The placement of the Four Heavenly Animals to promote and foster positive chi are key principles in the Feng Shui of the School of Form, the oldest and most traditional method of Feng Shui. This school of Feng Shui focuses on the geographical features of the immediate environment to identify the good and bad locations of our homes. Over the past two hundred years, the use of landforms in Feng Shui has become less popular, especially in the west. In our modern towns and cities, many people feel that the use of landforms is no longer relevant, so we have turned to different ways to promote positive energy in our homes. However, it is a shame to discard old ideas completely when we find new methods, so in this article I am going to see what we can learn from the ancient masters of Feng Shui and the Four Heavenly Animals.

In Form School Feng Shui, a home that is filled with positive chi should have the Four Heavenly Animals at each of the four main points of the compass outside of its home. The four celestial animals, the green dragon, the red phoenix, the white tiger, and the black tortoise are represented by shapes and landforms in the environment surrounding a home.

Let’s look at each of these animals individually:

The first of the Four Celestial Animals is the Green Dragon. Like the first of the animals, the Green Dragon sits to the east of the house, where the sun rises. Representing spring, the Green Dragon brings wealth and well-being to the home. In Form School Feng Shui, the Green Dragon is represented by a low hill to the east of your house.

In the front of the house is the Red Phoenix. The Red Phoenix faces south towards the sun and represents fire and summer. The Red Phoenix brings fame, success and new opportunities to your home. The environment at the front of the house should be flat, or sag slightly and have an energy line flowing through it that in ancient times would have been a river or stream, but may now include a path or path.

While we follow the movement of the sun, to the west of the house is the White Tiger. The white tiger represents autumn. The white tiger is represented by a low hill to the west of his home. The white tiger prevents luck from escaping from the house so it is very important that you do not have a piece of land that moves away from the house on this side of the house.

Finally, at the back of the house, looking north, is the Black Tortoise that represents winter. The Black Tortoise is represented by a high mountain that provides strong protection, support and stability to the home.

When thinking about the location of the house today, less emphasis is placed on the directions of the Four Heavenly Animals and more emphasis is placed on how your home is located in its surroundings. When I observe how your home feels, I always find that it is best to first consider how you feel in an armchair. If you sit in an armchair, you are well protected on your back, you have support at the sides and you have an open space in the front. Now think about your home sitting in the chair. This is how your house should sit in its surroundings, sheltered at the rear, leaning on the sides and with an open view at the front. In our modern environment, especially if you live in a town or city, it is not easy to find natural forms of land that provide this support and good fortune in our environment. However, we can create our own shapes, forms, and structures to provide ourselves with the same protection and well-being that the ancient Feng Shui masters sought when they first practiced Feng Shui.

As we stand at the front door facing out, the sides of our house should have some support. This support can be provided by another house, a fence, a hedge, a row of trees or a garden wall. Ideally, we would not want this support to be higher than our own home or too far away.

In the back of our house we want to feel maximum protection. Here, ideally, there should be a tall structure protecting our house, which again, if you don’t have a convenient hill or mountain at the back of your house, it could be another building, a wall, a fence, a row of trees, or a hedge. At the back of the house, we would like this protection to be at the height of our own house or a little higher and not too close for our house to feel oppressed.

Finally, the front of our house should be an open area that is flat or slightly sunken. There must be some form of chi line that can take the form of a road or a river. If there is a barrier between the front door and the road or river, then it must be low enough so that it can be seen.

In an ideal world, this would be our house on its plot, but unfortunately we do not always live in the ideal world. If your home has no natural landforms and there is little to no opportunity to physically create them, then you can use symbolism. Always remember if you are using symbolism to place the item in position while reinforcing the three secrets.

In the Green Dragon area, stimulate dragon chi by planting a tall tree or hanging a wooden wind chime. If you don’t have outside space on this side of your house, add something made of wood to this side of the house, or hang a picture that incorporates a dragon on the far left wall of your house (the left while looking out of your house )

In the area of ​​the Red Phoenix it is important to stimulate yang chi by introducing movement. This can be done by hanging a wooden wind chime, crystal, or by creating a moving water feature in the front. The front of the house is also a good place to celebrate the Red Phoenix by planting red flowers and plants and erecting a bird table.

In the area of ​​the White Tiger it is very important that the land does not lean out of the house. If this is the case in your environment, hang a metal wind chime or place lights in the outdoor area. If you don’t have outside space on this side of the house, hang a picture of a white tiger, insert a metal sculpture, or hang metal coins on the far right wall of your house (the right when looking outside)

In the Black Turtle area, stimulate the turtle’s chi by adding water or mirrors to this area of ​​the house. For the best sense of protection, make sure the back of your house is private, and if you have open ground to the rear, try to create a sense of privacy. If you don’t have outside space in the back, hang a picture that incorporates a black turtle or a picture of a mountain scene on the back wall of your house.

I hope you found this article a useful introduction to training school Feng Shui and encouraged you to seek out the Four Heavenly Animals in your own environment.