I work at Queen street and walk across to Albert Street regularly. Lately, Sky has taken over this massive billboard on Albert Street with this impressive beach and wave ad that spans across the entire Downtown mall! See picture below for how large this puppy is!
See the video below for the whole ad or watch it at YouTube:
I’m not sure what the creatives at their ad agency were thinking here (I don’t get the ad) but, it did start me thinking about whether a huge symbol like that would bring joy or woe (from a feng shui perspective) to Auckland CBD and it’s businesses?
Water in feng shui always means something, and there’s no debate that a water feature this size would have an impact. As with the yin and yang of all things, water can bring great wealth, or tragedy if used incorrectly. What’s disturbing to me about this particular billboard, is how the wave ends - the part to the right of the billboard looks like a giant Tsunami wave is about come crashing down on CBD’s DFS Galleria (Duty Free Shop). If I were the Duty Free Shop i’d quickly hang a symbolic shield right at my wall outside right now for some protection!
As a conservative feng shui practioner I err on the side of caution – so a Tsunami wave this size coming towards me feels a little bit initimidating. Some feng shui masters might argue that this is a good thing – water coming into the CBD (Albert street being one of the conduit roads into the city).
Comments from anyone out there? What are your thoughts – is this a good feng shui thing or bad?
Hello Honey,
Congratulations to your new site and Welcome back!
Re: Tsunami Ad
I work in the building next to the Downtown Shopping Mall, I have notice the ad on the first day they put it up. Me and my collegue commented ‘Why they put such a picture for an ad? We do not think it’s good, you can call us superstitious, but somehow, does not look right to us’
Anyway, last Thursday the whole building’s toilet(16 floors) was flooded and everyone has to be evacuate and send home, do you think it is just coincidence?
MK
thanks for your comment MK! Oh dear – which building do you work in (if you don’t mind disclosing)? Is it in the “line of fire” of the tsunami wave? Symbols can be extremely powerful and this particular one is very large. I hope the ad doesn’t stay up for too long!
The building is AMP Centre.
HiHoney Lim:
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Ref: the Tsunami Ad:
It is a very bad omen. I am a feng shui consultant and writing from experience. The huge water body will surely spell disaster to the business of that shop (drowned in “Tsunami” (economical/personal), gone deep under water… whatever you want to call it) and also to the surrounding business homes which are in direct view of that ad (depending on the direction from which it “attacks” them, and also depending on their own “karma”. If you believe in these things, these sign foretell the near and distant happenings.)
Now, about the real experience:
I had a client who was a huge supplier to a very huge multinational company producing electricity in Dabhol, Maharashtra, India. No one could touch its supremacy, it was said. But, as I was visiting this supplier’s home, he had a very large picture of Niagara falls, it was a frightening sort of picture, and the water-flow seemed to rush out of his main door, that flow was simply unstoppable… same like this Tsunami. As if Nature was angry…
I asked him to remove that huge poster and he declined. He was already in deep business trouble at that time. He had also changed the front door location (earlier it was in one of his best direction, now it wa in his 6th or 7th direction, and on top, he had this picture of Niagara fall with water flowing out, on the right side of the main door as you look out)… Soon, he lost the business, his pregnant sister who was visiting his family lost the baby, and… the huge multinational company was ruined – went belly up (like a dead shark-whale) – everywhere…
The moral: do not think lightly of the nature’s fury… don’t depict or advertise it anywhere near you… it is not a funny picture, and know that Nature is very powerful entity, probably has the “GOD” power within it. It can make or break civilizations.
Hope this rather long comment does not bore your lovely readers.
Thanks
I agree Dr Santosh. I often advise against Niagra falls or any such large and intimidating water features at home! – be it for wealth or for careers! I had a colleague who wanted to activate her career – so I advised her to put a picture of a waterfall in the north. She used Niagra Falls, and within a few days she got given additional high-profile responsibility and promoted. She thought her career was sky rocketing, but within a month she was drowned in a sea of work and collapsed of exhaustion! In feng shui balance is always the key! My rule is NOT to overdo it.
Hello dear Honeylim,
Nice to be back again! It has been some time that I posted my views above on this topic. Have you noticed any positive/negative effects in the neighborhood there? Is that ad still there?
This is a good site. Wish you the very best in your FS practice.
God bless!