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First page of a multi-part series by Eva Wong (Daoist scholar and lineage-holding fengshui practitioner) on fengshui fundamentals.  Nicely presented by Shambhala, with photos and illustrations.
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"Feng means 'wind,' and shui means 'water' (pronounced fung-shway).  In Chinese culture, gentle wind and smooth water have always been associated with a good harvest and good health, while harsh winds and stagnant water have been linked to famine and disease.  Therefore 'good' feng-shui has come to mean good livelihood and fortune, and 'bad' feng-shui has come to mean hardship and misfortune."
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Translation of an Excerpt From Kuo P'u's Ch'ing-Lang Hai-Jiao Ching
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www.fengshuitimes.com/article/detail.asp?aid=127&cid=1&pg=3
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Wong's translation of Guo Pu's classic (c.300 CE) of the Form School.  Article from the Feng Shui Times.
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"When a location is surrounded by land shaped like a womb, or is cradled like a fetus, or is embraced by strong arms, energy will collect, forming a power spot (hsueh).
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The Truth about Chinese Fengshui
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www.fengshuigate.com/Art-of-Fengshui.html
Resources
Stephen L. Field (Trinity University, San Antonio), a scholar of ancient China, lays out the facts.
"...fengshui cannot be considered a science unless qi can be proven to exist.  It is not a religion because qi is not a spirit.  And it is not a philosophy because its component theories have no basis in fact.  That only leaves one possibility.  Fengshui is an art, and its individual practice is a work of art."
In Search of Dragons: Fengshui and Early Geophysical Notions of Qi
www.fengshuigate.com/dragonsearch.html
Further explanation and translation by Stephen L. Field of Guo Pu's classic, which includes "the first appearance in the extant texts of the term, fengshui." 
"The Classic says, Qi rides the wind and scatters, but is retained when encountering water.  The ancients collected it to prevent its dissipation, and guided it to assure its retention.  Thus it was called fengshui.  According to the laws of fengshui, the site that attracts water is optimum, followed by the site that catches wind."
The History of Fengshui: A web of time and change
www.fengshuiseminars.com/articles/history.html
Basic history by Roger Green, with brief descriptions of the different schools.  Note: Green's views on Southern Hemisphere fengshui are controversial (see below).
"The ancient practice of Feng Shui was known as 'Xiangdi' which meant the observation and appraisal of the earth.  The practice of Xiangdi helped the Chinese select the right site for settlement and location of shrines, temples and fertile lands."
Qimancy: The Art and Science of Fengshui
www.fengshuigate.com/qimancy.html
Stephen L. Field presents fundamental concepts and history of fengshui and the two major schools, Compass School and Form School.
"In its earliest form Fengshui indeed was utilized to orient the homes of the dead rather than the homes of the living.  The term itself appears first in a passage from the Book of Burial which dates to no earlier than the 4th century CE."
The Great Wall of Knowledge and the Rise of Feng Shui
http://aafengshui.com/articles.asp?a=6
Chapter 3 of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Feng Shui, by Elizabeth Moran, Joseph Yu, and Val Biktashev.  Overview of Chinese astrology, astronomy, Confucianism and Daoism, and the Yijing as precursors of fengshui.
"In 1988, a Neolithic gravesite was excavated in the Henan province.  It revealed that the ancient Chinese were practicing some form of feng shui some 6,000 years ago."
Feng Shui, Physics and Energy
www.fengshuitimes.com/article/detail.asp?aid=70&cid=1
Cate Bramble, author of Architect's Guide to Feng Shui discusses the scientific basis of fengshui.  From the Feng Shui Times.
"Feng Shui isn't 'beyond physics,' to use the literal meaning of metaphysics... to put it bluntly, the basis of Feng Shui is environmental science, physics, and mathematics - more the theoretical physicist's outlook than the curandero's."
The Numerology of Nine Star Fengshui
www.fengshuigate.com/numerology.html
Stephen L. Field's two-part article on the cosmological principles underlying the Bazhai mingjing method (Compass School) of residential fengshui.  Even if you pass over the computational portions, there's plenty to hold your attention.  And check out Field's "The Cosmological Origins of Fengshui."
"...the eastern and western hall partitions make perfect sense... Regardless of which partition a person's birth determines is auspicious, there will be two auspicious rooms that are sunny in winter and shady in summer..."
Feng Shui Information Resources
www.oocities.org/Athens/Delphi/9911/
Check the "Articles" page on this site for good essays by various authors, including Joseph Yu's "Feng Shui Made Really Easy," a 12-part series covering the basics, the tools, and the different schools.  From Part VI, "Black Sect Feng Shui":
"The front door is always the 'Career Life Station' [for this sect].  It does not matter whether the house faces North or South, or, in fact, any direction.  This is very clever because it solves the problem of defining the facing of the house.  The facing is totally ignored.  So is the problem."
Books: The Good, the Bad, the Facts, and the Funny
www.qi-whiz.com/node/98
Bramble's no-holds-barred assessments of popular fengshui books.  The "bad" page excoriates bogus "McFengshui" practitioners and their "sickly soup of pop psychology, sympathetic magic, cargo cult and commodity fetishism."
What is my Feng Shui Kua or trigram?  What does that mean for me?
www.intuitiveconcepts.com/articletrigram.htm
Diana Garber (fengshui consultant, Sunbury, OH) on interpreting your Kua (Gua) number/trigram.
