There are countless articles and books on how Feng Shui applications can be used to help a person increase their income or find true love. But an interesting question that deserves an answer is whether or not Feng Shui can predict or influence intelligence.
I was once asked to speak at a Mensa meeting and in preparation for the talk I thought this particular audience might be interested in how Feng Shui supports intellectual or academic processes.
At Flying Star School, we calculate the magnetic field of a house based on when it was built in combination with its orientation. With these coordinates, it can be revealed if there are areas in some structures that can lower a person’s intelligence. In fact, these same energies can undermine a pregnancy and contribute to miscarriage or birth defects like Down Syndrome. I am referring to a combination of the fire star 9 with the earth star 2. These are the Li and Kun trigrams, which are known and interpreted differently throughout various practices in Chinese metaphysics.
Here we have a combination that symbolizes fire (intelligence) being quenched or extinguished by the earth. A literal fire can be put out with dirt and a lack of oxygen to fuel it. This is a symbol of diminished or withheld mind or intellect. Occasionally this may indicate that a person of reasonable intelligence might do “stupid things” such as play with matches.
There are also energies in most houses that can indicate a likelihood of hindrances or delays and this could impede someone’s study habits or academic performance if the person spends a lot of time in those areas where the “problem” energy resides. The types of energies I am referring to are nothing obvious that can be seen with the eyes or understood by tracing the flow of qi on a floor plan. However, these energies can be calculated. For example, a house that faces magnetic Northwest at 300 degrees and was built in 2003 is a type of house in which the Southwest side of the house could cause intellectual difficulties or poor performance for a child in school.
Adjustments for this area of the house would include adding a lot of metal weight or metal surfaces to the space. Metal is anything made of gold, silver, copper, brass, bronze, or steel.
On the contrary, there may be energy in a house that can predict that a person will be highly intelligent and creative, including precocious and talented children. I have seen this many times in my consultations with clients. In fact, I grew up in a bedroom with the combination of 4 wooden stars and 9 stars and, looking back, I’m not surprised that I wrote hundreds of songs as a teenager and was an A student.
Another variation of this energy can produce a very bright but argumentative person (3 and 9 flying stars together). Still, another variation of that can coincide with a person who is smart and creative, but psychologically unstable, like on the fine line between genius and insanity (3 and 4 stars together). These “stars” I’m referring to are just codes for energy patterns and the original link between stars and astronomy, literally. Xuan Kong calculations can be associated with the stars of the Big Dipper.
Sometimes a person may use a space solely to follow their personal best directions (based on their birth data), to improve academic performance or art or even athletics. Wen Qu or Wen Chang directions can be used for study places within a house. For example, for a person born in 1996, sitting in the West/Southwest sector (Shen-Monkey Direction) of a floor plan may help that person study more efficiently.
When I do a professional evaluation, if I see that the child really can’t use their bedroom or designated desk location to study, there may be some other part of the house where they can study for better results. Sometimes the child instinctively gravitates in the direction of her “good study habits,” whether it’s a seat at the kitchen table or sprawled on the floor in some other unexpected part of the house.
There are many more examples of Feng Shui design, some of which are common sense, that can enhance a person’s ability to focus, concentrate and create. This can include a balance of the yin and yang aspects of a living space, such as balanced lighting, temperature, views, and sound. Other times we only see that the person fits naturally with the personality of the house or with the areas of the house where they spend most of their time.