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Dear Kapil,

Under the Shapes and Form School of Feng Shui, if a telephone pole is tangent or directly faces one's main door; you are correct to say that it is considered inauspicious in Feng Shui and in general, this is `unlucky' to the breadwinner.

The reason is because, the main entrance door is considered the `mouth' of the house. It is also considered the central location where external Qi comes into the house. (Other similar important points include the windows at the `frontage side of the house).

In your case, symbolism plays an important part in Feng Shui. A narrow telephone pole directly facing the main entrance door is `akin' to a knife or blade slicing through the main entrance door.

Under the Shapes and Form School, it is important to `protect' the main entrance door from such `disturbances'.

There are a few methods of rectifying it (some require minimal costs while others may require slightly higher costs):-

1. The most cost effective method is to place a semi-circular carpet raditating outwards from the house.

Acceptable colour is `gold' to yellow coloured carpet to neutralise the `Wood' element telephone pole. (Wood element especially if the pole is made of wood.)

2. The more costly methods include:

a. Changing to a convex door. I believe this is usually not available in your country unless it is specially ordered.

The profile of the door looks something like this:-

|) <-- convex profile radiating outwards

b. Tilting the door to face one of your auspicious directions. (Caution: You would need to consult a Feng Shui expert for this).

The advantage here is if one's main door is facing an inauspicious direction, one can tilt the door to face an auspicious direction. Here, you are killing two birds with a stone because it will also solve the problem of the poison arrow caused by the telephone pole.

3. In my personal opinion, it is less effective for non-Chinese to place a Ba Gua mirror directly above the main entrance door. If there is really a spirit around, a Christian `ghost' for example would not even understand the symbols on the Ba Gua; least frighten by it etc...

I believe this is similar for other religious `denominations'.

4. If there are steps to your main door, you can consider semi circular steps at the front entrance.

Semi-circular steps is symbolic of a Chinese butcher's blade
(minus the handle) slicing outwards.

5. One other method is to place a pot of a medium sized plant on the path of the telephone pole to soften/neutralise some of its effects.

The above are some of the common methods used.

Warmest Regards,
Cecil

>On 10/14/99 5:18:16 PM, Kapil Chawla wrote:

>Dear Sir
>My main south facing door
>over sees a telephone pole .
>The distance =between the pole
>and door is 10 feets . I Know
>that this is bad Feng =Shui .
>But what are the ill effects
>of this situation. And how do
>I =rectify it .
Thanks

Kapil
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