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Horoscope Feng Shui: Using “Eight Mansions” for Dazzling Relationships, by Master Denise Lotta Dennis

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Did you know that certain homes can support and ignite affairs, divorce, being bullied at work, conflict with family members, lawsuits, and other very unpleasant and disrupting events? Feng Shui techniques can find these possible scenarios and cure them.

Feng Shui dates back to Neolithic China, and the people of that area have relied on Feng Shui to build their homes and cities for centuries. Despite the fact that Feng Shui is more popular than ever, few people, including Asians, know little about it and the numerous formulas available. All Feng Shui formulas/systems are designed to bring a harmonious state of living so that humans may thrive in the areas of prosperity, relationships, and health.

The two most popular Feng Shui systems are the Eight Mansions (BaZhai) and Flying Stars (Xuan Kong Fei Xing). The Eight Mansions System is simple, promising profound results. It is a more personalized technique that is based on the horoscope (birthday) of the occupants. Once you have discovered your unique Life Gua Number using the table provided below, you will learn your distinctive personality traits and characteristics; this will give you insights into your own energy and others in your sphere.

While Eight Mansions doesn't have the complexity of the Flying Star system (Xuan Kong Fei Xing), which attracts enthusiastic interest from students worldwide, it is amazing. The Eight Mansions system's focus is on the people aspect, while Flying Stars is all about the energy of a structure/building. When the Eight Mansions formula is applied correctly, it can bring dazzling prospects for love and romance, business opportunities, health, promotions at work, flourishing investments, and wealth-luck. In addition, it is the only system that has a "personality type" aspect serving as a horoscope; much is devoted to this facet in my second book, Classical Feng Shui for Romance, Sex & Relationships.

You will be astonished and delighted at how a few simple changes can alter your life for the better. Eight Mansions dates back to the Tang Dynasty; it is not part of the Eight Life Aspirations found in Western styles of Feng Shui touting your wealth corner, marriage sector, fame area, and so forth. No indeed, Eight Mansions is the real deal, a genuine system that can deliver powerful results! There is no "universal" marriage or romance area that fits everyone. You'll have your own personal relationship direction to activate so you may attract love, romance, sex, and more harmonious relationships.

Eight Mansions will help you defeat serious problems concerning family, career, relationships, marriage, health, and children; this is accomplished by applying the principles of Eight Mansions using good directions and re-orienting specific rooms in your home. This is how the system works: according to your Life Gua Number, you will be influenced in positive and negative ways by the eight directions; four will support you and four won't. The lucky directions will augment wealth and money luck, health, good relationships, and stability; the other four can ignite divorce, affairs, bankruptcy, betrayals, lawsuits, cancer, and so forth. The idea, of course, is to use and set in motion your good directions and bear-down on and suppress the negative ones.

To find your personal Life Gua Number, refer to Eight Mansions chart below; make sure you are in the right column as there is one for males and one for females. If you were born prior to February 4th in any given year, use the previous year to get your Life Gua Number. For example, if you were born January 28, 1970, use the year 1969 to get the correct Life Gua number.

Now that you have your Life Gua Number—and that of your spouse, family members, co-workers, or children—you're ready to learn more about the energy that drives us. The following are the eight personality types. Please keep in mind that the descriptions are general and do not tell the whole story of you (what does?). However, after consulting with thousands of clients over the last twenty years, I find them extremely accurate. Also, none of us can be "on" all the time, and when stressed, we can slip into the negative aspect of our nature. Everything in our universe has duality, including us!

• • 1 Gua Personalities: The 1 Guas are highly intellectual and can be studious or even scholarly. To the outside world, they appear calm and cool; however, inside they have a rich emotional makeup. As a result, at times they can be overly emotional, moody, anxious, and high strung. They are full of brilliant ideas and concepts, and are usually very good at making and holding onto money. The 1 Guas are skilled at sizing up people using their natural, intuitive abilities. Since their element is water, they can be hard to pin down. They are sensual and can be highly sexual. Tending to keep secrets below the surface, 1 Guas are known to have secret lives.

• • 2 Gua Personalities: The 2 Guas exhibit persistence, dependability, and a calm demeanor. They can also be nurturing and supportive to their inner circle. With their calm, relaxed demeanors, 2 Guas are dependable and tend to have developed psychic abilities. They make excellent doctors or practitioners of alternate healing arts (such as chiropractry, massage therapy, and acupuncture. Since the 2 Guas have the most yin energy of the Guas, they enjoy and feel comfortable in dark spaces, but have a tendency to depression or dark moodiness. Good spelunkers, these grounded people relish activities that focus on the earth—gardening, farming, construction, and agriculture.

