occurrences and perhaps take steps to prepare for them or benefit from them. As you begin to learn, do not be frightened by the dire predictions that will pop up (Sickness! Accident! Cheating spouse!) Activating these potentialities requires specific triggers and a bazi chart that agrees with the prediction. So more often than not, those bad things do not occur (for example, I have the annual 5yellow and other bad sha at my front door this year. DISASTER! Nope, one of the best years ever )