Can anyone recommend a Feng Shui master for a house reading?

I've been busy creating a dream house in the Japanese Edo style (even grabbed a couple books from Amazon to get a "feel" for the style [hint: think "plywood tent"]). The basic framing and roof/floor detail are in, but i wanted to hold off on finalizing until I got a Feng Shui reading so I could rearrange as needed. Has anyone had any experience in this area before? I feel uncomfortable just doing a Search for Feng Shui because I'd have no way of assessing if whoever popped up was competent/experienced. I'm hoping to hear from someone who has had personal experience from this - the house really deserves better than throwing random darts at the Search engine.

Normally I don't do anything like this, but it just gives a sense of completeness, given the style of the house -- and also figuring any changes for Feng Shui reasons would naturally make the house more realistic for the period.

From what I've seen of some brief online searching, the investment in learning the right principles is more than I'm willing to put out for; this is more than a few hours of Saturday afternoon "lie on the couch and read web pages for instant mastery."

(please answer if you have experience with this; the "use search" and "go bang on web pages" answers aren't going to work for this one I'm afraid; if they did I wouldn't be posting on this. I've done my research).

Penn and Teller can recommend a good feng shui expert . Hehe

haha, best episode of that show EVER!

If you are really looking for a real Feng Shui master here is one:
https://www.masterso.com

He is really famous in Hong Kong (appears in Radio and TV show) and you can order an online analysis from him.
Just sent in
- pictures of your house,
- picture of you house surronding
- the floor plan of your house
- your birthday and birth year

and he will complete an analysis within 30 days.

He charges is about $642 USD per analysis (for 1 floor)
ecah additional floor is $320 USD

BTW, Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese practice .. wouldn't it be more complete if you build a Chinese style house rather than a Japanese one?

Good Luck

=o.0=

I will always rue the day I discovered I was born with a working ethics gland, becasue I would love to be able to pull down that kind of cash for haivng a glib tongue.

bullshit is a great show...

anyway put all your stuff based on a 8 point compass (theres 4 on with the edit arrows) anyway face them twards the center of the space

over time they will drift into their most happy arrangement

I'm sorry I dun know of anyone doin dis inworld. I wish you much success with it, though. Sounds cool, an makes perfect sense to me.

Mari

I am not sure how well Feng Shui would port to SL. The environmental dynamics are drastically different. For one SL is flat, the earth is round.

I would love to talk to an SL Feng Shui master.

LOVE that show!!! Saw 'em at a college a few years back.

Take THAT David Blaine!!!

would SL Feng Shui be ....


Slung Lay?

(say it out loud or in your head)
it just makes sense to me, sling the stuff out there and then let them lay where they may..

and the initials are SL, and slung starts with SL... it makes sense to me

I am the master of Slung Lay, pretty much the concept of everything I do in SL

The Feng affects nothing but flexi prims and particles that have been told to pay attention to it, and the Shui doesn't move around at all, and it takes some serious work to make it effect anything.

I don't think it would port into SL in any valuable way... then again, I don't think the modern version is in any way valuable anyway.

If they're advertising themselves as a Feng Shui master, they're primary competency is in fleecing the uneducated.

In case you missed it, Feng Shui is Bullshit.

I would say it has as much power as anyone wishies to put into it, and if one feels more harmony and happiness as a result of it -- then it's okay by me!

Mari

Then it shouldn't matter to the OP whether the "Feng Shui Master" was experienced and qualified or not, as long as she feels good about paying someone to arrange her furniture.

Bottom line is, Feng Shui is just a label for "interior design". There's nothing about mystical harmony or happiness other than what the purchaser and practitioner agree to pretend there is.

Dearly Darling,

I think I can help you out with this. I've done quite a bit of reading on the subject because of my involvement with Ikebana. (Ikebana International Chap. 140). Just invite me over and I'll help you out. Best part is I'm free.

You have a lovely Day!

Ever Yours,

Mrs. Showdog Tiger

Gives me a chance to use one of my favorite lines:

"I'm AVAILABLE, Lou. I'm NEVER free." - Buck Godot, Zap Gun for Hire

You know, I don't buy into the whole Feng Shui mystique, as it's portrayed by its adherents. But even though I think that it's bunk, at the same time I think that it's actually a useful tool...in that it provides a way for people to think about the "harmony" and "human factors" aspects of design. Using it, they may be able to discern things that "they don't know they know".

As a framework to aid in thinking about complex interrelationships, Feng Shui works. And, used in that sense, I think it would apply to SL as readily as to RL.

And to be honest, I don't buy into a lot of it either, and I wouldn't ask for a feng shui reading for my normal builds. But for a Japanese Edo period home, it does makes sense.

Another thing to think about is, while I find many of the claims dubious, it is a good system for creating a space that "feels right". Feng shui would impose some design constraints, and those constraints would help create a more authentic space.

(and for that one critic - one of the architecture books I used as a reference - which included detailed drawings of period Japanese houses and even had two pages on tatami mat configurations - included a small section on Feng Shui principles).