Honoring our ancestors and Feng Shui for Burial with Zac Lui

Hey guys welcome to the Learn Feng Shui podcast where you'll Learn Feng Shui from a classical point of view taking out the myth and Superstition so if you're interested in learning funu Chinese astrology all things Chinese metaphysics as well as the superstitions and myths that connect it all you'll enjoy learning funu with me hey guys welcome to today's episode so it for my guest today Zach Louie I actually was kind of made aware or you know kind of found him through another fun practitioner she has shared one of his videos he has a YouTube channel Queen City curios and Apothecary everything's going to be linked of course into show notes but video uh entitled luang jing a Chinese gmir of magic and esoteric funu with Jason Reed so I'm in all things esoteric yep and so I actually just messaged uh messaged Zach and I was like hey let's make an episode because this stuff is just pretty interesting and as we started kind of talking connecting I was like man this guy is pretty cool so a very extensive uh bio here let's get into it Zach Louie leading expert in eastern metaphysics he's a shaman folk priest registered acupuncturist and a master of Medical chiong in addition he's a US Reiki master teacher a certified trainer from results over image Institute studying directly with Andrea vitimus for many years has specialized in land a pure land Buddhist and DST Magics and is international radio co-host Zachary also is trained in Shing Kung Fu and internal martial arts as well as Yong Tatian and B Jang hope I said that correctly currently Zachary teaches classical Chinese medicine chiong USI Reiki meditation and Stillness and he is considered a powerful folk priest amongst his peers in the community so let's get into an ancestor worship in unit house funu with Zach Louie welcome Zach I'm so happy to have you on today thank you for having me on Candace today we want to talk about um the concept of ancestor worship honoring your ancestors veneration and Yin house fun but before we get into all that Zach tell us how you got started on just in this field in general what made you come to Chinese metap physics what made me came in terms of the Chinese metaphysics was not that expected uh my background was actually I was doing dating and relationship coaching that's what I was priming myself for in the teams I was learning from the top people in the industry about body language hypnosis conversation communication all that type of stuff and basically uh helping men be men and not really uh you know gting over their issues of what that would mean so that's why I was on because well myself it started really young where I'm like hm you know I can't I want to talk to this girl I can't talk to this girl that's where started for me so then I kind of went a whole slew of things and um eventually I got into more what we discuss as the Neo tantro route of things and I started to learn from that and then I got interested in spirituality saying like why aren't I going back to my roots I love this Hindu stuff or I love the neotantra stuff but there's so much more what else can I do and uh it was from that point I basically made a commitment to myself saying well I will figure out how to do magic I will figure out how to do spirituality and um let's dive into it it was a hard decision I made in my team right because everything was getting more I usually describe as monochrome when you can start figuring things out and you're like it's boring you need a little more flare you want the Technic colies so that's where I that was my pursuit of spirituality like how to become a better person it wasn't for any anything else other than self-development purposes and I want a grounded results driven approach to things so from that point uh someone in my network said hey you should learn off of a Chinese medicine person and I'm looking at them I'm like uh dud really uh th thick mud like needles why would I do how does this have to do with anything and then the carrot on the stick for me was well you said you want to do magic Chinese medicine kind of has Dallas root I'm like oh now you have my interest you're saying this is part of Dallas magic which there's no literature on and I could school for this professionally get a job as a wizard type of thing this is kind of cool maybe right so I go on to Apprentice a family lineage for Chinese medicine and at the same time it's as they say when the student is ready the master appears and I was doing chiong work at this point like lots of chiong and I'm still thing marketing at this time this is like early years and it went to a point where I was getting actually radical results with Chong that most people could not get like but I was having the time to do it so I literally was doing four hours Chong every day in my teens like late teens early 20s and I was getting lots of effects where it would almost break reality and I was like what the hell am I doing there has to be like a scientific method to that I don't like I get like you breathe in you do the movements but the the the why was the biggest thing and even prior to this I was doing something called hermitic right so this is Western esoteric tradition magic yeah and um because I couldn't find anything on Chinese stuff other than meditate do do Shaolin stuff I'm like uh but then when I started to do the chiong things started to kind of fit fit together like a puzzle piece because I was doing those basic hermitic exercises like go stare ey candle go look at the Black Mirror do these energy exercise to magnetize and I'm like okay this sort of makes sense but what I really wanted to do during that time was call Spirit I was like yeah I want to do this how do I do this well you have to do all the for right so I kept that it I did the chiong and then uh after a certain amount of time and Dre vidimus author of Hands-On chaos magic he was uh doing a tour and he was just doing a sigal magic class and I