Gabrielle Alizay writes in her book Feng Shui for the Rest of Us (page 225) that In China, western facing windows in office buildings are boarded up with wood. The reason behind this is the afternoon, western sun is very harsh. … you can experience severe lessons in any Life Value which has a room with western facing windows or receives rays from the afternoon setting sun. It’s nonsense No one with an ounce of sense builds office buildings with expens... Read Full Story

“O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”He chortled in his joy.— from Jabberwocky by Lewis CarrollDecember 1, 2009 dawns a new day for anyone trying to sort wheat from chaff in the feng shui market. Your job will be much easier! That day is when new rules set by the Federal Trade Commission go into effect to monitor claims and disclosures on websites.I’m sure you’ve read a site that contains gushing claims like the following:Master Blah-Bl... Read Full Story

“O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy. — from Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll December 1, 2009 dawns a new day for anyone trying to sort wheat from chaff in the feng shui market. Your job will be much easier! That day is when new rules set by the Federal Trade Commission go into effect to monitor claims and disclosures on websites. I’m sure you’ve read a site that contains gushing claims like the following: ... Read Full Story

“O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy. — from Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll December 1, 2009 dawns a new day for anyone trying to sort wheat from chaff in the feng shui market. Your job will be much easier! That day is when new rules set by the Federal Trade Commission go into effect to monitor claims and disclosures on websites. I’m sure you’ve read a site that contains gushing claims like the following: ... Read Full Story

If there was a “dashboard” of instruments to see how the planet is operating, it might look something like this. Illustration courtesy of Nature. Click the drawing to read the article. Read Full Story

If there was a “dashboard” of instruments to see how the planet is operating, it might look something like this. Illustration courtesy of Nature. Click the drawing to read the article. Read Full Story

Another myth from the inveterate fabulist Candace Czarny (artofplacement.com). She claims that feng shui thousands of years ago “was called Folk Feng Shui because each village had there [sic] own guidelines on how to use it.” Never mind that archaeologists discovering evidence of feng shui find consistency in application and theory, and their discoveries match the ancient textual evidence. It is easy to follow the development of core ideas, like the bagua, over time. The earliest wr... Read Full Story

Another bizarre (to say the least) idea from well-known crank Candace Czarny (artofplacement.com). The premise is that your desires — that is, your mindset — determine the electromagnetic field of a house. Czarny cannot tell the difference between the geomagnetic field and an electromagnetic field, so she could be suggesting that the power of your thoughts is enough to open the garage door and turn on the lights. Unfortunately the science is not yet ready to be turned into c... Read Full Story

None of the popular authors who write or lecture about Feng Shui and gardens know anything about the subject. They discuss Western landscape philosophy and call it Feng Shui for the garden. If they actually knew something about the subject they would first discussShan Shui (literally “mountain-water”) and how Chinese gardens developed from that art.Life and landscape are linkedLandscape design is not just a matter of putting up a building, planting trees and flowers... Read Full Story

Color spectrum in Western and Chinese scienceThis graphic shows the color spectrum used in traditional Chinese philosophy and science (authentic feng shui, medicine, etc.). It is based on wuxing (Five Element Theory).This is the same spectrum you learned in grade-school science. In Chinese science, the spectral colors are arranged as follows:yang chi — From red to yellow and orange (760 to 575 nanometers)yin shui — From green to violet-... Read Full Story