Eight Point System

More often used by itself or in conjunction with the Compass School, the eight points may be applied to a desk, a room, a business, a home, a block of land, a country or a planet. The locations of the points always remain the same in both southern  & northern hemispheres, because right & left positions are set, meaning if you were to move from one side of the equator to the other, your left foot would be where it was before you travelled. 

To find the location of the eight points (using your home as an example), sketch an outline plan including its main entry point. 

Divide the plan, as shown above, turn the plan until the main entrance is directly in front of your body as if you were standing outside looking in.It is important to understand that original Chinese houses more usually only had one entrance whereas we of Western culture often have many. 

If many people use a variety of doors, your "Main" entrance should be the door used most by the parents of a family. In business it is the door customers/clients enter through. Applied to your desk the "Door" is where you sit, at a kitchen bench the door is where the chief cook generally stands. 

The extra square is five, the central number between one & nine, ruled by Mother Earth, who is not a life ambition but the heart & centre of the grid. Honour her presence with yellow or brown, square, broad, flat shapes, preferably in clay or metal, and an often-lit candle. 

Feng Shui potency lies in its precise art of placement, including furniture and ornaments, plants, mirrors, bells and chimes, the correct use of colours, shapes, numbers, materials, objects, and the circulation of air. Sounds too hard? It is not. 

Begin with a plan in the middle for colouring, numbers & shapes, placing an item at the point where I've placed the shapes. Start with Wood, the traditional element associated with health, family, and abundance. Wood is represented by the colours green & turquoise. The shape of Wood is rectangular & stronger in an upright position. At the Money Point, place four items; at the Health Point,  set 3. 

Now use your imagination of the other seven Ambitions. At the outer edge and centre of "Fire", you could place nine small pyramids made of combustible material, not metal, as it takes much heat to melt, and that would exhaust Fire. No water, please, because water will weaken your Fire Point. 

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