Feng shui believers and practitioners say it is lucky if your house or building stands on a lot with a dragon underneath. But it is unlucky if the house or the building is right above the head of the dragon. Or something like that. But what if the dragon on your property is suspended in air and right beside your house?
Last Sunday, Speedy had the mango tree in the garden pruned. It was long overdue as some of the branches were already intertwined with electric and phone cables. And because the mango tree has grown way above the roof of our house, dead leaves have been accumulating in the gutter. So, Speedy hired three men to do the job. They started in the morning and, by two o’clock in the afternoon, I had gotten bored of watching them through the sliding door of our bedroom.
Out of boredom, I had an idea. I told Speedy to ask the workers if they could shape the branches and leaves of the mango tree into a dragon. If shrubs can be shaped into animals and all sorts of fanciful creatures, why not a mango tree? I heard him ask them, they laughed good-naturedly (you know, like I was totally crazy) and I just knew it wasn’t going to happen. I was resigned to my fate, no dragon in the garden, until Monday morning when we were inspecting how the tree looked after pruning.
That was when I saw the dragon. You can see it, can’t you?
Okay, let’s try the zoomed in version.
You can see the mouth right there. And zoom in a little closer…
… and the eye socket is visible.
I’m pulling your leg? Well, doesn’t it look like a dragon? Of course, this was something unintentional. The men who pruned the tree didn’t cut the branches to form a dragon shape. The “dragon” is shaped by several layers of tree branches and if you look at it from the sides, the optical illusion will be gone. No photoshopping here. None. ZERO.
But it’s uncanny, isn’t it? I wanted a dragon in the mango tree and I actually found one. 
Pretty close
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A dragon, indeed! And it’s facing your house. Parang binubugahan ng suwerte and bahay mo. hehehe.
oo nga! parang si Mushu hehehe
Ayos, happy na ako talaga!
Akala ko yung illusion na ulo nang dragon yung main branches with leaves, para kasing nakatingalang dragon
But I can see your little dragon. hehe
re: feng shui
Just curious, kung ilibing nang nakahiga yung dragon, then technically your house will not be on top of its head di ba?
No, it won’t. So the dragon’s position is correct hehehehe Well, so long as we don’t construct any extension on that side LOL
Dragon na nakahuli nang mas malaking palaka.
Ha? Asan yung palaka? LOL
Tignan mo yong last picture di ba hinahawakan niya ang palaka? At yong second picture may tao na may malaking gunting.Hindi ako lasing.
Hindi ko talaga makita ha. And I’m wearing my eyeglasses so the photos look super clear hehehe
connie/rey,
sali ako
con, yung tao nakatayo parang nakahawak sa gutter nyo. yung right hand nya and may hawak na gunting.
pero yung palaka di ko makita. nakawala yata LOL!
Ok. Kita ko yung gunting. Yung tao nakatayo sa dragon! And headless. But the prominent chest suggests… a female?
Yung palaka, hindi ko pa rin makita. LOL
If I recall my grandma’s words correctly, dragons under the house or a property meant there’s an underground stream/river or part of the water table is just below it. And it better be flowing water because that symbolizes that the dragon is alive and bringing good chi in your property.
Dragons in Chinese folklore were closely associated with rivers, and flowing water always meant good luck. So it’s not good if the natural flow of that underwater stream below your property gets disrupted.
This belief has been one of the arguments against the construction of the “egg dome” or the Chinese National Theater in Beijing. Feng shui experts said that the “egg” and its construction will disturb the ancient dragon that has been living under Beijing for centuries. What they really meant was an ancient river that flows underneath the Chinese capital.
miss con wow tindi ng imagination
Jhay, there’s a creek nearby which separates the subdivision from another subdivision. It’s above ground though although I don’t know if branches actually flow underground. But interesting, really, because the developers had this area surveyed by a feng shui man, who said there was a dragon in the area, before they decided to develop it.
Belle, ganyan talaga pag bored na bored na hahahaha
Well that confirms it. The creek nearby is most probably the dragon meant by the feng shui man.
I showed the pic of your mango/dragon tree to my grandma just this morning and she said it does look like a dragon.
She recommends a small pond with a fountain or little water north-east of the tree would keep the chi flowing.
Were you able to read my entry on the suikinkutsu that Speedy wants to install in the garden? It is flowing water — droplets but still flowing. My goodness, I should tell Speedy to hurry it up!
A mental exercise for Brain Fitness!
Talaga lumundag na ang palaka.
So you don’t see the frog too?
I don’t see it….the gunting,yes.