The Importance of Road in Feng Shui

The position of houses and water or roads in relation to each other has significant effects on the well-being and fortunes of the occupants of those homes.

As mentioned before, Chi is the animating life-force in everything, which permeates our homes and other buildings, the physical landscape and surroundings, rivers, road, trees and, of course, people.

Feng Shui enables you to tap the beneficial Chi energy to the maximum and disperse, disrupt or remove obstructions to its free flow.

The purpose of the corrective measures in Feng Shui is to increase receptivity, to focus and channel positive energy, or to deflect negative influences.

Chi energy is positive when, as a ventilating breeze, it is allowed to flow freely, lightly brushing everything it touches.

Chi becomes negative energy when allowed to stagnate in dark nooks and crannies. It is positively harmful when channelled too quickly along straight paths, like a thunderbolt being hurled at your home.

With this image in mind, it follows that where your home is in a position which allows this negative thrust of energy, you need an effective buffer to divert that energy. In the case of Feng Shui, those buffers are symbolic. The most commonly used buffers are:

• a round, convex mirror fixed above the front door to deflect such negative energy;
• a low hedge, fence or fate introduced as a barrier;
• the front door re-positioned in such a way that it opens away from, or at an angle, to the road running up to it.

You can apply whichever of these remedial measures seems most appropriate in your particular circumstances. Altering the position of a door, for example, may not be possible in your circumstances, and you would therefore have to adopt one of the other alternative solutions in order to facilitate the postive movement of energy.

The obstacles which you will confront are such things as chimneys, lamp posts, pylons, a cemetery and so on. They are only influential if they are less than 30 metres (100 feet) from the main door. Beyond that point they no longer affect the house. Their influence is greatest when they are directly in line with the main door; the impact is lessened the more the obstacle is angled away from the main front door. This is one reason why doors themselves may need to be repositioned at a new angle.

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