Locating the target

Your home is your base. In Feng Shui, the energy patterns that affect your home are some of the most important influences on your entire life. The most important influences on your entire life. The first consideration is the exact location of your home. Most people's are located right beside or very near a road or street, and since thoroughfares are major conduits of energy the relationship of the road to your home is of prime importance. To understand how this work, think of your home as if it were a potential target. If the road is curved, as in the drawing on the right, the road is positioned like the bow of an archer opposite the two blue houses. This is the side of the curve that you should avoid. You can see how energy moving in either direction along the roadway (and that includes the traffic) can tend to skid off the curve and impact on the two blue houses. The blue houses are sitting targets; the yellow one is safe.

Curved energy flow

This energy flow is rather like a river. If either end of the curve is higher than the other, the water flowing downward will normally stay confined between the banks. But if there is heavy rainfall or the river is swollen the first houses to be affected will be those directly in the line of the forward-moving water, or energy. Again, the blue houses will be in trouble.

Right-angled curve and U shape

The energy comes to a right-angled curve in the road. If is it moving slowly, it will turn the corner and bypass the blue house. If it is agitated or uncontrolled, it will miss the turning and carry straight on, hitting the blue house. The curve is like a band of warmth: the yellow house nicely embraced: the blue house excluded. If the house is located at the end of a complete U in the road, the two powerful energy lines are catapulted on to the target of the blue house and form a point like the tip of a knife.

A speeding automobile

Using the target principle explained on this page, take a good look at this drawing. Imagine that the energy flow takes the form of a speeding automobile in the night. All three of these houses could be in danger depending on which direction the car is heading. Think about and try to assess the most likely risks that each house will face.