Frequently Asked Questions

Improved Prosperity / Health / Harmony

To ensure your questions are answered with the best accuracy and honesty possible, Edith has compiled answers to the most commonly asked feng shui questions for your reference.

Due to the large volume of requests that Edith gets, please review the questions in detail before sending your inquiries with additional questions. You will be asked to review the FAQ if your questions have been documented.

What is “prosperity”

While everyone’s definition of “prosperity” can vary, one thing is for certain, that is everyone would like a chance to live a life that is “as smooth as possible”.  This is to have better opportunities to strive higher in life, from work opportunities or monetary gains. Live a life in better health, slower aging process, and lastly achieving better harmony with the people around you.  It is impossible to completely avoid hardships and lessons in life, because they are a key ingredient for success and learning lessons that elevates you.  What feng shui can help you achieve is to make your journey more tolerable/solvable.  The effort you put into life converts into better rewards that help you reach your maximum potential as opposed to a constant spiral to no end (feeling stuck of choking in life). 

The way to think about how feng shui improves prosperity is NOT about how feng shui will “flatten” a mountain for you and life will be perfect…. But instead, what is the best way to “navigate” down a mountain you are on and move down your journey as smoothly as possible.  If you are on a black or blue/red trail, with feng shui’s alignment, we aim to get you down a green slope until you reach another phase of your life.

Simply – to achieve better prosperity (opportunities, health, harmony) – you aim to be in sync with the space around you at all times.

While there are many reasons why prosperity is not equal.  Here are 4 major reasons from the lens of feng shui:

  1. Destiny – this decides at birth what journey you are gonna have. What your “homework (debt)” is for this life, how much money you can make, a general plot and journey of the opportunities that may come. Can you resolve lessons you are supposed to learn in this life and achieve a higher version of yourself…
  2. Self awareness – Observation and learning your lessons. Are you able to differentiate and observe the patterns that’s presented to you
  3. Environmental / Your Surroundings – Every building/structure on this earth is surrounded by different combination of surroundings, the landscape, geographic energy all plays a big factor
  4. Actual building/structure itself – not all layouts or buildings are built optimal for feng shui, some have potential for adjustment, while some layouts can be built with poor potential for adjustments – making placement for furniture impossible or limited.

 

  • Do you read/assess/consider “house numbers”/numerology for a property? Is numerology a factor in Feng Shui?
    • This is not a service we offer nor do we see this as having “transformational impact” in terms of real feng shui. Numerology in other forms of readings could have solid predictability and accuracy, but it cannot “change the outcome” on the prosperity levels of the people living inside deterministically, which is what feng shui aims to do. In terms of feng shui, just by assessing a number on a house does not paint the full picture and would not have strong accuracy to determine if a home is prosperous or not.  The prosperity’s DNA is determined by the surrounding, the angle of the home and the exact build and shape of the space.  Ex: If two homes are built at the same exact angle and shape, but have different interior layouts or windows, the DNA and assessment outcome would be completely different by room.  You’d need to get down to this level of detail in order for a reading to reach strong accuracy and know how to change the outcome of a space to collect more prosperity. 

Feng Shui is capturing energy forces the right way like a marathon, it is NOT a spell, or voodoo, or witchcraft on demand.  The Universe will deliver what is right for you, you do not get to cherrypick what outcome and it is not a “get out of jail for free card.”  While the majority of my clients will experience changes sooner than 3-6 months time, everything you experience sooner than that is a free bonus to you and your karma. Some people deserve the happy things they are meant to get, they will receive what they need quickly.  Some people, like business owners that’s perhaps going down the wrong paths, would need a little time to reset- reorg to change their trajectory.  Some things need more time to build than others, you don’t get to “choose” exactly what you get, or WHEN you’ll get it.  There will be lessons you still need to learn from, but you will be given paths that’s do-able if you follow your intuition, and feel less choked in life over time. In short, feng shui would give you the upper hand you need when you align the proper Universe, but do not bank on it to work overnight as it is impossible to predict what combinations of cards and scenarios you have to work through to achieve a desirable outcome.

