Feng Shui Overview

Feng Shui Brief History

Feng Shui, which translates to 'wind-water,' traces its origins back over 3,000 years to ancient Chinese philosophy. Originally developed to harmonize the natural environment with human life, it has since evolved into the art of arranging living spaces to align with the flow of energy, or 'chi.' Influenced by Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism, Feng Shui played a significant role throughout Chinese history, shaping city planning, architecture, and even the design of imperial palaces. Although its roots lie in a distant past, shaped by a language and way of life unfamiliar to many today, the wisdom of Feng Shui transcends cultural boundaries. Its principles, grounded in the universal human experience, have been embraced globally as a means to create harmony, balance and well-being in modern life.

Feng Shui is an environmental alignment

In essence, Feng Shui is an environmental alignment that deals with the energy of your surroundings. It uses principles like the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) and Yin-Yang balance to create harmonious spaces. It is a term often mentioned in interior design and at its most basic contemporary application, Feng Shui involves rearranging furniture and objects within your home to achieve a harmonious balance and flow of energy.

Chinese Astrology, also known as BaZi, serves as your unique personal blueprint. It can guide bespoke Feng Shui applications, aligning your personal energy with your surroundings to create a harmonious and balanced environment.

Brief overview of BaZi / Chinese Astrology

The traditional Chinese astrology system is based on a person's birth date, time and location and provides profound insights into one's character, life path and potential. It is based on the solar calendar thus location of birth is important. Known as as the Four Pillars of Destiny or BaZi, which translates to 'Eight Characters’. The eight characters are divided into four pillars, each corresponding to the year, month, day and hour of birth and each pillar consists of two components: one from the Heavenly Stems (external perceptions of a person in life) and one from the Earthly Branches (internal perceptions), creating a total of eight characters. These are influenced by the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) with either Yin or Yang energies. BaZi is used to analyse a person’s destiny, personality and significant life events by interpreting the relationships between these eight characters. By examining the balance of elements within a person’s BaZi chart, tailored guidance can be provided to optimize various aspects of life, including relationships, career, health and finances. It serves as a powerful tool for self-discovery, personal growth and achieving alignment with one’s natural energy, ultimately fostering harmony and abundance in life.

The number eight is central to BaZi structure and considered auspicious in Chinese philosophy as it symbolises balance and harmony, much like its symmetrical and infinite loop shape.  The number five in Chinese philosophy also has great significance with five elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) and five directions (North, East, South, West, Centre), it is universal with five senses and five flavours and symbolises balance, unity and the interconnectedness of the natural world.

How Feng Shui can influence your good fortune in life

Three influences that impact your good fortune in life:

Cosmic - Your gifts given to you at birth, your cosmic blueprint. You need the right environment to support and realise your true potential

Environment - You can change this to a certain extent using feng shui principles

You - your mindset includes your thoughts, feelings, beliefs and actions.

Bespoke Feng Shui solutions:

General Feng Shui tips from decluttering, cleaning windows and bringing in plants will make most places feel better. You can read here for more general feng shui tips. However more advanced forms of Feng Shui consider the shifting energies of a space over time taking into account the time when the property was built and the occupants unique energy map along with the annual change in energies.

Feng Shui Vantage Consultancy combines the property energy map and that of the client to identify influences and optimal feng shui solutions as well as suggested art / colours and crystals to create a beautiful environment that brings good fortune and healing. By understanding the energy of the property, key influences in spaces can be enhanced or discretely neutralised. For example a client could not understand why they didn’t want to cook and were just putting on weight until the energy map of the home was calculated, part of the kitchen section was associated with the misfortune star and following a suitable cure to suppress this negative influence in the form of a five element Pagoda placed discreetly in the kitchen, the energy started to shift and the client’s health improved. There was also a section with a double wealth entrance and was also a favourable section for this client based on their personal energy map and a beautiful chandler light was suggested to enhance this area along with a crystal blessed and aligned for this client to welcome more opportunities into the client’s life. This is where bespoke feng shui suggestions aligning your unique personal energy with the energy of your home can take your life to the next level and help bring in more opportunities, better health, better relationships and success in your personal and professional life, however most people will feel the benefit from some common sense general feng shui tips.

Read here for further inspiring examples of bespoke suggestions from Feng Shui Vantage Consultancy.

Feng Shui Vantage Consultancy approach:

We employ the use of classical feng shui using compass and flying stars analysis along with the client’s cosmic blueprint to design optimal recommendations and remedies to enhance our client’s good fortune in life along with some of our other strategies including powerful NLP tools to foster an abundant mindset and allow our clients to reach their highest potential thus working on all three influences in life - cosmic, environment and individual mindset. We strive to help our clients consciously create success through our strategies and supersede predetermined destiny rather empowering our clients to write their own future, create their own luck through choice and reach their highest potential.

Many people have experienced remarkable changes with Feng Shui transformations, here are some inspiring examples of successful transformations:

Oprah Winfrey's Montecito Estate: Oprah applied Feng Shui principles to her 65-acre estate, focusing on harmonious furniture placement, natural elements like water features and a balanced colour palette. She credited these changes with fostering positive energy that supported her aspirations and success

Bill Gates' Xanadu 2.0 Mansion: Bill Gates incorporated Feng Shui into his home design to enhance productivity and creativity. The layout, artwork placement and landscaping were all carefully curated to promote a seamless flow of energy, contributing to his focus and achievement

George Clooney film sets: Clooney is known to design his film set trailers according to Feng Shui principles, which he believes helps with fame, success and maintaining a good reputation

Home office productivity: A professional struggling with focus and progression repositioned his desk to face the door (a key feng shui principle for everyone) along with some bespoke suggestions. These changes created a sense of control and clarity, leading to improved productivity and a promotion at work

Common sense Feng Shui general suggestions

Declutter Your Space: Start by tidying up and focus on the front door. Clutter disrupts the flow of energy (or "chi") and can create mental blocks. Donate, recycle, or organize items you no longer need.

Welcome Energy Through the Front Door: The front door is considered the "mouth of chi." Keep it clean and inviting. Place a nice doormat and ensure the area is well-lit to attract good energy.

Balance the Five Elements: Incorporate wood, fire, earth, metal and water elements into your decoration for harmony. For instance, you can add plants (wood), candles (fire), stones (earth), metallic accents (metal), and an aquarium or fountain (water). Read here for more ideas on how to bring in the five elements

Arrange Furniture with Care: Position beds and sofas so you can see the door while seated or lying down. This creates a sense of security and control. Avoid having your back to the entrance.

Use Mirrors Wisely: Mirrors can reflect light and energy, but they should be placed thoughtfully. Avoid positioning mirrors to reflect your bed or front door, as this can disrupt energy flow.

Bring Nature Indoors: Fresh flowers, lush green plants and natural materials like wood or bamboo promote growth, vitality and connection to nature.

Activate the Wealth Area: In Feng Shui, the southeast corner of your home represents wealth and abundance. Add symbols of prosperity, like a money plant or a bowl of coins, to this area.

In summary:

You can transform and improve your life with Feng Shui insights to influence your environment.

Feng Shui Vantage Consultancy offers the perfect ally by providing bespoke applications uniquely aligned with your personal blueprint. These principles empower you to foster an abundant mindset and a profound sense of support, laying the groundwork for harmony, growth and a fulfilling future.

  • Your unique blueprint at birth based on your BaZi. This is your unique gifts you bring to the world and a good feng shui consultant can help you realise your gifts and reach your full potential.

  • Your home and surrounding area, type of building and interiors. You can influence this to a certain extent

  • Your thoughts, feelings, beliefs and actions. You can directly change this