Application of the Celestial Animal

In front of the house, the ground should gently fall away. If it is too sudden then it is believed that the red bird would fall off and this would adversely affect your fortune in the world.

With this configuration in mind, the back of the house would be the area of the black tortoise or turtle. This is the area of mystery, but can perhaps be more logically interpreted as the realm of private matters, including marriage and family concerns.

The hills behind the house are necessary to provide protection and keep close at hand all that is of importance at this personal level. To the east ideally there should be hills of the green dragon representing good luck and also hope. To the west is the realm of the white tiger.

The land to the west should be flat. Anything else may generate bad luck — hills will mean that the white tiger will be strong with an abundance of the characteristics listed above. This could only lead to problems and difficulties. If the ground to the west rapidly slopes away, then the tiger's effect will be minimal and this can lead to an existence without interest or any excitement. This is the ideal situation but, since this is out of reach for most of us, the Feng Shui of our home interior is important in counteracting any negative aspects outside. This is dealt with later.

The symbolic animals are also used with reference to the walls of the house and the directions in which they face. In a house facing south, the entrance wall is attributed to the bird (compass direction south) but the interior wall facing the entrance is also designated by the bird.

However, the outside of that same wall is in the realm of the tortoise because it faces north. By the same token, the other walls can be attributed to the other animals, each being allocated one internal and one external wall dependent upon the direction of facing.

Thus, from this perspective, the best configuration for a house is where the four symbolic animals can be discerned in the outlines of the scenery round about the site.

The dragon is regarded as the most important and at the very least it is hoped that a hill to the east can be taken to represent the green dragon. When one of the four animals can be identified in the scenery, then the directions of the other three can obviously be established, even if there are no physical signs of them.

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