Explore traditional Feng Shui and its principles of Yin Yang, Five Elements, form, direction, environment, and spatial relationships. Discover how traditional Chinese practitioners understand the relationship between people, surroundings, and the flow of Qi.
A Practical Way to Understand the Feng Shui of Your Home To read your home through Feng Shui, start with what is physically in front of you: the shape of the building, the way the surroundings approach it, the main direction, and how movement enters and travels through the space. Only after observing these things…
Understanding Irregular Home Shapes Through Traditional Feng Shui A Feng Shui missing corner is a section of a home’s floor plan that is noticeably absent when the building is viewed as a complete directional form. In traditional practice, the location of that absence matters because each direction is associated with a different trigram, natural quality…
Reading Your Home Through the Eight Directions The Bagua is a traditional Feng Shui framework that divides space into eight directional sectors, each associated with a trigram, natural qualities, family relationships and areas of human life. The eight directions are East, Southeast, South, Southwest, West, Northwest, North and Northeast, with the center treated as the…
Reading the Visual Language of Your Home The shapes around your home can affect Feng Shui because traditional practice pays attention to how form, direction, distance, movement, and visual dominance interact with a residence. A sharp corner, straight road, narrow building gap, large wall, or curved roadway does not carry exactly the same meaning in…
Five External Forms Worth Paying Attention to Around a Home Five common Feng Shui forms are worth checking around your home: sharp corners or pointed structures, direct roads or pathways, narrow gaps between buildings, oppressive or overly close structures, and reverse-curving roads or waterways. Traditional practitioners may describe these conditions with terms such as Sha,…
How Traditional Feng Shui Reads Meaning in the Shapes Around You Hu Xing He Xiang, often translated as “shape and symbol” or “calling the form and image,” is a traditional way of observing the physical forms surrounding a home and considering what those forms may suggest. A building may resemble an animal, a weapon, a…
Reading Feng Shui Through Form, Shape, Sand and Water Jin Suo Yu Guan Feng Shui is a traditional Chinese approach that places strong attention on the physical environment around a property. Rather than beginning with decorative objects or a generic floor-plan chart, it examines form, shape, height, openness, roads, buildings, and the traditional relationship between…
Two Traditional Ways of Reading a Feng Shui Environment Form School and Compass School Feng Shui approach the same environment from different angles. Form Feng Shui begins with what can be observed—landscape, buildings, roads, openings, shapes, distance, and the way Qi appears to move—while Compass-based Feng Shui places greater emphasis on direction, orientation, trigrams, calculations,…
Two Different Sides of Traditional Chinese Feng Shui Yin House Feng Shui and Yang House Feng Shui are two different applications of traditional Chinese Feng Shui. Yin House Feng Shui concerns burial grounds and ancestral resting places, while Yang House Feng Shui concerns homes, workplaces, and other spaces occupied by living people. Their purposes overlap…
Feng Shui Begins With the Environment Around You Feng Shui is a traditional Chinese practice of studying how people live within their surrounding environment, with particular attention to Qi, physical form, direction, space, and the relationship between them. It is not simply a method of placing lucky objects in a house. Traditional Feng Shui first…
