Feng Shui Pack Editorial Team

Feng shui treats wooden furniture as a carrier of the Wood element, associated with growth, flexibility and upward energy. In practice this means the tradition favours solid wood with visible grain over painted or heavily lacquered pieces, and it pays close attention to shape, placement and what material sits next to it — not to … Read more

In feng shui’s five-element system (Wu Xing), wood is represented by timber and plant fibre, fire by candles and triangular or pointed forms, earth by ceramic, brick, and stone, metal by iron, brass, steel, and other metals, and water by glass, mirrors, and anything reflective or fluid. These are correspondences drawn by tradition, not properties … Read more

Feng shui treats a candle flame as a concentrated form of the fire element, one of the five elements (wu xing) that both classical and modern schools use to describe how a room behaves. Candles are generally treated as a useful way to add that element in small, controlled amounts — with specific cautions about … Read more

Feng shui traditions generally treat what a picture shows as more significant than how well it is painted. A calm landscape, a body of still water, or a pair of birds is read differently from a solitary figure, a wilting flower, or a scene of conflict — because the image is thought to set a … Read more

Feng shui does not treat clocks as neutral décor. Most published guidance — largely from the Western Black Sect (BTB) adaptation — holds that a clock’s position, sound and visibility affect a room’s chi (qi), and gives specific rules on which wall it belongs on, whether it should be visible from bed, and whether it … Read more

In the tradition, wind chimes are said to disperse or redirect chi (qi) — the moving air and sound break up stagnant energy in a corner, a corridor, or a spot where a sha chi (“killing energy”) is thought to collect, such as the line facing a sharp corner or a long straight hallway. What … Read more

Feng shui treats an aquarium as a concentrated dose of moving water, and water is one of the five elements associated with wealth and career flow in several schools. The tradition holds that a tank should be clean, well-placed, and never in a bedroom — but none of this is universal, and the popular “eight … Read more

Feng shui treats water as one of the five elements, and moving water indoors — a tabletop fountain, an aquarium, a wall-mounted feature — is read as an active symbol of that element rather than a neutral decoration. What it is said to do, and where it should or shouldn’t go, depends heavily on which … Read more

Most feng shui teaching treats dried plants as carrying “dead” or spent chi and generally advises against them, particularly in bedrooms. Artificial plants are viewed more mildly — acceptable as visual stand-ins for greenery where real plants cannot survive, provided they are clean, undamaged, and not mistaken for a substitute in a spot the tradition … Read more

Certain houseplants — the jade plant, pothos, lucky bamboo, peace lily and snake plant among them — are the ones that keep appearing in feng shui advice, mainly because they are hardy, tolerate low indoor light, and are read within the tradition as steady, upright, and long-lived. The reasoning given is symbolic, not medical or … Read more