New: Requesting Input

[bigcaat]

Hi I'm new here and new to feng shui.

My mother-in-law got me the most wonderful feng shui book for my birthday, and I'm just about finished with it. I've already ordered another.

I'm a little confused about something when trying to assess my house and it's areas. The problem is that my front door faces sideways from the front of the house. Here's a rough diagram. The front door is the little black box. (There's suppose to be an arrow there pointing from the words "front door" like there is with the plants, but...)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/bigcaat/Miscellaneous/housediagram.jpg

So what way do I decide all my areas from? Do I do it from the direction of how I'm facing when I enter the front door, or from the direction of the front of the house, where the entrance to the alcove to the front door is?

I really am anxious to start learning how to do things around here, (I already know that I should put something on that empty corner in the back, but I don't know what, and I don't know which (bagua?) it is.

Anyway, I'd appreciate you getting me started on this.

Thanks,
Caat

Oh, yeah. And the porch is covered, but not enclosed. Here's a picture of the house. (It's at night because it was for the Christmas lights, but you can kind of see the porch, alcove and the front door.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/bigcaat/Miscellaneous/Christmas07small.jpg

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[moonchin]

Hi I'm new here and new to feng shui.

My mother-in-law got me the most wonderful feng shui book for my birthday, and I'm just about finished with it. I've already ordered another.

I'm a little confused about something when trying to assess my house and it's areas. The problem is that my front door faces sideways from the front of the house. Here's a rough diagram. The front door is the little black box. (There's suppose to be an arrow there pointing from the words "front door" like there is with the plants, but...)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/bigcaat/Miscellaneous/housediagram.jpg

So what way do I decide all my areas from? Do I do it from the direction of how I'm facing when I enter the front door, or from the direction of the front of the house, where the entrance to the alcove to the front door is?

I really am anxious to start learning how to do things around here, (I already know that I should put something on that empty corner in the back, but I don't know what, and I don't know which (bagua?) it is.

Anyway, I'd appreciate you getting me started on this.

Thanks,
Caat



Dear BigCaat,

may I know whose FS book did you read? Please be informed that it is not adviceable to DIY your own FS from books alone. If by reading books alone and you can do wonders with FS, then all the masters dont need to spend tens of years to be trained as professionals!
imagine you can buy thousands of years of FS secrets passed down thru generations, with only the price of a book??
There are more to it, my friend. You need to be guided to become proficient.

MoonChin

[bigcaat]

Dear BigCaat,

may I know whose FS book did you read? Please be informed that it is not adviceable to DIY your own FS from books alone. If by reading books alone and you can do wonders with FS, then all the masters dont need to spend tens of years to be trained as professionals!
imagine you can buy thousands of years of FS secrets passed down thru generations, with only the price of a book??
There are more to it, my friend. You need to be guided to become proficient.

MoonChin
Gosh. That's very helpful, moon. Certainly worth the wait. Next time I get a question from someone who's trying to learn the tarot, and is having trouble understanding what the Hierophant means, I'll just tell them that it takes years to learn so they shouldn't bother looking in a book, asking or trying to start to learn on their own. I'll just tell them to hire a professional.

Thanks much for your input.

[moonchin]

Gosh. That's very helpful, moon. Certainly worth the wait. Next time I get a question from someone who's trying to learn the tarot, and is having trouble understanding what the Hierophant means, I'll just tell them that it takes years to learn so they shouldn't bother looking in a book, asking or trying to start to learn on their own. I'll just tell them to hire a professional.

Thanks much for your input.


Well, if you are the tarot professional then you can guide them!! take them under your wings..... for a fee maybe?

moonchin

[bigcaat]

Well, if you are the tarot professional then you can guide them!! take them under your wings..... for a fee maybe?

moonchin
No. I'm not that greedy with my talents. If they want to take a six week class, I'll teach them and charge them for it. If they have a question that would help them on their journey, I am more than willing to help them out without fee or insult -- altruistically.

