In many popular books on Feng Shui we find recommendations for hanging mirrors that, while they seem easy enough to understand, may work against you and bring you bad luck in the long run. On numerous occasions people have called me in to fix the problems brought on by Feng Shui consultants who, without any working knowledge of the compass methods, came to do their houses.

For instance, I once did a job for a woman whose husband had a fatal accident. A Feng Shui consultant, who came to this woman’s house some months prior to the accident, had advised her to hang mirrors in the “marriage and money corners” so as to enhance these areas of life. Reading the compass, I discovered, however, that these areas in her house were really about “accidents” and “ghosts,” not money and marriage. The mirrors, instead of enhancing anything positive, had encouraged a big disaster. It is known, by Taoist wizards, that destructive entities can be enter into a person’s house through badly placed mirrors. And healing spirits can enter a house where the mirrors are hung in good places. Mirrors are portals as well as reflectors. In other words, mirrors hung on wrong walls reflect good fortune away from the home and invite trouble. Mirrors may also be used in more secret ways. For example, it is an old practice of Taoist wizards to hang a mirror inside by the front door, some say to reflect the people coming and going in such a way that the wizard may find out their secret intentions. (My teacher of Chinese astrology and Feng Shui, an incredible Chinese psychic, had a mirror like that by his door). Others, especially those who do business off the street, will often hang a mirror by the doorway to reflect the people on the way out so that they always will want to come back.

While many wise Taoists avoid hanging mirrors in their homes and temples altogether,
the use of mirrors in Feng Shui goes back several millenia to when polished jade reflectors
were put on bed posts to repel undesirable spirits.

To find where you may best place mirrors in your home, first take a compass reading of its main door. A compass reading of a home is always done by standing in the doorway, facing out. The compass direction of your home is what you face when looking directly out the main door. There are eight basic compass directions. Once you find out the compass direction of your doorway note it, then sketch a floorplan of your home showing where the front door is, and draw a grid pattern resembling a tic-tac-toe over the floorplan. The tic-tac-toe pattern has eight squares, i.e., eight compass areas around a center square. Mark off the eight compass directions: N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, and NW.

According to the ancient Lo Shu compass method,
there are three areas in a space that are particularly good.
And it is in these that you may hang mirrors.

One of these three areas is especially good and can be used to bring healing energy through a mirror into your home.   It is called Sky Medicine.

• If your door faces North, the best compass areas of your home are in the East, Southeast, and South. Sky Medicine is in the East.
• If your door faces Northeast, the best areas in your home are in the Southwest, West, and Northwest. Sky medicine is in the Northwest.
• If your door faces East, the best compass areas in your home are in the Southeast, South and North. Sky medicine is in the North.
• If your door faces Southeast, the best areas in your home are in the South, North and East. Sky Medicine is in the South.
• If your door faces South, the best compass areas in your home are in the North, East and Southeast. Sky Medicine is in the Southeast.
• If your door faces Southwest, the best areas in your home are in the West, Northwest and Northeast. Sky Medicine is in the West.
• If your door faces West, the best areas in your home are in the Northwest, Northeast and Southeast. Sky Medicine is in the Southwest.
• If your door faces Northwest, the best areas in your home are in the Northeast, Southwest and West. Sky Medicine is in the Northeast.

If one of these good compass areas is the area of your bedroom, be careful not to hang or place a mirror that reflects your bed. Mirrors that reflect the bed disturb sleep and draw interferences into personal relationships. Do not place a mirror that directly faces the front door. If you have a mirror squarely facing the front door, people are being confronted with their reflection upon entering the house and are being told to go away.

If you have a bathroom door that is visible from the front door, a most undesirable situation, place a mirror on the bathroom door and keep the bathroom door shut. If you have a bathroom that has no windows, place mutually reflecting mirrors inside the bathroom. Mirrors that reflect one another activate Chi.

The device called the Bagua mirror is always hung outside the house, above the doorway, to ward off shars, or disturbing energies if these are detected.

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T. Raphael Simons was a guest on The Explore Your Spirit with Kala Show
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More about T. Raphael Simons…

T. Raphael Simons is a psychic reader, astrologer (Western and Chinese forms), feng shui expert, hypnotherapist and life coach and is  available for consultations and counseling in person and by telephone. Author of Feng Shui, Step by Step, Feng Shui Strategies for Business Success: Arranging Your Office for Success and Prosperity, and The Feng Shui of Love, his interest in the metaphysical sciences and arts began in 1970, he first learned to read Tarot cards in 1971 and took up reading them professionally in 1977. From there he studied astrology for seven years with Ivy Jacobson beginning in 1980. In 1988 he took up the study of Chinese astrology and fengshui with Terry Lee in New York and has been practicing and teaching Chinese astrology and fengshui ever since. He also trained in channeling in New York with the medium Alex Murray. Since 1999 Raphael has been a member of OBOD (the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids), the most ancient bardic and druid order in the UK in which he was elected a full member in the Druid grade. Raphael has been living in Durham, North Carolina since 2003, moving to NC from New York City. Originally trained as a musician, he taught music at Princeton University and Oberlin College.  For more information or questions about a Chinese astrological reading and/or Feng Shui consultation, contact Raphael Simons www.psychicarts.net