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FENG
SHUI AND YOUR GARDEN
I explained
the Pa Kua in relation to the compass directions and how the Five
Elements fitted into the Pa Kua, along with the Celestial Animals.
All of these become important for Feng Shui garden design.
Firstly,
draw a plan of your garden.
If it is irregular, around the edges expand the lines until you
have a regular geometric shape, usually a square or oblong, sometimes
a triangle. By joining the diagonals, where they cross, is your
tai chi, the centre. Often, with a whole site, i.e. one where the
back garden can be reached from the front, without going through
the house, the tai chi is in the house itself.
 I
still recommend that the middle areas of both the front and back
gardens be left open and clear.
The Chinese
say that your front garden is your public face to the world and the
back garden is the private inner self. In Form School [Landscape]
Feng Shui, it is thought that the front should be the Phoenix, the
area of Public Recognition and Fame. Facing the front door as if going
out of it, the left hand side of the whole garden is the Dragon side
and should be slightly higher then the Right hand Side, the Tiger
side, which should be filled with fragrant flowers to keep the unpredictable
Tiger dozing.
At the
back of the property is the quite high protection of the Tortoise.
In modern urban settings, houses and other properties can take the
place of hills. The whole shape should be that of a high backed armchair
with two arms down the sides and a footstool at the front. This is
a perfect site and is very difficult to find.
Too often,
in fact in the majority of cases, unless your house is specially built,
we have to deal with what is already there, and that is when the Compass
School of Feng Shui can really help.
THE
PLAN.
In Compass School Feng Shui, once you have taken the compass direction,
facing out of the front door you can apply the Pa Kua over the plan.
Incidentally, you should check the compass bearing, once just inside
the front door, about three feet in front of the front door and
then about another three feet still into the front garden. The Pa
Kua is then applied.
If
your front door faces North, then the Northern sector of the Pa
Kua is placed over it, with the centre of the Pa Kua directly over
where the diagonals meet on your plan. This immediately tells you
where all the other areas of the Pa Kua and hence the compass directions
are. It is now a fairly simple matter of putting appropriate colours
and elements in the different zones.
Remember
please that the lines of division in the Pa Kua between directions
are not solid and unwavering.
Each direction
blends into the next, so to a certain extent, the edges of the directions
will be approximate, you cannot stand, one foot in the North and one
foot in the North east with accuracy!
What
we are looking for are the major sectors of the compass and the locations
that they will give us in the garden. Remember that the Ancient Chinese
Earth Science of Feng Shui would not be minutely accurate down to
the last degree!!!!!! [This obviously applies to houses and offices
as well].
Everything
placed in the garden will contribute to the chi already flowing there
and will enhance, settle or complement it. From previous lessons,
you know that the chi in the different compass directions has different
qualities, such as lively in the North East, or slow and staid as
in the South West.
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Paul
is
in great demand for his wide ranging skills as a consultant,
speaker and writer. With a Ph.D in Oriental Philosophy[1996],
Paul, a Buddhist, speaks with avid enthusiasm on all things
oriental. Paul is a registered consultant with the Feng Shui
Society(U.K.) and is a member of its Executive Committee.
He is a member of the Japanese Garden Societies[UK and America].
Writes Advanced Feng Shui and Oriental Philosophy courses
for The British School of Yoga as well as courses on Japanese
Garden Design for The
Horticultural College, Wiltshire. He also writes a regular
Feng Shui Doctor advice page in The Feng Shui Society Journal.
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