Here’s a story when I first started practicing Feng Shui professionally. Back in 2015, I already went through years of feng shui schooling and training. I got my hands on all the ancient Feng Shui text I could find. I used almost all of my friends’ places as Feng Shui case studies. I was ready.…
The Chinese invented a lot things, highlighted in one of my favorite books by Robert Temple, titled The Genius of China (with an introduction by Joseph Needham). Botanical prospecting, gun powder, hermetically sealed rooms for ancient surgeries, advanced farming methods credited to Europeans centuries later and the invention of mirrors, just to name a few…
Editor’s Note: This is the foreword of Terah Kathryn Collin‘s 5th book: The Western Guide to Feng Shui for Romance: The Dance of Heart and Home, where she shares a chapter of her life that led her to learn Feng Shui and to live happily ever after. The hardcover book sells for $24.42 on Amazon,…
Never has there been a prior event in recorded history when so many people worked from home, as during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Because of the cost savings for so many companies, people continue to work from home even after the lockdowns lifted. This has had far reaching ramifications for “stay-cations” and home buying, where…
There are too many misleading feng shui information nowadays, both online and off. As a feng shui consultant, the most common ones I’ve seen is clients thinking that placing a celestial animal, crystal, water feature, etc. somewhere in their home is feng shui. No, that is NOT feng shui.
Over the decades I have been asked to write many “Top Ten” Lists, including tips for the bedroom, the kitchen, and the office. People want quick To-Do or To-Don’t list even though classical Feng Shui is more nuanced and individualized than what most Feng Shui fans realize. Here, I’m sharing a few of the oddest…
Many people who are fascinated by Feng Shui have heard that the bedroom is one of the most important rooms in a house, if not the most important room. And many equate love and sex with the bedroom, so it is a popular topic. The bedroom represents so much more than that. So in this…
Have you ever heard of this saying, “Feng Shui consultations MUST get paid”? If you desperately need help, can’t a Feng Shui master just come and help you for free? Or, if your friend knows how to practice Feng Shui, can’t you just ask him to help you for free? Traditionally, the answer is no.…
If you are familiar with the classical school of Feng Shui known as Xuan Kong Fei Xing (Flying Star School), you may be aware that we currently live in “Period 8” which ends in February of 2024. Immediately, Period 9 begins then and lasts until February 2044. Just like the last big shift from Period…
Do you have a Feng Shui deity statue at home? Maybe a Buddha, Kuan Yin, Kuan Yu, God of wealth, or other deities? If so, then here is some information on how it was used in Feng Shui in ancient times. If your statue(s) were consecrated using a ritual, and you don’t know the Feng…