Kartar Diamond – Fengshui PFA

Feng Shui Interprets Mobile Homes

Posted on March 18, 2019 by blogger

There is a little bit of a debate amongst traditional Feng Shui practitioners in how to assess a Mobile Home. When a regular home is being built, energies from the earth below will combine with the energies emanating from the stars and planets above. It helps define a combination of timing and orientation. When a roof is installed, it sandwiches these earthly and celestial energies into a magnetic field that can be calculated and interpretted.

For example, we can say that a house which was built in 1965 that faces East is in a phase right now and until 2024 where it undermines fertility for the occupants trying to conceive.

So, how can we interpret a Mobile Home which was manufactured somewhere and then placed on the land, without the same criteria as a regular construction? Some Feng Shui practitioners feel reduced to using more generic or basic interpretations for these kinds of living spaces. In my own practice, I have not reviewed a tremendous amount of Mobile Homes to date. If I have evaluated around 4,000 properties, I may have only assessed less than fifty Mobile Homes. But based on my experience so far, they do appear to collect and “house” similar energies as a house built right on the land. So, if a Mobile Home was placed on a piece of land in 1965(and not moved since)with an east-facing orientation, then that Mobile Home could easily have similar influences on the occupants as described for the conventionally built home.

On a related note, not considered part of classical feng shui, but certainly something to consider: living inside a metal box could be undermining for your health over time. As a conductor for electrical fields, living in a metal box could be the final straw for someone with significant health problems. I have a dear friend who has struggled with treating her skin cancer, while living in a Mobile Home. She was instructed to move by a macro-biotic nutritionist, saying that living in a metal box was on par with living in a really polluted environment, counter-productive to getting well.

In contrast to their basic, rectangular shape, Mobile Homes often have a non-obvious orientation. Do they face the street which they have been placed on or do they face the same direction as where the entry door is, often on the “side” of the mobile home? The orientation could go either way, depending on the location of other surrounding structures or landscaping features. So, what might appear to be a very simple space to analyze can in fact be a challenge. With Mobile Homes some of the basic principles regarding floor plans have to be modified, so they are dealt with on a case by case basis.

Kartar Diamond is based in Southern California. She advises people all over the world, either in person or over the internet. For more infomration about her services, go to www.FengShuiSolutions.net

Feng Shui Interprets Haunted Houses

Posted on July 20, 2018 by blogger

Even though it is not the domain of a feng shui practitioner to be a “ghost buster,” recognizing spaces that have “yin” qualities and which harbor ghosts or spirits sometimes just goes along with the territory.

There are a number of factors that can make a house prone to or vulnerable to attracting ghosts. Almost like a cliche, and resembling the stereotypical haunted house depicted in the movies, yin qualities in a house will make it more susceptible to having spirits. Those yin qualities includes a place that is chronically, dark, cold, damp, quiet, still and secluded in the mountains.

A house also has a higher chance of being haunted if it is older and there have been a succession of occupants, with some previous occupant having been excessively attached to the property. A client of mine once described seeing a man on her property shortly after the 1994 Northridge earthquake. When she described the man to a neighbor, the neighbor was confident that it was the spirit of the previous owner who had built the house and thought he was just checking on its status after the earthquake.

Sometimes even newer homes can harbor spirits, especially if they were built on places where people had died in battle or over ancient burial grounds. As an example, in Southern California the Chumash Indians had a long history and some homeowners have experienced the telltale signs of Native American Indian spirits on their properties.

There are also certain house types (based on their orientation and year built) which are more likely to attract yin spirits, although sometimes this just ends up attracting a very spiritual occupant who is also interested in the metaphysical or occult.

There are some feng shui remedies for helping remove a ghost, but often if it specific to the house and not a general piece of advice that can be mentioned in an article. Although there is one plant in particular, the banana tree, which is known to attract ghosts. In my own experience as a consultant, I have gotten feedback from clients with banana trees on their properties that they do see or feel spirits.

For sure, it is best to take care that your house is not too yin, i.e. not too dark, damp or secluded with over grown landscape. Homes built right into a mountain side can also be a problem. In fact, some situations are just best avoided since there is not a feng shui remedy for every single problem.

One ironic twist is that a mis-placed metal wind chime can also attract a ghost. Simplified schools of feng shui often recommend hanging wind chimes, but they really need to be placed with the knowledge of whether or not they are appropriate for that situation. It is only classical Flying Star Feng Shui which can determine which house types these are.

Many people have never seen or felt a ghost so it is hard to imagine what this kind of encounter could be like or if ghosts really even exist. Otherwise very rational people often report compelling encounters although modern science has yet to document this adequately to convince the skeptics. I have joked with friends that I have a “peanut butter” ghost in my house because the peanut butter in the jar seems to vanish at an astonishing rate that I cannot take responsibility for!

