Dealing with Ming Tang

Dealing with Facing and Sitting, exterior and interior Ming Tang, the placement of active and passive rooms, possibilities are sheer endless.

We need a good environment and within the possibilities and limitations rendered by the environment we need a well thought out house design.

The total design should be preferably in accordance to exterior Mountain and Water.

Humans perform best when they can work in active – yang – locations, and they will be healthier and most rested when they can sleep in passive – yin – quarters. Some houses force us to be active within the more yin areas of a house and be passive in the more yang areas.

Dealing with Ming Tang issues means dealing with Facing, and determining Facing side of any built structure can be the most daring in Feng Shui.

We tend to cling to our image of mountain and water and we trust that any built structure will have its own fair share of distinguishable mountain and water, making it easy on us. Then we find we always encounter situations that are just a tiny bit different and we may feel paralyzed.

Ancient Feng Shui classics show how we need to first assess where the Mountain Dragon is. Once we found the Mountain Dragon, we will find the Water Dragon 180 degrees away to its opposite direction.

Suppose we took this to its extreme and need to assess the Facing side of a structure, but there is no mountain at all, like a green house. The structure is completely surrounded by open space. Let us go as far as to say, this glass house does not even have an entrance, nor does it have any discernable front or pathways leading to it. Where then is the Ming Tang, how does it Face.

The ancients were quite particular about the solution. When you are not able to find the Mountain Dragon, find the Water Dragon. Once you found the Water Dragon, you will locate the Mountain Dragon 180 degrees to its opposite direction. This rule applies for the greenhouse in our example.

The Facing side is defined to be at the side with the most yang energy. In this academic case there are no features other than direction to decide on the Facing.

The earth atmosphere will be most yang at sunrise and noon. In this particular case we would decide the Facing the be where we find the sun in its highest spot in the sky at noon.

Now we will examine different situations. None of the examples shown can rule out the Flying Star chart.

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