Chapter 24 - "Water In" And "Water Out"

Geomancers today often read these books: Locations about 8 Houses and 24 Mountains, Four Houses in the East and West, Divination of the Three Primes and Six Firsts, On Birthday and Location of Residence, among others.

The general difference is:

The most important for a residence is to take in vitality forces.

The most important for a graveyard is to take in land forces.

The geomancer should not only carefully examine the surroundings, shape and size of the residence building, but also know how many storeys, how many rooms and if these rooms are correctly partitioned. As for the doors, there is a careful distinction among main gates, medium doors and small doors; besides there will be the distinction among the chief gate, side doors, and escape doors.

In the sitting-room, the corner where the vitality forces accumulate is the store of wealth.

The bed should be in keeping with the place that takes in the vitality forces.

The stove in the kitchen must be in keeping with the three lucky directions of the owner.

The toilet should be in an inconspicuous place, a declining place and pot plants should be put there to balance things out.

If a well is needed, it must be in a prosperity direction.

However, many geomancers often neglect the problem of where the water comes in and where it goes out. In fact, this problem is of considerable importance.

Since water is forever flowing, it is often regarded as wealth. Because it flows, it has great forces.

I would think that the problem of water is difficult to handle. If the water in a house carries with it some negative forces, the residents can hardly escape some misfortune.

I once studied a residence building. On the balcony on its second floor, the owner had set up some artificial mountain with a waterfall. Some water came from the top of the mountain in the form of a waterfall into the pond inside the mountain. As the owner praised his waterfall again and again, I couldn't bear to point out to him the negative forces of the water. After I had left the place, I told the owner's friend, "The artificial mountain and waterfall are right on the neck of the owner. They carry grave negative forces and must be dismantled."

But the owner didn't do anything.

About three years later, the owner developed some hard growth in his neck. Medical tests showed it was cancer. The swollen part of the neck was very much in the shape of the mountain and waterfall. Not long afterwards, the owner died. The owner was the chairman of the board of directors for several factories and the owner of a big hotel. He was still young, promising and very successful in business. After he had developed cancer, he came to me again. I gave my blessings but shook my head, knowing very well that it was already too late.

Water is often used for decoration, such as a fountain in a huge building which is purely ornamental. Such decorative things must be built with the advice of the best geomancers. The introduction of water must help to make people calm and must be pleasing both to the eye and the mind; it must help to bring about prosperity to business.

In ordinary houses, it is unlucky in most cases to have a pond, a fountain or a waterfall inside the house. It is very extravagant to do so and it is difficult to find a suitable place for it. It is unnecessary to build any of those things for one's own enjoyment.

It is all right to build a pond, a swimming pool or a fountain outside the house. The only important point to remember is to see to it that it is located in the correct direction. Don't put it in the northeast or in southwest at any cost. A qualified geomancer must be consulted if you plan to build a pond, a swimming pool or a fountain.

There are two principles guiding how the water comes in and how it goes out:

It must enter the house in a conspicuous manner and leave the house in an inconspicuous manner. In other words, it comes in by an overt ditch and goes out in a covert ditch.

It must enter the house in a straight flow and leave house in a winding course. In other words, it comes in a straight channel and goes out in a tortuous channel.

This is the way to accumulate wealth. A great deal of money pours in continuously while the spending moves in zigzags. As a result, what is left grows rapidly.

I once studied a factory engaged in big business. It was making a lot of money but its expenses were also astonishing. What was the matter? It was found that the drainage ditch was too conspicuous and too straight. I suggested to them that a bridge be built over it.

The bridge has three functions:

1. to make the conspicuous covered by the obvious.

2. to "lock" the water by the bridge.

3. to make walking around easy.

There is a lot of learning involved in the problem of how the water goes in and comes out.

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