When it comes to apartment buildings, they are often more complicated to analyze than a house. The house generally has one family inside or an extended family and the whole house is viewed as one unit, having one orientation. Then, each room can be micro-managed as […]
Periodically, clients ask me questions about the difference between magnetic North and True North, which is also sometimes called Geographic North. I now routinely direct people to the National Geophysical Data Center Website and other sources of information on-line, for a more thorough and scientific explanation of […]
The word common to both terms sheng qi and sha qi is “qi.” This word is sometimes written “ch’i” and is pronounced like “chee.” While qi is often described as “energy,” we learn in deeper studies of Chinese metaphysics that qi is beyond the concept of “energy” […]
Many years ago I read a book by a Feng Shui author, who wrote that it could take a decade to know if one got an accurate Feng Shui audit. Why would this author say that? This is because of that saying “Time will Tell.” […]
It was brought to my attention by one of my Newsletter subscribers, that another practitioner’s website is denouncing the use of a compass in Feng Shui!
One of her website articles puts forth the argument that since the magnetic declination is always changing, that using a compass cannot […]
The term “chong” alludes to opposition. And the Chong Day can be a day when your personal energies are not as strong as other days. This day will repeat every 12 days, perpetually, and you can refer to a Chinese Solar calendar for those repeating days.
The […]
Feng Shui is usually described as an ancient practice that is several thousand years old. And yet lately I have heard of at least two Chinese practitioners who are now saying it is not as old as people generally think it is. One man’s article on the […]
The Fu Mu San Gua house is also referred to as the “3 Period” House or the “Parent String” house. It is a special house type that is often taught as its own case study course in classical Feng Shui curriculums. We have 144 different flying star […]
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I just got through reading a Houzz.com article about stepping back and leaving certain spaces alone, from a design stand point. This also appeals to my organizing sensibilities. Not every nook and cranny needs to be filled or used functionally. The article […]
When I first started studying feng shui, I was living in a house that indicated strongly a propensity for the occupants to argue. That we did. It also indicated based on the location of our bed, that I would be vulnerable to a miscarriage, which I did […]
