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Feng Shui Office:

Your Quick Start Guide

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8 critical aspects of Feng Shui office interior design

3 lucky directions where you should maximize their use, and how to use them

4 bad directions to avoid

2012 to 2016 recommended Feng Shui setting (5 years!!!)

How to find your personal career direction

What to do to improve workplace interpersonal relationship

Finding out who you should work with and who you should avoid

The simplest ways to find out your lucky floor number, color and shapes

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Form Feng Shui in Office

We begin by looking at the disposition of furniture. I provided three simple tips in my blog,

Feng Shui DIY, that help to improve office Feng Shui, and two of them are related to Form

factors. Why? Because these changes are simple to make yet bring great effects. Here I’ll

give a full explanation of the Form Feng Shui requirements in office.

The Perfect Desk Setting

Below is the top view of a good office desk setting. In regardless of directions and

calculations, this is how an office should look like (the colors are irrelevant, just for

illustration purpose here, we shall learn about Feng Shui color later).

Seat

Desk

Computer

/ Cabinet

on Desk

Full Height Solid Wall

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Back - Solid Wall

It is of paramount importance to have a solid wall at the back. Why? It means support by

others and particularly your superior, which is critical to every person working in an office.

If the back of your seat is not firm and stable, e.g. an aisle, the sign of “flow” and

“movement” would affect your career life.

This is why in ancient China the emperors usually located their palace in front of a hill. If

you consider the palace as a whole as a working place, the hill at the back is a strong

support. If you have been to the Forbidden City (故宮) in Beijing in China, you could see a

hill called Jing Shan (景山) behind the palace, in the past Jing (景) literally means big.

The problem is, not everyone has the privilege to have his own room in the office. Many

people only have a desk with an aisle at the back. No problem, we can “create” an artificial

back support.

We can use material, color and quantity to build artificial Feng Shui. Basically you should

look for these:

Material: stone or earth

Color: yellow or brown

Quantity: Eight (8)

The first two are quite simple. The last strategy, which many Feng Shui practitioners use, is

borrowed from Flying Star Feng Shui because the number 8 is of “earth” characteristic.

When I worked in an office as a summer intern (it was long long time ago…), my seat was in

the middle of the office, no wall behind, only an aisle where people walk here and there. It

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was terrible Feng Shui. What I did was to hang a brown jacket on the back of the chair. It

looks like a big brown object is behind my seat. Pretty simple, right?

Some people are a little bit luckier, they have a low-rise cabinet or partition behind. Not a

full-height solid wall, but not really bad. In this cast, you can place eight pebbles behind the

seat, in this arrangement (six in the middle, one below and one above):

Higher-Left Lower–Right

According to Form Feng Shui theory, left means benefactors (support) while right is bad

person (challenge). In the past, when people find a location to build a house, they look for

places where the mountain on the left is higher than the right.

We re-create the same in the office. The best situation is you have a full-height cabinet on

the left hand side of the desk. If not, put the desktop computer or piles of documents on

the left hand side of the desk. The ultimate goal is to have a higher-left and lower-right.

The Room

After looking at the desk, we zoom out to look at the whole room.

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The above is a preferred placement of your desk in your room in the office. If you sit in a

cubicle instead of a room, the same principle applies although there may be no door.

The advantages of this setting are:

Your back is supported by a wall

You can see the door when sitting while the door does not directly open into the

desk

The desk is located in a corner. Chi accumulates at corners, so you sit at where there

is Chi to support you.

Seat

Desk

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The above setting is also good because it satisfies the three criteria above.

Now you know how to choose a good location to place our desk, right? Simply apply the

above criteria, you can put your desk at the best location.

Seat Desk

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The Flying Stars

We have completed the crash course on Form Feng Shui for office, now you begin to “learn”

some calculation. Traditionally this is the most difficult part of Feng Shui because before

you do any calculation, you must learn fundamental theories including the five elements, I-

Qing, 9 flying stars, etc.

I want to make this “quick start guide” as practical as possible. I want you to start doing

Feng Shui in 5 minutes. So instead of spending 200 pages on these theories, I’ll cut corners

by not telling you how to arrive at the answers and tell you the answers straightaway. So

you’ll not “learn” the formula, you’ll get the fruit and enjoy directly.

The following is the flying star map of 2012. Please note that according to traditional Feng

Shui theories the map is printed upside down, i.e. South is on top. I have highlighted the

lucky directions in yellow.

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South

5 1

(San Sha 三煞)

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4 6 8

9 2 7

North

So for year 2012, East, South and West are good directions for office Feng Shui. However,

South is also where San Sha appears in 2012. So the strategy is not to carry out any building

works or fitting out in South direction. Besides, avoid placing anything “dynamic” there,

such as a Hi-Fi audio system or a pendulum clock.

For your convenience, I have separately printed the flying maps for 2012 to 2016 in the

bonus document – Feng Shui Office Action Guide.

