Are The Classics Wrong?

I was involved in a Feng Shui project recently in a foreign country that took us more than 3 hours to get there by plane. This place is a beautiful island resort, with hilly terrain and beautiful mountain surrounding it.

In many classical text, landform embraces are essential to ensure that Qi is “well-protected”, limiting the Qi escaping from an area and to protect the occupants from negative forces.

The quality of Qi in an area depends on the quality of the landform embrace. There are many types of landform embraces and the most common embrace discussed is the ‘Green Dragon’ and ‘White Tiger’.

The Green Dragon embrace are typically ‘mountain’ formation that runs on the left side and the White Tiger on the right side of an area under Feng Shui investigation. Imagine your left and right arm hugging or embracing someone. It is said that Green Dragon governs wealth and White Tiger governs nobility.

It is also mentioned that the Green Dragon embrace influences the man to be the dominant gender while the White Tiger embrace influences the woman to be the dominant gender.

In the old days, men are supposed to be the dominant gender and this is the reason the Green Dragon on the left needs to be higher and bigger than the White Tiger on the right.

Each mountain formation comes in various shapes and sizes. The shape of a mountain will influence the occupants living in that area. Each shape represent a certain “Stars” and given names such as Tan Lang (Greedy Wolf), Ju Men (Huge Door), etc. Each of the stars will also exert a certain amount of influence pertaining to wealth, health, recognition, reputation, etc.



Back to this resort island project. This village in the photo is just next to the holiday resort that we were working on (see pic above). Here we have a beautiful Tan Lang mountain, situated on the left side of the fishing village (the Green Dragon), with practically no embrace on the right side (no White Tiger embrace).

There is a volcanic mountain on the left side of the picture (not in photo) providing the back support to the village. The sea front of the fishing village, the water is clear and calm as they are protected by the reefs and the adjacent island.

From the front view of the village, with hands stretching out, you could ‘touch’ the peak of another Tan Lang mountain located some distance away. This forms the “Table Mountain” for the village.

With such a landform ‘configuration’, many would jump into conclusion that this piece of land is very prosperous and the chief of the village would be a man.



Contrary to popular believe, as you can see, this area is still not well-developed and the chief of the village is a woman. How could this happen? Did our ancient text got it all wrong?

A lot of times, books that we read today do not cover the complete explanation of the theories they introduced. 99% of books in the market do not cover real application of Feng Shui. Even if they do, most applications are inaccurate. This explains the 'sometimes work, sometimes don't work' syndrome.

The secrets of the ancient art is buried deep in the classical text and it takes a lot of work and perseverance to decipher the coded text. We need to learn from a real Master who knows the art extremely well. How can we tell if a Master knows his stuff? This is another topic for another day.

Time to wake up People! Are we all awake yet?