Feng shui, explained plainly
Feng Shui Pack Editorial Team 
Feng shui, in its Form School tradition, treats a house sitting at the closed end of a T-junction — facing straight down the incoming road — as a poor position. The road is read as a channel that sends fast-moving chi directly at the building’s front door, an arrangement classical texts describe as a “secret … Read more
A “secret arrow” (sometimes “poison arrow”) is a Form School term for anything outside a home that sends a straight, fast line of force toward it — a road running head-on at the front door, the sharp corner of a neighbouring building, a pylon, a lamppost, or a T-junction. The concept is about shape and … Read more
Feng shui treats the approach to a house — the path, driveway or street a person walks or drives before reaching the front door — as the first place chi is read and directed. Classical Form School reasons about the shape and speed of that approach; Compass School adds the compass direction it faces. Neither … Read more
A dorm room is treated like any small, shared-adjacent space: the bed goes where the sleeper can see the door without lying directly in line with it, clutter is kept down because the room has no spare volume to absorb it, and anything genuinely fixed — a radiator, a built-in wardrobe, a window that will … Read more
In the commanding position principle used in Form School and carried into the Western Black Sect (BTB) adaptation, a bed should be placed so the sleeper can see the bedroom door without lying directly in its path. “Facing the door” means having a clear diagonal view of it, not sleeping with the feet pointed straight … Read more
In a shared house, feng shui works at two separate scales, not one. The private bedroom can be arranged fully, the way any single-occupant room is treated in the tradition. The communal areas — hallway, kitchen, living room, bathroom — belong to everyone, and no single housemate can apply a full bagua overlay or move … Read more
Feng shui traditions treat mirrors in small rooms as amplifiers — of light and usable space, but also of clutter, movement, and whatever they reflect back into the room, including a bed or a door. The BTB adaptation is the most cautious about bedroom mirrors specifically; classical Form School is less concerned with room size … Read more
In a small room, the commanding position means placing the bed, desk or sofa so its user can see the door from where they sit or lie, without being directly in line with it — even if that means the piece sits diagonally across a corner, a few inches from a wall, or facing a … Read more
Feng shui treats storage as a question of movement and accumulation, not aesthetics: the tradition holds that objects piled where people walk, under a bed, or blocking a door interrupt the flow of chi through a room. In a small home, where there is less floor and less air to begin with, this concern is … Read more
A home with no hallway means the front door opens directly into a living room, kitchen or open-plan space, with nothing in between. In feng shui terms, most schools treat the entry as the point where movement and air first enter a home, so the fix is usually about creating a sense of arrival — … Read more
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