The Right Home

• Avoid external sat (ugly or pointing): trees, buildings, alleys, pylons, churches, bridges, drains, pillars, stagnant water or other topographical features too close and/or in poor Imperial Heaven Stars (see 2) . Relate the positions to the Trigram(s) relating to prospective inhabitants.
• Avoid numbers 4,14,114 but favour numbers 2,3,8,28,38
• Look for regular shape ie avoid protrusions and exclusions.
• Confirm tai chi (geometrical centre ie heart) of property is within. Hatchet shape for instance, can put tai chi outside.
• Ensure ming tang (open space to front and/or back and/or inside at threshold) is sufficiently large and bordered by jade belt (bordering water).
• Is there a table mountain (ie further height) beyond the jade belt?
• Check shape of plot is regular.
• Check for healthy light patterns ie no area dark 24/7 or overexposed.
• Ensure any left-right incline is not too marked; avoid bowl or mound plots.
• Is the house facing a T-junction or narrow gap, at the end of a cul-de-sac or foot of a slope?
• Is it outside a curve? Inside is generally fine.
• Check the façade of the house is level. Avoid tilted frontage.
• Avoid roofs sloping to a valley over the house.
• Ensure fence is sound and solid, not constricting, too high or too low.
• Avoid toilets close to or over front door.
• Avoid long straight unbroken corridor from front to back.
• Avoid staircase opening onto front door (or at tai chi).
• Avoid beam above front door.
• Bed should not be under a beam.
• Research the fate of the previous occupants.
• No major external water at North West.

No attempt has been made to ensure this list is comprehensive nor am I responsible for its interpretation. R

© Richard Ashworth 2011.

• Match kwa number(s) (based on year of birth) to house, ie:
• West Group (2,6,7,8) to West House (sitting position SW,NW,W,NE)
• East Group (1,3.4,9) to East House (sitting position N,E,SE,S)
• Identify compass orientation of direct mountain – closest major height. A drive around is advisable as well as study of a map.
• Relate this to the palaces of the doors by calculating the chi form.
• Check quality of soil (ideally tang lung green, goy moon yellowish or mou kuk pale white).
• Ensure site is higher than face.
• What is the true facing direction? Does the topography agree? Can it be changed?
• Factor in the Yearly Afflictions: tai sui, 3 killings, Year breaker, 5 Yellow.

No attempt has been made to ensure this list is comprehensive nor am I responsible for its interpretation. R

© Richard Ashworth 2011.

• Match facing direction to element(s) missing from ba zi.
• Identify compass orientation of water holding chi coming down from mountain. This may be a road or railway line and should not be too fast.
• Check kinships: choi essential and kun if there are two.
• Ensure kwas match facing/site of topography.
• Look for Dragon’s Claw; two gates for entry is one too many.
• Ensure kitchen is in poor ba zhai location away from tai chi
• Ensure cooker faces favourable ba zhai direction. Keep water and fire apart and unopposed. Avoid stove on island, in front of door or below beam.
• Ensure main door well-positioned in ba zhai terms, and relative to cooker and master bedroom.
• What are pulses like? (Stronger pulse dictates kinship.)
• What do the Kinships say? See grid
• Main bedroom should be in favourable ba zhai location and regularly shaped.
• Staircase should be in good ba zhai sector.
• Compare lap yums of occupants with that of site measurement.
• Whose are the missing numbers?
• If door is in same family as site avoid kun.
• Door must not be in a mountain clashing the element of the family of the site.
• Doors must not violate Grandmaster Yang’s Curses (wood site not shen etc)

No attempt has been made to ensure this list is comprehensive nor am I responsible for its interpretation. R

© Richard Ashworth 2011.

• 8 Killings (Song of the Ba Sha):
  • a. Door should not clash the Trigram of the incoming Dragon (or direct mountain)
  • b. If no visible mountain, source of qi (road or river) should not clash sitting position.
• 8 Roads of Destruction (Ba Lu Huang Quan) – see grid.
• Peach Blossom: at cardinal point that produces the Facing Direction Triple Combo chi
• Three Harmony Road
  • Site matches remaining two branches of three combo.
• Five Ghosts – see grid.
• Plot Flying Stars and identify which appear at main bedroom, kitchen, office and front door.
• Where are the 8 & 9 water stars?
• Avoid the following axes: bing/ren, chou/wei zhen/su
• Trigram facing should not have water exiting at stem and vice-versa.

No attempt has been made to ensure this list is comprehensive nor am I responsible for its interpretation. R

© Richard Ashworth 2011.