The Ultimate Feng Shui Guide
Thirty-eight short pages across eleven topics. Pick a topic on the left, or search the whole library.
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Key practical recommendations are labelled where their basis matters:
- Design-supported backed by environmental-design or building-science research.
- Traditional a classical feng shui teaching, offered as tradition.
- Applied observation a pattern noticed in practice, not a formal study.
- Preference a matter of taste. Take it or leave it.
All pages (38)
Foundations3 minutes
What feng shui is - and what it is not
The three-minute version, before the rest of the guide. No jargon. No outcome promises.
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Compass School4 minutes
What Compass School is, and why it sits next to Form School
Compass School in four minutes. What it does, why it sits next to Form School, and what to read next.
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Compass School4 minutes
What your Kua number means
Your Kua number sorts you into East or West group and assigns four supportive directions. Here is what each one is for.
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Compass School4 minutes
Three orientations the tradition weights most
Bed, chair, door, in that order of leverage. What the tradition reads in each, and one move to try this week.
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The Five Elements5 minutes
The five elements as a design language
The vocabulary layer. Materials, finishes, and shapes mapped to Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water.
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The Five Elements5 minutes
How to read a room in element terms
Four questions, two minutes per room. The diagnostic that turns the vocabulary into a working read.
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The Five Elements5 minutes
The cycles, made usable
Productive first, controlling in reserve. One rule that turns the cycles into a fix kit instead of a list to memorise.
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The Bagua5 minutes
What the Bagua is
Not a magic overlay. A structured noticing device. Eight sectors plus a centre, each tied to a direction, an element, and a life area.
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The Bagua5 minutes
The nine life areas
South to fame, north to career, southeast to money, centre to wellbeing. The nine sectors as the hub between the cluster and the per-area deep dives.
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The Bagua5 minutes
Compass method or front-door method
Compass or door. Pick one before anything else lines up. The Classical method and the BTB method explained without making you feel lost.
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The Bagua5 minutes
Missing corners and irregular homes
L-shapes, multi-storey homes, sectors that span two rooms, and the centre. The Bagua applied to the house you actually live in.
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Rooms6 minutes
How to read any room
A reading is a walk, not a verdict. Four things to read in each room, in order, plus the three lenses that sharpen the same walk.
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Rooms6 minutes
Bedroom, kitchen, and front door
The three rooms that compound hardest. Where the bed sits, where the stove sits, what the door opens onto. Layout, not facing.
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Rooms6 minutes
Living room, dining room, and home office
The active-use rooms reward zoning and restraint. Name the zones, set the main seat, layer the lights. Decoration finishes the room; design sets it up.
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Rooms6 minutes
Bathrooms, storage, and problem rooms
The rooms most people apologise for are the rooms most worth reading carefully. Containment, deliberate storage, and four short cases for the awkward ones.
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Schools of Feng Shui5 minutes
The four feng shui schools, in one map
Four schools, four questions, one each. The map that makes the rest of the guide stop sounding like a single muddled tradition.
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Schools of Feng Shui6 minutes
Form School vs Compass School
The two halves of Classical practice. Form reads the place; Compass reads the fit. Why Form comes first, and when each leads.
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Schools of Feng Shui6 minutes
Flying Stars, BTB, and when timing enters the picture
When timing enters the picture. The annual layer of Flying Stars and the alternate lineage of BTB, kept separate and held lightly.
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Cures5 minutes
What feng shui cures actually are
Cures are changes, not objects. Six levers decide whether any cure works, and the catalogue falls into six families.
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Cures6 minutes
Five-element cures, room by room
Which element cure belongs in which room. The productive route first, the six levers applied room by room.
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Cures6 minutes
Mirrors, plants, light, sound, and symbols
Five families, five short reads. Mirrors redirect. Plants refresh. Light brightens. Sound softens. Symbols carry meaning. Most of the work is subtraction.
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Cures5 minutes
Annual cures vs permanent fixes
Most cures stay. Two corners are checked each year. Three questions decide which is which.
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Money5 minutes
Feng shui and money without wishful thinking
Money is handled, not summoned. Four observable things, six levers, five places in the home where money is handled.
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Money6 minutes
The southeast wealth area and how to read it
A surface, not a shrine. Six short reads on the southeast: element, placement, visibility, proportion, timing, room use.
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Money6 minutes
Kitchen, stove, and money flow
Money walks in as groceries and walks out as cooked meals. The kitchen as a flow system, read through six levers.
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Money6 minutes
Desk, door, and business money
Door as the entry. Desk as the residence. The working zones where money paper arrives, lives, and gets handled.
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Healthy Home5 minutes
Healthy-home feng shui without health promises
Health is not a thing a room delivers. It is a set of conditions the home can support. Six conditions, six levers, two practices underneath: declutter and repair.
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Healthy Home6 minutes
Air, light, damp, and stale corners
Ventilation, daylight, humidity, and the corners every home forgets. Open one window today; get daylight on the face in the first hour you are awake.
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Healthy Home6 minutes
Bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom health check
Three rooms carry most of the home's health work: rest conditions, food safety, hygiene containment. Layout sits in the room cluster; this page is the health read.
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Healthy Home6 minutes
Plants, materials, cleanliness, and daily rhythm
Plants for visible life, not filtration. Materials that age well. Cleanliness as rhythm, not blitz. One broken thing fixed each week.
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Sister Disciplines5 minutes
What belongs to feng shui and what sits beside it
Place, person, moment, object. Four different questions, four different tools. Name which question you're asking before opening any of them.
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Sister Disciplines6 minutes
BaZi: birth data and personal timing
BaZi reads the materials a person arrived with at birth. Four pillars, eight characters, one day master. A working hypothesis, never a verdict.
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Sister Disciplines6 minutes
Qi Men Dun Jia: date selection and strategic movement
QMDJ reads the moment, not the building. Same nine-palace grid as Flying Stars, different question. A window for one discrete action, then the window closes.
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Sister Disciplines7 minutes
Crystals, symbols, and optional tools
A crystal is a coloured weighty object with a folk vocabulary attached. The aesthetic reading is yours; the energetic reading is the tradition's, attributed.
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Glossary5 minutes
Core feng shui terms
Foundation A to Z. Qi, yin and yang, sha qi, the Yi Jing, the practice itself. Twenty-one entries, each one click from its canonical home.
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Glossary7 minutes
Schools, directions, and the Bagua
School lineages, eight trigrams, Bagua arrangements, the luopan, the 24 Mountains, the celestial animals. Twenty-five entries linked to canonical homes.
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Glossary6 minutes
Cures, rooms, and the five elements
Five Elements, the productive and controlling cycles, command position, Eight Mansions directions, and the folk-traditional cure objects. Twenty-two entries, each linked.
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Glossary7 minutes
Timing and sister disciplines
Xuan Kong, Flying Stars, Periods, Li Chun, the cautious annual stars, the calendrical scaffolding, BaZi, and Qi Men Dun Jia. Twenty-three entries to close the guide.
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