Richard Webster - Feng Shui for Beginners: Successful Living by Design

About the Author

Richard Webster was born in New Zealand in 1946, where he still resides. He travels widely every year, lecturing and conducting workshops on psychic subjects around the world. He has written many books, mainly on psychic subjects, and also writes monthly magazine columns.

Richard is married with three children. His family is very supportive of his occupation, but his oldest son, after watching his fathers career, has decided to become an accountant.

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Feng Shui for Beginners 1997 by Richard Webster

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Acknowledgments

Many people have helped me with this book. I would like to especially thank my friend Dr. David Himelrick for sending me valuable information. I would also like to thank Tai Lau, Charles Hai, Carl Herron, Jon Kealoha, Albino Gola, and Mark Edward for their valuable advice and support.

Contents

Chapter 1:
What Is Feng Shui?

Chi Yin-Yang The Eight Trigrams
The Pa-Kua The Five Elements

Chapter 2:
The Form School

Shan Shars Choosing Land
Choosing a House Inside the House

Chapter 3:
The Compass School

The Individual Trigrams Using the Pa-Kua
The Lo Shu Magic Square
The Aspirations of the Pa-Kua

Chapter 4:
The Flying Star

Chapter 5:
The Luo-Pan

Using the Luo-Pan

Chapter 6:
Shar Remedies

Chapter 7:
Feng Shui for Success

Chapter 8:
Feng Shui in the Home

The Front Door The Staircase
The Living Room The Bedroom
The Kitchen The Dining Room
The Study The Toilet The Bathroom

Chapter 9:
Designing Your Own Home

Chapter 10:
Feng Shui in the Garden

Flowers Fruit Trees Other Considerations

Chapter 11:
Feng Shui in
the Work Place

Chapter 12:
Conclusion

Elements and Signs for the Years 1900 to 2020

Element at Time of Birth

Personal Pa-Kua for Year of Birth

Central Position Numbers for Months of the Year

Central Position Numbers for Years 1901 to 2017

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Hong Kongs Peninsular Hotel is shaped like a magnet
to attract positive energy from the harbour it faces.

Feng shui experts were brought in at all stages of
planning for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.

Feng shui experts determined the best position for
Stitt, one of two stone lions outside the Hongkong
and Shanghai Bank. Stitt and his counterpart, Stephen,
had to be repositioned simultaneously so neither would
become jealous.

The entrance to the Hang Seng Banks head office
resembles a huge mouth that is unable to close.

Some feng shui experts say the shape of the Bank
of China is unlucky, and its sharp, angled sides
create poison arrows of negative energy.

Chapter 1

: The pa-kua.

: The Ssu Hsuang.

: The eight trigrams of the pa-kua.

: The cycle of production for the five elements
(also known as the cycle of birth).

: The cycle of destruction for the five elements.

: The cycle of reduction for the five elements.

Chapter 2

: Fortunate feng shui sites have animal
symbolism in all four directions.

: River inlets or tributaries bring beneficial chi to a home.

: Common shars.

: Common shars.

: Common shars.

: Common shars.

: Common shars.

: Common shars.

: Common shars.

: Common shars.

: A low wall will symbolically finish off a U-shaped house.

Chapter 3

: The Latter Heaven Sequence

: Determining Your Personal Pa-Kua Trigram.

: A homes trigram is determined by its sitting and facing directions.

: Eight areas of a home, as determined by the Latter Heaven Sequence.

: A Tui home.

: Positive and negative directions can also be determined by laying the pa-kua (Latter Heaven Sequence) over the floor plan.

: A square home has better feng shui than a long, thin, rectangular home.

: If your home is an unusual shape, divide it into smaller sections, then evaluate each.

: The magic square for a Tui home.

: Superimpose the magic square over the floor plan to evaluate the home.

: The aspirations of the pa-kua.

: To find the aspirations, place the pa-kua with Kan parallel to the front door.

Chapter 4

: The markings on a tortoise shell were a pattern for a perfect three-by-three magic square.

: The Lo Shu.

: The Period of Seven (19842003).

: Pattern of movement.

: July 1999.

: March 1997.

: The charts for the year 1999 and the month of July are placed over the chart for the Seven Period.

: The charts for the year 1995 and the month of September are placed over the chart for the Seven Period.

: Example floor plans.

: Example floor plans.

: Example floor plans.

Chapter 11

: A small office building between
two larger buildings is not a good location.

Introduction

In 1971 I decided to write a book. It took some three months to write. The first publisher I sent it to accepted it, and the book was duly published. For someone who had always wanted to be a writer, this was a great thrill. I was under way! I had ideas for several other books, but somehow years passed and the books remained as dreams in my head. My second book did not appear for five years. At the time I had every excuse in the world for not writing it. I was busy at work. I had a young family. I had little free time. I didnt realize at the time that feng shui was also involved.

We moved house immediately after I had written my first book, and my desk was placed in an attractive position beside a window overlooking our garden. I would sit at my desk and think about writing, but I never seriously got around to writing anything. Then, in 1977, I changed the layout of my office, and placed my desk against another wall at a ninety-degree angle to where it had been before. I immediately started writing seriously again. At the time I thought it was coincidence, but once I became interested in feng shui and checked the room I discovered that I had unconsciously moved my desk from a negative position to a highly favorable one. This was my first personal experience of feng shui, and it was an accidental one. However, I was already aware of how feng shui had helped friends become happier and more successful.