Most Westerners are familiar with the concept of feng shui and how a person’s residence or place of work can have a predictable affect on them, within the scope of this metaphysical topic. People seek out the services of a feng shui professional when they intuitively know that there is something unbalanced about home or work or they have heard that design and decor changes to a structure can actually have a physical affect on occupants.
But there is a whole branch of feng shui that most Westerners still have not been exposed to, which is called “Yin House” feng shui. The term “yin” refers to energies that are considerably more subdued than “yang” energies, so the distinction is very accurate. “Yang Houses,” which are where people are living at home or work can include characteristics that are bright, lively, full of sights, sounds, movement and many characateristics that fall in the category of “yang” attributes. Conversely, “yin” characteristics include dark, cold, still, damp, quiet and if you read through the symbolism, a gravesite is about as “yin” as you can get on a scale of 1 to 10. So, Yin House feng shui deals with gravesites and what kind of affect the gravesite can have for up to three generations of family members. This is admittedly an odd concept, that the location of a grave and the compass orientation of the site can influence your children and grand children. But it’s not such a far fetched concept when placed in the scheme of all the unusual after-life beliefs that practically every religion teaches. The goal is to have your loved ones placed in a gravesite that has “good feng shui” so that future generations can prosper. This is not the easiest task, given that there are definite restrictions in how, when and where we bury a deceased person in modern times. Many people buy plots well in advance of their own death as no one really knows when that day, or even that decade, is coming. Yet, there are definitely a whole host of rules and guidelines to follow within this somber branch of feng shui. And there are also some “last minute” things that can be accomodated for, as long as they don’t conflict with a person’s other religious beliefs. For example, in the Jewish tradition, the body needs to be buried very promptly. No hanging out in the morgue for weeks, in other words. Most likely, anyone who wants to ensure that their loved on is buried on a good day according to their Chinese zodiac sign, is not going to be fanatical about the burial timing from another tradition. Some of the things which we might assume are good feng shui features (for the living) are not necesarily so for the dead. For example, it might seem nice to choose a burial plot under a shady tree. But this is generally regarded as a bad choice in Yin House theory. The yin house (grave) is already very yin. So the balance one can create is to choose a nice sunny “yang” spot. As well, graves that are under trees risk becoming too damp, invaded by ants, muddy, and sometimes the roots of the tree will buckle the coffin. These circumstances can affect the deceased’s bones in a negative way and that in turn can affect the descendants in a negative way. Many questions come up as soon as this topic is introduced, including wanting to know how much of the cemetery grounds a person can control, how many choices they will have, what happens when a body is cremated and the ashes are either scattered or interned, and just how specifically are descendants influenced by this strange after-life connection to our relatives. Yin House feng shui, as a study and as a practice, predates the kind of feng shui we apply to homes and businesses. There are some general principles which would be deemed good or bad for just about anyone and then there are choices which would be totally specific to the person involved. This is the same way with Yang House feng shui. We can build a house that is going to be generally good for just about anyone who lives there, but we could also design a house that met the specific needs of the future occupant, if we knew who that person would be. Yin House feng shui takes as much formal training as Yang House feng shui, especially since the results are so long lasting and there is hardly anything one can do after the fact. This is a stark difference to homes and businesses, which can have many easy-to-fix flaws. In fact, most feng shui practitioners make recommendations for problems, after the fact, since the majority of structures on this planet are built without benefit of feng shui input in the design phase. Structures with naturally good feng shui are often just “lucky” in that way for the owner or occupant. The influence of the grave goes from parent to child only. So in other words, your sibling’s grave will not affect you or their nieces and nephews. But your grand parents’ grave will affect all their children and grandchildren. Somehow, the DNA in the bones still acts as a conductor of energy…and desitny. Some general principles include the following: 1. It is better for a grave to be out in the sun and not under a tree. 2. It is better for a grave to be surrounded by healthy grass, and not right next to the curb of the road at the cemetery. 3. It is better for the grave to truly be in an open sunny area and NOT closed in a mausoleum. 4. It is great if the cemetery has some water features, like ponds or fountains. The specific direction or location of the water in relation to a grave is very personal however. 5. It is better for a grave to NOT be located right next to a sprinkler head. 6. It is better for a grave to NOT be located near a trash can. 7. It is beter for a grave to NOT be extremely close to a freeway or a lot of traffic. 8. It is better for a grave to NOT be close to any cemetery sculpture or structure that has sharp edges pointing at the headstone. 9. It is beter for the grave to NOT be aligned with any cracks in the adjacent pavement. 10. For what you now know are selfish reasons, it is better to NOT let a gravesite become neglected, with grasses or weeds covering the headstone marker or any other signs of neglect. People sometimes visit cemeteries with food and/or their pets and you would be disappointed to know what sometimes gets left behind at a gravesite. The list above is just a small sampling of some general principles that would apply to virtually all graves. Much more advanced and specific advice needs to factor in the precise compass alignment of the grave, the (assumed)burial time frame, information about the deceased, and more knowledge about the natural surrounding landscape including mountain formations. Kartar Diamond is a classically trained feng shui consultant, author and teacher. For more information go to: http://www.FengShuiSolutions.net
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