Some of the most frequent comments on my blog come from people who are happy doing exactly the opposite of the particular Feng Shui enhancement I'm recommending. Essentially they want to know, "How does keeping the offending item or arrangement affect me?" Is it necessarily a bad thing to ignore …
Feng Shui Philosophy
Feng Shui: Know Your Numbers!
Did you know that your date of birth associates you with one of the numbers 1-9 in Feng Shui? Along with every other aspect of Feng Shui, the meaning and symbolism of the numbers 1-9 on the Bagua Map has developed over thousands of years, with implications for your life and personality. Here is …
Behind The Bagua: I Ching Insights To Deepen Your Understanding
Looking at the Feng Shui Bagua Map you will see a small three-line symbol called a trigram in each of the eight areas around the outside of the Map. These trigrams formed the basis of the Bagua Map, thousands of years ago. The trigram symbolism also forms the basis of the I Ching, the …
Feng Shui: Tools, Not Rules!
One of the things that gets in the way of people using Feng Shui is a fear that they will never be able to learn all of Feng Shui's "rules," so what's the point of trying. In fact Feng Shui is not a list of rules, but a set of tools. Feng Shui's precepts have developed over thousands of years …
Five Things That Make Feng Shui Special
“What makes Feng Shui special?” This question came up at an event I attended recently entitled “Feng Shui: Is It All In The Mind?” The hall at the Rubin Museum of Art was packed with folks who wanted to hear about how Feng Shui actually works, or as neuro-sociologist John Zeisel put it, what …