Even if you doubt the existance of ghosts, it is still a good feng shui premise to keep your house more on the “yang” side because the same qualities or features to a house that can attract ghosts can also just make an occupant more likely to be depressed or sickly.

Kartar Diamond is a classically trained consultant and owner of Feng Shui Solutions since 1992. Vist our website at www.FengShuiSolutions.net for a variety of services available to both local and long distance clients, a free monthly e-newsletter, and Kartar is also the author of four books with more teaching products on the way.

A Feng Shui Misunderstanding Regarding The New Period 8

Posted on February 8, 2018 by blogger

Now that we are beyond 2004, a new twenty year construction cycle (2004-2023), I have been receiving emails from people in a panic about their houses that were built in the last twenty year cycle (1984-2003) or a home that is even older. This panic is usually totally unwarranted, but has been generated by some famous feng shui practitioners who have a history of dispensing very bad advice. Not everyone reading this article will understand the technical points and it requires some familiarity with the Flying Star School of Feng Shui, but in concept, I hope everyone can appreciate why I am writing one of the most important articles I’ve ever written.

The major points I will cover in this article are: 1.It is not necessary to try to change a Period 7 House into a Period 8 House. 2.There are counter-measures and feng shui remedies that you can apply to your existing house in lieu of drastic remodeling. 3.Changing the cycle of your house to Period 8 could make it a bad house. (In other words, new isn’t always better.) 4.Only a radical remodel would change the cycle of the house anyway.

NOT NECESSARY If you have learned that the Flying Star -7- returned to being more of a negative influence after 2004, you are correct, but I can say with confidence that it did not turn negative at the stroke of midnight on February 4, 2004. As well, entire houses built during the Period 7 cycle (1984-2003) did not turn bad over night. The goodness of the actual 7 energy (wherever it is in your house, and it exists in every house no matter when the house was built) will fade over time. Five to ten years might be a more appropriate -shelf life.- This is true for the 7 flying star in all houses, not just the ones built in Period 7 (1984-2003). Also, keep in mind that no flying star functions on its own. It has to be coupled with another star and those combinations can have drastically different impacts.

REMEDIES If you are worried about the flying star 7 in your house contributing to betrayals, violence or theft, then you can weaken this flying star 7 with water. The 7-Tui trigram is inherently metal and metal is always weakened with water. This is the reductive cycle at work and it is the most gentle way to correct the problem. The same Feng Shui personality who is upsetting people out about the 7 star is also telling readers to -destroy it with fire.- The Reductive cycle is usually preferable to the Destructive cycle, so I would disagree with this advice as well, except in specific circumstances that require more studious training.

WHAT IF YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD AND CHANGE THE CYCLE? Changing the cycle of your house is a major undertaking that few people are willing or able to do. But if you did, what are you trading it in for? You could be creating a monster! Example: I used to live in a southwest facing Period 7 home, with an entrance in the NE and an office in the South. The flying stars at the door were 7-7 and in the office they were 6-8. These are major money numbers and I tripled my income in this house. Now, if I had the capability of turning that same Southwest-facing house into a Period 8 house, the office would become 6-9 (not nearly as good) and it would have replaced a 1-4 combination in the center for 2-5. (The 1-4 energy is still supportive of creative people, especially writers, while the 2-5 energy means there is potential for arguments and accidents.) For a variety of reasons, Flying Star practitioners should universally agree that this would be a less desirable house and not appropriate to try to change. There are loads of other examples, whereby changing your house into a newer cycle would make it worse.

HOW CAN YOU CHANGE THE CYCLE OF YOUR HOUSE ANYWAY? The same bad sources that advocate changing the cycle of your house from Period 7 to Period 8 are also misleading people to think that they can do this by changing the carpeting, installing a new door, or replacing the plaster ceiling. Another suggests moving out of your house for three months and then moving back in or removing -3 tiles- from the roof of your house. None of these symbolic gestures will work in my opinion.

If you really want to change the cycle of your house, you have to rip away a major part of your ceiling AND roof and expose the interiors and foundation of your house to the sky. You would have to do a major renovation where you practically gutted your house in order to have the original energy escape the house and have a new energy pattern enter. There are some people who think that you can change the -birth year- or cycle of your house by creating an extremely large skylight in the center of the house, but I have my reservations about that one also. So, you can see that changing the cycle of your house is a serious undertaking that would cost thousands of dollars and should only be done if you know for sure that you will be creating a better house because of it.

Kartar Diamond is a classically trained Feng Shui Master, based in Los Angeles. You can visit Kartar’s website for more information, books, e-books, a DVD and other learning tools. http://www.FengShuiSolutions.net