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 […]
The idea for this article has been a long time coming, but it was prompted most recently by a client who has been having a difficult time selling a gorgeous new home she built where her childhood home had been. She then had little interest in anyone […]
Without exaggeration, I have answered thousands of Feng Shui questions over the last 30 years, from clients, students and strangers. I currently answer questions, like a “feng shui Dear Abby,” on Victor Cheung’s Feng Shui Nexus website.
Many of the questions have the same theme, but slightly different […]
