Key Steps To Applying Feng Shui Outside Your Home
There are many factors involved when applying feng shui outside your home, especially when assessing the land which surrounds it. If you are choosing a plot of land to re-locate to, there are some invaluable feng shui principles that can become very helpful in determining the amount of good chi in a particular plot of land.
Birds, Dragons, Turtles and Tigers
There are four celestial deities which take the form of the bird, dragon, turtle and tiger and are used to help describe the disposition of chi in a location. The animals represent land forms, their shape and location are important factors that can help to find a place between them known metaphorically as the dragons’ lair, which represents heaven on earth. Chi flows according the the earths shape, it’s motion follows the shape of the terrain, it flows within the ground and gathers where the terrain stops. Essentially, you’ll be pinpointing a living location where the chi is pooled together, the lair, which is said to bless the occupants of the home with good health and wealth.
You must first understand the what is represented by each animal so that you can later identify any similarities with any land you’re considering. Imagine looking at the lay of the land from above and moving clockwise, the first animal is the crimson bird. Each animal represents a season, color, and also a yin or yang polarity. The bird represents the south, summer, the color red and yang chi. Typically the features of the land form represented by the bird must be lower than the others in height, it can also represent a body of water like a river or lake, not just a land form.
Next is the white tiger, representing the west, autumn, the color white and yin chi. The terrain of the tigers land form is typically longer and lower than that of it’s eastern dragon counterpart, but higher than that of the southern bird, these are key points to remember when applying feng shui outside your home.
The black turtle is next, representing north, winter, black and yin chi. The turtles land form features should be the highest, above the bird, dragon and tiger.
Lastly is the azure dragon which represents the east, spring, green and yang chi. The features of the dragons land form should be higher than the western tiger and lower than the northern turtle.
The location of the dragons’ lair, where chi is pooled, is formed by the positioning of the bird, tiger, turtle and dragon, and is where your health and wealth will be enhanced. There are lots of benefits to applying feng shui outside your home, which will help you boost the particular energies in your life that need it the most.
In the City
In today’s modern city living, there less places that will be surrounded by such mountainous terrain, but don’t worry if you can’t see any hillside tiger or dragons, just remember the position that is most favorable for the landforms to be in, the turtle supporting behind you, tiger to your right, dragon to your left and bird in front of you. Applying feng shui outside your home in the city, with many intersecting road locations, sky scrapers and other man-made things may appear to be vastly different than the ancient methods we described before, but there are simple ways to translate their meanings into modern life.
Symbolically, for those of us with inner city dwellings, the creatures can also represent buildings, like your neighbors to the left (dragon) and to the right (tiger). The turtle would be situated behind you and must not overshadow your home nor block any sunlight. If there are no structures behind you, simply building a large enough fence or row of suitably sized trees will serve as support, security and protection for your back side.
Having any plans or photographs of the land before you buy it will prove very useful in helping when applying feng shui outside your home and assessing it in particular for using the four terrestrial creatures. It would be best first to focus on the negative factors of the land or building you are considering, and decide if these can be corrected or cured further down the line, rather than finding it’s good points first which could potentially bind you to it’s faults.
There is still much much more to consider when applying feng shui outside your home, more than what we can learn from the four creatures, but they provide a great start to finding a place of good chi. Factors such as locations on different road types, facing roads, on the curve of a road and even river courses hold invaluable information that can affect and disturb the balance of your chi.
However, applying feng shui outside your home using these principles as your first steps to finding your ideal road location for your home and will ensure that your chi, health and wealth will have a good balance and the potential to flow freely in your home.
