Door Placement for Good Chi

Doors are an important part of the Feng Shui equation.

Doors are the entrance ways to our homes. This is true in more ways than one. Not only do doors allow the entry of guests, they also allow the entry of good energy… or bad energy if we’re not careful.

Indeed, much care should be given to the construction and placement of doors.

The trick lies in inviting good chi. As we mentioned in the previous chapter, Feng Shui is quite intuitive for a reason. You have a natural feel for directing the flow of good energy. You have a sense for it. You can feel it. And though at times, you may not be consciously aware of this, you manage to arrange things in the right order.

It’s a case of your instincts telling you how to guide good chi.

Discussing the placement of doors in our homes is a great way to learn about Feng Shui. After all, before we can manipulate the flow of good chi, we must first make sure that our homes aren’t blocking its passage. A correctly placed main door can attract positive energies quite efficiently.

Let’s take a look at some basics:

Essential in the placement of main doors is the width of the driveway leading to them. As a rule, driveways should not be narrower than the width of the main door. You want your door to serve as a funnel for good chi, so that none is wasted during its entry into your house.

A narrower driveway leaves some space for the entry of less than ideal chi into the house. A wider driveway allows your main door to select the good chi that passes through the driveway.

Also, in the correct figure above, notice that the driveway leading to the main door is proportionately straight.

This is highly advised. The flow of chi should be consistent and regular. Take a look at the opposites below:

Notice the driveways that narrow out in and narrow out of your main door. These situations result in the irregular influx of chi, and should be avoided at all costs.

However, there are pre-built driveways that leave us no choice, especially those that are constructed in a way that would require an overhaul of the entire landscape before changing them. What can be done to improve the flow of chi, in such cases?

• Provide lights at both sides of the narrower end. This tells the good chi where to go. If the narrower end is near the doorway, provide lights at both ends of the main door. If the narrower end is near the main road, provide lamp posts on each side of the egress.

• In all cases, it will help if you place plants in round-shaped pots at both ends of the driveway. This will prevent the good chi from getting lost on its way into your house. The plants should be healthy, as anything aesthetically negative is simply fodder for bad chi. The reason? Those who pass by your house and who see dead or unhealthy plants will think negatively about your dwelling. This will give birth to negative chi, and since it is in close proximity to your home, your residence can easily become its target.

• Always keep your driveway clean. Trash or other items scattered before your doors will block the entrance of good chi, and the unsightly nature of the debris may give birth to bad chi from passersby.

• Make good use of Feng Shui enhancing tools. We will be discussing this in detail a little later.

Elevation should also be considered for your main door.

As a rule, the path leading to your main door should not be lower than the height of the main door itself. Otherwise, you are limiting, or worse, draining away, prosperity chi. Prosperity chi is a kind of good energy associated with money luck. A good flow of prosperity chi will mean more income and more earning opportunities for you, so it is very important that you take this particular tip into consideration.

Let’s take a look at this through the following illustrations:

The reason for this is simple: it is harder for good chi to enter your house if it has to climb to your doorway. A level driveway makes the entrance more accessible for good chi and all the prosperity it can provide.

Now we move on to the topic of poison arrows.

The main focus of this chapter is on doors, and rightfully so. Doors are the gateways to your home. The entrance of good chi greatly depends on how your main door is constructed and positioned.

But what if your main door directly fronts a source of bad chi, or something that effectively redirects bad chi towards your house?

These sources or redirectors often come in the form of poison arrows.

Poison arrows, basically speaking, are anything sharply pointed that facilitates the flow of bad fortune towards your household. There are many kinds of bad luck, depending on the type of negative chi that is redirected to your house. The best way to combat this bad luck is to place your doors away from poison arrows.

Since poison arrows come in the form of sharp angled objects, being observant is the key to avoiding them. Take a look at your surroundings, particularly the area in front of your main door.

Illustrated below are some of the things you should be on the lookout for.

A single tree fronting your main door is a poison arrow. Though trees generally symbolize prosperity, they must be in abundance before any positive chi can be gathered from them. One solitary tree is a redirector of bad chi.

The best way to deal with this is to remove the tree, if possible. Make sure that you unearth the roots, and that none of it is left for the growth of a new tree. If this is not feasible, you should consider changing the position of the door so that it does not front the tree.

A house with a pointed roof-line is also a poison arrow. The sharper the angle, the stronger the negative chi it can bring. The best way to avoid this situation is to move your door to the other side of the house, as well. You can, also, use some techniques to combat negative chi. We will be discussing these techniques in a later chapter.

