I did not fly to Surabaya as she wanted me to. I asked some questions instead.
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| Bad House Feng Shui |
She sounded quite hysterical, this call from an old and dear friend, someone from my early writing days. She comes from a wealthy background in Indonesia. Her family owns large mining interests on the island and in recent years, they had diversified into newspapers and book publishing. Her father had been getting increasingly active in politics, aligning himself with the power elite.
I knew they were influential, that her father was close to the Presidential palace, although which President I really did not take the trouble to find out. In any case, here in South East Asia, as with everywhere else in the world, anyone wealthy almost always has some kind of close connection to the political head of the country.
All these years, I had not heard from her, but in October, my friend Ella's world collapsed. She was convinced the arrest had been motivated by politics, jealousy, revenge and partisan power play. Her voice was almost guttural as she described the drama of her father's arrest - apparently for corruption. She was appalled at the way they had arrested him and that caused her to worry for his health and for his safety. He has high blood pressure and is diabetic, she told me over the phone.
She is also worried about her mother who has awakened from her collapse but is looking blank like she has lost her senses ... and then her brother who had always been something of a hot head, had come home all bloody from a fight at work two days ago! Her sister-in-law has gone back to her parents, taking Ella's niece and nephew with her. The family it seems is is a state of disarray.
But it is her father's arrest that is the main problem which needs settling. I asked her to describe her family home. It is one of those very deep houses so typical of Indonesia's old rich families, where children and grandchildren live with parents and loads of servants, going from one suite of rooms to the next. Some homes have a length of as many as 20 rooms ... but everyone enters and leaves the house through the main front door.
I told her that the problem must be bad luck at the main door, which in a house like hers must never be afflicted. When it is, everyone and especially the patriarch and all the sons of the family are certain to be hit by severe misfortune.
In the case of Ella's family home, the culprit was the number 3 star, which had flown to their front door that faced SW and is located in the SW sector of their very long house! The SW is also afflicted by the number 3 star in the annual chart, so last month, Ella's family was seriously hit by the quarrelsome star, which also brings conflict with authority, court cases, and in its worst case scenario, getting thrown into jail. And as everyone knows the Year of the Dragon, the number 7 star afflicts the Patriarch. So in the same month that they got hit by the 3 star at the front door, her father, the family head. is being hit by the number 7 annual and monthly star as well.
Clearly, Ella needs to paint her main front door red and hang a six rod wind chime near the front of her home as well. At the back of her home in the NW corner, I told her to place another metal wind chime as well as a Dragon water feature. The presence of water will exhaust the harmful 7 in the same way that the Fire element energy of the color red will exhaust the Wood star 3, which was obviously harming her father.
Being desperate, Ella has done what I told her to, and as we go to print. I have just been told her father was released on bail; he is home now but the problem's not over yet. I have also sent her three powerful amulets that should help him should his case go to court, although we are all hoping it will not have to come to that; hopefully they can delay until the New Year, when the luck of the house will improve.
The patriarchal luck in 2013 looks very good for the coming year ... but for now at least, he is being strongly protected by the powerful sacred amulets we have already sent him.
With the father's return, Ella's mother has also regained her strength. Her brother has quit his job and has moved abroad with his wife and family. This ends Part 1 of Bad House Feng Shui. To find out more, you can read the next post.