Main Door

We will now tackle the most important feature in Yang Feng Shui — placement of the main door. The main door is being considered as the 'mouth' of the house. The type of chi that is brought into the house is distributed throughout and this will have an effect on the health and fortune of the family.

It is of utmost importance to know what type of chi or 'nutrients' the door is taking into the house. The chi that is being brought into the house should be yang chi and not yin chi.

When an external storage room is opposite the main door, the storage room has stagnant chi which is not considered to be healthy. This is one of the causes of sickness and loss of opportunity to the household. The remedy is to move the door of the storage room to a position not facing the main door.

One of the most frequent violation to the accumulation of family resources is having a mirror in line with the front door. The mirror reflects fortune chi from entering the house. The cure is to relocate the mirror.

Another arrangement that drains the family resources is when the front door opens to a window, where the chi entering the house does not have a chance to circulate and be distributed around the house. It is immediately passed out through the window. This means fortune in and fortune out. Worse if there is an outside sha emitted by the neighbor's gable. The cure is to install Venetian blinds on the window and have the slats closed.

A toilet door facing the front door keeps the fortune yang chi from entering the house as the yin chi produced by the toilet neutralizes the yang chi that enters the door.

There are two adages that are not being disclosed by the Form School of Feng Shui and these are very crucial to having a complete understanding of the teachings of Feng Shui. These are:

• As in front, so behind.

• As above, so below.

These mean that in the placement of any important element of the house we not only have to consider what is in front of it and what violation exists at the back of it but also what is being placed above it as well as what is beneath it. This is being overlooked even by professional Geomancers. Failing to consider these rules will result in not being able to rectify and improve the living conditions of their clients.

Having a toilet above the front door ensures unnecessary expenditure and is a drain to family fortune. Some people are perplexed why fortune continues to be evasive even though the door is correctly positioned by Geomancers according to the higher techniques of Feng Shui.

Once form is being violated as in the above case, it is very difficult to rectify the situation. Hence the importance of having the house designed according to Feng Shui principles before the construction begins. This will avoid incurring huge unnecessary expense to rectify it at a later stage.

There is violation when the sewer pipe is installed running out the front door. The fortune chi is prevented from entering the house by the flushing effect of the water closet.

The placement of the front door does not encourage fortune chi to be coursed into the house when the adjacent water closet 'flushes' out whatever yang chi that enters the house.

The cure for the above two cases is to relocate the front door.

The condition of the door, together with its door jamb, has a bearing on the health of family members. When the lower portion of the door jamb is not touching the ground due to wood rot, this is interpreted in Feng Shui as a restraint to the mobility of the master of the house. This is brought about by gout or arthritis of the feet. The cure is to replace the whole jamb and not just to add or replace the rotten section.

There should be some distance between the door and the ceiling. A house with a low ceiling, with the top of the door touching the ceiling, will exerts pressure on the chi that passes through the door and does not augur well for family fortune.

Another type of pressure exerted on the chi coming through the door is an exposed beam crossing the door. This does not enhance family fortune. The cure is to drop the ceiling to cover the exposed beam, once covered the pressure exerted by the beam is 'absorbed' by the ceiling panel.

A bedroom door that opens to the front door indicates the couple will spend unusually long hours in the bedroom indulging in bedroom activities to the detriment of their health. This can indirectly affect their stamina and ability to cope with other responsibilities. The psychological urge is to head for the bedroom as soon as you reach the house. The cure is to re-locate the bedroom door.

The Form School of Feng Shui places strong emphasis on the Northeast and Southwest sections of a house for these are called the 'Devil's Gate' positions. It is believed by some people that when a house has its door opened on the Northeast it conjures evil spirits to enter. This is especially true when both the front and rear doors are being located in the 'Devil's Gate' positions. The cure is to relocate the rear or Northeast door as Northeast is the major 'Devil's Gate' position.