In general, anything that is pointed and firmly established in front of your main door is a poison arrow. This includes:

• Poles and lampposts
• Towers
• Natural elevations, like steep hills or rock formations
• Crosses from chapels/churches
• Even straight bodies of water perpendicular to the main door, like canals, drains, or rivers

It is important that you learn the concept of poison arrows by heart. Even if you design your house to be very compatible with good chi, it will all be useless if poison arrows are bringing you negative chi.

The misfortunes that poison arrows may cause are quite varied. These include:

• Family conflicts
• Business disasters
• Slow career growth
• Poor health
• And others

Rough and sharp edges rarely occur in the natural world. They are often man-made constructions that disrupt the internal harmony found within nature.

It’s easy to find poison arrows. Just step out of your main door, look around, and try to find straight lines pointing to where you are. If such straight lines exist, you know that some avoidance measures are needed.

It goes without saying that you should avoid making your home a poison arrow for your neighbors. Otherwise, they may employ some chi-reflecting tactics that will prove damaging to you, if ever such bad chi should bounce back to your home. For starters, you could avoid using pointed roofs on your home. In China, people usually use arched roofs. Arches not only curtail the creation of poison arrows, they are also signs of prosperity. An arch is the traditional symbol for wood or gold, after all.

You can prevent a ping pong volley of bad chi by being aware of these rules.

Poison arrows aren’t the only things that need to be considered in the construction and placement of main doors, however.

There are other circumstances which must be avoided. Negative chi can come from elsewhere. Poison arrows intensify this bad energy and redirect it to your home. But imagine that your main door is fronting the source of the negative chi itself; the effects would be more than catastrophic!

Study the following illustrations:

First and foremost, the main door should be proportional to the size of the entire house. It should never be too wide or too narrow. Remember that Feng Shui is all about balance. Too much of something, even if it’s supposed to be a good thing, isn’t ideal. Neither is a lack of what is desired. Your main door should reflect this. As we said earlier, it’s the gateway to your house. From your main door comes the chi that circulates around your home.

There are other things that should be avoided. Some of them may appear as poison arrows, but a closer scrutiny will reveal them to be sources of bad chi. A source of bad chi emits a more forceful, and often more disastrous, energy. There are a number of techniques used to combat poison arrows. But there are few techniques that can ward off bad chi from the sources themselves. Therefor, knowing these sources is ideal if you want to avoid them altogether.

Your main door shouldn’t be fronting anything unsightly, as well. Trash cans are the number one culprits of undesirable chi. They may not be of the fatal variety, but the bad energy they emit can ruin the good fortunes you wish to invite. Clogged drainages should also be avoided. Anything that impedes the flow of water can impede the flow of prosperity chi. Y ou’d want to keep your house away from such as much as possible.

There are other things that should be avoided. Some of them may appear as poison arrows, but a closer scrutiny will reveal them to be sources of bad chi. A source of bad chi emits a more forceful, and often more disastrous, energy. There are a number of techniques used to combat poison arrows. But there are few techniques that can ward off bad chi from the sources themselves. Therefor, knowing these sources is ideal if you want to avoid them altogether.

Your main door should not be fronting a cemetery, a monastery, a church, a temple, or another place of worship. Though it would be alright if these places were at the back of your home, when they’re near your front door, your house is highly susceptible to very strong negative chi.

Your main door should not face a mountain or a hill, as well. These elevations represent difficulties. Much like how physical exertion is required for you to climb them, they also produce bad chi that makes it difficult for your monetary ventures to succeed.

Neither should your main door face a narrow gap between two buildings. These narrow gaps can bring bad chi that causes financial irresponsibility, poor health, and failure to capitalize on opportunities.

Your main door should also avoid fronting a path that branches out into multiple directions. This can bring about some tough times for your family. Failure to decide when needed, making wrong decisions, failure to reach agreements, failure to see opportunities whenever they present themselves, and failure to strike a compromise can hound your stay in the house.

Another thing that your main door should avoid facing is bends. Whether they’re bends in roads, bends in flyovers, bends in bodies of water, they can have negative effects on your household. Bends, you see, are shaped like the action of a knife. As such, they often cause division within the family, disharmony in business, and deterioration of health.

With all that we have discussed in this chapter, it should now be apparent how truly intuitive Feng Shui can be. You are dealing with the natural elements, after all. You’ve known them since birth. You are well acquainted with them. It’s just a matter of collating what you have learned, but have subconsciously failed to ascertain all of these years.

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