Not everything in the world is guided by money. It's disheartening to see that Americanized philosophy injected into a feng shui place like this. Why bother to even have a forum? Why don't they just turn it into one big advertisement if that's all you care about?

Because you've made it very clear that this forum is not here to build a community composed of those interested in further development of feng shui.

What a sorry excuse -- and example -- for your profession you have presented.

Caat

[moonchin]

No. I'm not that greedy with my talents. If they want to take a six week class, I'll teach them and charge them for it. If they have a question that would help them on their journey, I am more than willing to help them out without fee or insult -- altruistically.

Caat

Thats exactly what I'm trying to tell you. offering bits and pieces of advise here and there does not help serious students. I wont argue with your insult.

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Moonchin

[moonchin]

No. I'm not that greedy with my talents. If they want to take a six week class, I'll teach them and charge them for it. If they have a question that would help them on their journey, I am more than willing to help them out without fee or insult -- altruistically.

Not everything in the world is guided by money. It's disheartening to see that Americanized philosophy injected into a feng shui place like this. Why bother to even have a forum? Why don't they just turn it into one big advertisement if that's all you care about?

Because you've made it very clear that this forum is not here to build a community composed of those interested in further development of feng shui.

What a sorry excuse -- and example -- for your profession you have presented.

Caat

Dear Big Caat,

It seems that you have taken offence to my advice that to be proficient in FS one needs years of training, and one cannot just by reading FS books start to practice, simply because there are too many parameters to consider. It is totally different from card reading which gets its results from objective translation of cards.

I just want you to undertand that I have no malice.

I wish for you to know that simply dishing out FS answers and advice without seeing a FS situation with our own eyes is not very advisable. simple reason is because FS solutions must always be based on subjective analysis and not objective reasoning and decision.

if by giving advice based on a posted FS question and maybe causing that someone to misinterpret, as can always happen, we are doing a disservice.

and my advice to you that FS takes years to be proficient and that you should not try FS solutions based on books alone, these are golden words. FS is not something that you can practice off the shelf. one mistake can cause calamity to befall.

another thing is that if you have not noticed, I dont run this forum. I am also a new member.

if you cannot even see that I am also an ordinary member of this forum, then I doubt your ability to study complex FS theories.

please be advised.

Moonchin

[judy]

Dear Big Caat,

It seems that you have taken offence to my advice that to be proficient in FS one needs years of training, and one cannot just by reading FS books start to practice, simply because there are too many parameters to consider. It is totally different from card reading which gets its results from objective translation of cards.

I just want you to undertand that I have no malice.

I wish for you to know that simply dishing out FS answers and advice without seeing a FS situation with our own eyes is not very advisable. simple reason is because FS solutions must always be based on subjective analysis and not objective reasoning and decision.

if by giving advice based on a posted FS question and maybe causing that someone to misinterpret, as can always happen, we are doing a disservice.

and my advice to you that FS takes years to be proficient and that you should not try FS solutions based on books alone, these are golden words. FS is not something that you can practice off the shelf. one mistake can cause calamity to befall.

another thing is that if you have not noticed, I dont run this forum. I am also a new member.

if you cannot even see that I am also an ordinary member of this forum, then I doubt your ability to study complex FS theories.

please be advised.

Moonchin

Good grief, why in the world wouldn't someone take offense from your words?? You totally disrespected the poster and I can see now why this place is dead.

You need to take a course in courtesy; you come off as a greedy gus, know it all, and NO ONE would appreciate you spouting off your gobbly gook. The poster simply wanted help; you came back on her/him as a jackass, hopefully some bad luck will come your way really soon.

And don't worry about replying to my message; I'll never enter this site again... because of YOU and your RUDENESS. I'm sure the owners of this site wishes you'd disappear, you've run off any and all people who have simple questions and want advice.
What a jerk you are.