I live in Melbourne for over twenty years, and published “Australia Feng Shui Mystery” series on the Melbourne New Tide as early as 1993, which discuss in detail the Feng Shui pattern of every major city in Australia. In 1994, “Between Heaven and Earth”, the Feng Shui episodes were aired on the Melbourne Multicultural Radio, and were welcomed by the many audiences. Today, I post the article on the Melbourne Feng Shui Mystery after slight modification here for online readers’ reference.

Before discussing Melbourne’s Feng Shui pattern,

here is a question for readers who are familiar with the Melbourne city map: why the streets of downtown Melbourne stretch in the direction from northeast to southwest, instead of extend in north-south and east-west direction like many big cities in the world? Is the planning and development process of the city’s main street consistent with the mystery of Feng Shui?

Before discussing Melbourne’s Feng Shui pattern, here is a question for readers who are familiar with the Melbourne city map: why the streets of downtown Melbourne stretch in the direction from northeast to southwest, instead of extend in north-south and east-west direction like many big cities in the world? Is the planning and development process of the city’s main street consistent with the mystery of Feng Shui?

Readers of my article “Australia Feng Shui geographic” should remember that I have mentioned the only dragon range in Eastern Australia – THE GREAT DIVIDING RANGE, this big Dragon runs through all the major cities of eastern Australia, its dragon head settles in northeastern Victoria, forming the Dandenong Mountain. In fact, this is one of the two Feng Shui prerequisites for the urban environment development of Melbourne, which is known as “against the mountain” in Feng Shui.

“Against mountain and facing water, circle around left and right” – is the pursuit of Feng Shui under certain conditions. In the context that Melbourne is against mountain to the northeast, Melbourne’s southwest happens to form a second Feng Shui pattern – P0RT PHILLIP BAY, its unique terrain surrounds thousands of square kilometers of water in southwest of the city, and meets the second condition of urban development in Feng Shui – “facing water”.

However, facing water is only one condition, there are many environment which are against mountain and facing water, why Melbourne? Similarly, there are many harbor cities in the world, why Melbourne’s port is not built on the coast, but let the ship lane goes around Australian coastal area, enters P0RT PHILLIP BAY from QUEENSCLIF, and then arrives at Melbourne, adding several hundred nautical miles to the route?

“Front of area can accommodate ten thousand horses, locking outlet can only fit one ship” – when surveying Feng Shui environment, ancient people proposed conditions of hiding winds and gathering qi on the big Feng Shui pattern, not only facing water, but also to be able to gather water, and furthermore be able to “lock the outlet”. QUEENSCLIF, this natural ‘locking outlet’ with width of less than 2 nautical miles, locks up thousands of square kilometers of water, and creates the necessary conditions for the development of a major city in Feng Shui for Melbourne!

Therefore, under the influence of the natural laws of Feng Shui, it is quite normal that the streets of downtown Melbourne do not extend in the east-west direction. Naturally, from against mountain in northeast to facing water in southwest, according to rules of from high to low in Feng Shui pattern: the first class is undoubtedly TEMPLEST0WE and D0NVALE area, and D0NCASTER, BULLEEN, BALWYN belong to the second class, the third class circles around the northern hills, forms the pattern including KEW, HAWTH0RN, and Melbourne downtown.

Similarly, against mountain and facing water, left hand side cyan dragon position is better, right hand side white dragon position is the second. So, Eastern Melbourne property price is always higher than that of the West. The reasons behind this is another topic.