4 Things a Compass Reading Can Tell You About Your Home

Hey guys welcome to Learn Feng Shui where you'll Learn Feng Shui from a classical point of view taking out the myth and Superstition if you like weekly tips as well as fun folklore Tales you'll enjoy learning funu with me hey guys today we're going to talk about what a compass reading can tell you about your home a compass Direction can tell you a lot about the type of energy you're receiving into your home that's why when a funu practitioner does an assessment of your home they'll always ask if you can take a compass reading or they'll take out their little pan and do their own reading usually right outside your front door in addition to telling us you know how the house is oriented and how we can actually lay like an energy mapping over your space there's other things that direction can indicate when we're looking at your home and the first one is if your home Falls in between 180° or 0 degrees so if it's facing either 180° or it's facing 0 degrees on the compass that could indicate you are actually in what is called a void line so what does a void line mean having your home sit on one of these void lines particularly in the facing and sitting Direction could indicate that maybe you feel unfulfilled in life like it could be a big indication and if you happen to have that issue and that is the way your home is facing and sitting it could be affecting you in that way generally the 0° and 180° facing direction are best reserved for a spiritual place so usually like a church or you know a temple or something would be best located or best situated on one of these lines this would require further assessment by a train funct practitioner but generally things like tilting a door frame and having the front door receive a different type of energy might be helpful again a consult a function practitioner because there is some things that can be done to change this energy a little bit another thing that your facing Direction could indicate could be a funu issue so particularly in a year where that animal sign is governing it so remember you can find your animal signs within your home too they're what are called the Earth branches so they're just called Earth branches and remember just like you could be born under animal sign of a dog and a pig and a rooster there's dog and pig and rooster within your home this Temple is called the 24 mountains each sector of your home like North can be broken down into like North one North 2 North 3 and the area of North 2 governs the animal sign of the Rat so it's you know just that type of thing right so this year in particular the animal sign is the tiger so that area of Northeast is associated with the tiger so it's going to be Northeast 3 particularly so if you have a home that usually sits East or faces East and you notice this year it's kind of swinging to the Northeast that means you could you know have some sort of Affliction in your home it could represent there may be some issues coming up particularly when it will fluctuate toward the animal sign that is the thae soy for the year so again if you're home generally it faces East and this year you're like it's really facing Northeast like that's that's the direction I keep getting when I've taken multiple Compass readings that could mean that maybe this year your home may be affected by the taoy more so it just means that you may have some issues within your home you know maybe you need to up some good functuay areas of your space but yeah keep in mind when the home fluctuates between the guads particularly remember the guads are north east west south Southeast Southwest and so when a home fluctuates between like East or Northeast or east or Southeast that means that particularly during those Tha soy years or the years that come in with that animal sign your house may feel the effects of That So speaking of the animal signs within our home and looking at where those are located another big indicator that your home could be very impactful on you is that your house faces what is called the Earth Branch again that's just the animal sign so if your home faces one of these animal signs that means that the people within your home if their animal sign combines in a way or it connects the energy kind of interacts in a certain way that means that that house could have more of an effect During certain years so for example my home AES a the horse Direction it faces South to which is the horse and so I know during certain years because of our our children's you know n their natal charts their astrology charts um that it who it's going to affect the most within my household and so I can kind of look at that and see you know certain years will affect um certain people more depending on where certain afflictions are within the home so the animal signs if your home faces an animal sign that tells you who in your home could be impacted by certain energies that year and if you listened to the segment and you don't know where to find any of these areas on your in your home you don't know where where your home faces I can help you with that I offer to do a free floor plan um energy mapping for listeners of the show so you just have to send me your floor plan and i' had to get a little additional information from you but you can shoot me an email um at the link below if you're interested in that so there can also be a spiritual component to the readings and this is usually determined when a function way practitioner is able to go on site and bring a low pan out and so that is one of the benefits you can get from having somebody take measurements for you with the low pan because a function way Master is going to recognize if the needle is swinging in a strange way so there's certain ways we can look at on our low pan and it'll tell us different things about either the property or the home the first one is tilting so if a funu you know the compass needle is either tilting up or down and so it can you know different um either the head tilting up or down means something and either the back tilting up or down means something um if the needle swings too hard so if it swings real hard and it stops really abruptly that could also have a meaning to it um if the swing doesn't stop so if you really have you know if we have a time where the needle keeps spinning around and we're not able to actually get a reading that indicates an issue also um so there's some different things like that we can look at with the actual needle and being on site that we wouldn't be able to see otherwise and here's what that can mean so sometimes it can indicate