FENG SHUI FUNDAMENTALS
with T. Raphael Simons

Indoor Shars

After having dowsed for noxious rays and looked for secret arrows, both forms of shar as described in my last two articles, you can look for shars indoors. The point of looking for and treating shars is to rid your house of otherwise unnoticed negative influences.

Before looking inside, however, there is one more thing to note outside. This is the position of the stars of destruction and sickness. These stars are found in the Northeast and Southwest this year, 2007. If your doorway faces either of these directions, the cure is to put a Bagua mirror outside, facing out, above the door for this entire year. The Bagua mirror repels negative force.

To find negative energy inside your house, first look for clutter and wall, utility and structural damage. In doing a house reading in Feng Shui, clutter, as well as damage and deterioration, reveals a lot about your life. Let it suffice here to say that clutter, wherever it is in your house, including in closets, congests the Chi in the house and serves to generate obstacles, confusion and worries that affect your emotions and activities in life. Clear up clutter, make repairs and arrange your house so you can move around it with ease.

Some shars to look for and their cures are as follows:

• If you see a bathroom door from the entrance to your house, make sure to keep the bathroom door closed and affix a full-length mirror to the outside of the bathroom door.
• If you see out a back window upon opening the front door, either put a wind chime in front of the back window to ward off ghost energy, or cover the window with blinds or curtains, or place a screen or construct a wall between the front door and the back window.
• If the first thing you see upon entering the house is an eye sore, clean it up.
• If the first thing you see upon entering your house is the kitchen, it is good if the kitchen is cheerful and large enough to socialize in, but if not, devise a way of screening the kitchen off. A beaded curtain may be enough.
• If you see into a bedroom from the entrance to the house, either screen off the bedroom or put a full length mirror on the bedroom door facing out and keep the bedroom door closed. Screening is the better choice.

The placement of mirrors in a house is potentially dangerous and is best done only according to compass methods as mirrors are said to be portals that draw spirit entities into the house. The compass methods are based on the actual sitting of the house and the facing of its front door. If you feel that there is an undesirable spirit attached to your house, or if you have been noticing disturbances and / or illness developing at home for no good reason, you may consider clearing your house of entities. While it isn’t difficult to do it should be done by someone who knows what they are doing.

T. Raphael Simons, author of Feng Shui Step by Step, began practicing and teaching feng shui in 1988. He studied with Chinese astrologer and feng shui expert Terry Lee, and was a student and teaching assistant of Ivy Jacobson, a great Western astrologer. In addition to feng shui and astrology, he practices as a psychic and a hypnotherapist. His latest book, The Feng Shui of Love, will be released toward the end of this year. For more information, visit www.PsychicArts.net

Appeared in the April/May 2007 issue of Innerchange.

Articles by T. Raphael Simons:

Harmony of House & Doorway

Indoor Shars

Secret Arrows

Underground Shars

Positioning Yourself for POWER

The Balance of Your Relationship: Who Goes on Which Side of the Bed?

Spiritual House Cleansing

The Year of the Firedog

The Number 10 in Feng Shui

Peace in Your Home

Finding a New Home

Money Point

2005 in Chinese Astrology and Feng Shui

Feng Shui and Healing

Equilibrium

Mirrors in Feng Shui

Form Methods in Feng Shui

Feng Shui and Recreating Oneself

Interview with a Feng Shui Expert