Can Feng Shui Help Us Keep Warm?

The Full Moon draws the water upwards. It’s when high tides occur in the seas. It lifts up human energy – after all, we’re 80% water – and so people can become much more enthusiastic around this time. In fact this is where the term lunatic comes from. The word derives from lunaticus meaning “of the moon” or “moonstruck” since it was commonly believed that a Full Moon had the ability to draw out madness in susceptible individuals. Certainly anyone who has attended a Full Moon party or practiced deep spiritual practices and sadhanas on a Full Moon will have noticed that they are more often than not associated with exuberance and euphoria.  A Full Moon will make physical exertion easier but makes it harder to detoxify.

The New Moon is the Yin phase where the water is drawn down. It makes detoxification easier and emotions as well as physical toxins may flow more readily during this time. On the flip side, a work out will seem harder work through this time so introspective activity is easiest.

On a lunar calendar like the Tong Shu, the New Moon is shown as the 1st day always. The Full Moon is shown as the 15th. The reality is slightly off because it takes 27 and a bit days for the Moon to go around the Earth and 29 and a bit days for it to do it relative to the Sun. Because of “the bit” on top of the complete days it can sometimes be the case that a Full or New Moon happens during the daytime, when it’s not visible and is already waxing or waning by the time it is. But we have no way of telling the Moon to hurry up and get in sync with the calendar using neat 24 hour days precisely! For the point of view of what I’m sharing, just knowing that it is the day on which there will be a Full or New Moon at some point is enough. Why?

The Full Moon draws the water up, therefore it’s more likely than not that after the Moon has peaked and it starts to draw the water down again, that some rain will follow. Similarly at the peak Yin on New Moon, the weather often becomes wet. If the Full or New Moon peaks at night, then the chances of this are even greater – a Full Moon in the late evening might escape rain the following day but if it peaked between midnight and sunrise, there’s a really high chance you’ll need an umbrella!

Actually there’s a mass of ways that a Feng Shui consultant can work with dates, heavenly bodies and directions to ensure that you’re warm and cosy. The study of which directions prevailing winds originate, together with the path that Sun takes through the sky will reveal much about the atmosphere inside a house. A poorly located house costs more to heat and unless the owners are of a very vibrant disposition, we believe this can make them experience more frequent expressions of sadness, apathy and depression. This is one of the reasons houses in China were rarely built with North facing doors – this is the direction from which cold blasts of wind often originate. Can you imagine that in the days before central heating and hot water bottles? No thank you!

It’s therefore ideal to check a home’s Feng Shui early, especially if you’re buying a new build. On the flipside, solar effects are also calculated by a Feng Shui master and these include geomagnetic solar flares, something which is coming under increasing study.

Hopefully the homes of the future can be made more economical and sustainable by incorporating some of the wisdom of the ancients into the technology of today.

Update 1st March 2018: After a couple of days of snow, #thebeastfromtheeast has brought much of the UK to a standstill. However today, 1st March is the Full Moon which will last into tomorrow. Thereafter the weather should improve so I took a quick look at BBC Weather and sure enough, from Saturday onward we can see the temperatures here in London predicted to improve daily, bang on queue: