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Yin House Feng Shui

Few people in the West are aware that Feng Shui has two sides. Feng Shui corresponds to both Yin and Yang. Yang House Feng Shui is what most people understand to be Feng Shui. This is the analysis and remedy of a house for the living. Yin House Feng Shui is looking at how to select the best possible gravesite for the deceased.

Why do the deceased need to have a good home? In the Chinese culture, people believe that a body inauspiciously buried can have an effect on the living for the next three generations. On the other hand, if you bury someone in the correct orientation, with the correct environment and at the right time, the family can prosper. If you think about certain famous families as examples, you can see how when one generation is buried, tragedy can follow into the next generations. It has been said that Bruce Lee’s father is buried inauspiciously, thus, Bruce and Brandon both suffered early deaths. One also wonders about the Kennedy’s as well. It is also believed in China that the grave should be in the ground. Chang Kai Shek, former President of the Republic of China, was memorialized above ground and it has been said that many tragedies have affected the family.

When a Feng Shui master is looking to site a grave, they look at the environment in detail. They look at the mountains and the flow of the waterways. Commonly referred to as the Dragon, the mountains provide the support of the qi flow that a gravesite needs. But not all mountains are good. It takes a trained eye to differentiate the good and unfavorable mountains. The mountains should form an armchair form to support the grave. The waterways are important as well as they store the qi. Often referred to as the Dragon’s veins, they flow down from the mountain and how they flow is key to finding a good gravesite.

Once the proper environment is chosen, then the correct orientation needs to be determined. How you orient the body can affect different family members. Each of the trigrams has a family relationship. Who is affected based on the eight trigrams. Certain orientations can help the youngest members of the family while others can affect the elder members. The year that they are buried is important, just as in determining the year when a Yang house is built. When they are buried, the energies for that time cycle are captured and will affect the descendents.

Lastly, the proper day selection is important. There should not be any conflict with the person’s Chinese Astrology. For example, a Rat person should not be buried on a Horse day and a Rabbit person should not be buried on a Rooster day. There are obviously a lot more details to look at, but this is a simple example.

Feng Shui apprentices from hundreds of years ago used to follow their master for several years, walking the mountainsides and learning about the environment. They would then study with them for many more years to learn date selection and the calculations to determine the best qi energy. The key to remember is that not every Feng Shui person can properly site a grave and even more, if they do site a grave incorrectly, they are affecting three generations to come. This is serious karma to consider and so most practitioners of Yang House Feng Shui do not provide Yin House consultations. At the same time, be very wary of those who say that they know Yin House Feng Shui as few actually do.