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Yesterday I attended a delightful class, taught by Steven Post at the San Francisco Association for Realtors (SFAR) offices.
He started out by quoting Vitruvius, and saying (liberally paraphrased) that he felt that the Realtor (as well as the Architect, as Vitruvius was proposing) should be a philosopher, bringing both ancient and modern knowledge and wisdom to the task of helping people find and create their most auspicious home and work environments.
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Well, that got my attention as you can imagine, given my tendency to wax philosophical about people and place.
Fung shui is Chinese geomancy. The name Fung (wind) shui (water) comes from Kuo Pu's poem
The winds are wild
The sun is bright
The water is clear
The trees are lush.
The Japanese, the British isle cultures, Arabs, Africans, Jews, and ancient great mother cultures also have well developed geomantic traditions which seek to align people with place in harmonious ways.
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| Alex Stark |
While these traditions have developed elaborate bodies of knowledge, which are wonderful to study, so much of this is really quite intuitive, as our creature selves tell us whether a place feels good or not. We can start with that, then break down what the geomantic (read: bio-geographic) influences might be, so we can tell if the good feelings will last once the stager with the vanilla fragrance sticks and beautiful furniture has packed and gone.