No. Feng shui is the science and art of placements in your home to better align with the macro energies.  Edith has adjusted many clients from all spectrums of religious beliefs to none at all.  Everyone with the right criteria can enjoy the benefits of what feng shui can bring you for many years to come, it’s not a tool to force anyone into any religious beliefs in order for it to work.

Unfortunately, due to the karma/debt layer of the reading, no readings can be free. To be able to tell precisely what needs to change, a monetary exchange is required prior to a proper reading. I would not be able to intercept anyone’s journey without them seeking out my help.  My job is not to upsell or force any service upon anyone, but an exchange is required for me to share precise details of what I know.

The sessions are extremely limited, custom and time consuming to get done correctly.  Once it is done, the forces I recommend will have lasting and continuous effects on the person receiving the consultation without additional sessions. This is why unlike other masters, I post real testimonials with screen shots, my true thoughts, and memos of my results.  The clients know what I am trading with them will far surpass their gains, often within a short time frame, and that energy will continue to collect prosperity for them for many years to come or until their next chapter. If you are seriously stuck, feel free to send me an email, if our Universe aligns, something could be worked out. But know that not everyone is a good candidate to be helped and no free consultations are possible.   

For interior designers – It’s ok if you apply feng shui principles in your interior drawings and layout.  However, there are conflicts of “interest” between what a feng shui master sees vs. what an interior designer sees.  That’s why if you are able to predict with high degree of accuracy about what happens to the people inside the house, and you also do interior design… you’d NEED to seek additional consent and agreement for the adjustment of the space.  One cannot intercept another’s journey without consent and something in exchange.  [At this time, Edith is not ready to offer any classes to drill down this point further, when the time comes, it will be properly discussessed]

A way to detect if a home gives you abundance is through monetary observations. Do expenses (intentional/unintentional) go out the door faster than what you can make in income? Some people have high expenses homes, but their income is able to easily keep up. Then that’s a non-issues….The issue becomes when expenses become higher than income and life becomes resistant and choking – the feeling of you tried hard but gets minimal returns. 

Another way to detect if you have good or bad feng shui is if you have 10 opportunities living in a place, how many do you typically get (the longer you live at a place normally the better you can sense this pattern)? Some homes with good feng shui, things come easier for you, life is less stressful and resistant.  Typically if you only get less than 5 opportunities (out of 10), you definitely are experiencing bad feng shui, some people question their life even with 6 or 7 (out of 10).

Generally if you are 5 steps in, 1 or 2 steps back, your feng shui issues are not major.  However if you feel as though since you’ve lived in a space, life is resistant – 5 steps in, 3-4 steps back consistently, then you may have a feng shui issue that needs to be addressed.  Life should be challenging… but should not be perpetually choking – in normal circumstances, this aspect is sometimes hard to tell, it’s a practice to see if the struggle is getting you somewhere… or is it holding you back from achieving anything at all.

  • Avoid: General statements like “it’s not good” without any pictures or context about your executions
  • Do: Provide context on what your executions are, and what patterns you’ve been observing – how are you spending time in the spaces and what patterns you’ve observed.
  • In general (when executed correctly), it takes 3-6 months to see a good trend/pattern from a tweak to take full effect – after that the proper trend will keep on going. There are plenty of clients who will feel the effects much sooner than the 3-6 months period (some people felt something within a few days, while some people require more time to see some patterns). Once you have fully executed the plan, please allow a week or two to troubleshoot holistically, as opposed to judging by events happening minute by minute.  For some people there is a calibration period, and or certain things that’s “bad” are sometimes “good” things.  Please use your best judgment to collect the data as a whole so we can best help you all at once.
  • Historically, a feng shui master’s job starts from picking a piece of land, building a house, then placing the furniture. When you do so, you get to maximize every step of the feng shui process to maximize your prosperity every step of the way, from your orientation, surroundings, to layout, every window, every door, the directions things should open/close, all the way to placement of every furniture to ensure maximized effect.   While the core offering of Edith’s consultations focus on reading existing spaces.  If you can get ahead of the game in the space selection process or interior floor plan modification process.  We can ensure the build or selection of your home can maximize every bit of your prosperity from the start. All of them to better ensure the money you spend on a property or renovation is precise and strategic:

