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Homes And Property - Daily Telegraph Fortune SellingHomeowners in certain areas could soon get a change of luck, according to a feng shui expert. Jacqui McGill reportsA fortuitous new feng shui cycle is about to swing towards Sydney’s south and west, setting the scene for a boom in property values, says Siou Foon Lee of Feng Shui Innovations. The 20 year cycle is due to start in 2004 following the current cycle next year. Feng shui, the ancient Chinese art based on the study of life force energy or chi, is increasingly influencing Sydney’s real estate scene. Its principles are used in decisions ranging from which house to buy town which suburb to live in. Savvy estate agents are matching properties to buyers using feng shui principles. At least one major building company has in-house consultants to guide prospective buyers towards an appropriate design. Lee says Sydney as a whole enjoys: very lively and strong chi” because it offers many desirable geographical features, including tranquil harbours and bays, gently meandering rivers and protective mountains. The landscape naturally generates very good chi, mainly because of the harbour in the east and the Blue Mountains in the west. This was one of the reasons Sydney was successful in its bid to host the 2000 Olympics. There is a lot of very beautiful undulating land in Sydney’s south west and west and these areas will come into their own in the next 20 years. “In the next 20 years the entire area from Parramatta to the Blue Mountains will come into a period of luck” says Lee who has studied under grandmaster Yap Cheng Hai. The Winds of ChangeWhile well-heeled areas quietly prosper, suburbs like Hinchinbrook, Casula, Camden and Kellyville will prove to be “real estate agent’s dream” in the next 20 years, Lee says. Ancient Chinese feng shui masters believe that when humans surrounded themselves with positive chi, they experienced good fortune. When people met with negative chi they seemed to suffer difficulties.In classical feng shui, water is linked with wealth, so suburbs set on higher ground offering views of serene harbours and bays are considered highly auspicious. Those suburbs that offer water views and the solid protection of the mountains are also desirable. But there are many factors that can mitigate this, including busy roads, sharp angled buildings and even a misplaced tree. Generally, suburbs sited on higher ground overlooking water – such as Castlecrag, Northbridge and Middlecove – are said to enjoy some of Sydney’s best feng shui. Woolwich, Henley, Breakfast Point, Chiswick, Double Bay, Rose Bay and Point Piper are all said to enjoy favourable feng shui (although some say suggest this has been eroded in part by busy roads, which symbolise fast flowing rivers). Further south, Sylvania Waters, Kangaroo Point, Blakehurst and Bundeena have been named as naturally auspicious. To the north is Newport and Church Point. Chatswood and Hurstville are said to be blessed with exceptionally fine feng shui and have duly attracted a large proportion of Asian residents. Chatswood offers man made made feng shui, including-well placed tall buildings (which act as protective mountains). Hurstville enjoys naturally good feng shui due to its sitting on undulating land, which has been enhanced by roads which flow from the heart of the town centre like dragon’s veins. According to Cheung Hon, feng shui consultant to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and Cathay Pacific Airlines, Hurstville is in a position to enjoy ongoing prosperity – especially if council follows his advice and erects a fountain in the heart of the town centre. He says Hurstville is unique because it offers good elevation close to water dragons (waterways) and a strong CBD heart. Most importantly, traffic flow is not too fast so the chi is not too fast flowing. Even the name Hurstville, which means village on a hill, translates as good feng shui and the St George dragon, incorporated into the council’s coat of arms, is a bonus. According to expert Gahle Artherton, of Feng Shui Dragon Enterprises, home buyers are naturally attracted to areas that have positive chi in the ground. “It has always been thought it is the land itself that has the chi and because of this, feng shui has always been about placement – the arrangement of trees, water, mountains, roads and other features,” she says. Atherton says there are multiple layers to feng shui – the seen and the unseen. “The seen level is about the environment and the naturally occurring formations in the environment. The unseen level is the most powerful consideration – it describes the type of life force energy a building attracts.” Atherton says every building, like the people who live in it, has a unique “horoscope” that predisposes that building to attract certain energies – for good or ill. As to where to find the suburbs with the best feng shui Atherton too points to the south and south west. “I would say the areas south of Sydney, such as Blakehurst and Hurstville, would have good feng shui.” Rushcutters Bay, Double Bay and Potts Point might also be considered auspicious, provided they are sheltered from strong winds and busy roads. “Water is not the be all and end all – it’s all about arrangement,” Atherton says. Good energy: if the shui fits, buy it, Like many other Australians, Vicky Ho could barely pronounce the words feng shui before she stumbled upon the subject at the Mind Body Spirit Festival some years ago. But Ho did know something that something in her home “wasn’t quite right”. We had purchased a home in Hunters Hill but things weren’t really going well,” she explains. “The energy felt very scattered.” Both Ho and her daughter Vanessa were experiencing health problems. “It was a federation home to which people had added and added and it didn’t feel right,” says Ho. She called on the assistance of feng shui consultant Siou Foon Lee of Feng Shui Innovations who arrived at Ho’s home with the tool of her trade – a Lo Pan compass used to measure feng shui energies. After determining the horoscope of the home and its inhabitants (Ho, husband Peter and their two children Robert and Vanessa), Lee was able to reveal, according to feng shui, what was afflicting it. “The first thing she found was that due to all the additions, what should have been the centrepiece of the home was now the court yard,” says Ho. “When the previous owners renovated, they had changed the energy centre and unbalanced the home.” Ho says Lee spent a long time “balancing out” these energies, which proved to be a difficult task. “We rearranged every room in the house,” she says. “Siou Foon also placed each of us in a different bedroom than the ones we had chosen,” she says. “As soon as I moved into another bedroom, my health improved. The result really was immediate, yet it wasn’t perfect and we decided to move.” This time, the Ho family sought Lee’s advice before buying, taking into consideration the new cycle due to arrive in 2004. Lee immediately dismissed the first home Ho liked, saying something was wrong. “The owners were having family problems as well as difficulties with the council,” says Ho. “A couple of weeks later, I found another home and Siou Foon pronounced it perfect. “[It] has all the feng shui features we were looking for,”says Ho. These included water views. “As soon as we moved….everything changed for us and it’s all been change for the better.”
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