Hi, everyone! It's Safrina Kadri from FengShuiAndProsper.com.
And today, I have a very juicy topic that I want to talk about. As per usual, this is a simulcast, so you're gonna
see me looking at two different cameras here. I have a Google Hangout camera
there, as well as my Periscope camera. So if you guys see me darting my eyes, that's
the reason why. I'm not uncomfortable with looking straight into the camera.
It's just that I'm looking at two different ones. Anyway, as the title today suggests, I am going to be
busting some myths about Feng Shui Ba Gua. Okay? This is something that I see a lot online.
Any Feng Shui enthusiasts -- you see people getting really worried about...
getting very worried about the Ba Gua map that is so - in terms of the Ba Gua information
that is so prevalent out there in boats and online. And I'm gonna show you two different
types of Ba Guas -- one is what I call "fastfood Feng Shui" and the other one is
the classical information that is in the Ba Gua and how us (myself and other
classical Feng Shui practitioners) actually use the Ba Gua or in more cases than none,
we don't use it as much compared to other Feng Shui information out there.
So, for those of you who have been reading up on Feng Shui and you are losing sleep
on your Ba Gua, I will be busting some myths.
I might be making a lot of you guys very uncomfortable and probably very upset
because you have likely based a lot of your Feng Shui placement on the "fastfood" Feng Shui Ba Gua.
So, we are going to get started here. For those of you -- just in case you don't know what
a Ba Gua is, it is pretty much this octagonal form here and you see the
trigrams surrounding the octagon. You see this in Chinese homes and Chinese stores a lot especially the
Ba Gua mirror. Most of the time, it's placed above the front door, which again is a practice that is
largely practiced but not necessarily a good practice because it can actually bring
quite a lot of negative energy, not just to yourself but also potentially to your neighbors.
So, the Octagon is the Ba Gua that I am talking about. And the most prevalent form of Ba Gua out there
in books and online is this one here.
Well, the one that I found is actually not octagonal, but well, the octagon is here, I guess. I'm gonna try to
bring it closer to the webcam so you guys can see. It pretty much sections off a space into 8 different
directions. So, all these directions based on this "fastfood" Ba Gua, all directions
encompass one aspiration so to speak. So, for instance, the career Ba Gua is supposedly the North.
The helpful people in the Northwest, children or creativity in the West,
relationship and marriage in the Southwest, the fame corner in the South,
wealth and abundance in the Southeast, family or children -- actually, in some
schools, they actually say health is wealth or your past and knowledge and spirituality
in the Northeast. This, my friends, if you have been doing your Feng Shui placement
based on this, this is what I call "fastfood" Feng Shui.
It's new; I think it only started in the 40's or the 60's so it's a very very new form of Feng Shui
that is watered down. And if you are one of them who believe that
your money corner is in the Southeast (it's only in the Southeast), your relationship corner is only in the
Southwest, your career corner is only in the North, you need to forget about this one.
I'm sorry, I'm probably breaking a lot of Feng Shui hearts here. That is and it's
very likely the reason why you're not getting any results or if you are, it's probably just coincidence to be honest
with you. Don't feel bad, this is how I started as well in my Feng Shui journey because this is all that's out there.
And we take that as the age old truth that this is how Feng Shui is done, but actually
it is not. So, in my 12-week online program, we actually went through and talked
about the Ba Gua quite a bit because it did confuse a lot of my students which
is part of the reason why I wanted to talk about it today on this scope/hangout. So, what
is the real Ba Gua? The real Ba Gua is this one and these are the main things
that they represent. For the scope, you're not really seeing my face.
So, the South is middle daughter. The 8 directions as opposed to the "new age Ba Gua,"
that has the aspirations, in the classical Ba Gua (I'm gonna call it "new age Classical Ba Gua" okay?),
each direction represents a family member and it also represents a body part.
And that is how it was used back in olden China by the classical Feng Shui grandmasters and all that.
So, the south is middle daughter. And in terms of body parts, it's the eyes and the heart.
The southwest is the mother and in terms of body parts, it's abs and skin.
If you think about moms, mothers give birth, right? So, obviously the abdomen is the domain of the matriarch
as well as the skin. The West is youngest daughter and body parts-wise affects the mouth and the lung.
The Northwest is the father (and the father being the "head of the family"); the body part is head.
