Feng shui, explained plainly
Feng Shui Pack Editorial Team 
Feng shui does not forbid a television in the living room. What it offers is a set of arguments — not always consistent with each other — about where the screen should sit relative to the seating, the door, and the room’s main “commanding” spot. Form School treats it as a large reflective object to … Read more
A living room arranged for conversation puts seating in a closed loop facing inward, not lined against walls facing a screen, with at least one seat able to see the door. This is standard interior design as much as feng shui — the tradition simply gives that layout a name and a rationale. What does … Read more
Most feng shui guidance places the sofa against a solid wall, positioned so that whoever sits on it can see the room’s main door without being directly in line with it. This is called the commanding position. Where a solid wall isn’t available, the tradition offers workarounds rather than treating the layout as broken. What … Read more
Feng shui traditionally flags three bedroom door alignments as worth attention: a door facing the foot of the bed head-on, a bedroom door lined up directly with another door across a hallway, and a door aligned straight through to a window or a second door on the far wall. Each is read differently depending on … Read more
A headboard should sit against a solid wall, with the bed placed so the sleeper can see the bedroom door without lying directly in line with it. This is the “commanding position,” a Form School principle. Compass School adds directional preferences based on personal or house charts; BTB practice adds its own overlays. The schools … Read more
Most feng shui guidance says the space under a bed should be empty, or nearly so — no piles of shoes, no boxes of paperwork, nothing sharp, and never anything electrical. Where storage is unavoidable, the tradition prefers soft, folded items like linens over hard or broken objects. The reasoning given is about undisturbed rest, … Read more
The most common guidance is that a mirror should not directly face the bed, because the Black Sect (BTB) adaptation of feng shui holds that a mirror doubles whatever disturbance exists in a room, including the disturbance of a sleeping body. Classical Form School sources are far less concerned with mirrors specifically and focus instead … Read more
Most schools of feng shui put the bed where the sleeper can see the bedroom door from the bed without lying directly in line with it, with a solid wall behind the headboard and no overhead beam. The exact placement differs by school, but the reasoning given is almost always about sightlines, stability and a … Read more
Feng shui rules contradict each other because “feng shui” is not a single rulebook. It is several distinct traditions — Form School, Compass School, and the modern Western Black Sect (BTB) adaptation — that use different methods, ask different questions, and were never reconciled with each other. Most contradictions disappear once you know which school … Read more
A feng shui compass — properly a luopan — is a specialised instrument used in Compass School (Liqi) feng shui to take a precise directional reading of a building, then cross-reference that direction against rings of traditional data. Whether a reader needs one depends entirely on which school of feng shui is being followed, and … Read more
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