Sometimes a person loves their home and their neighborhood, except for one thorn in their side: an obnoxious or even litigious neighbor. The harassment can be enough to make a person want to move. And depending on how legalistic the feud has become, you may even have […]
Feng Shui appointments are usually scheduled at a time that is mutually possible for consultant and client. For a long time, my child custody schedule and Los Angeles traffic dictated when I would see a client back in the early days. And yet, are there objectively good […]
After recently advising a client about her 2025 Feng Shui Update, it became apparent that she was still placing a lot of emphasis on the 8 stars in her home. For the past 20 Year Period (2004-2024), the 8 Star in Period 8 was “king.” But […]
The Feng Shui Companion: A User-Friendly Guide to the Ancient Art of Placement was written by George Birdsall, published in 1995. In the opening pages, I felt like I was sitting down to chat with a colleague who I had not spoken to in decades. Reading how […]
Robert Sachs’ book, Nine Star Ki: Your Astrological Companion to Feng Shui, was first published in 2001. Interest in Feng Shui in the Western world was well-established, but hardly any Westerners had heard of Nine Star Ki. This is still the case in 2024, outside of Chinese […]
We now have 45 Presidents of the United States of America. We’re not counting Trump twice even though he will be the 47th President, like Grover Cleveland, due to non-consecutive terms. I became curious about the Nine Star Ki of our U.S. Presidents, given that I […]
I was listening to a podcast, where two famous men were joking about what kind of energy might be palpable in the home of “P. Diddy” aka Sean Combs. They both agreed that sometimes you can just walk through a space and feel residual bad energy, which […]
The Art & Science of Feng Shui: The Ancient Tradition of Shaping Fate by Henry B. Lin has always been on my short list of Recommended Reading. Now that I am re-reading dozens of Feng Shui books and posting reviews, I am delighted to be reminded of […]
Once a client finds out about the “locked phase,” some wonder how dire this phase is.
A Locked Phase is a cycle that every house or apartment will go through at some time or another. This cycle, for the Money Lock, can undermine financial luck of the […]
Back in the 1990’s, when Feng Shui started trending in the Western world, this mysterious practice of Feng Shui was commonly referred to as “the art of placement,” most notably by New Age practitioners. This description used to annoy me because it seemed to diminish or ignore […]
