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Dear Ben,

Thanks for the recent photos.

Overall, a Bagua (Pakua) mirror above the window should be ok since you are unable to implement the rest of the other cures. It should be able to neutralise the sha qi. (It would nice to have more - but OK.)

>Question:
>
>1) If you look at the roof,
>you can see a skylight in the
>middle. It is positioned in
>the middle of the second
>floor. I remember reading
>that it is not good feng shui
>to have a staircase in the
>middle of the house. But what
>about a skylight? My guess is
>it would be similiar but I'm
>not sure.

The skylight in the middle is acceptable. In fact many of the older Chinese houses do have skylight coming in to the middle court yard.

However, if it would not be acceptable if there is a tree exactly in the middle of the court yard. As in one of the recent mail, I mentioned that it is inauspicous to do so.

Ideally, the staircase, should be avoided at exactly the centrepoint - and also it should have one or two or more turnings (depending on the height of the building and landings)

>2) The front door faces South
>(fire direction) and the front
>door has oval glass in the
>upper middle portion of door
>(water element) It's painted
>green (wood). I know that
>fire and water clashes. What
>do you recommend? Replace the
>door with no glass and leave
>it green or paint it red OR
>not to worry about it since it
>is secondary in importance to
>the being at the end of the
>street.

It is common to have glass on the door.

There are subjective views on glass. Some say that it is `water element' while others say that it is of the metal element. While crystals, is thought to be either water element or earth element.

In my opinion, glass is made up of tight structures and I personally consider it as the metal element.

Frankly, I feel that there is'nt any issue with glass fixed to wooden doors.

Warmest Regards,
Cecil

On 2/21/2002 1:23:00 PM, Ben Jue wrote:
>Hi Cecil,
>
>I got around to going to my
>rental to check up on the
>landscaping work done which
>you had recommended. I had
>that bare tree replace and
>centered on the 1st story
>window with a more hardy tree
>that doesn't lose leaves. I
>also had boxwood hedges
>planted along the front of the
>house. Both the hedges are
>tree are not mature yet but
>hopefully within a 1-2 years
>the tree will fully cover the
>front window and the hedges
>will grow knee high. I also
>placed a bagua mirror above
>the window (Not the red/green
>with double door but one my
>mother found. What does double
>door look like?). You can see
>from the attachments. I
>haven't been able to convince
>(haven't dared asked) the
>tenants (chinese and caucasian
>couple) to let me place
>cannons or keiloons in the
>front. I'm not sure how to ask
>them because I don't want them
>to feel uncomfortable about
>the house. I should have done
>it before I rented it out. But
>they do seem like nice
>tenants, paid on time and
>hasn't called to bother me
>yet.
>
>2) The front door faces South
>(fire direction) and the front
>door has oval glass in the
>upper middle portion of door
>(water element) It's painted
>green (wood). I know that
>fire and water clashes. What
>do you recommend? Replace the
>door with no glass and leave
>it green or paint it red OR
>not to worry about it since it
>is secondary in importance to
>the being at the end of the
>street.
>
>Thanks