you have an earth problem like you know some kind of disaster may happen within the home sometimes it indicates a spirit either malevolent or a protecting Spirit you know or an ancestor spirit so all of the The Swinging and tilting and everything mean you know we would look at that to see where what it meant um also could mean maybe there's a plot from back in the day maybe there's a dangerous Spirit there or maybe the ground just itself is not conductive to having good funct way um your the quality of the land also is assessed when we do functua and so that's one of the most important things so having this external reading and having a strange needle reading could either indicate maybe some electromagnetic issues also or that the land is just not good funu in of itself for today's folklore Friday we're going to talk about the legend of the waving Kitty or maniki Niko the legend of the minikin noiko comes today from the Japanese shop. co.uk the Japanese lucky cat is traditionally known as miniki noiko which translates into the beckoning cat according to ancient Japanese folklore it's a good luck charm and some izes good fortune in business and happiness although there are many stories surrounding the true origin of the lucky cat one of the most popular Tales of vulk is the legend of the gotokuji temple this story is about a local priest who looked after the gooi temple in Tokyo who despite his poverty would share his food with his cat one day a man who is said to have been a samurai took shelter under one of the temples nearby trees the man saw the cat cat was beging to him to come to the temple and as he approached the cat a bolt of lightning struck the tree that he was underneath clausing it to crash to the ground where he would have been taking shelter had the cat not singled him to move so grateful to the cat the samurai turned out to be a very wealthy man and he rewarded the temple with funding years later when the cat died a special burial was made in his honor of what we now know today as the lucky cat in another account it was said that a merchant was traveling around selling his Wares and he got stuck in a thunderstorm and the same type of thing he beckoned for the businessman or the merchant to come to the temple and he did and again I think the tree was struck down by lightning and for him being grateful to the cat he rewarded the temple with a monetary donation the third legend that I found on this website called cater.com M um it's a little bit uh I'll say trigger warning it's it includes animal cruelty um a common Legend suring the maniko is peculiar one AA had a pet cat that she adored but one day it was tugging at her kimono and the owner of the brothel thought that the cat was possessed so he sliced off its head with a sword the flying cat had actually landed on a snake that was about to strike and the cat's um fangs killed the snake but it saved the woman and this gisha was so distraught at the loss of her cat that she had one of her customers make a statue of the cat to cheer her up this is the first time I've heard about this one and apparently the gooji temple is still really widely visited by people and they have a lot of souvenir shops around that sell waving kitties so if you do want to use a maniki noo or a lucky cat within your business or your home you know you feel free um I don't feel like like the movement is enough to activate the area personally I like either like a fan that's going non-stop or um some sort of accumulation of water like a fish tank but if you wish to use a maniki noo here's some representation and some symbology that you can use so it says here while you'll mostly see a white wiik with orange or black spots there are quite a few color variations and they are said to have a special meaning so if it's Calico it's a traditional color combination is said to be the luckiest type if it's white it says it represents Purity happiness and positive things to come if it's gold it's supposed to represent wealth and prosperity if it's black it's supposed to word off evil if it's red it's supposed to give you success in love and relationships and if it's green it's supposed to represent good health also holding different things can symbolize different things that the you know cat is lucky for so it says if the cat is holding one RI which is a Japanese coin it says here that this is a Japanese coin from the Ido period and Aria was considered to be a fortune back then so it would be if the cat's holding a coin um if it's holding a magic money Mallet you will see a little small hammer and that's what to represent wealth it says when it's shaken the mou it's supposed to attract wealth so I don't know if this is one where the the arm isn't moving I don't think I've seen one like that so if it's holding a fish most likely a carp that the fish is symbolic of abundance and good fortune which we've um kind of talked about in um previous episodes that you know it's one of the dishes that will be eaten on our traditional like the lunar or the Chinese New Year would be fish because it symbolizes abundance um if it's holding a marble or a gym this is another money magnet it say some people believe that the crystal ball can represent wisdom it does also say here that lucky cats can also be found to be holding gourds which would be like those little wulu gourds um prayer tablets um in and these are all supposed to represent wealth and good luck and the gourd would represent a good health and a couple different things that were pointed out to us from we have a Funway Master within my Funway study group and um he's from China and so he kind of addresses some of these funu items but he did mention before that if the left hand is raised it's to invite customers in but if the right hand is raised it's suppos to just invite like prosperity in and also you don't want to place out a statue of a kitty that's laying down so I've seen some of these um It's a lazy cat so it's supposed to um be bad luck you're not supposed to put one of those inside your business and as you may notice of course this year is the year of the Tiger but why is there no cat on the Chinese zodiac I think the simplest answer is that um it's it's kind of said that cats weren't around when you know these astrological terms were kind of put with animals and so um yeah there's no cat on the Chinese zodiac and perhaps I'll save that story for another day for a free energy mapping of your floor plan please check the link in the show notes to support today's podcast going to learnfengshui.com sign up for emails leave a review and share with your family and friends