remember uh literally there was the email from the person that talked to like hey you got meet this guy he is bad ass like you you want to do stuff he is the person I'm like all right whatever let's check this out right because I don't know what I'm I don't know what I don't know so this is very much like I know Chong so I took the workshop and Andrea has a psychology background he's very data driven right he has multiple Masters so this is where this is like an author that actually like I I could relate to because I was like you know for me I was ready all interested in this stuff I'm like all right like this seems pretty grounded to me and he started to talk about sigil he started to talk about like how translates matter and how to progress step by step into this I'm like yeah this is this is gold this is complete gold this tour this is where I start working through this because I have an aspiration I'm like I want to do that I don't know what that was but that's what I'm looking to do so I start working through it things start changing in my life and at that point uh I contact him I'm running a men self-development group at this time and I said hey the guys need this how much is it going to cost we're flying you up here or we'll pay for your hotel whatever it is this is the next step for men's self-development so we get him up here he does another Mass B and um people's lives are changed completely after that he gave me an invite to go down to the state and then I started go down to the States as much as I could to learn from him directly um and then I start to just go there consistently eventually he took me on as a student and uh from there uh went through lots of different types of grow and the great thing around this idea of chaos magic is it's a meta system so you can apply for whatever system like uh perspective you want it's like eating food you like Chinese food you need fire you need water and you need a pot that's all basic cooking so chaos magic says what is the basic cooking tools you need for any magic system from that point you add whatever twist you want but every single system has these techniques or has this formula to make it work that's so fascinating and you make some really good points about one um I think people don't realize that there's you know more aspects of so we have you know our fun but then we have that falls under the five Arts of you know Chinese metaphysics which you know magic does encompass the more esoteric falling under what's considered Mountain but also chiong would be too you know and so I think a lot of people don't realize that you know and it all uses all those same the same elements the same Concepts you know and so really when you you know have one you have fun you have your five elements you know in the yin and yangong in Chinese medicine we have the five elements in the yin and yangong and I think um yeah just just the awareness like that it all is this really the system that works together you know well it's a it's a paradigmal system right like you it's coming from Chinese culture Chinese culture has certain principles a Viewpoint of how the world is so in Chinese culture it's coming from a point of one if we go to the straight shamanic connections your days of the week all 10 days in the historical lunar solar calendar our actual Royal Aristocrats that's dead veneration right off the bat which fits into our topic then we can start saying well is a yinong in five phases and a trigrams and the Y Jing and book of changes what is it if all of that so we in Chinese culture um it came from the Han Dynasty particularly when they codified everything before that everyone was just doing freefor all like I do this you do this cool being but eventually we get to a formulated school of thought from the ha Dynasty which they would deem classical Chinese thought this is why most people will say on people or Tong people later on being another Dynasty but they're formulating the cosmological sequence in China culture that's under bureaucracy at this point so they said yin and yang that's the of our Inception of the universe then you get the what's the next thing the Trinity the heaven person Earth then you get the four Direction then you get the five phases then you get the six stages or the six different seats of H power which is luck right then you get into the types of the chi and then we can go on and that's a whole cosmological narrative that everyone FS into but that was all formulated from hodge podge before the Han Dynasty so this is important to understand that this is a coherent system and it doesn't matter what one like you know we can say the five arts or say the eight types of schools um in Chinese medicine we would say like you have your eight branches right so that get to do mountain I get to do fun I get to do B and astrology and all this um when I was um doing all that theot training I was also doing Dule learning for Chinese medicine families that came from lineages that did this directly from the Imperial Palace so they were the ones actually treating The Last Emperor right so I've been very fortunate I've been standing on the shoulders of giants when it comes to this whole understanding of chines metaphysics magic and it's basically how do you skew the probability of the world to make your life better when you started looking at Chinese medicine started doing Chinese medicine you've discovered you had a connection to your ancestors before and again I think it really is something that is lost kind of in the Western World we you know maybe we visit a tomb or we visit a grave you know but we don't um have the the level of like veneration you like the tomb sweeping days or you know the things like that that we go and and do and honor the ancestors and so um I think you know that that is something that's lost a little bit is the connection to the ancestors and of course Yin house funu it is a lot about um making sure our ancestors have a good funu spot that their