What Traditional Feng Shui is NOT?
As I have shown in the articles about traditional Feng Shui, this exceeds the limits of an art which can be amateurishly practiced by anyone; instead, it tries to become, through the efforts of masters and practitioners, a real science.
The books issued here present, at the best case, pieces of this science; provided that they do not present an incomplete and misshaped version of what was the traditional Feng Shui at its origin. One example could be those booklets offering information (ready to be applied by anyone!) about the school of the 8 (or 9) aspirations, a school proposing standard solutions for each house, irrespectively for the year when it was built or the way it is placed in space.
For most enthusiastic people, the authors’ promises are very tempting; one can place a fish tank in the northern area and soon they will be reach. One can paint a southern wall in red and they will be famous from a day to the other (or they will be promoted by the boss at work). Well, if you have read at least some of the previous articles you can realize that things do not work that way.
I want you to understand me well. The booklets issued here (and on other countries as well, where Feng Shui is known due to the schools started during the ’70 decade) have a positive role, namely to introduce this (future) science and to present the basic principles (the five elements, the eight trigrams etc.) But beyond the informative elements, the respective booklets do not contain any valuable information or that would give good results.
If, however, you want to arrange yourself the space where you live, try the following “recipe”. According to my observations after the expertises I carried out, many times the female intuition was better than the book indications. The ladies who worked with our team had succeeded, only by following their heart, to choose the good spots in a house and even to place some objects that could be used also as remedies, in the places that I indicated, afterwards. This does not mean that intuition can replace Feng Shui though. In one of the first articles where I briefly presented the Feng Shui school, one of the levels was the intuitive one. It is a level which gives good but limited results.
When you approach a Feng Shui consultant, it would be better to test their experience / provenience before inviting them to your house. If you didn’t, however, do so and you see them walking through your house with a compass giving various indications about rearranging the furniture, you are clearly in front of a “practitioner” of Feng Shui from books.
Also, if they work on the plan of the house but uses an octogone or a square oriented in several ways (depending on the cardinal points or on the orientation of the main entrance) you have the same thing - Feng Shui from books.
Unfortunately we still have the wrong perception according to which you can take “ready-made” recipes from books, internet etc. that you can apply and have results. I am sure you have already understood this is not possible or, if there are results, these are mainly due to the inner energy of the respective persons. When the energy is not there, results can’t be sustained either.
For this reason, it is preferable to work with professionals in the field, just as, when we have a health problem, we approach a physician and not some acquintance who has read a book (or several) about medicine!
