I'm writing to share my excitement about my upcoming land purchase and off-grid building project.
Yesterday I started having second thoughts when I found out my road was being paved by the county so that it could be promoted as the recommended route to a nearby hot springs. Right now people are taking a private road from a different paved county road, and the people along the private road route are complaining about their dirt road getting torn up by all the tourist traffic.
When I heard this I was thinking I might want out of the land purchase deal, because I'm wanting to put personal retreat cabins on the land, and wouldn't want the additional tourist through-traffic to the hot springs.
But then I talked to several friends and between their input it became clear that this is another unexpected blessing (of course) and that beyond that, I was led to this land for very good reasons.
The Energetic Angle
Apart from anything about the paved road, which I'll get to later, the land itself is perfectly suited for my intentions for it. A friend who's a Feng Shui expert did some surveying for me and the below text and images are what she came up with:
That is truly amazing land around there—it’s a feng shui analysis dream. that land is about as off the grid as can be. I would need to know more about the current and expected traffic, but I would say that paving the road and re-routing traffic will be a good thing: the land is so niched out from both geographic and man-made energy flow that it runs the risk of stagnation. This is a more macro view than your current plans, but I’m attaching some maps.
The yellow (flipped for ease of visibility) marks geo qi, the white shows man-made, and the brown highlights the still zone (which i think would make for all sorts of interesting psychic-influence-free experimentation).
(Within strong chi area)
(Minimal man-made energy)
(Still zone, meaning easy to settle into one's own energy without interferences)
The Paved Road
The other thing I hadn't been aware of myself is how important a paved road is when it snows. I've never lived in a place that got snow that had dirt roads. Turns out it's a really big deal to not have to drive on unpaved roads when it snows. The snow melts much more quickly on a paved road.
Also, for people coming from a city (which I presume is who will be doing solo retreats on the land, to rejuvenate and restore from the stress of city life) they will 1) be much more comfortable with paved roads than dirt; and 2) not consider the 10 cars/hour the residents of the current route to the hot springs complain about to be "high traffic." In fact, they are likely to think of it as very low traffic, when they are accustomed to more like 10 cars going by per minute where they are now.
To me it's still a lot of traffic, but my house will be way at the back of the 7 acre lot, and I'll have a walled garden on that side of the property anyway, so I'm unlikely to hear or see any traffic going by at the road.
Perspective
It's so important to get perspective from other people's viewpoints. From my perspective, something bad was happening that made me doubt my plans. From more experienced perspectives, something great was happening that increased the value of my property before I even finished buying it!
Never underestimate the power of crowdsourcing decisions!