Connecting Feng Shui, BaZi Astrology and Face Reading

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

Face reading, in addition to the obvious practical advantages it offers in business and daily transactions, is considered an important complementary discipline for Feng Shui practitioners. A practical back-up skill that helps a Feng Shui consultant to 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 fate analysis. Imperial advisors would often use it to screen candidates for Imperial posts. You see, in the old days, a person would not send his CV for an imperial position, but would send his BaZi or Destiny Code.

Now, occasionally, a candidate might attempt to submit a fake BaZi to improve their chances of securing a spot on the Imperial payroll, which in those days was a highly desired job posting, as a person was more or less sure what the candidates wanted. Chinese call it an ‘iron rice bowl’. Then the imperial advisers would use Mian Xiang to confirm the BaZi and make sure that the candidate really did have the abilities he claimed to have.

If you have been reading my previous articles, most of you are probably familiar with the way BaZi and Feng Shui work together. As I have indicated in the past, a full Feng Shui consultation usually involves using the BaZi, which is a person’s Code of Destiny, 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 prescription, to help solve or alleviate the problem, diagnosed using the help of the person’s Destiny Code.

However, there are some occasions when a person’s Destiny Code is not available or the client asks something on the spot, during the consultation, and the BaZi card is not available. In such cases, a Feng Shui consultant who has studied face reading, can use Mian Xiang, or Face Reading, as a backup discipline to see where the client’s problems are or what challenges they are facing at that particular time. This is because Mian Xiang represents what we call Later Heaven Luck: it tells us about the present, the outcome of current events as a result of present state of mind, beliefs, character, and virtues.

By examining the color Qi in the face and the specific age point related to the client’s age, and observing the contours and features of the face at that particular age point, the consultant can get a concise snapshot of the state of health. of the person. or luck at that time. A person’s face will almost always confirm what is on their BaZi in general. 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 on their face, in the form very thick eyebrows.

A case of Prevention is better than Cure

A good illustration 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 being built at the time.

The client puts us in my office to show us the way to his property. As the client sat down in my office to show me the plans for the house, something about his face caught my attention: he had a sharp line running through the lobe of both ears (see attached diagram). In Mian Xiang’s study, this is often 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 she had a light pole directly on the side of her Front Door, a formation known in Feng Shui as the Piercing Heart Sha. This is definitely an inauspicious formation to have at the Front Gate. As you may remember, the Front Door is one of the three important factors that should always be taken into account when analyzing the Feng Shui of a property. When the Main Gate is affected, the Qi entering the property is blocked or transformed into negative Qi or Sha.

A simple address check with Luo Pan revealed that the utility 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 if you have Heart Sha Piercing, located in the sector that is ruled by Gua which represents the heart and eyes. So it matched my initial concern from what I had seen on the client’s face, that is, he might have a heart-related issue, especially if he also moved into the house he was building with the environmental feature located where he was. .

So what was the outcome then you might be thinking? How does the story end? Positively, I’m pleased to say! The client decided that since he hadn’t had a medical check-up in a while, he would go for a full one. Also, he decided to change the design of the house to move the location of the Front Door, which was not too difficult to rectify since 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 Fire and Water Clash. This is an explosive clash 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, for 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, since the medical checkup revealed some problems that, if he didn’t change his lifestyle, could lead to heart problems.

Now, it is not absolutely essential that your Feng Shui practitioner knows Mian Xiang or practices it as a complementary discipline to your Feng Shui practice, but as you can see from this little story, it is a very useful backup discipline to have as an aid. the Feng Shui practitioner to sharpen 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 urgent short-term and immediate problems, such as health problems.