descendants you know us can prosper how did you discover kind of that connection to your ancestors what did that look like for you that was actually a tragic time in my life life right so this is where um you know I'll be straight on the there this is like I'm okay with it now because I've had to support and things like that and I had the training from Andrea that training from Andrea got me through the tragedy so unfortunately uh you know our house burned down and uh a family member died so that's um that was extremely depressing for me because literally I got raised with that person like it was my grandmother so this is like it was very trying for me on that and uh you know I was fortunate enough that I was able to go down to the States and Andre was able to uh get me through things and said hey do your basic trainings and he was uh and everyone down there was a great support network for me and then I kept doing the exercises but in the moment I did the Basic Energy exercises that he taught me and I say they're basic but they are like the things that get you through stuff right this is like you hope you never go through a tragedy like I did and then like you get to apply it and you're like okay this this stuff actually worked because I went to a psychologist afterward because it was so tragic and literally the psychologist and therapist said I got nothing for you like literally I explained every single thing I was like this is my routine this is my meditation work this is how I'm dealing with it and uh through all the skills that Andrea taught me that psychologist literally kept saying I don't have anything for you to say we're just going to sit here for the next hour but really like I got nothing for you right if you want to talk about things we can I talked but really they're like I I got no plan for you so that's how well well I bounced back however during the ferary rights this is where Andrea came up and he acted as a priest for my grandmother on things and uh you know there's various processes around what funerary rights are uh however we had to go scope out the grave beforehand like a pretty standard thing and before this understand I we we we used to go to the grave as Chinese people and we used to like oh you you you you you brush the grave and you feed them and all this to me that was always very superficial and it was like I was getting introduced to how to do necromancy work right working with the dead in general through all the training Andrea gave me and I'm literally at the grave of my grandmother looking at the pet and uh so we're doing this scouting we go through their funerary rights and literally like I get this impression and it was actually a confrontational type of impression because I'm Raw at this point it's like you know a few days later it was a tragic situation I barely got out of alive myself and this is where I'm completely raw and I literally feel Spirit on her grave and I'm like this like I'm literally like I I'm already someone that can do something like I was trained enough at that point I can I've already I'm already doing like intro priest work right like this is when I'm at that stage of my training so this is where I'm like mofo is gonna be going into some jars if I don't get some answers because I'm pissed right and they're like whoa whoa whoa we're here I'm like yeah you're here on my grandmother's grave and you're about to die even though you're a spirit I don't care right so this is where I'm already not having it and they saidwell no like understand like we need no threat we're actually family I'm like prove it like that's my like I'm like you know and I can do devation that I can do all these things to verify so they say a few things to me I'm like let me SC this out if this is wrong you're in a jar and you'll be buried in the grave I'll promise you that right so this is where I'm ready raw from all this world um and this is before hum rates that Andrea does obviously so or a little bit after it's a little bit jelled but regardless there was a threat implied by me because I'm pissed that someone's on My Grave that raised me so at this point I'm able to verify things I do definations I do some meditations I'm not really doing ancestor work at this point um and I wasn't really doing dead work at this point though I was exposed to it I'm just learning about this right so this is where I ask my family I'm like hey does this sound legit in terms of again my family doesn't really do open stuff like we lost that connection but I was able to verify like did Grandma do or say something because I wouldn't have any recollection of this obviously all right and then they like yeah that's actually true so we have verified evidence and then I put the second anti challenge to these Spirits saying okay if you if this is true you should be able to tell me certain things about myself felt that I only know about and they did so at that point I'm so skeptical I'm hella skeptical remember at this point so I'm like all right fine you've passed the test let's see if this actually works so then I get their name I meditate with them I call them up and I'm like hey is this true and then there's a whole process of getting to know your ancestors right so I actually formally start getting an ancestor altered built at this point being like if you you are my contact points because you were guarding my grandmother's grave uh that's cool because usually you don't work with anyone uh at the ancestor table unless you have ancestors that you knew in life right I had no one die at this point so I had no actual ancestors no one would talk to me about like great grandparents like who knows that nobody right I never had exposure to them so this is almost the start of my ancestor alter at this point because I had to do a confrontational conversation and they were able to pull through and get me results um through different works of with ancestor uh table work and that's where again Andrea taught me as a first