Classical Feng Shui for Beginners

Analyze the exterior environment by examining mountains and water relative to the house, guided by the four celestial creatures (green dragon, white tiger, red phoenix, black tortoise) to assess formations.

Explore how water and mountains interact in classical feng shui, identifying favorable dragon spots, belt water, and flowing water forms while assessing sound, clarity, and curvature for long term harmony.

Assess exterior feng shui by traffic, noise, and road orientation around a house, including a T-junction, and favor square or rectangular plots with an empty front.

Recognize the seven external forms, especially the clashing form. Identify how a straight route toward the house creates unfavorable energy.

Identify how a neighboring wall perpendicular to your house creates a negative form called the blade or plate form. Its effect grows with distance and depth.

The sky chopping negative form appears as a building split into two blocks facing a gap, with severity increasing as the gap narrows and affecting any side of the house.

Explore the negative forms in feng shui, such as the house corner and scissors-like intersections from y-shaped or v-shaped roads, and identify unfavorable forms formed by two joining walls.

Identify how a house facing a curved or reverse bow road creates negative forms, with roof ridge alignment, piercing roofs, and sharp shapes signaling fire-element impact on affected floors.

Assess the house and its surroundings within 1000 feet to identify negative forms and nearby facilities, and ensure a balanced facade, stable roof, and a square or rectangular floor plan.

Understand how the main door acts as the mouth of the house, guiding chi in and signaling energy quality; avoid external negative forms like lampposts and pillars that obstruct qi.

Examine interior feng shui factors by evaluating the main door, the master bedroom, and the kitchen, and identify seven common negative forms affecting health, wealth, and harmony.

Learn how the bedroom, ideally rectangular, uses bed placement against a solid wall and avoids sharp corners, beams, doors facing each other, and mirrors to protect health and wealth.

Apply feng shui to the kitchen: place the stove against a solid wall and away from the sink, water, and door. Avoid center placement and beams for health and harmony.

Use the eight mansions method in feng shui to determine house facing and sitting directions, map the floor plan into nine palaces, and locate auspicious sectors for key rooms.

Learn a practical 10-step DIY feng shui evaluation, starting with exterior landforms and a site survey, then assessing the house’s main door, direction, floor plan, and interior layout for harmony.