A house is a moving vessel

Now, let us return to our comparison between a ship and a house.

See, a lot of the obstructions we may encounter in assessing the Facing side of a built structure may come from a certain type of mental ‘block’.
Perhaps we tend to look at a house as a static manifestation, and - being present at the site  - would be inclined to compare what we observe to what we learned so far.

It is only natural. We will feel most comfortable being able to research a house relying on straightforward Feng Shui. We located the Ming Tang, not only the Facing is obvious, also the interior design is in complete accordance with all this. We can start our audit.

The situation will get just a bit more confusing when the interior design doesn’t seem to fit this image and we find that the active rooms are away from the Facing.

Look upon a house as a living, moving, manifestation of Qi and you may have removed most of this mental block.

Consider a ship, it will have its bow and bridge oriented into the same direction, always. Then, of course, we would like a similar situation for all houses we audit.

Whenever you audit a built structure and want to determine Facing, Ming Tang and active rooms lay-out, simply ask the question:

“when this house were a ship, into which direction would it be heading”.

and

“as a captain on a bridge, into what direction would I face, sailing this ship”.

Reflect on the following list. Optimal would be a ship with its bow and bridge oriented into the same direction, comparable to a house with its Ming Tang and active rooms located into the appointed directions.

The situation will change when we consider the last column, where a house would energetically be oriented into one direction, but heading ‘backward’. 

A ship headed in the direction of its stern is just as odd as active rooms for a North facing house being located in the South.

It means, the most perfect situation would be a ship’s bridge being oriented in the same direction as its bow.
In other words, some houses have their bridge oriented away from the bow. 

Establish whether interior Ming Tang coincides with exterior Ming Tang.

Here is  a situation we would prefer for any house, where the Qi mouth – exterior Ming Tang - is represented by the mouth of the bottle. The ship’s bow is oriented towards the mouth of Qi, as is anything else going on on the ship.

The situation would be entirely different when we would rotate the ship’s hull to face away 180 degrees from the mouth of Qi.

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