Q&A Sunday: Feng Shui Adjustments for Powerlines and Manholes

Anjie Cho February 16, 2020

Anjie, I listen to your podcasts as soon as they come out, while driving to work. Very cool! Thank you for doing those. You had a phone consultation with a woman that you aired on the podcast. She asked about gas pipes in the back yard. I have something even worse (I think) - a sewer manhole in the middle of the back yard, and front of house looking at high voltage electric lines. How do you think those two effect us and what can be done to remedy them if they have a negative effect?

Alex Y., Gaithersburg, MD

Hi Alex

Thank you for listening to my podcasts! I’m happy you are listening to them.

The first part of your question is about manholes in your backyard. A manhole is like a drain of sorts, where resources can become depleted. In BTB feng shui we use a ritual called “sealing of the drains” using cinnabar and a mantra to close off and seal the drain energetically and with intention. It’s a cure that’s shared through a consultation - so unfortunately I’m not able to post it publicly online. However, you can contact me for a consultation. Otherwise you can try placing a pot with a flowering green plant on top of the manhole to bring more positive life energy to the drain.

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Now on to the second part, the issue of high voltage electric lines in front of your house. High voltage lines may impact your environment because of the EMFs (electromagnetic forces). Energetically you can try to cut those lines by taking a pair of scissors and symbolically cutting them with the intention that they are not harming you. Now you’re not really cutting anything. It’s kind of like that Kids in the Hall skit, “Head Crusher,” where Mark McKinney "crushes" the heads of random people from several feet away with his fingers.

Another way to deflect this negative qi is to use a bagua mirror, the kind you find in Chinatown. You can place this on the outside of your home facing the electric lines. However, be careful as this may also deflect opportunities from your life.

As with many conditions requiring feng shui adjustments, each of these issues, and the circumstances surrounding them, can be different on an individual basis. These basic remedies should work, especially with good intentions, but if you're really worried about the adjustments, I would definitely recommend finding an expert who works well with you.

by Anjie Cho

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Q&A Sunday: Unique Bagua Map Layout

Anjie Cho February 2, 2020

I just listened to your podcasts about the feng shui bagua map, and I'm wondering, looking at my living room bagua, do you divide the room into 9 spaces equally by measurement, or is there a different way of determining where, for example, Benefactors becomes Completion?

Also, since my entrance faces into the living room but away from the rest of the apartment, I get a little confused as to creating a bagua for the whole apartment (or - I suppose this is a third question? Do you count the entrance way on the bagua as the one of the whole building?)

Sacha J., New York, NY

Thanks for your question, Sacha. This brings up a few interesting issues that people encounter when laying out the bagua map on their homes.

For your first question, looking at just your living room, yes. You can divide the room equally into a 3x3 grid by measurement.

Now onto the second question. Your main entrance does face into the living room, with most of the apartment outside of the bagua map. We would not include the public hall, what’s outside of your apartment door, onto your bagua. However, if you wanted to do a bagua of the building, you would use the main entrance of the building (that faces the street).

The simplest way to apply the bagua to your home is to apply the bagua map to each room. This doesn’t mean that you need to put an adjustment in each room, but where it’s relevant for your needs. For instance, if you want more prosperity, perhaps energizing the abundance area of your bedroom area and kitchen area would help. So, you’d find that area in each of those rooms.

But there are two issues to point out here. It may be problematic that your kitchen and bedroom are outside of the bagua. It may mean that your wealth and love is found outside the home. There are ways to bring back the areas that are outside of the bagua map using mirrors to visually and energetically reflect the rooms back into the bagua. For instance, a mirror on wall of the living room that can reflect through the hallway. It will bring back in the image of the rest of the apartment.

Second, there’s a blocked secondary door. Doors represent the voices of the inhabitants of the home. You can open it periodically to give that voice a chance to share, or there are more specific feng shui adjustments that a consultant can share with you that will open up the energy.

I hope this clears up some of your confusion! Thanks so much for writing in, and please let us know how any adjustments you make turn out!

by Anjie Cho

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How to make the most of a spacious Greenwich Village apartment with windows on only one side

Anjie Cho October 9, 2019

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Architect and Feng Shui expert Anjie Cho loves the high ceilings in this Greenwich Village fixer-upper, 808 Broadway, #4H, which, she says, make the already spacious apartment look even larger than it is. Other pros include its location and the fact that it was designed by architect James Renwick, Jr., who also designed nearby Grace Church and St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

Her beef with the unit, which is listed for $875,000, is that there are windows only at one end of the apartment, meaning that despite having “quite a bit of square footage, you can only have one legal bedroom in the space,” she says.

In this week’s Reno Ready, Cho explains what she’d do to update this apartment, including leveling the floors, gutting the bathroom, and integrating the kitchen into the living space.

Level the flooring in the living room

Floor: Cho can’t exactly tell what’s going on with the flooring from the photos, but she assumes it’s in bad shape like the rest of the unit. She’d replace it with herringbone- or chevron-patterned floors in a light-colored white oak, which will make the unit appear brighter.

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