The guide
The Ultimate Feng Shui Guide
Thirty-eight short pages. No fortunes for sale. Pick the path that matches what you came here for, or browse the whole library further down.
Three labels appear across the guide: Tested has evidence behind it, Traditional comes from the tradition, Preference is yours to decide.
Start here
If you have never read a feng shui page before, read these in order.
A first-time reader needs three things: a baseline of what feng shui is and is not, one personal number that the rest of the guide refers back to, and a short note on how this site approaches the tradition. About thirty minutes of reading, no jargon, no purchase.
- What feng shui actually isThe two-minute baseline. What the practice does, what it refuses to do.
- Find your Kua number with the free calculatorYour personal directions, used by Compass School pages later in the guide.
- What your Kua number meansThe companion read for the calculator result.
- How this guide is writtenThe editorial stance: practitioner voice, no outcome promises, sources named.
Read by room
Walk your home one room at a time and see what feng shui actually reads in each.
Most readers arrive with a specific room in mind. Start with the room-reading method, then jump to the rooms that compound hardest. Each guide page pairs with a Space page for the same room, so you can move from theory to a working checklist.
- How to read any roomThe four-thing walkthrough that the rest of the room work runs on.
- Bedroom, kitchen, and front doorThe three rooms that compound hardest. Bed, stove, door.
- The bedroom space pageWorking checklist version of the bedroom read.
- The kitchen space pageWorking checklist version of the kitchen read.
- Bathrooms, storage, and the awkward roomsThe rooms most people apologise for, read carefully.
Read by life area
Start from what you want to work on (money, health, love) and read the pages tied to that sector.
Feng shui maps nine life areas onto the floor plan. Pick the area you care about, read the sector page, then follow into the dedicated cluster where the work lives. The Personal Feng Shui Compass is the upcoming tool that ties your Kua to these sectors; the waitlist is open.
- The nine life areas of the BaguaThe hub map. Pick a sector, follow it to the deep dive.
- Feng shui and money without wishful thinkingThe money cluster entry point. Flow, care, visibility, preparation.
- Healthy-home feng shui without health promisesConditions a home can support, not medical claims.
- Love as a life areaThe sector page for the southwest and the relationships read.
- Join the waitlist for the Personal Feng Shui CompassThe tool that pairs your Kua number to each life area. Waitlist only.
Learn the systems
The theory layer, in the order that makes the rest of the guide stop sounding muddled.
Feng shui is four schools, not one. This path walks the calculative and observational halves of Classical practice, the elements vocabulary, the Bagua map, and the disciplines that travel beside feng shui. Read these when you want to know why the moves work, not just which move to try.
- The four feng shui schools in one mapThe taxonomy. One question per school.
- The five elements as a design languageThe vocabulary layer beneath every cure.
- What the Bagua actually isThe map layer. A structured noticing device, not a magic overlay.
- Compass School, and why it sits next to Form SchoolThe calculative half of Classical practice.
- What sits beside feng shui, and what does notBaZi, Qi Men Dun Jia, crystals. Four tools, four questions.
Fix a problem
You already know what feels wrong. Start with cures and the problem-room pages.
A cure is a small deliberate change to a room, judged by six levers. This path opens with what a cure actually is, the room-by-room cure kit, and the pages that handle the rooms people most often want to fix: bathrooms, storage, missing corners, and irregular floor plans.
- What feng shui cures actually areCures as changes, not objects. The six levers.
- Five-element cures, room by roomWhich element cure belongs in which room.
- Mirrors, plants, light, sound, and symbolsThe five cure families, five short reads each.
- Bathrooms, storage, and the awkward roomsThe rooms most worth reading carefully.
- Missing corners and irregular homesL-shapes, multi-storey homes, sectors that span two rooms.
Use the glossary
Lost on a term? Jump in here and we will hand you back to the canonical page.
Four scannable A-to-Z pages covering every term that recurs in the guide. Each entry links back to the cluster page where the topic is properly explained, so you can use the glossary as a side door into the main reading.
- Core feng shui termsQi, yin and yang, sha qi, the Yi Jing. Foundation A to Z.
- Schools, directions, and the BaguaTrigrams, the luopan, the 24 Mountains, the celestial animals.
- Cures, rooms, and the five elementsThe productive and controlling cycles, command position, cure objects.
- Timing and sister disciplinesFlying Stars, Periods, Li Chun, BaZi, Qi Men Dun Jia.
Browse the full library
All eleven clusters, in reading order. Use this when you already know what you want.
Foundations
What feng shui is, what it is not, and the few ideas everything else uses.
One page on the foundations: what feng shui is, what it is not, and the small set of ideas the rest of the guide stands on.
Compass School
The calculative half of Classical feng shui, made scannable.
Three pages on the calculative half of Classical practice: what Compass School is, your Kua number and four directions, and where to put the bed, the chair, and the door.
The Five Elements
The vocabulary beneath every feng shui move.
Wu Xing as a design language in three pages: the materials vocabulary, four questions for reading a real room, and the two cycles made usable as a fix kit.
The Bagua
The Bagua as a map layer laid over a real floor plan.
Four pages on the Bagua: what the map layer actually is, the nine sectors named one by one, how to orient it (compass or front-door), and what to do when the floor plan is not a clean rectangle.
Rooms
The room-by-room layer, read as a walk and not a verdict.
Four pages on the room-by-room layer: how to read any room as a walk-not-verdict, the three highest-stakes rooms (bedroom, kitchen, front door), the active-use rooms (living, dining, home office), and the leakage and awkward cases.
Schools of Feng Shui
A practitioner's map of Form, Compass, Flying Stars, and BTB.
Three pages on how the major schools fit together: the four feng shui schools in one map, the Form vs Compass divide that runs through Classical practice, and where Flying Stars and BTB sit alongside the core.
Cures
Cures as practical adjustments, read through six levers.
Four pages on cures as practical adjustments, not magic objects. What a cure actually is, the five-element cure per room, the five cure families, and the rule that decides what rotates each year vs what stays put.
Money
Money as flow, care, visibility, and preparation.
Four pages on the places in the home where money is handled: the southeast sector, the kitchen, the desk, and the door. No promises, no activation, no magic. The six levers applied to flow, care, visibility, and preparation.
Healthy Home
Health as conditions a home can support, not promises a room can make.
Four pages on health as conditions the home supports, with no medical claims: the four environmental conditions (air, light, damp, stale corners), the room-by-room health read, and plants, materials, cleanliness, and the daily rhythm.
Sister Disciplines
What sits beside feng shui, and what does not.
Four pages on the traditions that travel beside feng shui. Feng shui reads the home. BaZi reads the person. Qi Men Dun Jia reads timing. Crystals are optional cultural objects. Four different questions, four different tools.
Glossary
A scannable A to Z for terms that come up across the guide.
Four scannable glossary pages that rescue a reader who got lost on a term and hand them back to the canonical page where the topic is properly explained. Core terms, schools and Bagua vocabulary, cures and elements, timing and sister disciplines.