The Eight Point method

This method is used by many practitioners of Feng Shui. In this case the eight-fold grid comprises eight points or areas covering such aspects as, finance, eminence (or reputation), wisdom (or knowledge), career and so on.

Once again the grid is placed over the ground plan of the house in question and the wall that contains the main door should also contain the points for knowledge, career and friends. The grid can also be placed over individual rooms and this is often necessary if a house has an unusual ground plan.

The placing of the eight points is achieved by standing at the door and imagining that you are looking in, thus eminence is furthest away and finance is away in the left-hand corner. Where the outline of a room does not readily fit with the regular arrangement of points, and many rooms will fall into this category, there are a number of procedures suggested to obtain the best possible placing of points: The boundary of the room can be projected until a more regular shape is created upon which the points can be placed.

However this does not necessarily clarify the placing of points. Where spaces, say in two adjoining rooms, clearly do not accommodate the eight points, it is better to treat them as separate rooms, applying the same principles and standing in each doorway, looking in, to place the points. In this case there is no place for finance and wisdom because they are outside the room boundary.

However, if the smaller extension is treated as a separate room then all the points can be applied quite easily. Other rooms may have an irregular shape, which presents you with more than one option for placing the eight points.

In this case the points can either be placed to include as much of the space of the room as possible or the room can be divided as described above, to create more manageable shapes. If necessary, walls can temporarily be created by the use of partitions thus enabling the points to be placed.

These and the previously discussed methods are used in Feng Shui to analyse and correct situations where the chi is not quite correct. The following posts will look at a variety of topics from doors and windows to gardens, pointing out what can be done to make the room or environment a more harmonious one in which to live.

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