    • Property Selection Advantages – shares high level info about the surrounding, facing, and existing layout. What overall energy does it have, would it bring you prosperity, how much work does it need, is it worth investing, would it align with what you are looking to use it for…. Etc. Please refer to additional details from the service offering page in description or in video
    • Interior Layout Adjustment for Renovations Advantages – Every 4 walls (room) can only create 1 prosperity area. Of course some homes are built with better prosperity retention than others.  This means, if you have an opportunity to adjust your existing floor plan for a renovation, or building a home from the ground up, you will have the opportunity to maximize your floor plan to ensure the money you spend for the renovation will be precise, accurate, and maximize the prosperity areas of your home correctly. For more details, please reference the service page for its descriptions

    We all know prosperity is not “equal” and not all homes are equally prosperous.  This is why if you have the means to advance your feng shui game before the placement stage, it would allow you to not only maximize your prosperity, but ensure the space you build is built to last for years to come. 

Because every 4 walls creates only 1 prosperity area…adjusting a small space or super open space requires potential trade offs and prioritization. This means the tweak is highly dependent on the facing of the space, and the layout.  A strong facing and good layout would deliver a strong tweak with solid results.  A weak facing, even with a good layout the results for the tweak may still not be optimal because there isn’t much we can do without tradeoffs and sacrifices. 

Because most of you don’t know what combination scenario you have, and it is hard to tell without actually vetting.  The dilemma that most of you may have is you may feel “too scared to reach out” because of what I have to say.  Don’t be, this is why vetting is important so that I can provide definitive answers for your next steps and how to advise you thoughtfully.  It’s better to know what your action points should be than to be in the dark guessing and being “stuck”. 

Sometimes you can’t do “too much” within a small space, that is a possibility.  Either way, where possible, Edith is committed to leaving a place better than she found it so where possible, she will advise you on how to sequence your space to level up from your current situation

One of the key strengths that make Edith’s feng shui adjustments more precise and accurate than many readings out in the market is that she calculates the prosperity areas of a space separately as opposed to reading a space as one unit.  While the short answer is “yes”, we CAN read room by room, and we DO; however, we don’t advise clients reading their home in pieces or multiple reads for the following key reasons:

  • Good and bad energy BOTH exist on their own unless “manipulated” – this means if only half of the home is tweaked, and the other half is not….there will still be problems coming from the other half of the home that is untouched and the overall improvements becomes slow to observe and hard to detect/troubleshoot because everything is mixed in
    • Think: if the parents tweaked themselves, but not their kids, the parents would do “better” but kids would either still have issues with school or sick and/or other issues that would still impact the parents.
    • Reading in pieces also creates a scenario where if something is “off” from the initial adjustment, it becomes hard to diagnose which part is “correct” and which part is the untouched areas – clients very often experience various things, resulting in more turbulence than there are solutions (also very slow ramp to prosperity)
  • Unable to do strategic room distribution analysis – One of the benefits working with Edith is, she is able to tell which room in a space has the best potential to generate the most money energy. When you have multiple rooms, you want to have the strategic option automatically applied to help you maximize your prosperity, by reading a portion of the home that you “think” you need, you may be denying yourself from maximizing your prosperity
  • Inability to create better harmony – when you tweak “just yourself” and not your family members (when possible). Their problems will become your problems, and usually it would be the source of tension in a home.
    • Another example is clients with big houses who have maids or drivers that live with them. Clients think they only want to adjust themselves and not their staff or drivers.  An issue you will see is…. IF the driver is living in a feng shui condition that has a high probability of getting into accidents, what happens if a driver is driving his client, got into an accident… then the client is STILL at risk of injury because they are in the same car.  Or if your “staff” has bad feng shui and are unhappy, broke, or acting dramatic working for you, then there is a high likelihood they will start to steal from you.

