On a regular basis, I help clients in their property search for apartments, condos, or commercial spaces within larger buildings. For some, I pull out my “Rich City-Poor Country” metaphor, which can also be a “Poor City-Rich Country” comparison. What do I mean by this?

I can evaluate a building based on a number of features, including the more non-obvious aspects based on when it was built and its compass alignment.  Some buildings have major problems, but there may still be some individual units within that building which are better than the building as a whole.  You could be in the best part of a lousy building, like living in a rich city within a poor country.

The reverse also exists, where a building may have good feng shui, but an individual unit or suite is in the worst area of the building.  All buildings have inherently positive and negative directional zones.  Of course, the ideal is to occupy a good unit in a good building and not a bad unit in a bad building.  But what about these combination prospects?  Which is better?

In some cases, it may be hard to say which is better. Normally, the smaller space (like your neighborhood compared to a whole city) will affect you the most.  If you had a great apartment within a problematic building, you might still do fairly well, in spite of the building’s flaws.  But what if this is a commercial space and your building has such bad feng shui that it could repel people from even coming to do business with you?  Do you have a business that relies on local customers and foot traffic?

In order to gauge which is more important, the “Big Picture” feng shui or the “Little Picture” feng shui, we have to know more about the occupant, their needs, their circumstances and if it is a commercial or residential property.

After the fact, feng shui practitioners usually work with people in their existing homes or place of business and just try to make the given space as positive as possible. And with limited options, we often get into “micro” feng shui versus “macro” feng shui. This is actually a variation of the Rich City-Poor Country analogy.  For example, if I discover that my client has a home office in the worst part of the house for financial luck, (and they cannot switch their office for anywhere else in the house), then we try to see if the person can at least have their work desk in the most positive part of the room.  Sometimes small adjustments yield big results.

One of the Rich City-Poor Country circumstances is when a building is in a long termed “Locked Phase.” This is a phase that every building will go through at some point within the 180-year full cycle that every building experiences and then goes on to repeat. The Money Lock can undermine financial luck and the People Lock can undermine health and relationships.   Some buildings do not enter this Locked Phase until many decades after they have been built, while others enter this 20 year phase fairly soon after having been built.  The timing of when each building has to go through this phase is revealed through Flying Star Feng Shui calculations. 

It’s possible for a whole building to be in a “Locked Phase,” where individual units facing a different direction within the building might not be. And each person has their own Litmus test or expectations of what they want or what they will settle for. I do have clients who will accept C+ or B- feng shui if they know that remedies to the space may bump it up to a slightly higher grading.

Other clients only want A+ feng shui and will not settle for less.  What actually happens to a person is based on a combination of influences, such as personal destiny, feng shui (your immediate environment), and pro-active resolutions one takes (personal responsibility) to be healthy, happy and successful.

One of the big draws for people utilizing Feng Shui services comes from the understanding that we don’t have control over much that happens to us. And yet, what we may have control over is consciously choosing a place to live or work which can support us instead of sabotaging us.

 

Author: Kartar Diamond

Company: Feng Shui Solutions ®

From the Philosophical and Metaphysical Musings Blog Series