Modern-day Feng Shui practitioners are indebted to Dr. Stephen Skinner for writing some of the best books on our topic. In The Original Eight Mansions Formula he translates a classic text from 1739 by Chang Ping Lin and brings us an historical perspective to […]
Feng Shui, the art and science of determining how your surroundings affect you, includes a vast body of theories and practices. But some areas include just good common sense and recognizing that prolonged extremes in your environment could be harmful to your health and well-being.
Under the […]
Five Element Theory pervades all of Chinese metaphysics and medicine. The Five Elements are often called “Agents” or “Transformations” because they are in flux and one yields to the other within what is called the Productive Cycle of the Elements. These Five Elements (Water, Wood, Fire, […]
In feng shui theory, each part of the house can be ranked in order of its importance or affect on the occupants. The very center of the house can be seen as the “guts” or navel point. Often it includes a hallway or pass through area. The […]
Water, the universal solvent, is the “shui” of Feng Shui. Used for so many purposes, water is actually one of five elements used as a remedy in Five-Element-Theory. Usually when we need water as a remedy in a house, the more water used, the better the […]
In traditional feng shui, we learn that each of the eight basic directions is associated with parts of the body, a family member, an element and more symbolism than we can explore in a single article.
When a direction within your home or work place has something […]
The Tai Chi (Yin-Yang) symbol is a circle split in half, with a thick white part narrowing into a black section which widens towards the white part on the other end. The black part represents feminine energy and the white part represents the masculine, as in night […]
The information in most feng shui books focuses on the details in our homes and businesses and this makes a lot of sense since: a) we are affected more directly by our immediate environment and b) we generally have more control over changing our immediate personal surroundings […]
When reviewing a flying star chart, we try to interpret the impact on occupants. A flying star chart is a template for interpreting energy in a house based on when it was built combined with compass alignment. We compare the mountain star and the water star, noted […]
We have that funny saying, “Happy Wife, Happy Life.” The implication is that if a husband makes his wife happy, then everyone, including the husband, is supposedly happy. With Feng Shui in theory and practice, what is good for the parents is good for the children. This […]