Because the complications usually outweighs “doing the clients an initial favor”, we don’t recommend breaking the reading into multiple pieces.  Unless you have a unique case that we think we can make an exception for, otherwise, no tweaks can be done in pieces.  On rare occasions, Edith may agree to break the reading into two parts – she will determine what parts to read first based on your scenario and if you’d be a good candidate for this plan. We do not recommend the win small lose big approach for reasons listed above. 

Edith is a solutions oriented person, I want all our clients to feel the changes in their lives through my consultations – and doing so as thoughtfully as I can.  That said, there will be cases where the variables are “complicated” and it is tricky to say yes or no to (or it could be a completely un-tweakable situation).  In that case, once you’ve emailed us your details, Edith will combine the details you provided and figure out the confidence level of your adjustment and what you might need to know prior to signing up for the full proposed amount.  Say your situation is complicated, Edith will offer you to pay a small portion (less than the full cost) to hear about the high level details you should know about before signing on (know your risks).  Should you decide to proceed knowing your risks/potential complications, the small portion you paid can be deducted from the full consultation cost.  If you decide not to proceed, then the small fee is not refundable.

The intention of this high level session is for you to gather insightful information about what you should do in the short term and the issues with the spaces you have to make informed and strategic decisions in your life. Please note, this service is only offered if Edith knows you need it.  A client is not able to request this separately if their space is adjustable and does not need multipart treatment.  

There is a minimum starting fee for business adjustments. Due to the complexities, we understand your struggles and will aim to help you prioritize what is best for your bucks upon understanding the dynamics we are working with. 

Depending on your scenario, Edith always prioritize reading that will help you bring opportunities/income first.  So you don’t waste money on requesting readings with lower impact for your scenario.  Sometimes because the clients don’t know what they are doing, they may come to us with the wrong priorities, this is how Edith can help, we aim to prioritize results so you can ladder up over time. This is why it’s important to understand our priorities and standard of practice, because we aim to be as helpful as possible and make the most educated predictions with the highest accuracy rate in the current marketplace.  

This is why, please email us your situation at fengshui[at]wuisthatgirl.com. Edith will advise on where to start for you to see an initial impact and pace out your readings strategically. 

No, there is a reason why there is a minimum for business adjustments, that’s based on complexity and feasibility.  There is also a reason why certain businesses are not thriving and experiencing lack of revenue or facing resistance.  When a space is “borderless”, there are many factors Edith will need to consider to figure out if the situation is “solvable” within reason in order to best advise her clients.  This is the reason why we vet our readings, and focus on bottoms’ up (minimized cost in renovations, high impact performance) approach to our readings.  If we take on a case, we want the recommendations to be “feasible/logical” enough for the clients to see a change. As opposed to suggesting things that make no sense and are non-transformational – ex: buying random decorations or unreasonable amounts of renovation.  Should there be big renovations that’s needed, the details of that will be communicated prior so the clients know about the trade offs within reason. 

Please know not all spaces are equally adjustable.  The spaces can come with different ranges of complexities from solvable to not solvable, or depending on your financial situation.  In order to properly help our clients, we aim to be trustworthy and solution oriented. 

All quotes should be paid in full prior to the readings.  In order for Edith’s adjustments to work and be accurate, no information can be held back.  It’s either 0 or 100.  That said, at this time we have not found a way to work around gradual payments.  Because gradual adjustment is not recommended, please plan to have the funds ready for the portion of the adjustments needed. 

