One of the fascinating point of Feng Shui is: when you are able to determine the Feng Shui backing and facing directions of your dwelling house, with reference to the coupling effects of the flying stars in individual direction, you are able to forecast the happening of different events.

However, to precisely locate your house's backing and facing directions, the main door plays a very important role. Even without considering the direction, the main door is also a key area to look at in Feng Shui. The following are common easy scenario that people should aware and avoid if necessary when you are looking for a new home.

 

PHENOMENON

CAUSING DEFECTS OF

1

face corners

unstability and uneasy of life

2

sharp point direct towards door

accidents and uneasy of life

3

face front of temple

lead to poverty

4

face back of temple

lead to poverty and bad luck

5

face crossroad

always with litigation and lawsuits

6

main door face opposite house’s main door

either one of the house in downside of fortune

7

face rubbish collection stand

be careful of lung or respiratory disease

8

face lift/elevator door

reinforce your flying stars effect. i.e. if good then better, if bad then worse.

9

face upward staircase

members inside the apartment always suffer from sickness.

10

face downward staircase

wealth is difficult to accumulate

11

facing road with many branched avenues

good luck seldoms comes

12

main door and room door in-line

lead to sickness and accident for the person who lives inside the room

13

main door and corridor never shine by sunshine and birghtened with dim lights

some myseterious thing may appear inside of your house and lead to poverty

14

face small house

always involved in litigation and lawsuits

 

Concerning the color selection for the main door, the improper match of color to the suitable direction may cause unnecessary disturbance and illness to people dwell inside the house. Assume you do not know what is Flying Star Feng Shui, try to adopt the following method and it do basically help to ease unnecessary conflict of the 5 elements (water ->fire->metal->wood->earth).

a. First of all, you can refer to the following diagram and find out the element governing the direction of your main door:

SOUTH EAST
(Wood)

SOUTH
(Fire)

SOUTH EAST
(Earth)

EAST
(Wood)

 

WEST
(Metal)

NORTH EAST
(Earth)

NORTH
(Water)

NORTH EAST
(Metal)


b. Select the color match and support for the element:

Water

:

black, blue, yellow and white.

Fire

:

red, orange, green or grassy.

Metal

:

yellow, white, brown, muddy color.

Wood

:

green or grassy, black, blue.

Earth

:

brown, muddy color, red and orange.


c. Remember your main gate should also fall into the similar category of color, if the color are contradicted, it create the same problem.