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When I first discovered Feng Shui, I read an article in Victorian Living about a hot air balloon company in San Diego that had lots of customers but was losing money. Evidently, folks in California call their Feng Shui person instead of a forensic accountant. And their Feng Shui person came and looked around and found that their Wealth gua was in a bathroom. In that bathroom there was a stain on the acoustic tile in the ceiling, indicating a leak in the roof. The faucet in the sink dripped. The toilet ran. She advised them that they were not paying attention to details, recommending that they call a handyman to fix the leak in the roof, and a plumber to fix the sink and the toilet. And they did. After the plumber finished, their bookkeeper had gone to lunch, so they went to write him a check themselves…and discovered that she had embezzled over $40K out of their accounts.
I looked at that and thought, “What in the world is Feng Shui?”
Back in the late 1980s there were not many books on the topic, but I finally found two. The books kind of contradicted each other, even though their overall premises were the same. So I decided to begin my Margarita Research. In Houston, when company comes they expect to be taken out for Mexican food, so good host/esses always try the new restaurants and their Margaritas. This metaphor extended to what I was doing when I began my experiments with Feng Shui: Try it! See what happens. Adjust accordingly.
So I started at my front door…and the rest is her-story!