• • 3 Gua Personalities: 3 Guas are extremely enterprising and have progressive ideas. They tend to be outspoken, direct, and organized. The 3 Gua’s nature is one of nervousness punctuated by a lot of energy and steam. Constantly crafting new inventions, new ventures, or the latest thing, they love new beginnings and "start ups." When in a negative energy, the 3 Guas tend to self-punish, spread their energy too thin (leading to collapse), or become abrasive. However, they are full of surprises; 3 Guas have a sense of vitality and vigor that can overwhelm people.

• • 4 Gua Personalities: Malleable, flexible, and indecisive, the 4 Guas may "blow with the wind" if not grounded, finding it hard to take a stand. In general, they usually are attractive people or may have movie-star qualities. The 4 Guas are more prone to be sexually controlled by their partners than other Guas. They have progressive ideas and can become famous in writing or rich in the publishing business. The un-evolved 4s may self-destruct by refusing good advice. The 4 Guas can be somewhat remote and private, but they are also gentle people with an innocent purity.

• • 6 Gua Personalities: The 6 Guas can easily step into positions of power and authority, as they are natural leaders that seem to be blessed by the heavens. They make excellent lawyers, judges, and CEOs, as their energy commands respect. The 6 Guas have a regal, royal air that is naturally unpretentious. Clear thinkers, with a lot of courage, the 6 Guas possess foresight and extremely creative, and they can hold their own in a debate. They need time alone as they often get caught up in over-thinking, which can lead to being sleep-deprived. Oozing with creativity, the 6 Guas are filled with ideas that involve large groups of people, a community, or an organization.

• • 7 Gua Personalities: 7 Guas tend to be youthful in behavior or appearance. They are very attracted to metaphysical studies and arts; they can be talkative, lively, and nervous. The 7 female Guas are often blessed with very good looks, and sensuous beauty. Comfortable with a lot of "stage," the 7 Guas are good at acting, speaking, and in front of the camera or on the radio. With a strong tendency to over indulge in the pleasures of life such as food, drink, money, and sex, they must keep a balanced life. They can be a fast-talker, smooth talker, or have a razor-sharp tongue. The 7 Guas are very social, charming, and charismatic; they create stimulating, informative conversation wherever they go.

• • 8 Gua Personalities: The 8 Guas have a stubborn, dependable, and steadfast nature. They tend to have a great deal of integrity and are vey attracted to all things spiritual. They can become spiritual seekers, and trek the mountains in search of "answers" and to find themselves. Hardworking and loving things of the earth, the 8s are talented in construction, real estate, and landscaping. They also have a little of "save the world" energy. While the 8 Guas tend to resist change, they can deftly handle trouble without falling apart. Un-evolved 8 Guas can become hoarders, self-righteous, and short-tempered. They are geared for success and often become very rich with worldly honors, recognition, and status.

• 9 Gua Personalities: 9 Guas have a sharp, brilliant intellect; they can also be wise, loyal, and sentimental. Blessed with a fiery spirit and energy, these Guas have a decided adventurous streak. The female 9s are usually beautiful, like a diva or goddess, but can be argumentative, aggressive, and rash when they are not on. With concentrated and focused effort, they can reach great height of achievements and standing in the world. The truly un-evolved 9 Guas will exhibit mental illness, such as paranoia and psychotic, unstable behavior. When grounded and evolved, the 9s can light up a room with their radiant energy.

Relationships are pervasive in our lives, and we want them to be the best as possible. Addressing romance and relationships is a very important aspect of Feng Shui, as this makes life rich and fulfilling. will show you how to arrange your home perfectly to support the most dazzling and harmonious relationships. It is comprehensive in scope as it blends Eight Mansions and Flying Stars with a hands-on section taking all the guess work out of the equation. This section is so detailed, it's like having a Feng Shui master come to your house; you need only to put your relationship-luck into action for a sweeter life!

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2015. All rights reserved.

