What is Feng Shui?

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Feng Shui (風水, “wind-water”) is the classical Chinese geomantic tradition of reading and shaping space as a circulation of qi. Two branches have shaped it: the Form school, which reads the shape of the land and the flow of wind and water, and the Compass school, built on the eight directions and the bagua, which includes the Flying Star and Eight Mansions methods. In Divination Nexus Feng Shui uses the Eight Mansions lineage: a dwelling is mapped from the front door into the eight bagua zones plus the center, each zone carrying a fixed trigram, element, direction, and life domain. A reading is the state of the zones — whether each is supported, starved, cluttered, or colliding — read through the Wu Xing generation-and-control grammar. It answers where, not who: what this room does to the person in it. It is the corpus’s only modality whose input is a place, not a person, a moment, or a chart.