When the Water Element is needed for a Feng Shi adjustment, real H2O is best. Clean, circulating water is the ideal. However, there are times when real water cannot be used, whether it is a fountain or an aquarium. Some people have pets or children who would […]
When the lay person thinks about the “wood” element, they may think of brown wooden furniture. They may think of the brown color of branches. But it’s the green leaves we should focus on. When the Wood Element is needed as an elemental remedy for […]
If I am accused of being too wordy, I will plead guilty to that charge. Sometimes, however, “a picture paints a thousand words.” When I recommend “earth colors” to clients, they often get a completely different idea, even when I rattle off “any shades of yellow, orange or brown.” So, to be brief: Here are […]
More than once I have had a potential client schedule a 
consultation with me, only to cancel before we meet. They get cold feet because someone has filled their head with erroneous preconceived notions about what goes on in a feng shui evaluation.
Unfortunately, some people get the […]
What is an Out of Trigram House?
This is a house type that has an indefinite compass reading based on when it was built. In this instance, the phrase alludes to a trigram being a direction and “out of” implies that the compass direction is outside of one of the defined directions. If a house is […]
Many of us are familiar with the famous quote by Henry David Thoreau, or some variation of it: that “most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Recent studies have also found that the average American has only one true friend or confidante. And how do you feel […]
What inspired this article was perhaps the hundredth time I have been asked what color clothing a person should wear, based on their “Ming Gua” or Personal Trigram. This is the Feng Shui-equivalent of wearing a certain color based on your zodiac sign. In a nutshell: […]
Others in my age bracket will remember fondly the Flip Wilson show, where one of his characters was Geraldine. Geraldine had several hilarious tag lines in the comedy skits, including “the Devil made me do it” and “what you see is what you get.”
The phrase […]
When teaching beginner students about Feng Shui, even I have been guilty of referring to Qi (ch’i) as “energy.” Usually, I offer a handful of descriptions to bring more dimension to this elusive concept of Qi, by also describing it as “life force” energy, or “air currents.” In truth, we should be able to describe […]
