A Master Course in Feng Shui
This fully illustrated, comprehensive workbook is designed primarily for homeowners, renters, architects, and business owners who want to put feng-shui to practical personal use—to choose a home, build a house, select an office, or find a retail space. Real estate agents, interior designers, and architects will also find it useful as a reference manual. The text and exercises proceed in systematic fashion from basic principles to specific projects, covering the following lessons: Evaluating the landscape and external environment by using the techniques of the Landform School Using the geomantic compass to chart patterns of energy within a building Planning the usage of space Matching occupants to a house Deciding on the placement of furniture Improving the feng-shui of a building with countermeasures, enhancers, and renovations Building a new house Choosing or designing an apartment, business suite, or retail space
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Good
There are not many good books on classical feng shui in the market. This is one of them. This book is very detailed and informative. Feng Shui is a very sophisticated art and many books out there either over-simplify the subject or the just do not have a clue. However it can get a little dry sometimes but if you are serious enthusiast, this is a minor problem. Eva Wong should write more books.
4 Stars Review by CK Cheng, Singapore
This book is probably suitable for Xuan Kong Flying Stars Feng Shui fans. The materials covered are significant and vastly different from the other titles e.g. abridged books. It devotes two sections to structures and land forms and explores in depth, the facing of buildings and proper usage of a compass or geomancer luopan to set up flying star charts before touching on flying stars topics proper. Therefore it is a serious book for true Fengshui fans or students who wish to gain more knowledge and information of authentic Feng Shui.
However readers who have an immediate-advanced knowledge of the Chinese metaphysical systems will probably have a better time understanding some of the concepts e.g. conditional interactions (see He-Tu combinations).
Furthermore, using a ‘cook-book’ format, there are little details regarding the theories (recipes) and their formulation. It is more suitable for practical and results oriented readers. As the book is not a treatise, rather a textbook, concepts are favored over critical reasoning regarding formulas and their derivations.
There are however, important assertions made by Ms Eva Wong regarding certain tricky and controversial topics. For example, for apartments, she stated facing may vary according to units and proceeds to provide clear illustrations. The topic on houses with competing facings was covered. These are topics shunned by other ‘popular’ books.
5 Stars Finally!
Finally, someone has decided pull the veil off of feng shui and make its “secrets” available to all of us. This book is an invaluable tool to architects, designers, and other building professionals who wish to incorporate the principles of feng shui into their new construction or remodel projects.
After two books that promised much and delivered little (leaving me very frustrated), I can’t say it enough:
Thank you Eva!
5 Stars A Master Course,,,indeed…
It is an excellent book. At least for a person like me, who doesn’t have any experience or knowledge about this topic. Great book…
4 Stars Have to Disagree with Elisa “ElyMom76″ Below…
You should have bought an interior design book instead. Feng-shui is a very serious subject matter, where I can confidently say that 99% of the so-called Feng Shui partitioners (”Masters”, lol) don’t even know what they are talking about. Do you seriously think, an arbitrary re-arrangement of furnitures, without further support theories on why and how it would help or otherwise, will improve your life and your living space? A good feng shui master/book should be able to accurately predict the PAST as well as the FUTURE, based on the calculations. Test those books that you may have otherwise bought to see if they do the above. Eva Wong’s book, while incomplete in some aspect, is among the best non-chinese feng-shui books, and I’ve read a lot of them and verified the effectiveness against real life incidences. Maybe watching HGTV a better idea if real Feng-Shui sounds complicated for you, at least the experts there do provide visible and eye-pleasing results.