The Eight Trigrams
www.168fengshui.com/Articles/8_trigrams.htm
Sophia Tang Shaul's 168 Feng Shui Advisors site offers this Ba Gua diagram, showing directions, elements, numbers, family relationships, symbology, body parts, and groupings for each trigram.
How to Evaluate a house using the Eight House Theory
www.geomancy.net/resources/theories/fs-house1.htm
Module with step-by-step instructions to determine an individual's most suitable house, using an ordinary compass.  Lots of other helpful pages on this site from Cecil and Robert Lee (Singapore), such as this one on the Four Animal Spirits.
Biography of a Feng Shui Master
www.fengshuinews.com/articles/lw-shen.htm
Info on Master Shen Zhureng (1848-1906), who broke the 1500-year secret code of Flying Star fengshui.  Article from the Feng Shui News by Lorraine Wilcox (American Feng Shui Institute, Monterey Park, CA; lecturer and acupuncturist).
"While there are errors in Master Shen's book, they came from his misunderstandings, not his withholding information."
Feng Shui Calculator
www.oocities.org/heluoarticles/fscalculator.htm
Heluo (Roel Hill, Feng Shui Network, Netherlands) will create a Flying Star chart for you with his free online calculator.  To use it, you will need to know your exact compass facing, but he provides instructions for finding it in this multi-page article, found among others on his home page.
Xuankong 101 / Flying Star 101
www.fengshuiscoop.com/xuankong.htm
On interpreting and applying the flying star (xuan kong) chart.  Article by Peter (Butao/Xi Lu, Feng Shui Network, Netherlands).
"Xuan kong is no-nonsense feng shui.  No rituals involved and you will not end up with a house looking like a new age shop."
True Birth Element
www.geomancy.net/products/po-bazi/pod-bazi-true-element.htm
Robert Lee on why it is important to know your birth element(s) and what to do with this information.
"...the relationship between the Five Element will change completely because of the strength of your element.  For example, weak wood like water and wood to strengthen the weak wood.  On the other hand, a strong wood prefers fire or metal that helps to reduce the strong wood."  [Note: Usually 1 = weak water; 2 = strong earth; 3 = strong wood; 4 = weak wood; 5 = strong earth; 6 = weak metal; 7 = strong metal; 8 = weak earth; 9 = weak fire]
Chinese Fortune-Telling Calendar
www.chineseastrologyonline.com/CFTCal2.htm
The Chinese Astrology Online site will calculate your Four Pillars birth chart (the Chinese horoscope) gratis.  Use it to find your strongest and weakest ("luckiest") elements for fengshui application.  This site is great fun, with its many built-in calculators, such as these on the five elements.
Dividing a House into 9 Boxes or 8 Wedges?
www.astro-fengshui.com/fengshui/palaces.html
Joseph Yu clarifies what "appears to be a controversial issue."
"The whole idea of feng shui is to study the different types of qi coming from different directions.  It is not to study the type of qi assigned to 9 boxes bounded by imaginary lines... once [qi] gets in it will fill the house."
The North South Debate 1'st Installment
www.fengshuitimes.com/article/detail.asp?aid=246&cid=1&pg=2
Feng Shui Times article by Siou-Foon Lee (fengshui consultant) also argues against the New Age practice of reversing the ba gua for the Southern Hemisphere.  And see the followup articles: 2nd Installment, 3rd, 4th, 5th, Final.
"Irrespective of where we stand on the globe the north is north and the south is south.  A compass reading on either hemisphere measures the earth magnetic field and not temperatures or climate."
"Healing Homes" with Feng Shui and Ecology
www.fengshuiseminars.com/articles/healinghomes.html
Janus Welton (architect) combines principles of fengshui, Daoism, and ecology to "create harmonizing, healing, and healthier environments."
"The Modern Feng Shui practitioner must have a kit of tools to test for, shield, and eliminate sources of these harmful pollutants or 'Sha Chi' created from the many thousands of chemicals and energy waves that have been unleashed in our ecosystem and building materials since WWII."
Frank Lloyd Wright and Feng Shui?  NO!
http://architecture.about.com/library/weekly/aa110899.htm
Writer Jackie Craven quotes Cate Bramble to debunk a popular misconception.  This page provides an interesting case example of the "bad" fengshui of Wright's Aline Barnsdall House (Hollyhock House).  [Popup alert]
"From the most general San Yuan perspective the construction project was ill-timed and poorly oriented, which (to the traditional Feng Shui mind) caused the interminable delays, disagreements, fistfights, litigation, and other woes that eventually doomed the project."
The Feng Shui of Virtual Reality
http://crossings.tcd.ie/issues/1.1/Heim/
Michael Heim (Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA) applies the principles of fengshui to software design.
"Feng shui is the art of arrangement, of placing things in such a way as to enhance the flow of energies and minimize dissipation.  Optimal flow for living organisms means that the atmosphere feels like a spring breeze - neither fast and vehement, nor sluggish and stagnant.  The quality of flow causes living beings either to flourish or deteriorate.  This paper argues that the art of placement applies, mutatis mutandis, to the design of virtual environments as well as to the arrangement of the physical world."
Traditional Feng Shui [discussion forum]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TradFengShui/
A Yahoo discussion group moderated by fengshui practitioners Dr. Rob (CA) and Michael Hanna (UK).
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