The term “Grand Duke” refers to a negative type of energy which comes to certain directions and it can make an area of a building or property accident-prone. It is volatile energy, the Chinese term for it being “Tai Sui.” It’s pronounced like “tie sway.” […]
The Sui Po Direction changes from year to year and it is always a direction which opposes the direction known as the Tai Sui direction for the year. For example, in 2011, the Year of the Rabbit was associated with east. And the direction that opposes […]
This list of classical Feng Shui terms has very brief descriptions for each term. For a more elaborate explanation of any of these terms, I can direct you to articles I’ve written or excerpts from my books.
Sitting Side: The back side of a property.
Facing Side: The […]
It’s one thing to plan and execute an organized pantry and another thing to organize for a true emergency. In any given part of the country, or world, your local area or region may have predictable weather disasters like hurricanes or tornadoes or just severe winters or […]
When we think of a “locked” house, the image of a literally secure house comes to mind; one that you can only enter by breaking a lock to get in. This term “locked” house or “locked phase” has a totally different meaning in feng shui theory.
The […]
Most Xuan Kong Flying Star Schools teach that you can evaluate a house based on its compass orientation in conjunction with the year of Construction. The house then takes on a “Flying Star” chart and is associated with having been built in a certain Period. These different […]
Firstly, I have to mention that by the time we get to making adjustments inside a home, we are working with the “small” Tai Chi, compared to the larger environment, which might be called the “big” Tai Chi.
Historically, Feng Shui principles were used to plan cities and […]
I have fielded a lot of questions about the impact of such things as outside water features, fire pits, and a multitude of landscaping considerations. But what about the placement of trash cans? Like bathrooms, we’ve all got trash cans. If you live in an apartment building, […]
This piece on the clothes closet can be applicable to men as well as women, but I do think it is women who fret about their closet disorganization more than men and I would be willing to bet that, in general, women have more clothes than men.
There […]
The term “out of trigram” refers to a house which has an indecisive compass reading. The trigrams are related to the eight basic directions of North, South, East, West, Northwest, Southwest, Northeast and Southeast. Within those eight basic directions, there are three more subdivisions, each […]
