Remediation

This is the section readers want most and the one this archive treats most carefully. Popular feng shui sells adjustment as a fix: buy the object, move the bed, the problem goes away. Nothing here works that way. The question this section keeps asking is narrower and harder — what can actually be changed, by what mechanism, and how would you know whether it worked?

The first block sets the standard. A remedy has to be tested before it is sold, it has to sit inside time, space and person rather than in an object, and it has a ceiling that no amount of effort raises. The middle block applies that standard to specific problems: a marriage, a child who will not study, a promotion, a contract that has to be won, a gaming addiction. The last block is the boundary — when adjustment stops being adjustment and becomes a claim the method cannot support.

If you read one essay in this section, read The Ceiling of Adjustment. It is the argument the other twelve depend on.