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Your Personal Feng Shui

Now we come to the final part of our Feng Shui office quick start guide. We’ll see how to

manage your personal Feng Shui needs, the “people” factor. Again, I’ll cut the corners and

show you what to do instead of going through the difficult theories that only Feng Shui

masters would ever want to know.

Your Personal Lucky Colors

I have provided a list of lucky colors for each and every zodiac signs in my blog

(http://fengshuidiy.com/feng-shui-colors-find-the-best-feng-shui-colors-for-you/). Here is a

re-cap of it:

Rat: Gold, Silver, White, Blue, Gray and Black

Ox: Red, Purple, Orange, Yellow, Brown

Tiger: Blue, Gray, Black, Green, Lime

Rabbit: Blue, Gray, Black, Green Lime

Dragon: Red, Purple, Orange, Yellow, Brown

Snake: Green, Lime, Red, Purple, Orange

Horse: Green, Lime, Red, Purple, Orange

Sheep: Red, Purple, Orange, Yellow, Brown

Monkey: Yellow, Brown, Gold, Silver, White

Rooster: Yellow, Brown, Gold, Silver, White

Dog: Red, Purple, Organe, Yellow, Brown

Pig: Gold, Silver, White, Blue, Gray, Black

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Photo by LifeSupercharger, CC Licence

Personal lucky colors help to increase your luck. One possible use of these colors is to use

personal accessories in these tones when you go to work. Besides, if you have an important

meeting, pick a tie or dress in anyone of these colors.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Can I Apply Office Feng Shui Principles to My Home Office? And How?

If you mainly work inside your study room (e.g. you are a programmer working at home),

and you spend the non-working hours in the living room, dining room and kitchen, you

could consider the study room as a separate entity.

In Feng Shui there is a saying, “一物一太極”, meaning that everything could be a separate

universe with its own center and eight directions. You could apply the Feng Shui principles I

taught in the previous chapters only to the study room. Find out the center point of the

study room and identify the eight directions. Determine if the door of the study room is

located in a good direction and layout the room to meet the Feng Shui office requirements.

Then consider the house as a separate entity. Of course, if the study room is located in a

good direction inside the house, that would be even better.

Some people use the front part of their houses as a shop to sell homemade products or

services, and live right in the rear part of the house. In this case, you first consider the

whole house as a single entity to allocate the key usages (i.e. common entrance door,

bedroom, business section and kitchen) to good directions. Then you could divide the

house into home and business sections and analyze the Feng Shui separately as if they are

individual buildings.

A third situation is the co-location of office and home in the same building but having

separated entrance doors for each use. In this case, you could simply consider the two

different parts as two houses and analyze separately. Actually in this case the building is the

same as the merger of two separate houses together. With separate entrance doors and

proper separation of uses, the Chi in two areas would not communicate.

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If for some reasons you cannot ensure that both parts have good Feng Shui and you are

forced to decide on which part to take up the best section of the house, I suggest the

domestic part should prevail. Experience told us that the Feng Shui of your home affects

your health, career, relationship… in a more all-round manner, while office Feng Shui mainly

affects the career. In some cases where the office Feng Shui could not be changed, merely

adjusting the home Feng Shui could still bring improvement in career. So the home Feng

Shui should prevail.

Do the Feng Shui Requirements Differ for Different Trades?

This Feng Shui guide is written specifically for the working class who mainly work inside an

office. Most of the requirements could be applied to situations where the person works in a

fixed space, may it be an office room, a cubicle or simply a desk. For example, the principal

of a junior school could apply the same principles to his own room, just as an accountant

applies these principles to his room. So the job nature does not make the Feng Shui

requirements significantly different.

However, different trades do have their respective five-element characters. For the choice

of colors (e.g. for interior decoration in the office), you may consider using the

representative colors of the trade according to the five-element characters to maximize

your luck.

Metal – Gold, Silver, White

Banking, finance, metal equipment manufacturing and processing, steel, wire and cable

industry, jewelry, machinery, precision industry, insurance, automotive, computer products,

electrical appliances, electronic parts, motors, watch, securities dealers, mining, musicians,

military, scientists

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Water – Blue, Black

Athletes, sales agents, real estate agents, lawyers, parliamentarians, book/news editor, film

director, comic, reporters, physicians, otolaryngologists, urologists, psychiatrists,

gynecologists, accountants, nurses, philosopher, tourism, transportation, aviation, cleaning,

shipping, telecommunications, laundry, refrigeration, fire protection, trading, retail,

transportation, logistics and other mobility industries.

Wood – Green, Lime

Judges, teachers, musicians, textile, cultural undertakings, printing and publishing, flower

gardening, herb shops, stationery, book stores, agricultural, timber, woodworking, furniture,

paper, wood technology, education, department stores, civil servants, religious leader,

politician, culture and education, clothing, nanny, social workers, industries using wood as

raw material, secretaries, Chinese medicine practitioners, lawyers, forestry and other wood-

related industries.