The short answer is “no”.  In order for you to feel the results from my adjustments, I cannot hold back any information during the session.  Good and bad energies BOTH exist on their own, by holding anything “back” would mean results will not be optimum and everything will be mixed in.  Edith rarely adjusts the same space twice (within the same era – macro time period, we are at 9 right now), unless certain details about the original reading have changed.

Not all homes after the tweaks will be equally “prosperous”, every home is built differently, with different surroundings, and “different peaks” to their energetic levels matching up to the journey you are in and experiencing. What we can do in the sessions is to take the cards we are given, and maximize your hands to the best of our abilities and see where the Universe takes you next.

I have some clients initially complaining about the “cost” of the consultations… then experience continuous momentum from their business right after the adjustment, then asking if there will be “more” we can do to “speed up” the flow of income.  The answer would be “no”.  Please continue to execute what was said on the call. Milk the prosperity as far as you can and see where the Universe takes you.  Feng shui is a flow, not a “spell”. 

In theory “yes” but there is a “catch”. Your friend who you are “gifting” this to will need to pay a portion of the consultation out of his/her pocket.  As in, the amount you purchased in credit CANNOT be the full amount of the reading.  If the consultation is $600USD, your friend would need to pay a portion of that amount on their own as opposed to you paying for the full amount and “blessing them” with an energy adjustment they didn’t ask for.  They will need to have the self awareness and desire to come as opposed to “being surprised, just because”.  If this requirement cannot be met, I don’t advise you buying the credit and gifting people these sessions.

If you are the parents who are gifting these to your kids, that’s ok, please communicate and work with your child (older) to ensure they are aware and open minded about what’s to come, or else there will be issues. If the kids are young, do not worry about this.

If you are unsure, please email us your scenario at fengshui[at]wuisthatgirl.com. 

To align better with the macro energy on earth is to achieve better synchronicity with the life/environment around us.  In life, what is “good” sometimes is “bad” for us, and what is “bad” is often the tipping point to allow us to receive the “good things” that’s coming.  To achieve synchronicity in life is to have the ability to ride out the ebbs and flows in life better than people who are not in sync.  Think: skiing down a mountain, some people’s life choices are making them come down a double black, and some are coming down bunny slopes.  Both get you down the mountain, but the experiences are extremely different…. Some may not even make it because double blacks are not for everyone. 

It’s to follow the trends and energy around us. If things are going up, you want to follow that pattern and act on things that would benefit you. When things are going bad, you need to know how to weather out storms and wait for your chances. You still need to work hard and strive harder, not quiet quitting or lying down.  When you are out of sync, it becomes dangerous because the effort you put in could be the wrong effort/direction causing you to struggle your way through your life in various ways … .These situations can range from mild to severe.

To achieve better synchronicity is to live a life where the efforts you put in will be returned appropriately to help you achieve the highest version of yourself in this life.

It’s hard to say, and each element has its own cycle and timing. The peak stable point for an adjustment becomes obvious generally between 3-6 months.  However, I have seen results within 24 hours, a few weeks, to a few months.  Below is a high level guideline:

Prosperity / Money / Opportunities: This has something to do with the part of your destiny you are in, and the kind of industry you may be in, and how strong the energy is for your existing space: think if you are government worker vs. a business owner… and or how long your sale cycles are…etc.  For small business owners with shorter business cycles (restaurants, shops, spa..etc.), I have seen an impact within 2 days and the sales numbers continue to grow and stabilize over time.  For mid to large business clients, it depends on where they are in their business cycle because there are other layers of energy involved.  Generally they should experience some things – like inquiries, introductions, or opportunities…that would lead them to better success down the line.  This could take weeks or months, depending on the person and their actions.  But something from the tweak should give them an indication that something “changed” in their life.

Health / Wellbeing: “Depends” – Some parts of our health troubles, mental or physical, are feng shui related, some are genetic, and some are a little bit of both.  We’d have to account for the person’s age and duration of this energy as well.  The sooner we can get this address, the better.  For milder issues, a lot of clients can see progress faster than another.  Sleep issues can often be addressed quicker than more serious issues like, reproductive issues, cardiovascular, skin issues, stomach issues, depression, severe bullying, learning disabilities, and other psychological/emotional issues … .the list goes on. In general, if you are able to detect the problems and address it soon enough, most clients notice improvements within 3-4 months after the adjustment. 

