‘Energies of the Dragon are carried by the winds and collect at the boundary of water’

Perhaps the clearest definition of what Feng Shui means is envisioned by the historian, poet and writer of the Eastern Jin period.

Guo Pu （郭璞）【AD 276 - 324】wrote The Book of Burials （葬書）, the most authoritative source of Feng Shui doctrine that addresses the concept of Feng Shui in the history of China.

氣乘風則散

界水則止古人聚之使不散

行之使有止

故謂之風水

These lines are observed by all practitioners and form the basis of all Feng Shui applications.

This adaptation spells the criteria for the conditions of good Feng Shui.

Sources of Feng Shui originates and evolves into ‘winds’ （風）. Winds are air in motion created by a difference in pressures and moves from high to low.

The natural occurrence comes from the expansion of warmer atmosphere, thus allowing air to flow.

In Feng Shui, the quality of this flow must be gradual and sentimental. The origin of such qualities come from mountains （山）and hills which should be ideally lush and shaped with ridges. As the air brushes through the trees and minerals, it forms and carries with it the vital qualities of what mankind benefits as a breeze and can be further enhanced as wind （風）.

This flow will only stop when it meets with a collection of water （水）in a bright protected space. Preferably clean and moving, representing life, water is seen as a river, a protected channel, a reservoir, a lake, man made dams or a bay.

In urban cities, buildings and undulations of land make up for such sources while roads, drains, pools and ponds can take the place of natural water features.

It is from this quality of conditions that your Feng Shui Master comes in and lay out the possibilities of certain properties and land which will then be matched with the occupants for their enjoyment and benefits.

The point here is clear.

Energies （氣）, popularly termed as the breath of the dragons, cannot be created or manufactured.

We must be prepared and be honest with ourselves that certain land, locations, areas, precincts, clusters and neighborhoods do not come with such a quality.

Turning a property which do not come with such a condition, from bad to good is not a reality. At most, mitigation can be applied to the downsides.

It is therefore ore imperative for property prospects to assess or call in a professional to ascertain if a home is worth investing, right from the start.

Internally, if your home qualifies to be able to draw in the energies （氣）, much can be done to be activated for various functions that bring the desired results for its owners.

In a sequence and with methodologies, a professional consultant should be able to ‘unlock’ and ‘release’ certain points within your home so that energies flow.

Fixtures, layout, locality and the use of certain element related features will usually do the trick.

A professional and ethical consultant will effectively use electrical appliance such as lights (for career and image boosting), plants and flowers (for relationships), water (for wealth, financial and business enhancements) and metal structures or exercise weights to control some negatively affected areas.

Often, the question of wealth activation comes into dispute. what do you need to use in water features.

The answer is, all you need is a water pump (not an air pump) and a container as simple as a pail.

How big should it be ? For a 100 square meters or a 1,100 square feet size apartment, a one foot aquarium will do.

The best is, it must be an open top for energies to collect and it must be moving water so that the energies remain active and live.

This is my personal water feature. Filter, water pump, lights, artificial plants, bit of stones for added aesthetics.

No fish.

Your Personal Forecast for 2020 Year of Metal Rat

Reading about it is one thing. Knowing what to do about it is what you should be concerned with. The easy thing to do is to translate what general opinions are but there are actually things that we go around doing things right that make us different from the rest who will fiddle in the dark or being led by what comes next. Find your 2020 Zodiac Forecast here.

The primary focus must be centered around how we can constructively understand things that influence us and whether we can make the best of what is favoring us and how to handle what is going against our efforts.

Some of the wisdom originate from the Chinese Almanac. Highlighting the essence of what each day of the year brings us is the Daily Pages. Translated into English and adapted to current daily living activities, this guide will offer you vital information on whether it is a good day for marriage, signing a contract, moving house and making a major purchase. besides, it also sieves out the unfavorable days indicating their downsides such as a Year Breaker and the No Wealth Days.

Get this guide, the 2020 Chinese Almanac here: https://www.hofs.sg/product-page/2020-book-of-favourable-days-year-of-the-metal-rat and stay right on track to make this the best and most productive year yet.

Road to Financial Success - Avoid the 'No Wealth Days'

Have you wonder why there are some successful people who seem to do the right thing with precise timing ? Perhaps, you attribute it to their 'good luck' that goes their way. However, you start to suspect that there must be something that they did right to strike gold most of the time.

The sequence to financial success is first to make sure things do not get in your way.

In Date Selection, there are days in the year that are grouped and labelled as 'No Wealth Days'. These are days when the 'wealth' or prosperous energies fall into the 'Void and Emptiness' stage. When this happens, the prosperous energies, key drivers to success especially in areas of financial growth, monetary gains and investment returns are totally absent.

For the rest of 2019, the two days you want to watch are 3 November (Sunday) and 4 November (Monday).

These two days are best left alone if you are making critical financial decisions or executing anything that requires us to part with our money. Doing so often leads to a negative feeling of that decision, missing out a better bargain elsewhere, fed with negative feedback about that same decision, mistakes in financial calculations, failure in securing a loan and in the longer term, an investment that usually leads to losses.

Most of us have some kind of financial decisions to make, big or small. It could be a business investment, a stock market purchase, putting money down for a property, getting a new car, putting children into the right university and so much more.

The good advice here is, avoid these days if you have to make a decision or put it off to another day.

There will be fourteen other such days in year 2020. It's all calculated at your fingertips in the 2020 Chinese Almanac, now available for purchase.