Today’s story is: Page 4 of Five Acres and a Creek It was odd that the house itself was so confusing because in feng shui terms the house location on the five acres was ideal. If you could ignore the pervasive lantana and the grubbiness of the strange house, the building complex of house, garage and workshop was in a delightful setting nestled into the side of a hill, protected on three sides by at least a treble row of huge pine trees along the boundaries of the five acres. There were a variety of other trees on the property and even the driveway didn’t point directly to the house with Feng Shui killing arrows but instead meandered gently sideways up the hill from the front gate, where an over-burdened lemon tree almost bent to the ground under the weight of its bush lemons. The land was abundantly fertile. Vine Creek ran parallel with the house on the other side of the road and our own sweet-water creek bubbled from a spring further up the hill to form one boundary of our land for part of its journey before it crossed one corner of our property and joined Vine Creek. The land looked and felt vibrant, with lush vegetation even though a lot of it was lantana. It was full of life so had good chi. The building had a hill behind, giving the classic feng shui position of the Turtle as protection and good strength for the house. There was more land at the back of the house than in the front and in traditional feng shui this is considered auspicious as it allows the energy of wealth to accumulate. In the front our new home had open space to allow good chi to gather and nourish the home, which is called the Phoenix in feng shui. We even had the swift flowing water in the front of the house in the form of Vine Creek just across the road, which again is excellent feng shui. The only negative I could see was that the house itself felt strange and out-of-kilter, but I argued to myself that this was only a small hiccup in the grand scheme of rich soil, big trees, running water and abundant wildlife. Plus, those kookaburras were still singing. This story is an excerpt from the e-book “Five Acres and a creek: unreliable memories of life in a small town” written by Sue Bagust and available on Smashwords and Amazon https://smashwords/books/view/372182
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 20:44:46 +0000
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