Connecting Feng Shui, BaZi Astrology and Face Reading

My first exposure to the field of Chinese metaphysics occurred many years ago when I was in Hong Kong. I turned on the television and came across a talk show, which featured a well-known Feng Shui master from Hong Kong. The gentleman had been invited to the talk show to demonstrate his face reading skills. Members of the audience were chosen at random and invited to the stage, where the Master would quickly read their faces and speak to them about themselves just by looking at their faces.

Face reading, in addition to the obvious practical advantages it offers in business and everyday relationships, is considered an important complementary discipline for Feng Shui practitioners. A practical backup skill, so to speak, that helps a Feng Shui consultant practice more effectively and efficiently.

Originally, Mian Xiang or Face Reading was developed for medical purposes. The famous Chinese medical text, Yellow Emperor Classics, contains many references on how to use facial features to determine medical problems. Later, the basic principles of face reading were extended beyond medical diagnosis, to support the analysis of destiny. Imperial advisers would often use it to vet candidates for imperial positions. You see, in the old days, a person didn’t submit their CV for an Imperial position, they submitted their Destiny Code or BaZi.

Now, from time to time, a candidate may try to submit a fake BaZi to improve their chances of landing a position on the imperial payroll, which in those days was a highly desired job, as a person was more or less sure of what the Chinese call an ‘iron rice bowl’. Then, the Imperial advisers would use Mian Xiang to confirm the BaZi and make sure that the candidate actually had the abilities he professed to have.

If you’ve been reading my previous articles, most of you are probably familiar with how BaZi and Feng Shui work together. As I stated in the past, a full Feng Shui consultation generally involves the use of BaZi, which is a person’s Destiny Code, to determine the nature of the problem the person is facing at that particular time. The Feng Shui consultant then uses Feng Shui as a recipe to help solve or alleviate the problem, diagnosed with the help of the person’s Destiny Code.

However, there are some occasions when a person’s Destination Code is not available or the customer asks something on the spot, during the consultation, and the BaZi chart is not available. In such cases, a Feng Shui consultant who has studied face reading may use Mian Xiang or Face Reading as a back-up discipline to see where the client’s problems lie or what challenges they are facing at that particular moment. This is because Mian Xiang represents what we call the fate of the later heaven – he tells us about the present, the result of current events as a result of current state of mind, beliefs, character and virtues.

By examining the Qi color on the face and the specific age point that correlates to the client’s age, and by looking at the contours and characteristics of the face at that particular age point, the consultant can obtain a concise snapshot of the person’s state of health. or luck at that time. A person’s face will almost always confirm what is in their BaZi overall. So, for example, if a person has a problem with holding money in their BaZi, what we call a Rob Wealth (Jie Cai) problem in BaZi consultant terminology, this will invariably show up on their face, in the form of very thick eyebrows.

A case of prevention is better than cure

A good example of how useful Mian Xiang is, when combined with BaZi and Feng Shui, is when it comes to a person’s health. I remember a client from a few years ago, who had hired me to audit his house, which was under construction at the time.

The client places us in my office to show us the way to their property. When the client sat in my office to show me the plans of the house, something in his face caught my attention: he had a different line that crossed the lobe of both ears (see attached diagram). In Mian Xiang’s study, this is usually an indication that the person is at risk of developing heart-related problems. I double-checked my concern by looking into his eyes. There was a distinctive blue ring around the pupil of his eyes, another clear indication of heart-related problems.

Now often a conclusion derived from one discipline, such as Mian Xiang, will be supported and confirmed through another discipline, such as Feng Shui or BaZi. So, we headed to the gentleman’s house.

The house was under construction at the time, but it was enough for me to determine where its front door and the front of this property would be located. I also noticed that he had a lamp post directly in the part of his front door, a formation known in Feng Shui as Piercing Heart Sha. This is definitely an inauspicious formation to have at the front door. As you may recall, the front door is one of the three important factors that should always be considered when looking at the Feng Shui of a property. When the main gate is affected, the Qi entering the property is blocked or transformed into negative or Sha Qi.

A simple verification of the directions with the Luo Pan revealed that the light pole was located in the southern sector of his house. Now, the southern sector of a property is ruled by the Gua known as Li Gua. Li Gua, among other things, represents the eyes and the heart. Now, I think most people can understand what it means to have Piercing Heart Sha, located in the sector that is governed by the Gua that represents the heart and eyes. Therefore, it was in line with my initial concern about what I had seen on the client’s face, that is, he may have a heart related problem, especially if he was also moving into the house he was building with the environmental feature located where he was. .

So what was the result you might be thinking about? How does the story end? Positively, I am happy to say so! The client decided that since he hadn’t been for a medical check-up in a while, he would go for a thorough exam. He also decided to change the design of the house to change the location of the Front Door, which was not too difficult to rectify as the house was not finished yet and he could still make changes to the design.

When I checked the knight’s BaZi, it revealed a clash between Zi (Rat) and Wu (Horse), known in BaZi terminology as Shui Huo Xiang Cong or Clash of Fire and Water. This is an explosive shock of the Fire and Water elements and is also an indication of a heart problem.

What the face and the BaZi reveal in this case is an area that is cause for concern, but more importantly, action. Therefore, I have always emphasized the importance of taking the correct action, once you have been alerted to a potential problem.

I recently saw my client again, on a different matter, and noticed that the lines on her earlobe had diminished significantly. He told me that since then he has also been trying to eat better and exercising more, as the medical check-up revealed some problems that if he did not change his lifestyle could lead to heart problems.

Now, it is not absolutely essential that your Feng Shui practitioner know about Mian Xiang or practice him as a complementary discipline to his Feng Shui practice, but as you can see from this little story, it is a very useful back-up discipline to have, as it helps the Feng Shui practitioner to refine and focus their efforts. By combining their knowledge of BaZi with Mian Xiang, a Feng Shui practitioner can focus not only on long-term problems, but also on urgent short-term and more immediate problems, such as health problems.

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