rule of thumb like you know you work with your ancestors they have your back no matter what because you should be expecting something because family has families back I can talk to an nature spirit I could talk to the angels I could talk to any other Spirits they don't really care but you know who does care your family cares that you have a roof over your head and you have descendants that pass on right or you have people that you can support even if you choose not to have children that you can get something out there so the family continues in some shape way so they are actually biased for you being successful right now some people might say well I don't understand um maybe uh you know they go through different experiences where they don't know their parents and they had like Foster things where they were orphaned if you meditate enough and you have an active alar you'll find them and we do this consistently at deeper down the rabbit hole where we have those ancestor meditations like anytime Halloween pops up we always have a public ritual or public meditation for people to connect to their ancestors because it's that important yes it's the time of the dead and yes it's the time when the veils the shortest when it comes to more Western tradition however with that this is a great time to interact with your ancestors and your dead because if you have that option there'll always be rooting for you and this is why even in our public Temple space like anyone in Toronto if you're in Toronto 607 Gerard Street East uh unit 401 we're on the fourth floor we have a public Temple and we have actual dead alar to multiple cycop pumps and Lords of the dead and you will get connected to your ancestors uh because we have a direct mirror that you can do a meditation with instructions so if you don't know what you're doing you're like I don't know go to our altar if you're in Toronto and follow the instructions with the QR code and from there you're going to be able to connect with your ancestors because one of the Lords of the Dead is going to bring you to your ancestors and pull them forward who love you and then that's the start of your ancestor altar right so this is where not everyone has access to ancestor space for alter space and we have a full room for you and it's pretty it's pretty ptim you get all the ritual we have all the spirits there it's really like a love of the community and the community supporting us talking about the ancestor altar do you set it up I know within like when I I we learned Funway I study with the master in Singapore but he has like his resident like ch Chinese master that studies with us and he goes over like this whole thing of it's like one session of alra setup and placement and where to set your ancestor plaques and you know they shouldn't be higher than the deities and all this stuff do you set it up traditionally or do you have like more intuitive you gu it's more intuitive it's again it's one of these things like you know even the ancestors right now it's one of these things where the typical idea is I use a white alter cloth because um at least in the way the tradition I was taught in which is more Voodoo right which is both community and the dead this is where white is Purity now in Chinese culture You' be like well that's death Okay match to match it doesn't matter but we're going to assume it's Purity uh then you always want like a glass of water at this point right the glass of water so they can go through the dead Waters and every culture generally says the underworld is associated with water even CH culture say the Yellow Springs in the most historic contacts right so you have the water there that they can move through and then you have the physical food offerings whatever they actually liked in life so this is where you have to kind of know what they actually liked in life per se so for myself again I got Asian ancestors so I might give them fruit right as a physical offering but you can use grains you can use bread right and then you give that as a physical thing for them to eat you can also uh have fire because fire is Illuminating right and brings light to them so they might be in the Underworld like we don't know what's happening but they see the light so they get drawn to it but it also invigorates them to the physical world so the candle's always warming them up right because it's cold in the Underworld so this is where they have food they have the fire you have a glass of water there and then usually you do incense at that point the incense is just to help with the smell right in Chinese culture we use incense in particular to like raise them up further and you can do lots of work with the ancestors and typically you have four stones from your neighborhood that you would collect from a medit Trans State and you would put them on the corners to symbolize this is my home and that's something you would do so you would refresh the water every week you give new food every week maybe you put flowers and then you give unique items to each of your ancestors maybe it's a photo that represents them maybe it's a you know it could be a statue that represents them it just depends what they want but you know this is the basic ingredients for our ancestor alter now where should it placement be wherever it's convenient let's be honest like do you want to see your grandma does your grandma want to see you walking around naked around the house no right or if you're having company maybe you don't want the ancestors there well then you get a divider and you just fold it up and cover the table so at that point they understand that space is demarked energetically so they don't go out and peek and then you take it down when you need to like this makes sense like you think of lot like family dinner at the table or maybe it's in the living room it just it depends how your family is right so typically in Chinese culture you'd be like they have a dead house that they have the heal all together right