The feng shui secrets of Billie Eilish’s family home
Nº 08 :Aesthetic; The 'American Craftsman' type
I hope you enjoy this analysis. If you haven’t watched the RJ Cutler documentary, ‘The World’s A Little Blurry’, do. This home and the family’s life is central to it and it’s why I was so interested to see if there was anything special about the Feng Shui here. There is!
A home’s 悬空飞星 Flying Star, Xuan Kong Fei Xing, chart comes from the direction it faces and when it was ‘born’ i.e. when the roof and walls enclose an interiority, locking in a pattern of time and space particular to its form.
At first glance the chart seems to be a negative one because;
it is a Reversed house (of the four Flying Star types Reversed has the worst reputation)
it has a 5 Mountain Star in the Heavenly Heart. That power can be too intense for human health.
The 5 Time Star is in the Sitting palace. Also not ideal - the Sitting is like the backbone or support of a building.
Some books would say this is a negative chart but that is a superficial take. Looking closer, the chart reveals to me not just one, but two fascinating and special configurations. That is rare!
From what I know of the family, they have had financial and health challenges as well as great success. This chart points to this complexity. I’ll take you through it, starting with these two special aspects;
HE Tu 河图 Number Chart
Many millennia ago (2943 BCE) there was a revelation about the perfect pattern of Qi in the spiritual plane related to the birth of the world within the Universe, maybe even the Multiverse. It is known as the Yellow River diagram, the He Tu. It looks like this;
Remarkably this pattern occurs in four palaces in the chart and therefore in the home itself.
~ In Billie’s room, the North palace 1-6
~ At the front entrance, the East Facing palace 3-8
~ In the kitchen and back door area, the Southwest 2-7
~ In the sitting room/ fireplace area, the Southeast 4-9
~ With the 5 at the centre or Heavenly Heart
Hidden Siren 伏 吟 fu yin chart
The second unusual aspect to this home’s chart is that it is Full Plate Fu Yin 伏 吟 or of the ‘Hidden Siren’. Fascinating for the home of musicians.
The pattern is on the Mountain Star side, affecting the health and relationships of the people who live here. When the Stars land in the palaces that are in the original Luo Shu some Masters say it is unlucky. But I don’t read the texts this way. I see that there is a meaning that speaks to a certain static-ness which I read as constancy. A good thing! Loyalty, cohesiveness, closeness, great qualities to have in relationships. As I understand it, this is a very close and loving family. The ideal, just like the Luo Shu magic square.
Fu Yin occurs when the 5 Yellow in the centre ‘flies’ forward in the correct magic square way. Each Star lands in its original home direction. Usually when the 5 Yellow is in the centre, as Feng Shui practitioners, we are on the alert. There is a Source power to the 5 Yellow that can be too much for humans to step down. But in this, the original pattern, there is a harmony to it.
The original meaning of Fu Yin in Feng Shui terms is Hidden Song/Chant/Siren. Like a mantra; 5,6,7,8,9,1,2,3,4,5,6…repeating, a scared pattern.
Fu Yin is also interpreted as ‘prostrate duplication’. I see this to be like bowing down in respect to the original Luo Shu positions. Some writers in the past have said this is a disastrous chart but I just don’t see it in totality that way. All the Mountain Stars are landing respectfully at home in their original positions. That counts for something. The loving constancy and closeness of the family can’t be denied. They love this house too.
There are health challenges to be aware of but its a compounding thing due to the Reversed nature and the bathroom in the sitting palace… but what what helps here is that the home doesn’t have external landforms that are bothering the house, aggravating things.
Also, the energetic centre, which is different, is possibly Finneas’ room/studio. More on that later as my full report is long! I may send it to those with a Paid subscription…
The architecture and interior design
Watching ‘A World’s A Little Blurry’ I noticed that their home’s design and decor was particular. Externally I noticed the full width porch, the tapered columns, stone walls, the historic wood stain colours, the timber windows some with multi top light designs. Inside there was built-in joinery, timber panelling, a fireplace surround with the same stone as outside. I thought it had a lot of decor indicators probably placed it as being from the turn of the previous century. It had the look and feel of a well loved home but also that there was something untouched about it, like it was of another era.
A Google search answered that it was indeed an American Craftsman type home, that low pitched side gable with extended rafters for show, helping to identify it. It was built in 1911. A petition to have it listed as particular to its vernacular and therefore worth preserving happened in 2007. The owners, Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell knew the value of it’s place in American residential design. Not everyone sees value in retaining the architectural past but they do and I respect them for it. Amazingly it has its original shingles, clapboard siding, carved roof brackets, even the original garden walls. It’s unchanged apart from a slight kitchen extension to the Southwest. Even more extraordinary is that despite the Baird - O’Connell family not being the first owners, the interior has not been greatly altered either since it was first fitted out over a hundred years ago.
I also noticed the four light glass front door. Reading metaphors in buildings is a thing I have always done, even before studying geomancy. Structures say a lot symbolically in the way they manifest. This door design speaks to harmonious relationships of the four occupants. This is a family of four who so obviously get along well as equals and yet with four distinct voices; parallel lives lived individually while being close and aligned philosophically too. Visual analogies, correlations, intuitive readings happen often in my consults.