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As the year of the horse draws near, many people are feeling anxious about their finances in the year ahead.
If you are unsure about what to expect in the year of the horse, feng shui consultant Dato' Joey Yap says that you can start by exploring metaphysical theories like 'ba zi' or Chinese Astrology and feng shui.

Feng shui is based on fixing the elements in a person's external environment, especially places like the office and home where most time is spent.
'Dato Joey Yap, a well-known feng shui consultant, says that home owners can perform full feng shui assessments on their homes by themselves. What you need is a compass and a blueprint of your property before you can start the assessment.


The compass is used to determine the direction the house is facing. You then have to assess the immediate external environment to look out for any negative features such as pylons and buildings with sharp edges.
After preparing yourself with some basic feng shui principles, you then need to figure out the flow of the 'qi' and evaluate if the energy is being received in the home.
If you are concerned about how features in your home and digits like the number 4 are affecting your luck, click on the first gallery above to see consultant 'Dato Joey Yap's answers to 7 most common feng shui questions.
Check out the other galleries for other feng shui tips for your home.

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Most people tend to feel a connection between a hefty price tag and the house of their dreams. While this may be true for most cases, some parts of this statement remain debatable, especially when property feng shui evaluation comes into the picture.


When it comes to choosing a property, it is best to say that your choice is not solely based on matters such as architectural design or the colour of the wall or the location of the pool.

It is more about the external environment, the mountain, water features and immediate physical setting, and how all these factors work together to build a good feng shui arrangement that benefits the occupants of a property.

If a house faces an unfavourable direction, the occupants inside the house would be afflicted with the same inauspicious outcome too. This holds true for most cases.

Any property with positive direction can be considered a "good" property. Before you even consider other factors, the property direction will tell you exactly what you need to know about the house, sort of like an introductory summary for a book.

Start by observing the façade of the house. This refers to the direction to which the house was designed to face. The most common mistake that people make while taking a direction is to assume that they use the main door as the reference point.

Always use the facing direction, instead of the main door. Once this has been ascertained, stand in the middle of the property façade, look out and by using a compass, obtain the facing direction of the property.

Once the house direction is determined, the next step is to work out the external environment of your property. The most common one is to drive around within a one to two km radius of the house or land of your choice and observe the macro environment.

Look out for these indicators

1) Natural mountains and locations of water. These two formations improve the feng shui outlook of a vicinity.



2) In the same spot, check for any negative presence of highways or busy roads located in close proximity to the property.




3) Check and ensure there's no pylons or big trees blocking the view from the main door.




4) No steep road in front and at the back of the property.



5) The property should sit on land that is preferably square or at least, rectangular in shape.



6) The presence of wide open spaces such as a parks, ponds or lakes. These features allow qi to gather.



7) Final piece of advice: when it comes to finding a good piece of land or property in feng shui, the goal should always be finding a place that you can renovate to improve and fine tune in the future.

Happy house-hunting!