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The great 20th Century master of medicine and divination Yuan Shushan once wrote: ‘These days those who talk about fate only speak of yin and yang and the five elements. They do not know to also include sectors in their discussions’. This oversight is one we avoid in our Feng Shui guide by including this section, focused on property. Here we note which sectors or directions may be beneficial or harmful for specific uses and explain how best to approach them.
For many Feng Shui theorists, the world is a closed system with limited resources. Within this view, a correct application of behaviour will lead to the most ideal outcome of the interplay between natural and human actions. To make the most of one’s abilities, it is necessary to harness one’s actions to the natural cycles of the living world. According to an early Taoist text, the world was completely interconnected:
The central kingdom lies within the four seas. It stretches north and south of the Yellow River, and east and west of Mount Tai, encompassing many square kilometres. There are cloudy (yin) and clear (yang) weather conditions, periods of cold and heat alternate. Dark and bright each have their division, and so there is night and day. Of the people, there are the dim-witted and the sharp. The natural world flourishes and grows, arts of all forms can be found. Rulers and subjects each have their place, and propriety and laws reinforce each other.
