8 Renovation Mistakes and How Flying Stars Feng Shui Can Help

1. Renovating in a Location Affected by a Negative Annual Energy

Mistake: Beginning major works when a negative annual energy (like the Annual 5 Yellow, Tai Sui, San Sha or Sui Po) is affecting a key location can stir up Sha Qi (negative energy).

Flying Stars Solution: Annual and Monthly Flying Star charts help you choose auspicious dates and sectors for renovation, minimizing disruptions and enhancing outcomes.  This can be fine-tuned further according to the occupant’s 4 Pillars astrology and Sun Ceremony Dates specific to that property.

2. Placing a Walk in Robe or Bathroom in a Wealth Location

Mistake: Installing an enclosed WIR or bathroom in a key wealth generating location (where Water Stars 9 or 1 reside) can suppress prosperity opportunity for the household.  Click here to learn why the Southeast sector or far left hand corner of your home isn't necessarily the 'wealth corner' of your home.

Flying Stars Solution: Feng Shui analysis shows which locations in your home should be energized with a strategically placed external door, used as home office or open plan living area to receive the most beneficial wealth generating Qi.

3. Ignoring the Main Door’s Inherent Star Combination

Mistake: Renovating or relocating the main entry without understanding the inherent stars in this location can create blockages of beneficial Qi and invite bad luck.

Flying Stars Solution: Knowing the door’s specific location and orientation helps you enhance supportive stars and neutralize Sha Qi at the entry point.  This can be further fine-tuned to benefit the occupants via an auspicious Zheng Shen door facing orientation in connection with the occupant’s personal Year/Day of birth Hexagrams and strategic Ling Shen water placement within a beneficial inherent water star location according to the surrounding landform.  A supportive day and timeframe can also be calculated for the actual instalment of a new main entry in order to further benefit the occupants of the home.  Click here to read more about Xuan Kong Da Gua application to a main door.

4. Poor Bedroom Placement and Bed Orientation

Mistake: Renovating a bedroom and adding fire element colour to a location containing an inherent energy flow not conducive to reds or pinks (eg 2+5, 6+1, 7+9) can cause sleep issues, illness and relationship strain. I’ve seen plenty of bedrooms in the Southwest sector where the occupant had wrongly assumed adding reds and pinks to the room would automatically encourage romance and ended up with sickness and relationship problems occurring instead.

See this article for more info.  Moving your bed to a different wall in the bedroom can also have a significant effect on the occupant of the room depending on their personal Ming Gua Qi and the energy they draw in from the mountain star Qi from the wall behind their bedhead while sleeping.

This E-Book tells you more about mountain star energy and how to tap into it while you sleep.

Flying Stars Solution: A detailed Feng Shui assessment of the home identifies which rooms, colour scheme and orientations are best for each individual, while enabling the occupant of the room to absorb the most supportive health and relationship energy available while sleeping in that location.

5. Unintentionally Locking Auspicious Stars

Mistake: Walls, cupboards and closed-off spaces can block wealth-bringing stars from effectively entering the home, thus making them ineffective.  During the current Period of 9, some homes now have the ruling water star 9 Qi unfortunately locked in the centre of their home, which significantly weakens the ability to attract abundance opportunity to that home.  Read this article for more information and to see if your home potentially has the water star 9 locked in the centre.

Flying Stars Solution: Analysis shows where to keep spaces open and activated with regular movement, so auspicious stars remain accumulative and accessible.  If you have a ruling water star Qi locked in the centre of your home, there may be ways to unlock the location depending on access from the centre to a facing side external door and/or opening up a pathway of Qi from the inherent water star 5 to the locked ruling water star in the centre of the building.

6. Using the Wrong Colours or Materials

Mistake: Just because your bedroom is located in the Southwest sector does not mean you should automatically decorate it in shades of red to attract romance and just because the North sector is a water element Trigram, does not mean you should automatically install a water feature to attract ‘career luck’.  See this article for more info:  

For example, a location with inherently supportive energy connected with financial acumen, leadership and authority can be corrupted when the occupant mistakenly decorates the location with fire element colours and features (eg reds, pinks, triangular patterns, light fittings with long, spear-like protrusions).  If decorated with mainly metal and earth element colour and forms, it could be very supportive for the occupants, however the dominant fire element corrupts the inherent Qi and attracts quarrelling and litigious problems instead.

Flying Stars Solution: Recommendations are given specific to the inherent energy flow affecting the home according to when it was constructed, the facing orientation of the building, the influence of the surrounding landform, the occupant’s personal Ming Gua and the required usage of the space.  Just because each sector connects with a general Trigram, does mean you should automatically decorate according to the element of the Trigram.

7. Ignoring the Effects of Time Cycles

Mistake: If your renovation is significant enough and it occurs during a different time period to when the home was first constructed, it’s possible you may inadvertently shift the original energy flow to a completely new and different energy chart.  This could change everything in regard to how beneficial and sha Qi enters your home, the type of energy you absorb while sleeping and the effect of strategically placed water features.  In some cases, this can be great, however in many cases, it can create a myriad of issues unless you have checked ahead of time, the pros and cons between the 2 different types of energy flow and how to best tap into them, as well as ways to ensure the changeover in Time Period energy is permanent rather than transient.

Flying Stars Solution: Time Period-aware analysis allows you to future-proof your renovation by aligning with long-term energy shifts and whether or not it is worth retaining the original energy flow or aiming to implement a completely new energy flow and adjusting your plans accordingly.

8. Installing Water Features in the Wrong Sectors

Mistake: Adding ponds, pools or fountains in sectors with negative water stars can attract loss of income, theft, illness and/or litigation.  The strategic placement of water in and around your home is fundamental to its inherent wealth generating ability.  Read this article to discover why the Southeast sector isn’t necessarily your automatic wealth location.

Flying Stars Solution: Water placement is carefully guided using a combination of Fei Xing Feng Shui, external door placement and orientation (eg Xuan Kong Da Gua and/or 9 Star Water Dragon Method), the effect of surrounding landform and specific timing, ensuring water is positioned only where it enhances rather than harms.

Australian Feng Shui Master Consultant, Derelle Ball can help you enhance the health, wealth and nurturing Feng Shui potential of your home with a detailed user-friendly Feng Shui Report.  For further information please visit: Personalised Classical Feng Shui Report for your Home