Roundabouts and cul-de-sacs

Circular living

some people live in circular settings, sometimes around a road interchange, some times in specially designed housing complexes. These may look attractive, but to the eye of the Feng Shui practitioner they both pose problems.

In the case of the roundabout, the energy spins, creating a vortex. Bands of energy shoot off at high velocity and bombard the houses. This subjects the households to constant disturbance. From the safety point of view, collisions and accidents, such as brake failures, can result in automobiles following the spinning energy lines and ploughing into houses on the margin.

Enclave living

A quiet dead-end street or a designer enclave like this may look like just the place for some peace and quiet. But imagine the energy entering the open end of the street and finding nowhere to go. It literally piles up like stagnant water at one end of a pond or like multiple vehicles ramming into each other on a blocked freeway. The families that live closest to the dead end will probably find comparable effects in their lives: a sense of having nowhere to go, or of having no future. It is unlikely that they will have a vibrant social life or that their businesses will thrive. The impact of the colliding and stagnating energy may also lead to disturbances in their family lives.

Three Fire buildings dominate these pages, each in a different cultural setting, each serving a different purpose, and yet all striking in their intensity and power.

Fire shapes
The irregular triangles of the Sydney Opera House lick the sky like flames. Seen from this angle, the whole structure has the quality of a craft with full sails: when the energy of the Wind and Water move together in certain directions, this ingenious structure draws that power to itself and to the city that surrounds it. Small wonder that Sydney will host the Olympics of the millennium!

Fire color
St. Basil's, with its world-famous domes, rises above the Kremlin in Moscow. It is a striking example of a Fire building -  triangular in shape and predominantly red. It conveys tremendous power. If its energy acts as your mother, the protection it affords is immense. But if that energy is turned against you, you face a mighty enemy.

Fire structure
This pyramid at the Louvre in Paris was designed by the Chinese architect responsible for the Bank of China in Hong Kong. It is a superb Fire structure, drawing down intense energy from the heavens - and making this site a prodigious attraction for visitors. It is perfectly banlanced with the Water structure of the Louvre.