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FEATURES>>Feng
Shui and Your Garden II
Pa
Kua Colours and Elements in Your Garden.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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].
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Everything
placed in the garden will contribute to the chi already flowing
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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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