and you go to them and that's their that's their house and the way I've been taught I like to be a little more interactive with my ancestors and I'll sit down with them and be like hey what up buds uh life's kind of sucky give me some help here and then you might do some ritual work with them at that point now I do find if people are magician you have magician ancestors that's just a fact it usually run through line now that doesn't mean that you're like oh like it's not my bloodline well then you can make it it doesn't matter people have the same skills that they had in life you had a doctor person in health or in life and they're your ancestor you can have them do healing for you you had a Soldier then you can have them do military rounds right if you had someone that was a weaver they can do so all the skills that they actually had in life apply to you right now and you can even get that further strengthened if you have a cycle pump or a lord of the Dead to do the blessing because usually you want a lord of the Dead to actually open up the Altar and be like this is your connection right so like again uh for us when we do those ancestor uh openings Andrea is a hugan he is the highest initiated uh priest in the voodoo rank so this is where we'll work with a baron right and Mama rette and he'll do the work ritually for all our audience and like for our listeners when we do the meditation and clients and he'll open up the door to the Lord's uh the underworld and then he said can you bring their ancestors through the waters now you have a consecrated altar because the lord of the Dead blessed it and that's your portal to the Underworld for your ancestors yeah I think you make an excellent point too like because I think a lot of people um listeners of the podcast and stuff like that we're not all Buddhists we're not all toist Dost you know and so I I heard one time don't throw the baby away with the bath water I remember I was listening to um a gentleman and he you know talked about like magic you know magic was a okay right and he did a lot of that type of type of work um but he was raised Catholic and he said his mom was like a Catholic light like she was Catholic and all that but she you know is the one that taught him like you know energetic healing and you know working with crystals and all this stuff and so he he just said when he goes in and he does like house clearings if he's working with you know trying to rid of negative spirits and stuff like that he says he'll use Catholic saints and he says his mom told him one time don't throw away the baby with the bath water because um you know use what you connect to and so you don't have to throw away all of your own beliefs you know it seems like you connect more to like the the voodoo tradition and so use what you connect to you don't have to do it you know because it's like a funu type of placement or funu type of thing you know work with your intuition and um you know just study more on what what can what you connect to you know what your culture is you know your background is yeah it really is that it's kind of like you were like oh we got to do this fancy funu stuff and my ancestors are kind of like H we're Chinese I mean I could ARG with like okay maybe we have some other things happening but let's just say we're Chinese right uh but it's kind of like at that point what am I going do my offerings are going to be rice form why that's what my ancestors are used to um okay there's certain things in life that they like so it's like okay I'll give them Chinese food on different Chinese festivals right so that's kind of like what I'm giving my family because that's what we're used to but again if your family's not used to Rice why would you give them rice maybe it's coffee maybe it's uh whatever food it is so this is where it's really respecting your culture uh and your background because that's really where you're coming from that ancestor alar the way I describe it I mean you can use any lord of the Dead for that process it was a very template type of altar I set up right in terms of that description uh but you can use anything and it as long as it connects to you you can have different Effigies you can have different things everyone's coming from a different background so just really what works for you the key thing is if you're connecting with your ancestors do you feel better does your life get better we can measure this if we're doing it correctly gotcha um just kind of even thinking about ancestors and then talking about you know the Catholicism my grandma was very devout Catholic you know were Hispanic you know and so um but I remember in her bedroom talking about do you do your ancestors want to see walking around naked but she had this uh it was a beautiful altar she had you know of course for Virgin Mary's and the candles and stuff but she had a divider and she would just close that up and uh close it off you know and that sticks out in my mind you know um so yeah Jesus's crucifixes and last suppers everywhere that makes think of my grandmother this get into other practical pieces a table of luxury right like you know if you don't have a lot of space like you know we can talk about the states things were bigger down there things are cheaper than Canada I can say that for a fact however if you're in an apartment complex the table may not be something you have as a luxury so then you get a briefcase right like I remember talking to Andrea about this and he said like hey use what you got right so you don't have a table you're in a small apartment get a briefcase and then that's your altar when you need it you open it up when you don't need it you close it down yeah that makes sense um so earlier we talked about the underworld uh you mentioned underworld I think a lot of people have a con like a you know connotation in their mind a image in their mind when you say underworld and they think of like the Hades or the Dante's Inferno or something like that but