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At the Londoner Grand in Macau, he talked over the feng shui of his home with the Hong Kong feng shui consultant Clement Chan and told him his bedroom faces west. Chan said a west-facing bedroom helps business and conversation.
West is Dui, the lake, the trigram the tradition ties to speech and gladness. Counted from the birth year, as the Eight Mansions school does, a man born in 1975 belongs to Dui himself: the west is his Fu Wei, the direction of steadiness.
A room turned to one’s own direction is held to settle the one who sleeps there; with Dui, the tradition adds ease in talk and in dealings.
For its Taiwan headquarters, Constellation, Nvidia took a site in Beitou-Shilin; Taipei’s mayor says the company told him Jensen Huang liked it very much, one reason being that it lies by the river.
Water before a site is the Form School’s first test of it: where water passes in front, chi slows and comes to rest, and the building stands on the side that gathers.
A site with water before it is held to gather prosperity and to steady the people who work there.
She told Curly Tales that she fixes the feng shui of every hotel room as soon as she checks in: she moves the furniture around and puts away whatever does not please her eye.
The Form School reads a room from the bed and the chair: what stands behind them and what lies before them. Clutter in view is where chi stalls; putting it away opens the bright hall before the bed.
A room made one’s own, with a clear view from the bed, is held to give steadier rest, even for a night or two.
At Chase Center, their home since 2019, the Warriors’ locker room is one spacious circular room, a locker for each player around its rim.
The Form School asks first whether a space gathers chi. A ring with its center left clear gathers it, the way hills ring a bright hall, and no seat turns its back on another.
A room that gathers is held to hold its people together as well; the tradition ties it to accord among those who share it.
For the Clippers’ new arena, owner Steve Ballmer wanted The Wall: 51 uninterrupted rows of seats, nearly vertical, behind the basket nearest the visitors’ bench, the one the visiting team shoots at in the second half.
The Form School wants a mountain at your back and open ground in front, with any rise ahead low and at a fair distance. In the second half The Wall stands behind the Clippers as they defend, and rises steep and close before the visitors as they shoot.
A height at your back is held to support you; the same height pressing close in front is held to unsettle whoever has to face it.
Before opening in 2005, Disney turned the park’s front gate 12 degrees and put a bend in the walkway from the train station, on a feng shui consultant’s advice.
A straight path aimed at a door sends chi rushing past it; a bend slows it so it gathers at the entrance. The aim, the report says, was that chi not slip past the gate and out to the sea.
The tradition ties an entrance where chi gathers to prosperity, which is what the consultant said the new angle was for.
Her office desk faces out, so her back is never to the door, and her feng shui consultant re-seats her by the year: “Depending on the year, he tells you certain places to sit in the office.”
This is the commanding position: a wall behind the chair and the door in view, the mountain at your back and open ground ahead.
Feng shui ties this seat to career: work that is steadier, with something at your back.
Midway through a Glamour interview, she got up to close a bathroom door behind her guest: “Can I shut this door? It’s for your feng shui.”
The Form School wants something solid behind a seat; an open door there leaves nothing to lean on, and common practice holds that a bathroom door also lets chi drain away.
A closed door at your back is held to let you settle and feel at ease.
The Games opened at 8 p.m. on the eighth day of the eighth month of 2008. “Hopefully this lucky day will bring luck,” said the organizing committee’s secretary general.
Lucky numbers come from Chinese custom: eight leads them, because ba, eight, sounds like fa, to prosper.
A beginning set on eights is held to start under the sign of prosperity; choosing the day is part of the work.
When I. M. Pei’s sharp-edged Bank of China Tower rose beside it, HSBC mounted two crane-like “cannons” on its roof, aimed at the tower.
The Form School reads sharp corners aimed at a building as blades, forms that send chi at you too hard; the cannons were meant to turn them back.
Turning those edges back is held to keep a building, and the business inside it, steady.
Before the 1997 handover, Hong Kong’s first chief executive raised the feng shui of Government House with Chris Patten, and never moved in; feng shui consultants said the nearby Bank of China Tower was shaped like a blade.
A sharp edge aimed at a house works like a blade, the same corner the Form School reads in a room, at the size of a tower.
Where a sharp form cannot be blocked, the tradition holds that living out of its line is calmer and steadier.
Renovating the SoHo loft she shared with Rupert Murdoch, she told The New York Times, a feng shui consultant had them move the stove that sat directly under where the bed was to go.
The stove is fire and the household’s source; the bed should be the quietest, most sheltered place in a home.
Kept apart, the tradition holds, the stove feeds the house and the bed stays still, for steadier sleep.
Steve Wynn had feng shui consultants vet the design and construction of the Mirage and Wynn Las Vegas. The Wynn tower has no floors 40 through 49.
Lucky numbers come from Chinese custom: four is avoided for how it sounds in Chinese, so a whole run of floors is left out.
The tradition holds that a place without its unlucky numbers puts the people in it at ease.
The casino’s famous entrance through a lion’s open jaws was torn down and rebuilt after Chinese guests refused to walk through it; Leo became a bronze statue outside instead.
In Chinese custom, walking into a lion’s open mouth reads as being swallowed; an entrance is the mouth of a building, where chi and people both come in.
An entrance people walk through gladly is held to bring a place its fortune.
Before a 2002 play-off final, the stadium had its white south dressing room painted with a red, yellow and orange sun, horse and phoenix, “as recommended by feng shui experts.”
In the five elements white is metal, red is fire and yellow is earth; a bare white room leans one way, and adding what it lacks is common practice.
A room brought back into balance is held to steady the people waiting in it before they walk out.
When her energy felt “quite chaotic,” she says, she turned to feng shui: no mirrors at the end of her bed, and no knives on display.
The Form School keeps mirrors from facing a bed and reads anything sharp aimed into a room as a blade turned toward the people in it.
Both are held to make for quieter sleep and a home that feels settled.
Donald Trump brought in feng shui consultant Pun-Yin. The main entrance was turned to face Central Park, the facade changed from gold to bronze, and a large hammered-metal globe was set out front.
Facing the park gives the entrance a bright hall: the open ground the Form School wants in front of a door.
A door that opens onto open ground is held to gather chi and bring prosperity in.
Its top VIP villas, at $25,000 a night, are numbered starting with the digit 8.
Lucky numbers come from Chinese custom: eight, ba, sounds like fa, to prosper, and leads them.
A room numbered with eight is held to open under the sign of prosperity.
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