FENG SHUI AND YOUR GARDEN Part 2
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.
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.
Feng Shui in your Garden part I
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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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