Common Mistakes

Ignore any claim presented as a universal rule when it is really one school’s opinion, any promise of an outcome (wealth, love, a job), and any instruction to buy a specific object to achieve one. These three habits account for most of what circulates online, and none of them are how the tradition actually works. … Read more

The most common mistake is treating the bagua as a single, agreed-upon system rather than admitting there are at least two incompatible versions of it in circulation — one anchored to compass direction, one anchored to the front door — and then applying whichever one a blog post happened to show, without knowing which school … Read more

“Buy this lucky object” is bad feng shui advice because feng shui, in every school that has produced written texts, describes relationships — between a building’s form, its openings, light, clutter and how people move through it — not a checklist of items. An object bought in isolation changes none of that, and no serious … Read more

The mistake most consistently named across English-language feng shui writing is a bed placed so the sleeper cannot see the bedroom door from it — no “command position,” in the phrase used by the BTB (Black Sect Tantric Buddhist) adaptation of feng shui. Practitioners in that tradition treat this as the single most correctable layout … Read more