Feng Shui and mobile homes

For those of you unfamiliar with Chinese art and science called “feng shui,” it is an ancient system for determining how people are affected by their immediate surroundings.

Like “astrology for architecture”, when a house is built combined with its compass orientation, it will reveal that the house has a certain personality or a predictable influence on those who live within it. The true beauty of feng shui is that there are often remedies that can correct an unbalanced environment and make it good for health, relationships, and even financial potential.

For example, a south-facing house built in 1950 can contribute to an occupant having eye or heart problems. An east-facing house built in 1970 could cause the occupants to have fertility problems. Now, can a mobile home be diagnosed in the same way? Technically, the mobile home is not “glued” to the ground like a house with a slab base. And what happens if the mobile home is moved to another location or is used occasionally for travel? Part of the theory behind feng shui includes the belief that ground energy rises when a house is under construction. Then when the roof is turned on, that seals the invisible energies in the house and there can be a similar influence for many decades on whoever lives in that house. Like a car or boat, the mobile home is not actually “grounded” to the ground.

Many mobile homes are built solely for the purpose of being residences and not for travel. Whether it is assembled on the lot or brought to the lot, once the mobile home is parked in a definitive location it will continue to absorb the same energies from the ground it covers, as if it were just like any other home. This is surprising to many practitioners because it seems to challenge some of the strict theories about how feng shui energies are activated during a construction. If that mobile home were to move, it would be really similar to a normal home moving, which happens, although not often. Once the structure is dropped back to the ground, a new energy field is finally created.

Because mobile homes are largely made of metal, it is also vital that anyone taking a compass reading stands at least 10-20 feet away so as not to interfere with an accurate compass reading.

Aside from the question of how a mobile home can connect to the earth, other aspects of a mobile home could be seen as very common and easy to diagnose using feng shui principles. In other words, there is nothing inherently good or bad about living in a mobile home and the same remedies that work for regular structures can work in the mobile home as well.