Essays from the practice.
Patient writing on Feng Shui, BaZi and Qimen - one essay at a time.
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The Bagua Map, and Why It Is Not Used Here
It is the single most recognisable image in Western Feng Shui, an eight-part grid laid over your floor plan. The classical schools do not use it, and the reason is worth knowing.
Read essay →The Luo Pan: The Instrument at the Centre of It
A Feng Shui compass looks like an object of mysticism. It is closer to a slide rule, and understanding what is written on its rings tells you what the practice actually is.
Read essay →Money Plants, Lucky Bamboo and Other Favourites
Almost every Indian home has one, kept in a corner for prosperity. Here is what the classical practice actually thinks of them, which is neither dismissal nor endorsement.
Read essay →Which Floor Should You Live On?
Buyers agonise over the floor number, usually for the wrong reasons. What the classical practice cares about is not the number at all.
Read essay →Feng Shui for Selling a Home
Most Feng Shui asks how a home serves the people in it. Selling reverses the question entirely. Now the home has to appeal to someone who has not arrived yet.
Read essay →When to Change Jobs
The decision is rarely whether. It is usually when, and that is a question about timing rather than courage, which is precisely what a chart can speak to.
Read essay →The Gate, the Path and the Approach
Long before a reading reaches the front door, it reads the walk up to it. What happens outside a home shapes everything that arrives inside.
Read essay →Which Practice Do You Actually Need?
Feng Shui, BaZi or Qimen. People often arrive unsure which one answers their question, and the choice matters less than they fear. Here is the plainest way to tell.
Read essay →The Year Ahead: What an Annual Outlook Covers
Every February the energy of the year turns over. An annual reading is not a prediction of what will happen to you. It is a map of the terrain you are about to walk.
Read essay →How Long Before Any of This Works?
The fair question everyone wants to ask and few do. An honest answer involves no dramatic timelines, and it separates what changes quickly from what does not.
Read essay →Water Features: Where Water Belongs
Water is the one element people are most eager to add and most likely to place badly. A fountain in the wrong sector does not help. It amplifies.
Read essay →Feng Shui for a New Baby
Expecting parents want to do everything right, which makes them unusually vulnerable to being sold things. Here is what genuinely helps, and what is worth ignoring.
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