My family spends every Christmas at my parents' house, which is over 100 years old and has been in my family for at least three generations. My parents claim some odd things happened when they first moved in, such as furniture and objects being moved about. They say that these occurrences stopped when my older brother was born, but I have felt entities in the house throughout my life. Last Christmas my very verbal 14-month-old nephew was taking a nap in my parents' bedroom. When he woke up from his nap, he babbled and talked to himself quite animatedly for an hour. When I finally went up to get him, I asked him who he was talking to and he pointed at the wall and closet. I felt something else was in the room with us. How can I tell if my nephew is demonstrating normal toddler behavior or if he is really interacting with spirits? Would it be best to just see what happens as he grows? Thanks for your insights.

- L.

Astrea:

A hundred years! That's how old my house is too. Many people have passed through our houses, and a bit of energy from each one is bound to be trapped in them. The people who live there now will contribute to its future energy just as the people who lived there before your family moved in left a little something behind.

Your nephew is picking up on the same things most children his age know, the most important being that there isn't really much difference between people who are living in this dimension and those who have moved on to other worlds. We're all the same to him right now. He's not afraid, and unless someone teaches him to be afraid, he'll always be open to good energies.

You say your parents had some strange experiences in that house before your brother was born. Perhaps he was too sensitive to handle that energy, so his Guides and Guardians protected him from it by shutting down communication with the Spirit World until he grew up.

Your nephew is different. He draws that energy to him, and he enjoys the time he spends with it. It sounds like he's making friends with Angels and Spirits who are able to communicate with him. It's so great when there is a child in the family who can do that, especially if the grown-ups keep encouraging him to accept and expand his abilities.

I'm sure he's communicating with the people and animals that have gone before you in that house. There may even be some spirits lingering who have yet to go into the light. Talk to him about this even if he can't fully respond yet, for with the right encouragement, he can grow into someone who can help spirits cross over.

I don't think it's ever too early to mentor kids' psychic gifts, but there have to be limits and cautions, of course. At this age, he will naturally discern the basic goodness of the energies he encounters. There don't seem to be any negative forces at work around him, but watch out for that, just in case. Teach him to be careful, and if someone or something feels wrong to him, tell him not to play with that.

I hope you have his parents' cooperation to keep this going so that it remains a natural part of his life. Of course, this is One of the Things We Don't Discuss at School, but that can be explained to him when he's older. I had a long list of those things growing up, both for my own protection and my family's peace of mind.

While you could wait to see how things develop with him, if he's not encouraged now, his natural ability may dry up before he has a chance to really explore his power. Little kids are open to this kind of thing, so if you encourage him now, he'll be psychically blessed throughout his life.

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Susyn:

You've just witnessed a well-known psychic phenomenon: small children can see, sense and communicate with spirits much more readily than adults can. In fact, many children under the age of five can also describe memories from when they were being carried in the womb, and some can even go into great detail about their memories of being in heaven as well as some of their recent past life experiences.

Because they haven't been cautioned, ignored or scolded for expressing their thoughts and beliefs yet, little kids are more than happy to share their amazing experiences.

I'm reminded of when my nephew was three years old and his favorite pet fish died. My brother and nephew had a little ceremony to bury the fish via the toilet, and afterward, my nephew turned to my brother and said, Now he is with my little sister in heaven.

Since my nephew was an only child, this struck my brother as extremely odd. He questioned my nephew further, and the toddler was adamant that he did indeed have a little sister and that she was in heaven. They never did figure out what that was all about, but it was remarkable to realize that the little guy seemed to have some strong beliefs about the spirit world.

It's hard to imagine an old home that doesn't house a few friendly ghosts. Further, it's much easier for them to communicate with toddlers than to get adults' attention. When they get frustrated (as you mention happened with your parents) that's when they are likely to move furniture and such just to make their presence known.

According to your question, your parents say the paranormal events stopped when your older brother was born. However, I'd be curious to know if he had one or more invisible friends who kept him company in his early years. He may not recall this now, but I wouldn't be surprised if the same spirits who were talking to your nephew that day paid your brother a few visits as well.

I don't feel you need to worry about your nephew's safety here. I'm certain that if this had been a negative or malevolent entity, your nephew would have started crying instead of entertaining himself for an hour with his new invisible buddy.

If he is encouraged, then as he grows older he should continue to develop his natural psychic talents. However, if you treat this or other incidents with disbelief or alarm, he could do what many of us did when we had these experiences, which is to hide or deny them.

I encourage you to foster his gifts and invite him to share with you all that he sees and hears. Make it a fun game instead of something to be wary of. If you're lucky, he may even introduce you to some of his spirit friends!

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.