Harmony: This is the main reason why incomplete/partial feng shui adjustments are NOT recommended.  In order to create harmony with the people around you, everyone needs to be on the same frequency or else conflicts would happen. Clients with the correct execution experience improved harmony with the people around them from improving relationships with their significant others, to minimum or no arguments at all with their kids or in-laws, to finding better groups of friends or working with people who appreciate them more.  Law of attraction at work!

Energy doesn’t discriminate – oftentimes, people will experience some things that indicate the adjustments are correct.  The energy that improves your sleep or gives you money is the same one that’s going to smooth out the other areas of your life to make you more in sync. 

There are many factors that can result in poor readings.  The most common are the following:

“Controllable”:

  • Wrong measurement – something wrong with the map, angles
    • Home cannot be detected on the map
    • Map showing the wrong angle of the home
  • Bad or incorrect floor plan – that’s not an exact match to the actual unit
    • Results will be affected if the floor plan is “flipped” even for the same “orientation” (as in if you showed me a “mirrored” floor plan)
  • Hand drawn floor plans that’s not to the home’s exact ratios are NOT recommended – unless exact measurements are included for mock ups, otherwise there will be a high probability of poor readings with poor drawings – it would be a waste of money for you to pay for a reading that would be inaccurate
    • If you don’t have a floor plan and still need Edith to take a look to see if you are a good candidate for a consultation, please send us a rough draft of the floorplan to your best ability and a video walk through. Our team will advise you on next steps once we’ve reviewed your material. (Please know, the more gaps we have, the more likely there will be errors)
  • Wrong execution/activation (Obviously) – people not following what is recommended fully
    • If you follow half of it, or only sometimes, the results won’t be the same…you are not being precise and giving it the best chance to thrive

Uncontrollable:

  • Home is haunted, crime scene, near mass cemetery/burial ground, temples/church hospital, jail…etc.
  • Issues coming from invisible and/or external environments are hard to predict, in some cases feng shui can improve some aspects. In severe cases, moving out is the only solution.

Don’t be!  My job is to elevate my clients’ lives better than before they met me.  As long as you come with an open mind and are ready to change, my job is to un-stuck my clients with a plan!  Why would you hold yourself back from succeeding sooner, simply because you are embarrassed!? You should know that realizing you need change – is about you identifying the problem.  Sometimes this pattern can’t be resolved until a bigger force is shifted to help you get on the right track.  Edith is very solutions oriented.  She knows what it’s like to feel “trapped” and not going anywhere in life. During her dark times, she wished there was a place where she could seek solid advice that made sense and had real impact without ego.  She dedicates her practice to improving people’s happiness the same way feng shui did for her life.

Life often puts us in chicken or the egg situations.  We know something might be going wrong, but we don’t know when is the right time to get the right help.  We think if we “just wait until when…”…then it would be the time…

Becoming aware of WHEN to get help is key, it’s about breaking out of a certain pattern and getting people a chance to survive and maximize their trajectory in life over time on their own. 

A good example of this is often clients with hoarding tendencies are embarrassed to reach out for a consultation. We know hoarding is often associated with depression, and in feng shui often related to being bullied in life. A lot of times, the person would want to “clean up” their house before they do their session, but they will realize it’s impossible because they still have not corrected the poor pattern that got them there.  To that, I say, don’t worry, the first step is always realization and desire to change.  Show me what we are working with, don’t bother cleaning up for now, come with what I need for the assessment. We will sort out your action plans so you will slowly self correct your trajectory, and you’ll only have to clean and move your things correctly, once!

You won’t come find me unless you are ready, but when you are, Edith treats your happiness the same way she treats hers – when the Universe brings us together.