That's the easiest one way to remember. The head and the abs for mothers and fathers respectively.
So, that's the Northwest. The North is middle son and it affects ear and kidney.
The Northeast is youngest son and it affects the hand.
I'm just making sure that screen captures this as well. The East is the oldest son and it affects the feet.
And then the eldest daughter is the Southeast and that affects the buttocks.
So, how do we use this? When you combine Classical Ba Gua with, let's say, Flying Star Feng Shui...
So for instance, last year when the five yellow or the number 5 flew to the Northwest, then the fathers or
the patriarchs among the family are very likely the ones that a very challenging year last year.
And I did see that quite a bit in my clients' experience as well as my own husband's experience.
Obviously, I Feng Shui-ed him as best as possible, but last year still had a bit of a hiccup on him.
And then it also affects the head. So, it's likely you'll see more people having,
let's say, migraines and headaches or head injuries, etc. So, when you marry the classical Ba Gua with the
Flying Star Feng Shui, that's when Classial Feng Shui students
can pinpoint who in the family are more likely to be affected positively and
negatively in a specific time frame. And that's how we use it, but to be honest
with you, in my professional consultation, I don't really look at
even the Classical Ba Gua so much. Sometimes, it does give a little bit of an insight
in terms of what could potentially happen to the family members.
But, it's not the end-all and be-all as opposed to the "fastfood" Feng Shui,
the Ba Gua seems to be the starting point of any Feng Shui placement.
And that is definitely not the case for Classical Feng Shui.
The Ba Gua almost becomes like a secondary even like a third-level information that we bring into
consultation. At least the way I do mine anyway. And the way that I have been
trained, we do use the trigram in a more deeper level,
but in terms of the Ba Gua itself, not much. So, that is what
I wanted to talk about for this scope and for this Hangout and you know it is definitely something
that needs to be set because I think 95% of Feng Shui enthusiasts out there are using this one.
I hate to break it to you, but you have to stop wasting your time and even your
money if you're buying stuff for placements.
Transition from this to this. And if you want to learn more about how to do
Feng Shui based on Classical Feng Shui, I have and here is my shameless plug here..
a Feng Shui 2016 online event that is happening this coming Sunday 10 AM to
2 PM Eastern Standard Time. I'm here in Toronto Canada, so it's EST. And I already have people from
all over the world registering with me so they're gonna be joining me where I will be
talking about Classical Feng Shui, you guys. How is the energy for 2016, how it's going to be
affecting your homes and I'll be talking about homes in period 7 and period 8. Meaning, if you've
moved into your current space after 1984, then the
information that I'm gonna be sharing on the online event will be very pertinent to you.
You definitely want to know where are the negative energies and how it's going to be affecting you, how to
remedy those negative energies and you also wanna know where are the auspicious energies for 2016
and how you can capitalize on that. If you've been doing "fastfood" Feng Shui all this time,
"new age" Feng Shui, Western Feng Shui -- whatever you wanna call it; if you've
been doing that all these while, I would love to have you join me
on my online event. You go to this website to register. I don't have early bird pricing anymore, but
it's still worth checking out. It's fengshui2016.instapage.com.
fengshui2016.instapage.com. For the Google Hangout, I'm gonna
have a sign up annotation so you can click on that. For the periscope guys, you're gonna have
to look this up: fengshui2016.instapage.com. It's all about Classical Feng Shui. I am
NOT going to be wasting any time on you know... So, pretty much 100% of the event
will be dedicated to how Feng Shui was done the way it's supposed to be done. And
I am also going to be opening up the event for question and answers and all that. So, if
you want to learn more about how to properly do Feng Shui, make sure that 2016 is a
stronger year for you and you want a little bit of access to me to ask me your burning Feng Shui
questions, I'd love to see you on November 15th, 10AM to 2PM Eastern Time. Again, I'm
gonna give it to you guys again, for the Periscope people: fengshui2016.instapage.com.
And it will be jam-packed. It will be fun and likely towards the end of
it, everyone's probably gonna be a little bit of an information overload because I do
aim to over deliver. So, I'm going to leave you here and if you guys have any questions, feel free
to reach out to me at Safrina@FengShuiAndProsper.com. If I am new to you
on Periscope, please follow me or follow me either on Periscope or on Twitter.
And hope to see you guys on the 15th! Thanks so much for your time! Take care.