Fire – Red, Purple, Orange

Photographic equipment, eyewear, military, computer, electronics, telecommunications,

optics, oil industry, tobacco and alcohol, vendor of lighting fittings, critics, salon and beauty

industry, chemical engineering, restaurants, hot drinks and snacks, gas and oil, ceramics,

coal industry, food processing, welding, nuclear power industry, giftware industry,

information industry, energy, electricity, advertising, media, news, entertainment, apparel,

fireworks, food and beverage and fire-related industries

Earth – Yellow, Earth-tone

Real estate, geography, dermatologists, construction, judges, calligrapher, art galleries,

painters, cement processing, building materials, cosmetics, real estate transactions, stone

and stoneware industry, pawn, livestock, ceramics, antiques, nurseries, mining, building

foundation, farming, demolition industry, taxation, land acquisition, civil engineering, road

construction, agriculture and soil-related industries.

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There are a few remarks. Firstly, you would be able to find some industries belonging to

more than one element. Why? Because these industries possess the natures of more than

one elements. For example, while gold mining is metal-related, the nature of the work is

earth. So mining could be found under “metal” and “earth” elements. Similarly, real estate

agents’ job relates to land but they need to go here and there, so this job belongs to both

“earth” and “water”.

Secondly, what if you cannot find your specific trade? You could tell the five-element

characteristic by analyzing the nature of the job. For example, if it has high mobility, it

belongs to water.

Thirdly, the colors are applied in relation to the trades, you should not mix them up with

your personal lucky colors. You may wear a tie in your best color while having your office

painted in the best color of your trade. Of course, if your personal lucky colors are the same

as your trade’s lucky colors, this is a perfect match.

Please also note that the whole purpose of this guidebook is to help people to do Feng Shui

for office. Retail shops and restaurants are different. For instance, the Feng Shui of the

head office of a restaurant chain is what this guidebook is written for, but the restaurants

should follow another set of Feng Shui principles that are not exactly the same.

Why? We talk about the nature of activities carried out. A retail shop is where goods are

displayed and the actual buy and sell carries out. The Feng Shui focus is on the main

entrance (where customers come in) and the cashier (where the shop owner receives

money). Similarly, the entrance, kitchen and cashier are the most important for a

restaurant.

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On the other hand, an office is where decision-making, communication and paper works are

carried out. Conference rooms and each person’s own room and cubicles are the most

critical areas to Feng Shui.

Unless right inside your shop there is an office where you sit in front of the computer to

answer emails, receive calls, plan your business and make decisions, then you could apply

Feng Shui office principles to that particular room. The office inside a restaurant could

follow the Feng Shui office principles.

This may sound a bit confusing but if you read the above again, you should be able to

understand. If you still don’t understand, shoot me an email.

Do the Feng Shui Requirements Differ for Different Buildings?

The nature of the building is not significantly material. The same principles apply to an

office in a commercial building in the central business district in the same way as a home

office in a residential building.

However, the shape of a building could matter. A triangular building belongs to the fire

element, so it is most suitable for a business belonging to the fire element. Since this Feng

Shui Office guidebook is written mainly for the working class who usually do not have

control over the building, I did not mention this in previous chapters. As a reference, here

are the five elements and shapes combinations:

Square – Earth

Long rectangular – Wood

Triangular – Fire

Circular – Metal

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Wave – Water

Similarly, you could also read the five-element of the floor number:

Last digit is 1 and 6 – Water

Last digit is 2 and 7 – Fire

Last digit is 3 and 8 – Wood

Last digit is 4 and 9 – Metal

Last digit is 5 and 0 – Earth

So, the head office of a financial institution (metal) should be located in a circular building

on the 4th, 9th, 14th, 19th, 24th, 29th, etc. floor.

See? As an employee you don’t really have a choice. And even if you are the business

owner would it be easy to find a building in wave shape if you business belongs to the water

element? So in most cases I simply ignore the shape of the building.

Do I Need to Buy Feng Shui Accessories?

Yes and no. Many Feng Shui masters are advocates of expensive Feng Shui accessories. I’m

not. There is nothing wrong with using these items, but I simply think they are

UNNECESSARY.

Proper Feng Shui practices are found on the calculation of five-elements. By using items of

the right quantity, color and shape, we could easily leverage the power of five elements.

And I use only commonly found items such as flower, wind chimes, pebbles, etc. The best of

all, these self-made Feng Shui accessories are not expensive. Say, even if you work in a

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kindergarten or a county jail where some objects could not be used, you can paint the wall

of the office in a specific lucky color to Feng Shui your office.

If you feel more comfortable with using commercially-sold Feng Shui accessories, a

convenient place to shop them is Amazon (do you know Amazon sells Feng Shui products

apart from books?).

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