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A good main door

• The main door is larger than the back door.
• The main door opens into a big spacious living room.

The design of this layout (left) is regular and balanced. The location of the main door is excellent as it forces the Chi to curve and turn from room to room. Both sides of the main door are spacious and comfortable.

A bad main door

• The main door forms a straight line with the back door. This is a major taboo and should be strenuously avoided.
• There is a sharp and deadly corner pointing directly at the front door, marked in the diagram.

Good door placements always open into space. When the entrance is cramped either inside or outside the door, the Feng Shui of the home is adversely affected. A cardinal rule is that the main door should never be hit by any configuration, arrangement, or structure that blocks the flow of traffic inward. The diagram below is an example of a very bad door placement. Several adjustments had to be made in order to correct the existing Feng Shui.

You can also enhance the Feng Shui of your main door. Bury three old coins, tied together with red thread, under the ground just inside the main door. If you cannot bury the coins, place them on the floor and cover them with a rug. The concealed coins symbolizes walking on gold each time you go through the door. Several Feng Shui experts have recommended this practice to me, but I believe that it is more superstition than Feng Shui. You can always try it and see if it works for you.

Hang a painting of an auspicious subject near the door to enhance the happy energy of the front door.

Peonies, chrysanthemums, plum blossoms and other good fortune flowers make excellent energizers. I have a beautiful painting of the Sung Dynasty tribute horse hanging next to my main doors on the inside to symbolize plenty of presents coming into my home.

Another excellent feature is the placement of two beautiful good fortune plants (such as the Chinese money plant) on either side of the main door. Again this raises the Yang energy and attracts good fortune Chi into the home. Plants with round, broad leaves are better than plants with long pointed leaves. Plants with thorns are definitely not acceptable.

Be careful what lies above the main door. If the upstairs toilet is inadvertently placed above the main door it completely destroys the entrance Feng Shui of the home, with often quite serious consequences. Even if it is not directly above the door but only above the entrance foyer, the energies are still not auspicious.

When there are other doors near the vicinity of the main door they create a multitude of effects, someof which can be interpreted as bad luck. We have already noted the ill- effects of a toilet near the maindoor. In addition, main doors that face doors into bedrooms and kitchens can also cause problems, especially when the two doors are in a straight line.

In the diagram, an arrangement like this hurts boththe main door as well as the person sleeping in the bed; there will be little chance of success for the individual in such an arrangement. Another effect of this arrangement is that the people in the bedroom will become lazy and indolent. The Feng Shui is certainly notconducive to success.

The solution is either to move the door of the bedroom away from the line of the main door, place a screen between the two doors, or hang windchime in front of the bedroom door if it happens to be in the west or northwest corners ofthe home. It is also a good idea to move the bed so that it lies diagonally to the door.

Finally, make sure that your main door does not face open shelves (which act like knives cutting into the good luck), sinks and stoves (which press down on your good luck), or brooms and mops (which sweep away all the good luck).

Directions for the main door

The Yang Dwelling Classic recommends that the best direction for the main door to face is south. This recommendation on orientation was based strictly on landscape Feng Shuiconsiderations, and originated before the advent of Compass School Feng Shui.

The main gate in Beijing’s Forbidden City faces south. According to architectural notes, this was to avoid the cold winds from Mongolia, which carried a great deal of yellow dust. In

Beijing, many people also avoided placing windows on the north for the same reason. Even today, many Beijing houses do not havewindows on the north side.

Certain Feng Shui experts consider the northeast direction as the entrance to hell. They call it theDevil’s Gate, describing it as the direction from which the hungry ghosts enter Earth during the seventh month of each year to wreak havoc on earthly beings. Feng Shui experts consider the southwest (the opposite direction of the northeast) to be the “back door” to hell.

Personally, I have no qualms about locating doors in the northeast. The northeast is represented by the trigram Ken. This trigram stands for the mountain, a location which is said to house hidden gold. It also signifies the youngest son, who is usually regarded as the most precious in the family. The northeast thus symbolizes things that are precious to the family.

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