Feng Shui Pack Editorial Team

The bagua is an eight-sided diagrammatic map that practitioners overlay onto a room, a home, or a piece of land, dividing it into eight zones plus a centre, each linked to a theme such as career, family, health or wealth. How it is applied — and from where it is measured — differs sharply between … Read more

Chi (qi) is the term Chinese cosmology uses for a vital force or breath said to move through the body, the land and buildings alike. “Energy flow” is the English shorthand for how that force is said to circulate — smoothly and beneficially in some configurations, blocked or scattered in others. It is a concept … Read more

Black Sect, or BTB (Black Sect Tantric Buddhist) feng shui, is a school developed in the United States from the 1980s onward by Professor Thomas Lin Yun. It combines Tibetan Buddhist ritual elements with a simplified version of Chinese spatial concepts. Most feng shui advice written in English — the bagua map placed from the … Read more

Form School (Xingshi) judges a site by its physical shape — the hills, water, streets and building outlines around it — and reads chi as something that flows or stalls depending on that shape. Compass School (Liqi) instead calculates direction, using a compass called the luopan and the exact time a building was constructed or … Read more

Feng shui is a Chinese system for judging how a building or a room’s layout, orientation and surroundings affect the people living in it. It began as a practice for siting graves and houses using landscape and compass readings, and later split into rule-based schools that sometimes disagree with each other outright. What does “feng … Read more