Asian Journal- The Filipino-American Community Newspaper

(Part 1)

Many of you reading this article would benefit greatly from having a feng shui consultation done for your home or business, but perhaps it seems too mysterious or complicated for you to take the first step. This next series of articles will take you through the process of how we approach a feng shui consultation from the moment you make the request through the follow-up.

Feng shui is a vast, complex system of principles based on the laws of nature. Though you will be required to participate in the consultation by providing information about yourself, it is important to involve an experienced master to get the most out of your consultation.

The first step of any feng shui consultation is for the master to gather information and understand the client and the family members who are living in the home. I interview the client and ask if there are any concerns in specific areas that they want to focus on. What do they feel is creating an obstacle in their life?

The next step is to get familiar with the house and the surrounding property. For an on-site consultation, I visit the home and see it for myself. I draw out the floor plan, make notes of unusual features, and take compass readings to establish the orientation of each room in the house.

For an off-site consultation I need the above information from the client, which can be done by mail or e-mail. To "see" the house, I ask for comprehensive photos of every room from several angles, photos of what are seen when looking out of the windows and the doors, and photos of the yard.

For the floor plan, I ask my client to use graph paper. One square on the graph paper equals one square foot of their home. If they don’t know the square footage, I ask them to measure their rooms in footsteps and allow one square on the graph paper to equal one footstep. The floor plan should also tell me where doors, windows, beds, toilets, and other features of the house are located.

I then request the birth information (month, day, year) and a photo of each person living in the house to calculate the orientations for each resident. For more detailed information about each individual, providing the hour they were born allows me to calculate personal promoting colors, numbers, and symbols.