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Feng Shui Practice
Sand and water, the origin point, graves, direction
This is the largest section, and the one most readers come for. It is not a manual of rules to apply to your flat. It is a record of how a practitioner looks at a site: what gets measured, in what order, and what gets thrown out as noise.
The sequence follows the classical procedure. First, what a master is even looking for — which is not “good energy” but a place where a vein of energy stops. Then seeking the dragon: tracing that vein through the landscape until it comes to rest. Then setting the point on the place where it rests. Then sand and water, which are not “mountains” and “rivers” but two functional categories — what holds energy and what moves it. Then orientation, which is a reading of the whole site rather than a compass stuck on a door.
After that the section moves onto ground the classical method has to be stretched over: apartment blocks, public cemeteries, shops on a street, a site by the sea, a village built on water, a temple. Then families — graves, descendants, and what happens when relatives want the same feng shui. The final block is argument rather than instruction: a mountain cannot be pinned, a cut vein is not always a disaster, a missing corner does not damage your career, and feng shui cannot fix laziness.
What a master is looking for
The question behind every site reading.
- What Is Feng Shui? Revisited
- What Is a Feng Shui Master Actually Looking For?
- What Is a True “Dragon Point”?
Seeking the dragon
Tracing a vein until it stops — and what a cut vein means.
- The Core Secret of Seeking the Dragon and Setting the Point (Part 1)
- The Core Secret of Seeking the Dragon and Setting the Point (Part 2)
- The Dragon Vein: Passing the Canopy, Crossing the Gorge, Binding the Breath
- Is a Cut Dragon Vein Always Bad Luck?
- Where in the Strata Does Vein Energy Accumulate?
Setting the point
Where the vein stops, how the point is fixed, and how it is done on flat land.
- Precautions When Setting the Focal Point
- The Twenty-Four Sand Burial Methods, in Photographs
- The Four Point Methods — Hollow, Pincer, Breast and Mound — in Photographs
- The Focal Point in Flat Country
Sand and water
Two functional categories, not mountains and rivers.
- Telling Sand From Water (Part 1)
- Setting the Orientation in Natural-Science Feng Shui
- Can the “Sitting and Facing Fenjin” Theory Actually Be Applied?
- Reading Sand and Water in the Twenty-Four Directions
Cities and buildings
The classical method applied to concrete: blocks, floors, a dragon point in an office.
- Reading Feng Shui in an Apartment Block
- There Are True Dragon Points in City Buildings Too
- Reading a Public Cemetery
- Which Floor Is Auspicious?
Family, graves and descendants
Whether a grave reaches the living, and how far.
- How Do You Read Feng Shui for an Only Child?
- Does Feng Shui During Pregnancy Affect a Child’s Fate?
- Can Ancestral Graves Affect the Fate of Descendants?
- Ancestral Graves and the Family Home
- Are the Ming Tombs a Good Feng Shui Site?
Reading a site
A classical text annotated, a sea coast, a row of shopfronts.
- The Zangshu of Guo Pu: Text, Meaning and a Scientific Reading
- Energy Channels in the Mountains
- Reading a Site by the Sea
- Shopfronts on a Street
- Is There Such a Thing as Reverse Feng Shui?
What feng shui cannot do
The limits, argued case by case.
- Is Feng Shui a Science?
- Energy and Circulation
- Four Ounces, One Thousand Pounds
- Why You Cannot Pin a Mountain
- The Fortunate Live in Fortunate Places
- Feng Shui Cannot Fix Laziness
Specific situations
Corners, the green dragon, temples, water country, cremation, and family disputes over a grave.
- Missing Corners: Why the Theory Does Not Hold
- The Green Dragon and the White Tiger: Direction, Not Left and Right
- Reading the Feng Shui of a Temple
- Reading Feng Shui in Water Country
- Which Directions Want Sand and Which Want Water
- Bones and Ashes: Does Cremation Change Ancestral Influence?
- When Relatives Compete for the Same Feng Shui
- Sky Burial and Water Burial: Reading Feng Shui Without a Grave