Feng Sui: Supersition or something that works?

What is "Feng Shui"? 


Feng Shui has been an ancient practice in China dealing with locating the "qi" in one's house
and environment. This practice is very prevalent in Hong Kong where many high rise buildings 
in their downtown area are "feng shuied". Recently many Hong Kong feng shui practicitioners are hired by developers back in Mainland China, indicating a renewed interest in this practice.

Using complicated formulaes to assess the qi in one house and paying attention to the external landforms surrounding the house and neighbourhood, an experienced and knowledgeable feng shui master (sifu) will be able to assess the good and/or bad qi in the area. 

I personally came interested in this knowledge back in 2011 when I went to see a Feng Shui and Chinese Astrology practiioner merely out of curiosity (even with my commerce and business background, I was interested in a variety of non-business subjects due to my natural curiosity). 

He was quite famous in our city as his credentials shows he was hired by many real estate developers and banks for his feng shui expertise. During our session, he pointed out a lot of accurate details of my life even though I never mentioned anything except my date of birth (which he require to have in order to do the calculations): my early life, in which period I went overseas, my relationship with siblings and even he mentioned when I potentially will enter into a romantic relationship (at the time I was single). He even mentioned when I will start earning money! 


Well of course I take his future predictions of my life with a pinch of salt but I was amazed at the accuracy of his depiction of my earlier life (could it be coincidental?) 

Anyhow, I went back to my regular life routine and lo and behow, I dated my husband during the time he predicted (second half of 2011). At that time, we were just friends and we have known each other for a few years (but both were not interested in each other for a romantic fling). and now we are married (both of us are still amazed how things have worked so well for us: dated, engaged, married and moved in within less than one year!! ) 

So all this events somehow deepens my interest in these subjects and I hire the practitioner back to check the feng shui of our new house: still not being able to follow all his advice but still trying ....) 

From reading general feng shui books and blogs, I did manage to get a general idea of what are the negatives in feng shui theory without getting too deep in mathematical calculation. In future posts, I will outline them. 

So conclusion? I do think that feng shui and Chinese astrology (BaZi) have a certain extent of accuracy ( I cannot say 100%) provided you have an experienced, knowledgeable and reputable practitioner assessing it for you. My opinion is to understand his/her background and credentials and if possible, get referrals from people you trust: if he/she is hired by big companies/institutions to do feng shui, he usually knows what he is doing. 

One hint: Reputable Feng Shui practitioners are also expert in BaZi: Chinese astrology as they are interrelated to each other.