when in reality like in daas Bel and to beliefs it's more of you know like kind of different layers I suppose so underworld doesn't have a negative connotation it's more of just kind of a place that you go to is that correct I know of course you work with other traditions this this really is this I could say generally cross culturally the underworld or the dead lands might be a better interpretation this is just like you're dead what do you do in the Dead Land well people just do their thing right this is a point where you're healing you're trying to figure out things ideally your descendants would bring you back and say hey let's do exchanges I'll Build You Up you help me in my life and it's a win-win right even working with going to the graveyards you can do the win-win with that obviously there's a lot of training with that it's not as hard as people think but there still some Basics you need to know around things so this is where it's kind of like once you start connecting to the Dead Land what's the one thing around death death is all consuming so you better know how to do some healing work on yourself now working with the ancestors it's fairly safe you don't need to worry about that because they have your best interest hand but when you just go in and go to a graveyard that's I mean the dead don't know they're just gonna latch on and be like you're alive you're a star you can see us and you're like yes and you gotta heal and let go of the Dead energy I mean you in hey I mean it's a whole I don't want to say science but it's a whole form onto itself of how to frame the world right so this is like what are you trying to do with Yin house F you're not trying like you know this is where I'll say the backend side of things chinaese culture is a shame culture so to say okay is it a is it a dead friendly culture no it's not whatsoever so this is where you're trying not to piss off the dead that's what it comes down to with yel pun you're like oh I want to make sure the proportions right so I don't piss off my ancestors because the ancestors have Loop to you and if they're not happy guess what you're not happy so that's kind of the gist of it in a nutshell but remember when we're talking about the ancestry Ultra describe you have an actual relationship with them so they'll step in and be like ah dude it's being a dick here like Hey we're stopping this we have a vested interest however In classical times remember that this was done your ancestor Ultra was only done by Aristocrat right it wasn't done by the normal people now you think this is like oh absolutely everyone should have them no not everyone had the luxury of having a table or a space for their ancestors I mean this gets back to names right not a lot like we all have last names we're like yeah it's this this and this but really we that's an that was rare in Chinese culture there's only a hundred names historically but when we're talking about Yin in the conceptualization of that you are raising your ancestors so then because they have a name you can grow but this is where a lot of people didn't have names and that's why they didn't have ancestors so when we're talking about this Yin house side of things it is the idea that you are venerating the dead to uh word off punishment obviously that's not a good place to be at so we'll get into technicals like you know think about your own house right like if we had to frame your house right now is your things you want like if say you couldn't run your own house like say someone else structured it for you would you want a tree in your house busting through the wall probably not would you want it wet and with bad piping probably not like these are things that we kind of take for granted but we're like if you frame it that way you're like yeah now I understand why they care about this y house fway because whatever happens to their house is what happens to the Liv in so the again the metaphors I don't want to call it sense but the magic and the metaphors here is like to like you pick a coffin you go to do the uh positions because maybe you want your ancestor to be more glorified okay they you pick a direction to glorify them maybe they you found them they like winter so you face them North maybe they like the South so you face them South uh so this really depends on the family orientation this is based on their personal preferences but a few solid rules is make sure there's no trees busting through your wall make sure that there is a flow of water but not over top of it right because it's like I don't want a leaky roof but it's nice to have a stream that I can go kayaking down or canoeing on right you you give the offering to them so they have food to eat and then you would usually do exchanges for that or you put flowers to make it more decorative you already all do this living anyway the same rules apply so with that that's a very minimalistic Viewpoint of the in-house h get very complex but the complexities don't need to be there now you're just saying you're adding metaphorical layers now I can be completely heretical on this with fun and people are like this is the way it's been done for thousands of years oh yeah yeah I see that right this this has to be the way um and I would look at them and say okay and toilets were the way for how many years too we didn't have flushable toilets yeah it's a thing apples are a thing too right so this is where technolog is always evolving and if we understand the core principles of what that means we can adapt so this is where I'm not big on the dogma of this is the way of dump there's principles in play if you understand they principles you can switch it because it's your interaction with it have you experienced anything like that where people have you know kept like earns in their home or anything like that and they've experienced anything um not particularly I I'm don't think negative because I don't think that that would be necessarily negative energy but just a Yin energy it may be experiencing activity it's like again Yin is Yin death is death but Yin is very nourishing Yin is very um supporting right these are metaphors that we can talk about so when we're talking about ears and we're talking about The Cremation process it's like you can put that anywhere and it wouldn't matter now I know again heretically people are gonna be like dude what are you talking about right you can't put the ear in the fire quadrants and blah blah blah I'm like well if the person was very good at social media and they were very celebrity like yeah I won't put them in fire right because they're gonna be very good there right so this is again it's like you need to know your loved ones when you're talking about them where would they fit most comfortable different schools of Funway are gonna have different places they're usually going to say put it in possibly like metal Corners right because that correlates to the dead maybe like again dep how you look maybe it's water but honestly it does not matter you should have one area and you should just give them that location is it Yin energy yes doesn't matter ultimately no because it's your connection to your loved one right so that's really the key thing is you're connecting to your loved ones that's already transforming the aspect of yet yeah and I do think just even the process of having them there honoring them and then just keeping it in a space that's nice that you know that they would like is nice I know we're in the process right now of um Burying my father inla he was uh he passed in 2019 2019 and um my sister-in-law has him but when she moves and you know I feel like he's not stable and so I we bought a um a slot for him and when I bought this the space I made sure I did the fun on it and I did a specific calculation that that I've learned but yeah I really did me and my husband stood there for a little bit and we're like does this is a really pretty view it's it's kind of up on a hill a little bit has a view of the water you know really it's the oldest cemetery in my town um trees off to you know all around really pretty and so yeah he was like he would like this perfect let's let's go for it and that's really what you're looking for right because like the spot matters because it's like okay like when people like spots don't matter it's like they kind of do matter because it's who's going there right so if you're like well screw it throw them in the grave we're done and they're like I'd be pissed off too right at that point like did you really honor me like you want me to help you like it's not going to happen at that point like you got to just view it from a simple lens of like would they like it in love if they don't then they probably won't like it in Death yeah I think people get hung up on the method and I mean even though it's like I may use a certain method you may use certain method or you know other whoever uses a certain method again you just have to trust that you're using what you know your best intention you're you have to trust that you're doing the best you can with the knowledge have and um yeah and that it's going to be it's going to turn out good I think a lot of people get hung up on the how-tos and um you know the specifics and the lineage I've seen like arguments with lineage and all kinds of fun oh my gosh it's crazy but I've seen some crazy stuff but but yeah I think it's again just we have to know that we're doing the best we can with what we have and people have different methods that yeah they can change their life in in a bunch of different ways just shifting that Paradigm thinking about it and just trying things you know so try some ancestor work yeah I think that really me to try some yeah yeah some ancestor work I mean really it's just like you know you're connecting if you have a photo you have a memory that's a good enough start right if they love you in life they'll love you in death that's all you just got meditate and just be like okay here's the table I may not know a lord of the Dead I may not know a psychop pump Spirit that's okay but you know your ancestor and that's enough to kind of understand so you can just imagine how they were and they'll come forward thank you that's yeah I agree U again that's kind of intrigued me to to try some things um so people want to get a hold of you where can they find you I'm going to put links on the show notes but you do have a YouTube channel which is where I discovered you yep deeper down the rabbit hole is the podcast the videoast on YouTube is called Queen City Curio videoast so this is where I'm co-hosting with Andrea and Andrea is the co-host on things we bring in AU we talk about different uh ult metaphysics in a practical result driven manner uh we also have our store if you're in Toronto we ship internationally too like we have a lot of American buyers that support us so thank you thank you so much for coming on today we really appreciate you if anybody needs to get a hold of you again that link will be in the show notes and uh they'll be able to get a hold of you that way really appreciate you coming on today thank you so much thank you all right guys I hope you enjoyed today's episode ancestor worship honoring our ancestors and funct for burial with Zach Louie we talked about all things in between also very fascinating subject topic and again hope to have Zach on the show for uh further topics Chinese medicine all kinds of stuff so you guys U check the link in the show if you're interested in following Zach's work also and um he has some cool stuff if you're in his area definitely check out the website cuz again just some neat events that they host quite frequently it would seem so I'll catch you guys next week for fun A Haunted House you know what do we look for to know if a house is going to be haunted from a funu aspect so I'll catch you guys next week for our spooky episode you guys have an amazing weekend for 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